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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

BLACK S CAN’T BE RACIST by Andile Mngxitama

This was an interesting transcript that I found on the internet. It was listed in the "Articles regarding Racism (White Supremacy)" box on the bottom right side of this blog.

The following is a transcribed version of a talk given by Andile Mngxitama at Wits University on an essay he wrote, titled “Blacks can’t be Racist”. He gave the talk to a full house in August 2010.


The university is a great example of how you want to think about the continuation of racism or the white-supremacist project…if you look at how the university is organized. I was thinking Wits is the epitome of white supremacy and I know that Black thinking is outlawed at Wits, by and large. If you look at any of the courses that you do, check the readings that they give you and try to make a study of how many of them, most of the time will be African thinkers or writers….very few. Now, I thought I should introduce to you…you don’t have to agree with what I say but I hope you can do this. There are two critical thinkers in this country that you know the university will not talk about. The first one is Lewis Nkosi. Lewis Nkosi comes from a writing sort of background. Check his writings, check his attitude to knowledge, check his attitude to the Black condition….the Black question and I want to dedicate this talk today to him and to the late Professor Archie Mafeje. Archie Mafeje single-handedly….by 34 he was a full professor…if you study anthropology I know that they haven’t told you about him because he single-handedly destroyed the science of anthropology and showed it to be colonial studies…single-handedly. And he was not like me, he was not howling, he did very detailed scientific studies and in fact if you want to go to Archie Mafeje online you will find his debates with other white scholars in that field but I know that Wits is not going to tell you about that, the white professors are not going to tell you about Archie Mafeje. So I want to dedicate this talk to both Lewis Nkosi who is very ill right now, he is a very sick man and he’s here in South Africa and to Archie Mafeje who has passed on. I think if you are serious about thinking and change you have to understand these people. There are many more but I thought today I should tell you about these two.

Now today I want to talk about “Black s can’t be Racist”. I’m told by some people who were giving out pamphlets for this talk that some brothers and sisters said, “No, you can’t say we’re not racist, I am racist, I hate white people”. (Laughter) And I was thinking how do you get around that point because that is the most natural response that Black people should have against white racism? We should hate people that oppress us. We should hate a system that oppresses us. But you see, we’ve been messed up so much that we can’t even say it. But hatred is not going to take you very far, you see? So I was thinking that to deal with this problem you have to think about Malcolm X, because Malcolm X helps us to organize our thinking. You know the whole thing about the house negro and the field negro. You see, and this is what democracy has done, you have your field negro and your house negro is the guy who responds to whiteness. Back then on the plantation, the house negro was given leftover food, given the clothes of the master and he loved the master and he spoke like the master and in fact when the house of the master was on fire he wanted to save it and when the master was sick he prayed to the Lord and said, “God, please save us”. He never even said “save the master”, he said, “save us”. The house negroes, one of the problems [with them] is that, even when they could hear the agony and cries of the field negroes being beaten they still did not accept that the whole institution of slavery was based on violence. They loved the house of the master so much that they wanted to save it. The field negroes, on the other hand, just like those sisters and brothers who were saying they hate white people, when the master was sick, they prayed to their Black God that the master must die. When the house of the master was on fire, they prayed to their Black God that more wind must come and burn down the whole place. So those are field negroes. At the end of the day, whatever we say, we are going to come back to this question: Are we field negroes or are we house negroes? That is the bottom line. If you understand democracy and if you understand the place of Black people…it’s going to come back to that question. Now, I’m quickly going to show us how we were created as Black people, [in order] to helps us deal with the issue of racism.


"Black Racism"
New Frank Talk number 3, this red one, says, “Black s can’t be Racist”. Now, the context is this that in 2008 something called the Forum for Black Journalists, they invited the president of the ANC, Jacob Zuma into their forum to address them, in a closed meeting, it was not a press conference. White journalists decided to gatecrash this meeting and the Black journalists said, “You can’t do this, this is white arrogance”. And the white journalists went to the Human Rights Commission and complained that being excluded from that meeting is unconstitutional and also racist, so the Black journalists are racist by excluding white journalists. So we had hearings at the HRC and I made a submission, this reading is based on that. It surprised me a lot, that after 350 years of systematic oppression of Black people, by racism, which benefits white people, when Black people gather in their own meeting, white people can insist that they want to be part of that. And then, of course complain about that. By the way, after that whole process, the HRC came to the conclusion that in fact, it is indeed true, that our Constitution does not allow Black people to be amongst themselves without supervision from white people. (Laughter) It went further to say that the Forum for Black Journalists must amend its constitution to include white people, otherwise it must stop to exist. Those who study law amongst you, must know Moreane, Advocate Moreane is a senior council, he wrote the appeal, I thought it was watertight, I thought they would win the appeal, again, from reading our Constitution very closely, the HRC could not help but come to the same conclusion that as Black people we cannot meet amongst ourselves, we cannot fight racism as Black people. That worried me a lot. How is it possible that in a racist country, Black people cannot be allowed to organize on their Blackness? And I said we need to look at this racism question. And I’m arguing in the book that what we need is conceptual fidelity. In other words, a chair is not a table, to make sense, you have to name things and give them their properties. Racism is not xenophobia, even if they are both about discrimination. It is not patriarchy even if, in some ways, patriarchy is as bad as racism. Racism describes a process of Black people’s subjugation. If you don’t limit this definition then racism becomes everything and everyone can be a victim of racism and Black people, as a result, are unable to make claims for reparations for slavery, for colonialism, for apartheid and continuing discrimination of Black people. You have to understand that.

If racism is everything, if you say white people can become victims of racism, what you have done right there, is to wipe off the historical slate clean of the specialized, unique ways in which Black people have been oppressed over the ages. We alone, only we were enslaved in the manner that we were enslaved. Us alone, were colonized in the manner that we were colonized. Capitalism today and white civilization, if you like, are created out of these sort of oppressions that us as Black people, that us alone have suffered. This is the point I was trying to make. And this is the point we try to make in “Black s can’t be Racist”. Steve Biko helps us a lot here because he says that racism is defined as the subjugation of one group by another for the purpose of exploitation. Now, we Black people, we don’t have the intention of subjugating anyone. I don’t think when we talk about Black liberation we talk about oppressing anyone. And normally in Black wash we say that all we want is to share in the wealth of our country. And I can tell you about sharing in the wealth of the country; I hope you guys know who owns the wealth of our country right now. I hope you know that when you look at the JSE, that even with the BEE Black capitalists, who are part of the white supremacist project, we don’t own, 10% of the JSE. Sixteen years later, the ANC has made sure that only 6% of land has been distributed to Black people and it means that more than 80% of the land is still in white hands. The ANC has ensured, that in the same period, more than 1 million Black people have been evicted from farms, by White farmers. I’m saying the ANC because the responsibility of transforming this society, must rest with the majority party that can, if it wants to change even the Constitution by getting a bit of support from [for example] the PAC. It hasn’t. You see, this business of us suffering racism, does not mean that we should not take responsibility for the continuation of the oppression of Black people. We need to be clear: White people are just 10% [of the population], they are not a problem. Think about it. White people are not a problem and we should not waste too much time with them. (Laughter) The problem is this, and it’s an unfortunate problem: the day Black people want to change this society to get the wealth, the gold, the platinum, the land, the people we are going to confront is the African National Congress as government. If you have not figured that out then you are in trouble.

Let me go back now to explain, in my view, the three related processes that create the Black person out of this white experience. You have to think of the Black as a creation of whiteness out of a very violent process. In South Africa it is three related dispossessions. The first dispossession is land dispossession, they dispossessed us of our land, it was a very violent process. The second dispossession is labour dispossession. They turned us into workers, servants. When they discovered gold and diamonds in the mid-1800s, they took land even when they did not need it. But because they wanted us to come and work…to work on their mines…because if we still have access to land then we don’t want to come work for the white man. So they come to your village and take your land and force you to come and work for them. And Marxists tell us that it’s a good thing to be a worker. Cecil John Rhodes said it back then, he said, we must tell these [Black ] people, we must make sure that they’re just going to become workers. Now people fight to become workers. You have to think about that. And every year they strike for about 10%, which is about R150. (Laughter) The third dispossession process is what I call the dispossession of the African being. The destruction of our Africanness was led by two processes: The one is their education, their white education and secondly their white God. Christinisation and education. When they give you their education and their God, when they are done with you, you can’t remember who you are. (Laughter) And we must also say this, that it was not a peaceful process. Those people who read history, for example, will know the story of Tiyo Soga’s father…how he surrendered his sons to white education. It was a painful process but he knew that if he did not surrender his sons to white education, then they would be destroyed. Their god was a very very violent god. If you did not surrender to their god of commerce, they would destroy your family and your communities. We must understand that. So when these three processes were concluded, we were sitting as we are now with a complex of inferiority and white people have a complex of superiority. But these things find expression in materiality. We know that Black people need to find jobs in order to live. When you finish at this university you are going to work for big companies owned by white people. Normally I say that if you think about the educational process of colonialism the first people they educated were the Xhosas, I call them the first coconuts. Nelson Mandela’s mannerisms and Thabo Mbeki’s mannerisms are part of that [colonial education]. They dress and speak like English gentlemen. They are Xhosa English gentlemen. And you know, in some ways, I really think they believe that they are. (Laughter) Chinweizu, the Nigerian scholar makes the point that, colonial education is almost like giving mice the education of cats. A mouse without an orientation and education of the cat, when it sees a cat it naturally runs away. That’s the natural response. But if you take a mouse and you bring it to Wits and give it a lot of education and it assimilates and it believes itself to be a cat. When it sees a cat, it sees a friend. (Laughter) And now the problem is that the friend which is the cat…sometimes, it is hungry (Laughter). This is a problem.

