3 bald-faced lies about Black men...

“...white people don't wanna' read about Black people,
Black women don't like Black men, and Black men
don't read, so who we gonna' sell your book to?”
--a quote from a white literary agent to Walter Mosley,
about his best-selling novel, which became a film,
'Devil in a blue dress'.

While I was watching a book reading given by Walter Mosley (who happens to be my favorite author), at Washington D.C.'s Library of Congress; I shook my head when Walter related how a literary agent had the nerve to utter the above quote to him; like it was the gospel truth.

Walter then said the reason she didn't think his magnum opus, 'Devil in a blue dress', was commercial, was because it featured the Black male hero, Ezekiel, or 'E-Z' Rollins (Mind you, the ancient Black deity 'Heru' is where we get the word 'hero' from).

This made me think about other stereotypes foisted on Black men that were baseless. So I thought I'd go about debunking some of these myths, or bold-faced lies, in this post.

So let's go in...

Lie # 1: There are more Black men in jail than in college...

During a 2007 NAACP forum, Barack Obama himself loudly proclaimed that, “We have more work to do when more young Black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across america.” And in another instance, the basketball playing Uncle Remus, I mean, Charles Barkley, explained on a TV show in 2012, reasons why he carried a gun. He stated, “You know, we as Black people always...we don't have respect for one another. You know, we've got more Black men in jail than in college, and crime in our neighborhoods is running rampant.” 

Now, when an athlete declares this, its not as hard-hitting as when the president, and the first Black president, in my lifetime anyway (look up John Hanson, who was the first Black president in this country under the 'Articles of Confederation' before George Washington) makes this statement. Any Black person, Black men especially, would take it as a fact after hearing Barack make this declaration. But, if you're a curious-minded Black person, you'll take the time to research these theorems to validate their veracity. 

Hell, even Walter Mosley said at his book reading that the reason he named one of his most popular serialized characters 'Socrates Fortlow', was because by his estimation, prison was and is, the Black man's university. And ultimately, this is where the majority of us are learning things.

Side note about the philosopher socrates, and all the greek/roman/white philosophers; the first university in the world was in Timbuktu, Africa; it was called 'Sankore' University, or the 'Sankore Madrasah'. And don't take my word for this, go look it up. This university was actually called an 'omniversity' cause ALL the sciences were housed under its roof. This is where the greeks/freaks learned sea navigation, science, art, astrology, astronomy, mathematics, and every other science known to mankind. So indeed, even the masterful writer Walter Mosley drank the white fascist 'his-story-cal' kool-aid, and was perpetuating this stereotype.

Now, in 2013, the 'National Prisoner Statistics Program' conducted by the 'Bureau of Justice Statistics', counted 745,000 Black men behind bars.

And in 2013, the american 'National Center for Educational Statistics', counted 1, 437, 363 Black men in american colleges.

And the numbers have been like this for at least the last five years. So Barack, Charles...and hell, even Walter were wrong. Goes to show you, how no Black person should take the word of white fascists, or the american white fascist social order as gospel...EVER!

Lie #2: Black men who engage in homosexual acts while incarcerated, are being infected with the HIV/AIDS virus, and are spreading the disease throughout the Black community once they're released...

A study done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Black american men in Georgia's penitentiary system, showed that 90% of them who had HIV, were infected before they arrived to the facility.

And of the men who were infected while in prison, half of them confessed to engaging in homosexual acts with male and female prison staff members.

Terry Butler, a CDC spokeswoman explained, “Media coverage of this issue over the past several years has been characterized by misperceptions that HIV transmissions in prisons is widespread...most news stories provide little evidence for that idea.”

So the next logical question would be: how are Black people being infected with HIV at such high rates?

