Geography

 

 https://truthseeker2473.blogspot.com/2019/09/fall-2019-part-6.html

https://truthseeker2473.blogspot.com/2019/11/geography-part-3-continents-remaining.html

 

 https://truthseeker2473.blogspot.com/2019/11/thanksgiving-2019-part-2.html

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This debate is with a person who is skeptical of black Pan-African Unity:

Me: African Takeover Day at Howard university is a Blessing.

We are one black people regardless of our nationality. I have more in common ideologically with Patrice Lumumba than Clarence Thomas.

Herewe Goagin: No we're not! That's an issue with Black Americans

Me: I disagree. We are one black African people from NYC to Nigeria. You don't have to follow Pan African unity. I do. Again, my political views align more with Lumumba than Herschel Walker.

Herewe Goagin: Not in the written nor oral memory of the people's we come from have they ever been ONE/the same. It takes more than skin colors and facial features to make a people a people. Half the time we do even share skin color and often not even features.

You can have your views of course but that won't change the reality of have been and will likely continue to operate

Me: You are wrong in every level. Just because people of black African descent in Central, West Africa have differences in culture, doesn't mean we aren't black human beings. It is normal for even family members to have different sizes, shapes, and hues, but they are part of the same family. I didn't say all black people are identical or the same. I said we are part of the same black family. Any family will have differences. Yet, that family is part of the same family. You have proven that black people aren't monolithic. People already know that black people are diverse in culture, interests, personalities, and nationalities. DNA proves that black people have the same origin in Africa. I stand by my words. Humanity has one origin, and black people have one origin in Africa being part of the human family (with diverse nationalities and cultures). I never said that skin color and facial features determine a people alone. I do say that DNA, origins, genetic backgrounds, cultural diversity in the black community globally, and the African Diaspora do determine a people. THat refutes your arguments completely. 

I been through this road of debates before for almost 20 years. This is not new to me. I have the right to my views, and I live in reality. Once again, I share more in common to Lumumba than Thomas Sowell.

Herewe Goagin: A lot of African unity ideas I agree with but the reality is the reality... Igbos are Igbo and Wolofs are Wolof

Me: Reality is reality in the sense that Igbos and Wolofs have different cultures. No one denies this, and there is nothing wrong with cultural diversity. Yet, at the end of the day, either we fight for black liberation or not. I choose to fight for black liberation worldwide to end the system of racism.

You have shown where you stand. During WWII, many nations of the Allied side had differences, but they united in one cause to defeat the Axis Powers. Pan-African unity is about uniting diverse black people into one cause of black liberation. If you don't believe in black liberation, that is your business. As for me, I believe in black liberation 100 percent. Black is more than an idea. God is pro-Black as the first humans on Earth are black. So, I stand on my views.

Now, you going into silliness. I made my points clear. Losing? You do know that there are black doctors, lawyers, scholars, and freedom fighters then and now. The war isn't over. There were defeats and victories in black history. You need to realize that, and the war goes onward. Black people in majority black countries need liberation from neo-colonialism, imperialism from Western power, corruption, and other evils from outside those countries. God is not anti-Black as the first humans are black. You believe in tribalism. I don't. I believe in black African liberation. You know these facts, but you obviously don't desire black liberation. I do.

Herewe Goagin: Whether YOU believe in tribalism are not doesn't negate the FACT that AFRICANS DO believe in tribalism. That's what I mean that reality is reality and your ideas won't change that.

Yes I know about Black Doctors and so on and whatever you consider "victories"

Me: Not all Africans believe in tribalism. Victories are numerous. Apartheid being gone in South Africa is a victory, Ethiopia defeating Italian imperialist invaders was a victory, Zimbabwe being an independent nation was a victory, tons of African scholars and activists making positive changes in Africa are victories, and Nigeria being free from British imperialism was a victory. See, I'm not the type that doesn't know African history. I know history very thoroughly. Likewise, there is a long way to go in achieving black liberation. The war is not over, but either we give up or fight for victory. I choose the later in fighting for victory. You have made it perfectly clear that you don't believe in black liberation. I do. I answered all of your inquiries, and this is my last response to you on this issue.  Like always, I stand by my core convictions.