Let’s just go back then. I’ve just spoken about the creation of the Black out of this relationship of violence in our encounter with whiteness. I have not spoken about whiteness. I can simply say this: the benefits that accrue to whiteness, whether they are economic or social or political have become naturalised. Out of that whole violent process of marginalizing us Black people, marking us out in terms of our skin colour, for the sort of oppressions I have just mentioned, [white people] have accrued all these privileges. And in our thinking, in our thought processes, when you see a Black you can almost put together all those characteristics of Black ness – we are all these things which are not nice. When you see a white person, you don’t even have to think about it. Maybe I should just go back a bit, when I came here in February, there was a place…I think they called it the Accommodations Office. There were a lot of Black students there. Some students at Wits travel by train to come to school. A [Black ] student here fainted from lack of food. And do you know what the system does, what the education of the cat does to us? We are shameful. We take responsibility as if it’s our fault. So we are beginning to police the system ourselves. Instead of saying wait, “we are entitled to be at university to be well fed, to be well housed, because this is our country”. You don’t organize on that basis, you feel individually ashamed. But that is part of the ideological process.

Now, I feel we must not waste too much time on whiteness but whites will get the privileges you will never get. Even the white revolutionary will get the privileges you will never get. Even when Joe Slovo died…he’s buried right now in Soweto, you must go to his grave and you will see that he is the only person buried there identified by name amongst a lot of Black people who are sleeping there. I’m saying to you that even if a white person dies for you, you will be forgotten, they will not be forgotten. (Laughter) And I’m not saying you should not have white friends. It’s okay to have white friends and girlfriends and that sort of thing. But I’m saying it’s a lie to say that…you see at Wits they teach bad Sociology these days. They say race is a social construct therefore race has got no scientific basis. What is not socially constructed? Even God is socially constructed. Everything we know is socially constructed. Class and gender are also socially constructed. Why is it that race is socially constructed but has got no scientific basis? We as Black people we know that if you are aware and open your eyes, you can feel it. You know it. You know that you are Black when you walk into a room full of white people… you know it. (Laughter).

I’m going to round off by going back to a difficulty. Once you have established, and I think in some ways we have established the fact that we need to defend the discourse that says that, Black s can’t be racist. If you don’t do that then you are not giving yourself a chance to make claims to this society about the reparations that are due to us as Black people. Then nguvula zibuqe ngesiXhosa, it’s like open season for everyone (as the Xhosa would say). And what it means is that they are going to say that YOU are racist. The victim is going to be the perpetrator. And the best way to shut down a Black person who talks about racism is to say, “You are racist”. But you see, for Black people the trauma of accepting that we are victims of racism, is serious. It is better not to accept it. It is better to pretend around that. It is better to think that we are all equal. Despite the fact that your people live in squatter camps, your people live in RDP houses. And that brings me to the ANC. You have to ask yourself the question that: how did the ANC think that it’s okay to build an RDP house for Black people; a house which is worse that the house built by white people for Black people? How do you understand this? How do you understand this process? Now, I’m arguing, in conclusion that, the managers of white supremacy are Black people. In the 21st Century, whiteness needs a bit of melanin. A little bit of melanin to reproduce itself. So in South Africa in 1994 you have Nelson Mandela. In the United States of America today you have Obama, right? Has the Obama’s presidency changed the condition of Black people who remain in the death rows? If you go to the death rows of America, the people being killed are Black people.If you go to the jails of America, the majority of people there are Black people. Obama has not touched that system. He has given it respectability. George Bush was good because he was clear, and he was also stupid about it: “We are going to bomb the world in their interests of white capital”. Obama is bombing the world with a smile. Allowing our people to be killed with a smile. Now in South Africa it’s the same thing; the ANC are the managers of the white supremacist system and we vote for them year in and year out. I’m going to be cruel and say, in the same way, if you look at Wits, the Vice Chancellor is a Black man, one of us. However, if you look at the culture and the interests of this institution, it remains white. The fact that he is sitting at the top of this institution, does not change the truth of Wits. (Applause) It is true also that, it is not just Wits. UCT was given to Mamphele Ramphela to run for a few years, she made sure that the institution did not change….she could not change it, in fact. This is the important thing. They would not allow her to change it. Before Professor Nongxa (the current Wits Vice Chancellor), there was another Black professor, Makgoba, who is now a professor at the university of Kwa-Zulu natal. I was on campus at the time. Makgoba arrived here with very very strange ideas of wanting to Africanise Wits. Very very quickly that man was out of this university (Laughter). One of the most celebrated, and I don’t always agree with Mahmood Mamdani, but one of the celebrated social scientists who come from the African continent, contemporarily, is Mahmood Mamdani from Uganda. He went to UCT because he was becoming a celebrity intellectual, an academician, if you like, and when he arrived there he wanted to change the curriculum and to Africanise it. You can find this Mamdani controversy online, I think, and you can see what they did to him. The man did not stay there for two years, he had to be kicked out because he started saying, “You know, there are African scholars and thinkers that we can prescribe to these students”.

So I’m saying you have to think very hard about how white supremacy reproduces itself. In fact, to conclude that part of my talk, I must just say that it’s not possible to have Obama as a Black president if you don’t have two other Black people before him – and that is Condolezza Rice and Collin Powel. It is important that when Collin Powel and Condolezza Rice were appointed by the Republicans, the most conservative but you see, they could see that these [Black ] people could serve the system…and very well. And so, Obama must be given a chance. More so because he is such a smart man, and he speaks so well and apparently he is handsome too. (Laughter)

I think I must stop there and maybe end by saying that the constitutional dispensation we have in South Africa is anti-Black itself and de Klerk…F.W. de Klerk, when he recalled…20 years after releasing Mandela, he said…and it’s available online as well…he said, “actually when we negotiated with the ANC, to tell you the truth, we won in those negotiations”. He said it. He said it with arrogance. He said it, I think earlier this year when 20 years of Mandela’s release was being celebrated. And then somebody asked him how he could say that and he said, “You see, what we have done is…we knew that there was going to be a majority in parliament, we made sure that they couldn’t make just ANY law that they wanted to make. So we guaranteed this by making a Constitutional court, which is informed by constitutional principles, which will make sure that these guys, even when they are in parliament and they make laws, those laws must become part of a constitutional review.” For instance, if the ANC tomorrow wanted to say that let’s have a law that will return the land to Black people without paying compensation, the constitutional court would strike that down as unconstitutional. You see? But I must also say that the ANC is not interested in testing even that (Laughter) because it has not tried to do that. It has not made any radical laws to return our land, to return our mineral resources and I would be very worried to give my mineral resources to the ANC under the current regime. Imagine what they will do when they can get access to these minerals. I mean, look at what they have done with Eskom, look at what they’ve done with everything else that we have given them to manage. All I’m saying is that even if they tried, the constitutional dispensation that they negotiated for and have accepted and are not testing, is anti-Black and let me stop there and let’s have a conversation amongst ourselves. (Applause)

At this point, questions were taken from the audience by the facilitator.
QUESTIONS

Question 1:
You talk about Black s not being racist, but we can also be…what is it…tribalistic? How does that venture into [the whole idea that] Black s can’t be racist because if I’m racist to my fellow brother, eventually it means that I can be racist towards white people.

Question 2:
I heard you speaking on SAfm, I wanted to know…what do you think we should do with the continued threat of organisations like AgriSA that…{inaudible} and what do you think about the entitlement amongst some of us who are Black .

Question 3:
I’m interested in the fact that…do they (the ANC) have any other option to make the Constitution other than to incorporate the National Party coz you say the constitution is written to protect white interests, you say it’s anti-Black . Did we have any other option or were we not going to go into some kind of civil war, if we did not go according to the route that we used, during the time that the [constitution was formulated].

Question 4:
I just want to engage you on the definition of racism…trying to understand the concept of conceptual fidelity. If racism is the subjugation of one group by another, why do we focus on one form of subjugation? Can’t the subjugation be attitudinal? If I have an attitude but lack the power to subjugate, why can’t I qualify as a racist? The only thing I seem to lack is the power, but if I had power then I would subjugate them. So I think conceptually that is something unhygienic. (Audience applauds)

Andile Mngxitama:
You see, the first brother spoke about tribalism. For me that’s what it is. The sort of intra-Black difficulties…that’s tribalism. We know what it is. It’s not racism. Even if it is a form of discrimination. You will not call tribalism patriarchy because that describes another form of [oppression]. You will not call anti-Semitism xenophobia. It seems to me a very straightforward question. Otherwise we don’t know what we’re talking about. Then…the black board is racist. It comes back to the issue of attitudes. I can have an attitude of…I don’t like tall people. So what? I see tall people and I don’t like them, but so what? But racism has material consequences. It comes back to your question about attitudes. It’s not about, “I don’t like weaves or I don’t like dreadlocks”. So what? Racism makes sure that there is Alexandra and there is Sandton. And in Alexandra there are Black people and in Sandton there are White people. The creation of Sandton is directly linked to the creation of Alexandra. Do you understand that logic? (Andile is addressing the fourth questioner directly).

Questioner: Shakes his head.

Andile Mngxitama: No? I can’t help you. I can’t help you. White wealth is created out of the subjugation of Black people, historically. You must tell me if I’m wrong there…that there were not laws, systematic laws that made sure that Black people and White people benefited. You must tell me that, “No, this is not true, historically this is not the trajectory we have followed”. It seems to me that this is true so of course to lack attitude and lack power…my brother, if you lack the power to do this stuff that you imagine then we must stop the debate right there. I have the desire to kill you but I do not have the power to kill you. So what? You’re fine…you continue with your life and I continue with my desire to kill you which has no material benefits. (Applause) And I do think that Black people have desires to kill white people (Laughter) But you see, when we talk about xenophobia, we killed those people. And I mean, I don’t call it xenophobia, it is afrophobia. Because xenophobia means that you’re killing foreigners. White people are visitors, investors, tourists and so on. (Laughter) So even if we wanted to [kill white people] we don’t have the power. In this essay (Black s can’t be Racist), there is a very interesting passage where James Baldwin talks to this white woman….she was in Guinea at the time, and she says, “there were 200 wild wild Black men and I was the only white woman sometimes in that plantation but they knew that if they touched me, maybe 20 or more of them would be killed”. She says, “It was only white supremacy that ensured that I could control these very violent [Black ] fighters as a white woman…as a lone white woman in the jungle”. If you don’t believe me then you must ask Mugabe what white people and white supremacy can do to you if you touch them. You can ask him. Or you can ask another brother…who’s that brother who killed his white wife in the US? (Audience responds: OJ Simpson). Do you know where OJ Simpson is now? That man is in jail, hey? Serving 30 years or so for what? For taking his own stuff which was taken by some people and he went to take it back. They took him and they remembered…by the way, we must still sort this man out. Don’t play around with White people, my friend. (Laughter)

