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Christianity EtcJust Another Sunday With White Jesus by redjasper1(op): 8:20pm On Jul 27, 2013
Just another sunday with white jesus...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgS2uDMEF4
Foreign AffairsRe: United State Now The Second Biggest Oil Producer In The World by redjasper1: 8:18pm On Jul 27, 2013
Africa needs to begin developing hydrogen plants and biopolymer facilities. Africa has a prime opportunity to lead the world in sustainable development, I believe kenya has one of the biggest geo-thermal plants in the world if not the biggest, it's cheap sustainable energy that can have a revolutionizing impact for industrial Africa. One way for Africa to jump start a major economic sector relatively cheap is to market biolubricants to developed nations that are phasing out machines that previously ran on petro based lubricants. The ratio of high quality soil in Africa along with food grade type lubricants that are suited better in certain environments would provide Africa another stream of major revenue.

Wireless electricity is also something that needs to be high on the priority list since it saves money and helps the environment!
Foreign AffairsRe: Black America's Real Problem Isn't White Racism by redjasper1: 8:08pm On Jul 27, 2013
mazaje: So whites are responsible for all the black on black crime in the USA and for the fact that blacks are dis-proportionally involved in the criminal justice system as perpetrators of violence?. . .
Who manufactures the guns? The drugs? Who controls government? The media? Who controls the record labels that market out poison to black youth? I assume black americans? The relationship between black and white in this country is not and will NEVER be of a mutually beneficial nature. It was not designed for that purpose hence you can have black americans being disproportionately profiled and convicted into the american "justice" system in comparison with their white counterparts.

When the slave master put a whip into the hand of a slave and directed him to beat another slave, who created the condition for that to transpire? Mr. Sambo or Mr. Wille Lynch? Considering that's a form of black on black crime I assume all the fault would lie with Mr. Sambo? Again, we can accept WE have a problem with black on black crime however we would be doing ourselves a disservice to believe it occurred out the sky overnight! The chicken surely didn't come before the egg here. If we can't grasp that simple concept I'm not sure we're totally understanding the prerequisite to this phenomenon of "black on black crime" in america.

Whitey doesn't jump through a million hoops to profile and stereotype the typical black, so I'm sure not gonna try and see them through rose colored glasses when history has proven they're a detriment to my well being. Certainly can't give whitey the benefit of the doubt considering their awesome track record!
Foreign AffairsRe: Black America's Real Problem Isn't White Racism by redjasper1:
It's amazing we can be victims of white CRIMINALITY for over 400 years yet a few of us become of the inclination black on black crime of the last 35 years as the be all end all to black american woes in this country. It's more than amazing to me! Black on black crime is crime molded by DESIGN, remember blacks only control 1/2 of 1% percent of the wealth in this country, by DEFAULT we don't have the ability to even be held responsible for the state of conduct that's rampant throughout our streets that's been designed to keep us in the condition of a permanent underclass.

Whitey likes to play that game of double dealing, he knows that if given a fair shot blacks in america will always excel (Black Wallstreet) he knows that black america hasn't received what was due to them, he knows the values under which blacks in america have been subjugated to over 300 years, WHITEY knows all this and what he knows best is that if "he throws a Few BONES (obama) every now and then to us" he can kill 2 birds with 1 stone and leave plenty of black FOLK with a serious case of stockholm's syndrome along the way.

Imagine that, whitey bamboozling his way into redemption and salvation before even paying out a damn penny. It's amazing and I'd be on the floor rolling around laughing right now if the situation wasn't so dire! We can accept the fact that we have a cancer in black on black crime in america, but more importantly we should come to accept the fact we didn't develop a stage 4 cancer overnight!
Foreign AffairsRe: George Zimmerman Acquitted In Trayvon Martin Murder Trial by redjasper1: 6:44pm On Jul 21, 2013
The favors of the favors political or otherwise are a legit element of the prison complex but the focal point of this prison system is INMATE LABOR. With blacks being 6.5 times higher to be incarerated than whites and receiving 60% longer sentencing times for the same crimes it makes you go HMMMMM!

21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor

Some of the largest and most powerful corporations have a stake in the expansion of the prison labor market, including but not limited to IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom's, Revlon, Macy's, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores, and many more.
This article talks about the Black Codes and more, definitely worth checking out!
http://www.alternet.org/story/151732/21st-century_slaves%3A_how_corporations_exploit_prison_labor?page=0%2C0
Foreign AffairsRe: George Zimmerman Acquitted In Trayvon Martin Murder Trial by redjasper1: 7:42pm On Jul 14, 2013
Rossikk: Of course you can only invent your fairytale world of American lalaland paradise by ''forgetting'' the victim was black.

