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Deja Vu
All Over Again
By Junious Ricardo
Stanton
Now
that the war has officially escalated (AmeriKKKan and British
forces have been bombing Iraq for twelve years) we will see what
AmeriKKKa is really about. I deliberately have eschewed watching
the corporate owned media, especially the cable network's
coverage of the carnage. The few times I did channel hop, I was
appalled at the obvious glee on the faces of the talking heads
on MSNBC, Fox and CNBC as they finally got their war.
When
I wrote this I was at a Family Reunion Conference in
Columbia Maryland. In one of the workshops someone spoke
about the lynching exhibit Without Sanctuary
that was on display at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in
Atlanta Georgia (which I saw this past Summer). The looks on the
faces of these cable anchors remind me of the looks on the faces
of the white men women and children in those lynching pictures
as they laughed and posed while hideously mutilated black bodies
dangled from trees or the charred remains of black folks
smoldered on the ground.
When
the Iraqi invasion started a friend of mine said, "they're
doing to the Iraqis what they did to the Indians." And he
is so right. This is Deja Vu -- the repetition of Caucasoid
cultural patters that go back over five thousand years.
Ironically some say, that region the Tigris and Euphrates River
Valleys is the cradle of civilization. There is no
doubt the region is very ancient, in fact it's history parallels
current events. Six or seven thousand years ago that region was
presided over by black-skinned people who called their culture Sumer. They were a sedentary, matri-focal society just like the
black people in India known as the Dravidians and the
black people of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Kush, Ethiopia, and Kemet
that were even older than Sumer. Sumer fell as the result of the
onslaught and after shocks of massive invasions by wild,
barbaric peoples who migrated into and settled in the region
from the north, people we would call Indo-Europeans or
Caucasians the forefathers of the Aryans who overran India, the
progenitors of the modern day "white race".
Human beings are creatures of habit as well
as genetics. It seems as though and world history these last
five thousand years will bear this out, Caucasians are a
war loving, blood thirsty people. The
lifestyle choices their ancestors made have forged a history of
aggression, and savagery. Living in the frozen climates in
Eurasia during the last Ice Age they chose to live a dog eat dog
existence, an
existence that has been chronicled by their own historians in a
way that makes their abhorrent lifestyle and behavior appear
"normal" or the standard for human interaction which
it is most definitely not!
Everywhere Caucasians set foot on planet Earth from ancient
times to the present, major social and ecological disruption,
war, disease and color (or lack thereof oppression) antagonisms
result.
Review Cheik Anta Diop's Two Cradle Theory to
refresh your memory. What does this have to do with the war in
Iraq? Everything. This war is a continuation of Europe's ongoing
war against humanity -- a reflection of their pathological drive
to dominate, exploit rape, pillage and plunder. Five hundred
years ago they did it in the name of their rulers, their church
and their god. Their ancestors, the Angles, Saxons, Danes,
Norsemen, Goths, Vandals and Huns were warmongering
barbarians.
Only the strict guilt, fear-inspiring theology,
and iron fisted repression of the Roman Catholic Church, while
it held sway over the rulers and masses of Western Europe,
prevented them from cannibalizing themselves into oblivion. As
it is, you're hard pressed to find a four or five year span
in European history when the various tribes and later nation
states weren't at each other's throats in incessant warfare. The
so called "Age of Exploration" was really Europe
unleashing its dogs of war on the rest of the world setting the
stage for much of what we see going on in the world today.
That was nothing but a larger replay of
what their ancestors did in Mesopotamia, India, Africa and
Europe (Greece as a European entity begins in 1700 B.C.E. when
the Dorians invaded the area.) So the carnage we see in Iraq is
all related. In a real sense they can't help it, it's their
nature; pillage and plunder. Their leadership lacks the inner
discipline and spiritual evolution to change. Just as they raped
and pillaged the world in the name of "Civilization"
and "The White Man's Burden," AmeriKKKa continues
Europe's legacy of genocidal imperialism, this time in the name
of "liberation". Just as they slaughtered the Native
Americans in the name of "Manifest Destiny" and raped
and brutalized Africa in the name of " saving souls,"
these devils have designed lethal weapons beyond the comprehension
of most humans on the planet.
Now they gleefully use their advanced warfare
technology to destroy Iraq under the justification they are
"disarming" it of "weapons of mass
destruction." Is that the epitome of insanity
and hypocrisy or what? In reality it's what Yogi Berra,
the master of malapropism, called, deja vu all over again.
POSITIVELY BLACK
posted 15 April 2003
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