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Re: A More Realstic View of Reagan.
By Khalf...@cs.com
'West stokes war to prove Blacks can't rule' by Maureen Isaacson
By Erzil...@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:18:03 EDT
From: Khalf...@cs.com
Subject: Re: [TheBlackList] A More Realstic View of Reagan.
Damu,
I read your posts, and as usual, they are good and on point.
I have read a littany of rejoinders and rebuttals on the fantasy and
phenomenon that have become Ronald Reagan at the time of his passing.
There is no
doubt that the facts and truth of his ascendancy have been watered down,
bleached, and sanitized to the extent that they are unrecognizable to
those with
enough age and political maturity to remember the horrors of his reign.
There is also no doubt that the current media blitz around his funeral
serves
political ends. First, it removes the bumbling "Baby Doc" Bush (and his
ever
expanding escapades) from the media limelight. Second, it further
ensconces
and fortifies the modern conservative movement in in the US, which started
as
"white backlash" to the civil rights movement of the middle 20th century.
Let me suggest that we not use TheBlacklist to "preach to the saved", but
to
solicit and publish an analysis of the Reagan phenomenon. By that I
suggest
we examine and make sense of the psycho-social, socio-economic, and
political
economy of Reagan's ascendancy. At this time the boomer generation -- the
flower children grown up, the liberal, post civil rights white boys &
girls --
flipped the script on non white people. We need to go deeper than just a
review
of the data on face value in this thing. We need deeper understanding so
that
we may better know our adversaries and how they re-energized (and
extended)
white hegemony at this time in history.
The poem published on TheBlacklist (God called all the birds away)
represents
a bizarre response to Reagan's death, if viewed from the center of the
Black
political thought; so, bizarre, it would not surprise me if it was not
written
or submitted by a Black person. As such, there remain members of
repressed
groups who are unable to resist the power and behavioral modification of
white
supremacy (remember Malcolm X's excellent allegory about the house negro
and
the field negro). We had then, and now, many Negroes who ask "we sick
massa?"
when a white boy sneezes. That is another topic for study and discussion
too
deep to begin at this time. In addition to studying and understanding
ourselves, I assert that we study and understand our adversaries.
In this spirit, I hope future posts on Reagan look at these elements.
Otherwise, let's move on to more substantive issues.
A luta continua,
K
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:14:10 EDT
From: Erzil...@aol.com
Subject: 'West stokes war to prove Blacks can't rule' by Maureen Isaacson
The Sunday Independent [South Africa]
http://www.sundayindependent.co.za
June 13, 2004
'West stokes war to prove blacks can't rule' By Maureen Isaacson
The United Nations is a failure, says Jean Baptiste Aristide, the
former Haitian president. And he is relieved that the United
States-backed Organisation of American States is investigating his
unlawful ousting.
Aristide fled Haiti on February 29 during a coup he insists "had the
blessing of the UN".
"For me the investigation means we are standing for truth and we are
still for the same truth."
Truth and lies are the two categories that cleave Aristide's world
and he would like to set the record straight against "the huge
international disinformation campaign" that paints him as a despotic
scoundrel.
Aristide says the campaign is funded by economic and political forces
who have paid $60-million (about R390-million) a year - last year it
was $76-million - to slur his good name and that of the world's first
country to be liberated from slavery.
Among the villains of this story are France, Haiti's old colonial
master, and the US, which, Aristide says, stoke violence to prove
that black people are incapable of self rule.
from us?" he asks.
"Is it because Haiti has so many economic possibilities that today
they want us to be militarised, destroyed?"
"They", says Aristide, are the intellectuals, academics and writers
and the world's great political and economic powers, "who spent 200
years hiding the truth regarding the first black independent country
in the world".
'Do not compare me with Duvalier!' No wonder they wanted to prevent
the bicentennial celebrations that Aristide enjoyed while still in
the hot seat in January this year, and which he says Mbeki was
"intelligent" enough to attend.
