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Obama on Kaepernick:  Selling out African Suffering for White Votes

9/30/2016

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During some so-called town hall meeting earlier this week, a soldier in the U.S. military asked Obama about Colin Kaepernick's protest against the so-called national anthem.  The soldier said he felt the national anthem is a time for people in the military to reflect on their sacrifice and that the song should be honored for that purpose.  Obama, responded by asking Kaepernick and other athletes to realize that their protest "causes pain" for people who serve in the U.S. military.

To begin, I'm sure this so-called soldier is/was a plant to give Obama the opportunity to say what he said because that's how those people do things.  And, since I realize Obama is the chief spokesperson for the international bourgeois class, he said exactly what he was placed in that position to say.  His job is to advance the international interests of imperialism.  As capitalism's chief spokesperson, he is the appointed facilitator for their interests.  The Rockefeller family and other more liberal bourgeois ruling class entities have decided on Hillary Clinton as their next spokesperson (hopefully, you understand that the bourgeois class isn't monolithic.  The ruling classes do have competing interests e.g. how the world should be ruled).  Since that is their decision, Obama's job as the outgoing front man is to insure their interests are protected and their spokespersons installed.  Thus, Obama spoke as he did about Kaepernick as a coded message to European (White) voters, particularly racist white voters, that he will put "his people" in their place and Hillary will too.  Therefore, they should have confidence in Hillary to represent and protect their interests over that of the African masses.  By preserving the institutions of imperialism - most of which the masses of White people still believe in - the message is that "we will stand with you against these Africans who desire to challenge the greatness of our country!"

Of course, the real message is that no one, especially working class White people, should be honoring anything to do with U.S. imperialism, and the flag and all of the nationalistic foolishness is all about nothing except U.S. imperialism.  If anyone has any true desires to respect people who serve in the U.S. military, the way to do that would be to resist the effort to make them cannon fodder for the meat grinder that is the U.S. Military Industrial Complex.  None of them are fighting for anyone's freedoms besides the freedom of multi-national capitalist corporations to plunder the world's resources and human labor at will.  And, by not telling them that, and continuing to perpetuate this lie that they are fighting for anyone's freedom, you are sending them to an unproductive and unnecessary death.  Clearly, they know that their efforts are not heroic or else so many of them wouldn't be struggling with addiction and committing suicide.  This is happening solely because they are disillusioned because the reality isn't lining up with the patriotic rhetoric that is being shoved down all of our throats. 

Its time for truth.  The U.S. constitution never has had and never will have anything to do with the vast majority of the people who serve in the U.S. armed forces.  None of those people are propertied owning European men, the status of everyone who signed that filthy document.  And many of them are women and people of color who the document was never written for.  During the time of the constitution signing and ratification process, the Indigenous people were fighting for their lives to retain their land and dignity.  The African masses were fighting for survival on horrific slave plantations and women were property who's primary purpose was sexual gratification and the creation of children.  Most of those things are still the reality today.  The bourgeois, including Obama, knows it.  The masses of White working class people know it, and the African masses most certainly know it.  So, why are so many people still going along with the scam that there was ever any democracy in capitalist America and that anything here ever represented "freedoms for all." 

Kaepernick is doing today what many, many people like myself have been doing for decades.  His status has taken the struggle to a much higher stage and for that we commend him, but you cannot be confused into believing that this higher profile for justice isn't going to be met with action by the bourgeois class.  They are responding by doing what they always do and that's pumping you with so much propaganda that you will feel pressure to speak out against anything that goes against their messaging.  So much propaganda that you feel some inclination to acknowledge those in the military.  So much propaganda that you decide to just ignore the fact that the U.S. military inflicts death and suffering on so many people on a regular basis that it is clearly inappropriate to start any analysis by talking about protecting their military "feelings."  The only feelings we need to be concerned about are the feelings of those facing oppression, everywhere in the world.  And, the fact Obama cannot acknowledge that confirms, again, that he is not your president.  He isn't your brother.  He's only what he has always been, and what whomever occupies that seat has to be, the spokesperson for a bourgeois system that is diametrically opposed to the masses of people on the planet.

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C'Mon!  Whites Can't Really Believe The Problem is Our Jealously?

9/26/2016

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I have to admit that the most redeeming thing about these election cycles is the entertainment value involved.  And I say that not needing a lecture from anyone about the seriousness of it all.  That seriousness has been unrelenting for 500+ plus years.  As someone who has spent my entire adult life fighting for African liberation, believe me, I understand how serious this is, but the truth is my work to organize our people doesn't change, regardless of who wins the capitalist elections.  So, because my identity isn't tied into their horse and pony show, I believe I can see it a little more objectively than many.  And, this year's election is really a hoot.  Without even talking about the foolishness of Trump/Clinton and each of their cast of characters, just in the last few weeks we have witnessed some numbskull politician say on national television that no people of color have contributed anything to world civilizations.  Then, another political fool called Colin Kaepernick a member of ISIS.  Now, some kneejerk clown politician named Robert Pittinger (it should be Pitiful) said the actual race problem is that African people are jealous of White people because of White people's overwhelming "success" and our lack of it.  This is the best one yet folks.

First, what success?  What have White people done that is so wonderful?  Bear a legacy of conquest, death, and destruction?  Make a lot of money as result of that carnage?  Are there actually people who really believe making money and having "things" is the definition of success within this oppressive context?  How sad that is if White people anywhere really believe that nonsense.  I can let you in on a secret.  Even without white supremacy and capitalism, I doubt African people would excel in those same ways.  Our culture is a collective one.  As a people, we don't define success in individual terms.  That's primarily why most of our professional athletes don't retain their money as quiet as that's kept.  Some of them are mad party people who waste large sums of money, but most of them are broke because when they get paid, everyone gets paid.  It was said that over two thirds of Muhammad Ali's earnings went to the people around him.  Yes, part of this is due to our oppression e.g. most of us never get the opportunity to gain access to "things", but I'd argue an even larger part of it is outpacing other people at the expense of their condition is a foreign concept in our culture.  That's why even in the poorest sections of Africa, people in those regions will sacrifice what little they have for you because that's who we are as a people.  The concept of stepping on people to make money is still, in spite of the wicked influence of capitalism on our sacred values, an unattractive value system to most of our people.  So, there's no jealously from us directed at Europeans who have obtained material success.  And, to suggest that there is would be insulting if it wasn't so stupid.  With all we have suffered in this society, if we rose up and destroyed this country and wrecked havoc against any and everyone we could see, if aliens found the results of the carnage a 100 years from now, and had the capacity to understand and digest the history of what led to the tragedy, they wouldn't blame us.  In fact, they would have to wonder what took us so long to get to that point.  So, clearly, the charge of jealously is insane.

