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.

The Gospel of white fascism (Part 66)...

The Gospel of white fascism (Part 66)...Memorial Day's massive shootings and the "3" tenets of white fascism, Damning the “Curse of Ham”, and debunking the "400 years of slavery" myth...

“Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell, Spirituality is for people who’ve already been there.”

--Ralph Smart

“Ignorance is not bliss, ignorance is expensive pain.”

--Ralph Smart

“There is no game, there’s only control.”

--Dr. Phil Valentine

Part 1.

Memorial Day’s massive shootings and the “3” tenets of white fascism

Family, about a week ago, I was thinking my next post should definitely tackle the subject of religion and its effects on the Indigenous Black peoples of America. This is when I got wind of the 12 mass shootings which happened over the course of this Memorial Day weekend. Now, I’m still gonna’ tackle the subject of religion in this post, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the elephant in the room, which is this summer's spate of massive gun homicides. Mind you, a couple of posts back, when I said this was gonna’ be a “killing season”, I didn’t realize how prescient a statement this was.

Now, what’s most important is putting all this in perspective--meaning, there’s actually a silver lining to the storm clouds of these gratuitously egregious killings—and before you accuse me of sippin’ on lean or somethin’, lemme make these points clearer using the "3" tenets of white fascism, which are...

Tenet#1: Fear

First off, these killings are being allowed to flourish to keep America’s Indigenous Black populations traumatized--basically y'all, this is being done to keep our communities destabilized, 'cause in accordance with white fascist doctrines, when you want to better control any organism or organization, you throw it into chaos, and keep it there, until you offer the "target" a solution which fits your agenda. 

                        Tenet#2: Militarized law enforcement 

Family, these mass shootings are being used to reinforce reasons why American law enforcement shouldn’t be “defunded”. Remember the campaign to defund the police y’all? Welp, these mass shootings and incidents like the “smash and grab” mobs which seemed to disappear overnight (?), are “psy-ops” to keep white fascist institutions like the police not only operational, but loaded to bare with whatever kind of resources they need to keep up their campaigns of domestic terrorism on US. 

Tenet#3. Genetic survival

Understand, the real reasons whitebois, who're cops, are letting other inbreds shoot up churches and schools indiscriminately, is to put everyone on notice of who’s really got the artillery to not only wage some kind of revolutionary war, but to stay in a position of power in this country. Conversely, whitey's also letting these shootings happen to hide the most OBVIOUS TRUTH OF THEM ALL, which is...wHITEY CAN'T WIN A FIGHT WITH INDIGENOUS BLACK MEN WITHOUT WEAPONS! 'Cause just like I showed you in my last post with the example of James Shaw Jr., who disarmed one o' them whiteboi shooters--when they're without their high-powered rifles, or when they gotta' throw down wit' their bare hands, they're light work for the average brotha. Topping this off, whitebois--especially elitist crakas, not only realize they're the new American minority, but they know they're being bred outta' existence globally, which makes them even more "trigger-happy" around US. 

So you may be asking, what’s the silver lining in this situation? It's this y'all…the more the white fascist American social order REJECTS Black people, THE STRONGER IT'LL MAKE US! Meaning, the more oppressive and antagonizing this country gets towards us, the more we’ll be forced into unifying with each other, and the quicker we’ll be able to liberate ourselves from the tyrannies of white fascism. Now, you might be thinkin’, I don’t follow you bruh. Well, lemme put it this way…

UNITY IS THE STRONGEST WEAPON WE HAVE IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST wHITE FASCISM!

So the quicker we UNIFY, INSULATE, AND WILLINGLY SEPARATE OURSELVES from whitey’s American social order, the BETTER OFF WE’LL BE. Now, lemme define what I mean by “willingly separate” fam’—I’m not talking about goin’ back to Africa y’all, ‘cause we’re the ONLY PEOPLE INDIGENOUS TO AMERICA. I’m not even necessarily talking about physically moving from where we’re currently living, ‘cause America’s communities are already segregated. What I’m talking about is EXCHANGING AND CIRCULATING OUR RESOURCES WITH EACH OTHER (ALMOST) EXCLUSIVELY, like we did during “legalized” segregation, so we can survive and thrive like we did BEFORE INTEGRATION. This way, we won’t need chez whitey for nothin’—we’ll be FORCED into being completely autonomous. Mind you, traumatic events like mass shootings and losing access to necessary resources, are the only way we’re gonna’ separate from mr. whitefolks, ‘cause quite frankly, the majority of our people are still too in love wit' mr. charley to leave 'em—and this applies to ALL BLACK PEOPLE, FBA OR NOT!

