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October 7, 2007 - Sunday
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All Power to the People:The Black Panther Party and Beyond
..>..>..>..>..>..> ..> All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond is by far the solidest documentary of the Black Power Movement I have ever seen studied." Everybody" is represented from North to South and West to East. An excellent study for those of us who want to continue to struggle together towards building a Nation in the future based on the lessons of the past.Although continuous play, it may ask you to go to you tube after 7 clips--just click on the next clip to continue here. 
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THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT: A RBG Q and A Style Film Summary Below I provide an essay in question and answer format as to summarize some of the lessons you should draw from the film. It is most important for you to notice that the issues, struggles, problems and need for solutions today are exactly as they were 45 years ago. In fact, if anything, they have become more remarkable.
Why did we Northern Blacks begin to support Black Power Movement ?
By the 1960s many us in the North were feeling neglected. Martin Luther King and others were concentrating on ending segregation in the south and being violently opposed by racist police and white mobs. So Blacks in the north were losing patience with his peaceful methods which were not solving their problems. 1) All over the nation we suffered racial discrimination and violent attacks. In major cities like New York white policemen would regularly beat black people down in the street for no reason (this provoked a bloody uprising (riot) in the Harlem ghettos in 1964). 2) Northern Blacks were also much poorer than whites. In the north there was segregation due to money; whites moving to the suburbs and leaving blacks to live in poor ghettos. On average blacks received only half the pay of white workers. Many blacks lived in poverty and had little opportunity to improve their lives. 3) Later in the 1960s the Vietnam War encouraged even more Blacks to support the Black Power Movement. We were annoyed that blacks were being made to fight for a country that brutalized and discriminated against us. The fact that 23% of America's Vietnam soldiers were Black but only 12% of Americans were Black made us even more angry towards a Government which we saw as clearly hypocritical.
Blacks thought they were being made to do the white's dirty work in Vietnam. (Our opposition for the War led Black Power supporters to link up with anti-war students movement and this led to increasing state violence and university uprisings of the late 1960s) How Did the Aims and Ideas of the Black Power Movement Develop ?
During the early 1960s, Malcolm X, our movement's first leader, told us to separate ourselves from 'white values and religion'. Instead, Early on he encouraged us to join his Nation of Islam and become law abiding, vice free and hardworking. By doing this Minister Malcolm X hoped to restore pride to the black community so increasing its internal power.
Stokely Carmichael (leader of the SNCC) made the movement even more radical after Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. Kwame argued that we should not try to live 'side by side' with whites. Instead, he suggested that Blacks should separate themselves from their white oppressors; develop and live in our own hoods. To start the process Kwame banned whites from being members of his SNCC party (even if they proclaimed to supported black equality).
Black Power leaders like Fred and Stokely and Rap believed that, if we controlled our own communities, we could build Black communities in which we would help each other to improve our living standards. The Black Power Movement encouraged us to use businesses owned by us so we would be helping each other to become wealthier and more powerful.
Kwame knew, however, that to be truly free from oppression, we had to control the institutions of power in or own communities: i) Most importantly this meant controlling the police force in their ghetto / hood. At the time that meant appointing black police chiefs and hopefully removing all white officers from the area. ii) Black candidates had to be supported at elections. iii) Blacks needed to organize our own schools so our children would be taught to take pride in their color and the need to work together to build our community.