The other brother asked about the threat of white farmers and you know, this one white farmer cried on radio. She said, “These people, these [Black ] farm workers…we love them, how can you say that there are human rights abuses against them”? And she cried…on radio. And they say if we give farm workers any more rights, [White farmers] are going to go away and we’re going to die coz there are going to be food security problems so we must leave the situation as is and I don’t want to tell you what’s going on in farms. My brother, the point is a simple one: we must make a decision about whether we want to continue in this slavery path or we want to take our country back and maybe suffer some consequences but be like Zimbabwe. Give them another five years, and you’ll see that country is going to…Let me tell you right now, South Africa is 350 years behind Zimbabwe. You will never touch the Zimbabweans on their capacity to take back their land, their economy and being an independent country. You will not. (Applause) You can check online a study done by Professor Ben Cousin on Masvingo, where people have taken land. Check it, it’s there online. And I had stopped talking to Ben Cousin because he hated the Zimbabwean land reform process and I as supporting it at the time. He went there for three years to study, he came back and he said, he is shocked by the results. Those people who did occupy land live slightly better than those who didn’t. That’s number one. But even more, those White people who stayed behind…there are some people White people who stayed behind…their relationship with Black people in Zimbabwe has dramatically improved. You see? If you take away the power to be racist, White people become nice people. (Laughter)
Then the question about whether in 1994, if we did not negotiate our rights away, was there another possibility that we had. You see, even if I accept that there was no other option, we have already had three [general] elections. You have the ANC with a two-thirds majority with the possibility of changing those conditions. There is no threat of a civil war, right now. The ANC controls the army, it controls…and I’m sure amongst us there are some people from intelligence. (Laughter) The question is: Soyika ntoni? What are we so scared of? What stops us from changing our country? I don’t think there’s any particular reason.

Question 5: I just wanted to ask: what’s your point? You know, people are always complaining, but what are you going to do about it? At this point in time, what constructive things can you do about it coz there’s no point in saying that we’re not supposed to be at varsity coz that’s what the white man wanted us to do. What do you want?

Question 6: In terms of land distribution, how do you trace the land? Do you trace it from say, the 1990s or the 1980s?

Andile Mngxitama: The sister says that we must stop complaining. I accept that point, that we must stop complaining but if we accept that this is a democratic plantation, if we accept that democracy does not serve us, I don’t know whether we can legitimately claim that people must stop complaining. What we CAN say is that we need to say the next thing, which is organizing. But you see, it is also true that, we have a problem. Most of us Black people do not believe that we own this country. And so, first we need to work on our minds and this is part of that of process of working our minds. And I know that I am pushing the boundaries because I want you to be uncomfortable and start thinking about these questions because we don’t think about these questions. We don’t think about these questions. You know, I always make this example about trains. You must see, our people are packed in those trains like sardines, hanging outside the trains and we have accepted it as normal. That’s what we call institutional violence. The fact that people go to bed without food in a country that exports most of its food, is something that should not be tolerated. But we’re tolerating it, right? So all I’m saying is that we need to complain and we are very open to come to your residence or anywhere else to continue this discussion because there’s a lot of discussion we need to have amongst ourselves.

I’m not saying we should not be at university…I was at university myself, and from time to time I try to register to do my PhD. The point is that: are you aware that you are getting the kind of education that wants to make you into a cat? You can take some of this education and use it to serve the Black cause. (Applause) I think we can turn these things around. The problem is when we accept them as natural, as a natural progression and then you stop thinking about the Black larger agenda.

The question about how we trace our land. The thing is I don’t care if you are from Rwanda or whether I arrived here in the 2nd Century, it doesn’t matter. The point is that this is an African continent. And the argument is a simple one, even the white people who are here; we are not saying they must go away. We are simply saying, can’t we just share, equally…all of us? This is the only thing we are saying. But these other guys don’t want to share. This is the problem. (Laughter) They don’t want to share the thing they took from us. That’s what makes things even worse. All we want is an equal share of the wealth, the land and all other profits. In fact, in Black wash we say that we want Black socialism and it’s different from these people talking about scientific socialism and workers. Workers will be liberated by us. Workers only want a salary, they will not go very far. We say Black socialism…Black socialism says that everyone of us sitting here should be a shareholder in the company that is called South Africa. All the wealth that is in this country…me and you at the end of the financial year should be able to say, it’s 10% that we are going to get of the trillions that (South Africa) is going to make. Some they’ll take to education, health, roads and then they will say okay, we will declare dividends. So me and you will have R2mil in our pockets. Why must Tokyo Sexwale and the Oppenheimers take all the billions and me and you not benefit from gold and the diamonds of this country? That is what we call Black socialism.

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Monday, September 13, 2010

Many Victims of Racism Get Deceived in MLM "Pyramid" Schemes

I myself have been victimized  and a witness to many other Victims of Racism (non-white people) being victimized by Multilevel Marketing (M.L.M.) Schemes. I suspect that most M.L.M.'s are created these days by Racists who take advantage of the lack of business knowledge and the fear of poverty that huge numbers of Victims of Racism have, by promising us outrageous profits.

Groups like "Quickstar (Amway)", "Pre-paid Legal","Primemerica", "Ameriplan", "Access", etc. Such groups may have a real service or product to offer, but the deception is in getting you to be a "business owner" and build your "bottom line". Most of these organizations make millions of dollars..............off of their "business owners", from the seminars, tapes, or CD's, web pages, and books that teach you "how to be a business owner" for your "investment" dollars.

When these schemes first start out they probably enlist a few other Racist suspects to be at the top and then, go out and get huge numbers of "non-white" people to join in to keep the "investments" flowing. I've witnessed "non-white" people miss out on paying their rent to go on a trip to Las Vegas to attend a two day seminar and come back with books and tapes produced by the MLM, with the promise that if they stay persistent with increasing their "bottom-line", that one day they too will be millionaires.

I think that MLM schemes originally started out as a way for "white" people to take advantage of other "white" people, (not that they were doing "non-white" people a favor), more like they just weren't thinking about us. But what generally happens is that under the system of Racism (White Supremacy), "white" people collectively generally have access to and learn more constructive information about things before we do. I suspect that these days so many "white" people know that most MLM's are scams that, its hard for the founders of such schemes to gain any income from selling these ideas to other "white" people, so these days, they focus on "non-white" people.

Here is some constructive information to follow when you are propositioned to become a "business owner" for one of these schemes:

Multilevel or “network” marketing plans are ways to sell goods or services through distributors. Typically, these plans promise that if you sign up as a distributor, you’ll get commissions not only from the sales you make, but also from the sales of the people you recruit to become distributors. These recruits sometimes are called your “downline.”

Not all multilevel marketing plans are legitimate. Some are pyramid schemes. It’s best not to get involved in plans where the money you make is based primarily on the number of distributors you recruit and your sales to them, rather than on your sales to people outside the plan who intend to use the products.

Joining a pyramid is risky because the vast majority of participants lose money to pay for the rewards of a few people at the top.

How can you tell the difference between a bona fide multilevel marketing plan and a pyramid scheme? According to the Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, it takes research, some business sense and a healthy share of skepticism.
Evaluating a Plan

What’s involved in doing research? Asking your sponsor and other distributors tough questions, and digging for details. Don’t consider it nosy or intrusive: you are on a mission to check out a potential opportunity that will require your money and your time.

1. Find — and study — the company’s track record. Look for newspaper or magazine articles about the company. Do an internet search. Look through several pages of search results to get a good idea of the information available about the company.

* How long has the company been in business? Does it have a positive reputation for customer satisfaction?
* What can you find out about the product and the service?
* What’s the buzz about the company and the product on blogs and websites?
* Has anyone sued the company for deceptive business practices? Checking with your local Better Business Bureau, Chamber of Commerce and state Attorney General for complaints about any company you’re considering investing in is a prudent thing to do. But remember that a lack of complaints doesn’t guarantee a company’s legitimacy.

2. Learn about the product. What will you be selling? Are similar products on the market? Is the product priced competitively? Is it safe? Can your sponsor — the distributor who is recruiting you — support claims about the product’s performance?

3. Ask questions. Ask your sponsor for the terms and conditions of the plan: the compensation structure, your potential expenses, support for claims about how much money you can make and the name and contact information of someone at the company who has details about the terms and conditions and can tell you how much the average distributor makes before and after expenses. Get this information in writing. Avoid any plan where the reward for recruiting new distributors is more than it is for selling products to the public. That’s a time tested tip-off to a pyramid scheme.

Multilevel marketing plans usually base at least part of your monthly income and bonuses on the sales of the distributors you recruit. Keep in mind that if you solicit new distributors, you are responsible for the claims you make about how much money they can earn. Be honest, and avoid making unrealistic promises. If the promises fall through, you could be held liable, even if you are simply repeating claims you read in a company brochure or advertising flyer, or heard from another distributor.

If you don’t understand something, ask for more information until it is absolutely clear to you. Your sponsor and other distributors should be willing to answer your questions. Be skeptical and carefully evaluate the information you get. Remember that your sponsor and other distributors above you likely will make money if you join the program. So take your time, and don’t yield to pressure to join.

4. Understand any restrictions. Get the company’s refund policy in writing. Make sure it includes the process for returns as well as restrictions on — or penalties for — returning unused products if you choose to leave the plan. It may seem like you’re minimizing your risk if you can return products for a reimbursement, but policies vary on getting full refunds — and how long it could take. Many plans require you to buy training or marketing materials or pay for seminars if you want to get product discounts or create your own network of distributors. Find out how much time and money other distributors spent on training, marketing materials and seminars when they joined the plan, and whether the plan requires you to participate in periodic training. What happens if you opt out of the training?

5. Talk to other distributors. Ask your sponsor for the names and contact information for distributors at all levels of the plan. Get in touch with them to ask the same questions you asked your sponsor. In most plans, “upline” distributors stand to benefit when you buy into the system, so they should be willing to answer your questions with specifics. If you get vague answers or guesses, ask follow-up questions until you hear — and understand — the information you need to make your decision. Be aware that there may be shills — “decoy” references paid by the company or distributor to pretend they had success earning money through the plan.