Over the course of the last several decades, its been proven that the AIDS virus was foisted on populations of Black Africans through a Polio vaccine. And a man named Dr. Boyd Graves substantiated this through his reasearch in his book, 'State Origin: The evidence of the laboratory birth of AIDS'. My next post is gonna' be about brotha Boyd, and I'll leave a link for some info. where he displayed the 'flow chart' he found in his research proving AIDS was man-made. And mind you, the 'Polio' vaccine I mentioned earlier, just happened to be administered precisely in the areas where AIDS was first discovered in Africa. And I think we all know how (Kill) Bill Gates has been promoting these vaccination programs through his organization(s). So more than likely, the Black american population is being infected through the same vaccinating process. Meaning, if you're a Black man or woman reading this, you should think twice, or three times about getting a flu shot at your local pharmacy. And if you're hell-bent on receiving this shot, don't get it in a Black neighborhood. 'Cause more than likely, what they're shooting you up with, is more than just a strain of flu.

Lie #3: Black men are the poorest men in america...

According to a Pew Research study, the poorest men in america are spanish, not Black.

And this study also says, that roughly 10% of america's white populus are living in poverty. Now, what does this really mean in relation to this lie/question? Well, there are roughly 300 million white people living in america; so if 10% are living in poverty, that means about 30 million whites are living with and in impoverished conditions. This same study says roughly 27% of Blacks americans are living in poverty as well. So let's break down these numbers...

There are approximately 30 million Black people living in america; now of those, again, 27% are impoverished. This means that about 10 million Black americans are poor...as opposed to 30 million whites.

And I know what some will say, you're probably thinking the number's higher for whites just because there's more white people in america, but remember, white people have the 'white privilege'...meaning, there's no reason any white person in this country should be poor. And there's surely no reason why the majority of people on welfare in this country are white. And mind you, that statistic has been a fact for decades.

Now, in regards to spanish people, and I know the 'PC' term for spanish-speaking people is 'latino', but not only is the term 'latino' a white invention for people who didn't want to identify themselves as Black, but since they don't like us, I figure I shouldn't give them the respect of using a 'PC' term when it comes to them. With that said, there are roughly 54 million spanish people living in america. And their rate of poverty is at approximately 28.2% according to this Pew Research study. So there's about 15 million of them living in impoverished conditions. And those are just the ones who are registered, this number doesn't represent undocumented spanish americans. Beyond this, I've seen instances where a spanish person got a job before a Black person, simply because they were spanish. So, they do have more access to resources, especially in terms of jobs, than our people.

Now, I wanted to debunk three lies about Black men...but since I'm feeling the skin I'm in, let's go for four.

Lie #4: Black men are the poorest men in the world...

I remember growing up thinking that the majority of the world's famine-ridden and starving people lived in Africa. But after looking at a research study done by the 'World Food Programme', I found out that the continent leading in world hunger rates isn't Africa...it's Asia!

This study says roughly 227 million people in Africa are living in conditions of famine, as opposed to 552 million people in Asia.

Now, white fascists have created the above stereotypes/lies about Black men/people in order to do one thing, and that's get Black people as a whole to hate themselves from the cradle to the grave. And unfortunately, it's working TOO WELL!

I expounded on two examples where a Black man who inspired me to write this blog, and a Black woman who was looking and commenting on my Blog for the better part of a year, both exposed themselves as completely self-hating anglophiles. And what's saddest about this is, the majority of us feel the same way. And what's worse is, those who acknowledge feeling this way, don't and won't do anything to change it.

Lastly, the quote made by that inbred of a literary agent who said, “...Black men don't read...”, was another lie about us I wanted to address. And I did this with the pictured header of this post. Now, the books represented there like Reginald Lewis', 'Why should white guys have all the fun', and Tyrone Powers, 'Eyes to my soul', are but a few books I read in my early twenties that made a real impact on me (And if you wanna' see those book covers more closely, you can click on my header to expand it). And there's no dearth of Black men reading or writing books today. Even though there may be less physical distribution centers for their stories, ala retail book stores, our stories are pretty readily available through any website where books are sold. And our appetites for these stories don't show any signs of waning.