Instead, what you are more likely to see is irritation from us against White people for their continued and consistent deniability about our suffering.  Its like the sibling who is clearly favored by the parents.  Who gets all the benefits while you get nothing except grief.  That sibling, when confronted with the reality of the situation, acts as if they have absolutely no idea why you are upset with them.  They will even charge "I didn't do anything" and they will certainly claim that they worked hard for all that they have achieved.  They won't see how you were deprived because you had to take care of them and everything else.  Whatever anger you would have against that sibling isn't because of what they have achieved.  The anger is because they refuse to see what you have suffered.  That's a far cry from jealously.

The real problem is these politicians are simply voicing what a significant portion of the white populace has believed for quite some time.  And now, the environment is such that they no longer feel the need to restrain themselves from voicing this ignorance.  They feel this way because they are angry about the capitalist system's inability to continue to prioritize their existence over the rest of humanity.  They fail to see that the system isn't able to do that for them anymore because the system is running out of gas, and time. 

This is the time for you to get yourself informed and organized.  While white supremacy is coming apart at the seams, we have to place ourselves in a much stronger position to push forward.  We cannot continue to act like slaves, going in front of someone as despicable as Donald Trump and asking him what he is going to do about "Black on Black crime."  That's like asking a fox what he is going to do about the chickens disappearing from the coop.  We have to be smarter than that in 2016.  Turn inward and get organized.  And the same message applies to our White accomplices.  Stop making silly excuses and please go and get your ignorant and confused relatives.  You have quite the degree of work to do to demonstrate to them that their anger is misguided.  They are being cowardly by attacking us instead of going to the source of their grief - the capitalist system.  Yes, election season is entertaining to me. Not because I take it lightly, but because the more insane it gets, the more I stay hopeful that this has to somehow mean it is running out its course.

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Working Through Trauma to Build Capacity to Fight Back Harder

9/21/2016

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I feel all of the triggers like you do.  For every person who (either sincerely or unwittingly) forwards a video of each African being savagely murdered by gestapo police, I'm beamed back Star Trek style to being 11 years old and being traumatically thrown to the ground by hordes of police.  This happened on a San Francisco City bus after several European (White) passengers accused me of being a part of the group that had just robbed the entire bus, simply because they were African like I am.  Each video equally takes me back to the time I was 17 and about twenty police had me hogtied on the ground with guns drawn on me for about 45 minutes.  Only to suddenly release me with absolutely no explanation for why they brutalized me, in front of about 100 bystanders.  Unfortunately, I have several other trauma stories, but the point is I get it and I have it - the trauma.  So, I understand the countless cries people are making on social media and in person about how traumatizing the times are when state representatives continue to brutalize our people with impunity.  All while many people continue to act like the real life trauma we walk around with in our bodies and minds is simply a figment of our imagination.  Then, to add insult to injury, these same clueless and arrogant people have the audacity to be outraged that we would express our pain and terror in ways that interrupt their evening commute, their breakfast, or God forbid, their fantasy love affair with their baseless symbols of oppression, I mean freedom.  All of this is enough to drive anyone insane.  And there are many of us that I worry really need professional help to assist in helping us maintain our balance right now.  If that's you, I strongly encourage you to not be too proud or ego driven to not ask for help.  There are resources out here of people who will help you.  Within our community work we have identified more than a couple of mental health professionals who are offering their services free of charge for those who are financially challenged and I know that these same resources exist in many communities.  Reach out and take advantage of them if you need them.  Our organizations for justice are small, poor, and disorganized.  These entities do not contain the capacity to provide you with the support you need and any efforts you make to try and make these organizations substitute for the professional help you need will only drain the limited resources of these groups.  So, please, reach out.

For anyone else who feels that you function on as stable ground as anyone can in such a dysfunctional world, there are some things you are going to have to accept and remember if you are going to serve a productive purpose in this fight.  First, our struggle for justice cannot and will not be defined by our individual trauma.  Of course, our trauma is a part of us, but the other part is our will to survive and flourish and it is that element that we must learn to draw from if we are going to be effective at fighting for a better world.  The raw truth is our enemies are not the least bit affected by your trauma.  They do what they do specifically to traumatize you.  Our cries for compassion fall on deaf ears when directed at the capitalists.  Kwame Ture told us 50 years ago that we are wasting our time trying to appeal to the conscious of this system because it has no soul.  Their objective is to drive anyone who would challenge their hegemony into the grave, prison, or mental instability.  That's their mission and they have millions of examples to illustrate to us how effective they are at carrying it out.  So, if you are going to dedicate your life to going up against them, you are going to have to accept that there are no rules, no limits, and no sense of right and wrong when dealing with them.  So release the bourgeois notion that you have rights in this system.  Let go of the false concept that you matter and you have the right to be listened to.  The truth is the extent to which you have all of those things is only connected to how much you are willing to fight for them.  And, if you study history, you will know that this isn't a new phenomenon.  In fact, it has always been this way.  Whatever you have today, if you didn't fight for it, you better believe someone did.  You must recognize that the strongest weapon the enemy has is convincing you that one day, there is that chance that they will listen to you.  As long as they can maintain that hope within you, then you won't do the work that needs to be done to bring them down to their knees and as long as they know you aren't at the place of doing that organizing work, they have no incentive to change anything they are doing because its all working - for them and their interests.

