: We told you that it was going to get ugly. MediaTakeOut.com has learned that supporters of Pastor Thomas Weeks have launched their first attack video against Prophetess Juanita Bynum. The video, which is below, purports to show Juanita as an angry woman with a questionable commitment to the Bible.
Here it is, and decide for yourself:
scorpioaka, you are right, ive always heard that, the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. i think the two of them LOVE money more than they love one another. *** fools!! and they had the nerve to offer martial advice. this should teach folk a lesson, be bery bery careful from where you get your advice.
She really isn't saying anything different than other pentacostal preachers. Being born again does not mean that you lose all of your God given sense. Eventhough I find her doctrine a little sketchy at times, all she is really saying is that chrisitian women need to stop putting on that fake "woman of God" mess. Be real.
One last thing... who is the big white dude with the weave and powder blue suit?
I watch her for a long time then one day I was watching and she said to her members you need to send me more money my son and his pregnant wife need a new house and I was done with her and i also heard that the police have a witness that seen him keep trying to walk away from her and she kept going after him my grand momma always told me if you can't take a hit don't be poppin that ***
One thing that nobody can deny is that he beat her in public and threatened to kill her in front of witness. He also asked the people of the church to pay for his fees. What kind of mess is that? I don't care about the fall-out and all of these wanna-be's trying to get 2 seconds of fame. What I care about is that 'suspect' piece of a man getting what he deserves. JAIL TIME.... Then, he will have bigger things to worry about like not dropping the soap and whether he's going to convert to Islam....
I got to church every Sunday. I never understood why anyone would watch these 'church celebrities' and give them so much money to live high profile lives. After the 'building fund' is done, what percentage of the money goes for teeth reconstruction, teeth whitening, fake hair, clothes, mansions, new cars, bills, etc? I know the money is rolling in, so where does the money go? The tele-evangalist stuff was always suspicious to me. At least I can see where my money is going. Some of you can't say that. I'm sure none of is going to a real charity!
I think you all are forgetting that these are real people. According to Christianity, there was no perfect person that walked this earth but Jesus Christ. My take on it is this, Christian or not, pastor or parishoner, wrong is wrong. He had no business putting his hands on her. Period. Now, maybe she was beating on him all those years and he turned around and beat her up and so his claim would be self defense. He is *** than her. Either way, no body should be beating on anybody.
The video doesnt really seem likes she's an angry person. She's basically saying, ladies...christian women stop being pushovers. Because you're saved doesn't mean you have to be a doormat or accept just anything.
Any sane person can just look at this womans mannerisms and see shes masculine with masculine body language...An angry ***-*** *** is 8 inch heels...She has absolutely no feminine qualities whatsoever...But shes a clever talker and she appeals to bitter and angry women much like TD Jakes and there are many angry and bitter black women who wants to hear what she has to say because it gives them solace , just like they want to hear Mary J. Blige sing about being a victim because they are unhappy with their lives...
Theres a HUGE MARKEt IN CATERING TO the black womans excess money via books, televangelists, music and videos...Sisters , lonely, angry and bitter with money they dont know what to do with other than buying fake hair and nails.
To Sweethartl
My self being a PK, Preacher's Kid, I can break down how money should be allocated. And give you more insight into that. A lot of people dont see the church as a business. It has a non profit tax id number, it has to be incorporated, it has board members etc. Just as quickly as money comes in, it goes out. Remember, most pastors at that level only have one job...the ministry. They are no longer working 9-5. Now when you have a CEO at a coperation, they get paid top dollar to run that coperation. If anything goes wrong with it, IRS comes a looking for them. The money is allocated like this. First, if they decide to build and raise the money to build, it doesn't mean they own it out right. It means they needed to show that they have the money to secure a loan in order to gain funds to build a building. So, it would be a "down payment" on the actual cost of a building. Just like when you buy a house. 10% down? okay well on a 2 million dollar project, they may want more than 10% down. So figure out how long it takes to save that type of money while you're still paying rent or your mortgage note on your current property. Then you still have other bills. The envelopes that the church uses. The communion settings. The utility bills. The van for senior pick up. The after school activities that you offer for free that you may or may not be receiving a grant from. The insurance for your building, liability insurance etc. It get's quite expensive. And the larger the ministry, the more the cost. And all of those wonderful programs are administered by the pastor, the CEO. So the question is, would you expect for a CEO of a fortune 500 company to ride a GEO Prizm? Just food for thought.
This is piiful. Those that put together the tape. It was ALL taken out of context. That was a part of a seminar mentoring women on the front line to take control of the business/dreams/goals that GOD has given them. The seminar and conference was one of the best ones that she had. Empowerment, and moving forward no matter what happens. not everyone smiling in your face is for you. We all know that.
See it is a sad day when a man has to hide behind his feet and ***, and can't talk, or come down from his *** pulpit. She was and will always be MORE globally well known than he will. He needs prayer too, but he needs to step down, if those dummy's are trying to protect their pastor after all this then they are blind.
How could Weeks been set up? He was at the seminar too. Sitting on the front row. His ego couldn't take it. He has always wanted a platform, problem is he is dull, and pompous.
Second Juanita has no children so she couldn't have said that. Now she does have a lot of spiritual daughters and sons, but none naturally. We have to be careful in what we are saying. They both need prayer. He needs to get counseling and step down for a long time.
And Im definitely not voting for Obama as a black President because his mother is a white woman and hes not really black...
But I do give him kudos for marrying a brown skinned sister and I gotta give him props for that...
But other than that hes said nothing that would distinguish him in this campaign as being a black man..
I saw a debate when the candidates were asked about reparations for African slavery in America and the only candidate who said yes to reparations wassssssssssssssssss sss----->
KUCINICH<spelling)...
Obama did a break dance around that question and then when they finally demanded an answer he said no...
Hillary said no to reparations also...
So *** Obama cause he got a white mama and he cant represent me as a black man...And if you say well hes not running as a black man but as just a Candidate?
Well, my response is, if he isnt running as a black Candidate then I might as well vote for the best man for the job. LOL
WOW! First-MTO we don't know if this is from Bishop weeks camp. Second- I like Juanita B. but this video is sort of distrubing. Many people fell like this celebrity pastors are a joke. Third- I'll be praying for her. She needs to get her GHETTO Mentality. Shes saved and been set free from her past, Dont dwell on the things you use to do Junita, YOU BETTER THAN THAT!
Ok now heres what i think i think that if this had been like Beyonce or you know like Halle Berry or sumthin everybody would be like "You go girl" and "Thats what in talkin about" now im not saying shes right for this but it obviously shows that shes trying to be the "strong black women" or at least out up that front and be on the "same level" as a lot of the women who listen to her also i think it kinda shows like shes been through some of this be4. i also think that Pastor Weeks was NOT set up that doesnt even make any sense i think that he seen all this stuff and was like WTF ur supposed to put out a Godly image and your ruining my image by this got *** and beat her *** for it, if the beating had anything to do with whole video. Idk all i have to say is he beat her and a person cant be set up to beat someone they just do it cause they want to at least in his case thats the way it was no ifs ands or buts about it in conclusion he SHOULD go to JAIL
SEE!!!!!! I said it before, and that why I dont go to church!!! BIRDS OF A FEATHER WILL ALWAYS FLOCK TOGETHER. That man was dead wrong, and they will follow him all the way to the end... Thats ATL for you.. Personally I could never handle the southern church thing anyway.. But to each is own, if his congregation believes its okay for a man to hit a woman, then thats their opinion!!!
Honey, don't get these "religious" church folks started. Some of them can be so dishonest, mean-spirited and malicious. The word of God tells us to not be deceived. It also reminds us that God is not mocked. Oftentimes, those who engage in this type of behavior suffer serious consequences because of their actions. I know a woman who was married to a preacher. She was downright evil. He left her for a white woman after more than 25 years of marriage and five kids. Turns out the white woman was his high school sweetheart and he always wanted to marry her. The sister stayed in the church and insisted on sitting on the front pew after he divorced her. She spent the rest of her life sick and miserable. Now, he is plagued by illness, too.
Black Women like Juanita Bynum and the ones who support her are the DEVIL INCARNATE...You can tell her audience is a bunch of ugly azz black women who are disgusting and perverted...JUANITA BYNUM deserved the BEATDOWN FROM PASTOR WEEKS and she has plenty more coming her way if she doesn't quit PIMPING JESUS to a perverted Black Female congregation...
Juanita Bynum is a great speaker and motivator. I do not monetarily support her, but the snippets we saw here are true. We as women don't have to be pushovers. She has been through so much that she is going to speak real and from the heart. If you are going to preach to people, you must be real! I can't listen to someone who can't divulge some of their struggles and show how they have overcome. She is not the only woman in church with fake hair or nails. C'mon people??? Most women wear that daily. Is she supposed to look homely b/c she's a first lady??? Whateva! My first lady be FLYY and I love that about her. We don't pay their bills either. They work for a living. But, all in all Bishop Weeks needs to go to jail and his congregation need to not stand by his side for this like it was ok. He needs to step down for a while until he gets himself together. God only knows what will happen later on. He will have to answer for his actions like the rest of us. Now that's REAL!
It can't be an "attack" video if they are saying pray for the both of them. They are just showing you that Ms. Bynum isn't this helpless, weak & soft talking person that she appeared to be in that press release earlier this week. She is the type of woman who would challenge a man & has admitted to running up in this man's face before...I don't think it's right that he did her the way he did but I know she's not a timid, weak woman..She's got plenty of game, hustle, street smart & if he was abusing her..signs were there loooooooong before they said "I Do"..She's captalizing off of this because the media got a hold of it and I don't have any respect for her..They got up in front of others and professed that their marriage was of God but I don't believe it @ all. They have lots of connections if they needed help & this should be a private matter. They also know the Word..Surely if they can speak in to the life of others, they would know God's voice when He's speaking to them. She needs to sit down & be quiet & stop playing with God and His people & perhaps that's why Bishop Weeks is quiet b/c he may have figured that out by now..That he needs to sit down and get right..