Because when you ''remember'' the victim was black, it forces you to confront issues of racial discrimination, racial injustice, and racial prejudice that continue to bedevil that country. So it's more comfortable to ''forget he was black''. But we won't.
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Foreign AffairsRe: George Zimmerman Acquitted In Trayvon Martin Murder Trial by redjasper1: 7:37pm On Jul 14, 2013
I'm reading some of these comments and I'm glad to see some of my african brothers have witnessed first hand some of the problems I and many others have as black people in america! It makes a difference and to see the solidarity that many forces often like to portray as non existent between africans abroad and those at home is encouraging!

Barring I don't make a catastrophic fall into the hands of the system, I am out of the USA for good and headed to Benin where my roots lie. I don't advocate every blackskin abroad to see Africa as an option out (neither did garvey) but to those progressive AAs with Respect for African culture, their Ancestors and the Land, study the language and get your black butt where you actually BELONG! Become obligated to Die in Africa!
Foreign AffairsRe: George Zimmerman Acquitted In Trayvon Martin Murder Trial by redjasper1: 7:35pm On Jul 14, 2013
toshmann: I've told them that America is a white mans country by the white man and for the white man.
Forget the bill of rights, forget the black president, it is a white mans country. Be careful how you carry yourself about. Avoid strolling out in a white neighborhood, avoid the police and their trouble, have some discipline and get some education. Them no de hear. Everytime rights, rights, rights,

Shey rights na de ones wey dem dash una. Wey dem fit violate every now and then. Black teen killed, judge white, jury white, prosecutor white, defence white. Can't you see? Una no get power.
Foreign AffairsRe: George Zimmerman Acquitted In Trayvon Martin Murder Trial by redjasper1:
White america gets their damn revenge everyday with all the free prison labor from blacks sent in on trumped up charges.

And, I'm sorry if my son can't receive any justice in light of overwhelming evidence, somebody's getting shot and I'm not gonna be on the receiving end first!!
Foreign AffairsRe: George Zimmerman Acquitted In Trayvon Martin Murder Trial by redjasper1:
Curious to how the NBPP is going to respond to this, I mean here you have a group of individuals that supposedly stand for the principles of the original BPP yet their track record has yet to measure up. I'm not sure the NBPP is even aware of the modernized social inequality that we black america receive in this 21st century. Maybe, just maybe, if these damn CIA agents would keep their nose to the ground here instead of South Africa where they like to infiltrate genuine revolutionary parties, we'd be at least somewhat less skeptical about this post - khalid organization. Sadly, the problem with black america is the same problem with Africa - Leadership.

Although this is good stuff really, I'm absolutely enjoying all the baffling antics by the all-american kumbaya crowd. This ought to be a good enough wake up call that whitey doesn't love your black butt no matter how many marsh mellows you toss on the fire. Whitey is upping the ante across the board soon enough these minor ailments could set the stage for cancer, with a booming hispanic population willing to work for less than half the normal wage it could get ugly for us american negroes.

I mean I just feel so completely bad for the young man, I have seen this one too many times and nothing sends me into a rage quicker than a young man with his entire life ahead of him having it cut down by some bastard cop or swine!

Trayvon should of had a gun. His parents did a bad job of enlightening him on how to handle said altercations especially with swine. First things first, swine approaches you in a confrontational way after sunset, you don't have a gun - RUN. There's no way an unarmed white man is approaching a young black man he has any clue about in a confrontational manner during the night. That should've been trayvon's red flag to high tail it! First things first, if you're a black man wearing a hood at night, please have yourself a gun. These stereotypes exist for a very good reason! Stereotypes are powerful and propaganda can birth a genocide! Lastly, if for whatever reason you might find yourself as a black man in that situation, you can certainly suspect your life is in jeopardy. In turn, if you ever have to raise a gun against swine YOU better plan on the realization of taking a life and moving swiftly before the law arrives! In between taking it to court and surviving the commotion once the law shows up could be akin to betting your life on the lotto!