Finally, for those who not only feel you are somewhat ready and willing to dedicate yourself to the type of relentless struggle that will be required to engage this beast, its imperative that you find some basis from which to motivate yourself for the rough and difficult days ahead.  And, I'm sorry, but that motivation cannot be alcohol or any type of outside substance.  That motivation, in order to be effective, can only come from inside you.  It has to be something that inspires you.  Something that calls to you to bring out the best in you.  Something that connects you to the most advanced elements of human culture.  Only you can decide what that motivation is.  Once you determine it, you can never tell a soul, or you can tell everyone as a sense of inspiration, but you have to find that element and get right with it.  Humbly speaking, for me, that element has been and continues to be the work I do on myself to try to keep myself in check.  This is a continual work in progress, but I think I can say confidently that I've reached a point where I don't see the world as all about me.  As a result, I have learned to value what other people bring to the world.  This has generated a genuine love and appreciation for people, all people.  The children, who I work with often.  The elderly.  Women.  People from all nationalities.  LGBTQ community family members.  Everyone.  In line with this I've learned to really appreciate all of the people who have come before me, especially those who have sacrificed to push our struggle forward.  It is from those people that I receive my highest level of inspiration because I know from studying their work that they unfortunately experienced daily trauma that objectively overshadows anything I think I've experienced in my life.  The appreciation of them, their sacrifices, and the humility I've learned from being able to see the world that way makes me honestly feel like I'm honored to do this work in their footsteps.  Does that mean I'm not pissed, angry, upset?  Of course I'm all of those things, probably a lot more than most of you, but I've learned to channel that and not let it consume me, at least not consume me for very long.  That's why I've structured my life so that I could go to the slave dungeons in Ghana and Senegal.  I've gone to the cotton fields and plantation houses in Mississippi, Louisiana (where my family was kidnapped and taken to), Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, etc.  I've been to many of the worst prisons in this and other societies.  I've felt the suffering of my ancestors so that when I see and feel trauma today, I remember the courage they displayed and it helps me contextualize my feelings.  Not diminish my feelings, contextualize them.  Instead of just seeing this suffering as a complete bad, I look at it from a revolutionary dialectical perspective. Yes, its terrible, but its also a testament to the fortitude and character of our people.  Traits I want to draw from in my own life.  With this in mind, I'm reminded that I have work to do.  It reminds me that African women fought a rape culture that was the order of the day during slavery so that I could be here today.  So, at least for me, there's no way in hell I'm going to complain about anything I have to do, see, or experience, when those brave women carried that terrible burden on my behalf.  On your behalf.  They could have given up and God knows no one could have blamed them with all the horrors that were regular parts of their lives, but they persevered.  And because they did, we're here to continue the quest for justice.  I know they suffered through all of that because they knew we deserved better and I'm committed to doing everything I can to do what they did - carry the struggle forward in whatever humble way that I can.

We won't be able to carry this forward if we are not healthy.  The capitalist is determined to wear you down.  When you say you are too tired and demoralized to continue he loves hearing that.  Let's learn to do what we need to do create healthy environments that nurture us for the long haul.  And recognize and respect that self care doesn't mean retiring from the struggle permanently or for long periods of time.  If you have to do that, something is missing.  Not judging here, just acknowledging that those African women never had the option of quitting and we should always be aspiring to be what they were in the areas of character and fortitude.  So buckle your seat-belts.  The enemy is making it plain that he has no intention of going out without a bang and he's going to throw everything he has at us.  So, this struggle isn't for the faint of heart.  We need people who are ready to stand together with others, as imperfect as we all are, and build together, as one.  People who understand we will try and fail and try and fail again.  People who won't give up.  People who won't just be there once or twice, but who we know will have our backs like they know we will have theirs, all the time.  That's going to require a lot of things, most notably patience.  Let me say that again - PATIENCE - with each other.  If we are really serious about making change, this is what it will take people. Otherwise, what we are really saying is we are just upset because capitalism is forcing us to acknowledge we are not free.  I know that is not the message most of you want to project.  So, let's focus on getting ourselves prepared.  The more of these heinous videos we have to see, we can't be demoralized, this should be our fuel to fight harder, more relentlessly, to bring about justice.

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Digging Deep for Coltan, Neo-colonialism, and Your Cell Phone

9/20/2016

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We say this repeatedly, but in this two minute attention span industrial capitalist society, its difficult for people to hear and comprehend the message.  So, we will continue to say it.  Your capitalist economy, or what you mistakenly call a free market enterprise, is based on exploiting Africa (and many other places around the planet as well).  The wealth that exists in the Western capitalist countries isn't there because those countries are ordained by God.  It isn't there because the people in those countries worked harder or smarter.  It isn't there because people in those countries prayed harder.  The wealth is there simply because it is systemically stolen from places like Africa where it rightfully belongs.  Examples of this are all around us.  We could be talking about the rubber industry.  Or gold, diamonds, uranium, bauxite (aluminum products), oil, cocoa, and an entire host of industries, but we will make the point again using the industry of columbite tantalite or what's better known as coltan.  Before we talk about coltan we do need to say it again because people in the Western world especially have been exceptionally programmed by capitalism to see the entire world as an extension of your noses.  So, hear and read this again, loud and clear.  Your capitalist system can never be great.  It can never be the source and model of freedom and democracy.  It can never be any of those things because it was built and is maintained on keeping people poor, oppressed, and exploited, so that it can benefit economically.  And we will use coltan to illustrate to you one of the many ways that process works in today's international imperialist economy. 