"The new face of domestice violence" why does that phrase seem pomptious and self-righteous. I hope she heals herslef. She needs healing more than the women she is so anxious to help. When she heals herself she will stop choosing these losers as her spouse and then she can truly help someone through example.
@ Uncle_Tom
Why wold you come in here trying to start some foolishness today? Can you ever just stay on topic? No, huh? Your lucky I'm just bored enough to entertain you today. Do you know the history of Christianity? Do you know that the Doctrine of monotheism originated from African culture. Check out "Hymn To The Aton (sp?)" Get back @ me.
Ridiculous. Black women wouldnt be this angry if they had sense to make better choices in there men. There is no reason for her to be so hype..i cant believe those in her congregation cant see through her ***^t. She is in no way representing God.
She is a gold-digger fleecing the flock of her dumb *** congregation. Anybody who support this clown need a *** beating worst than what she recieved. What a fake, phoney, and fraud! She is nothing but a stage act. Its a guaranteed the most high of the universe is laughing at her..and how dare she embarrass his word the bible. She is gonna get something worst coming her way..if she keeps up the deception.
I agree@DC Baptist, catholic, and methodist are from white people who hated blacks! There is no unity..we are suppose to be ONE but you have your white church and you have your black church..some white methodist celebrate Halloween!!!
I have seen pumpkins and decorations all over some in white neighborhoods..but yet you have black methodist who dont..does that make any sense..i mean the titles Baptist, catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses, methodists, Seven day adventist are no where to be found in the Bible! People are really mislead and being taken advantage of.
As a Christian this makes me shake my head in shame. This work was not done by a true believer, that you can be sure. When the devil sees dissension he likes to cause confusion.
There are many on this site who claim "this is the reason" they don't go to church, let me just remind you that when you reach judgment day and God asks you how you have served him he wont want to hear that other people were the cause of you not doing your duty and trusting in Him.
Stop looking at others to justify your sin, there are devils anywhere in the church and in the club - don't let them stop your blessing.
@cat4everrr
trust to know that he wants to reconcile with her cash and not her. he is broke and need his bills paid. his supporters can but out all the cutup video clips they want, i bet you bottom dollar that when she(juanita) was in that church they were trying to kiss her behind.
he needs her to help pay for that church he is about to loose. his debt is huge and he never had money from the door.
HE WANTS TO RECONCILE WITH HER MONEY, PLEASE DON'T FALL FOR THAT MESS THAT HE LOVES HER. HE BEAT UP HIS FIRST WIFE AND SHE WAS SCARED TO SPEAK, HE LEFT THE SECOND WIFE FOR JUANITA.............I WOULDNT BE SURPRISED IF SHE CAME FORTH AND STATED THAT HE BEAT HER TO.
Hey DC
"She push'd sugar boys buttons that ***...so be it!" Ya know you're just perfectly right. I mean a REAL MAN like you don't have control over himself, others do. Kinda like the way you say the Christian religion controls black people. And by the way... those of us who know Real Men know that they don't they put their hands on women because they comprehend that men are physically much much stronger than women, and that beating a woman is no real challenge. But I know a REAL MAN like you might find that difficult to catch on to. But you can try to understand. Maybe. Well, everybody can't understand everything.
And another thing: When you are quoting scriptures from any holy book such as, "What's that verse in the "GOOD BOOK"......SPARE THE ROD" go back and study the culture and the meaning of that particular phrase to the people in that time period. Then perhaps you will have a better understanding of what it actually means. Just trying to help a brother out!
Laveo
@IAMBLOWNAWAY
I really dont care ones Natural divinity or if it is enacted by a European...
In other words if a black person (Juanita or TD Jakes) kicks me in the *** or if Billy Ghrahm kicks me in the ***...My *** os still kicked and cant discern the race of the person wearing the boot...
I never met nobdy named Aton and I havent even met Akon...All I know is me and my religion is "THE BREATH" ;)
Unk this is your Auntie Laveo. I have some issues with some of those statements. First: "And Im definitely not voting for Obama as a black President because his mother is a white woman and hes not really black..." Let me tell me something straight up serious. Since I'm your Auntie, you know I'm black. {I can't help but wonder if you really are) But let's just go with that. My husband is white. Our son is a golden brown. When he's pulled over by the police in Tennessee, or anywhere else in this country, I can assure you, MY BABY IS BLACK! However, I do understand your not supporting him because of his stance on certain issue such as reparations.
Laveo
@laveo,
In America race is a political component...
Like the "one drop" rule enacted to maintain the purity of the Caucasoid race and to water down the purity of the black race...Its merely a politcal tool to maintain white genetic survival.
Thats why its politically expedient for your son in this racist culture to claim he is black eventhough he has a caucasoid parent also....
Your son is biracial...For him to be politically forced to claim he is black even though his father is white is not only factually incorrect but genetically incorrect and disrespectful to his white father who I assume loves him as much as you do....
The boy is biracial, but living in an ignorant society, hes forced to den a parent because of someone elses ignorance....
Obama got a white mama...Let him represent white people for a *** change...Why do all biracial people get placed as black instead of white automatically?
I'd vote for Kucinich before I'd vote for Obama, because Kucinich is for reparations and Obama is against it...So *** him..
This vidoe was made, cut and patched to show only what the maker wanted to show. This was the show she did after her news conference. What the hell is wrong with uplifting women? That's a whole lotta *** to me. GO JUANITA GO! Me been knocking womens *** off for centuries. Women are fed up and need to make a stand. I wish they showed the full version of the sermon.
To Uncle Tom,
Are you white or black? I always seem to see you on this site with some stupid *** to say about whatever topic is hot. I suspect, a) you are a young *** black man, b)a white man. I suggest A. Somethings you say I question why it's even an issue to you, and you feel so deeply about some things. Just wondering. I see you have arguments all day, everyday with people. Not that you are special in any way. Just wondering why is it so important for you to have something negative to say about everthing especially women. My first aspect: HATER. So I'm asking you. What's your beef?
Juanita Bynum is a *** man in a dress...
She calls her self a "*** dog", but we all know she means "*** ***"
And I dont care what anyone says...I have eyes...This woman is a ***...
And only a bisexual or a *** man would marry a "*** ***"...So that means Meeks is a ***...
A straight man may marry a lipstick *** but never a *** ***...
Uncle Tom,
I think you make a legitmate statement when you say that race is politics in America. I was responding to your comment that you would not vote for Obama because he is not black. It seems to me that you are using our own politics to usurp his choice to choose his own identity. If he identifies himself as black then I accept him as black. As you said, my son is biracial and he idenifies himself as biracial. Black is more than political. I think that it is an acknowledged connection to the culture of the African Diaspora.
I realize that there are no such things and black and white people. I am forced to used these descriptive words because of european colonization and domination. It is political. We are actually genetically tied to the culture and world location of our ancestors. In this country because of slavery and intermarriage among european immigrants and native americans, not many can claim to be of one blood. But science has traced all human DNA to Africa.
I'm voting for Richardson because I think he is the most qualified though I don't agree with him on all the issues.
Laveo
@laveo
I would vote for Obama is he were black and supported issues that black people were specifically concerned with...
Since he claims to be black , yet has neutral politics, I consider him just another generic talking head with nothing to say...
If he was Chinese , yet supported reparations and bringing manufacturing jobs back to America and sending illegal immigrants back to their countries as well as cleaning up the public education system, I would vote for the Chinese guy...
But Obama says hes black with his tongue but his actions says hes just another cookie cutter [EXPLETIVE]....
Let Oprah and her *** contingent support him.
DC Look, you need to understand that you have a right to defend yourself against anyone, but not to put your foot up your woman's behind. I am stepping up to you. And I am telling you that if you beat on a woman, you are a coward. My husband can hold me down with one arm. Straight up, you need to get your head together on this. You don't want your daughters treated the way you are representing. Now get real. If someone put there foot up one of your children, you would be in a rage.
As for sleeping with the enemy, I guess you are entitled to your opinion. But here's some food for thought... not all white people like being forced into that category. They want to choose their own identity and neither black nor white fits.
Laveo
To those whove said harsh things about Juanita Bynum...Shame on you. She is an awesome motivational speaker..Just because she is able to deliver The Word to masses does not make her God...As for the lame uncle tom...WTF....Stop all the hate and please read and meditate on the book" The ISIS PAPER"....Thank you and have a great day...
What a *** minute! He beat her up, right? If she said all of this 11 days before his attack on her, why didn't she take her own advice.
I would have stomped him 8 feet under.
Bottom line, he's a woman beater! There's no excuse for a man like that.
Now his supporters wanna throw stones. They better watch out, he'll get angry and do the same to one of them.
You can't keep a good woman down.
This video is ridiculous and Weeks has very little supporters left and ministry organizations are calling for him to be suspended...Oh yes, and boyfriend is looking at 27 years in prison. I don't give a shid what his downlow lover puts together in a videoclip against Juanita, he still a woman beater and ripped his church off in financial funds...he is a lowlife ***, that will get his very soon as far Juanita she will continue her ministry and be the woman God expects her to be and become even more sucessful.
ANd BTW I don't give a *** if Oprah is a *** or not, she controls her money and her ***. And there ain't one *** on this planet richer than she is...I know that *** with some of you men, here talkin' *** about sucessful Black women who are only getting richer and don't know you exist. And by BTW you'll be happy to know the two *** will be joining together (along other power players) helpin Obama win the nomination as Oprah's 64 million dollar estate Two *** (meaning Juanita Bynum and Oprah) LOOOL!!!!