So, let’s not get too emotionally involved in the mass shooting sprees we see happening around the country y'all. Instead, let’s keep focused on the goal of UNITY AND BLACK NATION-BUILDING, so we can stay clear-headed and EVEN-TEMPERED for the work we'll need to do in the future.

Part 2.

Damning the "Curse of Ham"

Family, no matter which Black neighborhood you go to in America, you’re guaranteed to find one commonality—there’s a church on every corner. Now, decades ago, the church was a place where our people could get resources like food, cloths, emergency shelter, and even money for bills. So, it had its communal benefits--but with the advent of “prosperity preaching” and government funding, the church was quickly turned into a kind of weekly fashion show, and a haven for oversexed Black women and homosexual Black men. Mind you, this is but one of the reasons for my writing about this topic--but mostly, it’s because of a certain incident I recently remembered.

Almost a year ago, I was speaking to one of my co-workers, who just happened to be a Black male Christian, and this guy told me in a casual conversation, “The devil operates with impunity.” Then, he asked me, “…uh, what does impunity mean?” I just shook my head and walked off. A week later, I saw this same guy talking to another brotha, and he was saying, “Black people are...” Then he sighed, before uttering, “…the Transatlantic Slave trade and the curse of Ham…” Now, not only was he taught this over the course of several decades, but he internalized it as the “gospel truth”—and you could see the inferiority complex it gave him, ‘cause he wore it like a cheap suit. Saddest part of all is, this guy had no alternative facts to debunk this misinformation with, and he wasn’t looking for any. His faith, pretty much doomed him to a mediocre life. Topping this off, this moron loved to denigrate the Black youth, ‘cause his church-going brethren told him to. He didn’t see white fascism as the enemy, he saw the Black youth as our community’s greatest problem. This said, I just wanna’ debunk this curse o’ Ham nonsense once and for all, or at least for the brothas and sistas reading this, so no one here has to carry around this crap theory in their heads anymore.

So the fable goes, Ham had sinned against the righteous patriarch, Noah, so God cursed his son Cannan and his descendants into perpetual servitude and slavery in the book of Genesis, 9:25-27. Now, due to this curse, Ham’s name in Hebrew was interpreted as meaning "dark or Black”--and just as "Cain" had a "cursed" mark on him (Genesis 4:15), this dark-skinned "mark" would be given to the “peoples of Africa” through Ham. So here’s where this biblical idiocy comes from y’all. This said, let’s get right into debunking this nonsense, ‘cause just writing about this pisses me off.

Firstly, the book titled, “The Curse of Ham”, by the author David M. Goldenberg, published by the Princeton University Press in 2003, reveals how the name “Ham” is not related to the Hebrew language, or to any Semitic word meaning “dark” or “Black”. Second, and this is the real kicker y’all—according to the Bible…

“HAM” WASN’T CURSED, CANNAN WAS!

THERE IS NO "CURSE OF HAM" IN GENESIS 9, OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE BIBLE!

Now, some biblical “scholar” reading this is probably saying, well, Ham’s SON CANNAN was cursed--thus, Ham must be the one who bore this “original sin”. Well, here’s my question, if this was the fact, why wouldn’t God curse Ham DIRECTLY? Moreover, since Cannan was the one directly cursed, why don’t they call this the CURSE OF CANNAN? I’ll tell ya’ why, ‘cause Ham is thought to be the progenitor of the “darker-skinned” people of the earth in the bible, thus, if you’re gonna’ rationalize why Black people should be enslaved, who better to name this curse after?

So, the next time some “Christian” talks to you about this curse, you can tell ‘em about Cannan, or you can do like me, and tune 'em out completely before walking off. ‘Cause time and time again, you’ll find, the people who know the least about Christianity, are Christians themselves. 

