U.S. INC. VS US, THIS IS HOW THEY KEEP US DOWN, BUT WE CAN RISE UP LEARN, RESEARCH, SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
BLACK WALLSTREET, WE WERE NOT ALWAYS DEPENDANT!!
BLACK WALLSTREET
It's an important part of history that every Black person should know, if they don't know already.
Ron Wallace: co-author of Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream Chronicles a little-known chapter of African-American History in Oklahoma as told to Ronald E. Childs. If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they're wrong-plain and simple. That's because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly 75 years ago.
Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened. Searching under the heading of "riots," "Oklahoma" and "Tulsa" in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone an accurate accounting of it, in any other "scholarly" reference or American history book.
That's precisely the point that noted author, publisher and orator Ron Wallace, a Tulsa native, sought to make nearly five years ago when he began researching this riot, one of the worst incidents of violence ever visited upon people of African descent. Ultimately joined on the project by colleague Jay Jay Wilson of Los Angeles, the duo found and compiled indisputable evidence of what they now describe as "A Black Holocaust in America."
The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wallstreet," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering-A model community destroyed, and a major Africa-American economic movement resoundingly defused.
The night's carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could be expected, the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers. In their self-published book, Black Wallstreet: A lost Dream, and its companion video documentary, Black Wallstreet: A Black Holocaust in America!, the authors have chronicled for the very first time in the words of area historians and elderly survivors what really happened there on that fateful summer day in 1921 and why it happened. Wallace similarly explained to Black Elegance why this bloody event from the turn of the century seems to have had a recurring effect that is being felt in predominately Black neighborhoods even to this day. The best description of Black Wallstreet, or Little Africa as it was also known, would be to liken it to a mini-Beverly Hills. It was the golden door of the Black community during the early 1900s, and it proved that African Americans had successful infrastructure. That's what Black Wallstreet was about.
The dollar circulated 36 to 1000 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community. Now in 1995, a dollar leaves the Black community in 15 minutes. As far as resources, there were Ph.D's residing in Little Africa, Black attorneys and doctors. One doctor was Dr. Berry who also owned the bus system. His average income was $500 a day, a hefty pocket of change in 1910. During that era, physicians owned medical schools. There were also pawn shops everywhere, brothels, jewelry stores, 21 churches, 21 restaurants and two movie theaters. It was a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, yet six blacks owned their own planes. It was a very fascinating community. The area encompassed over 600 businesses and 36 square blocks with a population of 15,000 African Americans. And when the lower-economic Europeans looked over and saw what the Black community created, many of them were jealous. When the average student went to school on Black Wallstreet, he wore a suit and tie because of the morals and respect they were taught at a young age.
The mainstay of the community was to educate every child. Nepotism was the one word they believed in. And that's what we need to get back to in 1995. The main thoroughfare was Greenwood Avenue, and it was intersected by Archer and Pine Streets. From the first letters in each of those names, you get G.A.P., and that's where the renowned R&B music group The GAP Band got its name. They're from Tulsa. Black Wallstreet was a prime example of the typical Black community in America that did business, but it was in an unusual location. You see, at the time, Oklahoma was set aside to be a Black and Indian state. There were over 28 Black townships there. One third of the people who traveled in the terrifying "Trail of Tears" along side the Indians between 1830 to 1842 were Black people. The citizens of this proposed Indian and Black state chose a Black governor, a treasurer from Kansas named McDade. But the Ku Klux Klan said that if he assumed office that they would kill him within 48 hours. A lot of Blacks owned farmland, and many of them had gone into the oil business. The community was so tight and wealthy because they traded dollars hand-to-hand, and because they were dependent upon one another as a result of the Jim Crow laws.
It was not unusual that if a resident's home accidentally burned down, it could be rebuilt within a few weeks by neighbors. This was the type of scenario that was going on day-to-day on Black Wallstreet. When Blacks intermarried into the Indian culture, some of them received their promised '40 acres and a Mule,' and with that came whatever oil was later found on the properties.
Just to show you how wealthy a lot of Black people were, there was a banker in a neighboring town who had a wife named California Taylor. Her father owned the largest cotton gin west of the Mississippi [River]. When California shopped, she would take a cruise to Paris every three months to have her clothes made. There was also a man named Mason in nearby Wagner County who had the largest potato farm west of the Mississippi. When he harvested, he would fill 100 boxcars a day. Another brother not far away had the same thing with a spinach farm. The typical family then was five children or more, though the typical farm family would have 10 kids or more who made up the nucleus of the labor.
On Black Wallstreet, a lot of global business was conducted. The community flourished from the early 1900s until June 1, 1921. That's when the largest massacre of non-military Americans in the history of this country took place, and it was lead by the Ku Klux Klan. Imagine walking out of your front door and seeing 1,500 homes being burned. It must have been amazing.
Survivors we interviewed think that the whole thing was planned because during the time that all of this was going on, white families with their children stood around on the borders of the community and watched the massacre, the looting and everything---much in the same manner they would watch a lynching.
In my lectures I ask people if they understand where the word "picnic" comes from. It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for "pick a nigger" to lynch. They would lynch a Black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend in this country. That's where the term really came from. The riots weren't caused by anything Black or white. It was caused by jealousy. A lot of white folks had come back from World War I and they were poor. When they looked over into the Black communities and realized that Black men who fought in the war had come home heroes that helped trigger the destruction. It cost the Black community everything, and not a single dime of restitution---no insurance claims-has been awarded to the victims to this day.
Nonetheless, they rebuilt. We estimate that 1,500 to 3,000 people were killed, and we know that a lot of them were buried in mass graves all around the city. Some were thrown in the river. As a matter of fact, at 21st Street and Yale Avenue, where there now stands a Sears parking lot, that corner used to be a coal mine. They threw a lot of the bodies into the shafts. Black Americans don't know about this story because we don't apply the word holocaust to our struggle. Jewish people use the word holocaust all the time. White people use the word holocaust. It's politically correct to use it. But when we Black folks use the word, people think we're being cry babies or that we're trying to bring up old issues. No one comes to our support. In 1910, our forefathers and mothers owned 13 million acres of land at the height of racism in this country, so the Black Wallstreet book and videotape prove to the naysayers and revisionists that we had our act together. Our mandate now is to begin to teach our children about our own, ongoing Black holocaust. They have to know when they look at our communities today that we don't come from this.
It's an important part of history that every Black person should know, if they don't know already.
Ron Wallace: co-author of Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream Chronicles a little-known chapter of African-American History in Oklahoma as told to Ronald E. Childs. If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they're wrong-plain and simple. That's because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly 75 years ago.
Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened. Searching under the heading of "riots," "Oklahoma" and "Tulsa" in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone an accurate accounting of it, in any other "scholarly" reference or American history book.
That's precisely the point that noted author, publisher and orator Ron Wallace, a Tulsa native, sought to make nearly five years ago when he began researching this riot, one of the worst incidents of violence ever visited upon people of African descent. Ultimately joined on the project by colleague Jay Jay Wilson of Los Angeles, the duo found and compiled indisputable evidence of what they now describe as "A Black Holocaust in America."
The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wallstreet," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering-A model community destroyed, and a major Africa-American economic movement resoundingly defused.
The night's carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could be expected, the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers. In their self-published book, Black Wallstreet: A lost Dream, and its companion video documentary, Black Wallstreet: A Black Holocaust in America!, the authors have chronicled for the very first time in the words of area historians and elderly survivors what really happened there on that fateful summer day in 1921 and why it happened. Wallace similarly explained to Black Elegance why this bloody event from the turn of the century seems to have had a recurring effect that is being felt in predominately Black neighborhoods even to this day. The best description of Black Wallstreet, or Little Africa as it was also known, would be to liken it to a mini-Beverly Hills. It was the golden door of the Black community during the early 1900s, and it proved that African Americans had successful infrastructure. That's what Black Wallstreet was about.
The dollar circulated 36 to 1000 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community. Now in 1995, a dollar leaves the Black community in 15 minutes. As far as resources, there were Ph.D's residing in Little Africa, Black attorneys and doctors. One doctor was Dr. Berry who also owned the bus system. His average income was $500 a day, a hefty pocket of change in 1910. During that era, physicians owned medical schools. There were also pawn shops everywhere, brothels, jewelry stores, 21 churches, 21 restaurants and two movie theaters. It was a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, yet six blacks owned their own planes. It was a very fascinating community. The area encompassed over 600 businesses and 36 square blocks with a population of 15,000 African Americans. And when the lower-economic Europeans looked over and saw what the Black community created, many of them were jealous. When the average student went to school on Black Wallstreet, he wore a suit and tie because of the morals and respect they were taught at a young age.
The mainstay of the community was to educate every child. Nepotism was the one word they believed in. And that's what we need to get back to in 1995. The main thoroughfare was Greenwood Avenue, and it was intersected by Archer and Pine Streets. From the first letters in each of those names, you get G.A.P., and that's where the renowned R&B music group The GAP Band got its name. They're from Tulsa. Black Wallstreet was a prime example of the typical Black community in America that did business, but it was in an unusual location. You see, at the time, Oklahoma was set aside to be a Black and Indian state. There were over 28 Black townships there. One third of the people who traveled in the terrifying "Trail of Tears" along side the Indians between 1830 to 1842 were Black people. The citizens of this proposed Indian and Black state chose a Black governor, a treasurer from Kansas named McDade. But the Ku Klux Klan said that if he assumed office that they would kill him within 48 hours. A lot of Blacks owned farmland, and many of them had gone into the oil business. The community was so tight and wealthy because they traded dollars hand-to-hand, and because they were dependent upon one another as a result of the Jim Crow laws.
It was not unusual that if a resident's home accidentally burned down, it could be rebuilt within a few weeks by neighbors. This was the type of scenario that was going on day-to-day on Black Wallstreet. When Blacks intermarried into the Indian culture, some of them received their promised '40 acres and a Mule,' and with that came whatever oil was later found on the properties.
Just to show you how wealthy a lot of Black people were, there was a banker in a neighboring town who had a wife named California Taylor. Her father owned the largest cotton gin west of the Mississippi [River]. When California shopped, she would take a cruise to Paris every three months to have her clothes made. There was also a man named Mason in nearby Wagner County who had the largest potato farm west of the Mississippi. When he harvested, he would fill 100 boxcars a day. Another brother not far away had the same thing with a spinach farm. The typical family then was five children or more, though the typical farm family would have 10 kids or more who made up the nucleus of the labor.
On Black Wallstreet, a lot of global business was conducted. The community flourished from the early 1900s until June 1, 1921. That's when the largest massacre of non-military Americans in the history of this country took place, and it was lead by the Ku Klux Klan. Imagine walking out of your front door and seeing 1,500 homes being burned. It must have been amazing.
Survivors we interviewed think that the whole thing was planned because during the time that all of this was going on, white families with their children stood around on the borders of the community and watched the massacre, the looting and everything---much in the same manner they would watch a lynching.
In my lectures I ask people if they understand where the word "picnic" comes from. It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for "pick a nigger" to lynch. They would lynch a Black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend in this country. That's where the term really came from. The riots weren't caused by anything Black or white. It was caused by jealousy. A lot of white folks had come back from World War I and they were poor. When they looked over into the Black communities and realized that Black men who fought in the war had come home heroes that helped trigger the destruction. It cost the Black community everything, and not a single dime of restitution---no insurance claims-has been awarded to the victims to this day.
