“The Red Pill” is a brief but powerful video that succinctly highlights the unanswered questions about the events of 9/11. It is an excellent introduction to 9/11 truth for the uninitiated and it even delves into the CIA’s history of regime change and undemocratic actions around the globe. View it here.
the unrepentant jeremiah wright!
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright has been on a publicity tour recently, using his air time to elaborate on the prophetic traditions of the Black church in America and to see if it is possible to calm the jitters of many white Americans. On Monday, he gave a speech to the National Press Club, a speech which should be required viewing for all pundits in the traditional media. Wright was eloquent and informative, but he has been pilloried again because he didn’t offer jittery white Americans what it seems they’d been hoping for: repentance and submission.
The soundbites of Wright’s “inflammatory” speeches were sliced and diced in order to achieve the effect amongst many white Americans that they have achieved (fear). Like many white politicians in past elections who’ve faced a Black opponent, Hillary Clinton and John McCain both knew that they could appeal to white fear of Black anger to score points and convince whites to abandon the thought of casting a vote for a person of color. Even though Wright’s words are not the words or thoughts of Obama, for many white Americans, mere association with Wright is enough to throw Obama under the proverbial bus.
Instead of dropping to his knees and begging the forgiveness of offended white Americans, Wright showed that he is not cowed in the least by all of the hypocritical denunciations of political media pundits who profit from the ratings. Do his comments hurt Obama’s presidential campaign? Certainly for white Americans who have been indoctrinated into believing their country is saintly and has done no wrong. Certainly for white Americans who want to believe that their numerous misdeeds to people of color have gone unnoticed and unfelt.
John McCain’s courting Christian Zionist and fundamentalist preacher John Hagee is blown off as not newsworthy because the traditional media reflects the perspective of white Americans who seem comfortable with McCain’s association with people who are outright white supremacists. White supremacists and right-wing religious fanatics aren’t deemed threatening to whites, so McCain’s flirtation with them will never be made the political liability it should be.
Instead of renouncing his “uppitiness” and shutting his mouth, Wright let white America know that he is the real deal, unrepentant and unbowed. Being true to oneself is the most valuable lessen any human being can learn, even if it threatens to damage political success.
mckinney making some noise!
Former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia, Cynthia McKinney, is on the threshold of becoming the Green Party presidential nominee in 2008. I’ve previously endorsed her candidacy after Dennis Kucinich dropped out, and for those of you who are looking for a real alternative to the Obama/Clinton mess, McKinney should fit the bill nicely.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42081
the clinton’s quandary (race in ‘08)
Bill and Hillary Clinton are finding themselves in a political position that they have not encountered before: They are battling to win the hearts, minds, and votes of African Americans. Before now, the Black vote was considered a given. Because of the overwhelming support the Clinton’s have enjoyed amongst Black people in the past, it is understandable that Clinton campaign advisors and policy-makers have taken the Black vote for granted. In 2008 though, Barack Obama’s candidacy is complicating the Clinton’s chances (and I use the plural when referring to Hillary since Bill has made himself very prominent on the campaign trail) of snatching a nice sized voting bloc without the expenditure of massive campaign resources.
The Clinton’s popularity amongst Black Americans stems not from his political policy (which in most part revealed a Democrat trying very hard to appeal to Republican voters, what are termed “NASCAR dads” and “soccer/security moms”, i.e., conservative whites), but because he has always seemed comfortable in the presence of Black company. Writer Toni Morrison and even the CBC referred to him as the nation’s “first Black president” despite his abyssmal record on Black issues (let’s not forget that one of Clinton’s earliest political situations involved a decision to return Haitian asylum-seekers who had fled their country). The Clinton’s are now, for the first time, faced with a tough adversary who may upset their firm hold on the hearts of African Americans, and the Clintons are not handling the prospect very well.
Both Clinton’s have already had slip-ups amongst the Black electorate in the ‘08 election cycle. Bill’s “fairy tale” statement (which upon further inspection seems to have been erroneously taken to mean Obama’s candidacy itself is a “fairy tale”) and Hillary’s statement which seemed to diminish MLK’s role in winning civil rights legislation in the 60’s both have rubbed the Black electorate the wrong way. The Clinton’s are finding themselves having to defend themselves from charges of racial insensitivity and seem to be struggling with the fact that there is now a “Blacker” candidate running for president who’ll upset their lock on the Black electorate.
