Bold-faced lies about Black Men (Part 9)...

Bold-faced lies about Black men (Part 9)…American unemployment rates, an addendum on white fascist Bible narratives, and one mo’ bold-faced lie about Black men…

“The last place you’re going to find out the truth about Christianity, is in Christianity.”

--Dr. Phil Valentine

“…Black people think everything in the Bible is true. I question the intelligence of anyone who thinks everything in the Bible is true, or is supposed to be true. It’s allegory, stories told to illustrate a point at a time where very few people were reading books. And most of what went into the making of the Bible was copied from the “Egyptian” text. Now, if you want to get so dewy-eyed over the Bible, which is a carbon copy of a carbon copy, why don’t you go back and read the original Egyptian text?”

--Dr. John Henrik Clarke, from the "We have no friends speech"

Part 1.

An addendum on white fascist Bible narratives

Family, the other day I watched a Tariq Nasheed video on YouTube, where he had people calling in on the subject of man’s biological origins. Now, this one caller made an argument against all humans originally coming from Africa—but then the conversation took a strange turn. Within minutes, this man started talking about Noah from the Bible, and he referred to Noah as a “giant”. Now, Tariq countered by saying, if Noah were a giant, then how did he build an “arc”? The caller replied, “Well, I guess it was a big arc.” Then Tariq asked, well, if Noah were a giant, how did he fit two of every animal on the arc, and how did he clean up all the fecal matter of these animals if they were on this arc for forty days and forty nights? Basically, Tariq quickly broke down this guy’s Biblical arguments with common sense—and I happened to comment on this particular video. Now, my comment stated: It’s ashamed how people still think the Bible is an actual historical text. I guess this guy also believes Jonah survived in the belly of a whale for three days.

Now, someone responded to my comment saying: The “Noah flood” had been confirmed as fact, and this happened 8,000 to 12,000 years ago. To which I replied: well, if the Bible’s based on historical facts, can you explain how a virgin birth is possible? This same person replied: Hey, I didn’t write the book, I’m just saying you don’t have to believe every sentence to draw information from it. I then went on to explain how easy it is to debunk the fallacies within the white fascist narratives of the Bible, and how most Christians never go about researching real historical texts--they just stick to whatever Bible verses make them feel good. This is why I felt it necessary to debunk the “Curse of Ham” and the “400 years of slavery” myths connected to Black people in my last post--so at least the Black men and women who read this blog won’t have to live with the psychic burdens of this kind of misinformation.

So, after I was done debating this moron about the historicity of the Bible, I happened upon yet another of its verses dealing with slavery, and the verse is as follows: Peter 2:18, Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourself to your masters, not only those who are good and considerate, but to those who are HARSH. Now, this got me thinking, what Black person could read this and still follow the Bible, or be a Christian? Answer: a Black person who’s a mentally lazy anglophile—which unfortunately, most Black Christians are. Mind you, when I was debating the aforementioned brainwashed Christian, I told him: research is work—and Christians don’t like hard work. Meaning, it’s easier to just ignore the fundamental principles of your belief system, so you can rationalize your mental sloth. This said, I then realized I never wrote about the Kemetic (Egyptian) text the majority of the Bible was copied from.

This is the “Egyptian Book of the Dead” (left), or the “Book of Going Forth By Day” fam'. Mind you, this is called the Book of the Dead because it was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased, and was part of a “funerary” text which includes the earlier “Pyramid Texts” and “Coffin Texts”. This book contains some of the historical literature and spells our ancestors thought were most vital in the journey to the “afterlife”. Also fam’, the reason the Bible deals so much with Kemet or “Egypt”, is because the Bible is basically a copy of this book. Now, if you wanna’ investigate even further, you can look at a separate text called the “42 Laws of Ma’at” and you'll see where the “10 Commandments” come from. So, I’ve said all this to say, if you fancy yourself a “Black Nationalist”, or Black historian of any sort, you must remember…

RESEARCH WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR BEST FRIEND!