6. Consider using a friend or adviser as a neutral sounding board or for a gut check. You may want to consult with an accountant, a lawyer or another person you trust who is not affiliated with the plan to review the terms of compensation, determine whether the plan can back up any claims about the amount of money you can make, and analyze the information you’ve gathered and the answers to your questions.

7. Take your time. Don’t pay or sign any contracts in an “opportunity meeting.” Take your time to think over your decision. Your investment requires real money, so talk to the distributors in settings that make you comfortable and when there’s the opportunity to take your time.

8. Think about whether this plan suits your talents and goals. Ask yourself whether you would enjoy selling products to the public. Find out how many hours a week your sponsor and other distributors spent on the business when they joined the plan and how much time they spend now. Remember that no matter how good a product and how solid a multilevel marketing plan may be, you’ll need to invest sweat equity and money for your investment to pay off. Consider the other demands of the business — for example, training, recruiting new distributors, managing paperwork, inventory and shipping — and factor how much time it could take to achieve the amount of money you anticipate.


Asking Questions

Here are some important questions to ask your sponsor and distributors at different levels of the organization. Their responses can help you detect false claims about the amount of money you may make and whether the business is a pyramid scheme.

1. What are your annual sales of the product? How much product did you sell to distributors? What percentage of your sales were made to distributors?

One sign of a pyramid scheme is if distributors sell more product to other distributors than they do to the public.

2. What were your expenses last year, including money you spent on training and purchasing products? How much money did you make last year — that is, your income and bonuses minus your expenses? How much time did you spend last year on the business? How long have you been in the business? How many people are in your downline?

It’s important to get a complete picture of how the plan works: not just how much money distributors make, but also how much time and money they spend on the plan, how long it takes to make money and how big a downline is needed to make money.

3. What percentage of the money you made — income and bonuses minus your expenses — came from recruiting other distributors and selling them inventory or other items to get started?

Another sign of a pyramid scheme is if the money you make depends more on recruiting — getting new distributors to pay for the right to participate in the plan — than on sales to the public.

When you find yourself being mistreated directly or indirectly by the Racists (White Supremacists), I think that its correct to get other "white" people involved in helping you to fight your battles.

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Friday, August 20, 2010

The truth is revealed..............


This "white" person revealed the truth about how she viewed the "non-white" speaker (General Yahanna) whom I was told (by "white" person) took pleasure in being discourteous towards "white" people as they walked past him in this video. I did not care whether he was or he was not discourteous. What he said and did was what he said and did. He has the Victim's Guaranteed Qualifications (VGQ) to resist Racism (White Supremacy) they way that he thinks that he should resist it. I do not control him.

Would he have done what he said and did if there where not a system of Racism that victimized him?

It does appear to me that being courteous is more constructive towards having a real dialog about and towards solving the "race" issue. But, that's me, I have VGQ too.

The problem (at least from what I have observed so far) is that when I speak with a "white" person about Racism (White Supremacy), act as though it doesn't exist.

Here is a situation where one "white" person reveals the truth about Racism (White Supremacy), in anger, but, to me it was better than acting as though it didn't exist. Her words revealed the truth about how General Yahanna is functioning and will continue to function in a system of Racism (White Supremacy).

She said:  

"The sixties was not that long ago....." 



TRANSLATION: Look here. "black" folks collectively just recently (what? 40+ years ago? in comparison to "white" folks who've been practicing Racism for centuries? ) got a little bit of freedom to be able to say what you are saying and not be killed for it, so what you are saying doesn't mean shit.



"and you will never be like the upper class white man..."





TRANSLATION: what you are saying and doing right now, will never compare to what the smart and powerful "white" man has done. It will not ever compare to what he is still doing.



 "you will never be accepted..."



TRANSLATION: You are in a inferior position and will remain in that position no matter what you say and/or do.



"you will never get that job..."



TRANSLATION: You will never have that superior position. It is reserved for smart and powerful "white" people.



"and you will just always be looked at as a fucking nigger !"



TRANSLATION: All of the smart and powerful "white" people who have the will and the ability to keep you in that inferior position are going to.



If more "white" people were as honest as she was and if more "non-white" people paid attention to these kind of words, we could be closer to eliminating Racism. Why? because today it thrives from the belief that it no longer has any power to affect us anymore. I mean today Racism (White Supremacy) is so refined and sophisticated that you would not ever catch "the upper class white man" slippin' like she did. More "non-white" people need  to understand that our inferior position in this system has not yet changed and it ain't going to until effective numbers of us start thinking, speaking, and acting in a manner that will. At least that is the theory of it. If we get to that point and it doesn't work then we still have a huge problem to solve. Let's try though.

Let me add that, I don't think that she would have said her true belief about him, if she were not angry. She cracked under pressure. The more sophisticated Racist suspect (the kind that she was comparing him to) wouldn't have walked on the same sidewalk as the general, let alone acknowledged that he were there.

Friday, August 06, 2010

Omar Thornton: A Victim of Racism / White Supremacy

I do not support Mr. Thornton's behavior, but I understand it.
Victim of Racism
It is a most unfortunate situation, when a Victim of Racism (White Supremacy) is experiencing so much mistreatment that he or she has been driven to the point that their only choice in finding relief of that mistreatment is to take Maximum Action to stop it. This is why Racism / White Supremacy is dangerous to every person on the planet and therefore, must be eliminated.

Many of us can say that Thornton's actions were unnecessary. But the only one involved that believed it was necessary was Thornton and that is important, because once an individual believes an action to be necessary (and they have the immediate power to do it), they're going to make it happen.

According to reports from Thornton himself, his friends, and his relatives, he was mistreated on the basis of color at his place of work. Listen below to Thornton in his own words to the 911 operator:




Representatives of his former employer and his union, have said that is not the case and there is no record of Omar filing any reports of discrimination with either entity.

Many Victims of Racism know exactly what he went through, and for any of you whom are currently experiencing similar mistreatment in the workplace please consider (Countering Racism in the Workplace) to deal with Racism (White Supremacy) in the Workplace. According to those who have used it, it does work, when practiced correctly.

Unfortunately for me when I had such problems (some of them being mistreated on the basis of my skin color) with my past places of work, the union nor the employer, helped me stop the mistreatment, nor did they tell me how to file a grievance. On many occasions both parties denied the mistreatment, and I was made to look like my allegations were insane by both the employer and the union. The relationship between the reps of both sides could lead one to believe that these guys played golf together. If it ever came up, they would all say that there were no records of any discrimination and it would be the truth, because I did not KNOW HOW and they would not SHOW or TELL me HOW, to create such records. But, now I know how thanks to Mr. Edward Williams. Thanks Ed.

Now here is what I transcribed from the video, because it is more constructive when you SEE the words that you hear.

Dispatcher: State police.

Thornton: Is this 911?

Dispatcher: Yeah, can I help you?

Thornton: This is Omar Thornton, the uh, the shooter over in Manchester.

Dispatcher: Yes, where are you, sir?

Thornton: I'm in the building. Uh, you probably want to know the reason why I shot this place up. This place right here is a racist place.

Dispatcher: Yup, I understand that.

Thornton: They're treating me bad over here. And treat all other black employees bad over here, too. So I took it to my own hands and handled the problem. I wish I could have got more of the people.

Dispatcher: Yeah. Are you armed, sir? Do you have a weapon with you?

Thornton: Oh yeah, I'm armed.

Dispatcher: How many guns do have with you?

Thornton: I got one now. There's one out, one out in the uh, in the uh, factory there.

Dispatcher: Yep. OK, sir.

Thornton: I'm not going to kill nobody else though.

Dispatcher: Yeah. We're going to have to have you surrender yourself somehow here and not make the situation any worse. You know what I mean?

Thornton: These cops are going to kill me.

Dispatcher: No, they're not. We're just going to have to get you to relax ...

Thornton: I'm relaxed. I'm calmed down.

Dispatcher: ... to have you, you know, turn yourself over.

Thornton: (distorted sound) I hear the cops are already in there. Make sure you say the right thing. Hey, the SWAT team just rolled by in Army gear. They don't know where I'm at. But I don't know, maybe you can trace this from this phone call. But yeah, these people here are crazy. And they treat me bad from when I started here. Racist company. Treat me bad. I'm the only black they've already got here. They treat me bad over here, treat me bad all the time.

Dispatcher: It's a horrible situation, I understand that.

Thornton: Hey don't try to calm me down. I'm already calmed down. I'm not going to kill nobody else. I just want to tell my story to you, so you can play it back anyway.

Dispatcher: OK. You're going to help me get you out of the building, OK?

Thornton: Alright. I'm good. (distorted sound) I got that taken care of. I don't need anyone to talk me into getting out of the building.

Dispatcher: Where in the building are you?

Thornton: I'm not going to tell you that. When they find me that's when everything is going to be over.

Dispatcher: Yeah. Where are you located? Are you up in the offices?

Thornton: When they find me everything will be alright. Fucking Manchester is a racist place.

Dispatcher: Yeah. Now, um, what time did you get there today?

Thornton: About 7 o'clock.

Dispatcher: This morning?

Thornton: Yeah, about 7 a.m. Yeah, they told me to come early today.

Dispatcher: What kind of weapon do you have?

Thornton: I got a Ruger SR9.

Dispatcher: A Ruger? SR9?

Thornton: Automatic, yeah.

Dispatcher: Is it a rifle?

Thornton: Nah, it's a pistol. (distorted sound) are two of my favorites.

Dispatcher: Now, uh, you're going to make, uh, the troopers and the people come in and, uh, catch you? You're not going to surrender yourself?

Thornton: Well, I guess maybe on Thursday. Nah! They're coming to get me. They gotta come get me.

Dispatcher: Yeah, we wouldn't want to do it like that, Omar. You know, it's already been a bad enough scene this morning. We want you to relax.

Thornton: I'm relaxed. I'm calmed down.

Dispatcher: We don't want any more, any more, uh, people, you know, to lose their life here.

Thornton: I'm not going to kill nobody else.

Dispatcher: OK.