And all you angry unemployed brothas on this site talkin' about Weeks should have beat her up, just because she has the money and power in the relationship. I hope this is blogger bs, Black men are lined up in prison like human chattel whether they commited the crimes or not. Society seems to love to lock you up, I would hate to see one of you good brotha's locked up for some stupid actions in protection of your so-called manhood.
I had never seen Ms. Bynum speak before. She is very impressive, and she was speaking the truth. It's too bad that strong women are feared by some people. They think if they call us *** we'll back down. Straight, lesibian or bi, we all deserve to be respected and treated with dignity. She reminds me of this woman I used to work for. She was a strong assertive woman. Nobody messed with her. I remember one time there was a group of us out for dinner and this man started to come over to the table to talk to us. She didn't say a word, she just gave him a look that told him to keep steppin and he did. I was shocked when I found out that her husband was beating her and had been for years. I couldn't imagine any man having the nerve to even think about putting a hand on her and from what I hear she's still with him. She was divorced before and didn't want the second marriage to fail. So she stayed with him. She endured some severe beatings from this man. Everything on the outside looked so good. They had a beautiful home and children, well paying jobs. I think in Ms. Bynum's case it must have been going on for a while. I just hope she gets away and stays away from him.
Laveo
WOMEN are NOT SUPPOSE TO BE IN the PULPIT...IT EVEN SAYS SO IN THE BIBLE...AND TO ALL YOU FAKE AZZ CHRISTIAN BLACK WOMEN WHO DON'T EVEN READ THE BIBLE...JUST FOCUS ON A FEW SCRIPTURES THAT DON't CALL OUT THIER HYPOCRICY---NEED HELP...IN FIRST TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2 IT CLEARLY STATES"I also WANt the WOMen to BE MODEST" ANd that WOMEN should"LEARn IN SILENCE and all HUMILITY" AND "I do not ALLOW THEM TO TEACH or TO HAve Authority OVER MEN"
BLACK WOMEN WHO SUPPORT JUANITA BYNUM ARE LIKE BRUTE MAMMIES...ANGRY THAT NO MAN LOVES THEM...
I'll tell you this... Black women are getting angrier and angrier and they are getting more masculine and manly...
Im working in Mississippi on assignment and there are so many single sisters who are lonely and bitter it tears your heart out...And Im just one man...I cant help everybody...I try to tell some of them that I have a woman and it doesnt seem to make any difference...They just want some attention, some ***, really some attention and they expect me to stop in the middle of my work and personally acknowledge all of them individually and I just dont have the time...I'd never get any work done...Then when Im on break I have to try to soothe hurt feelings that I didnt even realize that were hurt because Im focusing on my job like I was supposed to do...
The South is something else...They take socializing on the job more important than getting work done...Then I looked it up on the internet and found out that Mississippi was actually 51st in the country in education and there are only 50 states(they count DC)...
Brothers , if you are looking for a sister you need to come down to Mississippi and get you one...Now Im warning you you are not going to find a "non-obese" sisters without 4 children and/or 4 boyfriends because a non-obese sister down here is like an alien from another planet..
By the time they get to be 16 or 17 70% of them are already morbidly obese ....Its an EPIDEMIC...
jUST Wanted to share a little of the travels of an Uncle Tom.
First of all if we would study the word for ourselves we would know whats up. We need to stop judging people and remb. we all have a flesh and noone is perfect. I need to address Ms.Bynum: I know in life we go thru things and sometime those things that we go thru affect us in differnt ways. But, Ms. Bynum your first husband use to abuse you; what are you doing for these men to go off on you? Ladies when we keep attracting the same kind of men (saved or not saved) it is something that we need change with in ourselves. Remember: U attract who u r
DC, I don't see racial issues in binary form. It's hard for me to put people in a category of good or evil. You're right about what europeans have done to the earth. Whole cultures, histories, languages, philosophies, peoples and technologies have been lost due to colonialism and european imperialism. Have you read Malcolm X's writings on his reactions to light skinned muslims after he came back from Mecca? Have you ever read Michelle Cliff's Free Enterprise? It's fiction but it gives a more accurate account of the raid on Harper Ferry's than what is taught in schools. History in school! Ha what a joke! John Brown supposedly led the raid but it truth the raid was planned and financed by free blacks, slaves, and whites which included John Brown. However, it's known as John Brown's raid.
There is a fight going on in english literature. Harold Bloom of Yale holds up British literature as the standard and superior, correct way of writing and speaking. Black, Caribbean, African, and Irish writers are challenging these standards, trying to meld enlish into something they can work with. After all this is not our language, but it's not going to be British english anymore either. I am a black woman. I have to deal with people every day who do not see me as fully human.
Laveo
@Laveo
when you live your life reacting and jumping through hopps based upon HOW SOMEONE ELSE SEES YOU, then you never really have time to find YOURSELF...You are living within the confines and restraints of someone elses set of criterior instead of blazing your own trails...
That automatically makes you apart of someone elses MATRIX and you never have time to design your own and become Master of your own domain.
@DCcallthetime..I'm from Texas and there are some women around here who sight unseen would beat the snot out of you. Don't even think about a one lick knockout. We are on to that move and will avoid it. We were taught as children (male/female) to not stand there and let someone beat on you, make it a fight. You win some, lose some. If you are losing then duck, run or scream real LOUD.
I'M SO GALD THAT NONE OF YOU ARE JESUS, IF SO WE'D ALL BE DAMNED TO HELL. 1ST OF ALL BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT COME OUT OF YOUR FACE ABOUT THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE NEITHER 1 OF YOU HAVE A HEAVEN OR HELL 2 PUT THEM IN. 2ND AS FAR AS THAT VIDEO THAT WEEKS SUPPORTERS WAISTED THEIR TIME PUTTING TOGETHER, ONLY TOOK BITS & PIECES OF A VERY HELPFUL & MOTIVATING CONFERENCE & TOOK EVERYTHING OUT OF PROPORTIONL, PEOPLE ARE SP JUDGEMENTAL & IT'S ONLY BECAUSE YOU OHAVE ISSUES ON YOUR OWN LIFE THAT YOU DON'T KNOW HOW 2 DEAL WITH & YOU UNHAPPY & YOU WANT EVERYBODY ELSE TO BE UNHAPPY WITH YOU. BUT I'LL SAY THAT I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO JUANITA BYNUM FOR YRS WAY BEFORE SHE GOT ALL THE FAME & SHE IS THE MOST GIVING PERSON I KNOW, SHE GIVE AWAY CARS, & DIAMONDS & MOST TIMES IT'S BRAND NEW STUFF. (SHE USED TO COME TO MY CHURCH ALL THE TIME). 3RD THERES NOTHING *** ABOUT JUANITA & SHE VERY ATTRACTIVE. THE REAL ISSUE IS HER HUSBAND BEAT HER & REGARDLESS OF THAT FACT THAT HE TRIED TO WALK AWAY...THAT STILL DOES NOT WARRANT GETTING BEAT UP (IT'S CALL SELF CONTROL & LOVE THIS IS WHEN THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE STEPS IN & YOU LOVE THAT PERSON INSPITE OF EVERYTHING). 4TH PEOPLE ALWAYS MISTAKEN CONFIDENCE AS ARROGANCE & VANITY, I COMMEND HER FOR ACTING LIKE A LADY THROUGH IT ALL; & WEEKS PEOPLE ARE SOME LOW DOWN DIRTY BISCUIT EATERS FOR THAT ***, I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO WASTE MY TIME COMMENTING ON HIM & HIS ACTIONS BECAUSE WE'RE ALL HUMAN, & ALL SINS ARE WEIGHED THE SAME i JUST THING HE NEED TO ACCEPT HIS FATE & STOP TRYING SAVE FACE & KEEP IT MOVING. i WOULD HAVE HAD A LITTLE MORE RESPECT FOR HIM HAD CAME OUT & ADMITTED HIS CRIME (BECAUSE AFTER ALL WE HAD EVIDENCE) THEN SAID "AS A TRUE MAN OF GOD I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & HUMBLY APOLOGIZE TO MY WIFE FOR ALL THE PHYSICAL , EMOTIONAL & MENTAL PAIN I'VE PUT HER THOUGH" MOST TIMES JUST KEEPING IT REAL, KEEPS THINGS SIMPLE & A LITTLE SWEET.
@Notolerance4bs. You said he should have had self control. Well what about her running in behind him. If someone runs up behind me like that while we into it I would have decked them too. She wasn't out of the media eye because she was being dignified. She was ashamed her game was exposed. All her homeys better look out. God has his list made and someone is up next.
Even if everything they're saying his true he still should have laid a hand on her. The witness said he had to pry Weeks off of her.
I don't even really like Bynum I think the "prophet" stuff is a load of donky dook. All the talk of "getting money" is a scam and her husband would be party to it. He's also the same man who asked another man during a *church meeting* which part of his wifes body does he love the most. That's kind of off to me. They're both hot messes but he's worse for beating the *** out of her.
How come everytime a woman is sucessful she's trying to be a man? Your argument makes no sense to me DCallthetime...I'm very fortunate to have a college educated black man (a rare specimen indeed)that also is employed (who has no problem with my sucess, he doesn't feel emasculated by it maybe that's because he actually has a job...I too have an MBA and make very good money so by your standards I'm probably *** or bi..lol! Please spare me that ridiculous sentiment that sista's are the reason brotha's being locked up...Black men are mainly incarcerated for killing each other (which they do like water running from a faucet), how come you don't adress that? How come you don't adress that they don't stay in the home or have a high umeployment rate in comparison with other ethnic men (such as hispanic men), why don't you address that? We won't go into college statistics...No but you and "Uncle Tom" spend time dissing sucessful sitsers because they want to be men, if men would step up and provide they wouldn't have to take on the manly role. Do you know your daddy? It's a shame when black women have to raise our children with little to no help...That's the bigger problem than Oprah or Juanita or Condi or those sucessful siters you can't stand. Everything is targeted to black women when selling to the black community I don't care if it's a chritian conference or latest book published because collectively we have more income. Now there are sucessful brothers out there doing well for themselves (including my man), but won't mentor other black men the way they should. For example why hasn't Bob Johnson the other black billionaire not opened a shcool for boys the way Oprah has for girls? She (the lezbo) is one of the largest contributers to Morehouse (you know the college for the brotha's). But she get's no love, why cause She got more money than all of them, make no sense.