Moreover, the larger lesson learned here is, the last place you’ll find out the truth about any organization, is IN the organization. You have to go outside of it, to get an objective perspective which’ll more than likely show you the true nature of whatever it is you’re studying.

Part 2.

American unemployment rates and one mo’ bold-faced lie about Black men

A couple of days ago, I was watching some YouTube videos when a "suggested" vid’ came up amongst my choices. It spoke about "Black unemployment", so I clicked on it. After I did, I saw this headline: “Black male unemployment is the highest in America”. Then, when I typed in the topic of Black male unemployment in YouTube’s search bar, several videos popped up with this same title—and the majority of these vids were uploaded 4 months ago. Meaning, this must've been the same time some stat was broadcast about this over the mainstream media.

Now fam’, when I saw this, steam came outta’ my ears. 'Cause yet again, whitey’s putting out the narrative of Black American men being the worst case scenario in every negative statistic. So, after calming myself down, I started to think, well, this MIGHT be true. Hence, what I did right afterwards, was pay a visit to my good friend “research”—and this is what “research” showed me…

So, according to this year's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for Black men rose to 6.1%. At the same time, labor force participation from Black men jumped to 68.9% in April. Mind you, this was amidst an overall dip in unemployment for Black Americans from last year. However, check out what “research” also showed me, when I paid it another visit five minutes later…

Now, prior to the “P(L)andemic”, Native Americans had the highest unemployment rates of any demographic--meaning, their rate was at 7.5% in February of this year. So guess where their unemployment rate is at now y’all? Wait for it…post-pandemic, meaning RIGHT NOW, the Native American unemployment rate is at 28.6%. Mind you, this rate is comparable to American unemployment during the Great Depression. So, this means what? It means…

NATIVE AMERICAN MEN HAVE THE HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN AMERICA, NOT BLACK MEN!

Now, what pissed me off more than the lie itself, is how Black men made videos around this lie, explaining it as if it were the gospel truth. So I can almost hear people saying, well, you can’t really count “Native Americans” in unemployment stats, 'cause there’s really not much of them in the country—mind you, Black people are the real “native” and INDIGENOUS population of this country, but I’ll touch on this in another post. This said, I’ll give you “3” reasons why “Native Americans” shouldn’t only be counted in America’s unemployment stats, but I’ll show you why NONE OF ‘EM should be unemployed or “under-employed”.

Reason#1.

Reparations

In 1946, America’s Congress created the “Indian Claims Commission”, which was set up to hear “Native” historic grievances and compensate them for lost territories. Behind this, Native Americans were awarded $1.3 BILLION dollars for their losses—and this was back in the 40’s fam’.

Reason#2.

Casinos

Fam', 224 “Native” tribes were given “casinos” to operate by America’s federal government through generations old treaties, grants, and contracts which were created exclusively for them.  

Reason#3.

Tax Exemption

Like all other Americans, “Natives” pay federal taxes, but they don’t pay any state taxes for income earned within “reservation” boundaries--and their casinos just happen to fall within these boundaries. Moreover, as of 2015, the Department of Interior estimates America’s federal government allocates $20 Billion dollars a year exclusively to Native American tribes. Now, I realize I only said I’d give you “3” reasons, but since I’m ON ONE wit’ my good friend “research”, lemme give you one mo’, which’ll be...

Reason#4.

Education

Fam’, as of this year, Native Americans who’re California residents won’t have to pay any tuition or fees for public colleges in one of America’s largest university systems.

So y'all, this is yet another case which confirms this obvious statement: YOU CAN’T TRUST wHITE STATS FOR NOTHIN’!

Meaning, any Black man or woman reading this should be reminded to visit my good friend “research” whenever you hear some funky stats which don’t smell right--ya’ dig. Moreover, my friend research says, their door is always open to dispel any nonsensical misinformation chez whitey might throw at us.

And like Samuel L. Jackson said in Spike Lee’s classic film, “Do the Right Thing”: “That’s the double truth, Ruth.”

Later…

--MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

Fam', here's what my good friend "research" showed me when I asked about who's got the highest unemployment rates in America. You can check this info. out HERE.