Nonetheless, they rebuilt. We estimate that 1,500 to 3,000 people were killed, and we know that a lot of them were buried in mass graves all around the city. Some were thrown in the river. As a matter of fact, at 21st Street and Yale Avenue, where there now stands a Sears parking lot, that corner used to be a coal mine. They threw a lot of the bodies into the shafts. Black Americans don't know about this story because we don't apply the word holocaust to our struggle. Jewish people use the word holocaust all the time. White people use the word holocaust. It's politically correct to use it. But when we Black folks use the word, people think we're being cry babies or that we're trying to bring up old issues. No one comes to our support. In 1910, our forefathers and mothers owned 13 million acres of land at the height of racism in this country, so the Black Wallstreet book and videotape prove to the naysayers and revisionists that we had our act together. Our mandate now is to begin to teach our children about our own, ongoing Black holocaust. They have to know when they look at our communities today that we don't come from this.
Monday, September 26, 2011
MYTH YOU MUST HAVE A SSN, DON'T JUST BELIEVE ME, RESEARCH FOR YOURSELVES PLEASE!!
MYTH TWO - YOU MUST HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
The parents make application for a Social Security number (SSN) for the newborn baby or one is applied for shortly thereafter. This is an adhesion contract which further obligates the new man or woman to the government.
The SSN is the “Consideration” for the international banking cartel to collateralize our ability to produce goods, services and acquire wealth into the indefinite future as “a derivative” to float the public debt.
MYTH BUSTED!
...About Social Security: “When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your
own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money... “
W. Allen Wallis, former Chairman of the 1975 Advisory Council on Social Security, May 27, 1976
“There is no prospect that today’s younger workers will receive all the Social Security and Medicare benefits currently promised them.” - Dorcas Hardy, former Social Security Commissioner and author of “Social Insecurity”, quoted in the December 1995 Reader’s Digest.
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“All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.” Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, January 24, 1996.
The above quotes courtesy of Joseph Farah, World Net Daily
There is no law which says anyone must apply for a Social Security number (SSN). It is entirely voluntary and, contrary to public opinion, employers cannot deny employment to anyone who does not have a SSN nor can any other services be denied BY ANYONE for lack of a SSN. Not to say it will not happen but if it does it is illegal and can be sued upon.
THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974 Title 5 of United States, Code Annotated 552 (a) is known as The Privacy Act of
1974. Based on the Privacy Act, and 88 Stat. 1896, Sec. 7 (a) (1), “It is against the law to require a common numerical identifier such as a social security or other number for any purpose when the individual does not wish to disclose one, they must still receive the right, benefit or privilege afforded by law as others would receive by disclosing a
common numerical identifier.” Courts have ruled in part:
“Right of privacy is a personal right designed to protect persons from unwanted
disclosure of personal information...” I Financial Corporation v. Local 743, D.C., Ill, (1981), 515 F. Supp. 942.
The District Court in Delaware held that The Privacy Act: “was enacted for the purpose of curtailing the expanding use of social security numbers...and to eliminate the threat to individual privacy and confidentiality of information posed by
common numerical identifiers.” Doyle v. Wilson, D.C ., Del. L (1982), 529 F. Supp. 1343.
Should any person, business or government agency decide to deny an individual any right, benefit or privilege when they refuse to reveal a social security number, or other common numerical identifier that man or woman can file summary suit in US District Court, and if successful, are assured a minimum of $1,000.00 plus attorney fees:
(A) actual damages sustained by the individual as a result of the refusal or failure, but in no case shall a person entitled to recovery receive less than the sum of $1,000.00; and
(B) the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court.”
Courts have determined that only the following agencies are permitted access to your social security account number:
1. The Department of Social Services, assistance. (D.S.H.S. for public assistance.) 2. The IRS (For tax purposes). Limited to voluntary use only by the people.
The IRS is not a U.S. Government Agency. It is a private collection agency for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)
1974. Based on the Privacy Act, and 88 Stat. 1896, Sec. 7 (a) (1), “It is against the law to require a common numerical identifier such as a social security or other number for any purpose when the individual does not wish to disclose one, they must still receive the right, benefit or privilege afforded by law as others would receive by disclosing a
common numerical identifier.” Courts have ruled in part:
“Right of privacy is a personal right designed to protect persons from unwanted
disclosure of personal information...” I Financial Corporation v. Local 743, D.C., Ill, (1981), 515 F. Supp. 942.
The District Court in Delaware held that The Privacy Act: “was enacted for the purpose of curtailing the expanding use of social security numbers...and to eliminate the threat to individual privacy and confidentiality of information posed by
common numerical identifiers.” Doyle v. Wilson, D.C ., Del. L (1982), 529 F. Supp. 1343.
Should any person, business or government agency decide to deny an individual any right, benefit or privilege when they refuse to reveal a social security number, or other common numerical identifier that man or woman can file summary suit in US District Court, and if successful, are assured a minimum of $1,000.00 plus attorney fees:
(A) actual damages sustained by the individual as a result of the refusal or failure, but in no case shall a person entitled to recovery receive less than the sum of $1,000.00; and
(B) the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court.”
Courts have determined that only the following agencies are permitted access to your social security account number:
1. The Department of Social Services, assistance. (D.S.H.S. for public assistance.) 2. The IRS (For tax purposes). Limited to voluntary use only by the people.
The IRS is not a U.S. Government Agency. It is a private collection agency for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)
RUN FROM THE CURE FULL MOVIE, YES!, THERE IS A CURE FOR CANCER!
STOP BELIEVING THESE DOCTORS AND START BELIEVING GOD SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND!
BURZYNSKI THE MOVIE, CANCER IS SERIOUS BUSINESS, IF YOU HAVE A LOVED ONE WITH CANCER LOOK AND LISTEN CAREFULLY!
WATCH THIS!!
THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOT TRYING TO FIND A CURE, GOOD HEALTH DOESN'T MAKE MONEY REMEMBER THAT BUT GOD HAS PUT EVERYTHING HERE FOR US HOMEOPATHICS IS OUR TRUE DIRECTION!!
Friday, September 23, 2011
SATANIC SALUTES, HIDING IT RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!
THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE PEOPLE, BEWARE I KNOW SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT THIS IS A ROCK & ROLL SIGN OR ITS WHAT THE DEAF USE TO SAY I LOVE, SOME USE BECAUSE OF INDUSTRY USAGE BUT WHAT YOU DON'T REALIZE THAT ITS ORIGIN IS OF A SATANIC NATURE THE DEVIL USES TRICKNOLOGY IF IT CAN TRICK YOU INTO BELIEVING SOMETHING THAT ISN'T SO IT WILL DO IT JUST BECAUSE TIME HAS PASSED WITH THESE SIGNS DON'T MEAN ITS ORIGINAL POWER IS GONE ITS JUST MAXIMIZED SO BE ALERT READ, RESEARCH, ASK QUESTIONS!!
SECRETS OF WASHINGTON D.C. WAKE UP NOW!!
THIS IS NO JOKE THEY ARE NOT PLAYING WITH US, READ, OBSERVE, TAKE NOTICE!!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
LET'S TALK BLOODLINES, SINCE A LOT OF YOU THINK THEY AREN'T RELEVENT!!
CLICK ON THIS, 13 BLOODLINES +3 FEAST ON THIS MENTAL NOURISHMENT!!
STRATEGIC CONTROL IS PARAMOUNT FOR GLOBAL DEPOPULATION!!
The Astor Bloodline, The Bundy Bloodline
The Collins Bloodline, The DuPont Bloodline
The Freeman Bloodline, The Kennedy Bloodline
The Li Bloodline, The Onassis Bloodline
The Reynolds Bloodline, The Rockefeller Bloodline
The Rothschild Bloodline, The Russell Bloodline
The Van Duyn Bloodline, Merovingian (European Royal Families)
The Top 13 Families & The Mormon Leadership (Moriah & The Mormon Leadership)
Interconnected families:
Disney - Uno de Los Mayores Engaños de Todos los Tiempos
The Disney Bloodline
The Krupp Bloodline
The McDonald Bloodline
STRATEGIC CONTROL IS PARAMOUNT FOR GLOBAL DEPOPULATION!!
The Astor Bloodline, The Bundy Bloodline
The Collins Bloodline, The DuPont Bloodline
The Freeman Bloodline, The Kennedy Bloodline
The Li Bloodline, The Onassis Bloodline
The Reynolds Bloodline, The Rockefeller Bloodline
The Rothschild Bloodline, The Russell Bloodline
The Van Duyn Bloodline, Merovingian (European Royal Families)
The Top 13 Families & The Mormon Leadership (Moriah & The Mormon Leadership)
Interconnected families:
Disney - Uno de Los Mayores Engaños de Todos los Tiempos
The Disney Bloodline
The Krupp Bloodline
The McDonald Bloodline
Saturday, September 10, 2011
FROM DEMOCRACY TO PLUTOCRACY, THE UNITED STATES OF CORPORATE AMERICA!
by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
January 22, 2010
from GlobalResearch Website
Rodrigue Tremblay [http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/author.htm] is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Montreal and can be reached at rodrigue.tremblay@yahoo.com
He is the author of the forthcoming book,
"The Code for Global Ethics"
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
ancient Greek philosopher
...“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”
Alex Carey
Australian social scientist
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”
Noam Chomsky
M.I.T. Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
On Tuesday, January 19 (2010), the Obama administration got a kick in the pants from the Massachusetts voters when they filled former Senator Ted Kennedy's seat by electing a conservative Republican candidate.
The essence of their message was:
stop dithering and start governing; stop trying to satisfy the bankers and please the editors of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, and start caring for the ordinary people.
Two days later, President Barack Obama seemed to have understood the people's message when he announced a “Volcker rule” that will forbid large banks from owning hedge funds that make money by placing large bets against their own clients, using information that these same clients gave them. It was time. Such a policy should have been announced months ago, if not years ago.
On the same day, however, a non-elected body, the U.S. Supreme Court, threw a different challenge to the Obama administration.
Indeed, on Thursday January 21 (2010), a Republican-appointed majority on the U.S. Supreme Court took it upon itself to profoundly change the U.S. Constitution and American democracy. Indeed, in what can be labeled a most reactionary decision, the Roberts U.S. Supreme Court, ruled that legal entities, such as corporations and labor unions, have the same purely personal rights to free speech as living individuals.
Indeed, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says,
“Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech."
The only problem with such a wide interpretation of the U.S. Bills of Rights (N.B.: The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights) is that this runs contrary its letter and its spirit, since it clearly states later on that,
"the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, and reserves all powers not granted to the federal government to the citizenry or States.”
The words “people” and “citizenry” clearly refer here to living human beings, not to legal or artificial entities such as business corporations, labor unions, financial organizations or political lobbies.
Such entities, for example, cannot vote in an election.
Indeed, laws governing voting rights in the United States clearly establish that only,
“Adult citizens of the United States who are residents of one of the 50 states have the right to participate fully in the political system of the United States”.
No mention is made of corporations or other legal entities.
However, with its January 19 (2010) decision, the majority on the Roberts U.S. Supreme Court is saying in effect that even if artificial entities cannot vote in an election, they can spend as much money as they like to influence the outcome of an election. Money is speech for them, and the more a legal entity has of it, the more it has a right to become powerful politically and control the political agenda.
In fact, what Chief Justice Roberts and his conservative Supreme Court majority have done is to overcome a century-old democratic tradition in the United States in granting a constitutional right to business corporations and to banks, (because they are really the ones with a lot of money), to use their enormous resources to not only participate in debates about public issues, but also, and above all, to de facto dictate the election of candidates of their choice to public office.