I usually only post with jokes and silly stuff but not this time.
First of all I believe that Jesus Christ is my lord and savior I'm not a perfect Christian. I like everyone else is continuing to grow as a Christian.
We someone chops up a message like that its easy to deceive people and make it seem like the message is something that it is not.
Our Black women are very strong and aggressive. They have had to become that because we as black men haven't stepped up the way we should. Blaming white people or any other people will not get us out of the situation. We have to forgive, move forward, Pray, and raise all our kids to believe, and read the bible and not just settle but take what is rightfully ours.
Ladies be strong dont settle but please dont loose your femininity. Dont be so strong that you have to act like a man, and dont be so numb that you can just be some toy that some man can use you as an *** box, not even kiss you. Your more than that
God Bless
And Bluboy you sound like the idiot you are, when Jesus rose from the dead he told a woman to spread the word that he risen from the grave with all power in his hands...It was women who wept for Jesus and washed his feet it was men who crucified him...Blueboy blue *** its all the same isn't. Women will continue to support Juanita Bynum, and that man will be in a difffrent kind of hevean when he bends down and reached for the soap in prisone walls! lol!
@REALUTOPIA
wow, I want you to analyzye what you have just told this forum...
Your total idea of success is based upon the degree in which one is able to consume goods and services...This is exactly why African Americans have been in a state of seige and sufferage the last 40 years or so when the head of household and bread winning role has been taken out of the hands of the black man and placed in the hands of his woman....
The white man knows and understands the energy of the woman is to use currency(energy)to make herself and her immediate environment more physically appealing...WOMEN DONT USE THEIR EXCESS CURRENCY(ENERGY) TO BUILD INSTITUTIONS THAT WOULD EMPOWER HER COMMUNITY...
Women use their money not to strengthen the family and the community but to buy hairdoos, nails, gaudy name brand pocketbooks and excessive shoes...This is why since 1966 the black family has steadily declined and the black children have literally run amok with no one to raise them except television...
Everything is out of balance....Women on their jobs get a few weeks pregnancy leave and she has to rush back to a job, leaving her baby un-nurtured and to strangers to raise...
The first 5 years of a childs life is meant for a mother and her child to bond..Actually the first 7 years and from that point in a boys case, then the father is supposed to take over and begin manhood training...In the girls case at 7 the mother is meant to train the daughter to cook and rear her own children.....
This natural cycle is off and you can look at the children in the malls, on the streets etc. and see they are unloved and they are wild...They have been raised by the state(day care plantations), and a parent has to work a job to be able to pay someone else to rear their child and put gas in the car to get to work instead of just saving the time and money spent on day care and raising your own *** child..
I'll stop here for now... But the State of the Black Community and the Black Children IS IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY and no one is saying it.
I want to share a story of a converstation of an elder sister I have met and befriended in my workplace in Mississippi...Shes about 60 years old...Sweetest woman you'd ever hope to meet...
She speaks often about the early days in her lifetime in Jackson when black people were not allowed too shop at the white stores ,,,,And if they were allowed to shop they were not allowed to try on the clothes...They'd have to buy the clothes site unseen and couldnt return them...
To her that was the most racist thing she could imagine...Not being able to spend her and her families money at white owned stores or stores she considered to have the best goods...I am talking about the middle 60's during the civil rights movement in Jackson, Ms.
Me, being me, I kinda subtley asked her about black owned stores during that time...I asked her well didnt that mean that there were black clothing stores, black restaurants, hotels, home builders, carpenters, plumbers, schools, etc that she had to go to and shop at?
She relpied, yes, of course, but her and her family wanted "THE RIGHT" to give her money to the white stores so she can buy the best!
She didnt even realize what she was saying as I hoped she would pick it up(the white mans ice...) but she didnt.
My point is for this woman, "SUCCESS" to her was being able to shop at JC Penny or the national shoe store chain..
To her that was SUCCESS....Not to build up the existing black businesses and use that as a base to build institutions...Men build institutions and when the currency(energy) is out of our hands, the communtity suffers...And the white man knows this full well, knowing the nature of the woman...
"Your total idea of success is based upon the degree in which one is able to consume goods and services"
Wrong. If you re-read my whole post instead of looking at selective passages...I address everything from personal success (as DC has said sucessful women want to be men or emasculate men, I can assure you that's not true for myself or the black man sleeping next to me) to real social issues of Black men killing each other, to the lack of mentoring for brothas by more sucessful brothas etc...That story you told I understand your point, let me counter that with another story. My late grandfather who just passed was born in 1913 said to me while I was growing up that there are two things that define a man 1) how well he provides for his family and 2) how well he protects it. That man sat at the head of the table was the noblest man I've ever known. There was such a respect that after he passed and left me his home, I could not bring myself to sit in his place, even after he'd gone because I had so much respect for him and how he lived his life and how he took care of his family. I eventually sold the house, you are a smart man you get my point? He neither had a fancy degree (he had to quit high school and work) nor was he rich but when he died he didn't owe a dime to anyone and owned his own property. I tell you this story becuase if anybody has the rgiht to talk about injustices in this world, it's a black man born in 1913. He never used the white man as an execuse and neither should you with the oportunities you have in front of you. Black man need to as Judge Mathis says, "Man Up" and take responsibilty for their own actions (or lack therof). I'm not a fool, racism is alive and well, but trust the higher on the latter the worse the sting. White people don't think we belong anywhere except on the bottom of the well. But I'm not going to appologize for working my *** off and moving up and out of the bottom dwelling. Black womem are not the enemy, nor are they lined up with the oppressor to destroy black men...the hostility towards women of color, particularly sucessful one makes no sense to me in light of real social issues (some of which you mentioned in your posts)that no one seems to have the courage to address.
@real7utpoia
I agree with your post 1000%! You are preachng to the choir...Black men do need to MAN UP...yOUR grandfather is absolutely correct when he says that the role of man is to provide and protect the woman and when a woman is protected and provided for she can invest the time and energy in properly rearing the children.
What most black women fail to recognize and realize that the black man globally is at war.. A war that he did not declare, but a war we must fight...Its an economic war...Its a war also to save his family and his children from the clutches of those who wish to see us seperated and fighting amongst one another...This is planned out..
We were militarily defeated and taken to this land as defeated men...Thats a fact...People may seek to downplay itby saying Africans willingly sold other Africans and some did, thats true..At the same time realize it doesnt matter what the color of ones kidnapper is...The fact that they had to put us in chains and had to murder and mutilate us to get us on those boats and to keep us on those boats shows that we were indeed, NOT SLAVES(SLAVS) but were indeed kidnapped against our will...Slave is a word taken from the word "slav" or slavic or the Eastern European tribes who willingly gave themselves over as slaves in order to fend off starvation...Huge difference bewteen someone who agrees to be someones "SLAV" and one who is forcibly kidnapped...And in fact there were over 200 *** wars fought by Africans against the European invaders...Over 200 wars!...Most Africans were busy fighting Europeans invaders, not working with them...But the gun, won...
Just had to get that out of the way...
Now where was I? Oh yea, manning up today...The white oppressor uses the vanity of the woman and money to break up our families...The black family is broken up and the children are ELECTRONIC ORPHANS...Raised by electronic media as the daddy, while momma is out getting her weave done and daddy is incarcerated for trying to sell narcotics to provide for his family...
So does the black woman use her economic power to keep the family together? Nope...They use their power to buy shoes,and weaves and nails...Does the black woman work with a black man who because of this economic war against the black man mate with a black man who makes less money than she?
To most women thats an utterly ridiculous idea, to have herself make $150,000 a year and to marry a black man who may make $35,000....She'll never do that even though some pretend they would...But a black man who made $150,000 would mate with a sister making $30,000 if he liked or loved her.,
Most black women pretend they cant see the war and they pretend that the war doesnt effect the children and they are blinded by VANITY and consummerism.
The problem is many women have fallen victim to thinking you have to have the Lexus to live instead of the Toyota...That you must have the excessive 4000 sq. foot house instead of the 1700 sq. ft. house...
That if she cant spend $500 a month getting artificial hair dones, then she isnt properly provided for..
But I TELL YOU THIS....People are going to start waking up to realize what is truly important...
Food, clothing and affordable ***...Grwoing your own food...Building your own house...Making your own clothes...Alternative energy like solar and wind power...Home schooling...Learning to make shoes as well as using your computers to work from home and have your own hoe based business using technology to empower instead of porn and gossip.
These adjustable rate mortgages and these McMansion foreclosures are causing people to wake up...Katrina helped people wake up for a minute but they went back to sleep...People put the alarm back on snooze...
WELL, was that suppossed to make me hate her or beleive otherwise than she got her *** beat down by the man who vowed in fron of God to protect, love and cherish her? I'm just wondering...cause what she's doing in that video is what we call MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING and the people there obviously needed it. Whatever she did or said to that lil *** ass wife beater did not warrant her being touched by him. I hope she divorces him seriously. There is no forgiveness for that!
@ DCallthetime ----
shucks, last comment to you. part of my role is contracting with diabled millitary vets. you sir, are no where near on par with those fine gentlemen. so please don't do name dropping with the millitary. i've come across people like you with a pinch of being to full of themselves topped with a dash of old school thinking, totally lacking any humility. know what? they get dismissed. the same goes for you sir, you are a waste of my time and there is nothing more erksome than a person wasting my time.