If you want to survive out here as righteous black man in America and keep somewhat of a fragment of your sanity intact you better know the game Jack!
Foreign AffairsRe: The Arab Slave Trade by redjasper1(op): 1:50pm On Feb 28, 2013
What about it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMCY4VmB-No

17:30 -18:15 Take account of the significance.

Generally speaking both were in fact very tragic but it's important we don't castigate one in reference to the next to such an extreme our perception to discern the effects of one event becomes dim in regards to the next.

Nonetheless should not we only analyze western imperalism yet not fully comprehend the effects of having 1/3 the landmass occupied?
Foreign AffairsRe: The Arab Slave Trade by redjasper1(op): 11:18pm On Feb 26, 2013
Expediency above conscious and honesty. Interesting.
Foreign AffairsThe Arab Slave Trade by redjasper1(op): 10:57pm On Feb 26, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqSYP36_AY

Pay attention 1:36:53 to 1:40:24 Garvey Jr. touches on something that other great Pan-Africanist such as Dr. John Clarke and Nigeria's Chinweizu have spoke on.

Arm yourself with knowledge and never be led astray.
Foreign AffairsRe: Why Do Africans Love America So Much? by redjasper1: 10:36pm On Dec 31, 2012
igbo2011: Which black American businesses are there to bring to Africa? My page Facebook.com/africanedp www.africanedp.com I am trying to unite us together economically.
Majority of the major black enterprises ran in the US are controlled by boule individuals, daghettotymz.com has an exhaustive series going on them, just because something has black american stamped on it doesn't necessarily mean it's good for Africa, there are many of these "successful" blacks in america of the same ilk as their kindred who "govern" Africa.
Foreign AffairsUS Deploying Troops To 35 African Countries by redjasper1(op): 10:08pm On Dec 31, 2012
24 December, 2012

The United States Army will be deploying troops to nearly three-dozen African nations in the coming year.
Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the Associated Press reports.

Citing a growing threat from extremist groups, including those with ties to al-Qaeda, the Department of Defense is hoping to install American soldiers overseas in order to prepare local troops there for any future crises as tensions escalate.
Earlier this month, DoD sources with insider knowledge told the Washington Post that US troops will soon be en route to the nation of Mali in order to thwart the emerging threat of Islamic extremists, including al-Qaeda aligned insurgents. With the latest news from the Pentagon, though, Mali will be just one of many African nations hosting US troops in the coming year.

According to the AP’s update this week, soldiers will be sent overseas in the new year to assist only with training and equipping efforts, and are not necessarily permitted to participate in military operations. Should the Pentagon ask the troops to engage in battle, however, the secretary of defense could sign off on an order that would allow as much.

"If they want them for (military) operations, the brigade is our first sourcing solution because they're prepared," Gen. David Rodriguez, the head of U.S. Army Forces Command, tells the AP. "But that has to go back to the secretary of defense to get an execute order."
Additionally, the AP says that US troops will head specifically to Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger in order to prepare for any advances from al-Qaeda linked groups. Americans will also train and equip forces in Kenya and Somalia, reportedly, in order to stand up to al-Shabab militants. Despite the troops being deployed to more than half of the countries in Africa, though, the AP reports that Uncle Sam will try to avoid giving the impression that the United States is leaving a substantial footprint across the continent.

"The challenge we have is to always understand the system in their country," explains Rodriguez. "We're not there to show them our system, we're there to make their system work. Here is what their army looks like, and here is what we need to prepare them to do."
Sources speaking with the AP say that the United States has already prepared nearly 100 different exercises and training programs to conduct with African troops during the coming year.
Foreign AffairsRe: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by redjasper1: 6:24pm On Sep 29, 2012
andrewza: The black American have been and are been compensated. Called a welfare system.

Has for whites in sa. The government says what compensation they want then they get it. They want your company to be 51% black owed and we make it so. You must employ x number of black men and women it is done. Has for monetary repayment. The ANC is in charge of all the money. Pity they found out that RSA was poor a war and economic sanctions will do that to you.