 

On the Historic, Award Winning 1619 Project

 

I dedicate these words to the black ancestors who suffered a lot and sacrificed for our lives today in 2020. The debate about the New York Times' 1619 Project continues. The creator of the project is Sister Nikole Hannah-Jones. I disregard the conservatives' critique of the project, because many of them believe in the myth that the Framers were saints, black people never suffered a specific form of slavery and racism, and that any progressive analysis of history should be ignored. The criticism getting attention deals with some historians and the WSWS or the World Socialist Web Site. The WSWS (which is a sectarian group that claims to be the primary arbitrator of socialist values which is ludicrous) believes in the ideology called class reductionism. This view teaches that all forms of oppression is a result of class forces causing these things to occur. They believe that capitalism primarily contributed to the rise of racism, sexism, etc. in order for the capitalist elites to divide workers of all backgrounds against each other. That is wrong, because sexism existed since the start of human history long before modern capitalism was established. Racism has existed long before the Maafa too. While class issues are very important on why things that they are (we have to study class issues), a class majority approach is limited for many reasons. Many racists are poor, eliminating classism and class oppression won't eliminate all racism or sexism, and systematic oppression is not just a product of class alone. It is also a product of international forces of racism, xenophobia, class oppression, and other structural injustices.

Statistics prove that racial discrimination is not just an individual or class affair (though class is part of these things). Racial discrimination disproportionately harms black Americans in America in dealing with job opportunities, school suspension, and to the criminal justice system itself. Michelle Alexander wrote about the mass incarceration state in her eloquent book entitled, "The New Jim Crow."  That is why I don't agree with class reductionism, but class issues are very important to recognize and understand in order to get things done. In order words, richer African Americans suffer less economic oppression than poorer African Americans. Class stratification does exist in the black community. That's a fact. You can't ignore the issue of race either. WSWS criticizes Sister Hannah-Jones, because WSWS believes that she wants to condemn white people collectively, and they believe that she maintains that the DNA of America is by virtue of its existence is irredeemable. WSWS is wrong on all accounts. In fact, Hannah-Jones said explicitly said that she wants America to be better.

Nikole Hannah-Jones has criticized WSWS as misinterpreting her position. I agree with her. It is obvious that Nikole-Hannah-Jones doesn't believe that America is irreversibly unchangeable. She said that black people in America contributed heavily in enhancing democracy which is true. She believes that black people have experienced an unique, specific form of white racism including slavery (like being stripped of our culture, creeds, languages, and social mores via being kidnapped thousands of miles from Africa plus illegally sent to the Americas, Asia, etc.) that can only be eliminated by systematic change. She is right on that position. On certain details, people have the right to critique her analysis (especially on the issue of imperialism and how her work doesn't mention Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Frederick Douglass in a detailed fashion). I don't believe that she is insincere in her goal in trying to outline the imperfections of American society. I disagree with some of the views of historian James M. McPherson on his views on abolitionism.

McPherson on his views of abolition equated abolitionism to racial egalitarianism when many white abolitionists didn't believe in equality for black people. Some of them just hated slavery. Some didn't want women to have equal rights. Other abolitionists believed in racial equality like Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth. The abolitionist movement was a diverse movement. McPherson ignores the fact that even after the Civil War, Lincoln didn't want universal suffrage for black people, but only a select number of black people given the right to vote. McPherson didn't read all of the 1619, but he skimmed through it.