You all are foolish to believe this video. Its giving you bits and pieces of a sermon. You are getting part of the story, but yet you are commenting on it. Juanita and Bishop Weeks have been great leaders in the Christian community. And its not until this mess did any of you even start to pay them any mind. And if any of you have ever listened to Juanita speak you should know she gives it to you raw, and she is very transparent in her speaking about herself and others. So get a clue...stop making judgment calls and pray for these people, that is of course if you even know God for yourself.
@ Uncle Tom, I loved your post. I am a black woman and I agree wholeheartedly with every word you wrote. Now the only thing that stumped is the making the shoes part, heheheh. I was wondering how the hell I was going to learn to do that. The sad thing is that people like you are seen as odd or counter culture or even plain hateful. I hope you find a way to get this important message out there to the masses. SO many ppl dogged Bill Cosby and raised hell when he said these same things last year, but press on don't let the message die.
Ridiculous. Black women wouldnt be this angry if they had sense to make better choices in there men. There is no reason for her to be so hype..i cant believe those in her congregation cant see through her ***^t. She is in no way representing God. ---------------------------------------------------- @ slimbrotha - i was sooo glad to see a man say this. I COSIGN. i don't socialize much with many of my black female friends b/c i don't want to go out and be subjected to this "ray ray ain't ish" convo ALL DAY! lol but i'm serious. i ask my friends, what are your standards? if you had some, you wouldn't attract the bottom of the barrel black men, you'd attract a king. there are soo many bitter, angry black women because of this. women are more concerned with having a man physically b/c if they don't have one, they're more concerned with how everyone else views them. and we won't get on the ones who equate good *** with a good man... ugh. my point is, ladies have standards. the men WILL step up to the plate. everything they do is for you. they hunt, so give them the chase.
Don't be weak-minded..
This woman has a lot to say..And most of it is so very true.
I take what I need, or what applies to me, and I keep it moving. This woman should not dictate your life..You need to be strong-minded enough to simply 'extract' what you need only, and give praise where you believe its due...
Call her fake/phoney, but the mssgs are real.
I’m not concerned about the Bynum/Weeks conflict because it will work itself out. I can’t sit in judgment of them because I don’t know what happened or what goes on in their home. Frankly, it’s none of my business. I’m confident they will handle their personal affairs accordingly. The situation will be grossly exploited by the media.
We continually allow social engineering to impact the dynamics of black male/female relationships. We KNOW and can IDENTIFY the manipulation from external forces but we still blame each other. Both of us have our faults and flaws. But, we can’t allow ourselves to be defined by those faults and flaws. We have the power to change our destiny. And, we must if we’re going to survive the 21st century.
By Chinweizu
[A public lecture delivered at the Agip Recital Hall, Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos on 18 February, 2006.]
In a nutshell, my presentation today argues that:
1] The 20th century has been the most disastrous century, so far, for Black Africa. It was the century in which, under colonialism, Black Africa was subjected to culturecide at the hands of White Power. That culturecide destroyed our ability to resist the genocide that is now taking place. As a result, this 21st century is likely to see the physical extermination of Black Africans, unless those now under 30 organize and defeat the extermination campaign that white power has already unleashed on Black Africa. Therefore,
2] The problem of the 21st century is the problem of African Power ...“ how to build it, and enough of it, to end the long era of our defeats and disasters in the race war, to prevent our extermination, and to ensure our dignity.
3] We should particularly note that Lugardism is a false framework, and these Lugardist states, *** included, are the wrong foundation for building African Power
Introduction:
I just want to get us started on an examination of the awful situation in which we find ourselves in ***, and in Africa, at the start of the 21st century, after some 50 years of fake independence, and more than 500 years of race war. We, *** and Black Africans as a whole, have been in a race war for 500years or more, and we have no chance of surviving it if we refuse to recognize that fact and act on it.
Since 1960, many attempts have been made to diagnose the trouble with ***. Chief among the usual suspects have been, “tribalism,” corruption, and bad leadership. May I submit that these are symptoms, not the underlying causes; the fevers, not the malaria or typhoid parasites. Our problems are much more serious than corruption & co. They include identity crises of various kinds, a lunatic elite, cultural schizophrenia, Eurotoxification and the fact that *** is not a nation but a noyau..i.e., a society of inward antagonism, one held together by mutual internal antagonism, one which could not carry on if its members had no fellow members to hate. And if we want to end the troubles of the ***, we must dig deeper to find the fundamental causes. And I would like, today, to draw your attention to some of the systemic causes that do not usually appear on our radar.
1] First of all is *** itself: The fundamental trouble with *** is *** itself...the *** state. This Lugardist state, by which *** was invented and is maintained, has been a disaster for the *** peoples/nationalities and their society.
2] Second, is the refusal by *** to recognize the race war in which Lugardism is a key weapon that white power is using against Black Africans.
3] Third is our failure, in *** and in Black Africa as a whole, to study the Haitian experience and learn from it.
I, now, invite you to examine the following theses:
1] The Lugardist state is an enemy to the *** population;
2] Black Africans, including ***, are in the semi-final phase of a race war with the European and the Arab branches of White Power.
3] *** has been Haitified--Turning *** into a Haiti has been a way to totally defeat its people and all of Black Africa in this semi-final phase of the race war. For, just as Haiti in 1804 was the hope of the Black race, even so, in 1960, was *** the hope of Black Africa. And, for your information, the Haitification of *** is almost completed by now.
4] The key enemy weapons in the race war today include the AU, NEPAD, and the organs of the New World Order, especially the UN and its agencies.
5] If Africans do not build African Power now, and use it to prevent their final defeat in the race war, Africans will be exterminated in this 21st century. This, therefore, is the do-or-die century for Africans.
Recognition of these facts is the first step on the road to liberation and survival for the *** peoples/nationalities. I shall say a little to introduce each thesis, and we can then together explore and illuminate them through questions and answers that, I hope, will continue long after we leave this hall.
Mention race war to Africans and they react as if it is some future danger that must be avoided at any price, even at the price of voluntary enslavement. They refuse to realize that we already are in it, and have been in it for at least five centuries. I shall try to show, as briefly as possible, that such is, indeed, our situation.
Two initial points of clarification: first of all, just because *** are not flying about and swords are not flashing around us does not mean there is no war going on; there are other modes of warfare, including economic, political, psychological and intellectual warfare. For example, the Cold War, in the 20th century, between the capitalist and communist power blocs was mostly a non-military affair. It was mostly a propaganda and economic war, with occasional military flashpoints. Secondly, when the aggressor identifies the target of its attack on the basis of skin colour, the war is a race war. Black Africa is in the throes of two simultaneous race wars. It is being attacked from two fronts: The European front and the Arab front. Lets consider them one by one. First ,
The Euro-African Race War
When did it start and why?
Europe’s race war on sub-Sahara Africans may be said to have begun when
The captains of two of Prince Henry [of Portugal’s] exploring caravels brought back with them to Lisbon in 1442 a dozen Africans, whom they had captured on the West Coast in the course of a wholly unprovoked attack upon an African village. Further exploits of a similar kind followed.1
Not long after that, Pope Nicholas V (1447-55) spelt out and blessed a war, in the name of Christ, on the world’s non-Christian peoples:
We, after scrupulous reflection, are granting by our *** full and entire freedom to King Alphonso [of Spain] to conquer, to besiege, to fight, and to submit all the Saracens, Pagans, and other enemies of Christ, wherever they may be; and to seize the kingdoms, the dukedoms, the princedoms, the lordships, personal properties, landed properties, and all the wealth they withhold and possess; and to submit these persons to a perpetual slavery; to appropriate these kingdoms, duchies, principalities, counties, lordships, properties and wealth; to transmit them to their successors; to take advantage and make use of them personally and with their offspring.
--quoted in Jordan ***. Ngubane, Conflict of Minds: Changing Power Dispositions in South Africa, Books in Focus, Inc. 1979
As Jordan Ngubane pointed out “The Pope thus authorized the commitment of crimes and sins against all and linked the division of the world into Portuguese and Spanish spheres with slavery, colonialism, racism and apartheid.”
Pope Alexander’s *** Inter Caetera of 1493 divided all the “heathens” of the world with their resources between Portugal and Spain. And then, Pope Clement VI in Intra Arcana, the *** he issued on May 8, 1529, and addressed to Charles V [of Spain] urged him on to the war:
We trust that, as long as you are on earth, you will compel and with all zeal cause the barbarian nations to come to the knowledge of God, the maker and founder of all things, not only by edicts and admonitions, but also by force and arms, if needful, in order that their souls may partake of the heavenly kingdom.
--quoted in Jordan ***. Ngubane, Conflict of Minds: Changing Power Dispositions in South Africa, Books in Focus, Inc. 1979
That global war, declared by Europe in the 15th century in religious terms, is still going on, in different transformations. The most prominent version today is Bush’s “War on Terror”, which was initially announced as a Christian “crusade” against the Jihadeers of Islamic Fundamentalism. Another version is imperialism. We particularly must note that imperialism is war, and the imperialism of whites over blacks is race war.
What have been the signs of this Euro-African race war?
The branch of this European war upon the world that most concerns us, has been waged on the African race mainly in the guises of what Europeans call the Slave Trade, The Scramble for Africa, Colonialism, Neo-colonialism and Racism. If we examine each of them, we will uncover its race war character.