Only by doing all this could the idea of a black community work. The Results of Black Power > Post 60s Erosion
1) Black Power ideas led many of us, frustrated with the repression of white supremacy/racism, to stand up "against our white racist oppressors". The state struck back with cointelpro, killing Malcolm and Martin and jailing and murdering Panthers. Thus, during the late 1960s Northern American cities were swept by violent uprisings / race riots that left hundreds dead. For example, during the 1965 Watts riot in LA, 34 people were killed. And in 1967 43 people were killed in Detroit riot and even more in Newark. 2) Let's be clear, the Black Power Movement never achieved its aim of a powerful, unified Black community / Nationhood with better standards of living. The Vietnam War ended and conditions improved (a little for a few). Nonetheless, large black ghettos still remain , cocaine has resulted in the devastation of the hip hop generation and we never succeeded in getting rid of the white authorities or improving living standards for the masses of our people. 3) Aluta Continua. The Black revolutionary writer Frantz Fanon once asserted that each generation, out of relative obscurity, must discover its own destiny. Then it has a choice: It may fulfill that destiny or betray it. Reference Resource Link Outs:
Black Power / www.umich.edu/
THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT/www.lexisnexis.com/academic The Civil Rights Movement and the Rise of the Black Power Movement A RBG Street Scholar © Education Design | | | | ..>
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October 6, 2007 - Saturday
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Murder in Gwinnett "Somebody Is Lying"
Somebody is lying
 A former Sheriff's deputy who blamed a Taser stun gun manufacturer in the death of Deacon Frederick Williams, a Gwinnett County inmate, amended his claim that the manufacturer's intentionally mislead law enforcement with their marketing and training tools. In the initial cross claim, lawyers for former Sheriff's deputy Michael Mustachio said Taser International misrepresented its product as being safe and used biased scientific studies to demonstrate its effectiveness. The amendment filed last Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta sought to omit those damning statements. Mustachio's lawyers still maintain that Taser International - not Mustachio - should be held liable if a judge decides 31-year-old Frederick Jerome Williams died because he was stunned with a Taser. Following Williams' death on May 27, 2004, his widow, Yanga Williams, sued Gwinnett County, the Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Butch Conway and six deputies for wrongful death. Mustachio's attorney, Terry Williams said, "we still dispute whether the Taser caused this death. We don't have any specific evidence at this point that necessarily says Taser is responsible to the plaintiff for this death, but in the event that information wasn't passed along to law enforcement we want to pursue our right to have Taser held liable." Frederick Jerome Williams, 31, a Liberian native who lived in Lawrenceville, died of brain damage from a heart attack after the altercation in May, according to the final autopsy report in the case.
Somebody is lying.
"Are we supposed to believe that a healthy 31-year-old Black man who was athletic, who did not drink or do drugs, who had no history of heart problems, somehow died of a unprovoked heart attack?" Well he could have very well had a massive heart attack, as electrical shocks in an otherwise healthy heart individual will cause the normal electrical rhythm of the heart to go haywire. We call it ventricular fibrillation and it results in instant death. But the mainstream medical research, "in independent reviews", supports the industry's claims of non-lethality of these tasers, despite numerous deaths where they have been implicated. In fact, the manufactures instructions and disclaimers often warn of possible fatalities. So why would the medical examiner say the death was taser unrelated even if Deacon Williams did have a massive heart attack. Amnesty International USA, which has done a study on Taser use, has counted 250 cases in which people died after being stunned with a Taser.
Somebody is lying.
TASERS
The name Taser is an acronym for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle". Arizona inventor Jack Cover designed it in 1969; naming it for the science fiction teenage inventor and adventurer character Tom Swift.  This electroshock weapon, marketed as an alternative to lethal force, is used by modern day police / jailers and is said to only be an incapacitant weapon used for subduing a person by administering electric shock that may disrupt superficial muscle and nerve functions. Similar to the basic design of a cattle prod. By the way, it was not uncommon for racist to use electric cattle prods on us during the civil rights era. The weapons fire small dart-like electrodes with attached metal wires that connect to the gun, propelled by small gas charges similar to some air rifle propellants. The maximum range is up to 10 meters (30 feet). Earlier models of Taser needed the dart-like electrodes to embed in the skin and superficial muscle tissues layers; newer versions of the projectiles use a shaped pulse/arc of electricity which disrupt nerve and muscle function without needing the metal prongs on the projectile to penetrate the skin.