For WSWS to assume that she or Hannah-Jones is some puppet of middle class Democrats to advance some racialist narrative to divide Americans is highly wrong and inappropriate. Nikole Hannah-Jones never wrote about any biological basis for racism either. The biggest slander against her is that some accuse her of saying that racism has a genetic basis, which isn't the case at all Outlining the truth on racism is real. Diminishing the impact of racism and economic oppression against African Americans (and assuming that it is just mostly an example of class issues) as done by many class reductionists is an affront to history. For example, the Great Migration included millions of black people escaping the South for better economic opportunities (that is a class issue), but many African Americans in the North still experienced racism, discrimination, police brutality, and other injustices (which is a racial issue). While the 1619 Project does merit legitimate critiques on certain issues (I will not deny that), I don't view Sister Nikole Hannah-Jones as some bigot who wants tensions. Also, WSWS has criticized the Metoo movement collectively as violating the concept of due process (which is silly), and they have defended the controversial filmmaker Roman Polanski (who has been accused of doing sexual assault for years by multiple people). See, I know my tea now. WSWS is a sectarian group that promotes the idea that anyone who deviates from their views is somehow not a true revolutionary.

That is incorrect as socialists and non-socialists alike can be just as dedicated to freedom as anyone else. WSWS supports Sean Wilentz's criticizing the 1619 Project. Sean is a Princeton professor. The problem is that WSWS hypocritically praises Sean Wilentz when Sean is a Clinton supporter (while WSWS has articles criticizing both Bill and Hillary Clinton). Wilentz (who defended Bill Clinton's war in Yugoslavia) wrote an adoring biography of Andrew Jackson when Jackson was a slave owner, a racist, an pro-austerity extremist, an abuser of Native Americans, and a stone cold reactionary extremist. WSWS's glamorizaiton of outright slave owners, racists, and abusers like George Washington (who wanted escaped slaves to be kidnapped and brought back to slavery) and Thomas Jefferson (who never freed a slave and believed in the myth of black intellectual inferiority) is just plain wrong (and it outlines their goals). WSWS claims that Lincoln wasn't a racist. We have quotes of Lincoln saying that he doesn't believe in equality for black people, but he opposed slavery. WSWS cites no evidence that Lincoln wasn't a racist or never said racist comments. Lincoln didn't even want all black adults to vote in 1865. President Abraham Lincoln was right to support the Union during the American Civil War and to support the Amendment to abolish slavery. WSWS says that Hannah-Jones claims that African Americans have fought alone in the fight against racism. That is incorrect. We know that African Americans never fought alone in this struggle for freedom. WSWS denies that racism and slavery were key parts of American exceptionalism. The Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott decision, and even America's imperialism in Cuba outline that American exceptionalism had a great deal to do with racism, imperialism, and the conquering of the lands of Native Americans (in violation of treaties and the human rights of the indigenous peoples).

WSWS said that Hannah-Jones believes that American history is a struggle between black and white people which is wrong on WSWS's part. We know that American history is a product of complex factors that deal with class, other socioeconomic factors, race, gender, and other realities. It isn't just about conflicts between black and white people, and I don't believe Hannah-Jones implied that. Also, many historians want to glamorize the British Empire which is wrong as a means for them to criticize early America. Just because early America had massive imperfections, doesn't mean that the British Empire was heroic. During the Revolutionary War, the British Empire maintained slavery in the Caribbean, Africa, and other places of the world. The British Empire never banned slavery worldwide until 1833. The British Empire continued imperialism and colonialism well into the 20th century. The 1619 Project should have cited that information. The American Revolutionary War existed as a rebellion by many colonists against policies of the British Empire. The rebellion resisted the actions of the Monarchy. Slavery does have a role in the war as many colonists supported slavery and others didn't. The British Empire had Caribbean plantations that continued slavery throughout the Revolutionary War. Even the Dunmore proclamation of 1775 (which wanted black soldiers to fight for the Redcoats in exchange for emancipation) allowed slavery among loyal British subjects. Many Framers claimed to want liberty, but they denied it from black people, women, the poor, and other oppressed people. So, while WSWS wants to minimize the wickedness of some Framers, the 1619 Project minimized the wickedness of the British Empire.