That's plutocracy, not democracy!
Plutocracy is defined as a political system characterized by “the rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.”
Democracy, on the other hand, is defined as a political system where political power belongs to the people.
This means “a political government either carried out directly by the people (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The terms "the power to the people" are derived from the words "people" and "power" in Greek.
This fundamental idea of democracy was well summarized by President Abraham Lincoln, in his 1863 Gettysburg Address, when he said that it is,
“a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
This is a definition that is based on the basic democratic principle of equality among human beings.
But now, the Roberts Court's decision must have made President Lincoln turn in his grave, because that decision, in effect, transfers political power from the living “people” to artificial corporate entities, with tons of money to spend. If Congress does not act quickly to reverse this decision, legal entities will be able to spend freely in the media to support or oppose political candidates for president and Congress, and this, as far as the last moment of a political campaign.
This is quite something!
By a stroke of the pen, the Roberts Court has thus abolished the laws governing American electoral financing and removed limits to how much special money interests can spend to have the elected officials they want.
The government they want will largely be,
“a government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.”
Truly amazing!
To reflect the new political philosophy of the five-member majority of the Roberts Court, the Preambule of the U.S. Constitution that says,
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union...” should, maybe, more appropriately be changed for “We, the business corporations of America...”
It is that much more ironic that the word “corporation” appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution or in the Bill of Rights.
It is scarcely conceivable that the drafters of the Constitution had anything resembling corporate entities in mind when they drafted the Bill of Rights. But the Roberts Court majority does not seem to agree with Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Mason...etc.
Because of their decision, the five conservative members of the U. S. Supreme Court of today have become the new Fathers of the U. S. Constitution.
For nearly a century, it has been assumed that the U.S. Bill of Rights protected persons, not corporations. Even if sometimes the courts have extended the rights of the14th Amendment banning the deprivation of property without due process or equal protection of the law to the property of corporations, it was never thought that the purely personal rights of the first Amendment of the Bill of Rights applied to corporate entities as well as to human beings.
This is understandable.
Business corporations are created through legislation that gives them potentially perpetual life and limited liability to enhance their efficiency as economic entities. While such characteristics can be beneficial in the economic sphere, they represent special dangers in the political sphere.
That is the rationale for not extending constitutional rights to purely legal entities.
But now, the five-member majority of the Roberts Court have said that such legalized artificial entities have the same constitutionally protected rights to engage in political activities as living individuals.
This is clearly revolutionary or, more precisely, counter-revolutionary.
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January 22, 2010
from GlobalResearch Website
Rodrigue Tremblay [http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/author.htm] is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Montreal and can be reached at rodrigue.tremblay@yahoo.com
He is the author of the forthcoming book,
"The Code for Global Ethics"
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
ancient Greek philosopher
...“The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”
Alex Carey
Australian social scientist
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”
Noam Chomsky
M.I.T. Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
On Tuesday, January 19 (2010), the Obama administration got a kick in the pants from the Massachusetts voters when they filled former Senator Ted Kennedy's seat by electing a conservative Republican candidate.
The essence of their message was:
stop dithering and start governing; stop trying to satisfy the bankers and please the editors of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, and start caring for the ordinary people.
Two days later, President Barack Obama seemed to have understood the people's message when he announced a “Volcker rule” that will forbid large banks from owning hedge funds that make money by placing large bets against their own clients, using information that these same clients gave them. It was time. Such a policy should have been announced months ago, if not years ago.
On the same day, however, a non-elected body, the U.S. Supreme Court, threw a different challenge to the Obama administration.
Indeed, on Thursday January 21 (2010), a Republican-appointed majority on the U.S. Supreme Court took it upon itself to profoundly change the U.S. Constitution and American democracy. Indeed, in what can be labeled a most reactionary decision, the Roberts U.S. Supreme Court, ruled that legal entities, such as corporations and labor unions, have the same purely personal rights to free speech as living individuals.
Indeed, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says,
“Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech."
The only problem with such a wide interpretation of the U.S. Bills of Rights (N.B.: The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights) is that this runs contrary its letter and its spirit, since it clearly states later on that,
"the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, and reserves all powers not granted to the federal government to the citizenry or States.”
The words “people” and “citizenry” clearly refer here to living human beings, not to legal or artificial entities such as business corporations, labor unions, financial organizations or political lobbies.
Such entities, for example, cannot vote in an election.
Indeed, laws governing voting rights in the United States clearly establish that only,
“Adult citizens of the United States who are residents of one of the 50 states have the right to participate fully in the political system of the United States”.
No mention is made of corporations or other legal entities.
However, with its January 19 (2010) decision, the majority on the Roberts U.S. Supreme Court is saying in effect that even if artificial entities cannot vote in an election, they can spend as much money as they like to influence the outcome of an election. Money is speech for them, and the more a legal entity has of it, the more it has a right to become powerful politically and control the political agenda.
In fact, what Chief Justice Roberts and his conservative Supreme Court majority have done is to overcome a century-old democratic tradition in the United States in granting a constitutional right to business corporations and to banks, (because they are really the ones with a lot of money), to use their enormous resources to not only participate in debates about public issues, but also, and above all, to de facto dictate the election of candidates of their choice to public office.
That's plutocracy, not democracy!
Plutocracy is defined as a political system characterized by “the rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.”
Democracy, on the other hand, is defined as a political system where political power belongs to the people.
This means “a political government either carried out directly by the people (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The terms "the power to the people" are derived from the words "people" and "power" in Greek.
This fundamental idea of democracy was well summarized by President Abraham Lincoln, in his 1863 Gettysburg Address, when he said that it is,
“a government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
This is a definition that is based on the basic democratic principle of equality among human beings.
But now, the Roberts Court's decision must have made President Lincoln turn in his grave, because that decision, in effect, transfers political power from the living “people” to artificial corporate entities, with tons of money to spend. If Congress does not act quickly to reverse this decision, legal entities will be able to spend freely in the media to support or oppose political candidates for president and Congress, and this, as far as the last moment of a political campaign.
This is quite something!
By a stroke of the pen, the Roberts Court has thus abolished the laws governing American electoral financing and removed limits to how much special money interests can spend to have the elected officials they want.
The government they want will largely be,
“a government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations.”
Truly amazing!
To reflect the new political philosophy of the five-member majority of the Roberts Court, the Preambule of the U.S. Constitution that says,
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union...” should, maybe, more appropriately be changed for “We, the business corporations of America...”
It is that much more ironic that the word “corporation” appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution or in the Bill of Rights.
It is scarcely conceivable that the drafters of the Constitution had anything resembling corporate entities in mind when they drafted the Bill of Rights. But the Roberts Court majority does not seem to agree with Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Mason...etc.
Because of their decision, the five conservative members of the U. S. Supreme Court of today have become the new Fathers of the U. S. Constitution.
For nearly a century, it has been assumed that the U.S. Bill of Rights protected persons, not corporations. Even if sometimes the courts have extended the rights of the14th Amendment banning the deprivation of property without due process or equal protection of the law to the property of corporations, it was never thought that the purely personal rights of the first Amendment of the Bill of Rights applied to corporate entities as well as to human beings.
This is understandable.
Business corporations are created through legislation that gives them potentially perpetual life and limited liability to enhance their efficiency as economic entities. While such characteristics can be beneficial in the economic sphere, they represent special dangers in the political sphere.
That is the rationale for not extending constitutional rights to purely legal entities.
But now, the five-member majority of the Roberts Court have said that such legalized artificial entities have the same constitutionally protected rights to engage in political activities as living individuals.
This is clearly revolutionary or, more precisely, counter-revolutionary.
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BILDERBERG CONFERENCE 2011 OVERVIEW
by NewWorldOrder June 12, 2011
from Bilderberg 2011 Website
According several inside sources, the Bilderberg 2011 agenda included a number of critical issues at the top of the elite’s to-do list.
from Bilderberg 2011 Website
According several inside sources, the Bilderberg 2011 agenda included a number of critical issues at the top of the elite’s to-do list.
Suvretta House Hotel
in St.Moritz, Switzerland
These breakdown as follows...
Arab Spring
The elite are concerned that the American Congress may soon turn against the illegal and immoral invasion under humanitarian cover by NATO and the United Nations against the north African dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Congress is rising in opposition to bogus wars launched by the executive branch in violation of the Constitution. More than a third of House Republicans voted to pull out of the NATO coalition attacking Gaddafi’s forces, in essence forcing a NATO withdrawal from the color revolution engineered civil war in that country.
The elite behind closed doors in Switzerland are pushing for a wider war and incalculable suffering in the Middle East.
The money masters have long profited from war and mass murder:
Nathan Rothschild made a financial bet on Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo while also funding the Duke of Wellington’s peninsular campaign against Napoleon.
The House of Rothschild financed,
the Prussian War
the Crimean War
the British attempt to seize the Suez Canal from the French
the Mexican War
the Civil War in the U.S.
Internet Censorship
In addition to worrying about Congress waking up to the Libyan scam, the global elite is also concerned about a diverse liberty movement that has grown exponentially with the help of an open and free internet.
In response, the pocketed pawns in Congress have introduced a raft of bills over the last few months designed to take down the internet and blunt its impact as a medium for alternative news and information.
On the international front, the European Commission gave a nod toward implementing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a draconian measure that will subvert national sovereignty, trash Net Neutrality, consumer privacy, and civil liberties. In the United States, the corporate media has virtually ignored ACTA, but then key players in the Mockingbird media are often Bilderberg attendees and privy to aspects of the agenda.
The above represent a small sampling of legislation and treaties that will be used to shut down the opposition under the cover of protecting copyright and preventing terrorism.
The globalists are not opposed to the internet, especially as a corporatized money-making instrument.
They are, however, opposed to an open, free, and unregulated by government internet where alternative media opposed to their globalist devices are allowed to thrive.
In addition, we can expect minions of the global elite who parade around as our elected representatives and appointed government officials to continue their propaganda efforts to convince the people that the internet will be used as a terrorist weapon of mass destruction and as such needs to be tightly regulated - for our own safety, of course, and that of the children.
Prolonging the economic crisis
Finally, the Bilderbergers will work on an effort to continue into further fantastic debt producing banksters bailouts, specifically for,
Greece
Ireland
Portugal,
...and other member EU nations sliding toward bankruptcy and social disruption on a monumental scale.
Oil prices will skyrocket - a faith accomplished with gas prices at the pump now at historically high levels - as the global elite work behind the scenes to take take down national economies.
New revelations also deal with the death of the dollar, exploding energy prices, and the engineered onset of order out of chaos revolution worldwide.
Because the plan is,
to take down national sovereignty
impose drastic austerity measures
hold fire sales on national assets
consolidate wealth and power
use an endless economic crisis,
...as an excuse to usher in world government, a one-world currency, and a sprawling high-tech police state.
In response, the pocketed pawns in Congress have introduced a raft of bills over the last few months designed to take down the internet and blunt its impact as a medium for alternative news and information.
On the international front, the European Commission gave a nod toward implementing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a draconian measure that will subvert national sovereignty, trash Net Neutrality, consumer privacy, and civil liberties. In the United States, the corporate media has virtually ignored ACTA, but then key players in the Mockingbird media are often Bilderberg attendees and privy to aspects of the agenda.
The above represent a small sampling of legislation and treaties that will be used to shut down the opposition under the cover of protecting copyright and preventing terrorism.
The globalists are not opposed to the internet, especially as a corporatized money-making instrument.