Has for uninvited. I don't think the khoi san people invited there northern bantu invaders either. Should they also have to return the land they took by force.
Welfare benefits too many whites also, we need a separate sincere attempt at restitution for the centuries of barbarity we’ve suffered. These are the problems that have to be met with diligence before any such finger pointing can be placed at the African American. You have no grounds to associate the white presence in southern Africa with the inner adaptations of an ethnic group that began a millennium before ‘christ’ showed up. White SA’s quickly need to come to the reality they’re never going to be accepted as good samaritans to the land no matter what kind of plastic development takes place. Family affairs don’t require the postman’s nose, bantu khoi-san shared a landmass together something that neither had in common with the european barbarians. The disposition you white SA’s hold towards this reality gives the idea that our forefathers must’ve requested your services, again which brings me back to why I’m sometimes optimistic about those like Julius Malema, an attitude adjustment would do your butts very good.
Foreign AffairsRe: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by redjasper1: 12:45am On Sep 29, 2012
Msauza: So, why should they go back to the foreign land and why are you not posing the same question to Black Americans? Furthermore, you should ask the same question to Africans who were born in Europe.
For starters one group arrived uninvited on a foreign land indulging in savagery, the other group carried off by force and marginalized to less than dogs. In any case African Americans should at the very least be compensated before any such questions can be asked. The first generation of slaves 'may' have been a fair and square done deal but what about the countless generations that followed? Reparations is where this talk has to start if white SA's seriously would like to make a case for themselves. Remarks like this are why I'm sometimes optimistic about people like Julius Malema in that country.
Foreign AffairsRe: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by redjasper1: 11:49pm On Sep 26, 2012
panafrican: Why ? some are already settling in Ghana , Cote d'Ivoire , Senegal, Nigeria, South Africa , Tanzania, Uganda and the DRCongo. cool
They sure are. cool
CultureRe: Scientists Call For End To Race Denial by redjasper1(op): 10:41pm On Jun 22, 2012
Suspect a few KFC buckets will be thrown.
CultureRe: Scientists Call For End To Race Denial by redjasper1(op): 10:38pm On Jun 22, 2012
The latest research to challenge the race-as-social-construct theory is a study of 3,636 people from across America and Taiwan, led by Neil Risch of the Stanford University School of Medicine. It found that “people’s self-identified race/ethnicity is a nearly perfect indicator of their genetic background,” Risch said, according to a press release from the university. This contradicts the notion that race is a social construct, Risch added in an email.

The study’s authors said it was the largest study of its kind. The participants identified themselves as either white, African-American, East Asian or Hispanic. For each participant, the researchers examined 326 DNA regions that tend to vary between people. These regions are not necessarily within functioning genes-some regions of the genome have no known use-but are simply genetic signposts that come in a variety of forms at the same place.

Without knowing how the participants had identified themselves, Risch and his team ran the results through a computer program that grouped individuals according to patterns of the 326 signposts. This analysis could have resulted in any number of different clusters, but only four clear groups turned up. And in each case the individuals within those clusters all fell within the same self-identified racial group.

“This work comes on the heels of several contradictory studies about the genetic basis of race. Some found that race is a social construct with no genetic basis while others suggested that clear genetic differences exist between people of different races,” the press release said.

“What makes the current study, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, more conclusive is its size. The study is by far the largest, consisting of 3,636 people who all identified themselves as either white, African-American, East Asian or Hispanic. Of these, only five individuals had DNA that matched an ethnic group different than the box they checked at the beginning of the study.”

Although it was reported as the largest study to find genetic differences between races, Risch’s study is not the first. Previous studies have found that Ashkenazi Jews are genetically more susceptible than average for Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal nervous system disorder, for instance. Black populations have been found to carry higher levels of a mutation that leads to sickle-cell anemia.

Risch’s study, however, is not only the largest study but also the first to find that these genetic differences are not isolated cases involving a handful of genes, but are spread throughout the genome.

These differences should be of more than passing interest to the medical community, Risch added, because recognizing them can help tailor treatments and prevention programs to better serve specific ethnic groups. It can also help geneticists avoid a major problem: failing to for account for differences among populations can throw off the results of studies in which researchers look for a link between a mutation and a disease.
CultureScientists Call For End To Race Denial by redjasper1(op): 10:32pm On Jun 22, 2012
Bruce Lahn
Nature, 8 Oct 2009


Science is finding evidence of genetic diversity among groups of people as well as among individuals. This discovery should be embraced, not feared, say Bruce T. Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein.

A growing body of data is revealing the nature of human genetic diversity at increasingly finer resolution. It is now recognized that despite the high degree of genetic similarities that bind humanity together as a species, considerable diversity exists at both individual and group levels. The biological significance of these variations remains to be explored fully. But enough evidence has come to the fore to warrant the question: what if scientific data ultimately demonstrate that genetically based biological variation exists at non-trivial levels not only among individuals but also among groups? In our view, the scientific community and society at large are ill-prepared for such a possibility. We need a moral response to this question that is robust irrespective of what research uncovers about human diversity. Here, we argue for the moral position that genetic diversity, from within or among groups, should be embraced and celebrated as one of humanity's chief assets.