Somebody is lying
Five shocks to the chest with a Taser gun did not cause the death of a man injured in a scuffle with sheriff's deputies, a medical examiner's report concluded Wednesday. Frederick Jerome Williams, 31, a Liberian native who lived in Lawrenceville, died of brain damage from a heart attack after the altercation in May, according to the final autopsy report in the case. But investigators at the Gwinnett County medical examiner's office were not able to determine what caused Williams' heart attack, according to the report. "The cause of death is brain damage -- lack of oxygen and/or blood to the brain -- due to a heart attack of uncertain etiology [unknown reasons]," said Forensic Investigator Ted Bailey. "There is no evidence the Taser directly caused or contributed to his death." Williams was the second Gwinnett inmate in eight months to die after being shocked with a stun gun in a scuffle with deputies. Members of Williams' family were disappointed by the autopsy report, said Melvin Johnson, the family's attorney."Four children ages 1 to 9 are left without a daddy and all they can say is they don't know how he died," said Johnson. Johnson said it is hard to believe Williams' death "had nothing to do with him being hog-tied and shocked five times with a Taser and placed in a restraint chair." Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway said "I've looked into the Taser as deeply as I can and I don't think it can cause death."
Oops, wait a minute I was wrong, everybody is lying...the deputy, the sheriff, the taser industry, the medical examiner--just another big white world terror domination lie.
RBG Street Scholar
10/05/07 10:00 PM EST
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October 5, 2007 - Friday
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RBG Street Scholar On Rastafari Culture and Spirituality  See RBG Tube for more:
Rastafari Culture and Spirituality
 Rastafari is a movement of Black people who know Africa as the birthplace of Mankind and the throne of Emperor Haile Selassie I -- a 20th Century Manifestation of God who has lighted our pathway towards righteousness, and is therefore worthy of reverence.
The Rastafari movement grew out of the darkest depression that the descendants of African slaves in Jamaica have ever lived in -- the stink and crumbling shacks of zinc and cardboard that the tattered remnants of humanity built on the rotting garbage of the dreadful Dungle on Kingston's waterfront. Out of this filth and slime arose a sentiment so pure, so without anger, so full of love, the Philosophy of the Rastafari faith. Freedom of Spirit, Freedom from Slavery, and Freedom of Africa, was its cry. Religions always reflect the social and geographical environment out of which they emerge, and Jamaican Rastafarianism is no exception: for example, the use of marijuana as a sacrament and aid to meditation is logical in a country where a particularly strain of 'herb' grows freely. Emerging out of the island of Jamaica in the later half of this century, the religious/political movement known as Rastafarianism has gained widespread exposure in the Western world. Rasta, as it is more commonly called, has its roots in the teachings of Jamaican black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who in the 1930s preached a message of black self empowerment, and initiated the "Back to Africa" movement. Which called for all blacks to return to their ancestral home, and more specifically Ethiopia. He taught self reliance "at home and abroad" and advocated a "back to Africa" consciousness, awakening black pride and denouncing the white man--s eurocentric woldview, colonial indoctrination that caused blacks to feel shame for their African heritage. "Look to Africa", said Marcus Garvey in 1920, "when a black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is at hand". Many thought the prophecy was fulfilled when in 1930, Ras Tafari, was crowned emperor Haile Selassie 1 of Ethiopia and proclaimed "King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and the conquering lion of the Tribe of Judah". Haile Selassie claimed to be a direct descendant of King David, the 225th ruler in an unbroken line of Ethiopian Kings from the time of Solomon and Sheba. He and his followers took great pride in being black and wanted to regain the black heritage that was lost by loosing faith and straying from the holy ways. Rastafarians live a peaceful life, needing little material possessions and devote much time to contemplating the scriptures. They reject the white man's world, as the new age Babylon of greed and dishonesty. Proud and confident Rastas even though they are humble will stand up for their rights. Rastas let their hair grow natually into dreadlocks, in the image of the lion of Judah. Six out of ten Jamaicans are believed to be Rastafarians or Rastafarian sympathizers. The total following is believed to be over 1000 000 worldwide. 1975 to the present has been the period of the most phenomenal growth for the Rastafarian Movement. This growth is largely attributed to Bob Marley, reggae artist, and the worldwide acceptance of reggae as an avenue of Rastafarian self-expression. Marley became a prophet of Rastafarianism in 1975. The movement spread quickly in the Caribbean and was hugely attractive to the local black youths, many of whom saw it as an extension of their adolescent rebellion from school and parental authority. With it came some undesirable elements, but all true Rastas signify peace and pride and righteousness...Read More