They are, however, opposed to an open, free, and unregulated by government internet where alternative media opposed to their globalist devices are allowed to thrive.
In addition, we can expect minions of the global elite who parade around as our elected representatives and appointed government officials to continue their propaganda efforts to convince the people that the internet will be used as a terrorist weapon of mass destruction and as such needs to be tightly regulated - for our own safety, of course, and that of the children.
Prolonging the economic crisis
Finally, the Bilderbergers will work on an effort to continue into further fantastic debt producing banksters bailouts, specifically for,
Greece
Ireland
Portugal,
...and other member EU nations sliding toward bankruptcy and social disruption on a monumental scale.
Oil prices will skyrocket - a faith accomplished with gas prices at the pump now at historically high levels - as the global elite work behind the scenes to take take down national economies.
New revelations also deal with the death of the dollar, exploding energy prices, and the engineered onset of order out of chaos revolution worldwide.
Because the plan is,
to take down national sovereignty
impose drastic austerity measures
hold fire sales on national assets
consolidate wealth and power
use an endless economic crisis,
...as an excuse to usher in world government, a one-world currency, and a sprawling high-tech police state.
New head of the IMF decision
It was reported that the new IMF head would be decided at the Bilderberg meeting.
A prominent attendee to the elitist gathering has been entered into the race to become the IMF head at the eleventh hour.
Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer, an insider favorite of Bilderberg and multiple time attendee, announced his intention to bid to become the replacement managing director of the IMF, taking the position previously held by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, himself a former Bilderberg attendee.
Fischer is also a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission.
Strauss-Kahn stepped down from the position after it was alleged he attempted to rape a hotel maid. Some believe Strauss-Kahn was set-up in order to remove him from the IMF.
A three way race is now in place between Fischer, Mexican central banker AgustÃn Carstens and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.
Both Carstens and Lagarde have embarked on tours to promote their bids and will be joined now by Stanley Fischer.
Over-population
Jim Tucker’s anonymous steering level Bilderberg inside source told him war in the Middle East is at the top of the elite’s agenda.
The long time Bilderberg sleuth said the elite believe the world is over-populated and war represents a partial solution.
“They are unified on their war project,” said Tucker, citing his Trilateralist-Bilderberg source, “their rationalize the world is too crowded anyway, they have to limit the population growth, the one way to do it is with wars. They have been emphasizing that all day.”
Bilderberg Conference awareness and coverage
Security camera tripods
at the Bilderberg Group 2011 conference
Tucker also said the elite are outraged by the patriot movement and the alternative media’s coverage of the Bilderberg meetings and the release of information by moles and insiders.
He said the elite attempted to get media magnate Rupert Murdoch to convince The Guardian in the United Kingdom and the Irish Times to scale back their reportage on the Bilderbergers, but he was unable to do so.
Tucker’s sources also said the Bilderbergers are stunned about the presence of demonstrators and alternative media.
Tucker also said the elite are outraged by the patriot movement and the alternative media’s coverage of the Bilderberg meetings and the release of information by moles and insiders.
He said the elite attempted to get media magnate Rupert Murdoch to convince The Guardian in the United Kingdom and the Irish Times to scale back their reportage on the Bilderbergers, but he was unable to do so.
Tucker’s sources also said the Bilderbergers are stunned about the presence of demonstrators and alternative media.
HILARY, OBAMA, BILDERBERG WOW!!!!!!!
Hillary & Obama In Secret Bilderberg Rendezvous
by Paul Joseph Watson
June 6, 2008
from PrisonPlanet Website
Campaign spokespeople refuse to disclose location of meeting, but reports admit Democratic candidates convened at
"an event in Northern Virginia"
According to news reports, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton went out of their way to hold their long-awaited private meeting in a very specific location - not at Hillary's mansion in Washington - but in Northern Virginia, which also just happens to be the scene of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting.
Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs told the media that Obama and Clinton held a private meeting last night but he refused to disclose where it taken place, except that it was not at Clinton's home in Washington, as had been widely reported.
Hillary campaign managers also refused to disclose the location of the rendezvous.
"Reporters traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening between the pair when they arrived at Dulles International Airport after an event in Northern Virginia and Obama was not aboard the airplane," reports the Associated Press.
Dulles just happens to be walking distance from the Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly where Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and the rest of the Bilderberg globalists are convening.
"Asked at the time about the Illinois senator's whereabouts, Gibbs smiled and declined to comment," the reports adds.
What is the only political "event" taking place in Northern Virginia at the moment?
The Bilderberg Group meeting of course. Rather than taking the easier option of meeting at Clinton's Washington mansion, Obama and Hillary went out of their way to grace the Bilderberg elitists with their presence.
The neo-liberal website Wonkette, which had previously ridiculed "conspiracy theorists" for ascribing power to Bilderberg, seemed to take a somewhat different tone when it made the connection between Obama and Hillary's meeting and the Bilderberg Group.
"Guess who had a very private talky-talk in (maybe) romantic Northern Virginia tonight, probably at the Bilderberg Group meeting in Chantilly? Your Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton!," states the blog.
"They really met and talked, in private, Thursday night. And really, it sounds like they did this at that creepy Bilderberg Group meeting, which is happening now, and which is so secret that nobody will admit they’re going, even though everybody who is anybody goes to Bilderberg."
To have the potential future President and Vice-President of America attend a conference that debunkers have dismissed as a mere talking shop for old white men once again underscores the real influence that Bilderberg enjoys.
Not one U.S. corporate media outlet has made the connection between the location of the Bilderberg Group conference this year and Obama and Hillary's decision to venture out to Chantilly for their confidential "tet a tet".
Not one U.S. corporate media outlet has yet uttered one word about 125 of the world's most influential power brokers meeting behind closed doors to discuss the future of the planet on U.S. soil - while being met by the probable future President of the United States.
Both Hillary and Obama have deep rooted connections to the Bilderberg elitists.
Bill Clinton attended the 1991 meeting in Germany shortly before becoming President and he attended again in 1999 when the conference was held in Sintra, Portugal (despite Clinton's lie that he had not attended in 15 years).
Hillary herself was rumored to have attended the 2006 meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
As we reported last month, Bilderberg luminary and top corporate elitist James A. Johnson will select Democratic candidate Barack Obama's running mate for the 2008 election and in turn potentially act as kingmaker for America's future President.
Johnson also selected John Kerry's running mate John Edwards in 2004 after Edwards had impressed Bilderberg elitists Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller with a speech he gave at the globalist confab in Italy that year.
Johnson, who attended last year's Bilderberg meeting in Turkey, is a representative for Friends of Bilderberg, an offshoot group that organizes Bilderberg's annual meeting.
Hillary and Obama's attendance of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting, and the complete failure of the mainstream media to report on the fact, once again betrays the super-secretive nature and influential reputation that the 54-year-old organization still maintains.
Friday, September 9, 2011
THE BEST KEPT SECRETS OF THE IRS (Y'ALL ARE NOT READY! HA! HA!)
THE BEST KEPT SECRETS OF THE IRS
© Copyright 1993 By Frederick Mann, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Introduction
In order to legally and safely beat the IRS it is necessary for you to adopt a certain frame of mind. You need to have a certain independence of mind. You need to be able to read the U.S. Constitution for yourself. You need to be able to recognize how the Supreme Court "judges" and other politicians routinely violate the Constitution. You need to realize that practically all lawyers and accountants are handmaidens of the "terrocrats" - terrorist bureaucrats or coercive government agents. If you cannot already think for yourself, you need to learn to do so. You need to be able to think and do what is contrary to the entrenched among your family and friends. You need to become the authority of your own life. These and related issues are covered in the many other reports.
The Best Kept Secrets of the IRS
The Sixteenth Amendment, supposedly giving Congress the power to collect income taxes, was never ratified. (For the compelling evidence, get the book The Law That Never Was from Common Sense Press, PO Box 1544, Billings, MT 59103.) Furthermore, the 16th Amendment, even if ratified, is just a smokescreen that doesn't grant any new taxing powers to Congress. The Supreme Court found in 1916 in the case Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co.; 240 U.S. 1, that the 16th Amendment didn't extend the taxing powers of Congress.
© Copyright 1993 By Frederick Mann, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Introduction
In order to legally and safely beat the IRS it is necessary for you to adopt a certain frame of mind. You need to have a certain independence of mind. You need to be able to read the U.S. Constitution for yourself. You need to be able to recognize how the Supreme Court "judges" and other politicians routinely violate the Constitution. You need to realize that practically all lawyers and accountants are handmaidens of the "terrocrats" - terrorist bureaucrats or coercive government agents. If you cannot already think for yourself, you need to learn to do so. You need to be able to think and do what is contrary to the entrenched among your family and friends. You need to become the authority of your own life. These and related issues are covered in the many other reports.
The Best Kept Secrets of the IRS
The Sixteenth Amendment, supposedly giving Congress the power to collect income taxes, was never ratified. (For the compelling evidence, get the book The Law That Never Was from Common Sense Press, PO Box 1544, Billings, MT 59103.) Furthermore, the 16th Amendment, even if ratified, is just a smokescreen that doesn't grant any new taxing powers to Congress. The Supreme Court found in 1916 in the case Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co.; 240 U.S. 1, that the 16th Amendment didn't extend the taxing powers of Congress.
The Constitution does not empower Congress to delegate any function to the IRS.
The IRS is apparently a private corporation registered in Delaware.
The IRS is the Gestapo of the Federal Reserve bankers. The same sponsors pushed the Federal Reserve Act and the Sixteenth Amendment through Congress in 1913.
The purpose of the IRS is not to collect taxes but to control and terrorize people.
It is doubtful whether money collected by the IRS goes to the government. Checks received by the IRS seem to be deposited by the Federal Reserve bankers, with "FRB" (for "Federal Reserve Bank") stamped on returned checks.
Because of the limitations placed by the Constitution on the federal government, the IRS has no jurisdiction in the 50 states.
The Internal Revenue Code is not law.
The Internal Revenue Code defines the term "person" in such a way that it does not apply to most Americans.
For most Americans, the income tax is voluntary.
The federal income tax is an indirect or excise tax. The end-recipient of income cannot be liable for income tax.
The term "income" is so defined in the tax code that wages or salaries do not constitute "income."
Most corporations in America need not subject themselves to the IRS in any way.
Corporations may only withhold taxes from an employee's earnings if the employee specifically requests such withholding. No one can be legally forced to complete a W4 withholding form.
Employers who withhold part of the salaries or wages of employees against the will of the latter, commit theft.
The U.S. Constitution effectively defines "money" as gold and silver - Article I, Section 10: "No State shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." The law agrees: "The terms 'lawful money' and "lawful money of the United States' shall be construed to mean gold or silver coin of the United States." (12 USC 152.) The Federal Reserve Note is not money; it is counterfeit currency. Hence receipts in Federal Reserve Notes, having no legal value, are not taxable.
It may be that most Americans can relinquish their "U.S. Citizenship" and declare themselves State Citizens, subject to neither Federal nor State income taxes.
There is a legal principle "void for vagueness." The tax code is in many parts so vague that nobody (including IRS terrocrats) can understand it. A 1991 Supreme Court case found that if someone sincerely believes that he or she doesn't have to file a tax return and pay income tax, then that person cannot be convicted of a crime. Several other courts have found accordingly.
Also in 1991, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that if someone claims they are not subject to the federal income tax, then the burden to prove the contrary is on the IRS. For most Americans the IRS can't prove this.
Filing a 1040 or other tax return involves the surrender of the Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate oneself. The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution says that no one can be forced to incriminate himself or herself.