Aristide also wants me to know that as we speak hundreds and
thousands of non-violent protesters, their t-shirts bearing the
imprint of his face, are calling for his return. Many are being
killed for less.
His people still continue to die for their democratic vote, he says.
He reminds me of the slogan: "one human being, one vote... A bag of
rice when I left Haiti cost Haitian $150 today it is Haitian $500."
Aristide is a small man with a big personality and a unique story.
Twice deposed as president of his country, he has landed on our
shores as a guest with Mildred Trouillot, his wife, and their
daughters, Christine and Michaelle.
Our invitation followed a request by the Caribbean Community and the
African Union. Of course, he cannot say how long he is going to stay
and lay to rest the fears of some South Africans that President Thabo
Mbeki's new best friend is here for a free ride, forever.
After all, it is only a few days since he arrived at the guest house
in Waterkloof Ridge, outside Pretoria, with its searingly beautiful
view of a slice of "the mother continent".
"Coming back I feel those 15 000 slaves who were brought from Africa
to the Americas and the Caribbean return now through me". South
Africa is his "home from home". Aristide is a descendant of peasant
stock from Port-Salut, born July 15 1953.
"When I am here I feel that President Mbeki and his government, the
South African people are doing what our African forefathers did:
opening the doors. We are still sharing those same human values, not
that that means black and black, no, no, no, we are talking about
something which crosses colour and nationalities."
This is the transcendent language of a man forced to become a
professional exile and to carry his home within. His inner life is
rich. In one of his seven published books he wrote: "Je suis ce que
j'etais, pour =EAtre ce que je serai" (I am what I was in order to be
the one I will be).
Aristide speaks with a mellifluous French Creole accent. Ordained in
the Catholic church in 1983, he was expelled from the Salien order
for inciting class struggle and hatred and gave up the priesthood in
1995 when he founded the Famni Lavalas/FL party.
He still speaks the language of liberation theology and of love.
"Becoming a politician I do not say that I do not care about my God."
He compares the role of a head of state to that of a mother who loves
and educates her children. In 1990 after the first democratic
election, in which Aristide was elected president, there were only 34
secondary schools in Haiti. Now there are 138.
"Is this not love?" he says.
He insists that he has not relinquished his faith in Catholicism, nor
has he turned to voodoo, as people suspected when he issued a decree
last year legalising the practice of all religions in keeping with
his own constitution.
In Haiti Aristide has been hounded by Catholics who believed this
decree signalled his withdrawal from the faith. But his appearance
earlier this week at an Anglican church in Alexandra township -
another home from home - had no significance in this regard, he
insists.
"The best way I can show I am a good Catholic is to continue to give
my life for human beings." He agrees that voodoo is used as a clich=E9
of abuse by the West, a way of depicting the black man as inept,
weird, different and incapable of order.
It is equally untrue that Bill Clinton, the former US president, used
voodoo to gain votes in his election campaign, he says. A small
entourage, including Mildred Aristide and security people, who
gathered around Aristide during this interview, laugh.
But his concerns are serious. Solidarity means that people are not
isolated from each other - and this is not voodoo, he says, it is the
claim of every philosopher from Hegel to Kant.
He insists he does not follow any specific revolutionary theory, but
he does say: "One cannot just praise the market as if the market will
bring all the solutions. You need to promote human growth as well as
economic growth. Tomorrow we will be happier when less people suffer
from illiteracy and from Aids."
Aristide says he legalised all religions because freedom of worship
is as important to him as freedom of expression.
"If I love you I have to allow you to worship in the way that you
want to. I can say three times that I am proud of allowing the media
and the opposition to have their say. I am proud that I have achieved
this more than any of the leaders before me."
A reminder that in 1986 Aristide led a revolt against the bloody
regime of Baby Doc Duvalier is untimely. "Do not compare me with
Duvalier!" he warns.
A "disinformation campaign" marks Aristide's name in the reports of
organisations such as Amnesty International. But he flatly denies the
oppression and even murder of journalists during his time in power.