1. Slave Trade When the era of the so-called Slave Trade is examined, what do we find? Its main features were interminable wars, forced labour and terrorism; and the targets of all were the Black/African Race; and the entire thing was organized by Whites of European stock, and they were its prime beneficiaries. It was a system of war and violence on four continents and on their interconnecting seas. This war system operated in three zones:
1. Zone A: Africa, the war front, the zone of daily battles, skirmishes, raids, kidnappings and ambushes, which yielded war prisoners for carrying off into slavery. 2. Zone B: the Diaspora zone, the rear area of the Europeans, made up of the transit waters (the Atlantic and Indian Oceans), together with the territories of the Americas as well as the plantation islands in the Indian Ocean, off shore from East Africa (Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion, Zanzibar, etc). For the Black war captives, this was the zone of permanent martial law and terrorism (especially on the plantations, mines and slave-holding towns); the zone of deadly forced labour (the super-Gulags and Siberias of their time. For example, “In French Saint Domingue, now called Haiti, slaves were literally worked to death. The average life span after being sold into slavery was about seven years..The Irritated Genie, p. 24); This was the zone of daily resistance by the captives, and of their periodic escapes, mutinies and revolts, and of the brutal suppression thereof (there were some 250 recorded revolts in the USA alone, an average of one a year for the era before Emancipation); This was the zone of guerrilla wars between the Maroon communities (hundreds of which existed at any one time all over the Americas) and the slave-owner communities around them which sought to re-enslave them; and the zone of full-scale wars between the slave-owner states and the liberation movements, as between France and its slaves in Haiti, or between the USA and the Black Seminoles. And then there was 3. Zone C: Europe, the headquarters from where the entire far-flung system of daily warfare was masterminded, stimulated, coordinated, armed and financed, and to which the bulk of the resulting riches was taken.
Seen in its totality, this was a vast war on the Black/African Race that was most cunning in its grand strategy. In Africa, the first zone, Europeans made war on Blacks by inducing Blacks to make war on one another. It was “divide and conquer” at its devilish worst, applied to an entire Black race on the vast African continent, by a well-disguised white European hand manipulating from afar. For the kidnap victims and the war prisoners who were carried off into captivity, there was a second zone, a zone of total war -- military, cultural, economic, psychological, ideological; a total war waged against them by whites, clearly and visibly by whites, and designed to break each of them into an obedient workhorse for the rest of life. When taken altogether, this was the most devious and satanic of war systems ever contrived: Europe was the headquarters, Africa was the war front, the Americas were the prisoners-of-war camp, chattel-slavery was the kind of forced labour to which the prisoners-of-war were subjected in that camp, the produce and profits which went to Europe were the peculiar booty from this most peculiar of wars. As for all the Blacks caught up in it, the overwhelming majority, probably as much as 99.9%, were victims of different kinds and to different degrees: the war captives shipped abroad, the war dead and the war survivors left back in Africa, all those who resisted the pressure to collaborate, and even those among the Black procurers, far from the coast, who never made contact with the Whites but unwittingly served the interest of the European war fomenters. All were caught in the toils of a devilish system whose totality they were in no position to see or guess; all were driven by overpowering forces beamed and controlled from outside their societies, forces which crushed all resistance, even those put up by African kings and queens, such as Affonso of the BaKongo and Nzinga of the ***’gola. They were, one and all, victims of a satanic European bourgeoisie, which devised the entire thing and kept it going for its own profit.
Conquest and colonialism
That centuries-long slaving phase of this race war was followed by the phase of undisguised military conquest and colonization, i.e. a phase of conquest of black Africans by white Europeans and of foreign white rule over blacks. The conquest phase, principally between 1884 and 1914, is Eurocentrically called “The scramble for Africa”. In this phase, Blacks would now be conquered, Christianized (See Appendix 8 at pp.57-60) and prepared for civilization [i.e. Europeanization] in Africa itself, and the job of doing that was dubbed the “White Man’s Burden”.
In furtherance of the project of Christianizing and Europeanizing Africans, (i.e. of treating them to culturecide), Black Africans were subjected to genocide, terrorism, land expropriation, property confiscation, forced labour, and taxation by the implanted Lugardist states. The starkest and best-*** varieties of this were in King Leopold’s Congo Free State (formerly Zaire and now the Democratic Republic of Congo), France’s Congo (now Congo-Brazzaville), Portugal’s Angola, Germany’s South-West Africa (now Namibia), Britain’s Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the British-Boer Republic of South Africa. In the Belgian example, a “System” was devised to terrorize and exploit the Blacks to the point of utter ruin. (The book to read is The Black Man’s Burden by E.D. Morel) Colonialism, thereby, was the worst disaster to have ever struck Black Africa thus far. The culturecide it accomplished has left Africa so demented that it still can’t get its act together even today. Neocolonialism or the race war today
Since the mid-20th century, following the withdrawal of European expatriates from formal and visible political control of their African colonies, Europeans have prosecuted the race war using Black Africans as their agents, much like during the slaving phase of the Euro-African race war. This current phase is what is called Neocolonialism, in its various forms-- economic, political, ideological, cultural etc.
Let me briefly indicate a few of its features.
When the IMF, World Bank etc lure African countries into their Debt Trap and saddle them with the debt burden -- that is economic warfare. When the WTO enforces “free trade” rules that prevent fair trade, and ensure that trade results in resource and financial drain from Africa to Europe and America -- that’s economic warfare. And when the WTO insists that Africa must accept genetically modified (GM) crops that are engineered to be infertile and so destroy our food independence and food security, that’s economic warfare. It is warfare by induced and premeditated starvation. [see Appendix 7 on GMO crops at p. 55]
When African governments are conned into implementing NEPAD policies that block the industrialization of Africa -- that’s an economic side of the race war. The net effect of such measures is to keep the African race poor and weak, so it cannot defend itself from white power.
When the US Government invents AIDS for the declared purpose of global depopulation (through its Special Virus Cancer Program that spent 15years, 1962-1977, and $550 million, and on which Dr Robert Gallo was a Project Officer); and when the World Health Organization (WHO) vaccinates 97 million Africans with smallpox vaccines that were secretly infected with the AIDS virus, that’s biological warfare on the African race. And when there is a US Patented cure for AIDS (US Patent #5676977 granted on Oct. 14, 1997), and the Government of the USA still does not publicise it, but instead allows ineffective remedies to continue to be deployed in Africa, that act of malign neglect is an act of war, and a part of the race war on Africans. AIDS is a New World Order bioweapon for global genocide.
[On the origin of AIDS, the book to read is State Origin: The Evidence of the Laboratory Birth of AIDS, by Boyd E. Graves, J.D.; see also
AIDS: 'The Manufactured Virus'
From the Official U.S. Govt. *** House of Rep.
American Masses Hoodwinked [link to external website removed]
Proof: Department of Defense Appropriations for 1970 H.B. 15090 [link to external website removed] ]
On the World Health Organization (WHO) role in bombing Africa with AIDS through vaccines [See “Smallpox Vaccine ‘triggered AIDS virus’ ” by Pearce Wright, London Times May 11, 1987, p.1; also Who Murdered Africa? By Dr. William Campbell Douglas]
On the US Patented cure for AIDS [To see the patent, go to : www.google.com , type in US patent 5676977 to read all about it.]
---------------------------------------- For more on all aspects of AIDS visit www.boydgraves.com
Or contact Boyd Graves thru zygote@sunflower.com or zygotemedia@boydgraves,com
or contact Dr. Len Horowitz for his "Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola - Nature, Accident or Intentional?" (Tetrahedron, LLC., 1997; ISBN:092355012-7;$29.95) It may be ordered toll free by calling 1-888-508-4787). To invite Dr. Horowitz to speak to your group, please contact:
Tetrahedron, LLC PO Box 2033 Sandpoint, ID 83864 Toll free order line: 888-508-4787 e-mail: tetra@tetrahedron.org.
For a brief introduction to the data on AIDS, see the Appendices attached at the end of this essay at pp. 40-51}
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Thus, through measures like the Debt Trap, unfair WTO rules, genetically modified/ GM-crops and the AIDS bomb, white European powers continue to wage race war on Africans even as we speak today.
There is one last aspect that needs to be touched on, the aspect which has featured in every phase, that widely-misunderstood thing called racism. So,
Nowadays, it has become fashionable to reduce racism to color discrimination; to say, as was done at FESTAC 77, that:
By racism we mean ethnocentric pride in one’s own racial group and preference for the distinctive characteristics of that group; belief that these characteristics are fundamentally biological in nature and are thus transmitted to succeeding generations; strong negative feeling towards other groups who do not share these characteristics coupled with the thrust to discriminate against and exclude the outgroup from full participation in the life of the community.
-- Quoted in Sebastian Charles, “Black Civilization and the Religious Dimension”, in Okpaku et al., The Arts and Civilization of Black and African Peoples, Vol. 7, Lagos: CBAAC, 1986, p. 38.
Contrary to such fashionable and ‘politically correct’ misdefinitions, racism is far more than mere ethnocentrism or mindless color prejudice or color discrimination. It is, in fact, the white supremacist color-caste mechanism of the Eurocentric Global System wherein status is assigned, and functions, opportunities and privileges are apportioned on the basis of skin color. It might, alternatively, be called colorism. The system is justified, legitimized and defended by the superstition of racial hierarchy and by the dogma which posits, contrary to evidence, that the white skinned are thereby inherently superior to all others and that the black skinned are thereby inherently inferior to all others. Though unsupported by scientific or historical evidence, that is the status ranking which European power self-servingly chose, back in the 15th century, to impose on humanity, by force and fraud.
For those who have forgotten, or who are confused, let me here define racism clearly and firmly:
RACISM is a system of domination, of one race by another, which combines a superstition of racial hierarchy with a structure of domination and exploitation, and which is instituted and maintained by the violent practices of conquest and suppression, including torture, lynching and mass murder.
And, it must be stressed, the only case of racism on the historical record is that instituted by white supremacists.
There are many other aspects of this war today, but these, I hope, are enough to help you recognize it. “Slave Trade” was race war; Colonialism was race war; Neo-colonialism is race war; Racism is race war; AIDS in Africa is Race war; GM crops for Africa is race war! Yes, European white power has for centuries been waging race war on the Black race as part of its global war on all non-Europeans. And this race war is still going on, even though most Africans foolishly refuse to recognize it for what it is.