All IRS liens and seizures are illegal.
The IRS in its totality is a violent, criminal extortion racket with no legal basis whatsover.
There are methods for protecting income and assets so that, no matter what the IRS terrocrats do, it becomes difficult for them to violate our unalienable rights to own property and the fruits of our labor. One way is to use Trusts.
In his book Tax Fraud & Evasion: The War Stories, Attorney Donald W. MacPherson exposes the IRS as a paper tiger. The probability that any individual will be prosecuted for not paying taxes to the IRS are about one in 70,000. The probability that any individual will go to jail for not paying taxes are about one in 146,000. I believe that if you follow the advice in Beat-The-IRS Manual and The Pure Trust Package, the probability of having trouble with the IRS drops close to zero.
A Call To Action
Practically everything the Federal Government does is evil, unconstitutional, criminal, and highly destructive. The IRS Gestapo plays a major role in keeping the criminal terrocrats in power. The IRS needs to be eliminated. In the words of Attorney Donald W. MacPherson, "The Beast must be destroyed." What Federal Government we need (if any) can be financed through voluntary exchange for valuable products and services produced, augmented by voluntary contributions.
Please do your patriotic duty. Finance yourself - and worthy causes and institutions of your choice. Are you going to stay in the cattle herd - or join the human race of free sovereign individuals?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Is it possible for Americans to legally stop paying income taxes?
It is possible for most Americans to legally stop paying both federal and state income taxes. This applies to most Americans who live and work in the 50 States. It does not necessarily apply to Americans working for the federal government, or those who work in federal military installations. The central issue here is federal jurisdiction which is covered under question #3. However, anyone who has entered into a contract with the IRS to pay them, has to fulfill that contract.
How the IRS tricks its victims into becoming "liable"
The IRS see it this way: By sending a 1040 tax return to the IRS, you voluntarily assess yourself, you acquiesce to IRS jurisdiction, and you become "liable" for federal income tax. Essentially, you enter into a contract with them.
Alternatively, when you open a bank account, on your signature card you sign something like, "Under penalty of perjury I certify that... The number shown on this form is my correct taxpayer identification number." The signature card (without your knowledge) may also commit you to adhere to all current and future IRS regulations. Simply by opening a bank account you condemn yourself to being a "taxpayer" and you swear that your "social security number" is your "correct taxpayer identification number."
By understanding this, you can learn how to undo it, because these supposed "contracts" with the IRS aren't valid - as explained in detail in other Tax Reports.
2. Do all Americans have to file 1040 returns? If not, which Americans have to file?
Not all Americans have to file. Americans living and working outside federal jurisdiction (basically in the 50 States) don't have to file. Those subject to federal jurisdiction (Washington DC, federal military installations, and U.S. territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands) probably have to file. Once any American has filed a 1040 return, he or she has to continue to file, unless he or she takes special measures to revoke the "election" to pay income taxes. See question #4.
3. What does the U.S. Constitution say about federal jurisdiction and how does this affect who is subject to federal income tax?
Two clauses in the Constitution define federal jurisdiction:
(a) Article I, Section 8, Clause 17: "The Congress shall have the power to exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, and other needful buildings..."
(b) Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2: "The Congress shall have the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States..."
I have news for you, folks: The territorial and legislative jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress extends to the ten square miles of Washington DC, military installations where States have explicitly ceded authority to the federal government, and U.S. Territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. In accordance, IRS income taxes apply (if they apply at all) to people who live and/or work in these areas, or who work for the federal government.
4. Does the Internal Revenue Code specifically tell you how to terminate or revoke your "election" to pay federal income tax?
Section 6013(g)(4) states the following: "TERMINATION OF ELECTION. - An election under this subsection shall terminate at the earliest of the following times: (A) REVOCATION BY TAXPAYERS. - If either taxpayer revokes the election, as of the first taxable year for which the last day prescribed by law for filing the return of tax under chapter 1 has not yet occurred."
ORIGINALLY, MY ANSWER TO QUESTION 4 IMPLIED "YES." HOWEVER, I WAS MISTAKEN. THE ABOVE IS REALLY AN "ELECTION" TO BE TREATED IN A DIFFERENT WAY BY THE IRS.
SO, THE CORRECT ANSWER TO QUESTION 4 IS "NO!"
5. Why, in its literature, does the IRS consistently say that the federal income tax is based on "self-assessment and voluntary compliance?"
IRS literature often uses the terms "self-assessment" and "voluntary compliance." The reason for this is that senior IRS personnel know that the law does not require most Americans to file income tax returns. The income tax does not apply to most Americans unless they voluntarily enter into a contract with the IRS. By filling out, signing, and filing an income tax return you voluntarily enter into a contract with the IRS. Once you have entered into such a contract it is not easy to get out of it. Tax abatement service companies provide the expert support to terminate the contract.
Like all government agencies, the IRS has a mission. Its mission as published in the Federal Register of March 25, 1974, includes: "The mission of the Service is to encourage and achieve the highest degree of voluntary compliance... " Do IRS Commissioners agree with the voluntary nature of federal income tax?
"Each year American taxpayers voluntarily file their tax returns and make a special effort to pay the taxes they owe." Johnnie M. Walker, IRS Commissioner, 1971, Internal Revenue 1040 Booklet.
"Our tax system is based on individual self assessment and voluntary compliance." Mortimer Caplin, IRS Commissioner, 1975 Internal Revenue Audit Manual.
"In fairness to the millions of taxpayers who voluntarily file, report all their income and pay the tax due... ." Jerome Kurtz, IRS Commissioner, 1979 Internal Revenue Annual Report.
"The IRS's primary task is to collect taxes under a voluntary compliance system." Jerome Kurtz, IRS Commissioner, 1980 Internal Revenue Annual Report.
According to Alan Stang (Taxscam: How The IRS Swindles You And What You Can Do About It), Robert J. Brann, Chief of Technical Services Branch, IRS, Washington, D.C., wrote to a "gentleman in New York" on March 11, 1981, "... In carrying out its responsibilities for administering the federal income tax laws, the Service encourages voluntary compliance by taxpayers. Voluntary compliance places on tax payers the initial responsibility for deciding whether under the law they are required to file returns, and the responsibility for paying any tax that may be due... "
"... Encourage and achieve the highest possible degree of voluntary compliance... " Harold M. Browning, IRS District Director, Hawaii, 1984.
"Let's not forget the delicate nature of the voluntary compliance tax system... " Lawrence Gibbs, IRS Commissioner, Las Vegas Review Journal, May 18, 1988.
"We don't want to lose voluntary compliance... We don't want to lose this gem of voluntary compliance." Fred Goldberg, IRS Commissioner, Money magazine, April, 1990.
During the Eighty-Third Congress in 1953, Dwight E. Avis, head of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division, Bureau of Internal Revenue, testified before the Ways and Means Committee, "Let me point this out now: Your income tax is 100 percent voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax. Now, the situation is as different as night and day."
The tax return for a manufacturer of tobacco products says, "The information is mandatory by statute. (26 USC 5061, 5703)." All mandatory tax returns mention penalties for not filing, for example, the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Return states, "... punishable upon conviction by a fine of not more than $100,000.00... " Check your 1040 for the statute that says you must file, and the penalty for not filing - you won't find them.
Congress has a legal research branch called the Congressional Research Service. A letter, dated June 26, 1989, from the office of Senator Daniel K. Inouye in Hawaii to a tax consultant Fred Ortiz states, that based on the research performed by the Congressional Research Service, "there is no provision which specifically and unequivocally requires an individual to pay income taxes." [Emphasis added]
Let me cite three court cases that seem to support the notion that the federal income tax is voluntary:
"Our system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint [seizure by distress]." Flora v. U.S., 362 U.S. 145, 176 (1959).
In case of any ambiguity of statutory construction, the doubt should be resolved in favor of the taxpayer, not the government. Greyhound Corp. v. U.S., 495 F. 2d 863 (1974).
"The taxpayer must be liable for the tax. Tax liability is a condition precedent to the demand. Merely demanding payment, even repeatedly, does not cause liability... For the condition precedent of liability to be met, there must be a lawful assessment, either a voluntary one by the taxpayer, or one procedurally proper, by the IRS. Because this country's income tax system is based on voluntary assessment, rather than distraint [seizure by distress], the Service may assess the tax only in certain circumstances and in conformity with proper procedures." Bothke v. Fluor Engineers & Construction, Inc., Ninth Circuit (1983).
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, "No person shall... be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." However, the Supreme Court has ruled:
The Fifth Amendment "applies alike to criminal and civil proceedings." McCarthy v. Anderson, 266 U.S. 34.
"There can be no question that one who files a return under oath is a witness within the meaning of the [Fifth] Amendment." Sullivan v. U.S., 15 F2nd 809.
"The information revealed in the preparation and filing of an income tax return is, for Fifth Amendment analysis, the testimony of a "witness" as that term is used herein." Garner v. U.S., 424 U.S. 648.
6. What is the significance of the 1991 Supreme Court case, Cheek vs. U.S.?
Cheek v. U.S. (No. 89-658; 1991 U.S. Lexis 348; 1991 WL 422 [U.S.]) This Supreme Court case represents a major turning point for those seeking to defend their rights against the IRS. Prior to this case, many courts applied the so-called "Cooley rule," which was effectively used to prevent people from entering evidence for their own defence in tax cases. Typically, prosecutors would file preliminary ("in limine") motions prohibiting defendants from entering evidence to defend themselves. Thus most tax prosecutions occurred in farcical kangaroo courts where the defendants were not allowed to defend themselves!
The Cheek decision changed that. Among other things it found:
(a) Defendants may enter evidence in their defense.
(b) Defendants can provide a "good faith" defense: if they sincerely believed (no matter how irrational the belief) that they didn't have to file and pay income tax, then they can't be guilty of a crime.
7. What is the significance of the 1991 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals case, Ramon/Dolores Portillo vs. Internal Revenue?
Ramon and Dolores Portillo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. (932 F.2d 1128 [5th Cir., 1991]) The Cheek case was a severs blow to the IRS in criminal cases. The U.S. Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit likewise dealt a severe blow to the IRS in civil cases. The court effectively found that in the case of an IRS assessment of tax deficiency, the burden of proof shifts to the IRS. In other words, they have to prove that you owe them money.
8. Who are the people who have most to fear from the IRS?
Those who file tax returns are most at risk. Because of the ambiguities of the Internal Revenue Code it is impossible to file a tax return without the IRS being able to nail you for filing a false return or committing perjury.
High-profile people like Leona Helmsley, Willie Nelson, and the late Red Foxx, who can be nailed as examples - providing wide media exposure.
People who use IRS-handmaiden lawyers and/or accountants to assist them in their tax affairs.
Tax protestors who stop filing and/or paying without properly terminating their contracts with the IRS.
The people who have least to fear from the IRS are those who have never entered into a contract with the IRS, those who know the weaknesses of the IRS, those who have properly "untaxed" themselves under the guidance of a competent tax abatement service company, and those who have organized their personal affairs so they don't own any assets and don't have any bank accounts the IRS or other government looters can seize.
It is important that you appreciate that the Internal Revenue Code is so complex and convoluted that nobody can understand it. This means that whatever tax return you file can be "proved" by the IRS to constitute fraud and perjury.
"Well, it's a system so utterly complex and ultimately inexplicable that half the time the tax professionals themselves aren't sure what the rules are - a system that even Albert Einstein is said to have admitted he couldn't begin to fathom. You know, it's said that his hair didn't look that way until after he experienced his first tax form." - Ronald Reagan, 1985.