Jean Leopold Dominique, a radio journalist, whose murder in April
2000 remains unresolved, was "a brother".
Aristide was close to Dominique's widow, Michel Montas. He describes
an intriguing world of set-ups and gun shots by convicted thugs, a
world of maladministration of justice and chronic corruption.
He describes a climate of intense violence, where forces against his
own rule supply the Chimeres, a gang of Aristide-supporters, with
weapons to go to war with the opposition Cannibal army.
"They [the police] do not arrest the drug dealers who, as we talk,
are still in control in the streets of Port-au-Prince. Once you are
poor you do not have drug laws. You want the truth, so I am telling
you the truth."
Chimeres - from the French "chimerique" which means anger - is anyway
a racist label tagged onto anyone who is poor, says Aristide. It is
not true that the people who once trumpeted the rise of the "slum
priest" have turned against him, he says.
He has written about "poverty on the edge of globalisation" in a book
The Eyes of the Heart. Aristide sees Haiti as a victim of the big
guns who wield the big economic stick. In 1739 when the French
revolution took place Haiti sent France $218 million.
When it came to Haiti's revolution, France sent only $78-million.
Haiti at the time was producing 60 percent of the world's coffee.
"Still, France refused to acknowledge our independence," says Aristide.
Another story: "In 1825 Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer had to
pay 90 million francs, which is more than $21-billion, to France in
order to get France to recognise our independence. They never paid,
so we seek restitution.
"Although France said slavery is a crime against humanity, we have
not yet addressed the issue of liberation. We are not seeking
confrontation but consultation, which means respectful, dialogue.
That is why I am ready to be involved in a constructive dialogue with
the UN, with the US and France. The only way for them not to lose
face is to go back to the democratic model."
South Africans are not strangers to the burning tyre and the street
riot. It is 28 years since the June 16 Soweto riots sparked
turbulence across the country.
We have not forgotten that democracy is always at stake. In
Aristide's small, ill-fated country, where 85 percent of its 8,5
million are burdened with the rotten fruits of poverty, recent flash
floods and mud slides have brought more calamity. We know Haiti's
plight and the perils of HIV and malnutrition.
But the news from up north and the comparisons Aristide makes with
Iraqi violence and his particular situation force us beyond the
ordinary concerns of our own African renaissance. Aristide's visit
connects us to a broader stream.
********
Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership
******
"Men anpil chaj pa lou" =A0is Kreyol for - "Many hands make light a heavy
lo=
ad."
See, The Haitian Leadership Networks' =A07 "men anpil chaj pa
lou" campaigns to help restore Haiti's independence, the will of the
mass=20
electorate and the rule of law. See,=20
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/haitianlawyers.html ;
http://www=
.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaigns.html
and Haitiaction.net=20
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:04:10 -0700
From: Djehuti Sundaka <ahug...@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Borders folk may be descended from Africans
Borders folk may be descended from Africans
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/11/nswall11.xml
By David Derbyshire
(Filed: 11/06/2004)
Families who have lived in the English-Scottish Borders for generations
could be descended from African soldiers who patrolled Hadrian's Wall
nearly 2,000 years ago.
Archaeologists say there is compelling evidence that a 500-strong unit
of Moors manned a fort near Carlisle in the third century AD.
Richard Benjamin, an archaeologist at Liverpool University who has
studied the history of black Britons, believes many would have settled
and raised families.
"When you talk about Romans in Britain, most people think about blue
eyes and pale complexions," he said. "But the reality was very
different."
Writing in the journal British Archaeology, Mr Benjamin describes a
fourth century inscription discovered in Beaumount, two miles from the
remains of the Aballava fort at Burgh by Sands. The inscription refers
to the "numerus of Aurelian Moors" - a unit of North Africans, probably
named after the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
The unit is also mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum, a Roman list of
officials and dignitaries. It describes the prefect of the "numeri
Maurorum Aurelianorum, Aballaba".