Coltan defined is a black metallic ore.  An ore is a rock that contains minerals with elements within them that include metals that can be extracted from the rock and used for a number of productive purposes.  In the case of coltan, this ore, once melted down into a powder, can absorb electrical charges.  This makes it invaluable as a conduit for transmission of digital communication signals.  So, coltan is used to create wiring that is used in all devices that utilize a signal.  This includes, but isn't limited to, your cell phone, flat screen television, video game component system, lap top computer, tablet, iPad, dishwasher, and even some engine parts in your vehicle's diagnostic system.  No one reading this doesn't obviously rely on a number of those devices for daily life functions.  Consequently, you can easily see how coltan has quickly evolved into one of the most sought after minerals on Earth.  Today, it sells for approximately $600 U.S. per pound.  There are many places on Earth where coltan can be found from Afghanistan to Venezuela.  Now if we were talking about a world reality where coltan, and all other resources, were being utilized for the objective of providing for people's needs, the reason the minerals are there in the first place, then there would be no problem here.  Of course, in this capitalist dominated world economy, their objective for any product development is always profitability, not meeting people's needs.  And the multi-national corporations who sit at the top of the economic ladder have perfected the process of achieving profits at all costs, regardless of the toll their objectives cause for the people they exploit.  Another thing the capitalists have perfected is the ability to redirect most people's attention within the capitalist societies from being even the slightest bit conscious about these exploitative processes and the impact they are having on people and the planet Earth.  Whether its coltan mining, or proposed oil pipelines over Indigenous people's lands in North Dakota in the U.S., most people in the U.S., Europe, Australia, etc., are completely ignorant about any of this.  Its important that we do everything we can to correct this so we will reiterate the point that there are many places where coltan can be found.  The problem for the capitalists is that since they are always all about profitability, and nothing else, they are only interested in being able to mine for coltan in conditions that are the most cost effective for them, regardless of the consequences for the people impacted or the planet.  This is why the Congo, in Central Africa, remains the place where large percentages of coltan continues to be produced.  The Congo has been destabilized by imperialism for decades.  In 1960, the country had unlimited potential.  Patrice Lumumba was elected as the new prime minister and his Pan-Africanist vision had great hopes for the future of the Congolese people.  Since the central region of Africa remains the most mineral rich region in the world, Lumumba and his newly elected National Congolese Movement (MNC) had desires to use that mineral wealth to develop the Congo, the Congolese people, and all of Africa.  One year later, Lumumba was dead - murdered by a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported assassination effort - the MNC was forced into hiding, and the Congo spiraled out of control into such a state of instability that schools, roads, and any level of infrastructure existed only on extremely sporadic and isolated instances.  In fact, after 1960, the Congo didn't even experience another national election until 2007.  So, this gives you an idea of how disrupted this region has been for the last 60 years and the CIA's involvement was motivated in large part due to its desire to protect the economic interests of the U.S. and Belgium mining companies who profited from readily exploiting the Congo's mineral resources before the MNC pledged to stop all of this madness.   Its important here to note that the mining industry has historically been a major source of instability and exploitation in Africa.  This is true because the mining industry, like all major industries in Africa, are controlled by foreign multi-national corporations whose only interest is taking what it can from Africa and leaving with all the wealth while leaving the masses of people there with nothing.  This is model that has existed in Africa for centuries and the independence movement of the 50s and 60s has done little to stem that tide.  Instead, capitalism has taken on a black face (the same way it has for the last eight years in the U.S.) where puppet leaders oversee the continued exploitation of all national resources in Africa in exchange for personal riches at the expense of the masses of Africans.  This model is the living definition of neo-colonialism.  As it relates to coltan mining in the Congo, let's illustrate how this devastating process actually looks for the people on the ground.

Hundreds of thousands of Africans wake up every day in the Congo, meaning seven (7) days per week.  They work twelve (12) hours a day minimum in the mines, digging out the coltan by hand.  Their work conditions, having no oversight whatsoever, consist of working in poorly ventilated and highly pressurized environments that are proven breeding grounds for the worse types of respiratory ailments.  This explains why the typical miner has a life expectancy of less than 40 years old.  On top of that, these workers are paid an average of $3 to 5 dollars per day in an economy where the average sandwich would cost at least that much on the street.  These workers have families and there is obviously no way working 84 hours per week for $35.00 total is going to do anything except guarantee generations of poverty of the worst kind.  So, these hardworking miners finish this exploitative day by loading the coltan into plastic lined rice sacks that they carry on their heads and shoulders over to the symbolic water movement systems that take the minerals away from the mines and on their way out of Africa and into the coffers of Apple, Samsung, and the other multi-nationals who benefit from this devious process.  And since those companies are product manufacturing entities, and not mining companies, they never set foot in the Congo.  That work is done by major mining companies like the Britain based Coltan Mining LTD which facilitates processing the coltan into the powder based wiring that serves the manufacturers.  There are other problems the coltan mining process presents.  Like all mining in Africa, its done for the purpose of identifying cheap and ready sources of the material in mind, in this case - coltan.  Its not done with any type of environmental sensitivity and as I've already stated, there is no oversight since so-called neo-colonialist officials are paid to look the other way.  So, the fact that coltan mining in the Congo has eliminated the natural habitat of gorillas at an alarming rate has escaped the radar of even the most vocal animal rights activists in the capitalist countries.  I guess that gorilla lives don't matter if they are in Africa which shouldn't be surprising to any African reading this.  As a whole, this system works perfectly for the name brand companies because it gives them the cover of plausible deniability.  Meanwhile, the Africans in the Congo are sick, dead, poor, and left with nothing. No future, no hope, and no ability to grasp control of their lives.

Again, this is the standard mining process for any of the products mentioned at the beginning of this article and this process is the primary reason Africa remains poor and dependent and why the Western capitalist countries continue to own everything.  Clearly, the continued white supremacist lie that Africans are lazy is easily dis-proven just by envisioning the hard labor these miners experience every day without rest.  Work that the good European (white) capitalist loving communities wouldn't last one hour performing, despite all your prayers for God to bless you and your so-called free world.

As D'Angelo sang "its all a lie, its all a lie."  There's never been any greatness or freedom.  Just the lies of a dying capitalist system.  At least it should be clear to you by now why we proclaim Africa's liberation to be the primary objective of all real Black revolutionaries in the world today.  As Sekou Ture told us, imperialism will find it's grave in Africa.  Its only when this devastating system of exploitation is broken that imperialism will be defeated.  You can organize all the workers in every capitalist country five or six times.  Until imperialism is broken in Africa, it will never be defeated.  So, next time you are staring into your cell phone, watching your flat screen, driving your car, or looking at your iPad or lap top, think about that. 

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Kaepernick is ISIS?  Don't React to this Type of Foolishness

9/15/2016

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Elected U.S. congress person Steve King is calling San Francisco Quarterback Colin Kaepernick an agent of ISIS.  All the capitalist outlets are questioning every element of protest taking place from African led anti-police terrorism actions worldwide to Indigenous led anti-capitalist oil company protests in North Dakota, U.S.  If you know that Western capitalism was founded on the theft of Indigenous lands and the enslavement of African people (and poor Europeans and Asians as well) than you should be aware that no time in history have the people in power acknowledged their system of oppression.  If don't know the actual history of capitalism, then STOP reading this right now and do some work.  You can start with many of the articles posted on this blog so that you can gain an understanding of what is being discussed here.  We are not going to pretend for your benefit that your ignorance is the launching point of this conversation.  Do your work and catch up with those of us who have been working for quite some time now.