The current moral position is a sort of 'biological egalitarianism'. This dominant position emerged in recent decades largely to correct grave historical injustices, including genocide, that were committed with the support of pseudoscientific understandings of group diversity. The racial-hygiene theory promoted by German geneticists Fritz Lenz, Eugene Fischer and others during the Nazi era is one notorious example of such pseudoscience. Biological egalitarianism is the view that no or almost no meaningful genetically based biological differences exist among human groups, with the exception of a few superficial traits such as skin colour. Proponents of this view seem to hope that, by promoting biological sameness, discrimination against groups or individuals will become groundless.

We believe that this position, although well intentioned, is illogical and even dangerous, as it implies that if significant group diversity were established, discrimination might thereby be justified. We reject this position. Equality of opportunity and respect for human dignity should be humankind's common aspirations, notwithstanding human differences no matter how big or small. We also think that biological egalitarianism may not remain viable in light of the growing body of empirical data.

Many people may acknowledge the possibility of genetic diversity at the group level, but see it as a threat to social cohesion. Some scholars have even called for a halt to research into the topic or sensitive aspects of it, because of potential misuse of the information. Others will ask: if information on group diversity can be misused, why not just focus on individual differences and ignore any group variation? We strongly affirm that society must guard vigilantly against any misuse of genetic information, but we also believe that the best defence is to take a positive attitude towards diversity, including that at the group level. We argue for our position from two perspectives: first, that the understanding of group diversity can benefit research and medicine, and second, that human genetic diversity as a whole, including group diversity, greatly enriches our species.

[...]

Emerging understanding of human genetic diversity

Genetic diversity is the differences in DNA sequence among members of a species. It is present in all species owing to the interplay of mutation, genetic drift, selection and population structure. When a species is reproductively isolated into multiple groups by geography or other means, the groups differentiate over time in their average genetic make-up.

Anatomically modern humans first appeared in eastern Africa about 200,000 years ago. Some members migrated out of Africa by 50,000 years ago to populate Asia, Australia, Europe and eventually the Americas. During this period, geographic barriers separated humanity into several major groups, largely along continental lines, which greatly reduced gene flow among them. Geographic and cultural barriers also existed within major groups, although to lesser degrees.

This history of human demography, along with selection, has resulted in complex patterns of genetic diversity. The basic unit of this diversity is polymorphisms — specific sites in the genome that exist in multiple variant forms (or alleles). Many polymorphisms involve just one or a few nucleotides, but some may involve large segments of genetic material. The presence of polymorphisms leads to genetic diversity at the individual level such that no two people's DNA is the same, except identical twins. The alleles of some polymorphisms are also found in significantly different frequencies among geographic groups. An extreme example is the pigmentation gene SLC24A5. An allele of SLC24A5 that contributes to light pigmentation is present in almost all Europeans but is nearly absent in east Asians and Africans.

Given these geographically differentiated polymorphisms, it is possible to group humans on the basis of their genetic make-up. Such grouping largely confirms historical separation of global populations by geography. Indeed, a person's major geographic group identity can be assigned with near certainty on the basis of his or her DNA alone (now an accepted practice in forensics). There is growing evidence that some of the geographically differentiated polymorphisms are functional, meaning that they can lead to different biological outcomes (just how many is the subject of ongoing research). These polymorphisms can affect traits such as pigmentation, dietary adaptation and pathogen resistance (where evidence is rather convincing), and metabolism, physical development and brain biology (where evidence is more preliminary).

For most biological traits, genetically based differentiation among groups is probably negligible compared with the variation within the group. For other traits, such as pigmentation and lactose intolerance, differences among groups are so substantial that the trait displays an inter-group difference that is non-trivial compared with the variance within groups, and the extreme end of a trait may be significantly over-represented in a group.