The unit was probably mustered in the Roman province of Mauretania, in
modern-day Morocco, by the emperor Septimus Severus and arrived in
Britain in the second or third centuries AD. Aballava lay at the western
end of Hadrian's Wall in Cumbria.
Mr Benjamin suspects that the unit would have been blooded in battles in
Germany and the Danube where more inscriptions refer to a unit of Moors.
Their number is unknown, but the fort could have held up to 500 men.
"There was freedom of movement for civilians and those in administration
of the armed forces. Discharge certificates indicate that the veteran
soldiers settled in Britain," he said. "Soldiers would have had plenty
of money to spend in native settlements on the outskirts of the forts.
They would have sought entertainment in brothels. Many would probably
have wanted more permanent relationships."
Mr Benjamin is calling for a major study of black Roman Britons. He
believes that DNA tests of locals could reveal genetic links with
modern-day north Africans, while skeletons of Romans found in the area
might contain telltale clues to their childhood origins.
Buildings in the village may have been built from recycled Roman
materials. Some might be of African origin, he said.
The unit is likely to have been composed of Berbers from North Africa,
but may also have had darker-skinned soldiers from Nubia.
In 1989, archaeologists discovered a 1,900-year-old wooden sculpture of
a black African head in London carved in the first century.
Contemporary records also point to Africans living in Britain during the
Roman occupation. The emperor Septimus Severus is reported to have been
approached by a black African soldier while he crossed Hadrian's Wall on
his return from a battle in Scotland.
In South Shields, a Roman tombstone refers to a 20-year-old "Moor by
race, the freed slave of Numerians".
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:06:15 -0000
From: "alarkam2001" <ala...@webtv.net>
Subject: New generation of Americans tries truth and reconciliation toheal old racial wounds
--- In unio...@yahoogroups.com, alarkam@w... wrote:
Malik Al-Arkam spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and
thought you should see it.
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Note from Malik Al-Arkam:
WHITE AMERICA BELIEVES THAT SHE HAS SWEPT THE CORPSES OF MANY
MILLIONS OF MURDERED SLAVES AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS UNDER A GIGANTIC RUG WOVEN FROM NUMEROUS LIES AND
METICULOUSLY FASHIONED FOR CENTURIES. BOTH SENATOR KERRY AND JOHN
KERRY FIERCELY OPPOSE REPARATIONS FOR AFRO-DESCENDANTS WHILE
FIERCELY ADVOCATING MASSIVE REPARATIONS FOR WHITE ISRAEL. AS WHITE
AMERICA ACCELERATES THE EXTERMINATION OF THE AFRO-DESCENDANT MASSES,
AND ESPECIALLY OUR MOST VULNERABLE YOUTH, SHE IS DETERMINED TO PROVE
THAT SHE WILL NEVER TREAT US FAIRLY AND WILL NEVER LET US
GO...UNLESS FORCED TO DO SO BY A WELL-ORGANIZED LIBERATION MOVEMENT
WILLING TO STAND TALL INSIDE THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ARENA.
Sincerely,
Minister Malik Al-Arkam
www.AllForReparations.org
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To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited
site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk
New generation of Americans tries truth and reconciliation to heal
old racial wounds
Communities divided by crimes of 60s and 70s seek new ways to reckon
with the past
Gary Younge in New York
Monday June 14 2004
The Guardian
The past is never dead, wrote William Faulkner, the American south's
most famous literary son. "It's not even past." And so on Saturday
in Greensboro, North Carolina, a truth and reconciliation commission
started the painful process of revisiting a bloody episode in the
town's history in the hope that it can make more sense of the
present.
On November 3 1979 five Communist Worker party members were killed
and 10 other people wounded at a demonstration against the Ku Klux
Klan in Greensboro. Four television stations caught Klan and
American Nazi party members removing guns from the boots of their
cars but two trials, with all-white juries, ended in acquittals.
Now a body, modelled on post-apartheid South Africa's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, plans to examine the events, through
public testimony and documentation in order to reckon with the
town's past.