So I hope this clears up some of the fallacies behind being a Black man in america, or in the world period; and I hope any Black man, especially a young one, can look at this and be inspired to keep your chin up and your aspirations high. Understand, you are the closest representation of God on this earth, this is why you can create every other type of man, while none of them can create one of you. Know that there's no challenge in this world too great for you to overcome.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...I LOVE BEING A BLACK MAN!!!

Later...

-MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

If you wanna' check out the 'World Food Programme' study on continental hunger rates, you can just click here.

And if you wanna' see the 'Pew Center Research' study on american poverty rates, just click here.

Also, if you'd like to check out Dr. Boyd Graves' flow charts for proof of the man-made origins of the AIDS virus, you can click here.

YouTube's 'The black authority' and why Black people are the poorest in america...

People...I don't wanna' end this year without mentioning a 'YouTuber' who claims to be an authority on Black people.

After discovering Tommy Sotomayor, I came into the knowledge of his coterie of fiends...I mean friends. 

And along with David Carroll, one of Uncle Tommy's other prominent allies is a YouTuber who calls himself 'The black authority'. 

Now, if you check out this post's header, the first picture you'll see is a black and white photo of the former Black Panther Party's Eldridge Cleaver. And this is the image The black authority uses to represent himself. 

So, right off the bat I had a problem with 'mr. authority' because unbeknownst to him, Eldridge was an informant for the FBI. 

This is well documented, so please, DON'T take my word for this, go do the research and find it out yourself. 

Now, one of the black authority's latest videos is a promo for a documentary he's got coming out, and the question he poses to Claude Anderson, who's a finance guru is this: "...after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights movement, the NBA, NFL, Oprah and Barack Obama, why are Black people the poorest in america?"

And there's a very simple answer...but before I expose it, let's take a few components of his argument, namely the Emancipation Procrastination...I mean Proclamation and the Civil Rights movement, and break them down. 

Firstly, the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 didn't free any Black people who were slaves because it wasn't recognized by the southern states who had broken away from the 'american' union. 

The 'confederate' or slave states wanted nothing to do with the more liberal 'northern' states (even though they were rife with white bigotry too), so again, they seceded...or broke away from the north. That's why we have North and South Dakota, Carolina, etc. 

And this is why the 'Civil War' was fought to see which faction, southern or northern, would win the right to rule over the whole of this country. 

A proclamation is a statement or declaration of something; so the emancipation proclamation is a statement of freedom...it doesn't mean anyone is gonna' actually be set free; it's like an empty promise of freedom. 

As for the Civil Rights movement, this was nothing but a trick played on Black people by the white elites...let me elaborate...

The Black Wall Street was an area in Tulsa, Oklahoma where Black businesses were thriving during the early 1900's (about 1910) in this country. 

Mind you, this was when america was ethnically segregated. Now, when I say this area was thriving, I do mean thriving, many Black businessmen were multimillionaires at the time. 

Problem was the white elites didn't want Black people being this financially strong and independent, so they (the white elites) bombed the Black Wall Street. 

But they were smart enough to know if they kept us segregated, we would just build these businesses back up and continue to thrive. So they wondered how they could more effectively get our money into their pockets. 

Answer: Integration. 

Enter Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. 

And yes, Martin Luther King was a white supremacist freemason; this is why he always talked about passive, non-violent resistance. 

So this movement was just a play to get Black folks money into white folks pockets...and it worked. 

Black people haven't been as powerful since. 

So to the black authority...the Civil Rights movement was enacted to hurt us, not help us. 

And finally, after the NBA, NFL, rap music, Oprah and Barack Obama...why are Black people the poorest in america?

Here's the answer...WE'RE NOT!!

For anyone who wants to do five minutes worth of research, you'll find out the majority of people on welfare in this country ARE WHITE!

AND IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR DECADES!!

I was looking at a Pew Research study which I'll leave a link for at the end of this post, and it proves not only how Black people aren't this country's poorest, but how there's more poor spanish and white people in this country than Black people. 