The Arab-African Race War began with the invasion which led to the Arab conquest of Egypt in 642 AD. By 700 AD, the Arab invaders had seized all the lands as far west as the Atlantic coast of North Africa. But well before that, indeed soon after taking Egypt, they turned their aggression southward to Nubia and the rest of the Nile Valley. Here are some highlights of this other race war on the Blacks of sub-Sahara Africa:
Nubia 7th to 14th centuries AD
In 652 AD, Arabs invaded from Egypt into Nubia but got no further south than Dongola. The Egypt-Dongola treaty of 652 AD required 400 slaves to be sent to Egypt each year. It lasted till 1315AD, when a muslim was installed King of Dongola. With that, the tribute was abolished but the Arabs resumed their penetration up the Nile. By the end of the 14th century, Arab tribes were pouring into the Sudan to settle. [“Dongola” in Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) 1965, Vol. 7, p.585]
Ancient Ghana, 11th century AD
In 1076, the Almoravids, a group of Arabs and Arabized Berbers from Morocco, attacked and overran Koumbi Saleh, the capital of Ancient Ghana, in present day Mauritania, and broke its power and converted its people to Islam. Ghana regained its independence sometime after 1087, but never recovered its power or its empire.
Ethiopia, 14th -16th century AD
From the 13th century, immigrant Arabs established various sultanates on the Red Sea coast of eastern and southern Ethiopia. These recognized the leadership of a dynasty at Shoa, which traced its genealogy to the Arab tribe of the Makhzumi. In 1332, the Sultan of Ifat, Sabr al-din attacked the Ethiopian King Amda Seyon but was defeated. Other muslim princes renewed the war on Christian Ethiopia for the next two centuries. But not until 1530, under their leader Mohammed ibn Ibrahim, nicknamed Gran by the Ethiopians, did these invaders conquer a great part of the Ethiopian plateau and convert the people to Islam.
Bornu, 14th century AD
In 1391, the muslim King of the black African kingdom of Bornu, Uthman Biri ibn Idris sent a protest letter to the King of Egypt asking for the return of those already captured, including his own brother. He wrote:
The Arabs who are called Judham and others have taken captive our free subjects..women and children and old people, and our relatives, and other muslims. Among these Arabs are polytheists and apostates: they have raided the Muslims and killed a great many of them in a war which broke out between us and our enemies. . . . These Arabs have harmed our land, the land of Bornu, continually up to the present, and have captured our free subjects and relatives, who are Muslims, and are selling them to the slave-dealers in Egypt and Syria and elsewhere, and some they keep for themselves.
--“Diplomatic Note from Bornu to Egypt,” in Thomas Hodgkin, *** Perspectives, 1960/1975:104
Thus, being muslim did not protect Blacks from enslavement by the Arabs, for when it comes to enslaving blacks, Arabs are quick to disregard their own Islamic law.
Songhay, 16th century AD
In 1591, a Moroccan expedition crossed the Sahara and attacked the Black African Empire of Songhay. It defeated the Songhay army at the battle of Tondibi, seized Gao, Timbuktu and Jenne and looted them; many of Songhay’s scholars were taken in chains to Morocco. The empire and people of Songhay were ruined by the wars, famine and pestilence which the Moroccans unleashed on them.
Zanzibar, 17th centuryAD
In 1698, Omani Arabs captured Mombasa and extended their rule to Zanzibar.
Their white-minority Sultanate of Zanzibar lasted till 1964 when it was ended by an African rebellion, led by John Okello.
Sudan 19th century
In 1820, Muhammed Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt, decided to conquer Sudan, primarily to recruit black slaves and to bring the sources of the Nile under Arab control. In the subsequent raids on the hinterlands of the White Nile and the Nuba Mountains, some 10,000 Negro slaves were annually exported to Egypt, where the able-bodied males were pressed into the army and the rest were taken into domestic slavery. These slave raids went on for decades, in the course of which an estimated one million blacks were enslaved or destroyed.
20th century:
The Arab-African race war continued in the Afro-Arab borderlands..in such places as Sudan, Mauritania, and Chad, flashing into bloody battles when it met African resistance, like the Anya Nya War (1956-1972) and the SPLA War (since 1983) in Sudan. The only clear African victory against the Arabs was in Zanzibar where, in 1964, the Africans overthrew the Arab white-settler minority rule and ended its regimen of black slavery.
In Chad, Libya’s Gaddafi annexed the uranium rich Auzou strip and tried to install his Chadian puppets in power.
Somalia and Djibouti were induced to join the Arab League and to Arabize themselves culturally, despite their non-Arab populations. Joining the Arab League requires that Arabic be made the official language of a country, so that Arabic becomes the mother tongue of its citizens, thus converting them into Arabs.
In Ethiopia, the Islamized province of Eritrea was given substantial Arab support in its war of secession from Black, Christian Ethiopia.
Beyond the borderlands, in Uganda, Central African Republic, etc, Arabs made proxy war on Africans through their local black agents.
In the Central African Republic, Gaddafi propped President Patasse in power in exchange for a concession to exploit the country’s diamonds and oil for 99 years. [See Lucy Jones, “Ceaucescu’s legacy in the heart of Africa,” Guardian Weekly, October 3-9, 2002, p.3]
In Uganda in the 1970s, using Idi Amin as his local agent, Gaddafi pursued a project of bloody Islamization and Arabization until Tanzania intervened militarily and drove out Idi Amin in 1979. Idi Amin then went into luxuried exile in the land of his Arab masters, first in Libya, then in Saudi Arabia where he died in 2003.
The OAU/AU in the Arab-African Race War
From its formation in 1963 until its demise, the OAU [Organization of African Unseriousness], was consciously used by its Arab members as an instrument for their race war on the Africans. They used it primarily to inhibit the Black African countries from giving organized support to those Africans who were being attacked by local Arab settlers, such as in Sudan and Mauritania. In the OAU, the Black African leaders conspicuously failed to define and defend the Pan-African interest. They, in effect, served as sell-outs, fifth columnists and fellow-travellers of the Arab expansionists. The switch from OAU to AU has merely been an anti-African switch from a smothering alliance, the OAU, to a suicidal union the AU [Africa Unmanned, i.e. castrated].
( The work to read on the Arab use of the OAU to pursue their race war on Africans is “Pan-Africanism vs Pan-Arabism” by Opoku Agyeman, Black Renaissance 1 (1), January 1994, pp.30-72, See Appendix 9 at pp.60-101)
The 21st century
Today in Sudan, the Janjaweed Arab militias, sponsored by the white minority Arab government of Sudan, are still busy, looting, raping, destroying and enslaving the Black Africans in Sudan’s Darfur province in an ethnic cleansing campaign to seize lands from Africans and settle Arabs there. According to one report in THE GUARDIAN, NAIROBI, Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004,Page 6:
During an attack on the village of Disa in June last year, Arab women accompanied the attackers and sang in praise of the government and scorning black villagers. According to an African chief quoted in the report, the singers said: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. "The power of [Sudanese president Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God." The chief said that the Arab women also racially insulted women from the village, saying: "You are gorillas, you are black and you are badly dressed." The Janjaweed have abducted women for use as *** slaves, in some cases breaking their limbs to prevent them escaping, as well as carrying out rapes in their home villages, the report said. The militiamen "are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell that we are just slaves and that they can do with us how they wish," a 37-year-old victim, identified as A, is quoted as saying in the report, which was based on over 100 statements from women in the refugee camps in neighboring Chad.
For more on this story, see
[link to external website removed]
As this story makes clear, the Janjaweed are quite explicit about the race war and genocidal character of their activities. Yes, the conflict in Sudan is race war!
Thus have Arab invaders, century after century, pressed their war of aggression on Africans, and seized more and more of African lands and killed or carried off millions of Africans into slavery in Arab countries and beyond. By now, they are not only in possession of all of supra-Sahara Africa, but also of much of the Sahelian borderlands, and are thrusting deeper up the Nile to take over the entire Nile Valley, all the way to Uganda on the equator. Despite that relentless aggression, the governments of Black Africa refuse to acknowledge what is happening, let alone that a race war demands effective and concerted opposition from them. It will be a disgrace to the entire African race if, having barely survived European aggression, we *** to Arab aggression, especially through our own leaders collaborating with the Arab enemy.
About 10 years ago, in the early 1990s, there was public discussion in the imperialist press about their need to recolonize Africa. Some of us protested against the idea and tried, with little success, to alert the African intelligentsia and governments on the need to prevent such a thing. You may be surprised and shocked to learn that that Recolonization has been accomplished and most Africans have failed to even notice. They even welcome the instruments and institutions of their own recolonization. Chief among these are the AU [Gadafi’s Arabist Underwear], NEPAD [the New European Practical-joke for Africa’s Destruction], and the New World Order instruments of UN Imperialism, namely the IMF [Imperialist Ministry of Finance], World Bank/ officially the IBRD [Infrastructure Bank for Robbery and Destruction], WTO [Wealth Thieving Outfit], The World Court, the War Crimes Tribunals (for Rwanda, Sierra Leone etc), the UN Peace Keeping and Peace Enforcing Missions, and the ideological package of globalization, democratization, privatization, marketization etc.
Why do I say that Africa has been recolonized and that the New World Order’s UN, AU and NEPAD are all part of it? Is the UN an imperialist outfit? Yes, it is. This UN that is, allegedly, being reformed, and on whose Security Council *** is campaigning to get a Veto seat? Yes, it is. And is the AU an imperialist outfit? And NEPAD too? Yes, they are. Let me indicate just how these organs and institutions are carrying on the imperialist project.
The AU is a joint instrument of the Arabs and Europeans for waging race war on Black Africa. Its NEPAD policies serve European power, while its use as a political/diplomatic inhibitor of organized African resistance to Arab aggression serves Arab power.
