Posted on 06/24/2009 10:54:57 PM PDT by neverdem
Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.
Of course we do hear of those who have gone thru and are currently in the courts..but that is where they will remain until his term is completed. Time is not on our nations side before the damage this administration can do, and will be doing is done.
These are all the consequences of our nations people being willfully ignorant of who they vote for....and elitists within the pipeline who promote these losers...and I don't see that changing any time in the near future.
The 2012 election now gearing up does not present the favorable light, thus far, I have hoped to see. Even this election to rid those from office, though highly congratulatory, has not produced the end results hoped for , as they remain “stuck” as to how to use the power and authority they were charged with....or in fact reneged on what they've promised to do. Not enough of them united to push with the “brass in their pants” needed....to many remain stuck in the self-serving mode and advancement of their political careers.
Of course this does not mean we by any means give up...but thus far the tide remains to be seen which will move these people off the course they are taking..and allot can still be destroyed as they make their own rules and discard the Constitution of our country to accomplish their agenda.
Praying greatly our country will not be completely destroyed but the hand writing on the wall looks much like it's headed there....at most we can slow it down....for now.
thanks, I thought it might be a good idea to keep results of research in one place...feel free to add anything you think might be useful, and scroll through from #1 when you have the time.
The Obama '12 campaign is nothing but bunk. He wasn't talking about running (despite being in constant campaign mode 24/7) until people began to push the proof of eligibility more recently. He can't afford to not show some indication of having a second run or these remaining two years will be a big fat lame duck. It's all talk. Sure, he may get on the ticket and make all the primaries but somewhere, some time along the way he's going to step down. Now, whether he steps down quietly or he's hauled out in cuffs is anyone's guess.
I suspect Obama has known since last fall that the game is over. He told Michelle and she threw a fit. That’s when he took off his wedding ring and she took off with 40 of her closest friends to spend millions of taxpayers dollars on a vacation in Spain. Why else would she celebrate her husband’s birthday without him - she was angry that she’d only going to get 4 years in the White House.
Just because I don’t always post doesn’t mean I don’t always read. I read almost every thread Lucy pings me to. Sometimes, anything I might add just seems redundant, so I don’t say much. But I DO pay attention and honestly, whenever the subject comes up and I want to know something, I just automatically search for your posts and I am never disappointed. From wayback.
This time, I thought maybe you should know that I am not the only one who feels this way. You are a jewel. The research you have done is nothing short of magnificent. And I am not trying to flatter you. I mean every word and so does everyone else who posts on these threads. REALLY!
blushing...but many thanks, I appreciate the encouragement.
THANK YOU HARVARD LAW ARCHIVES!
Bo didn’t step up to the plate without expecting a second term right from the get go...and why he is always in the campagin mode. He has to be otherwise he’ll continue to loose credability with his supporters. Will he run...absolutely...for he will change the equation we see playing out now as his hope and change thingy is all about his adapting his stance and excusing his actions in such a way as to smell like a rose...and his followers will believe him...despite the facts.
Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, and Malcolm X shared the platform at Harlems Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1956, introduced there by mutual friend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. The relationship launched there endured until Malcolm Xs untimely death in 1965, two weeks before he was slated to speak at the Asian-African Islamic Conference in Jakarta.
He had also planned to attend the tenth anniversary celebration of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first large-scale Asian-African conference. Iandola explores this little-known relationship to illuminate their ideological affinities as well as the Cold War politics of the Third World.
Just getting caught up again on this thread..so great seeing the activity and articles of great significance posted. I suspect this will continue mesta...and needs be at this time as the ME continues it’s push.
COPYRIGHT IMAGE LINK, CHARLES MALIK, LEBANON, ATTENDEE
COPYRIGHT IMAGE LINK - SAUDI ARABIA DELEGATION.
COPYRIGHT IMAGE LINK, MUFTI OF JERUSALEM, BANDUNG CONFERENCE 1955 ATTENDEE.
...At the time of the first Bandung Conference, the North American left, in general, and the African American liberation movement, in particular, were under attack. Senator Joseph McCarthy was looking for a "red under every bed. Robeson, "the Tallest Tree in Our Forest," wanted to attend the Conference but couldn't because the U.S. government had taken his passport. Ditto for DuBois. However, several African American politicians and journalists found themselves in Indonesia from April 18-25, 1955. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Carl T. Rowan, Dr. Marguerite Cartwright, journalist Payne and Richard Wright all were there.
Quite a lineup. PLEASE NOTE: RICHARD WRIGHT. THE CHICAGO ASSOCIATE OF NONE OTHER THAN FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS.
The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference, was to that date the largest gathering of Asian and African nations. On April 18 to 24, 1955, twenty-nine representatives of nations from Africa and Asia came together in Bandung, Indonesia, to promote African and Asian economic coalitions and decolonization. The Conference expressly declared its opposition to both colonialism and neocolonialism not only by the European powers then in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, but also by the United States and the Soviet Union.
http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/Bandung_Conference_Map.jpg
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
The book is based on exhaustive research, including thousands of pages of FBI files [over 6000] and records from the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department. Marable also conducted interviews with the slain civil rights leader's confidants and security team, as well as witnesses to his assassination. Source
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"Marable concluded that only one of the three men convicted of killing Malcolm X was involved in the assassination.... The real assassination squad, he writes, had four other members, with connections to the rival Nation of Islams Newark mosque two of whom are still alive and have never been charged."
