Unraveling
Lies
By
Junious Ricardo Stanton
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The
destruction of the World Trade Center has been burned into
popular consciousness as a series of endlessly repeated
images of buildings collapsing in a remarkably precise and
complete manner, images whose repetition has reduced them
to icons without their true nature being understood. The
event has become charged with a tremendous emotional
energy, a rage that has been used to justify an endless
war against the entire world. Yet the destruction of the
World Trade Center has never been subjected to the
scrutiny it deserves as crime and as an unprecedented
engineering failure. Given the scale of the disaster, the
loss of life and the unique nature of the collapses, we
would expect the most scrupulous possible treatment of the
physical evidence from the collapse site to allow for
future scientific analysis. What happened instead was an
unexplained decision by the city of New York to remove and
recycle as much as possible of the structural steel as
quickly as possible, scrubbing the crime scene of the
great majority of the physical evidence.http://home.attbi.com/~jmking/Collapse_update.htm |
Even
as 9-11 was unfolding, I intuitively knew something was amiss
about the story we were being fed by the mass media. As with all
things, the truth will emerge through the process of asking the
right questions and watching what people do or don't do.
Governmental complicity in genocide, warmongering, assassinations,
and out and out cover ups are nothing new. The KKK was able to
operate freely because local, state, and federal authorities
sanctioned their activities.
In
August of 1978 following the a violent confrontation assault by
Philadelphia Police and Firemen on the back to nature MOVE
organization in which one officer, James Ramp was killed, Frank
Rizzo the mayor at the time ordered the crime scene completely
demolished. Thus Rizzo effectively destroyed all evidence of what
really happened, that police officers recklessly shooting
haphazardly into the MOVE house on Powelton Avenue killed their
co-worker unintentionally. Rizzo used Ramp's death as a ruse to
frame, take MOVE down and the mass media colluded to obfuscate the
facts.
In
AmeriKKKa this type of politician police cooperation and chicanery
are old hat. The government routinely colluded with groups like
the KKK and White Citizens Councils to terrorize Africans in
AmeriKKKa and keep them subordinated in a vicious racial cast
system known as "segregation" or Jim Crow. The U.S.
labor movement in its infancy was brutalized by militia, paid
thugs and police. Every war since 1812 has been justified by
cunning political intrigue and deceit by the ruling elites to
hoodwink the AmeriKKKan public to do their dirty work: kill off
the Native Americans, steal Mexican territories and bogard Spain
for its colonial possessions in the Caribbean and Pacific.
AmeriKKKa
became embroiled in WW I and II for imperialistic reasons, why
else after fighting wars to preserve "democracy and
freedom" would they be so virulently oppressive towards the
black soldiers following WW I and so resistant to the Civil Rights
movement following WW II? After WW II the ruling elites and their
stooges attempted to control the opium drug traffic in the
"Golden Triangle" (Thailand, Laos and Burma) following
French and British withdrawal under the guise of containing
communism in Southeast Asia. The fact of the matter is the brand
of white supremacy practiced in AmeriKKKa was no different from
Nazi Germany, only Hitler directed his venom at non
"Aryan" whites instead of people of color!
Given
this history we should be extremely skeptical about 9-11 and
Bush's War on Terrorism. The whole 9-11 scenario has been
obfuscated and the Bush administration's credibility is unraveling
as the War Against Terrorism mutates into a War Against The World.
Make no mistake 9-11 happened, it just didn't happen the way Bush
and Co want us to believe it happened; that it was a well planned
and financed sneak attack on AmeriKKKa orchestrated by a
billionaire Islamic religious fanatic living in a cave in
Afghanistan who just happens to suffer from kidney failure?! The
corporate owned mass media is part of the flim flam. It has to be
because they go for and dish out the Bush administration's
okie-doke uncritically. Check out Operation Mockingbird and ask
yourself if CIA and media collusion existed in the late 40's early
50's and 60's doesn't it seem plausible, especially in this
climate of deceit, disinformation, and psychological operations
(warfare) against the AmeriKKKan public, that they have expanded
the partnership to the point the corporate media is totally in on
the program?
Consider
this, the "Commission" investigating 9-11 is fraught
with compromise. Several of its members have ties to the major
airlines or oil and the government, despite throwing mad money
into the War on Terrorism has given the 9-11 Commission a meager
budget and a time limit. Contrast that with all the money being
poured into Bush's War in Iraq? But you never hear anything about
that in the corporate owned media, do you?
Bush
and Co had prior knowledge of terrorists using airplanes as
weapons, the F.B.I. was aware of Operation Bojinka (check it out
on your search engine) and we still have serious misgivings about
the administrations version of what happened on 9-11 (visit www.unansweredquestions.org).
It may shock you to learn no analysis of the steel and rubble of
the two World Trade Center towers was even ordered! New York Mayor
Rudolph Guilianni (a leader who has in fact gassed his own people)
like Rizzo in Philadelphia, after the MOVE assault, ordered the
evidence eliminated.
The
fact the twin towers collapsed so smoothly and evenly caused many
to suspect they were imploded! By immediately shipping the
evidence overseas or to scrap heaps in New Jersey, Guilianni
eliminated any chance the debris could be studied and analyzed to
determine why the buildings collapsed like they did. That alone is
enough to raise serious engineering and policy questions. Couple
that with the Bush administration's move to silence all dissent
immediately following 9-11, the limiting of civil and procedural
rights of AmeriKKKan citizens due to the rapid, no debate passage
of the US PATRIOT and Homeland Security Acts should be cause for
serious alarm. Especially when you consider this nation's history
of corruption, genocide, and cover up of atrocities meted out
against people of color, radicals and dissidents on these shores
for almost four hundred years.
As
Africans in AmeriKKKa we know the evil this government is capable
of. Pay attention, think critically and don't go for the
government's okie-doke. If you look and listen really closely you
can see and hear their lies about 9-11, the War on Terrorism and
the War in Iraq unraveling.
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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