Several studies have shown that many genes in the human genome may have undergone recent episodes of positive selection — that is, selection for advantageous biological traits. This is contrary to the position advocated by some scholars that humans effectively stopped evolving 50,000–40,000 years ago. In general, positive selection can increase the prevalence of functional polymorphisms and create geographic differentiation of allele frequencies.
Christianity EtcRe: Whats Your View Abt Reincarnation. by redjasper1: 3:31am On Jun 16, 2012
Aye loja Orun nile A difa fun Oludumare, agotun Oba ataye ma tuu Bee dele aye Bee gbagbe orun Aye loja Orun nile E o jiyin E o jabo Oun ti e ri Oyeku-Ogbe
Christianity EtcRe: Can Nigeria Be Better Off, If Our Leaders Swears By Our Ancient Deities by redjasper1: 3:02am On Jun 16, 2012
ghostofsparta: Even African americans who are into Ifa and orisha worship will tell you that 'believe it or not, it gonna happen'.
The day we embrace and serve our traditional Gods is the day when we can begin to look forward to real change brother.
TravelRe: Crashed Dana Airplane's Manifest by redjasper1: 1:27am On Jun 04, 2012
Special condolences to the victims' families.
CultureRe: Your Views On Polygamy? by redjasper1: 7:43am On Jun 03, 2012
Dede1: I had taken polygamy over many failed marriages and numerous unwedded mothers breeding illegitimate children any day.
If it was feasible enough for Shango who are we to have the audacity to question polygamy? huh
CultureRe: Your Views On Polygamy? by redjasper1: 3:13am On May 27, 2012
The Prince: The Londoner,

I blame the views on Polygamy and it's opporsite directly on the Western, Missionary influenced, social control that many Africans rush to aspire to believing their own culture to be inferior. I don't subscribe this thus have an open mind about Polygamy. What I don't quite understand and perhaps you might educate me is why in the Western World should a Homosexual Marriage be more "Normal" than a Polygamous one, and one have the support of law behind it and the other not?
That's interesting I often wonder the same I think if polygamy is managed properly and it happens to be beneficial for the women involved it should be given more serious thought.
Foreign AffairsAfrica And The Misunderstanding Of Structured Evil by redjasper1(op): 3:10am On May 27, 2012
Author raised some outstanding points about structured "evil"
Saturday, 05 May 2012 13:21 SundayMail

A Zimbabwean journalist recently approached me to ask: If the International Criminal Court (ICC) is indeed a universal court for the entire world, why is it that the only people it has indicted for war crimes are all African leaders, 26 of them?

I was forced to answer the question in Shona, as follows:
Musoro wa Bambata uripi? Uri kuEngland. Musoro wa Chingaira uripi? Uri kuEngland. Misoro nemapfupa ema Herero vakauraiwa kuNamibia yakaendeswepi? Yakaendeswa kuGermany.

Ko varungu zvavakauraya Patrice Lumumba kuCongo, vakanyungudusa mutumbi wake mumishonga kuti usazomboonekazve, handiti pane akabvisa zino rimwe raLumumba akaenda naro sechiratidzo ku Belgium?
Vanhu vese vemuAfrica vakapambwa kuenda kuAmerica nekuCaribbean, handiti mapfupa avo nanhasi ari ikoko?

Bambata is a legendary hero of South Africa, the equivalent of our Nehanda. The British killed him, cut off his head and took it as a trophy to England.
Chingaira is a legendary hero of the First Chimurenga in Zimbabwe. The white settlers killed him, cut off his head, and took it to Britain. In the German genocide against the Herero of Namibia, the Germans took many skulls and bones to Germany. Independent Namibia is now in the process of repatriating those skulls for proper burial.
When the Belgians killed the first elected Prime Minister of Congo (now DRC), they dissolved his body in acid in order to erase all memories of him. But one of the white killers extracted Lumumba’s tooth and took it to Belgium as a trophy.

The bones of the millions of Africans stolen by Europeans and taken to the Americas and the Caribbean lie there still, almost forgotten.
This is the context, the historical structure of imperialist evil, within which a white-created and white-driven ICC can masquerade as a universal court and, with the help of many Africans, indict African leaders exclusively, and get away with it.

Imperialism hides structured evil through individualism. Most of the empire’s platforms and those sponsored by the empire dwell on individuals and individual virtues and vices. The strategy is to blind the victims of imperialism to realities of structured evil. The victims of imperialism fail to see the forest for the tree. They come to believe that nice individuals cannot be part of an evil system. As nice as these individual whites may be, most of them will jump to defend or justify their white imperialist system when it is attacked. They do not tolerate attacks on their system.