Back to those who know the history, accept the reality that those in power aren't going to ever acknowledge your position(s).  Accept this and stop reacting to them because doing so is exactly what they depend upon so that they can continue to control the narrative around our issues.  Just ask yourself.  Who the hell is Steve King anyway?  What African community, Indigenous community, has he spent time in working to improve the conditions?  You already know the answers to those questions.  He hasn't done squat because he doesn't care about justice.  Only the economic interests he represents.  And the same can be said about a whole lot of people weighing on these issues.

Its very important that we learn to develop and maintain our own perspective of what's taking place.  We are too strong and go to far back in a positive and legitimate historical context to be taken in by these low rent thugs and what they think about us.  We are too easily knocked off our axis because we haven't learned how to develop our own independent analysis.  An analysis that can only come from an independent organizational framework.  And, when we say independent, we are not talking about the non-profit industrial complex, which is dependent upon the contributions of many people who don't have our best interests at heart.  That's why those entities often can only go so far.  Many of those organizations do some good work, but we must have an independent analysis based on our culture and political reality.  We already have this type of independent analysis in existence.  The problem is far too many of us are completely unaware of it.  Instead, we believe, as our enemy desires, that the only point of view with any credibility is the one our enemy advances and supports.  They supply the framework and all of the rules which places you in the position where the absolute best you can do is respond in some way that hopes to trip up their logic.  Anyone who plays any sport knows you can never win by relying entirely on a defensive strategy.  Your offense comes from understanding your independent analysis.  As was mentioned, there are plenty of them out here.  Your task is to identify the one that works best for you and to start using it to decipher these issues in terms that reflect the interests of humanity and justice, not some budget or somebody else's economic concerns.  If you can't find an analysis you like, then you still have the responsibility to create one of your own.

For us who are revolutionary Pan-Africanists e.g. Nkrumahist/Tureists, our ideology and perspectives come from our culture and history.  We know that Sekou Ture was very wise and correct when he said that our culture within the oppression of the capitalist system is defined as that of struggling for our dignity against this oppression.  With this understanding, we could never be confused about who we are and what we are doing.  We have no obligation to respect any institution within the capitalist system from the elected government to the military to the so-called values, and certainly not the songs that advance the corruption of this system.  We know that everything about this system is against our interests from the popular culture all the way down to what is taught in Kindergarten.  Since we have this high level understanding of who we are, we are not derailed and confused by the tactics of our enemies.  We know that when tennis player Serena Williams is attacked for her body parts or Colin Kaepernick is attacked for wearing cornrows or an afro, this is because this system was built and is maintained on our backs.  So that means our very existence is a threat to this system and certainly, when we present ourselves in ways that make it clear that we are proud of who we are, that represents a bold statement that we see ourselves in direct conflict with this backward system.  Our enemies know this.  That's why they are attacking our people not just on the basis of our ideas, but just on how we look!  Its time for us to understand this as well.  We don't need to be the least big concerned about what a thug like Steve King thinks of us and anyone else who agrees with him.  Our primary task is in getting more and more of our people, all over the world, to understand the cultural and political correctness of what Kaepernick is doing.  Getting our people in Africa and the Caribbean to understand that the U.S. is not the center of the universe and our people's mission in life shouldn't be in trying to get here.  Instead, our mission should be reclaiming the wealth that capitalism has stolen and continues to steal from us.  Calling out the U.S. and its so-called anthem is just an initial tactic to exposing the corruption of this entire system.  The enemy knows this and that is why they are fighting so hard to derail the conversation.  Its how he protested.  Its disrespecting somebody.  Its about the military.  You cannot let them get you off track with all of that confusion.  When have they ever respected and accepted any type of protest we have waged?  They disagreed with quiet protests against colonialism in Africa.  They shot people in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and all over the continent who engaged in quiet protests.  They disagreed with Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King 100% of the way through the Civil Rights movement.  They even terrorized thousands of Africans who marched in white, maintaining complete silence, during the 1920s in the U.S.  Trying to prove to racist white America that we were no threat.  We fought in all their wars, despite the fact we didn't possess the basic rights that they claim we were going to those countries to win for other people.  So, clearly, there is nothing you can do that will satisfy them.  It's like Malcolm said.  "When you try to get next to the white man, he attacks you.  If you try to separate from him, he attacks you."  Stop reacting to the racist narrative and start talking to more and more people who should be on the right side of history.  Help build a movement that will walk right over the chests of people like Steve King and the multi-national corporate masters who pull his strings.

We are a proud people.  From Kikuyu, to Akan, to Wolof, to Mandinka, to Fulani, etc.  We are strong and proud.  We don't need to do anything except be the best that we can be to represent our people and justice to all of humanity.  We have the task of strengthening our structures and organizations.  Then, we must build principled relationships with others who are doing the same work. Including any of our White family members who stand for justice.  Ture told us that the enemy will come for us when we stand up.  This is our calling card that we are having an impact.  Keep it up!  Get organized!  This is not the time to get discouraged and to lose hope.  If that is happening to you, its only because you are letting the enemy attack you psychologically.  You need the medicine of a strong cultural ideological perspective.  You can't get it from your enemies.  So, if you are watching and listening to them, make sure you are also watching and reading about your own point of view.  The minute we realize that and stop playing by the rule book created by our enemies, we will see victory coming fast over the horizon. 