Every year since 1987 Money magazine has run a contest in which 50 tax preparers complete the federal income tax return for a hypothetical family. In 1988 there were ten correct returns, in 1989 two, in 1990 one, and in 1991 zero. For the 1991 tax year the "target tax" was $26,619 - the tax amount for a correct tax return. Not one of the professional tax preparers got it right. At the low extreme, one tax preparer calculated the tax due as $16,219. She spent 25 hours on the job and charged a fee of $750. At the high extreme, another professional tax preparer calculated the tax due as $46,564. It took him 40 hours and he charged $3,000.
The contestants presumably fancied themselves as expert tax preparers, and did their utmost to win first prize. They consisted mostly of professional CPAs and former IRS agents. If you take your papers and records to two "professional tax preparers," one might calculate your tax as $16,000, and the other as $46,000! Need I say any more?
Note that if you had hired any of these professionals to prepare your tax return, the result could have been prosecution for fraud and perjury. Not one of them got it right
9. Which 6 books should you read in order to understand the IRS and to safely beat it? (Where can you get them?)
Congressman George Hansen: To Harass Our People: The IRS and Government Abuse of Power (Positive Publications, Box 23560, Washington DC 20024).
Donald W. MacPherson: Tax Fraud & Evasion: The War Stories (phone 1-800-BEAT-IRS).
Mitch Modeleski: The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code of Internal Revenue (Account for Better Citizenship, c/o PO Box 6189, San Rafael, California Republic, PZ 94903-0189/TDC).
Irwin A. Schiff: The Biggest Con: How Government is Fleecing You (Freedom Books, 60 Skiff St #300, Hamden, CT 06517).
Irwin A. Schiff: The Federal Mafia: How It Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes (Freedom Books, 60 Skiff St #300, Hamden, CT 06517).
Alan Stang: Tax Scam: How the IRS Swindles You and What You Can Do About It (Mount Sinai Press, Research Publications, PO Box 84902, Phoenix, AZ 84902).
10. Is it possible for an informed citizen to legally and safely run rings around the IRS?
Yes. The informed citizen can beat the pants off the IRS. The best strategy might be to simply "disappear" as far as the IRS is concerned - see Report #16C: U.S. Tax Abatement Services. For extra safety it is advisable to use Trusts to safeguard assets. You may also want to use alternative banking services, as they become more available and more practical.
"Your mind will muse on the terror: "Where is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed the tribute? Where is the one who counted the towers?" No longer will you see the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language that you cannot understand."
- Isaiah 33, verses 18-19.
"To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals... is nonetheless robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation."
- U.S. Supreme Court - Loan Association v. Topeka (1874).
"In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I was amazed when he told me that, "If the taxpayers of this country discover that the IRS operates on 90% bluff, the entire system will collapse.""
- Senator Henry Bellmon, 1969.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
GRADE A & B FOODS (FOODS FOR A BETTER YOU)
Rounding out the A-grade food category are A-grade proteins, which are the
LEAN, complete proteins (those containing all the essential amino acids) and the A grade fats, which are those high in omega-3’s and other healthy essential fatty acids. Foods such as Salmon, which are high in protein and heart healthy Omega three fats could even be graded as an A+!
LEAN, complete proteins (those containing all the essential amino acids) and the A grade fats, which are those high in omega-3’s and other healthy essential fatty acids. Foods such as Salmon, which are high in protein and heart healthy Omega three fats could even be graded as an A+!
A-GRADE FIBROUS CARBS - Spinach Kale Broccoli Cauliflower Brussel sprouts Green Beans Asparagus Collard greens Green and red peppers Mushrooms Tomatoes Onions Cucumbers All other fibrous carbs, green vegetables or salad vegetables
A-GRADE STARCHY CARBS - Yams Sweet potatoes Barley Oatmeal (Old fashioned unsweetened) Beans, all types Black eye peas Slow cooked brown rice (long grain/basmati) Lentils White potatoes Red potatoes Carrots
A-GRADE SIMPLE CARBS - All fresh fruits (not including canned, sweetened, or juice) A-grade fats Flaxseed oil Udo’s Choice essential oil blend Fish Oil Fatty fish (salmon, trout, herring, sardines)
A-GRADE STARCHY CARBS - Yams Sweet potatoes Barley Oatmeal (Old fashioned unsweetened) Beans, all types Black eye peas Slow cooked brown rice (long grain/basmati) Lentils White potatoes Red potatoes Carrots
A-GRADE SIMPLE CARBS - All fresh fruits (not including canned, sweetened, or juice) A-grade fats Flaxseed oil Udo’s Choice essential oil blend Fish Oil Fatty fish (salmon, trout, herring, sardines)
A-grade proteins Chicken breast Turkey breast Extra lean ground turkey Ostrich Buffalo/Bison/lean game meats Fish, all types Shellfish Egg whites Non fat cottage cheese Top round steak (leanest cut of red meat) Protein powder supplements (whey, casein, or combination)
A-GRADE FATS - Flaxseed oil Udo’s Choice essential oil blend Fish Oil Fatty fish (salmon, trout, herring, sardines)
A-GRADE PROTEINS - Chicken breast Turkey breast Extra lean ground turkey Ostrich Buffalo/Bison/lean game meats Fish, all types Shellfish Egg whites Non fat cottage cheese Top round steak (leanest cut of red meat) Protein powder supplements (whey, casein, or combination)
B-GRADE CARBPHYDRATES - 100% whole grain, unsweetened boxed cereals 100% whole grain cooked cereals 100% whole grain pastas (amaranth, quinoa, wheat, etc) 100% whole grain breads (100% whole wheat, rye, spelt, etc) 100% Whole wheat pitas 100% Whole grain, unsweetened muffins Quick brown rice Quick oatmeal (unsweetened)
B-GRADE PROTEIN & DAIRY PRODUCTS - Flank steak Extra Lean top sirloin Extra lean ground beef Extra lean red meats, other Lowfat ground turkey Non fat or 1% low fat sour cream Non fat or 1% low fat cheese Non fat or 1% low fat cream cheese Nonfat or 1% low fat, sugar free yogurt 1% low fat cottage cheese Whole eggs (1 whole egg per 5-6 whites is a good ratio)
B-GRADE FATS - Extra virgin olive oil & olive oil salad dressings Natural peanut butter Olives Avocado Nuts & seeds Reduced fat, reduced calorie salad dressings
TOM VENUTO
YES THERE WAS A REAL UNCLE TOM (HIS-STORY USES THE NEGATIVE IMAGE!)
Let me first say, I got madd love for Jalen Rose. He's a voice to be reckoned with when it comes to speaking truth about sports, but the history of this name must be addressed because most everyone believes this fabrication of a manz life that has endured humiliation for nearly two-hundred yearz.
We all know being called a sell-out, or more precisely an Uncle Tom, is the ultimate diss — especially when called this from another Afrikan. For yearz Afrikan people who did thingz to be in favor of whitefolk were called 'Uncle Tom's'; the problem is, hedz don't even know who Uncle Tom was.
THE REAL UNCLE TOM...
There is a myth about the character known to many American-Afrikanz as Uncle Tom. To begin with, he was not a mythical person, although his character turned out to be. He was created to describe the house negro; a derogatory term used to verbally assault those slaves who worked in the living quarterz of slave ownerz during the plantation dayz.
Afrikanz who were assigned to work as personal assistants, cooks, and nannies were often the ones targeted. The first came from the slave owner who would chose those with special abilities for inside tasks. The other and more verbal (and sometymz violent) torment came from other enslaved Afrikanz.
For nearly two centuries, Uncle Tom has taken the rap for Quimbo and Sambo , two negro supervisorz who lived and worked on a plantation along the Mississippi River. Owned by a barbarous slaveholder, they were forced to brutally overwork lower-ranking enslaved Afrikanz with a wicked and tyrannical disregard for physical limitation or human dignity.
Writer, Bil Carpenter, writer of Destiny Magazine, wrote in an article, "Drunk with power to rule over other slaves their cruelty knew no boundz. The slapstick duo obliged their master, and by doing so were afforded privileges, above and far beyond fellow slaves. They were designated as leaderz by slave ownerz who perceived a willingness on their part to take charge of their brethren on behalf of their masterz. In exchange for the intoxicating false glory attached to the position of leader, they were required to demonstrate an allegiance to their appointing masterz that was tantamount to self-loathing."
Carpenter continued, "The master of this particularly hated pair, known only as Simon Legree, was described by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 classic, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Quimbo and Sambo took their derogatory names from the warped Mr. Legree. The two were said to evolve into a mirror image of the cruelty embodied by Mr. Legree, who is described by former slaves as the worst owner of humanz the South ever saw. There was, however, a sharp turn in history when Legree received, as payment of an old debt, a slave named Tom from a neighbor. It was Mr. Legree's first encounter with black dignity. This encounter would also lay the foundation for a not-so-subtle division among blacks, which exists, even to this day."
The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as other works describing the history of slavery, referz to Tom as a "rugged individualist who resisted, with dignity, the dictates of an insane system of humanz owning humanz," said Carpenter.
It is said his character mimicked Kunta Kente of Alex Haley's book, Roots. No amount of oppression or cruelty could break his spirit. Word spread from state to state after he challenged his new master to stop the cruelty exacted on field handz by the overseerz. During an incident when the parents of a young enslaved Afrikan female ran to Tom's cabin for his help to prevent Quimbo from raping their daughter, Tom confronted Legree as being the source of the evil that reigned terror on the entire plantation. He offered his own back to the whip in exchange for the freedom of the young woman.
The lack of fear for his own life and his willingness to stand up to Legree earned Tom the respected title of "Uncle," a name reserved in those dayz for the most honorable male in any given plantation. Enslaved Afrikanz adopted Tom as their own uncle and person to go to for intervention between master and enslaved Afrikan.
Carpenter continues, "In addition to performing his assigned chores with the utmost precision, he became champion of the mistreated, and eventually the political opposition to the leaderz. Legree, as well as other ownerz of Tom, found that to mistreat Tom brought about a work slowdown."
Soon, Tom lived in his own cabin, which became the place of counsel and sanctuary for Afrikanz with grievances. His willingness to confront black and white injustice earned him a limited freedom long before the Civil War.
He did encounter opposition however, but it was not from white slave owners. His biggest enemies were those black overseer's appointed as leaders over the people. They were being increasingly challenged by slaves who found the bold courage of Uncle Tom very attractive.
The historical fact is that a quiet but growing movement could be found in plantation after plantation of slaves who wrapped themselves around the concept of individual rights and dignity. By the mid 1820's these rugged souls, who grew in their boldness to stand up to their overseer's, became known as Uncle Tom's.
Black leader's who discovered they had an Uncle Tom among those they supervised were struck with panic at the impending challenge to authority. A line in the sand was drawn which some believe aided the spark we all know as the Civil War. The spark of contention, lit so long ago, continues to burn in the black community even today…"
The real Uncle Tom was a revolutionary and this challenged whitefolks ability to continue oppressing us. When his story was turned into a book and then a movie, the writerz re-worked the script making Uncle Tom's character the exact opposite; a slave who was loyal to his master and all too eager to please whitefolk — is this not the strategy YTs used in disguising practically all our history?!
With these works, this became the most commonly known image of Uncle Tom. Through the magic of rewriting history and making it into a book and film, the term "Uncle Tom" became synonomous with "sellout" overnight, putting into hibernation the real story of Uncle Tom.
