just too many babies of color being born (or, fear of a black planet)

If one takes a look at the global push for what is called “population control” and a look at who is generally worried about the growth in population, it wouldn’t take long for one to discern that most of the worriers are from nations with low birth rates (mostly European).  It also wouldn’t take you very long to see that the main target for population control experiments is the African continent. 

“I think many of us don’t appreciate sometimes that after the Second World War, the industrialized world, the United States, Europe, and the rest of the industrialized world, represented 40 percent of the world’s population. We’re now down to 20 percent of the world’s population, and it’s still dropping.”  –David Gergen, editor-at-large of US World News and Report

The above quotation from David Gergen (who’s also a frequently-seen pundit on television news channels) is part of a 1996 interview he did with author Robert Kaplan, who had penned a book called The Ends of the Earth:  The Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century, about the supposed “overpopulation” of African countries and its effects on the environment and the shrinking populations of white-dominated nations.  Gergen notes by his use of the word ”we” that he is speaking of white people (and the nations they dominate numerically), and that he’s clearly alarmed by the population trend.

Both Gergen and Kaplan go through great pains during the interview to disguise their white supremacist outlooks on the subject.  Gergen corrects himself when he begins “…you seem to suggest that a place like West Africa, which has only a very thin civili–tradition, I mean, there are many good traditions in West Africa…”, letting slip his racist belief that there has never been “civilization” in West Africa.

Many groups advocating reduction in world population have emerged over the years, and almost all of them locate the problems they see in the non-white world (which is the fastest growing).  They realize that it would be tougher for Western nations to dominate and threaten very large, organized countries and that the traditional locus of global power (”traditional” in the minds of white supremacists) is shifting outside of their influence and control.

The thought that more life on the planet is necessarily bad for the planet is a thougt only someone interested in control would contemplate.  Sure, you hear Westerners preach on and on about being “pro-life”, yet they openly express their fear of life increasing in places that are non-white.  This is what Dr. Marimba Ani, in her classic book “Yurugu” calls a “rhetorical ethic”, i.e., you say it’s your “truth” with no intention of seeing that “truth” through.

There will most assuredly come a time when the Western societies (which have delivered centuries of violence to the non-white regions of the world) fade completely from the world scene, as population trends portend; it is as Mama Nature intended.  I, for one, sincerely doubt that the global, color-based hierarchy (which is primary under the white supremacy paradigm) will have passed at the same time the last “white” person passes. 

Hip-hop legends Public Enemy had it right in their song and album, “Fear of a Black Planet”.  I advise you to get a copy of it as soon as you can…

the temptress

She wore and carried her beauty with the flair and light

of fairytale pixies/feet floating in a mist, slightly above the ground

Wrapping you in a cocoon of chanting will-o-wisps/lose your breath

and succumb to the soothing call of the siren.

Stare deep (if you dare!) into those gorgeous eyes, laying bare

every emotion within you that has been hidden/

let your lips ease the passage of the intoxicating words

longing to free themselves from the jealous embrace of your heart.

Visualize/recognize the brilliance, absorbing the euphoric dust

from her seething and hungry aura/accept your subjugation and helplessness

Like sleep, enjoy the feeling of just letting go

and let the temptress work her wonderful magic…

-C. Shawn Freeman

 

the coming US militarization of Africa

The Bush regime and its fascist backers are intent on establishing a continent-wide military operation in Africa (Africom), but their efforts are not being made without opposition.  Activists Nicole Lee and Danny Glover of the TransAfrica Forum recently wrote an article about the establishment of Africom in The Nation magazine.

 

“U.S. Africa Command will better enable the Department of Defense and other elements of the U.S. government to work in concert and with partners to achieve a more stable environment in which political and economic growth can take place.”

Of course the Pentagon realizes that its critics see the truth about their reasons for seeking  establish a stronger military presence on the continent, and the website weakly seeks to answer these concerns.  The above quote is typical, especially the use of the phrase “political and economic growth”, which has everything to do with controlling those aspects of African societies through the use of force (the only way the West knows how to deal with the non-white world).  With the continued instability in the Middle East (an instability which the West has always had a hand in), the US is looking to fortify its claims on other regions that have significant oil reserves at a time when gargantuan countries like China and India are seeking more of the natural resource to fuel their growing economies.

For a continent already soaked through and through with the instruments of death and destruction, the last thing Africa needs is further militarization from Western powers.

sheehan scolds the appeaser pelosi

“You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president’s amusement.” Pete Stark (D-Ca)

Anti-war activist and Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan recently admonished the embarassment which is House speaker Nancy Pelosi for her remarks aimed at distancing herself from the bold and honest statements from California congressman Pete Stark. 

 

Pelosi is intent on continuing the Democratic party’s traditional role as feeble enablers of a rabidly fascist Bush regime, reserving her most ardent criticisms and protestations for her fellow Democrats while kneeling in utter submission to the right-wing  Congressional contingent.  It’s refreshing to see citizen activists speak out and challenge the inaction of their elected leaders, and I wholeheartedly welcome Cindy’s bid to unseat the shameful Pelosi from her comfortable perch in the House speaker seat.  It was also refreshing to finally hear a Democrat go off on the Bush regime the way Stark did (who, by the way, is the only member of Congress on record who is openly atheist).

After Pelosi failed to defend her Democratic comrade from the expected attacks from the Republicans, Stark was forced to grovel and apologize on the floor of the House in order to further reinforce the submissiveness nature of the weak Democratic leadership.

chamberlain reborn (in the Pelosi Democrats)

The right-wing is accustomed to labeling the Democrats “appeasers” of radical Islamists and other groups of people who are designated as enemies of the United States.  While I’d agree that the current Democratic Party under Pelosi/Reid/Emanuel is indeed engaged in appeasement,  it’s not foreign entities they aim to appease.  They are more directly appeasing the would-be dictator leading the US and his fascist backers who have openly stated that they seek to eventually grant the president (the Fuhrer) absolute power (or something close to it).

It has been duly noted by many mainstream media sources that Cheney has been intent on increasing the power of the president while destroying an constitutional means to check the president’s power.  The neo-con/fascist powers who now control the US government correctly surmised that an event of “catastrophic” proportions like a 9/11 would allow them to implement many of the agenda items to so dearly wanted, and it has thus far worked like a charm.

Since taking the reigns of power in Congress, the Democrats have been embarassing enablers of the fascist Bush regime, continually bending over to give evil a fresh, gaping hole to screw the American people.  When California Democrat Pete Stark recently vented his frustration at the failure of Congress to override Bush’s veto of extending healthcare benefits to more children, Nancy Pelosi comes along and distances herself from his remarks, appeasing the Bush regime and his backers.  The Pelosi-led Congress has consisted appeased the warmongering of Bush, approving war funding while declaring to an angry and impatient constituency that they are trying to stop it.

 

We shouldn’t be surprised at this cowardly inaction from the Democrats.  Nancy Pelosi made it clear before the elections last November that impeachment was “off the table”, that the Democrats would continue their tradition of ducking under the covers, pretending the fascist hobgoblin in not in the room with them.  Pelosi and her Democratic allies in Congress have all become 21st century Neville Chamberlains.