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Capitalism Makes Normal seem Strange and Strange Seem Normal

9/14/2016

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Kwame Ture said it often.  "The capitalist system doesn't lie some of the time.  It lies all of the time.  In fact, even when it tells the truth, its only because of a double lie."  We see examples of this all around us everyday.  What should be normal, meaning logical, healthy, and commonly accepted and practiced, is seen as strange.  And, what should be strange, meaning unhealthy for human consumption and inappropriate, is made to seem normal.  Let's look at professional sports.  Hordes of fans giving white supremacist salutes and yelling out racial slurs towards players of color is everyday activity in worldwide soccer (football) culture and no one seems all that upset by it.  Professional athletes father children without caring for them on the regular and many of them beat and abuse their partners without remorse, and the response we see to this is women wearing Ray Rice jerseys e.g. supporting him over the woman he mercilessly brutalized.  People all over the world, from Standing Rock, North Dakota, U.S., to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are standing up and protesting injustices and instead of discussing the merits of their protests, people are talking about the style and/or form protest being used.  Just this Friday, while helping facilitate security for the anti-prison actions in downtown Portland, I observed African people furious that their bus was delayed and they couldn't get to work.  When I engaged these people, I asked them if they realized that without protest that challenged and disrupted the system, they wouldn't have a paid job today because protest is the reason we pushed past slavery and segregation.  Their response?  "I'm late for work!"

Meanwhile, people are more upset about Colin Kaepernick and other athletes not standing for a bankrupt and meaningless national anthem than they are about the human suffering these brave athletes are protesting against.  People are more upset about the sight of houseless people and the issues generated from being housless then they are about the fact millions of people, including many who suffer from mental illness, don't have a place to live.  People are more upset about students protesting from Azania, South Africa to North America then they are about the lack of quality education and resources to support education.

Candidates running for national office, whether in the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, or the Americas, talk about any and everything, whatever way suites them, and although people have been lied to for decades the exact same way, they continue to require nothing more than the word of these lying politicians to subdue them.  All while criticizing you for wanting more and suggesting there should be a better way.

People who have suffered discrimination as policy for centuries are often the most intolerant towards others who are suffering discrimination as if the question is one of qualifying as the most oppressed in history instead of wiping out all oppression.  And, descendants of European thieves and murderers are telling the descendants of Indigenous people - who's land this rightfully is - and Africans, who were forced here and who's ancestor's labor built the wealth of this society, without compensation, that if they don't like oppression, they should just leave.  And in response to that dysfunction, African people in the Western hemisphere are so quick to let you know that despite the fact they have never read a single book about Africa and have never traveled there, they are convinced Africa doesn't love them.  They say this despite having no evidence of this besides the worthless conversations they may have had with some confused and misguided Africans born in Africa.  They say this despite the reality that what we do for sure is after 500+ years in this hemisphere, we are definitely, without question, not wanted here.

Things that should seem strange are normal and things that should seem normal are strange.  I have an experiment for you.  Board any public transportation vessel and immediately click on the most vile song imaginable.  Play it loud so that all around you can hear it.  Then disembark.  Re-board at a later point and play a speech by someone like Kwame Ture or Malcolm X - speaking in clear terms about the unquestionable injustices carried about by this empire against people's around the world.  I will guarantee you that more people will speak up against what you are doing while you are playing the speeches then you will hear when you are playing the reactionary and disrespectful music. 

Are people insane in 2016?  For the most part, yes.  Is there a solution?  Is there hope?  Absolutely!  Kwame Nkrumah spoke a phenum of forces in tension.  What he meant is the class struggle reflects a series of conflicts on all levels of interaction.  This struggle is the struggle of dialectics and it is a scientific necessity in order for change to occur.  In other words, quoting Frederick Douglas, "without struggle, there is no progress."  When people criticize Kaepernick's legitimate political response while ignoring and dismissing the lives of the people he is standing up for, this is a clear contradiction in progress.  When people challenge the rights of the Indigenous people to stand up and protect this land which rightfully belongs to them, that is a clear contradiction in progress.  And, when people tell Africans to leave this hemisphere while challenging our right to claim Africa at the same time, that is a struggle waiting to be exposed.  So, don't fret at the development of all these things.  When Kwame talked about it, he wasn't complaining. He was merely pointing out that the more pressure we add, the more the contradictions will be pushed to a breaking point.  So, don't panic.  Just keep adding that oil to that fire.

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Shaq talking about Kaepernick Proves what a Fool He Really Is

9/9/2016

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Many of our European (White) accomplices may not understand this much because this is in house cultural struggle between the African community and former basketball player Shaquille O'Neal.  This guy went on FOX News and criticized Colin Kaepernick's bold protest against the U.S. national anthem.  And, there are other sorry excuses for human beings who are doing the same.  Former player Ray Lewis is one of them, but before we focus exclusively on O'Neal, let's put all of these boot-lickers in the proper historical perspective.  And, we do that of course by referring to our political and cultural ideologue - Malcolm X.  During the early 1960s, Malcolm emerged as the new, militant voice for African people.  His analysis, unlike that being presented by "establishment" people like Roy Wilkins of the NAACP or Whitney Young of the Urban League, cut through the lies and propaganda and exposed America for what it actually is - the terrorist empire that it has been since its colonialist inception.  When Malcolm began to gain traction among African people with his hard hitting analysis, the capitalist power structure used the strategy of recruiting "establishment negroes" to criticize Malcolm.  They used Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, Wilkins, and Young.  And all of them were more than happy to bite when the master said bite.  Notice that I didn't say Dr. Martin Luther King because King was a principled man who never attacked anyone.  Even though Malcolm was unwittingly attacking King all the time, but those others, they were always ready to be told to bear their teeth at Malcolm.  And, in response to that phenomenon, Malcolm talked about how "whenever a Black man stands up and defends his people, the white man immediately starts searching for some uncle tom to sic on him."  We are seeing this today with Colin Kaepernick.  Rather than address the commonly acknowledged legitimacy of Kaeps concerns, the concerns of millions of people across the world, the capitalist power structure instead engages in a game of bait and switch.  And one of their consistent tactics is to find that "negro" who will attack someone like Kaepernick for them.  In 2016, that negro is Shaquille O'Neal.