The "Tom" caricature portrayz Afrikan men as loyal, happily submissive servants. As with the Mammy caricature, "Tom" was born in the era pre-Civil War America; a land very much in the defense of slavery. How could slavery be wrong, argued its backerz, if Afrikan servants were gratified, loyal servants?
"Tom" was presented as a smiling, wide-eyed, dark skinned server: fieldworker, cook, butler, porter, or waiter. Unlike the lower negroes, the "Tom" is portrayed as a dependable worker, eager to serve. Also, unlike the savagely violent negro (as they were labeled), the "Tom" is docile and non-threatening to YT. The "Tom" is often old, physically weak, and psychologically dependent on whitefolk for approval.
This is the same persona given to Stowe's "Tom" in her book. Her version of "Tom" is a gentle, humble, christian slave. Stowe uses this character to show the perfect gentleness and forgiving nature which she believed lay dormant in all Afrikanz — an imbedded psyche the majority of us around the world have psychologically inherited.
Examples of this is seen with Mr. Shelby, Tom's first Master, who is kind. Financial troubles forced Shelby to sell Tom. Tom does not run away despite a warning that he is to be sold. Mr. St. Clare, his second master, befriendz Tom and promises to free him. Unfortunately for Tom, St. Clare is killed before signing his freedom paperz. He endz up bein' sold to Simon Legree.
Legree wanted to make Tom an overseer. When he is ordered to flog a woman slave, Tom refuses. Legree strikes him repeatedly with a cowhide lash. Again, he tellz Tom to beat the woman. Tom, with a soft voice, sayz, "the poor crittur's sick and feeble; 'twould be downright cruel, and it's what I never would do, nor begin to. Mas'r, if you mean to kill me, kill me; but, as to my raising my hand agin anyone here, I never shall, -- I'll die first."
In a later altercation, because Tom refuses to reveal the whereabouts of Afrikanz who broke free, Legree orderz Sambo to beat him until he tellz and if not, to kill him. Tom died as a result of these injuries.
What's deep is despite being a model slave — hard working, loyal, non-rebellious, and often beefed with his overseer — Tom is sold, cursed, slapped, kicked, flogged, worked like a horse, then beaten to death. All this and he never lifts a hand to hit his masters nor to stop a blow. he doesn't complain, rebel, nor run away.
This is probably the reason the names "Uncle Tom" and "Tom" have become termz of disgust for American-Afrikanz: manz loyalty to his master is superseded only by his devotion to religious faith that supports the oppression of his people.
Uncle Tom's Cabin achieved a major feat for its time selling over two million copies within two yearz of its publication in 1853. By 1879 there were at least forty-nine traveling companies performing Uncle Tom's Cabin throughout the United States — all as a form of propaganda selling the stereotype of abiding negroes. The producerz went a step further in changing the book version for the stage which became known as Tom Showz.
Little Eva was now the star; all other characterz became irrelevant. The violence of slavery became a misnomer, almost to the point of mythological. Afrikanz were depicted as "happy darkies" living under a divine and harmonious system. The stage Toms represented a reconstructed contrast to the original Uncle Tom . Stowe's Tom was an obedient, loyal, non-complaining enslaved Afrikan, but he was not weak, submissive, or docile. Tom resisted Legree. He gave his life rather than help Legree find the two women runawayz.
Patricia Turner, author of Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies, noted the versions of Uncle Tom that entertained audiences on stages were drained of these noble traits. He was an unthinking religious slave, sometymz happy, often fearful. The stage Toms were middle-aged or elderly. He was shown stooped, often with a cane or stick. He was thin, almost withered. His eyesight was failing. These depictionz of Uncle Tom are inconsistent with Stowe's Tom who was a "broad-chested, strong armed fellow." Stowe's original was the father of small children, unlike the desexed Toms of the stage. Stowe's Tom was capable of outworking most slaves.
YT knowing the difference in effects reading has opposed to the ease of simply watching, everything was in place to reinforce the stereotype of the scrawny, god and overseer fearing negro — an image that has haunted us since.
JOSIAH HENSON: UNCLE TOM IN THE FLESH
There's another story to the legend of Uncle Tom that rarely is acknowledged, that being the belief by many Uncle Tom actually lived under the name Josiah Henson.
Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883), was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Ontario, Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborerz school for other fugitive Afrikanz at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. At the time of his arrival, Ontario was known as the Province of Upper Canada (U.C.), becoming the Province of Canada in 1841, then Ontario in 1867, all within Henson's lifetime there.
His 1849 autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, is widely believed to have inspired the title character of Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Following the success of Stowe's novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his life story in 1858 with, Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and published as Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (1876).
He was born on a farm near Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland. When he was a boy, his father was punished for standing up to a slave owner, receiving one hundred lashes and having his right ear nailed to the whipping-post, and then cut off. His father was later sold to someone in Alabama. Following his family's overseerz death, young Josiah was separated from his family when he was sold as property in an estate sale.
After his mother pleaded with her new owner Isaac Riley, Riley agreed to buy back Henson so she could at least have her youngest child with her; on condition he would work in the fieldz. Henson rose in his overseerz' esteem, and was eventually entrusted as the supervisor of his overseerz farm, located in Montgomery County, Maryland (present day North Bethesda).
He tried to buy his freedom by giving his master $350 which he had saved up over the yearz, only to find that it had been increased to $1000. Josiah Henson moved to Little Yellowbanks near Lewisport, Ky, in 1825. He was appointed to govern over Amos Riley's enslaved Afrikanz. Amos obtained Josiah from his brother Isaac. Isaac transferred slaves to his brother when he incurred debts he could not pay. Subsequently, Josiah escaped to Canada in 1829.
Wikipedia states he escaped to Kent County, U.C., in 1830, after learning he might be sold again. Crossing into Upper Canada via the Niagara River, with his wife Nancy and their four children, he settled at Dawn, Canada West. Ontario had become a refuge for slaves from the United States after 1793, when Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed "An Act to prevent further introduction of Slaves, and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province". The legislation did not immediately end slavery in the colony, but it did prevent the importation of slaves, meaning that any U.S. slave who set foot in what would eventually become Ontario, was free. By the time Henson arrived, others had already made Ontario home, including Black Loyalists from the American Revolution, and refugees from the War of 1812.
Henson first worked farmz near Fort Erie, then Waterloo, moving with friendz to Colchester by 1834 to set up a Black settlement on rented land. Through contacts and financial assistance there, he was able to purchase 200 acres in Dawn Township to realize his vision of a self-sufficient community. The Dawn Settlement eventually prospered, reaching a population of 500 at its height, and exporting black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain — a feat dated almost one hundred yearz before Black Wallstreet of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921).
Henson purchased an additional 200 acres next to the Settlement, where his family lived. Henson also became an active Methodist preacher, and spoke as an abolitionist on routes between Tennessee and Ontario. He also served in the Canadian army as a military officer, having led a Black militia unit in the Rebellion of 1837. Though many residents of the Dawn Settlement returned to the United States after slavery was abolished there, Henson and his wife continued to live in Dawn for the rest of their lives. Henson died at the age of 93 in Dresden, on May 5. 1883.
Here is where we see history altered in America's early dayz primarily to imprint a stereotype we still suffer from today that has proven to be socially, economically, and spiritually beneficial to their plight of being the superior race. The film and book had a major role in permanently ingraining these stereotypes into the American psyche. This enabled the term "Uncle Tom" to become synonymous with Afrikanz being "boot-lickerz", "lazy", alwayz "shuckin' and jivin'," and "passive" with no will to be free and not the true freedom fighter as Henson so eloquently set as an example.
The weight of this ploy to reverse the truth of a liberator to a slow-talking, carefree, and docile-styled figure we've become accustomed to know in later characterz like Buckwheat of the Little Rascals, the Pickaninny, and Uncle Remus is uncalculated. The light-skinned mulatto was seen as a sex object; the affectionate, dark-skinned female became the mammy; and the portrayal of our Afrikan children became the Pickaninny often seen with knotty-tangled braidz with big protruding lips painted red.
Evidence of this became apparent in the 1960 and 70s, when the book was counter-attacked by writerz like James Baldwin who wrote an essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel," and the Black Power movement sayin' Uncle Tom engaged in race betrayal. And of course, YT did nothing to stop it; this was the icing on the cake… the Afrikan freedom fighter was against their own kind without knowing it because they did not know of Josiah Henson! And as long as they didn't know of Henson, the fallacy of Uncle Tom would live on — bringing it full-circle to Jalen Rose's inaccurate use of the term.
Of course it's better for YT to have you think of Uncle Tom as a steppin'-fetch-it-boot-lickin'-shiftless-negro rather than familiarize yourself with the life of Josah Henson. Global White Supremacy simply cannot allow any positive images of Afrikan people whatsoever, for it would put their power in jeopardy.
The question is, now that you know, to do nothing; to enlighten no one on the seriousness of using the term 'Uncle Tom' in reverence, admiration, and celebration opposed to believing the version YT wants you to believe simply exonerates whitefolks misdeedz to our people, our legacy, our history… Let the true spirit of Uncle Tom be known! Bless... By: M'Bwebe Aja Ashangi
We all know being called a sell-out, or more precisely an Uncle Tom, is the ultimate diss — especially when called this from another Afrikan. For yearz Afrikan people who did thingz to be in favor of whitefolk were called 'Uncle Tom's'; the problem is, hedz don't even know who Uncle Tom was.
THE REAL UNCLE TOM...
There is a myth about the character known to many American-Afrikanz as Uncle Tom. To begin with, he was not a mythical person, although his character turned out to be. He was created to describe the house negro; a derogatory term used to verbally assault those slaves who worked in the living quarterz of slave ownerz during the plantation dayz.
Afrikanz who were assigned to work as personal assistants, cooks, and nannies were often the ones targeted. The first came from the slave owner who would chose those with special abilities for inside tasks. The other and more verbal (and sometymz violent) torment came from other enslaved Afrikanz.
For nearly two centuries, Uncle Tom has taken the rap for Quimbo and Sambo , two negro supervisorz who lived and worked on a plantation along the Mississippi River. Owned by a barbarous slaveholder, they were forced to brutally overwork lower-ranking enslaved Afrikanz with a wicked and tyrannical disregard for physical limitation or human dignity.
Writer, Bil Carpenter, writer of Destiny Magazine, wrote in an article, "Drunk with power to rule over other slaves their cruelty knew no boundz. The slapstick duo obliged their master, and by doing so were afforded privileges, above and far beyond fellow slaves. They were designated as leaderz by slave ownerz who perceived a willingness on their part to take charge of their brethren on behalf of their masterz. In exchange for the intoxicating false glory attached to the position of leader, they were required to demonstrate an allegiance to their appointing masterz that was tantamount to self-loathing."
Carpenter continued, "The master of this particularly hated pair, known only as Simon Legree, was described by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 classic, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Quimbo and Sambo took their derogatory names from the warped Mr. Legree. The two were said to evolve into a mirror image of the cruelty embodied by Mr. Legree, who is described by former slaves as the worst owner of humanz the South ever saw. There was, however, a sharp turn in history when Legree received, as payment of an old debt, a slave named Tom from a neighbor. It was Mr. Legree's first encounter with black dignity. This encounter would also lay the foundation for a not-so-subtle division among blacks, which exists, even to this day."
The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin as well as other works describing the history of slavery, referz to Tom as a "rugged individualist who resisted, with dignity, the dictates of an insane system of humanz owning humanz," said Carpenter.