The AU was formed at the initiative of Libya’s Gaddafi. It was part of his offering to appease the West so it would end its sanctions against Libya and resume non-hostile relations. Another item in that package of offerings was his surrender of two Libyans to be tried for the Lockerbee bombing. He roped the African countries into his AU [Arabist Underwear] for easier imperialist control. And the West proceeded to con them to implement its NEPAD recipe for Africa’s economic destruction.
As for the New World Order, it is actually not as new as it is made to appear. It is simply the UN Global Order of 1945 as it enters the final stages of its construction. What was made possible in the 1990s, by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and the ending of the Cold War, is the final plastering and painting and furnishing of what was organized in Bretton Woods in 1944 and in San Francisco in 1945. Among these final steps is the creating of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to replace the stop-gap institution GATT; the establishment of an International War Crimes Tribunal with headquarters at The Hague; the move of the UN from peace-keeping to peace-enforcement, as attempted in Somalia and Bosnia; and the clear emergence of NATO as the enforcer of last resort for the UN Security Council..as in the former Yugoslavia. This so-called New World Order is simply the collective phase of capitalist imperialism; the institutional arrangement for the collaborative imperialism of those great powers, now known as the G-8, whose rivalries inflicted the carnage of two World Wars on all of humanity during the first half of the 20th century. Their paramount objective now is to ensure that, after five centuries of unrestrained rivalries and warfare, these great winners shall no longer make war on one another as they compete for the labor and resources of the rest of the members of the UN. Their second objective is to ensure that rebellion against their collective imperialism, by any of its victim peoples, shall be collectively crushed. This collective imperialism, whose slogan is “World Order”, is upheld, not, as in the 15th century, by the fiat of the Pope, but by the economic, diplomatic, military, cultural and propaganda might of the G-8 imperialist alliance against the rest of humanity. The only thing new about this 1945 edition of the Eurocentric Global System is this: after fifty years of delays in its construction, it is at last emerging fully in the form designed originally by the U.S. and U.***. --its main planners and beneficiaries.
As the UN Charter is the blueprint for this current edition of the Eurocentric Global System, it is imperative to ask: What really is the UN and what manner of imperialist beast is this UN Global Order? At the level of the utopian chatter of the UN Charter, and of the sales rhetoric of its propagandists, the UN is a dream scheme that shall save humanity from the scourge of war, promote social progress and better standards of life, develop respect for the equal rights and self-determination of peoples, reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person, blah-blah-blah, blah-blah-blah! So claims the UN Charter. As for the New World Order, it is “a new just order that permits fair competition and protection of the weak from the strong . . . a joint undertaking of realizing the common aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom and the rule of law . . . an era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony” (so said George H. W. Bush2). It is “a world of thriving democracies that cooperate with each other and live in peace . . . under . . .free institutions” (Bill Clinton3); with the UN there “to protect human rights, maintain peace and security for all and to deter aggression” (George H. W. Bush4). What glorious and inspiring images these are: peace, prosperity, just order, security, freedom, democracy, cooperation, social progress, equal rights, self-determination, fair competition, harmony, human dignity, world without war, protection of the weak from the strong, etc., etc.!
All this New World Order rhetoric touting Freedom, Democracy, Peace, Development, etc is quite attractive. But is what is preached anything like what is meant, let alone what is practiced? Let us go, for illumination, to those who have closely studied the details of the matter. And let’s consider just three revealing examples: Freedom, Democracy and Development Aid.
In 1941, US President Franklin Roosevelt declared that the Allies were fighting for Four Freedoms..Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. But Noam Chomsky has pointed out:
Roosevelt spoke of Four Freedoms, but not of the Fifth and most important: the freedom to rob and to exploit. Infringement of the four official freedoms in enemy territory always evokes much agonized concern. Not, however, in our own ample domains. Here, as the historical record demonstrates with great clarity, it is only when the fifth and fundamental freedom is threatened that a sudden and ***-lived concern for other forms of freedom manifests itself, to be sustained for as long as it is needed to justify the righteous use of force and violence to restore the Fifth Freedom, the only one that really counts. A careful look at history and the internal record of planning reveals a guiding geopolitical conception: preservation of the Fifth Freedom, by whatever means are feasible. Much of what US governments do in the world can be readily understood in terms of this principle, while if it remains obscured, acts and events will appear incomprehensible, a maze of confusion, random error and accident.
Noam Chomsky, Turning The Tide, p.47
So much for their freedom rhetoric. By the way, contrary to official propaganda, America grew rich and powerful, not because of the four official freedoms, but because of the Fifth Freedom: its freedom to rob and exploit, starting with the land of the exterminated Native Americans and the forced and unpaid labor of the enslaved Black Africans.
Chomsky also has cast light on the peculiar American usage of the term democracy. Commenting on the situation in the 1980s, he said:
Take the idea that the United States is supporting “democracy” all over the world. Well, there’s a sense in which that’s true. But what does it mean? When we support “democracy,” what do we support? I mean, is “democracy” something where the population takes part in running the country? Well, obviously not. For instance, why are El Salvador and Guatemala “democratic,” but Nicaragua [i.e. under the Sandinista Party] not “democratic”? Why? Is it because two of them had elections and the other one didn’t? No. In fact, Nicaragua’s election [in 1984] was a hundred times as good as any election in El Salvador. Is it because there’s a lack of popular political participation in Nicaragua? No. Is it because the political opposition can’t survive there? No, the political opposition is barely harassed in Nicaragua; in El Salvador and Guatemala it’s just murdered. Is it that there can’t be an independent press in Nicaragua? No, the Nicaraguan press is one of the freest presses in the world, much more so than the American press has ever been..the United States has never tolerated a newspaper even remotely like La Prensa in Nicaragua [opposition paper supported by the U.S. during the contra war], not even close: in any time of crisis here, the American government has *** down even tiny dissident newspapers, forget a major newspaper funded by the foreign power that’s attacking the country and which is openly calling for the overthrow of the government. That degree of freedom of the press is absolutely inconceivable here. In El Salvador, there was an independent press at one time..it was wiped out by the U.S.-backed security forces, who just murdered the editor of one newspaper and blew up the premises of the other. Okay, that takes care of that independent press.
So you know, by what criteria are El Salvador and Guatemala “democratic” and Nicaragua not? Well, there is a criterion: in Nicaragua [under the Sandinistas] business elements are not represented in dominating the state much beyond their numbers, so it’s not a “democracy.” In El Salvador and Guatemala, the governments are run by the military for the benefit of the local oligarchies..the landowners, rich businessmen, and rising professionals..and those people are tied up with the United States, so therefore those countries are “democracies.” It doesn’t matter if they blow up the independent press, and kill off the political opposition, and slaughter tens of thousands of people, and never run anything remotely like a free election..all of that is totally irrelevant. They’re “democracies,” because the right people are running them; if the right people aren’t running them, then they’re not “democracies.”
--Chomsky, Understanding Power, p. 42
In Americanese, a government is “democratic” if it is run by people who serve U.S. interests, and “undemocratic” if it is not. American rhetoric gives the impression that the U.S. supports democracy around the globe whereas in fact it has a long record of blocking democracy and overthrowing democratically elected governments or assassinating their leaders. Here are just a few notorious examples: Guatemala 1954, Chile 1973, Ecuador 1981, Grenada 1983, Haiti 1991, Venezuela 2003. And an example happening right now is the case of Palestine, where the U.S. is unwilling to accept Hamas as the party democratically elected by the Palestinians to govern them. Because Hamas is committed to serving the Palestinians and protecting them from Israeli armed attacks, the U.S., Britain and Israel have threatened to not accept or work with it. It is as if Bush, Blair and Natanyahu are Palestinians and as if their three non-votes should veto the votes of all the real Palestinian voters who overwhelmingly elected Hamas. So much for the rhetoric that America supports democracy around the world.
Now, let’s consider Development AID. The best guide on the rhetoric and practice of foreign AID is probably John Perkins. In the 1970s [1971-1980] he worked as one of America’s Economic Hit Men (EHM)..consultants who are paid, “well paid--to cheat countries around the globe out of billions of dollars” and to ensnare them “in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty.” In his recent (2004) book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins says:
Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs. extortion, ***, and murder. I should know; I was an EHM,” he adds. [Confessions, p.ix]
He goes on to say:
Our schools and our press have taught us to perceive all of our actions as altruistic. Over the years, I’ve repeatedly heard comments like, “If they’re going to burn the U.S. flag and demonstrate against our embassy, why don’t we just get out of their *** country and let them wallow in their own poverty?” People who say such things often hold diplomas certifying that they are well educated. However, these people have no clue that the main reason we establish embassies around the world is to serve our own interests, which during the last half of the twentieth century meant turning the American republic into a global empire. Despite credentials, such people are as uneducated as those eighteenth-century colonists who believed that the [American] Indians fighting to defend their lands were servants of the devil.”
[Confessions p. 16]
He goes on to set the record straight:
Claudine [his clandestine NSA trainer for his undercover work as an EHM] told me there were two primary objectives of my work. First, I was to justify huge international loans that would funnel money back to . . . U.S. companies (such as Bechtel, Halliburton, Stone & Webster, and Brown & Root) through massive engineering and construction projects. Second, I would work to bankrupt the countries that received those loans . . . so that they would be forever beholden to their creditors, and so they would present easy targets when we needed favors, including military bases, UN votes, or access to oil and other natural resources. . . . the unspoken aspect of every one of these projects was that they were intended to create large profits for the contractors, and to make a handful of wealthy and influential families in the receiving countries very happy, while assuring the long-term financial dependence and therefore the political loyalty of governments around the world. The larger the loan, the better. The fact that the debt burden placed on a country would deprive its poorest citizens of health, education, and other social services for decades to come was not taken into consideration. . . .The loans of foreign aid ensure that today’s children and their grandchildren will be held hostage. They will have to allow our corporations to ravage their natural resources and will have to forego education, health, and other social services merely to pay us back.