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September 20, 2007 - Thursday
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..>..>..>..>..>..> ..>Another RBG Multimedia Interactive Education Design 
Content from: Breakdown FM w/ Davey D
 Listen to Tribunal Testimony: White Vigilante Justice pt1Listen to Tribunal Testimony: White Vigilante Justice pt2  During the International Hurricane Katrina and Rita Tribunal we heard all sorts of testimony about white vigilantes 'hunting' down Black folks. This was in addition to the widespread police brutality. In some instances New Orleans police were seen riding with and working with white vigilantes who claimed they were protecting their neighborhoods.Former Black Panther Malik Rahim of the organization Common Ground was witness to white vigilantes who were roaming his neighborhood in Algiers which is located on the West Bank of New Orleans. This was one of the few places in the city that did not experience flooding. It was the only neighborhood in all of New Orleans that still had safe drinking water.According to Malik, Black people who discovered the what good shape Algiers was in came over seeking refuge. Sadly they found themselves being chased off or gunned down by mobs of angry whites who patrolled the neighborhood. Black people including Malik who were from Algiers found themselves being threatened by their former neighbors.During his searing testimony Malik offered up a documentary he and his comrades from Common Ground put together. In the documentary we get to see and hear angry white people bragging about how they were shooting and killing Blacks while they were barbecueing. It seems so outlandish to the point of dis-belief until. They went out at night on what they called 'pheasant Hunts'. Malik estimates that over 200 Blacks lost their lives to white vigilantes.During his testimony Malik talked about military occupation and how soldiers who came straight from Iraq were brought over to patrol New Orleans. Algiers was ground zero for many of these troops. Malik talks in great detail about Black neighborhoods being under-seiged and Black people being terrorized as bullet ridden Black male bodies were turning up everyday.
For those who don't know there is a International Tribunal here in New Orleans that is focusing on what happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. People from all over the world are down here to observe and listen to heart wrenching testimony about the neglect of the US government when the city was flooded. The first day of testimony (Thurs Aug 30th)has been riveting. The incident that stands out is the September 4th 2005 incident on the Danziger Bridge where 7 New Orleans police officers who were not dressed in uniform swooped down on an unarmed African American family and shot the mother, daughter, father and killed one of their teenage sons as they attempted to walk across the bridge. Another African American family that stood at the top of the bridge and witnessed this massacre saw themselves in danger as the police hunted down them down and wound up killing an unarmed retarded man named Ronald Madison. He was shot 5 times in the back. Ronald's brother Romel came and spoke before the packed Tribunal and gave a chilling account of what took place that day and showed pictures of his brother moments before he was executed by those who were sworn to protect and serve but instead acted like Al-Queda terrorists.Just to show you how bad things are and were here in New Orleans, the seven officers accused of first degree murder were let out on bail and allowed back to work in spite of being indicted by a Grand Jury. No wonder New Orleans is often referred to as Sin City.This is only the beginning, wait till you hear the other incidents of police terrorism that went down in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.Our show opens up with excerpts from speeches and interviews with former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Minister Willie Muhammed of the NOI and Malik Raheim of Common Ground.
A RBG Street Scholar Online Education Design
E-Mail Me With Computer Skills Training Request:rbgstreetscholar@gmail.com | | | | ..> ..>..>..>..>..>..> ..>Another RBG Multimedia Interactive Education DesignKATRINA AND RACISM:THE RBG VIEW
The More Things Change, The More Things Stay The Same."We Need A Revolution, System Ain't Gon Change Unless We Make It Change/DPZ"
RBG Street Scholar Online Videos by Veoh.com Death Toll from Hurricane Katrina Rising
By Mary Foster
June 4, 2007 7:46AM
The official death tolls in New Orleans stands at about 1,100. State health officials said deaths have not been listed as Katrina-related since the end of 2005, except for bodies found under storm wreckage. But coroner Dr. Frank Minyard said this week he believes the hurricane is still behind many deaths.
The bodies are no longer being dragged from houses and buildings toppled by Hurricane Katrina, but nearly two years later many in the medical community think the storm is still killing.