They or folks in the WSWS want class determinism to be the order of the day instead of realizing that life is complex and intersectional. Not even Lenin or Trotsky (who wrote in favor of black self-determination) believed in total class reductionism. It is a historical fact that European imperialism plundered the non-European world, instituted the Maafa, organized the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and carried out other crimes that WSWS has minimized. While I don't omit the imperfections of the 1619 Project (i.e. It doesn't talk about how capitalist exploitation contributed to social problems that we face today in America. It doesn't go into detail about the labor movement, the Pan-African movement, and other movements for change. The 1619 Project doesn't mention information about the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Power movement, A. Philip Randolph, and the Great Migration), I do believe that she or Nikole sincerely wants a discussion in favor of legitimate social justice. It is also important to mention that combating racism must be done by combating imperialism as Malcolm X has mentioned (in other words, you have to unite African Americans with Africans along with everyone in the African Diaspora in getting solutions. Uniting the oppressed people of the world to solve problems makes sense). So, I have a more nuisance view of the 1619 Project. I reject the 2 extreme views of everything in it being wrong and everything thing in it being right. Nikole Hannah-Jones is brave to take on this quest in showing the journey of African Americans. I admire her bravery. She is right that the legacy of slavery continues in our generation in 2020. This doesn't mean that America can't be better to redeem itself fully. It is just that we have to understand history in order to make a better world. She is right to say that, "The truth is that as much democracy as this nation has today, it has been borne on the backs of black resistance." Therefore, this is my take on the 1619 Project.

Black Lives Matter.  

By Timothy

My Views on the Nick Cannon Controversy.

  

I knew by intuition that I would write on this subject. It is a subject that has been on the minds of many people for a long time. Nick Cannon made comments with Professor Griff that so angered many people that Nick Cannon later apologized and even talked with a rabbi on his podcast. His words go into many issues. Some people are scared and silent on this issue, because people fear consequences. Yet, we fear nothing but the Most High God. We have to stand on truth. I feel the need to divide my feelings on it in 4 parts. The first part would be my overall thinking of Nick Cannon, the 2nd part deals with the history of black and Jewish relations, the 3rd part deals with exposing the evils of anti-black racism and anti-Semitism, and the 4th part is about the continued call for black liberation. Like always, I do believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect. We believe in justice for all. 

1. My overall impression of Nick Cannon's words is that he was over analyzing situations, and then he did made the mistake of showing erroneous views. He said that by virtue of lesser melanin, then that genetically will cause white people to be savage or act like a barbarian by nature. It is a scientific fact that black people like me having more melanin increases the protection of us from the sun's UV rays. That is a fact. It is also a fact that white racism has been involved in the genocide of millions of our people and others from Leopold's genocide in the Congo, Native American genocide, the Maafa, the harm gone to the Australian Aboriginal people, and other evils. White racists involved in these atrocities are savages and murderers. Yet, every white person on Earth aren't complicit in these atrocities. Nick Cannon failed to make distinctions on these things, which gave an opening for his haters, including far right people, to attack him. Now, he is genuflecting and going into the other extreme by not being readily apt to question the status quo on many issues. 

His views on Jewish people are embraced by numerous Hebrew Israelites. The common stereotype of a Hebrew Israelite is a person on the corner screaming profanities. Yet, the vast majority of Hebrew Israelites are peaceful people. I know Hebrew Israelites in real life. Hebrew Israelites believe that us, who are African Americans, are descendants of ancient Hebrews (via the Bantu people as most African Americans are descended from the Bantu people. I am genetically related to the Bantu people of Western and Central Africa). People have the right to believe that if they want to. Griff believes that Jewish people control the media when the corporate media is dominated by many people (among many backgrounds. Many media leaders have links to the CFR, the Pilgrim Society, and the Bilderberg Group). For example, the CEOs of Comcast, AT&T, Vivendi, Sony, Bertelsmann, FOX Corporation, and other media conglomerates aren't Jewish people. Some Jewish people are leaders in the media, but that doesn't mean that Jewish people collectively want to harm and ruin the world. Also, DNA evidence proves that the Sephardi, Mizrahi, the Ashkenazim, Romaniote, Yemeni, Bukharan, Cochin, etc. are descended from people from the Middle East (i.e. ancient Hebrews). Cannon is incorrect to say that our people are solely the true Hebrews. It is true that black people are the original people of humanity though. In other words, Hebrews ultimately came from us black people (as us black people are the first people on Earth), but Hebrews found in Sephradim and Yemeni plus other groups of Jewish people are Hebrews too. Their Jewishness shouldn't be minimized or ignored. 