Thornton: I'm not coming out of where I'm at. I'm not coming out. They have to find me. Probably bring some dogs, or whatever, I don't know what they do.

Dispatcher: How much ammunition do you have with you?

Thornton: I got, uh, a lot of shots left. Uh-oh.

Dispatcher: What's that?

Thornton: It's alright. I guess this is (distorted sound) where I have to take care of business. Tell my people I love them and I got to go now.

Dispatcher: Omar, I really want you to help me stop this situation, OK?

Thornton: OK.

Dispatcher: If you work with me we'll get this to stop, OK? Omar. Ooh! Omar. Omar. OK, he's still alive.

R.W.S.W.J.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Make a Major Effort To Avoid Being Put into Greater Confinement

I have observed that huge numbers of "non-white" people are in "Greater Confinement". I have observed that small numbers of "white" people are in "Greater Confinement". "White" people collectively do more things to keep themselves out of  "Greater Confinement", than "non-white" people do. My observations are backed by these stats produced by the largest and most experienced collectors of statistics in the known universe.

The Stats:

"According to the US Census Bureau, the US population in 2000 was 281,421,906. Of that, 194,552,774 (69.1%) were white; 33,947,837 (12.1%) were black;"


"Across all age categories, black males were incarcerated at higher rates than white males." "Black males ages 30 to 34 had the highest custody incarceration rate of any [other] group at midyear 2007."


"Over a third (33.8%) of the total male custody population was ages 20 to 29. The largest percentage of black (35.5%) and Hispanic (39.9%) males held in custody were ages 20 to 29."

Such observations have lead to the following Counter Racist Compensatory Logical Conclusions.

1) Make a major effort to avoid being put into "Greater Confinement" [jail, prison, small and inadequate areas, etc.] Avoid doing anything that you have reason to believe may result in your being put into "Greater Confinement". Click here for more details on this.
See page 99 of the U.I.C.C./S./C.


2) Pay attention to white people. Pay attention to what they do. Listen to what they say. Look at all that they do. See page 71 of the U.I.C.C./S./C.

This is a video of  smart "white" people telling a room full of what I suspect are other "white" people, to exercise the use of the US Constitution (the 5th Amendment) when they encounter Enforcement Officials (Cops). They say "don't talk to the cops". This first video is of a lawyer telling them this.




This second video is a cop telling them this. Pay close attention to his use of words.



Catch how he said "We lovingly refer to as Hood Rats"? I suspect that he is talking about "non-white" people.


SUGGESTION: Find an experienced lawyer who specializes in Criminal Law and obtain their business card before any incidents occur. Do not worry about affording them. Think about that after they get you out of trouble.

REASON/EXPLANATION: Under the system of Racism (White Supremacy), vast numbers of "non-white" people have been placed in Greater Confinement, because of what they said and did, in the presence of Enforcement Officials. An experienced lawyer, who specializes in Criminal Law, can tell you how to behave in a manner that will keep you out of Greater Confinement.


These next videos are about what you should be doing when stopped by the Enforcement Officials. Which includes searching your property. They call it "10 Rules for Dealing with the Police"- very constructive information.










Sunday, July 25, 2010

Shirley Sherrod: The latest blast with Racist Propaganda

Below I am attempting to demonstrate the use of Racist Propaganda and it affects. I will point out the various tactics that I see being used here. I am using my own term to describe these tactics to eliminate confusion.

Even though Mrs. Sherrod has been "cleared" of being a so-called "Black Racist", the over all message that appeals to the subconscious minds of millions of people is that it is possible for a "non-white" person to have the ability to mistreat a "white" person on the basis of skin color.

The Objective of the Racist Propagandist:

BLACK RACISM EXISTS (they tried using "Reverse Racism" over the years but it has since, been refined into "Black Racism".)

Following Counter Racist Compensatory Logic, number two of the Four Types of Power Among the People of the Known Universe (see pages 27-29 U.I.C.C.S.C. for details) comes to my mind.

SUPERIOR POWER means the collective power and the ability of the Racists (White Supremacists), to cause "non-white" people to think, speak, and /or act according to the dictates of "white" people in general.

A Black Racist
The Reverse of SUPERIOR POWER, is the one I suspect is implied here. I say this because many Racist Conservatives are attempting to convince the people that the U.S. Government is ruled by a Victim of Racism. Anyone who knows (not many) that all Victims of Racism are subjects of the Racists can see that this is not true. The problem is that there are huge numbers of people (especially "white" people) who are being convinced by the smart and powerful amongst them that having a "Black" president has opened the doors for "Black Supremacy".

RACIST PROPAGANDA TACTIC #1:

Positive / Negative word association associating the target with a word that draws negative emotions is used to make people reject and condemn that person without examining the evidence.

Shirley Sherrod
Having Sherrod presented as a "Black Racist" working in the so-called Obama Administration would solidify the idea by making it appear that she is backed by the power and the ability of the "Racists(Black Supremacists)" and their "white" followers to cause "white" people to think, speak, and /or act according to their dictates.

Who was affected by this tactic?

Anyone that does not apply logic to think critically (most "non-white" people) about what they see and hear in regards to the existence of the system of Racism (White Supremacy).

Barack Obama

Because it appears that the US Government is incompetent when a "non-white" person appears to be in charge. How could all of those smart and powerful "white" people "serving under" Obama have overlooked this? CIA, NSA, and Military Intel advisers, of the most sophisticated government on the planet fell for this? The person who should be fired next, is the one in charge of getting the facts straight. Maybe they were the same person who told the Bush Administration that there was W.M.D.'s in "Iraq".

Benjamin Jealous

Superior Advisor of the NAACP which is often made to appear as though it's the number one and only "black" organization that "counters racism" in a manner that is viewed as acceptable, made the same mistake that Obama made. There is a plethora of smart and powerful "white" people in the NAACP as well. Could they have checked out the facts too?


RACIST PROPAGANDA TACTIC #2

Accept / Reject Testimony using the words of someone viewed as important to influence how you think about a person or an idea.

The Racist Propagandists used Obama and Jealous to solidify the claim that BLACK RACISM exists, by broadcasting their statements of "outrage".


Andrew Breitbart
Okay. Now that it has all come out that she was taken out of context (I say severely mistreated on the basis of her skin color) by the Racist Suspect Conservative blogger named Andrew Breitbart, and "cleared" of her charges of being a current "black racist", does it now APPEAR that it is even more possible for a "black" person to be a "Racist (Black Supremacist)"?

Yes! In fact it now looks more possible that a "black" person can be one, because the message now appears as though she once was a "black racist", but at some point in her existence she learned that it is no longer about Racism (Black Supremacy).

I quote Counter Racist Evolving Engineer (CREE) who said it best on her blog:

"The key term of this cunningly crafted controversy is being hammered, by repetition, into common use: “black racist.” Even though the ONLY functional form of racism in the known universe is white supremacy, we’re speaking—with serious, stern faces– about a non-functional entity called “black racism.”…. This is how deceitful definitions that serve the global system of white supremacy (racism) become “commonly accepted” —- no matter how inaccurate and illogical."

We were all attacked with an act of indirect violence of massive proportion. Like a Trojan Virus going into a computer that has no anti-virus program, it entered into the minds of the people in a subtle way.

Evidence:

Shirley Sherrod herself:

When asked by Racist Suspect Anderson Cooper, if she thinks that she has now gotten past black vs white, Sherrod replied "I know I've gotten past black vs white!"

The damage to the minds of the people has been done. This is no fault on her part.

Key words "BLACK VERSES WHITE." black / offense and white / defense. Wow.

There's more....

I read the transcript to Mrs.Sherrod's speech in question and I like it.

She really sounds like a person who reveals truth in a manner that promotes Justice and helps the person who needs help, get the most constructive help that they need.

SOMEONE knew exactly how this thing was going to play out.


I think that this whole thing was designed to get Ms. Sherrod out of the position that she had anyway. It appears that she was offered a different job at the USDA, instead of the one that she had, why?

Do you know that Black Farmers had filed a $2 billion dollar lawsuit against the USDA? I remember reading about this like over a decade ago. I thought it was settled. Well, it's been settled but they have been waiting for the money for over a decade.

I suspect that some Racists (White Supremacists) thought that Mrs. Sherrod was in a position to help these farmers get that settlement or get help while they wait for it. When you read her speech you will see what I am talking about.
"Black" Farmer

"Jerry Pennick, director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund, where Sherrod worked before joining the USDA. The government's poor treatment of her has resonated loudly and badly among farmers who have faced discrimination."

"The government stands to pay out over $2 billion for discrimination against African Americans and not one person in the department has been fired because of that, yet the first African American woman to [oversee rural development] in Georgia was fired for alleged racism," Pennick said.

"And nobody has been fired for proven discrimination."

Mrs. Sherrod said on the "Today" show last week that:

"Discrimination happens in the USDA. . . . And it's there because the agency never did deal with the people who caused it,"

"No one lost their job because they discriminated against black farmers, Hispanic farmers, Native American farmers, women farmers. . . . Those individuals . . . some have retired, but many of them are still there."

Read more here

THE USDA says on there website that:

"Rural Development is committed to helping improve the economy and quality of life in all of rural America by providing financial programs to support essential public facilities and services as water and sewer systems, housing, health clinics, emergency service facilities and electric and telephone service. Rural Development promotes economic development by providing loans to businesses through banks and community-managed lending pools, while also assisting communities to participate in community empowerment programs."

Saturday, July 24, 2010

I'm Tired of Hearing :"Thousands of years ago our ancestor's ruled this planet"

There are many "non-white" and "white" people today, who are greatly entertained, when they hear a "non-white" person talking about how the "Black man is God", and the "White man is the Devil".

"Thousands of years ago our ancestor's ruled this planet."

"Black people are the original people of the planet and all knowledge came from us."

"We built the pyramids and the 'white' man still doesn't know how they were built."

"We were Kings and Queens and when they were walking on all fours and living in caves!"

"Jesus was Black!"

"All of the prophets in the Bible were Black!"

"Black people invented the light bulb."


These words boost the ego and get one very excited about having dark skin. All of those words sound good and some of them according to the evidence are true. But, we are still being DOMINATED and SUBJUGATED under a system that has been here since the 16th century (at the least).