Storm survivors are dying from the effects of both psychological and physical stress, from the dust and mold still in dwellings to financial problems to fear of crime, health experts and officials say.
"There is no doubt in my mind that Katrina is still killing our residents," Orleans Parish coroner Dr. Frank Minyard said this week.
"People with pre-existing conditions that are made worse by the stress of living here after the storm. Old people who are just giving up. People who are killing themselves because they feel they can't go on," Minyard said.
Some say an in-depth federal analysis is needed, despite a new state report that found no significant increase in deaths in the New Orleans area from January 2006 through June 2006. The state Department of Health and Hospitals is still compiling figures for the last six months of 2006.
Dr. Raoult Ratard, the state epidemiologist, said "the only slight increase" in deaths was in the first three months of 2006 in Orleans Parish.
But New Orleans medical officials say that jump, from 11.3 per 1,000 deaths to 14.3 per 1,000, -- a leap of more than 25 percent -- was anything but slight. Moreover, the report doesn't take into account evacuees who died while away from the city and were returned for burial.
"Our death rate was already high, that's huge," said Dr. Kevin Stephens Sr., director of the New Orleans Health Department.
Some New Orleans doctors questioned the accuracy of the population figures used to determine the death rate, saying they might have been too high. DHH secretary Dr. Fred Cerise said he was comfortable with the population data, which he said came from the Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The city was abandoned after Katrina struck Aug. 29, 2005, and many people did not begin returning until mid-2006.
The official death tolls in New Orleans stands at about 1,100. State health officials said deaths have not been listed as Katrina-related since the end of 2005, except for bodies found under storm wreckage. But Minyard said he believes the hurricane is still behind many deaths.
Dr. Ronald Kessler, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and head of a group that has monitored 3,000 exiled Katrina survivors, said reconstructing an individual's mental and physical state before death might help in determining exact causes of death.
"There are high rates of mental health problems among the survivors, and previous research has found that mental disorders are predictors of earlier death rates," Kessler said. "So putting the two together in New Orleans is not surprising."
Local mental health professionals say they are encountering more people with psychological problems.
"We're seeing triple the number of people with mental health problems as we were before Katrina," said Leah Hedrick, social worker at Ochsner Hospital. "Depression, suicidal, anxiety, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and along with that comes a lot more physical problems."
Many storm-damaged hospitals are not operating fully, and that could help explain why other health facilities are seeing more patients.
Another possible sign that there are more deaths are paid death notices in The Times-Picayune. Before Katrina, the newspaper usually printed about a page daily. Now, three and four pages are not uncommon.
Stephens analyzed the death-notice pattern before and after the storm and said he believes it confirms more local people are dying.
His study will be published this month in the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, the American Medical Association's new publication on disaster management.
Many church congregations scattered after Katrina, and their bulletins that carried death notices may not be publishing.
But Stephens discounted that as a possible explanation for why the newspaper is receiving more death notices. Before Katrina, he said, it was routine to place death notices in both the newspaper and outlets such as church newsletters.
Minyard believes the medical community's different observations reach the same conclusion, and one day will be proven correct.
"Years from now when they talk about post-traumatic stress, New Orleans after Katrina will be the poster child," he said. | | | | ..>
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September 6, 2007 - Thursday
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Photobucket Album
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January 30, 2007 - Tuesday
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 Life Without Black People
(All Photos Are Hot-Linked to Related Extentions)
A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people who were fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished themselves away. They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there is an America without black people.
At first these white people breathed a sigh of relief. At last, they said, "No more crime, drugs, violence and welfare. All of the blacks have gone!"
Then suddenly, reality set in. The "NEW AMERICA" is not America at all — only a barren land.
1. There are very few crops that have flourished because the nation was built on a slave-supported system.
2. There are no cities with tall skyscrapers because Alexander Mils, a black man, invented the elevator, and without it, one finds great difficulty reaching higher floors.
