Showing posts with label Black Autonomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Autonomy. Show all posts

Sunday, October 2, 2016

LET OUR PEOPLE GO!










Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)

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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

We Are Rising From The Ashes Of Global Racism

I am an Indigo Melanin child. In the sixties, I would be classified as Afro-American, Colored, Negro, or Black. Yet, these classifications do not tie me to a land or nation where I am embraced and accepted with full rank and power. So Original Americans, Turtle Island, are of Afrikan decent. I understand that the first people to populate the Americas were Twa /Khoisan of Central Africa, tens of thousands of years ago. Later many Asians met up with decedents of the Khoisan, over thousands of years, to create an amalgam of cultures and societies that we now know.  I consider myself to be a Natchez African American. Both, my Mother and Father are Native American descendants. Yet, Melanin peoples were removed from the Dawes Rolls of Native American Registry, to be declared "freedmen," Colored, or Negro, and replaced with caucasian $5 Indians.
THIS IS PAPER GENOCIDE AND LAND THEFT

I choose the word Indigo to describe myself as a conscious person, who is first a spirit having a human experience. My spacesuit on earth is specially designed for the tropical regions.

Indigo implies Indigenous. My Ancient Ancestors are the first and oldest humans on the planet. They were superior and wise in so many ways, carrying the knowledge of Ausarian civilization, wherever they traveled on the planet.

Indigo denotes the lowest intensity of color, in the light spectrum, yet, the highest position of the energy zones of consciousness, often called Chakra Crown.

Indigo also implies the rich deep darkness of the blue black Indigo color. The Indigo plant is indigenous from Akabalon. The Indigo plant was used to make the royal purple cloth that exclusively draped the rulers of the East. The Indigo plant also ties to the irony, that this same royal indigo blue and cotton, has become the most humble and common color in the U.S.- in Denim Jeans. Indigo was often used with Hemp and Cotton fabrics, which were chief commodity for US industry. Denim blue fabric was common place for prison labor crews.


As a Child, I grew up in a US Military family. I was able to travel overseas. I was so proud of my Father. He was a member of the Air Force for almost 30 years. We lived in base housing, and went to integrated schools and churches while on base.  I can still recall how, as an 8 year old child, we lived everyday, facing the challenges of racism and never being able to predict the outcome. Yes, I was called "nigger" and was the target of bullying. These epithets would always be ignored, or often endorsed by teachers and other adult authorities, in schools and in the communities, so much so, that I gave up on reporting my daily assaults to my Mom for remedy. I quietly washed my Afro from the spit, food particles or even chewing gum that would be lodged in my hair or clothing. I became shy and invisible in the lunch room, gym or other open social experiences.








The Irony of this illustration, is that
Caucasians are our rebellious, disobedient children.
Now they have grown to take our Melanin children, to be trained
in their indoctrination school- to mass incarceration pipelines,
using their religious patriarchy, mass media propaganda,
poisonous foods, water and their medi-sins
to cast a spells and curses on our consciousness,
to destroy nature's ecosystem
and the Melanin Goddess Queen Mother Womb of the earth.
When we traveled off of the US base in Europe, I would notice the temperament of people that we encountered, varied from cordial curiosity to venomous contempt. In many encounters, we could tell that they had been previously coached to treat Black-skinned people with reproach.


This sinuous, subtle behavior and attitude is also prevalent in US urban environments, where invader businesses and franchises set up shop all around Indigo neighborhoods, only to take what little money that is gleaned from our families, out of our economy, to bring wealth to their own, while stereotyping, and treating every melanin rich- Youth, Adult or Elder, with hostile suspicion, and contempt. In consequence, the concept of "Black community" has been obliterated.  We have very few resources, or access, that runs autonomously within the US, while the US continues to use our blood and sweat as the oil for it’s grinding gears in it’s School to Corporate Prison, to Military Industrial Complex pipeline.

In conclusion, I have joined with many Indigo peoples, with the objectives to Organize for Black Autonomy. What does that look like? No. We are not attempting to overthrow the government or secede from the US. On the contrary, we are simply seeking our own Kujichagulia (self-determination.) To establish our own gated communities of Gnomes (Families of agricultural based societies) Industrial Artists, Engineers, Educators, Farmers, and Craft People, etc., for the practice of our own Cultures and spirituality, in our own economic structures. Much like how the Kansas City 12th street and Vine Mecca, Beal Street Tennessee, and the New York Harlem Renaissance Meccas, fostered the growth of a rich economic cultural performance arts societies. We must promote our own health and wellness, protection, Languages, Education and spiritual practices. We must establish self police, youth development and build our own energy and resources.