2. The common myth is that Jewish people collectively dominated the slave trade, therefore Jewish people are irredeemably evil. We know that the vast majority of people involved in the Transatlantic slave trade are the British, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and other European non-Jewish people. There were some Jewish people who were slave owners in Rhode Island, South Carolina, and other places not the vast majority of Jewish people. Many Jewish people were allies of us black people in the abolitionist and Civil Rights Movements. Some conflicts have occurred among some members of both communities by the time of the Six Day Year. 

Back in the day, 99 percent of all Americans supported Israel unconditionally. After the Six Day War in 1967, many black nationalists condemned Israel as a colonialist, racist state against Palestinian people. This debate has caused a division. The truth is that both the Israelis and Palestinian people deserve equality and peace. We condemn terrorism, and Palestinians should never live in permanent occupation. Occupation is not freedom. Likewise, terrorism harming Israeli or Palestinian human lives is wrong too. For the record, promoting liberation for Palestinian people is not anti-Semitism. I feel like understanding nuisance is important. Also, some minimize anti-black racism in Israel, and others minimize anti-black racism found in mostly Arabic nations of the Middle East too. Today, there are many progressive black and Jewish people fighting for real change in the Middle East and worldwide. 

3. Anti-black racism is in epidemic levels in America. The fact that the killers of Breonna Taylor not being arrested is a disgrace. The fact of black people being harassed and falsely accused of crimes by racists (caught on video) is a disgrace too. Anti-Semitism has also increased worldwide since 2016 from hate crimes to other vile acts. Both evils (i.e. anti-black racism and anti-Semitism) are wrong and evil period. Anti-black racism is found in slavery, the peonage system, the pogroms during Red Summer, redlining, police brutality (as many white racist groups have infiltrated  many policing organizations), mass gentrification, etc. We know of anti-Semitism during the days of the Maccabees, during the time of the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Shoah, and in modern times. Those anti-Jewish atrocities are deplorable. Many people need to realize that Hitler hated black people too. Many black people were victims of the Holocaust. The same people (who are racists) who hate us as black people, hate Jewish people too. The Klan lynched thousands of black people, and they have destroyed synagogues too. In fact, white racist serial killers readily have gone into synagogues to murder Jewish people. 

4. We should be about the prize of black liberation. There are those who exploit the Nick Cannon controversy as an excuse for them to unjustly condemn any talk about black conscious issues. That is not us. It is our responsibility to promote black liberation worldwide. I will not apologize for being black. I will not apologize for condemning white racism. I will not apologize for standing up for my Brothers and my Sisters. I will not apologize for loving Africa, and I will never apologize for loving and being attracted to black women. I'm always pro-Black and pro-Black Love. Therefore, Nick Cannon's situation is a test for us to be stronger in studying our facts and promoting the truth. 

Also, we see the double standard of Viacom. Viacom claims that they want to fight against bigotry, but they fund reality TV shows and other shows that show some of the most degrading anti-black stereotypes around. They make money off of black pain and sad fights among black people, but they have the nerve to lecture others on their supposed "compassion" for us black people. I find that ironic. Viacom is silent on the reprehensible views shown by Eminem, Howard Stern, and other people who made vile commentaries. Many large Wall Street corporations benefit from income inequality. Nick Cannon is a man on the move, and I feel like he should apologize to the black community for his previous colorist remarks (as no black person should view white people or non-black people as aesthetically superior to black people. Black is always Beautiful). Cannon should definitely apologize to the black community for blaming us for his controversy. Black folks didn't fire him from his corporate jobs. Also, I feel that Nick Cannon should have the opportunity to grow and to be better. Malcolm X was once a pimp, a drug abuser, and a total criminal before he changed to be one of the greatest leaders of all time. A long time ago, we didn't know about these things about ancient black civilizations or other conscious information. Now, we do. It is certainly our right to help our people grow into their highest potentials as black Brothers and black Sisters. 

Like always,

Black Lives Matter.

 

By Timothy