3. There are few if any cars because Richard Spikes, a black man, invented the automatic gearshift, Joseph Gambol, also black, invented the Super Charge System for Internal Combustion Engines, and Garrett A. Morgan, a black man, invented the traffic signals
4. Furthermore, one could not use the rapid transit system because its procurer was the electric trolley, which was invented by another black man, Albert R. Robinson.
5. Even if there were streets on which cars and a rapid transit system could operate, they were cluttered with paper because an African American, Charles Brooks, invented the street sweeper.
6. There were few if any newspapers, magazines and books because John Love invented the pencil sharpener, William Purveys invented the fountain pen, and Lee Barrage invented the Type Writing Machine and W. A. Love invented the Advanced Printing Press. They were all, you guessed it, Black.
7. Even if Americans could write their letters, articles and books, they would not have been transported by mail because William Barry invented the Postmarking and Canceling Machine, William Purveys invented the Hand Stamp and Philip Downing invented the Letter Drop.
8. The lawns were brown and wilted because Joseph Smith invented the Lawn Sprinkler and John Burr the Lawn Mower.
9. When they entered their homes, they found them to be poorly ventilated and poorly heated. You see, Frederick Jones invented the Air Conditioner and Alice Parker the Heating Furnace. Their homes were also dim. But of course, Lewis Later invented the Electric Lamp, Michael Harvey invented the lantern and Granville T. Woods invented the Automatic Cut off Switch. Their homes were also filthy because Thomas W. Steward invented the Mop and Lloyd P. Ray the Dust Pan.
10. Their children met them at the door-barefooted, shabby, motley and unkempt. But what could one expect? Jan E. Matzelinger invented the Shoe Lasting Machine, Walter Sammons invented the Comb, Sarah Boone invented the Ironing Board and George T. Samon invented the Clothes Dryer.
11. Finally, they were resigned to at least have dinner amidst all of this turmoil. But here again, the food had spoiled because another Black Man, John Standard invented the refrigerator.
Now, isn't that something? What would this country be like without the contributions of Blacks, as African-Americans?
 Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "by the time we leave for work, Americans have depended on the inventions from the minds of Blacks." Black history includes more than just slavery, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Dubois.
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(Embellishment By RBG Street Scholar, Jan. 2007)
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January 19, 2007 - Friday
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The History of Cointelpro:
Architect of the East Coast-West Coast Panther Split
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January 14, 2007 - Sunday
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Narcotization of the Black Community:
"CIA Secret Ties, White Lines & White Lies"
Just the Facts RBG SS:
Fact: The more things change the more things stay the same. The War On Drugs is the United Snakes of Amerikkka's way of fully reconstituting slavery. How you ask. Well, quite as it's kept slavery really was never completely abolished: The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. With its ratification in December 1865, this amendment put an official end to the injustice of slavery as it was then practiced while at the same time paving the way for a new slavery that flourishes to this day; namely, the prison industrial complex (PIC).
African Americans constitute about 12% of the American population, and around 13% of drug users, nearly the same number, which is what you'd expect. Additionally, 9.7% of Blacks use drugs, compared to 8.1% for whites, again similar numbers, in line with what expectations. So you'd expect that the rates of incarceration for possession drug possession for Blacks and whites to be similar. But they're not. Blacks make up 35% of those arrested for possession, 55% of those convicted, and 74% of those sentenced. How, exactly, in a fair society, would 13% of drug users make up 74% of those sentenced for drug violations? And how can 35% of arrests make up 74% of inmates? This is nothing but institutionalized racism.
In South Africa during Apartheid 851 per 100,000 black males were incarcerated. Currently in the United States, under the banner of the "War on Drugs" 4,919 per 100,000 black males are incarcerated. Nearly 1/3 of black men in their 20s are in prison, on probation or parole. Our institutionalized racism is worse than the worst post-slavery institutionalized racism.
More African Americans are in jail now than were enslaved in the 19th century. See: The C.I.A. & Drugs
Narco-colonialism in the 20th Century
 GNN's award winning documentry on the CIA's involvement with selling of narcotics. Tracking the covert history of CIA drug smuggling from Nicaragua to Arkansas and South Central Los Angeles, GNN sheds light on the darkest secret of the Agency's operational directorate. Cut to the ambient Hip Hop loops of DJ Trek-e, Crack The CIA features explosive footage of Mike Ruppert's historical televised confrontation with CIA Director John Deutch.