What can "non-white" people do to stop being mistreated on the basis of color TODAY?


Right now, if a person came here from another planet, not knowing anything about "white people being savages when we created civilization", or that "we built the pyramids", or that "we used to rule this planet". Would that person believe (based on their observation of the current situation) that "non-white" people are here to serve "white" people?

The video below explains it best.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

For Anyone Who Questions My Credentials


For anyone who questions my credentials, here is the doctorate degree that I earned for my 42 years of being a long time Victim of and Servant to Racism (White Supremacy).

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Concept of "Race"


The Oxford American Dictionary states that "Race" means "1.one of the great divisions of mankind with certain physical chacteristics in common (such as color of skin and hair, shape of eyes and nose). 2. a number of people related by common descent" there's more, but I don't need it for what I am stating.

O.k. I believe that the concept of "race" is a social construct. I think that it's a word invented by the Racists, in order to to help promote Race-ism. Now, I do not have any proof of the Racists actually creating the word, but if one would study ancient (babylon, mesopitamia, egypt, etc.) history, one would find no evidence of people classifying themselves as "races". These days racism has been confused with prejudice and discrimination, also name calling. People have been called racist because they don't like someone's religion, or because they don't like a so-called homosexual. This isn't racism. It could be discrimination. It might be prejudice, but, it's not racism. Racism is strictly based on the color of a persons skin.

I suspect that it wasn't until early "European" world exploration, that the concept of "race" came about. I say this because I've seen evidence that it was during this same time that Racists began to establish the system of white supremacy.


It's as though "Race" is like a type of class that we all use to determine how we treat one another. Under the system of white supremacy "white" is the top class, "black" is the bottom class, and "brown", "red" and "yellow" are in the middle somewhere. In reality people aren't "white", "black", "red" or "yellow". They are either pale or many shades of brown.
These five color "race" classifications were developed by this guy to your top left corner, "Johann Friedrich Blumenbach came up with the five color distribution of human races: White, Black, Yellow, Red, and Brown."
I suspect that this theory ( that's right. THEORY) that we are divided up into 3 species of Negroid, Mongaloid, and Caucasiod or Caucasian, came from him also. It's interesting that after he saw an attarctive non-white female, he changed his whole theory, but that never seemed to catch on like his earlier one. Hmmm... I wonder why?
THEORY-a set of ideas formulated to explain something. A person is supposed to back their theories up with facts and many don't. Some people will change the facts to back their theories. That is deception- a characteristic of a racist.

The whole planet was overun by the Racists during the 13th and 14th centuries. They were the smartest and most powerful "white" people amongst "white" people. The Racists from England, Spain, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, and a few others, openly dominated this world for centuries. They dominated all other areas in this world where the people looked different from them. During that period they (not any of the racists that exist today, of course.) instilled in our ancestors and their (the racist's) own descendents, through the area of education, this concept of "race"or what I call a class based on skin color. As it states here : "The first known racial classification system was created in the 17th century when a French doctor named Francois Bernier divided up humanity based on facial appearance and body type."
All non-white populated areas were under so-called European control during the 17th century. So we had no one to refute what was said. Non-white people during this time in most cases were forbidden to read and write. They also depended on everything that the racists told them at this time.

If you really think about it, there is no reason for dividing people up into groups unless you are classifying them for some purpose. What is the purpose of us being different "races"? We still follow the rules for classifying, but the purpose of the classifying hasn't been passed along with the rules. Attempting to fit people into "races" only serves one purpose. To judge them based on the color of their skin. Answers.com states"These ideas originated in the fifteenth century when the ability to support such ideas using sound scientific methods was not possible. Now, scientists from many disciplines (e.g., genetics, anthropology, sociology, biology) agree that there are no distinct human races as was previously claimed."
Take a look at what this PBS link says on "race". It will probably explain it a lot better than I can. At least I tried.

The following video was added on 11/2/12:

 

Friday, July 09, 2010

Learn Something About Everything

I learned something new about Google in relation to collecting information. It will be up to you to determine if it is constructive or not. If you go to the Google start page. Before you start your search take a look at the links at the top of the start page.

"Web Images Videos Maps News Shopping Mail more

You've probably exhausted the "Web", tabs looking for websites like counter-racism.com, the code.net, the C.O.W.S. Radio show, and any of the other sources of  Counter Racist Information that are popping up on the Web. You may have used the "Images" tab attempting to find Racist Propaganda to point out how us Victims of Racism are being indoctrinated into cooperating with Racism (White Supremacy), you may even use the "Video" tab, searching for "Another lesson in Counter Racism Science". You've probably gotten plenty of use out of the "Maps" tab to get directions. And the "News" tab? well I just don't know if you are using this one at all, unless you are searching for the most current Racist action that the media CHOOSES to make us aware of. But, I can tell you if you do use it, you will get many sources of information on whatever current story you are looking for, Google even allows you to personalize it so that the page only shows you the type of stories your are interested in. Surely, you've used the "Shopping" tab to collect the latest items to show off what the Racists have allowed you to have, or to buy the tools to be used for a constructive purpose. You probably get a lot of use out of the "Mail" tab for............whatever.

But what about the "More" tab? Have you ever clicked on the "More" tab? There is whole new learning experience behind the "More" tab. There is even an "Even More" tab. You've got to check this stuff out.


Anyway, back to the "More" tab for now. If you click on the "Books" tab that shows up after you hit the "More" tab, the information that you have access to will blow your mind. I've been online for the past two days and nights reading magazines dated back to the 40's. Very interesting pieces of information on different subjects. I found these gems of information:

in a Sept 1974 issue of Ebony: The "Conspiracy" to Make Black Males Inferior by Dr.Francis Cress-Welsing



in a June 1979 issue of Ebony The Battle Between the Sexes: Is It Manufactured Or Real


There are plenty more sources of information that are listed. I found a 1948 issue of Life magazine. Not that the issue was constructive, I am just demonstrating how far back it went.

Anyway,

Replace White Supremacy With Justice.

Sunday, July 04, 2010

My Experiences with "White" females Part Two

The Blond Bombshell

I can still remember my last encounter with a "white" woman. I was working as an Extra on a T.V. commercial in San Francisco. All of the other Extras were aspiring actors. Mostly "white" people and some sprinkles of "non-white" people. Everyone was friendly. It was like we were all at an amusement park or a night club, minus the music and the booze. Laughing, joking, talking, flirting, dancing, performing, with each other for about 28 days of filming. It felt like a family reunion, in fact most of the Extras that were there, were regulars that saw each other, every time there was a movie or commercial filmed in the bay area. I was one of the new ones and so was the "white" woman whom I had a sexual attraction to. There were many females both "white" and "non-white" working on this project, who were attractive (they all looked like models, for Victoria Secret or something). When I say "attractive" I mean any person that people classified as "white" and "non-white" would both want to have sexual intercourse or sexual play with. I was looking to be with anyone of them that appeared to be attracted to me. I was three years out of an attempted marriage, and taking care (with help from others) of my one female offspring. It had also been a year since I had any affection or sexual contact.

Based on many years experience of being rejected by "white" woman, I had learned that for me, if anything was going to lead to sexual intercourse (let me interject that I've never reserved myself exclusively for "white" women ) with one, it had to be them that initiated it.

Anyway, this particular "white" woman was not more or less attractive than any of the other fine females, that were there. She just was. She had long blond hair, blue eyes, and what appeared to be tanned skin. She didn't need any face make up to help with her attractiveness. Most of the females there didn't. She was what I have heard "white" men refer to as a "Blond Bomb Shell".

In the beginning of the project, I met, Patrick. Patrick told me that he did not like to say that he was "white", but would rather say that he was "Irish". He talked (though, I had learned about this already) to me about how the "Irish" are "non-white" people, in the "UK", but that when they come to the "United States", they are treated as though they are "white" people. If I had been codified back then, I would have had a bucket load of questions to ask him.

Okay okay to the point. Me, Pat, and a couple of the other guys, that were "street minded" so to speak, all started hanging out together everyday. We exchanged stories about fights, being in gangs, and small crimes that we committed and how we had a major event that made us change our ways. For me it was getting stabbed, but, that's another story. Anyway, the "white" woman, liked to hear our stories, and started hanging out with us too. By the 20th day, the crew had dwindled down to me, Pat, and her. Someone started referring to us as the Mod Squad. Letting us know about her "Irish" ancestry and because they were (in my mind at the time of the same "race") I assumed that she wanted to be with Pat, until one night she invited me (not Pat) to have drinks with her and some of the "white" men that worked on the project, at a brew house. While we're all sitting together, the "white" men started to compete for her attention with their stories.

I sat quietly beside her and listened to all of them talk. The beer she's drinking has a very interesting appearance, that I had never seen in a beer before. In the middle of all of their talking I say "What kind of beer is that?"

She turns to me and says  "Honey, it's called Hefenweisen, here drink some."

With raised eye brows and a scrunched fore head, I'm thinking "wait a minute, did she just call me honey?"

Within a half a second of me realizing that she called me Honey, in front of these "white" men, her beer is in front of my lips. With all eyes on me, I take a sip. At that moment all of the "white" men started making up excuses for why they had to leave and left. I remember one of them saying "Well, that did it for me, I'm calling it a night."

By this point in my existence, I had gotten so many mixed signals from my dealings with females (especially "white" women), that I couldn't tell if what had just transpired was because she really was attracted to me, or a deceptive ploy on her part to show the "white" men sitting with us that she wasn't interested in any of them.