Part 3.

Debunking the "400 years of slavery" myth

Lastly family, here’s another historical bone of contention I’ve got with America’s, and the white fascist world’s “miseducational” system--the myth of Black Americans being enslaved for 400 years. This said, I’m gonna’ do something a little different here fam’…first off, in all fairness, let’s say I didn’t have any alternate facts to debunk this nonsense with. What I mean is, lemme play devil's advocate, and take these lies at face value, and see if they still hold up—and I’ll do this with the “3” leading lies about Black people’s enslavement in America, the first being…

Lie#1.

The historical dates of Black American slavery

Now, according to white revisionist “his-story”, the first 20 Black slaves from Africa, or Black people period, came to America on a ship back in 1619—and in December 6^th, of 1865, the Constitution’s “13^th Amendment” set Black Americans free by officially ending slavery. Well, if you subtract 1619 from 1865, you get “246” years—not “400”. So, right from jump, this whole concept is completely bogus fam’.

Lie#2.

Christopher Columbus discovers America

Once again, America’s miseducational system taught me another fallacy when they got me to believe a man named Christopher Columbus, who was actually named Cristobal Colon, discovered America in 1492. Well, you might be thinking, what’s this gotta’ do wit’ the Black American slavery narrative? Funny you should ask fam’, ‘cause it just so happens, good ol’ Chris kept a diary of his travels, and according to renowned historian, Leo Weiner of Harvard University, Chris wrote in one of his journal entries about tan-skinned “natives” who explained how “Black-skinned people had been there doing some trading with 'gold-tipped’ spears”. Also, at least a dozen other white “explorers” who were Chris’ contemporaries, like Vasco Nunez de Balboa, spoke of seeing Black-skinned “Negroes” in the “New World” when they arrived.

Topping this off fam’, archeologists have shown how the “Olmecs” had established the first “civilization” in America. Mind you, their empires date back from 1400 B.C. to 400 B.C., and if you look at one of the ancient “Olmec head” carvings (right), you can clearly see these were brothas. Now, some of you may say, c’mon bruh, everyone knows the Olmec civilizations were founded in Mexico, NOT the Americas. Well, this actually does makes sense, ‘cause Mexico was part of America y’all. More specifically, California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, and of course, New Mexico, were all part of the “Americas” before the 1900’s. 

Lie#3.

Deuteronomy 28:68

So fam', in Genesis 15:13, it reads, “And he said unto Abraham, know of a surety that thy seed shall be strangers in a land which is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them for 400 years.” Now, we just proved this has no historical basis in reality, but there’s also another bible verse, Deuteronomy 28:68 more specifically, which states, “And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.”

Now, this has also been used to “verify” the enslavement of Black people in America, but when I saw this verse, one thing stuck out immediately, and it was the last part, which says, “…ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.” So, I was thinking, if we were enslaved and physically sold, then why would this verse end with, “…and no man shall buy you.” Welp, long story short fam’, this isn’t talking about physical slavery, which is why this makes a reference to “bonded”, and not “bound” men and women. This reference is talking about “DEBT SLAVERY”. Ya’ know like college loans, mortgages, credit card debt, etc. Seems like prostitution ain’t the world’s oldest profession y'all, “loan sharking” is. Meaning, one of the best ways to keep any population in control is by making them believe in a “debtor’s” or “debt” system, this way you can enslave them without physical restraints. 

Now, if you’re a white fascist freemason who really wants to take social engineering to the next level, you can add the other “d-word” to debt when it comes to controlling the masses, and this word is “disease”. Debt and disease are the one-two, knock out combination which keeps people under the thumb of elitist oligarchs everywhere. Now, the moral of this story fam', is “NOTHING ESCAPES ANALYSIS” when it comes to white fascism. Meaning, you can’t take whitey’s word for ANYTHING! So, it’s imperative for the Indigenous Black diaspora to have alternate facts for everything concerning our well-being, ‘cause believing any tropes this social mainstream gives us is tantamount to social and psychological suicide in terms of our ability to take back our rightful place in this world--which is complete rulership over it.

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