Don't blink! More at GNN
Ricky Ross,The CIA and Crack Cocaine (Trailer)
Leaving the unsupportable arguments aside, is there a supportable case that CIA directly intended for African-Americans to receive the cocaine which it knew would be turned into crack cocaine and which it knew would prove so addictive as to destroy entire communities? The answer is absolutely, yes."
Blacks Were Targeted for CIA Cocaine
It Can Be Proven
By Michael C. Ruppert
"Prevent the rise of a black messiah,""In time, the cocaine that flooded Los Angeles helped spark a "crack explosion" in urban America and provided the cash and connections needed for Los Angeles's gangs to buy Uzi sub-machine guns, AK-47 rifles, and other assault weapons that would fuel deadly gang turf wars, drive-by shootings, murders and robberies -- courtesy of the U.S. government, according to the article. See: Secret ties between CIA, drugs revealed
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January 14, 2007 - Sunday
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The August 7, 1970 Marin County Courthouse Slave Rebellion
"All right gentlemen, hold it right there, we is taking over!" Armed to the teeth, Jonathan Jackson, 17, George's, younger brother, had raided the Marin Courtroom and tossed guns to prisoners William Christmas and James McClain, who in turn invited Ruchell to join them. Ru seized the hour spontaneously as they attempted to escape by taking a judge, assistant district attorney and three jurors as hostages in that audacious move to expose to the public the brutally racist prison conditions and free the Soledad Brothers (John Clutchette, Fleeta Drumgo, and George Jackson).
McClain was on trial for assaulting a guard in the wake of Black prisoner Fred Billingsley's murder by prison officials in San Quentin in February, 1970. With only four months before a parole hearing, Magee had appeared in the courtroom to testify for McClain. 
James McClain Holds Guns on Judge in Marin County California Courthouse
The four revolutionaries successfully commandeered the group to the waiting van and were about to pull out of the parking lot when Marin County Police and San Quentin guards opened fire. When the shooting stopped, Judge Harold Haley, Jackson, Christmas, and McClain lay dead; Magee was unconscious and seriously wounded as was the prosecutor. A juror suffered a minor injury ...By Kiilu Nyasha / Read More
Jonathan Jackson and Ruchell McGee holding hostages.
George Jackson:
Farther of the Modern Day Anti-Prison Movement
and The Progenator of Black August
Sole Survivor,and longest held political prisoner in the U.S.
Ruchell Cinque Magee
Slavery is being practiced by the system under color of law – Slavery 400 years ago, slavery today; it's the same thing, but with a new name. They're making millions and millions of dollars enslaving Blacks, poor whites, and others - people who don't even know they're being railroaded. -- Ruchell Cinque Magee
(from radio interview with Kiilu Nyasha, "Freedom is a Constant Struggle," KPFA-FM, 12 August 1995)
Learn more, read our discussion and link to audio and video in
Assata Speaks PP and POW
Forum
The East Coast Anti-Prison Movement Connection of this Revolutionary Era
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January 6, 2007 - Saturday
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RBG SS On Police Brutality-Police State
  
RIU (Rest In Uhuru/Freedom)
Early Saturday morning, five New York police officers fired 50 shots at a car carrying Sean Bell, who had just left his bachelors party on the eve of his wedding with two friends. On Monday Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the shooting of the unarmed men was "unacceptable" and "inexplicable."
Sean Bell Shooting Caught on Surveillance Film
Gangs have played an infamous role in supporting segregation by racist violence. The story of Chicago's white gangs is seldom told. The seminal event in the early industrial era was the 1919 race riot. The history of this riot, and the crucial role of white gangs, is told in the 1922 report of The Chicago Commission on Race Relations. One of the principle findings of the Commission was:
"6. Gangs, particularly among the young whites, formed definite nucelei for crowd and mob leadership. "Athletic clubs" supplied the leaders of many gangs."