The Clinton’s would do well to consult Black political analysts at this point when they are in such a tight race with Barack Obama. Left without proper consul, they are sure to make more racial snafus (real or perceived) while on the campaign trail as their frustration with Obama and Black people grows.
as the pendulum swings…
(I occasionally take the time to visit some white supremacist websites to start dialogue with some of the beings residing there, and a buddy of mine sent me a link to an article bemoaning the fact that the ”white” population of the world is dwindling. I doubt the site’s “moderator” will post my comment, but I left one anyway!).
“This phenomenon is called survival of the fittest. Whites have outcompeted the rest of humanity for the last five or six centuries (not a very long time compared to other great civilizations) because whites are inherently prone to violence against people of color. Whites overcame their physical inferiority to people of color by concentrating the majority of their mental faculties to creating and ameliorating instruments of death, making war and death the primary stimulus to spark collective innovation (you people never fail to investigate the “military application” of any new discovery).
“As a result of this propensity towards violence, whites literally spread themselves around the globe, raping, pillaging, stealing, killing, indoctrinating, threatening, intimidating, and generally being assholes towards people of color. They sent trillions upon trillions of dollars back to Europe, enriching that area of the globe beyond anything yet encountered. Yet, we see clearly that white war-making superiority has its disadvantages and limitations, and it is a poor tool being used in white attempts to “level the playing field” with people of color: It can’t compensate for the fact that whites are being slowly selected out of the gene 
pool.
“Whites have long been convinced of their own physical inferiority, but you still cling tenaciously to your belief that you are mentally superior (based on your own definition of what intelligence is), and that, you feel, is supposed to be your saving grace, what will ultimately help you survive the onslaught. If thinking this helps you deal with the stress associated with seeing your phenotype vanish, then by all means, use your illusion.
“There is no political policy that is damning Europe and North America; those white people who believe this are most assuredly trying to fool themselves. The white-dominated parts of the world will eventually become browner and browner, but this is simply the way Mama Nature intended it to be.
“In the animal kingdom (and we are all part of it whether you like to look at it that way or not), Nature controls the balance of population growth. If a particular animal’s offspring is less likely to live to a reproductive age, that animal generally has more offspring. Some animals lay thousands of eggs or have large litters to compensate for the fact that their offspring are likely to be preyed upon; having more children is Nature’s way of making up for this fact.
“Human action and societal structure has produced marked differences in human birth rates around the globe. In countries where there is a high mortality rate because of unrest, disease, poverty, war, etc., birth rates are high to compensate for these losses. There are some African countries in which women typically have eight or more children each, compared to under two in Italy (two is the standard replacement rate: two parents having two children to “replace” themselves). Of course whites haved turned their attentions to thwarting the trend of dwindling white populations around the world (cloning, fertility drugs, Viagra, etc.), but they will find that they can’t control everything, that some things are simply meant to be.
“The greatest irony of the legacy of white supremacy over the last several centuries is that white’s hoarding of global wealth plays a large role in whites being out-competed by their darker neighbors. The wealth whites accrued through constant violence and warfare has caused Mama Nature to adjust your rates of childbirth. Because your wealth has allowed you greater opportunity to fight hunger, disease and other maladies, your children have a higher probability of surviving to reproductive age, therefore you have less children on average than most of the non-white world. Your affluence is killing you softly, and other non-white nations (like Japan) who’ve adopted the Western model are also experiencing decling birthrates and an older, grayer population.
“You have no one to blame for this but yourselves. Centuries of believing in your arrogant fantasies about superiority has done nothing but lead to your own demise as a distinct phenotype. If you happen to believe in some sort of omnipotent god, you can’t help but believe that this is nothing but poetic and divine justice, that whites are getting what they deserve (a slow death). Your “death” as a group isn’t occurring through outright killing though. but through your reabsorption into the rest of humanity through the act of reproduction itself (something every living thing does).
“The world needs a long break from people who call themselves “white”, and I hope I live long enough to see it progress to a significant degree. You were destined to get phased out, a parasitic and viscious breed of human that terrorized humanity for half a millenia only to be reabsorbed back into the main body of that humanity.
“If you think it would be better to be dead than to be reabsorbed back into humanity, then you might as well point the gun at your head right now and pull the trigger…”