"A significant portion of the Greensboro community do not feel that
what's done is done," says Lisa Magarrell, of the International
Centre for Transitional Justice, which is the principal adviser to
the commission. "Some of the issues that were raised then remain
even today. It's not driven by a desire for retribution but to bring
people together."
But unlike the South African model, the process neither bears the
imprimatur of the authorities nor offers amnesty in return for the
full testimony of the perpetrators.
"It's going to have to rely on its moral credibility to get people
to cooperate with it," says Paul van Zyl, who served as the
executive secretary of South Africa's TRC and has general
responsibility for the ICTJ's work. "It can't just be a body which
is seen as dealing with black people's grievances. Despite their
best intentions that is a risk but it is one they are alive to in
Greensboro and have made steps to try and avoid."
But while some believe the process is vital to heal the community,
others believe it will simply reopen old wounds.
"I don't believe this event is on the lips and the minds of most of
us," Mayor Keith Holliday told the Charlotte Observer last year when
the process started. "Everybody felt horrible when it happened, but
we've put it behind us."
Greensboro, which also witnessed the most prominent lunch-counter
sit-in in 1960 when four black students ordered food from a "whites-
only" diner, is just one town among many in the south struggling to
come to terms with the ugly side of its history, as some seek
closure and justice, arguing that it is the only way to understand
the present and move on.
Last month the United States justice department reopened the case of
Emmett Till, the black teenager who was murdered in Mississippi in
1955, after documentary makers unearthed new witnesses who had not
testified at the original trial.
Fourteen-year-old Emmett, from Chicago, was abducted from his
uncle's home in the southern hamlet of Money in August 1955, after
accusations that he had wolf-whistled at a white woman, Carolyn
Bryant.
His body was pulled from the Tallahatchie river with a bullet in the
skull, an eye gouged out and his forehead crushed on one side. The
two white men accused of killing him were acquitted by an all-white
jury but one later confessed to a magazine.
"As a nation, we should never be afraid to acknowledge our mistakes -
however difficult - so that we can learn from them," argued a
senator, Charles Schumer, who lobbied for the case to be reopened.
"The truth, as they say, will set you free. It's no less true in the
case of Emmett Till from 50 years ago than it is today."
Meanwhile in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the small town where the
murder of three young civil rights workers in 1964 provided the
basis for the film Mississippi Burning, efforts to erect a memorial
in their honour have energised some and enervated others.
Last week a 20-stop bus tour remembering those who died that year
made its way from New York to the south.
"This is not a dead-end issue," said Ben Chaney, whose brother James
was murdered in Mississippi. "There is no statute of limitation on
murder."
Seven members of the Ku Klux Klan were convicted of federal civil
rights violations in the murders and sentenced to prison terms
ranging from three to 10 years. The state never brought murder
charges, and none of those convicted served more than six years.
Urging black people to register to vote and then to cast their
ballots was the best way to get his brother's case reopened, Mr
Chaney said, explaining: "It puts pressure on the prosecutor to
prosecute."
"People keep saying if you leave it, it will go away," says Leroy
Clemons, the leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP), which,
along with the editor of the local newspaper, is calling for the
case to be reopened. "But it's not going to go away. If anyone
should tell this story then it should be us. It's our story."
James Prince, the white editor of the local newspaper, the Neshoba
Democrat, who along with Mr Clemons is leading the campaign for a
memorial, is optimistic but says there are some people who will
never agree.
"Some of them will come around and some of them won't," he
says. "Some of them will die hard-hearted. It's still a struggle,
not just here but everywhere. But it's a struggle we're probably
better equipped to deal with precisely because of what happened
here."
The divide today is not just racial but generational.
"When I was growing up no one here talked about it all, black or
white," says Mr Clemons, who was two when James Chaney, Michael
Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were murdered while trying to register
black voters during the Mississippi freedom summer of 1964.
"It was like it never happened. But the younger generation
said, 'Let's deal with this thing and get some closure.'"