O'Neal is their perfect boy.  He has always made his love for the police known.  He has bragged about his desire to become a police officer and he has even initiated his training process by being accused of excessive force and assault while accompanying Los Angeles police on a ride a long.  During his interview on FOX, O'Neal stated his disagreement with Kaepernick "because my family has a long history of military and police service."  Unlike most other people, you won't find any military apologies on this site.  In fact, I'm still waiting for anyone anywhere to explain to me how U.S. troops fighting anywhere they are fighting or have fought has done anything to free African people.  In case some of you flunked history, America was a segregated country leading up through the Vietnam war in the 60s.  That meant Africans were expected to fight for America - which we unfortunately did - in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, without even having rights as citizens in this country.  Even the tired narrative that somebody was fighting for freedom for people in the country they invaded obviously makes little sense.  Please show us where the people of Afghanistan or Iraq have gained anything from being invaded by the U.S.  I doubt the women of Afghanistan would agree with that statement.  They had education and more rights in the 70s then they ever had before or since the U.S. supported the overthrow of the Soviet backed regime there in the 1970s.  Today with the Taliban, it would be very difficult for any of you military hawks to convince Afghan women that they are better off, thanks to you.  And, clearly the African masses have received nothing from these wars and nor have the masses of white people.  Actually, the only true benefactors are the rich corporations who manufacture weapons and the assorted industries of destruction that capitalize off of war.  These facts are ill refutable so PLEASE.  STOP SAYING THE U.S. MILITARY FIGHTS FOR OUR FREEDOMS!  You continue to sound and look stupid like the tool that you are when you parrot that propaganda line like you don't have the capacity to think for yourself.  And Shaq, stop talking about things you know nothing about.  Aren't you smart enough to realize those Europeans are just using you to make our people look dis-unified?  Why else would FOX have you on there?  Think about that and why you are at it, think about how you can stop clowning and being a 7 foot buffoon for white America while you're at it.  Its 2016.  Its long past time to stop being cheap entertainment for white people, allowing yourself to be sicc'ed on whatever African they want to be discredited.  If we want basketball tips e.g. how to perfect a drop step move, then we'll come to you Shaq.  Otherwise, leave the grown up issues to adults because you have absolutely no understanding of why Kaepernick is doing what he's doing. 

Today, the ignorance and carelessness of people like O'Neal can prosper because the African liberation movement is weak.  One day we will advance to the point of organization where people who disrespect and dishonor our community by selling out to our enemies as O'Neal is doing will pay a serious price.  We will shut down your ability to profit off of our suffering and when we do that, it will teach people like you to respect us as a community.  Standing side by side with one another, although O'Neal is almost a foot taller, Kaepernick towers head and shoulders above him in character and integrity.

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Why African People Must Support the People at Standing Rock

9/2/2016

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The All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) expresses strong and uncompromising solidarity with our Indigenous family members and all peace loving people in opposing the 1,200 mile capitalist oil pipeline that is being pushed for development through the Dakotas.  We especially call upon all African people to unite with our Indigenous communities in opposing this pipeline in whatever material ways that we can.
Currently, over 90 Indigenous Ethnic Groups (tribes), and thousands of people, are assembling at Standing Rock in North Dakota to form a human blockade against this oil pipeline.  Their reasons for opposing the capitalist pipeline are ill refutable.  The pipeline is the brainchild of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers in conjunction with the state governments of the Dakotas and Illinois.  These entities have authorized a Texas Oil Company named Energy Transfer Partners to construct this pipeline at an estimated cost of $3.7 billion.  If completed, the pipeline will extend from the Dakotas to the Bakken region of Southern Illinois.  The oil company’s speculative plans are to pump 400,000 barrels of oil through the pipeline per day which is scheduled to run under the Missouri River.  Obviously, a rupture in the pipeline would generate a devastating environmental crisis that would last for decades.  The clear threat this pipeline poses to the integrity of the drinking water supply for millions of people in this geographic region cannot and will not be ignored by the over 90 tribes who are leading the protest against this disastrous idea.  Also, so-called U.S. federal laws require the government to consult affected Indigenous tribes before imposing any projects that could adversely impact tribal lands.  Since this proposed pipeline is a threat to tribal drinking waters and would run within a half mile of multiple reservations, it unquestionably falls within the parameters of consulting the impacted tribes.  Yet, in spite of this clear requirement, the federal permits and contracts to fast track this pipeline were approved before the affected tribes first became aware of the proposed idea a few years ago.  This is just another example of the capitalist system speaking with a forked tongue.
For the A-APRP this struggle the Indigenous people of Standing Rock are being faced with is all too familiar.  We say this because capitalism has perfected the exploitation of land and resources as it relates to robbing Africa.  We can point to the industries of diamonds, gold, rubber, oil, coltan, uranium, bauxite, etc., to illustrate how the capitalists will show and tell volumes of research to support and justify their greedy position in support of this type of project.   Of course, once the project is in force, and/or when problems occur, these capitalist entities never have an answer or solution for the devastation that their greed is causing.  And, this happens in Africa where there is typically no regulation and oversight, not even on the bourgeois level that exists within the U.S.  In fact, specific examples are found in Dutch Royal Shell (Shell Oil) and its oil drilling processes in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.  Over the last 20 years, there have been countless safety breeches which have caused thousands to instantly lose their lives.  And those who die are the workers the capitalists brag will benefit from the “creation of jobs” they trumpet as the reason everyone should support their capitalist projects.  The environmental devastation from the oil, gold, diamond, coltan, bauxite, etc, industries in Africa are at the core of many of the problems that have developed in places like Sudan, Somalia, and Rwanda.  So, there’s no question in our minds that the track record of capitalist corporations and their interactions with Indigenous people show a history that matches up very well with the issues we see in Africa.  Therefore, we need no prodding in joining the Indigenous people in opposing this capitalist oil pipeline project.
We also think its critically important that everyone follow and respect the lead of the Indigenous people in expressing their vision around this resistance.  Elder Dennis Banks – a co-founder of the American Indian Movement in 1968 – has been active at Standing Rock.  He is stressing that people remember that this resistance is being called for by those who identify as members of the Seven Fires Council.  This is the seven member group of Lakota, Western Dakota, and Eastern Dakota peoples who make up a significant portion of the group popularly known as the Great Sioux Nation.  It is those leaders who define this struggle and our responsibility is to support them in the ways they indicate are needed.  Our other responsibility is to educate African people about this issue and to encourage us to join organizations that are fighting against oppression.  And this education and subsequent organizational work must take place within the context of the U.S. being a settler colony that is/was stolen from the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere.  The Indigenous people are not partners with the U.S.  They are not neighbors.  They are subjugated and oppressed just like the African masses.  Just like the masses of working class Europeans for that matter.  This pipeline is a another capitalist venture that subordinates the interests of the people to the profits of large multi-national corporations.  We are obligated to protect the integrity of our ancestors, our struggling peoples, and all of humanity, in opposing these capitalist projects and uniting with our Indigenous family to build a strong movement that will continuously push back hard against this backward system until it comes tumbling down.  The only way this will happen is if we become organized.  Our enemies are organized.  The multi-national corporate structure has systematized manipulating government structures to act in their interests.  We see this with the Standing Rock resistance in how the Texas Oil Giant gained the full support of all the required government structures without input from the most impacted people.  This is organization and we cannot expect to defeat these people unless we are organized on an even higher level.  The people of Standing Rock and the masses of African people who are on the streets fighting against police terrorism are providing us the examples.  All we have to do is commit to make our contributions and freedom is right around the corner.