I recently found the complete essay of Mrs. Camille Cosby (below.) It still reigns true today with the current controversies and mass murder of Indigo Melanin rich children by cops. Another point that should be made is the resurgence of the Jumpin Jim Crow system, that creates a steel razor barbed wire corral to access to resources and land ownership by Indigo people. After the adjustable rate mortgage scams obliterated our housing to promote re-gentrification, many Indigo people are currently facing adversities with the use of trumped up city code violations, blight condemnations and adverse possession, to bully the remaining elderly and impoverished, who are barely making ends meet, out of their properties. This also creates an implied idea that Indigo people are not entitled to have access or ownership of certain real or personal properties, locations, products, business development or resources... So Melanin Rich people become the redline targets for assault if they have possession of a status symbol, ie. BMW automobiles...

America Taught My Son's Killer to Hate Blacks
by Camille Cosby


From our institutions to our media, racism and prejudice are omnipresent.
I believe America taught our son's killer to hate African-Americans. After Mikail Markhasev killed Ennis William Cosby on Jan. 16, 1997, he said to his friends, "I shot a nigger. It's all over the news."
This was not the first time Markhasev had attacked a black person. In 1995, he served time in a juvenile center for stabbing a black man who was standing at a gas station.
Presumably, Markhasev did not learn to hate black people in his native country, the Ukraine, where the black population was near zero. Nor was he likely to see America's intolerable, stereotypical movies and television programs about blacks, which were not shown in the Soviet Union before the killer and his family moved to America in the late 1980s.

James Baldwin wrote in his book The Price of the Ticket, "The will of the people, or the State, is revealed by the State's institutions. There was not, then, nor is there, now, a single American institution which is not a racist institution.

Yes, racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America's institutions, media and myriad entities. Here are a few examples:

The Voting Rights Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 will expire in 2007. Congress once again will decide whether African-Americans will be allowed to vote. No other Americans are subjected to this oppressive nonsense.
African-Americans, as well as all Americans, are brainwashed every day to respect and revere slave-owners and people who clearly waffled about race. In truth, the enslavement of millions of Africans immeasurably enriched the treasuries of America's government and individuals. Interestingly, several slave-owners' images are on America's paper currencies: George Washington ($1), Thomas Jefferson ($2), Alexander Hamilton ($10), Andrew Jackson ($20), Ulysses Grant ($50) and Benjamin Franklin ($100). Grant was the last U.S. president to own slaves. Even Abraham Lincoln ($5) said, "I do not stand pledged to the prohibition of the slave trade between the states.... I, as much as any man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race."

God and most Christian holy people artistically have been recreated in images of whiteness. This shrewd propaganda undeniably lessens the worthiness of most of the Earth's people. Because of those visual constructs, the churches have a deep problem with race.

America's educational institutions' dictionaries define "black" as harmful; hostile; disgrace; unpleasant aspects of life." "White" is described as "decent; honorable; auspicious; without malice."

A medical school at the University of Texas in Galveston conducted a controversial study primarily on black babies from 1956 to 1962. The researchers withheld an essential fatty acid from the babies' formulas that humans need for the growth of the whole body and nervous system. Those black babies were used as laboratory animals, and several of the infants died during the course of the study. Previously, this research had been done on dogs. This is just one of several unethical medical studies on African-Americans that has been documented.

Also, racism negatively has impacted African-Americans' health. Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a Harvard psychiatrist says, "Some research suggests that the high prevalence of hypertension among African-Americans, compared to whites, is related directly to the stresses associated with being a black person, living in a racist society."

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, an undisguised racist film, was recently rated by the American Film Institute as No. 44 of America's top 100 films. This movie depicted black people as subhuman creatures.

Gangs, such as the Ku Klux Klan, unite because of racial hatred. A gang will convince themselves that they are racially superior to "outside" groups, which must be harmed or eliminated.
Violence is prevalent in America. According to Gavin de Becker's research in his book The Gift of Fear,

"The energy of violence moves through our culture.... Our country's murderers rob us of almost a million years of human life every year.... In the past two years alone, more Americans died from gunshot wounds than were killed during the entire Vietnam War."

USA TODAY recently published a report from Pride, a nonprofit drug prevention program. Pride's survey shows that nearly one million school kids (grades six through 12) carried guns to school during the 1997-98 school year. Fifty-nine percent were white; 18% were black. More than half also used an illegal drug on a monthly basis.

Ennis William Cosby was shot and killed in a middle- to upper-middle-income, predominately white community. The misperception immortalized daily by the media and other entities is that crimes are committed in poor neighborhoods inhabited by dark people.

All African-Americans, regardless of their educational and economic accomplishments, have been and are at risk in America simply because of their skin colors. Sadly, my family and I experienced that to be one of America's racial truths.

Most people know that facing the truth brings about healing and growth. When is America going to face its historical and current racial realities so it can be what it says it is?