After, they all left, she tells me that she resides in Santa Cruz and is house sitting at a house in San Francisco, with a pool and a hot tub. She says that she does not want to be alone, and wants me to keep her company, promising me that we will have a lot of fun. I thanked her for the invite, but declined, because I had to get back to Oakland, in order to pick up my "daughter". She gave me a ride to the B.A.R.T. (the Bay Area's commuter train) station. I remember her begging me to go with her. There were a lot of emotions that I felt that night. I could not think logically about what was going on at all. The system had trained me to take chances (the phrase "Just do it" comes to my mind), I had learned by this point in my existence, that if I can't think clearly about something, I had better not act on it. There were too many unknowns involved. But, I couldn't help but, wonder ( before the code) what it would have been like, if I had excepted the offer. I know now that it would have only increased my confusion and thus delayed me from focusing on eliminating the system of Racism (White Supremacy).
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Update 1/10/13- I realized today that I also had a deep fear that she might accuse me of rape or something. It didn't reveal itself all of the time (because, I have had sexual intercourse with "White" women), but, I know that this fear was put in me as a child by my father-less, because of Racist Actions against Emmett Till, Willie McGee, and thousands of others, who've had (or were accused of) "sexual play" and / or sexual intercourse with a "White" female and / or "White" woman.
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So the next day we were on the set, she avoided hanging out with me and Pat, all day, until 5pm, which was the end of our work schedule that day. She invites me, Pat, and a "white" man (that was hanging out with another group of guys on the set.) to a bar at pier 39, that was holding a celebration for the World Cup. Pat said "Hey, man this is where I draw the line, going in there, will take me back to a terrible time." That is when I realized that he was combating a drinking problem. He knew better and warned me to do the same, because it could always get rowdy in these types of places, especially during the World Cup. I went in anyway, trying to follow her, with my confused self.


Me, her, and the "white" man, are sitting there on the patio of this bar having drinks. She bought drinks for everyone. About four or five Kamakazi's later I am watching the world cup on the t.v., when I catch her looking at me, with puckered up lips, prepared to receive a kiss. So I gave her a little peck. Then, I hear this "black" male say "Ahhhhh man, he kissed her like she was his sister." Laughter broke out all around me. It was if the whole club was waiting to see if I was going to get with this "white" woman.

NOW, I am determined to get with her. She gets up and goes off to the restroom. The "white" man that was sitting with us, talks with me for about ten minutes, and then gets up and leaves too.

Fifteen minutes goes by and the "black" male who made the comment says "Man, that fine white girl likes YOU, but the white dude, is trying to get with her too. You should go get her, man"

So now I am thinking that when she gets back to the table, I'm going to kiss her passionately in front of everybody (show-offism) and get my "respect back". I glance in the dance area and see the two of them dancing together. So I go cut in and she dances with me. He comes back in, grabs her hand, takes her out the door into the front of the place. I go out in front and tell her to choose him or me. She chooses me. My mind is really blown away (double confusion sets in) now, because she choose me over this "white" dude. He acts upset and then walks off. Her and I walk to a burger joint across the street.

He comes into the burger joint and says "Khalif, can we talk?"  I say "what's up?" he says "Hey man, I think that you are cool and everything, but the three of us ain't vibing, dude."


I said "Hey, man she chose me. So get on some where"

He left again.


We leave the place and walk to her car. When we get to the corner about five feet from her car, he walks up again grabbing one of her arms, now we are doing a tug of war with her. She snatches her arms away, lays down on the ground and yells "Why don't you both just f--- me right here on the f---ing corner !"


The "white" man tells me that I should go, so that he can be alone with her. Now, I go into this let me save her from this guy mode. I say "Man, didn't she say that she didn't want you? Get out of here or its going to be some problems." He says "Okay!" and walks off.


Her and I get into her car, and I start to say how I feel about her (You know, cuz I am like "honored" that this fine "white" woman chose me, right?). I was headed for the ultimate confusion, and probably would have never came back. I wanted to feel accepted by this "white" queen (most powerful piece on the chess board) and she did that by choosing me over the "white" man, once again on a separate occasion. Anyway, I was about to ask her why, when he drives up along side of her car and yells for her to get in his car (I suspected that she was really liking all of this attention).

She says "No, I'm not getting in unless, Khalif can go with me."  He tells her that is not an option. So she refuses to get in. He says "Okay, come on lets all go to another club." She gets in the front seat, instead of the back with me. We get in the club and have some more drinks at the bar. She goes out on the dance floor and starts dancing by herself, while him and I are at the bar. I remember him saying "Khalif, man, let me drop you off at the BART station, man." Everything gets blurry, because the alcohol starts to set in, and the next thing I know, I see them getting into the car. I rush out and get in too. Now he's being persistent about taking me to the BART, and she isn't saying anything. I'm still saying no. He just starts driving around San Francisco.

It seemed like we drove around for hours, with the music playing, I heard some faints moans coming from up front. I looked up there and saw that he was rubbing between her legs. He looks at me and says "Khalif, let me take you to the BART, man." I was like dumbfounded. Mouth on the floor of his car. I was still dragging it out of the car, when he dropped me off at the BART station, which had closed at 12 am. It was like 2 am.

So, not having any place to go in S.F. and the fact that it was really cold that night, I thought maybe I'd sleep in her car if it was unlocked. I walked back to her car and slept in it, thinking that I would see her when she comes back. I didn't. I woke up at about 9am and walked to the BART and caught a train back to Oakland.

Counter Racist Compensatory Logic tells me that as long as I am a Victim of Racism in a system of Racism (White Supremacy) that my existence means nothing unless I am either of some use to "white" people or I am attempting to replace this system of White Supremacy with Justice.

Anytime that I am not aware of the how or why behind the feelings that I have, when I have them, I suspect that I am being indirectly controlled by Racist thought, speech, and /or action.

CONTINUED HERE

My Experiences with "White" females part one

          Webster’s New World Dictionary (1968 Edition) defines Propaganda as any organization or movement working for the propagation of particular ideas, doctrines, practices etc. It further defines it as any systematic, widespread, deliberate indoctrination or plan for such indoctrination.

TO A WHITE GIRL
I love you
Because you're white,
Not because you're charming
Or bright,
Your whiteness
Is a silky thread
Snaking through my thoughts,
In redhot patterns
Of lust and desire.

I hate you
Because you're white.
Your white meat
Is nightmare food.
White is
The skin of Evil.
You're my Moby Dick,
White Witch,
Symbol of the rope and hanging tree,
Of the burning cross.
 Loving you thus
And hating you so,
My heart is torn in two.
Crucified.
                                                                    - Eldridge Cleaver


On Sun 6/20/10, I was a guest on the C.O.W.S. Radio show. I was asked to talk about, what was referred to as a "Tragic Arrangement". I was told that a Tragic Arrangement is when a "non-white" person and a "white" person associate with each other for the purpose of having sexual intercourse. Under a system of Racism (White Supremacy), this kind of relationship is a Tragic Arrangement. Let me explain. My memory takes me back to when I was 5 years old, and even to 3 years (in some instances). I saw a lot of  programming (television and films). Every program that I saw presented images of "white" people showing affection for each other. I saw images of "white" females behaving in a manner that made them appear as though they were perfect.

The first "white" person on t.v. that I was attracted to, was Shirley Temple. I didn't think that I was "black". I knew that my skin was brown, but, it had not clicked to me that the color of my skin made a significant difference between us (in fact it only makes a difference because of Racism / White Supremacy). Thinking that she was the same age or close to my age, I imagined that she would be my girlfriend someday. Then one day my mother told me that Shirley Temple was already an adult by the time that she (my mom) was 8 years old and had started watching her in the movies. I was devastated. It was also at this time that both of my folks told me about the roles that Black people were limited to playing in her movies because of Racism (White Supremacy). I still wanted to be with her regardless...

New edition added on 5/1/11 :

Anyway, I remember seeing her with Mr. Bojangles and thinking "wow, she likes Black people" and at the same time disliking him for being an "Uncle Tom" and / or "Sell-out":
There was this feeling as though the "White" woman would provide me with nourishment or something ( I could hear the cow bells ringing as though I were on Gus' show, right now).

Throw in Jody Foster, Tatum O'Neal, Linda Blair, and Kristy McNichol, as the other little ones that I that were my age. Then adult "white" women like Brooke Shields, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Lindsey Wagner, Angie Dickenson, Raquel Welch, the list goes on. They were on shows with titles like "Charlie's Angels", "Police Woman", "Wonder Woman", "Bionic Woman", etc. "White" was right. There were very few "non-white" females on t.v. back then. Any that were on t.v. were perceived as "unattractive". Although, there was Denise Nichols.


At this stage in my existence, there were three "white" girls within my habitat,one stayed next door, another stayed across the street, and then there was Heidi at my daycare. Heidi was the most interesting (at that time) of the three because we ( I think that she showed me how) "played house" and "doctor" a lot. I wanted to do the same with the other two, but they had dolls to act out with. BARBIE DOLLS! The first dolls I ever saw Barbie and Ken. I always used the Ken doll. Barbie had a house, car, clothes, and lots and lots of shoes. Ken had a lot of things too. Anyway, I liked playing with the Ken doll. My attempted parents noticed that I liked dolls, and started buying G.I. Joe, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Superman, Batman, Capt. Kirk, the Six-Million Dollar Man, and some other dolls that I had. Many times I'd forget the dolls and just pretend to be them. All of them considered to be "white" men. And most of the time the "white" kids didn't hesitate to let me know that I was only pretending to be them. Sometimes they'd tell me that I can't be any of these characters because I was "black". All of the leading "white" men in what ever program that I watched, I wanted to be like. Those men where usually tasked to save the "white / innocent / pure / angelic / princess / damsel in distress". I suspect that many "non-white" females wanted to be like the "white" women in such programs as well. Anyway, I always found a need to please the "white" girls that I was around, with the hopes that they would choose me to be their mate. Man, it's amazing how much of my memory is coming back as I write this post. I was attracted to a lot of "white" females in film, television, and in person. I still find myself attracted to lighter skinned (presumably classified as "white") females. I can remember feeling a deep need to "save" them, not realizing that in comparison to myself, I was the one who needed the most help. I am sure that everyone will agree that "white" women have no problem getting any help from anyone, when they need it.

For me, I thought (subconsciously) that as long as any attractive "white" women or any attractive "non-white" females (with skin lighter than my own) thought that I was attractive, it was enough to make me feel like I was an attractive "non-white" male. It meant that I was accepted. It's still a feeling that I wrestle with today. I still have this tremendous urge to not let my skin color determine how I function in this system. The truth is that my skin is no more important than any other part of my body. The deception is that under the system of Racism (White Supremacy) it is the number one cause for all of my problems. My skin always gets in the way, but, now most people want to pretend as though they are not thinking about it, while they are still thinking about it. For me as an individual it's also my eyes (that's another story).