It is said his character mimicked Kunta Kente of Alex Haley's book, Roots. No amount of oppression or cruelty could break his spirit. Word spread from state to state after he challenged his new master to stop the cruelty exacted on field handz by the overseerz. During an incident when the parents of a young enslaved Afrikan female ran to Tom's cabin for his help to prevent Quimbo from raping their daughter, Tom confronted Legree as being the source of the evil that reigned terror on the entire plantation. He offered his own back to the whip in exchange for the freedom of the young woman.
The lack of fear for his own life and his willingness to stand up to Legree earned Tom the respected title of "Uncle," a name reserved in those dayz for the most honorable male in any given plantation. Enslaved Afrikanz adopted Tom as their own uncle and person to go to for intervention between master and enslaved Afrikan.
Carpenter continues, "In addition to performing his assigned chores with the utmost precision, he became champion of the mistreated, and eventually the political opposition to the leaderz. Legree, as well as other ownerz of Tom, found that to mistreat Tom brought about a work slowdown."
Soon, Tom lived in his own cabin, which became the place of counsel and sanctuary for Afrikanz with grievances. His willingness to confront black and white injustice earned him a limited freedom long before the Civil War.
He did encounter opposition however, but it was not from white slave owners. His biggest enemies were those black overseer's appointed as leaders over the people. They were being increasingly challenged by slaves who found the bold courage of Uncle Tom very attractive.
The historical fact is that a quiet but growing movement could be found in plantation after plantation of slaves who wrapped themselves around the concept of individual rights and dignity. By the mid 1820's these rugged souls, who grew in their boldness to stand up to their overseer's, became known as Uncle Tom's.
Black leader's who discovered they had an Uncle Tom among those they supervised were struck with panic at the impending challenge to authority. A line in the sand was drawn which some believe aided the spark we all know as the Civil War. The spark of contention, lit so long ago, continues to burn in the black community even today…"
The real Uncle Tom was a revolutionary and this challenged whitefolks ability to continue oppressing us. When his story was turned into a book and then a movie, the writerz re-worked the script making Uncle Tom's character the exact opposite; a slave who was loyal to his master and all too eager to please whitefolk — is this not the strategy YTs used in disguising practically all our history?!
With these works, this became the most commonly known image of Uncle Tom. Through the magic of rewriting history and making it into a book and film, the term "Uncle Tom" became synonomous with "sellout" overnight, putting into hibernation the real story of Uncle Tom.
The "Tom" caricature portrayz Afrikan men as loyal, happily submissive servants. As with the Mammy caricature, "Tom" was born in the era pre-Civil War America; a land very much in the defense of slavery. How could slavery be wrong, argued its backerz, if Afrikan servants were gratified, loyal servants?
"Tom" was presented as a smiling, wide-eyed, dark skinned server: fieldworker, cook, butler, porter, or waiter. Unlike the lower negroes, the "Tom" is portrayed as a dependable worker, eager to serve. Also, unlike the savagely violent negro (as they were labeled), the "Tom" is docile and non-threatening to YT. The "Tom" is often old, physically weak, and psychologically dependent on whitefolk for approval.
This is the same persona given to Stowe's "Tom" in her book. Her version of "Tom" is a gentle, humble, christian slave. Stowe uses this character to show the perfect gentleness and forgiving nature which she believed lay dormant in all Afrikanz — an imbedded psyche the majority of us around the world have psychologically inherited.
Examples of this is seen with Mr. Shelby, Tom's first Master, who is kind. Financial troubles forced Shelby to sell Tom. Tom does not run away despite a warning that he is to be sold. Mr. St. Clare, his second master, befriendz Tom and promises to free him. Unfortunately for Tom, St. Clare is killed before signing his freedom paperz. He endz up bein' sold to Simon Legree.
Legree wanted to make Tom an overseer. When he is ordered to flog a woman slave, Tom refuses. Legree strikes him repeatedly with a cowhide lash. Again, he tellz Tom to beat the woman. Tom, with a soft voice, sayz, "the poor crittur's sick and feeble; 'twould be downright cruel, and it's what I never would do, nor begin to. Mas'r, if you mean to kill me, kill me; but, as to my raising my hand agin anyone here, I never shall, -- I'll die first."
In a later altercation, because Tom refuses to reveal the whereabouts of Afrikanz who broke free, Legree orderz Sambo to beat him until he tellz and if not, to kill him. Tom died as a result of these injuries.
What's deep is despite being a model slave — hard working, loyal, non-rebellious, and often beefed with his overseer — Tom is sold, cursed, slapped, kicked, flogged, worked like a horse, then beaten to death. All this and he never lifts a hand to hit his masters nor to stop a blow. he doesn't complain, rebel, nor run away.
This is probably the reason the names "Uncle Tom" and "Tom" have become termz of disgust for American-Afrikanz: manz loyalty to his master is superseded only by his devotion to religious faith that supports the oppression of his people.
Uncle Tom's Cabin achieved a major feat for its time selling over two million copies within two yearz of its publication in 1853. By 1879 there were at least forty-nine traveling companies performing Uncle Tom's Cabin throughout the United States — all as a form of propaganda selling the stereotype of abiding negroes. The producerz went a step further in changing the book version for the stage which became known as Tom Showz.
Little Eva was now the star; all other characterz became irrelevant. The violence of slavery became a misnomer, almost to the point of mythological. Afrikanz were depicted as "happy darkies" living under a divine and harmonious system. The stage Toms represented a reconstructed contrast to the original Uncle Tom . Stowe's Tom was an obedient, loyal, non-complaining enslaved Afrikan, but he was not weak, submissive, or docile. Tom resisted Legree. He gave his life rather than help Legree find the two women runawayz.
Patricia Turner, author of Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies, noted the versions of Uncle Tom that entertained audiences on stages were drained of these noble traits. He was an unthinking religious slave, sometymz happy, often fearful. The stage Toms were middle-aged or elderly. He was shown stooped, often with a cane or stick. He was thin, almost withered. His eyesight was failing. These depictionz of Uncle Tom are inconsistent with Stowe's Tom who was a "broad-chested, strong armed fellow." Stowe's original was the father of small children, unlike the desexed Toms of the stage. Stowe's Tom was capable of outworking most slaves.
YT knowing the difference in effects reading has opposed to the ease of simply watching, everything was in place to reinforce the stereotype of the scrawny, god and overseer fearing negro — an image that has haunted us since.
JOSIAH HENSON: UNCLE TOM IN THE FLESH
There's another story to the legend of Uncle Tom that rarely is acknowledged, that being the belief by many Uncle Tom actually lived under the name Josiah Henson.
Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883), was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Ontario, Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborerz school for other fugitive Afrikanz at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. At the time of his arrival, Ontario was known as the Province of Upper Canada (U.C.), becoming the Province of Canada in 1841, then Ontario in 1867, all within Henson's lifetime there.
His 1849 autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, is widely believed to have inspired the title character of Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Following the success of Stowe's novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his life story in 1858 with, Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and published as Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (1876).
He was born on a farm near Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland. When he was a boy, his father was punished for standing up to a slave owner, receiving one hundred lashes and having his right ear nailed to the whipping-post, and then cut off. His father was later sold to someone in Alabama. Following his family's overseerz death, young Josiah was separated from his family when he was sold as property in an estate sale.
After his mother pleaded with her new owner Isaac Riley, Riley agreed to buy back Henson so she could at least have her youngest child with her; on condition he would work in the fieldz. Henson rose in his overseerz' esteem, and was eventually entrusted as the supervisor of his overseerz farm, located in Montgomery County, Maryland (present day North Bethesda).
He tried to buy his freedom by giving his master $350 which he had saved up over the yearz, only to find that it had been increased to $1000. Josiah Henson moved to Little Yellowbanks near Lewisport, Ky, in 1825. He was appointed to govern over Amos Riley's enslaved Afrikanz. Amos obtained Josiah from his brother Isaac. Isaac transferred slaves to his brother when he incurred debts he could not pay. Subsequently, Josiah escaped to Canada in 1829.
Wikipedia states he escaped to Kent County, U.C., in 1830, after learning he might be sold again. Crossing into Upper Canada via the Niagara River, with his wife Nancy and their four children, he settled at Dawn, Canada West. Ontario had become a refuge for slaves from the United States after 1793, when Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed "An Act to prevent further introduction of Slaves, and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province". The legislation did not immediately end slavery in the colony, but it did prevent the importation of slaves, meaning that any U.S. slave who set foot in what would eventually become Ontario, was free. By the time Henson arrived, others had already made Ontario home, including Black Loyalists from the American Revolution, and refugees from the War of 1812.
Henson first worked farmz near Fort Erie, then Waterloo, moving with friendz to Colchester by 1834 to set up a Black settlement on rented land. Through contacts and financial assistance there, he was able to purchase 200 acres in Dawn Township to realize his vision of a self-sufficient community. The Dawn Settlement eventually prospered, reaching a population of 500 at its height, and exporting black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain — a feat dated almost one hundred yearz before Black Wallstreet of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921).
Henson purchased an additional 200 acres next to the Settlement, where his family lived. Henson also became an active Methodist preacher, and spoke as an abolitionist on routes between Tennessee and Ontario. He also served in the Canadian army as a military officer, having led a Black militia unit in the Rebellion of 1837. Though many residents of the Dawn Settlement returned to the United States after slavery was abolished there, Henson and his wife continued to live in Dawn for the rest of their lives. Henson died at the age of 93 in Dresden, on May 5. 1883.
Here is where we see history altered in America's early dayz primarily to imprint a stereotype we still suffer from today that has proven to be socially, economically, and spiritually beneficial to their plight of being the superior race. The film and book had a major role in permanently ingraining these stereotypes into the American psyche. This enabled the term "Uncle Tom" to become synonymous with Afrikanz being "boot-lickerz", "lazy", alwayz "shuckin' and jivin'," and "passive" with no will to be free and not the true freedom fighter as Henson so eloquently set as an example.
The weight of this ploy to reverse the truth of a liberator to a slow-talking, carefree, and docile-styled figure we've become accustomed to know in later characterz like Buckwheat of the Little Rascals, the Pickaninny, and Uncle Remus is uncalculated. The light-skinned mulatto was seen as a sex object; the affectionate, dark-skinned female became the mammy; and the portrayal of our Afrikan children became the Pickaninny often seen with knotty-tangled braidz with big protruding lips painted red.
Evidence of this became apparent in the 1960 and 70s, when the book was counter-attacked by writerz like James Baldwin who wrote an essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel," and the Black Power movement sayin' Uncle Tom engaged in race betrayal. And of course, YT did nothing to stop it; this was the icing on the cake… the Afrikan freedom fighter was against their own kind without knowing it because they did not know of Josiah Henson! And as long as they didn't know of Henson, the fallacy of Uncle Tom would live on — bringing it full-circle to Jalen Rose's inaccurate use of the term.
Of course it's better for YT to have you think of Uncle Tom as a steppin'-fetch-it-boot-lickin'-shiftless-negro rather than familiarize yourself with the life of Josah Henson. Global White Supremacy simply cannot allow any positive images of Afrikan people whatsoever, for it would put their power in jeopardy.
The question is, now that you know, to do nothing; to enlighten no one on the seriousness of using the term 'Uncle Tom' in reverence, admiration, and celebration opposed to believing the version YT wants you to believe simply exonerates whitefolks misdeedz to our people, our legacy, our history… Let the true spirit of Uncle Tom be known! Bless... By: M'Bwebe Aja Ashangi
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