They come to believe and to teach that those who oppose systemic racism and white imperialism are motivated by hatred of white people, that is white individuals, because in their minds, the nice white folks they know could not possibly be involved in an evil system. Yet in reality, most nice white folks have been and still are beneficiaries, inheritors of an evil system, and they are willing to die defending it in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and anywhere else.

In fact, the system is so structured that even a nice Barak Obama, once he agrees to run for the US Presidency and to be elected President of the US, ends up glorifying, enforcing and even extending the structured evil of the same empire. His role is even worse because he must bend over backwards to prove that he can manage the system for the white empire even better than Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

In the African philosophy of unhu/ubuntu, the evil that should preoccupy us, the evil that should concern us, is structured relational evil. In African philosophy evil people are those who deliberately design, structure, maintain, enforce, try to universalise and benefit from harmful and destructive relationships. That is why the African says: I relate, therefore I am, while the European, after René Descartes, says: I think, therefore I am. This means that if the European thinks slavery is good, apartheid is good, racism is good, imperialism is good — then it has to be good. He definitely thinks the ICC is good, not for trying his own leaders but for trying leaders of those other people who threaten the empire.

The Zimbabwean journalist who asked why there were no European or US leaders under ICC indictment (while there are 26 Africans) should perhaps read Massachusetts Institute of Technology Emeritus Professor Noam Chomsky’s answer to a similar question:
Woman: What do you think stopped the impeachment drive against (US President Ronald) Reagan after the Iran-Contra scandal?
Chomsky: It would just embarrass the hell out of everybody — I mean, nobody in power wants that much disruption for something like that. Look, why don’t they bring every (North) American president to trial for war crimes? There are things (even evil things) on which there is a complete consensus in the elite (imperial) culture: the United States is permitted to carry out war crimes, it’s permitted to attack other countries, it’s permitted to ignore international law. On those things there is complete consensus, so why should they impeach the president (of the US) for doing everything he’s supposed to do? Professor Chomsky’s answer means that most of the 44 presidents of the US have committed war crimes and not one has been tried for such crimes.

In other words, the way evil has been built into the imperialist system allows the US President to be praised for doing the same or even worse things than those for which African leaders are to be hanged.
And the purpose of the structures and platforms which this empire constructs and sponsors is to naturalise, normalise and even “universalise” harmful and destructive relationships so that to the victims they appear to be normal, the way the world is, even the way the world should be.

The most painful result of structured evil is the role of its victims in upholding and even glorifying that system without much critical thought. One of the best philosophers at explaining structured evil is the Latin American liberation theologian Jose Miranda. In Marx and the Bible, for instance, he wrote that:
“(Evil is structured) into a total civilisation; it is able to co-opt for its own reinforcement even the best intentional attempts and initiatives for justice; for these (attempts and initiatives) accept the rules of the game imposed by the system.”

These initiatives or “projects” do not only help the empire to earn a good name for itself; they also serve to fragment any resistance to the system, by dividing victims between those who are partly benefiting from the empire’s sponsorship and those who are targeted for exclusion from the projects. That is the purpose, for instance, of what I have called the Western-sponsored chema economy in Zimbabwe which is meant to hide the reality of Western illegal sanctions.

Miranda continues:
“Clear perception (or understanding) in this point is intolerable to the West.”
Those who point out to the reality of structured evil will be punished through various ways, including demonisation. And this is where the practice of individualism works wonders. Once the victims accept the explanation of history and reality in terms of individuals and individualism, it becomes easy to target and isolate leaders of the resistance to imperialism. They are demonised as evil individuals rather than liberators who seek to build an alternative system in opposition to the empire.

Miranda goes on to say the drama which unfolds through efforts to dismantle the imperial system of evil is a deadly one because the empire has succeeded in defining and creating an anti-human human being. As long as we do not stop to think outside the imperial box, we remain confused because almost all the platforms of communication to which we are exposed are telling us that the white empire went into Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Cote d’Ivoire, Chile and Haiti to do good. Now the white man is about to go into Syria and Iran and yet it is difficult to find any good which has resulted from his past forays. We somehow admire this marauder and yet it is hard to understand why.

Miranda continues:
“(Evil is) a reality totally penetrated by good intentions and calculations, a reality which seems to be possessed by a substitute for the human soul and which, endowed with a prodigious dynamism, raises itself before real man to control him and submit him to its ends.”