There have been some successes at bringing perpetrators to justice.
In 2002 Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted of the 1963 Birmingham,
Alabama, church bombing that killed four black girls. Ten years ago
Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in the 1963 murder of the
Mississippi NAACP leader, Medgar Evers.
But reckoning with the past also means addressing the present. Some
believe that dealing with the horrors of segregation will draw a
line under its legacy. "Race is not an issue now for younger
people," says Mr Prince. "Today if you're willing to work hard and
be honest then you're able to succeed."
Others fear these initiatives could be used to whitewash the issues
that still exist as a result of discrimination.
"Some people are using the progress that has been made to wipe out
any sense of the past as though they have conquered the past, but
the legacy continues on death row and the continuing economic
marginalisation of black people," says Charles Payne, professor of
history, African-American studies and sociology at Duke University
in North Carolina.
"The extent to which these initiatives can get people to think
critically about how privilege is shaped is the extent to which they
strike me as being real and useful."
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:26:22 -0700
From: Malaika Kambon <kamb...@pacbell.net>
Subject: Malcolm X at center of Nebraska controversy
NEW AFRIKAN MILLENNIUM
13 JUNE 2004
How interesting!
Brother Malcolm零 visage is on a postage stamp thus further enriching
the pockets of the U.S. Postal Service, yet according to the article below,
he is not considered worthy to be inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame
over a racist, sexist, U.S. Senator?
Sounds like Obusiness as usual�to me...
Forward
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:11:46 -0400
From: "F. Leon Wilson" <flwi...@INFINET.COM>
Malcolm X at center of Neb. controversy
By SCOTT BAUER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LINCOLN, Neb. -- It's not exactly Cooperstown. In fact, many members of
Nebraska's Hall of Fame - like auctioneer Arthur Weimar Thompson and
philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander - aren't even household names in
Nebraska.
But a major-league fight has erupted at the hall over efforts to induct
Malcolm X and a U.S. senator who made a name for himself removing
homosexuals from the federal government in the 1940s and early '50s.
The nomination of Sen. Kenneth Wherry, who died in 1951, "is very, very
bad thing and it speaks very poorly to Nebraska as a state," said Lin
Quenzer, a lesbian who works as ombudsman for the city of Lincoln.
Wherry's nomination is just one element of the Hall of Fame selection
process this year that has had more twists and turns than the corridors
of the state Capitol where the bronze busts of the honored are installed.
It started with the nomination of Malcolm X, who was born in Omaha but
left a few months later and spent the rest of his life elsewhere, in
such places as Detroit and New York. His eldest daughter, Attallah Shabazz,
traveled from Los Angeles to attend a meeting of the Hall of Fame
Commission.
"While you can take the man out of Nebraska, you can't take Nebraska
out of the man," she said, deflecting complaints about how little time
Malcolm X actually spent in the state.
Dan Wherry, the nephew of the senator, nominated his uncle, a follower
of Sen. Joseph McCarthy who represented Nebraska in Washington from 1943
until his death.
Dan Wherry (pronounced like "wary") argued that his uncle was the best
choice to enter the hall, given that he spent his entire life in
Nebraska and helped get the U.S. Strategic Air Command - the nation's global
nuclear strike force - to establish its headquarters near Omaha.
Nebraska History magazine, published by the Nebraska State Historical
Society, ran a cover story in its most recent issue titled
"'Homo-Hunting' in the Early Cold War: Senator Kenneth Wherry and the
Homophobic Side of McCarthyism." The article described the Republican
Wherry's role in removing homosexuals from the government at the height
of McCarthyism.
"That was a different time," Dan Wherry said this week. "We haven't
heard any of these objections for 53 years."
The Hall of Fame inducts just one person every five years. In April,
the seven-member commission, employing the secret balloting it has had
since the hall was created in 1961, voted 4-3 to induct Wherry over Malcolm
X.