Camille O. Cosby is an educator and producer.
Usa Today July 8th 1998



Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)

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The information on this website has been put together for general information, education, reference, Spirituality Current Events, and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any specific condition. Ask your doctor for his professional advice before making radical changes in your diet and lifestyle.


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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Childhood Memories of O'l Jim Crow

     For over 90 years Jim Crow laws were in effect in the United States. The reconstruction period only lasted for a decade after the civil war. In 1966-67, I was 7 or 8 years old, Jim Crow laws were still in effect. I remember riding in the back of the bus, with my mom. We had to pay at the front of the bus, get off, run to the back entrance and re-board before the bus driver drove off. Mom liked to go shopping downtown but, we could only go to “certain stores” that would allow "Colored" people to shop. The clerks watched us like hawks and we could never try on the clothing or shoes. I remember having to squat in the bushes sometimes because "the colored" could not use public restrooms. They were designated for "whites only!" Many places did not even provide separate and unequal restrooms for Blacks.

I remember my Mom would always pack a nice boxed lunch of cold chicken, or Tuna Fish Salad with potato salad, or pimento cheese sandwiches with home backed cookies and fresh fruit and a thermos of milk, Iced Tea or Cool-Aid. So, when we passed by a Grill, Lunch counter or café, and smelled hamburgers or hotdogs and complained that we were hungry; Mom would tell us to wait. She would take us to a park and spread out a blanket. There we would have an outing together for lunch. Mom and Dad loved us and sheltered us from hate in as must as they could. They never explained Jim Crow laws to us. When we would see and asked if we could go swimming at the pool, or to a carnival, or an amusement park, they just didn't say anything.





The paradox of the move to Integration and Civil Rights over Human Rights and Indigo empowerment, was the Black Doll/ White Doll studies, actually enable Caucasians to feel comfortable to sleep in their beds, knowing that After 400 years of oppression, dehumanization and disenfranchisement, Melaninated people preferred and identified with Caucasian, and European Assimilation, more than their own African cultural identity!



  I contend that it was the complicity of Caucasian women- Mothers, Teachers, Nurses, Secretaries, Clerks, Cashiers, Bank Tellers,  waitresses, for example who refused to serve blacks at lunch counters. Then, they put their blonde, brunette, or red hair, along with their hock of spit, in our food when they finally had to give up Ol' Jim Crow...

So now we have the “right” to give away our money and our most talented people, to the prosperity of caucasian owned Corporations, businesses and society, and neglect our own lunch counters, dry cleaners, Manufacturing, Neighborhoods, banks and boutiques!

Desegregation and integration only opened a gateway to an even larger chorale of Mass incarceration and impoverishment. We were still red lined. We have learned that you cannot legislate against hate and hateful people. Instead of being isolated into a concentration camp we now must compliantly maneuver and dwell among the society that despises us. We buy from them, we practice their version of religion, we speak their language, we fight in their wars, we take our children to their schools, we eat their diet and buy food as from their grocers, we even build their empires from other conquered peoples.

Caucasian women, Teachers, Clerks, Nurses, Tellers, etc. and Middle class values of the suburban housewives who only hired Melaninated Mothers and Wives as maids, cooks, Baby Sitters and menial servants, to revisit the dehumanization of the old dirty south, Antebellum Plantations. Caucasians had the urgency then to put Indigo People in "a place" in their world that secured the safety of their illusions of race supremacy. Caucasian women supported Jim Crow Laws with their compliance, voice and vote! Hillary Clinton was around at this age. She must have witnessed the same shame and injustices; and reflected on the complicity of her parents and grand parents. While caucasian women enjoyed an elite, privileged "June Cleaver" life, aloof from that same racist system! It was white, women teachers who refused to teach the Ruby Bridges', all across the U.S. and marked down their IQ tests by 20 points. Worst of all, it was Caucasian women who lied and cried rape to provoke a defense of their honor, then to promote the lynching deaths and imprisonment of thousands of Black Men and boys. It was Caucasian women who sewed, mended, and cleaned the bloodstains from the KKKlan robes that their sons, daughters, husbands, brothers, fathers, uncles and Grandfathers wore! Even today, elite non-Black mothers go along with the racist status quo, and raise their children in private “Gated” communities, far away from public housing. As Black females, we had to maneuver around so many obstacles just to maintain our humanity, dignity and self respect. We must regather our families back together again as Eco-Gnomes and regrow inherited wealth. We must assess our human capital of Talents, Gifts, and Skills. Marriage is the merger of 2 families, not just 2 people. We Must have 3 or more Children- No more Abortions. Our elders and disabled should be incorporated as a necessity among our family, not as extensions. Grandparent should invest in their Grandchildren. ...

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