For a very long time, the tendency world-wide has been to collaborate with imperialism, to accept domination with pride and to relish the nauseating attention which the empire confers on those who agree to be treated as perpetual children.
Zimbabwe Diamonds and the Operations of Structured Evil

Zimbabwe’s discovery of extensive alluvial diamond deposits was a God-sent miracle at a time when illegal sanctions against the country had almost totally broken the economy. But the US, the EU and their white allies did not hesitate to mobilise their imperialist structures to turn the diamond miracle into a curse.
At the Kimberley Process conference in Tel Aviv, for instance, the strategy of the racist minority was to turn the whole process and the conference on its head, by rejecting the official legal documents and replacing them with un-official and clandestine ones obtained through fraud and espionage. The strategy first revealed itself when two Western spy-linked organisations demanded the rewriting of KP rules and the re-definition of “blood diamonds”, especially against Zimbabwe and for the purpose of vengeance against

Zimbabwe. These two spy-linked organisations are the British Global Watch and the Canadian Partnership Africa Canada. They were soon followed by yet another pair, the British Amnesty International and the US-based Human Rights Watch.
When the Zimbabwean delegation got to Tel Aviv, they discovered that the racist countries had conspired to treat the official KP Monitor, Mr Abbey Chikane, and his reports on

Zimbabwe as mere decoys which were used to keep the Zimbabwean state from noticing an alternative and clandestine network of spies and compromised officials operating secretly inside Zimbabwe and working on a fraudulent report or reports which would then be introduced abruptly and dramatically at the meeting in order to force a displacement and rejection of the officially sanctioned-KP Monitor’s report.

Farai Muguwu of the so-called Centre for Research and Development was a key figure in the clandestine network.
The bogus “Chief Chiadzwa” by the name of Newman Chiadzwa was another key player. Then there were some officials in the inclusive Government and the Parliament of Zimbabwe who had also been roped in to concoct the fraudulent report(s) which were supposed to bury Mr Chikane’s official and professional report in the muck.
What the Anglo-Saxon racists did not count on was that the state would uncover enough of the clandestine and criminal network to force the isolation of the US and its allies at the conference. What was uncovered demonstrated to the majority of the members of the KPCS that the US-led operations to tarnish Zimbabwe’s diamonds were not only illegal but also diabolic, bordering on economic terrorism and total contempt for the rules of international trade, diplomacy and decorum.

Despite their defeat at Tel Aviv, the imperial powers did not give up. The struggle continued at St Petersburg, Russia; at Kinshasa, DRC; and within Zimbabwe, where the Anglo-Saxon powers paid and mobilised NGOs to try to reverse Zimbabwe’s victories at Tel Aviv, St Petersburg and Kinshasa. The EU, for instance, infiltrated the African Diamond Producers’ Association by bribing the Liberian representative. When India and other diamond marketing countries neutralised US-EU machinations, the US managed to pressure enough KPCS members into electing it as chairman of the process, even though the US is not a diamond producing country. At the same time, US used its global control of the US-dollar-denominated payments to block Zimbabwe’s diamond earnings from reaching the country.

The strategy as usual is to deny the Government and people of Zimbabwe any independent sources of income and development resources while driving the population into poverty and into accepting and praising US-sponsored charity and relief as a substitute for autonomous development. That is how structured evil works.
Foreign AffairsRe: Is China Better Than The West by redjasper1: 8:21pm On May 25, 2012
For Africa CERTAINLY.
Foreign AffairsRe: Injustice In Sudan/s Sudan Conflict by redjasper1: 9:05pm On Apr 21, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/21/us-sudan-south-idUSBRE83K0CX20120421

(Reuters) - South Sudan accused its neighbor Sudan of bombing its troops as they pulled out of the disputed oil region of Heglig on Saturday, dampening already faint hopes of any imminent settlement between the bitter foes.

The newly-independent South seized Heglig last week, raising fears of an all-out war with Sudan, then announced it had started withdrawing on Friday, following sharp criticism from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

"The Sudan armed forced bombed our positions last night ... and this morning with Antonovs," South Sudan's army spokesman Philip Aguer told Reuters.

"Last night we were in full control of Heglig and now we have almost completed our orderly withdrawal," he added.

There was no immediate response from Sudan's army which said on Friday it had "liberated" Heglig by force.
Foreign AffairsRe: China: U.s Creating Tension In The Asia-pacific by redjasper1: 5:43am On Mar 07, 2012
I don't think China is asking or doing anything unreasonable, like always it's America fishing around with all their hypocritical rhetoric and anyone with nuclear explosives is by default never considered a baby.

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