All that seemed to be left was finding an artist to create the bust,
until the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper asked state Attorney General Jon
Bruning whether the secret vote was legal. Bruning said the secret vote
violated the Nebraska open meetings law, and nullified the action.
The commission set a new meeting for June 21 to vote again. But in a
surprise announcement this week, the commission put off the meeting
until next year. It turns out the commission was not supposed to meet at all
in 2004, because of the once-every-five-years rule contained in state law.
The last person inducted, Chief Red Cloud, was approved in 2000.
That leaves supporters of both Malcolm X and Wherry waiting months to
make their case again. It also opens the door for any of the five other
nominees to become the 24th member of the hall.
James Denney, 79, a retired reporter for the Omaha World-Herald and
chairman of the commission, said the next few months will be a good
cooling-off period for both sides. He said he hopes Wherry opponents
will take the time to learn more about the good things he did. Denney, who
knew Wherry, voted for him.
If selected, Malcolm X would become the first black member of the hall.
Three of its members are American Indian, but there are no other racial
or ethnic minorities represented.
Busts of the most famous members - like Buffalo Bill Cody and the
founder of Boys Town, Father Flanagan - line the center hallway leading to
the
rotunda of the Capitol. Other lesser-known names are tucked away in
less well-traveled corridors and do not get much attention.
"On occasion someone will come in and ask where the bust is for a
certain person," Capitol tour guide Roxanne Smith said, "but usually they
are
family members."
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:55:40 EDT
From: Justus...@aol.com
Subject: Re: [TheBlackList] Racism in Jamaica
Dear Beautiful Sisters and Brothers,
I know that you would agree that the old "if you white you all right,
if you yellow you mellow, if you brown stick around, but if you
BLACK git back" mindset is very tired. It is the same thing almost
everywhere the Europeans have stepped pale foot, so why should
neocolonial Jamaica be any different. Most informed people
understand that it all stems from white supremacy and fear of genetic
annihilation. Some darker skinned, reactionary afrikans even dislike
and stereotype their lighter skinned people, but they will defend and
make excuse for racism from European Americans. We need to
kill and bury our color-struckness and dare anyone from within or
without to set us against one another. We need to teach our babies,
from the womb, to celebate the rainbow that is us!
Love Ya,
Sis. Sayyida Myaat
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:13:29 EDT
From: Sno...@aol.com
Subject: Jynched - When Will We Ever Learn --- The Impact of Drugs onBlack Men --
HenderWorks introduces two new pieces for the family to enjoy:
Jynched - When Will We ever Learn. The impact of dealing drugs in the
black
community and how its impacting our black fathers. A concern for us
all
this father's day weekend.
_http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewshow.html?fl=1734527&alb=0_
(http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewshow.html?fl=1734527&alb=0)
Also check out this video of the Jahhah from Atlanta and this piece which
Justin produced. Sounds pretty old school but its hot!!! Check it out.
"You want more smoothed out stuff? Cuts like 'All I Need', 'Official' and
'Oooh' will definitely hit the spot for you. 'Official' in particular
stands
out with its clever use of old school horns and strings, and fantasically
floaty chorus. 'Oooh' meanwhile is the only track on the album where
Jahah hands
over the production reins to someone else. Here, his cousin J.Hen does
the
boardwork and the soulful soundscape he creates for Jahah shows why his
talents
have earned him production work on the new Lloyd Banks and 213 (Warren G,
Snoop, Nate Dogg) albums. Elsewhere on the album, the gospel-tinged piano
track
'Gone' is the closest thing you'll get to a ballad on the album. As Jahah
talks about a situation where love leaves a relationship, its hard to
fight the
feeling that, although he sounds and looks ;) nothing like the late Barry
White, this track and the way Jahah sings it, would perfectly compliment
the big
guy's style and persona."
_http://www.beezee70.com/player/videos.asp?progID=12&sp=300_
(http://www.beezee70.com/player/videos.asp?progID=12&sp=300)
Justin will be featured on the upcoming release of the Lloyd Banks CD.
Pray for him.
Snook 5
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