To Learn More See:
White Mob Violence & Police/The Original Gangs
In its July 1998 report, Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States, Human Rights Watch documents police misconduct in fourteen cities: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Providence, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Human Rights Watch found that all the cities share a lack of effective public accountability and transparency, a persistent failure to investigate and punish officers who commit human rights violations, and a variety of obstacles to achieving justice...From Human Rights Watch/Abuse by law enforcement
TIPS FOR DEALING WITH INCIDENTS OF POLICE BRUTALITY
Communities United Against Police Brutality 1) If you are being arrested, try your best to remain calm. Do not make sudden movements or pull back. If not handcuffed, keep your hands visible and away from pockets. State clearly and repeatedly "I am not resisting arrest." 2) Do your best to get police officer names, badge numbers, and squad car numbers. If necessary, shout them out and have someone else write them down. If anyone is ticketed or arrested, at least some of this info will be on the ticket and/or police report. 3) Get names and phone numbers of all witnesses. 4) If you are injured, get health care right away. State to the caregiver that your injuries were caused by police and be certain that it is noted in your medical record. Take a copy of your medical record with you when you leave the health care facility. 5) Have your injuries photographed immediately, using good quality color film. If a health care facility takes pictures, take a copy of the pictures with you or, better yet, have them take pictures with your camera and take it with you when you leave. 6) Sit down right away and write down every detail about your incident. Call and ask all witnesses to do the same. Collect the statements from the witnesses. 7) If your incident involves anything more than police officer rudeness, see a lawyer before reporting to Civilian Review Authority or Internal Affairs Division. Do not share any evidence such as videotapes or witness statements with CRA or IAD without advice of a lawyer. 8) As soon after the incident as possible, go to the police department and request copies of all police reports. Someone with CUAPB can go with you to the police department. 
African Anti-Terrorism Bill* 
·Police Terrorism. In response to the protocol police terrorism that runs rampant throughout the African and colonized communities; the terrorism that 21 year old Michael Walker was victimized by in the Cabrini Housing project on October 27, 2002 when he was executed by Chicago Police Officer Dwayne Blackman; the same occupying army that under the direction of the federal government acted out one of the most brutal acts of terrorism to occur on U.S. soil – that being December 4, 1969 Massacre on Monroe that took the lives of Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Defense Captain Mark Clark. . . . . We Demand an immediate cease of the attacks by these death squads that claim to serve and protect. We Demand that the appropriate charges be levied against all police, state's attorneys, and any and all state officials that collaborated with committing these crimes.
·Just – US System. In response to the fraudulent framing, kidnapping, sentencing of Aaron Patterson, Anthony Porter, Fred Hampton Jr. and countless numbers of African and colonized youth and people in general. . . We Demand an overall peoples review and recall of served convictions in Cook (Crook) County in general, and in specific those served during the tenure of then State's Attorney Richard Daley and Assistant State's Attorney Dick Devine.
·Conditions in Concentration Camps. In response to Prisoners in Pontiac being forced to visit their children behind 4 inches of glass while shackled down and having a black net mask over their with a rubber grill over their mouth; and women in Cook County Jail being forced to rinse out their sanitary napkins out for reuse. . . We Demand that city, state, and federal concentration camps be open for the People's Inspection and an immediate ceasing of the force medicating, beating, and horrid conditions those held captive are forced to endure.
·Land Grab. We Demand an immediate cease of homes and property in the African community under such guises as eminent domain, gentrification, financial incentives for foreign merchants, and the recently proposed ordinance to seize and steal homes if the owner is alleged to have a vicious dog that bit someone.
·Mis-Education. We Demand an end to the prison style environment that our children are subjected to inside of the Chicago Public Schools and an end to the bureaucratic red tape that Africans and colonized people are subjected to when attempting to facilitate charter schools, home schools and other attempts to speak and teach in their own interest.
·Chemical Biological Warfare. We Demand and immediate cease of the forced medicating of those held captive in local, state, and federal concentration camps: juveniles as well as adults.
*Amendments to Bill shall be forthcoming. RBG Police Brutality-Police State, Featuring the Story of Black Revolutionary George Jackson & FTP Movement
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