"Malcolm X himself contributed to many of the fictions, Mr. Marable argues, by exaggerating, glossing over or omitting important incidents in his life. These episodes include
a criminal career far more modest than he claimed [At a time when Malcolm X claimed in the autobiography to have devoted himself to increasingly violent crime in New York, he was actually in Lansing, Mich., his hometown.],
an early homosexual relationship with a white businessman,
his mothers confinement in a mental hospital for nearly 25 years and
secret meetings with leaders of groups as divergent as the Ku Klux Klan and the Palestine Liberation Organization. "
Historian claims Newark, N.J. activist Al-Mustafa Shabazz killed Malcom X Tuesday,
05 April 2011 13:28
BY ALICIA CRUZ
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
A familiar name has re-surfaced in connection with the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader, Malcolm X, re-igniting a 51 year-old dispute that one of Malcolm Xs killers the man who fired the first, fatal shot, is alive, free and remains unpunished.
According to the Star-Ledger, in his latest and last publication, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, noted historian and author, Manning Marable claims the man responsible for firing the fatal shotgun blasts that killed the revered activist is William Bradley, now known as, Al-Mustafa Shabazz, of Newark.
"Al-Mustafa Shabazz is a 72-year-old, white-haired Muslim who briefly appeared in a 2010 re-election video ad for Mayor Cory Booker and is married to a community leader who owns a boxing gym in Newark.
"As God, Allah, is my witness, theres no way my husband could have had a negative thought in his head about Malcolm X," said Carolyn Shabazz. "My husband is no more guilty about what happened with Malcolm than you or I."
Al-Mustafa Shabazz and his wife live in a brick house on quiet Vassar Avenue in Newarks South Ward. The elderly man was not at home Saturday. But when his wife was asked if his name was formerly William Bradley, she said, "Legally, his name is Al-Mustafa Shabazz."
West Ward Councilman Ron Rice:
"There has been a long belief in the underbrush, argued by some, disputed by others, that a number of Malcolm Xs alleged murderers came out of Number 25 the Newark mosque," Rice said. "But Ive never heard the rumor of Carolyns husband being associated."
Rice said the group had once fostered a reputation for militancy and had called for the death of Malcolm X. "The Newark mosque was seen as a radical mosque or extremist mosque. Thats always been alleged," he said. "
SOURCE
“Since Abdur-Rahman Muhammad accused Bradley last year of being “the man who fired the first and deadliest shot” at Malcolm X, not only Marable, - but others, including investigative journalist Karl Evanzz and documentary filmmaker Omar Shabazz, have named Bradley.
“Theres never been a question that William Bradley pulled the trigger. This information is well-established.
“According to state Department of Correction records, “William Bradley, aka Al-Mustafa Shabazz,” served time in prison for charges including threatening to kill three people. He was released in February 1998.”
Support for Barack Obama
Manning Marable claims that Barack Obama has read some of his books and "understands what socialism is."
Manning Marable, writing in the December 2008 issue of British Trotskyist journal Socialist Review[26], also claimed that Obama works with socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party.
Obama represents a generation of what might be called post-racial black politicians-by which I mean they espouse a politics that minimises matters of race. They do not like to talk about race and subsume it under the rubric of poverty and class. So they are generally left of centre, or liberal, on social and economic policy. Obama is a progressive liberal.
What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organiser. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years...
When Dr Marable voted for Barack Obama, he voted for him not as a Democrat, but on the New York Working Families Party (WFP) line. Manning Marable is a member of the WFP which is a direct descendant of the now defunct New Party.
Why vote for Obama on a Working Families ticket? You are counted independently of the Democrats and it shows there is a left constituency in the state of New York. It gives us some leverage on decision-making and policy and we run our own candidates at local level.
Marable, as a Marxist tactician, went on to explain that to win elections and promote his policies Obama has to be subtle. He must bring his opponents on board and be careful not to scare centrist voters.
Obama regularly sends text messages to millions of people. He just sent a message saying, "Don't go away, now I need you to help govern." There is a debate right now within the Obama campaign about whether to move fast or go more slowly. The argument is that there have been 10 elections for president between 1968 and 2004 and Republicans have won seven of them. Obama is looking at the history and so are progressives who worked with him or critically endorsed him, like myself.
Dr Marable then defined the role of the left under an Obama administration-to push Obama in a "progressive" direction, just as the communists and socialists like A. Philip Randolph pressured Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s.
My argument is simple. The left must force him to carry out the agenda he promised, and that includes a national healthcare system...That is the number-three priority. The main priority is ending the war in Iraq. The second is the economic crisis. We need a robust Keynesian approach to employment and investment in infrastructure - a lot of the bridges built by the works projects administration of Franklin D Roosevelt 75 years ago need to be rebuilt and the roads are crumbling. Most of us on the left have taken a position of critical support toward Obama. We have to press him to carry out his own agenda.
The analogy of FDR is appropriate. But someone has to play the role of A Philip Randolph, the black socialist leader who attacked FDR from the left and in 1941 forced him to sign an executive order outlawing racial discrimination in factories producing for the war effort that refused to hire black people. Randolph threatened to bring 100,000 black workers to surround the White House. Roosevelt capitulated and signed an order that was the foundation of affirmative action. We need a network that can do it. That is the challenge for socialists in the US...
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