4/13/12- Okay, I am back here adding to this post, because I can see that my experiences with "white" females part one, appears to get a lot of views, and thus must be constructive in some kind of way. Since this is part one, I've decided that this post will be where I come to update you on my earliest memories of any sexual experiences that I've had with "White" females. Today, what comes to mind is the "white" women that I witnessed my father-less (see Parent on page 281 of the U.I.C.C.S.C. Word Guide) having "sexual play" with. I suspect I was between the ages of three and six. He brought me along with him. I think because he assumed that I was too young to know what was going on, but, I did know. I think that I learned about it from the TV. Seeing "White" people show affection for each other on TV (they didn't show affectionate "Black" people on TV in those days. In fact they didn't show "Black" people much at all.) at an early age, helped me to pick up on what I saw in his interaction with "White" women. Though he served as a Belly warmer (see page 239 of the U.I.C.C.S.C. Textbook / Workbook) for "White" women, my father-less was in an attempted marriage (see Marriage on page 218 of the U.I.C.C.S.C. Word Guide) with my mother-less (see Parent on page 281 of the U.I.C.C.S.C. Word Guide).

Like most so-called marriages between "non-white" people it was full of conflict. Some of which I am sure had to do with "cheating". Anyway, the era that we are speaking of was in the early 70's. "White" liberals were promoting the idea of openly having sex with anyone, anything, at anytime, and anywhere, for no other reason than pleasure . They called it the "sexual revolution".

 Most of this kind of thinking started in the city of Berkeley, which is where I was going to school at the time. This is the era when terms and names like "Hippie", "Black Militant", "Lesbian", "Gay", "Vietnam Vet", "Huey Newton", "Patty Hearst", "Jim Jones", " The Zebra Killers", "The Zodiac", "Ronald Reagen", "Charles Manson", "George Jackson", "Richard Nixon", "Angela Davis" "J. Edger Hoover", were all in prominent use. Berkeley was one big "White" Liberal experiment. It was in the 70's that the "status quo" in this city attempted to make "Black" people comfortable with the affects of White Supremacy, by making both Malcolm X's and M.L.K.'s birthdays local holidays. This was 20 years before M.L.K.'s birthday was a national one. Okay, I think that you get the picture. It was while I attended these schools that my father-less, met most of these "White" women. He was a "Vietnam Vet" who wasn't laboring in exchange for money on a regular basis. See the so-called U.S.A. lost the "Vietnam War". Most "White" people in positions of power were upset about the whole thing, and thus weren't offing work to "Vietnam Vets", let alone a "Black" one. My father-less used his time and energy towards increasing the educational standards of "Non-white" children within the Berkeley school system. You see "White" women were made to appear to be thrown into the bunch of other so-called "Minorities".

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Monday, February 08, 2010

Enforcement Officials Abuse Asset Forfeiture

On November 18, 2009, Shukree Simmons, a "black" male, and his business partner were driving from Macon, Georgia, back to Atlanta after selling his truck for $3,700. While traveling though Lamar County, Mr. Simmons was pulled over by two Enforcement Officials who did not give a reason for the stop. Mr. Simmons and his business partner, went through the usual questioning that so many "non-white" people go through when encountering Enforcement Officials. The Enforcement Officials searched both of them and the car. The search even included using a sniffing dog, but no evidence for the type of behavior that could lead to Greater Confinement was found.

Not accepting Mr. Simmons’ explanation that he acquired his money from the sale of his truck, the Enforcement Officials decided to confiscate the $3,700 on the suspicion that the cash was acquired from criminal actions committed by Mr. Simmons. They have this authority under the "Georgia" Civil Asset Forfeiture Code. They then allowed their victims to leave.

As soon as he was able to do so, Mr. Simmons mailed to the Enforcement Officials, the evidence (bill of sale and title for the truck)that proves how he got the money.  Mr. Simmons was informed that he had to file a "legal claim" to get his money back.

Now, consider this position that the system of Racism (White Supremacy) puts its victims in. Here is a situation where a "non-white" person has to PROVE that their money is rightfully theirs and that it was acquired through legitimate business practices, after it had been taken from that "non-white" person WITHOUT PROOF that it was not their money or that it had been earned illegitimately. I suspect that for most "non-white" people, it would have stopped there. Seeing that so many of us have a general lack in our behavior for meeting deadlines, researching, filling out paperwork, etc. Can you imagine how many "non-white" people placed in this same position, would give up on this?  Considering, all of the general things that one needs to say and do when dealing with this law?

Check it:

[b][i]"(n) If the estimated value of personal property seized is $25,000.00 or less, the district attorney may elect to proceed under the provisions of this subsection in the following manner:

(1) Notice of the seizure of such property shall be posted in a prominent location in the courthouse of the county in which the property was seized. Such notice shall include a description of the property, the date and place of seizure, the conduct giving rise to forfeiture, a statement that the owner of such property has 30 days within which a claim must be filed, and the violation of law alleged;

(2) A copy of the notice, which shall include a statement that the owner of such property has 30 days within which a claim must be filed, shall be served upon an owner, interest holder, or person in possession of the property at the time of seizure as provided in subsection (i) of this Code section and shall be published for at least three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the seizure was made;

(3) The owner or interest holder may file a claim within 30 days after the second publication of the notice of forfeiture by sending the claim to the seizing law enforcement agency and to the district attorney by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery, return receipt requested;

(4) The claim must be signed by the owner or interest holder under penalty of perjury and must set forth:

(A) The caption of the proceedings as set forth on the notice of pending forfeiture and the name of the claimant;

(B) The address at which the claimant will accept mail;

(C) The nature and extent of the claimant́s interest in the property;

(D) The date, identity of the transferor, and circumstances of the claimant́s acquisition of the interest in the property;

(E) The specific provision of this Code section relied on in asserting that the property is not subject to forfeiture;

(F) All essential facts supporting each assertion; and

(G) The precise relief sought;

(5) If a claim is filed, the district attorney shall file a complaint for forfeiture as provided in subsection (o) or (p) of this Code section within 30 days of the actual receipt of the claim. A person who files a claim shall be joined as a party; and

(6) If no claim is filed within 30 days after the second publication of the notice of forfeiture, all right, title, and interest in the property is forfeited to the state and the district attorney shall dispose of the property as provided in subsection (u) of this Code section."
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I listed the specific part of this law, that says what a person has to do in order to get their money back. You can view the whole law at the link listed above. It was easy for me to find it on the computer. How many "non-white" people don't have a computer? How many don't know what to do with a computer in order to find it? How many can't afford internet access? How many would know where to find this law without a computer? How many would think to check a law library? or the regular library for that matter. Most would probably think that they would have to get a lawyer, and then the next thought would probably be that they can't afford a lawyer. In Georgia, a basic retainer fee (the down payment to get the lawyer started on your case) is $5,000.

Do most VsOR have access to this kind of money? In the case of Mr.Simmons', he'd have to spend more money to get the attorney, then the amount of money that he is attempting to get back.

Regardless of this fact, Mr. Simmons, spoke to a lawyer anyway. That lawyer gave him some constructive information telling him that he should contact the ACLU.

According to the ACLU, which took Simmons' case in December 2009, they "sent a letter to Lamar County Sheriff Larry Waller asserting Mr. Simmons’s right to the money and seeking its return. Waller responded that he agreed that the state had no right to the funds, but directed Mr. Simmons to initiate a claim. The ACLU pushed back, and in early January the Sheriff returned the money to Mr. Simmons."

These "Asset forfeiture laws" have created an opportunity for Enforcement Officials to acquire huge profits, I suspect most of which came from Victims of Racism. The total amount acquired by use of these "Asset forfeiture laws" in 2003, was $38,330,861.00 in "Georgia" alone. Imagine whats going on in the other "states". The ACLU says in  its article that "Georgia’s law permits one-third of seizure proceeds to return to local law enforcement, which can be used for any law enforcement purpose except for the payment of salaries or rewards. The rest of the money goes into the local general fund, and must be used for programs such as drug treatment and witness protection. However, in Georgia and most other states, if police want access to more of the money for their budgets, they may turn over a drug-related seizure to the D.E.A., thereby federalizing the seizure. The DEA 'does the paperwork', handles any claims to the money by individuals (who must sue in federal court), and returns 80 percent of the money to the police, with no state law strings attached. Police may then use the funds for any law enforcement purpose, including payment of salaries. This process, known as equitable sharing, permits local law enforcement to do an end run around state civil asset forfeiture laws."

The ACLU also said in their article that "Reports from other asset forfeiture cases in the media and in lawsuits indicate that police do not seize assets from all equally. Instead, they target those persons they associate with criminal behavior and drug trafficking. The result is a regime of racial profiling of black and Latino drivers on the highways, who are stopped and stripped of their money based on minimal or non-existent evidence.

Mr. Simmons' case demonstrates the extent to which civil asset forfeiture laws, formed to assist officers in fighting drug crimes, are misused against people of color in cases in which there is no evidence of criminal activity. Mr. Simmons was never arrested and never charged. Instead, the Sheriff's department took his money, admitted that it has no right to keep the money, and told Mr. Simmons that he must make a legal claim to get it back. The ACLU seeks to challenge this and other civil asset forfeiture law abuses. The era of easy money for police departments by wrongfully taking cash from vulnerable drivers must end."

In my opinion one reason that has probably made it easy for Enforcement Officials to seize people's money when there was no correct reason to seize it, was because the individuals involved my have consented to having their vehicles searched. They probably were thinking, "I don't have anything to hide", and let the Enforcement Officials conduct a search. I used to do it all of the time, until it downed on me that these searches take a lot of time, are embarrassing, and can be humiliating as well. Sometimes they unscrew the seats! Many of my days have been ruined because of these kind of stops. Sticking with the constitution , you can say no to the Enforcement Officials searching your vehicle. As long as you do not have any felonies. In most states if you have a felony, many of the constitutional laws don't apply to you. I suspect that this one of the reasons why many "non-white" people, are persuaded (through Racist Propaganda) to practice the type of behavior that leads them to acquire felonies. Anyway, if your money is in your glove box, or in a brief case, or even an envelope inside your car, and you say no to a search, you should be in the clear of keeping your money. I ain't no lawyer, just a Victim of Racism, making a suggestion.