 
 
 
 
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Focused on Disrespecting a Flag, While They Disrespect a People

9/1/2016

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Now they are trying to make an issue about the socks Colin Kaepernick was wearing that had illustrations that don't depict police in a favorable light.  Its not the forces who side with the police raising these bogus issues that I have a concern with.  Its those of you who call yourselves fighters for justice.  Its astounding how easily you are knocked off your perch, but I think I have a theory about how and why it continues to happen.  You lack a strong ideological and moral foundation.  In other words, you don't have a clue what your end game is.  Consequently, it becomes so easy for these people to trip you up because they have a clear vision of their objective.  They want to protect the legitimacy of the capitalist system.  For anyone who possesses even a cursory history of capitalism's domination of the planet Earth - that would include pretty much everyone above the 5th grade in the world - there is obviously no way to defend this system.  So, instead of engaging in intellectual arguments, the defenders of tyranny and oppression opt into a game of bait and switch.  A professional football player refuses to stand for the U.S. national anthem.  He gives very concrete reasons for his actions.  Ill-refutable reasons.  And, instead of addressing his reasons, as any logical person would do, these defenders employ extremely manipulative methods of distracting from those reasons.  So, they have everyone talking about disrespecting the flag, the people who serve in the U.S. military, and what Kaepernick has on his socks.  And, again, I'm not the least bit surprised by their dishonest tactics because I understand that is all they have left at this point,.  They can never concede to logic because the moment they do, their argument comes crumbling down. 

What I'm very interested in is how easily they are able to manipulate many of you so-called progressive thinkers.  What I mean is they have you attempting to speak to their talking points and you can't even figure out that once they even get you talking to their points, they have already won the argument because their points represent complete insanity.  You don't need to defend U.S. service people because none of them are fighting for any freedom for anyone.  They are fighting for multi-national corporate imperialism (domination).  They are dying for this imperialism as well.  Its especially painful to hear Africans repeat this same tired refrain about the military.  Not only is it a fantasy, but its completely disrespectful to those in our movement who you do owe your freedom to.  In other words, if Colin Kaepernick can play football and make millions today, please explain to me how the military, fighting in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, is responsible for Colin's "freedom?"  If you are confused, I can easily demonstrate to you how those wars had/have absolutely nothing to do with any freedom you think you enjoy.  I can also explain to you that the brave people who challenged U.S. segregation laws are actually the people Colin Kaepernick and everyone else should be thankful for.  So, if you have enjoyed a college education, a decent income a mortgage loan, please explain to us what U.S. troops fighting a poor people in Vietnam or Iraq has to do with you having those opportunities?  How did the Viet Mihn Front in Vietnam stop you from having any of those things?  As I recall, U.S. laws and practices prohibited you from living wherever you wanted, working wherever you were qualified, attending school wherever you could get in.  So, again, it was those brave soldiers of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Congress of Racial Equality, etc., who you owe your debt to, not the U.S. military.  In fact, whatever personal advances you have made in the military, you owe that to those same people as well, although I will never understand why they fought for that in the first place.  If we were thinking clearly, we would let them keep their imperialist military segregated.

On the socks, these people are butt hurt because police are being depicted in a less than complimentary fashion.  Why the hell should any of us care about that?  I'm thinking about how the police feel about as much as they are concerned about how I feel.  Not because I'm an insensitive person, but because I have integrity.  I have never done anything to the police in my entire life.  I've been harassed, disrespected, and mistreated by police my entire life.  And, I've gotten off easy to date.  Meaning, I'm still living after my police encounters.  And while this happens to me and millions of others like me, you weren't the least bit concerned so tell me again why I need to be concerned about an illustration, any illustration, of police?  We aren't seeking any dialogue with the police just like they aren't seeking one with us.  We are fighting for justice and hopefully they can figure out they are on the wrong side of history before its too late for those who wear that sorry uniform.

So, stop being so easily manipulated.  Stop reacting to their talking points.  They have you focused on a supposed disrespect for their flag while they keep you from talking about the disrespect against my people.  I guess I'm not confused about any of this because I cannot even tell you the last time I stood for their flag or anything it represents.  I can tell it that Gerald Ford was president that last time which would be in the mid 70s when I was too young to know the truth.  And that truth is that flag wasn't invented with me in mind.  The song to praise it wasn't invented with me in mind.  This country wasn't "created" with me in mind so go on down the road with that nonsense about I'm disrespecting the country.  That Colin is disrespecting the country.  And stop trying to defeat their insane talking points.  The real question is why any African athlete would stand for that song and flag in the first place?  And the even bigger question is why we continue to dismiss and disrespect the real people who sacrificed so that we can have what we have while praising people who had absolutely nothing to do with our lives as if we don't possess a shred of sense.  Some of you'll need to figure all of that out.  Your children and the future generations are watching and even if you can't see it, Colin Kaepernick is simply an example of what you will have to look forward to.  Hopefully, you will get straight on all of this before you become labeled as being on the wrong side of history for all our future generations to study as to what not to do.

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    I don't see disagreement as a negative because I understand that Frederick Douglass was correct when he said "there is no progress without struggle."  Our brains are muscles.  Just like any other muscle in our body if we don't stress it and push it, the brain will not improve.  Or, as a bumper sticker I saw once put it, "If you can't change your mind, how do you know it's there?"

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