And in this study, even though it says only 10% of white people are living in poverty, understand there's about 300 million whites living in america as opposed to america's Black population which is at about 12% (This comes out to about 30 million Black people in america). 

So there are roughly 30 million whites living in poverty. This study also says poverty rates for Blacks are at 27%, meaning less than 10 million of us are living in poverty.  

And I know some will say, well Black people are disproportionately poor according to our numbers; but here's something else these pseudo-intellectual Black men fail to realize. 

Whites have the 'white privilege'; meaning any white person, white men especially, has more access to more resources than the most educated Black person. And you can't argue with this, no matter how much you love whitey. 

To top this off, jews (who are white people as well...don't let anyone fool you) have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations for their holocaust; meaning, any white person who practices the jewish faith could easily employ another white person (jew or not) if they feel so inclined. If they can't, they know someone who can. 

Black people don't have these kind of advantages, so there's NO reason why white people should make up the majority of the welfare recipients in this country AT ALL!

And mind you, there are also more poor spanish people in this country than Black people, regardless of how they wanna' think they're whiter than us.

Not only are Black people NOT the poorest in this country, but we're not the poorest people in the WORLD...contrary to popular belief. 

Again, I'll leave another link for a study showing that in terms of world hunger rates, the continent ranking highest, is ASIA NOT AFRICA!

Roughly 552 million people in Asia are considered to be living in hunger or famine like conditions, as opposed to Africa where the numbers are at roughly 227 million.

So Black people, stop hanging your head in shame; YOU ARE NOT THE WORST CASE EXAMPLE IN EVERY NEGATIVE STATISTIC!

Now, this may not be my best written post 'cause I'm writing angry. And it just pisses me off when these kiss ass, anglophilic Black men wanna' dis Black people and make it seem as though they have our best interest at heart (Uncle Tommy Sotomayor, Dave Carroll).

And with a name like the 'black authority' you'd think he'd do some research before he goes off on these dumb diatribes. 

I've heard this guy say things like: "Black men are lazy...they want something for nothing...and this is how the welfare mentality is created..." 

Well, if that's the case, again, why are the majority of people in this country who collect county checks white people?

So...here's the message of this post, and ultimately my Blog: Black man and woman, know the american status quo IS POISONOUS TO THE BLACK PSYCHE! 

And if you subscribe to it, even though you think you're helping Black people, you'll be so mired in self-hatred that any contribution you make will be poisonous too!  

So, to the black authority, Uncle Tommy Sotomayor and David Carroll...if you wanna' be the white man's lapdog fine; just stop pretending you have Black people's best interests at heart. 

Problem is, these boys are so infected with the white supremacist disease of self hatred, they can't see how much they HATE THEMSELVES FOR BEING BLACK!

So whenever you hear someone with some bogus stats, trying to tell you how bad off Black people are...you can tell 'em where to go and how to get there!

And I think this is an appropriate way to end this Blog off for 2013. 

It's been a lovely experience curating this Blog and seeing some of the feedback I've gotten. 

Thanks to all who've commented, pro or con. 

Honestly, I never expected to learn anything from writing this Blog; but one thing the feedback has showed me is how to be less divisive when it comes to my contributions to the Black diaspora.

Remember, I was an advocate of Uncle Tommy Sotomayor earlier this year; but this Blog and feedback from the people who took time to comment, has given me the proper balance I've searched for to make this site more healing and unifying. 

And I promise at some point I'm gonna' get to the post addressing how the Black diaspora can definitively heal the rift between Black men and women. 

Until then, have a very prosperous and Happy New Year...and I'll see you in 2014!

Kem Wesir (Black Power!)

MontUHURU Mimia 

P.S.

Here's the link for ethnic poverty rates in america here. 

And here's the link for world hunger rates here.
                           
Again, Black man and woman...you DO NOT REPRESENT THE WORST CASE SCENARIO IN EVERY NEGATIVE CATEGORY, DON'T LET THESE WHITE SUPREMACISTS FOOL YOU!