I just can’t believe it!! Al Franken, now the Senator from Minnesota found out that KBR and Halliburton, the company that Dick Cheney previously ran, makes employees sign a waiver to work overseas. This waiver says the employee won’t sue the company if the employee is raped by co-workers on the job. WHAT!! Franken submitted an “Anti-Rape” bill amendment that would prohibit the Pentagon from doing business with any company that allows rape of its employees. Franken found out that a nineteen (19) year old girl while in Iraq working for KBR was allegedly ganged raped and when she tried to report the rape she was locked in a crate. Finally getting released and returning to the U.S. she tried to sue. She was told by KBR that she couldn’t sue because of the fine print in the contract she signed. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!! What kind of contract has a “can’t sue the company if you are raped on the job clause” in it? What are the implications of putting this type of language in a contract? The implication is that the company that authorized the contract knew in advance that the rape of employees is possible. The fore thought of the company that authorized the contract implies that the rape of employees has happened before or they knew someone was going to get raped and they wanted the employee to sign away their rights so the company would be legally protected against a lawsuit. Lord help us today. What do Republicans have to do with this? Buckle up. The ride is getting really rough.
Franken’s amendment passed by a 68 to 30 vote. Franken is a Democrat. Sixty eight Senators voted that the Pentagon should not be allowed to do business with contractors who allow their employees to be raped. Thirty Senators voted against the bill which means thirty Senators think it is OK for a nineteen year old girl to be ganged raped by her fellow employees on her lunch break, assuming they waited for lunch. All of the Senators that voted to allow rape on the job are Republicans!! Whether you are man or woman these Senators by their vote have shown belief that it is alright for people to get raped on the job if they work overseas for KBR or Halliburton. Please help us today FATHER!!
Is it a wonder that we can’t get the public option in healthcare reform out of the Senate? These Republican Senators need extreme healthcare because they are mentally sick. They are downright insane!! These Senators by their vote are showing that they have no compassion for human beings. This is why I say that America is in its decline. When Rome was the world leader of the day, no one thought that the sun would ever set on the Roman Empire. History bears witness that Rome’s moral decay was very instrumental in its decline. We would like to think that no outside force can conquer America. With Republican Senators supporting rape on the job, no outside force will have to conquer America. America will cause its own decline. This type of behavior must be exposed. This ministry is going to tell the unadulterated truth. I bet these Republican Senators consider themselves to be conservative and Christian. They may be conservative but their vote to support rape at KBR and Halliburton was not cast from a Christian perspective. Please support this ministry. You can donate by clicking on the PayPal button located on the section to the right of this post. I am not making up this stuff. This is true!! Click on the link below and hear the report for yourself. Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.
]]>I am warning you now. Buckle up, this ride is going to be rough. I am a strong supporter of President Obama. Although the conservatives on this blog have accused me of supporting Senator Obama for President just because he is Black I am getting ready to share insight on why I actually supported the President. Now let me be honest and forthright, the President being black did not disqualify, nor did it qualify him as worthy of my support. He being Black was definitely a positive. However, just being black by itself is not enough for one to get my support. I would not support Charles Barkley, Lil’ Wayne, or Diana Ross if they ran for president. All of them are black, but in my opinion they are not worthy of my support just because they are Black. However that could change if they had a good platform for policy. However, I did not support Senator Obama for President just because he is Black, I supported him because I like what he said about his positions on policies. I hope I have made myself clear. Therefore, let me get into the meet of this article.
Right now President Obama is contemplating whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal has requested more troops be sent. First of all I would no more listen to McChrystal than I would listen to Rush Limbaugh on how to conduct foreign policy. McChrystal somehow allowed a top secret document to be leaked to the press saying if he didn’t get more troops then defeat was probable in Afghanistan. I put the blame for the leak on McChrystal because as a commander he should have had the necessary security on the document so it went to no one other than who it was supposed to go. Secondly, he goes over in England and does a radio interview and speaks in opposition to the Commander in Chief’s position on the war. McChrystal has shown his lack of efficiency by letting the document be compromised and shown insubordination by speaking against the Commander in Chief. President Obama should court martial him and run him from the military in the disgrace that he deserves. If McChrystal is aware of the military history of Afghanistan then he knows that no military force in history has been able to win a war in that country. The United States can send all the troops in it wants but victory will not be forthcoming. More troops will be more targets which will end up being more deaths of brave warriors in a war that can’t be won. A good general would not ask for more troops, but would ask for a schedule to depart. Hold on. I ain’t through.
George Bush, when he was President, got us into Afghanistan because he felt it was a safe haven for Al- Qaeda which was sanctioned by the Taliban who were then running the country. That may be true. However, I think that if the U.S. talked to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban that we could come to an agreement that would keep America safe without costing us soldiers. Afghanistan has a diplomatic solution, not a solution from the military. The diplomacy would have to say, and mean it, that we would not support Israel’s continued expansion of housing on the West Bank. America’s foreign policy in the Middle East is the fulcrum of most of the hate that the country is experiencing in the world. The U.S. would also have to get troops out of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Let them people fight their own battles. I support all people who want to be free. However, they do not have to gain their freedom from the lives expended by American soldiers. The cost of any country’s freedom should be the price of their own lives, not the lives of outside forces. If U.S. foreign policy was built on the foundation of minding its own business, and leaving other folks business alone, then the threat of attacks on this country would diminish considerably. Our military should be used to defend American soil. Are y’all mad yet? Stay tuned, there is still more.
Many conservatives hooped and hollered about President Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee awarded him the prize because his policies had fostered an environment that would use negotiation as opposed to the military. This award shows me how controlled the news is here in America. The world sees our President as a peace maker because he was willing to talk to Iran, the Taliban, and all other so-called enemies to the United States. His willingness to talk was seen by the world as a giant step toward peace in the world. The news in America did not reveal the impact that President Obama’s words had, and is having on world opinion. I supported Senator Obama to be President Obama not because he is Black, but because of his policies. Mr. President, if you send more troops to Afghanistan then you will make the Nobel Peace Prize to be a lie. Peace makers do not escalate wars. You ran on change. It truly is time for a change in U.S. foreign policy. I will not support you on a policy that increases the likelihood that American soldiers will die for others’ freedom. Don’t escalate in Afghanistan. You must de-escalate. Countries other than the U.S. must expend their own lives if they want to be free. For those who love life, we must help the President to decide not to continue the failed policy of George Bush when he was President. Diplomacy will increase the love and decrease the hate.
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]]>Imagine the following conversation:
Racist: I am sick of that Black President. He is drastically changing the America that my forefathers and
mothers grew up with. America’s legacy is not about doing what is right. If we were trying to do
what was right then we wouldn’t have enslaved his people from Kenya and other parts of Africa. If
we were trying to do what is right we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Don’t get it
twisted. What is right does not determine America’s policies. America does what is in our interest because we have the power to force people to do what we want done.
Black Man: Wow! You sound like you are afraid that President Obama will make America humane. I would think that you would support that. What is a coup anyway?
Racist: A coup is the seizure of political power: the sudden violent overthrow of a government and seizure of political power, especially by the military.
Black Man: Now you don’t think someone in the military would be thinking like that do you?
Racist: You are so naïve. Black people seem like they run away from the truth instead of looking at the truth. Haven’t read John L. Perry’s article?
Black Man: You got me again. Who is John L. Perry?
Racist: John L. Perry is a writer for NewsMax.com. Most conservative white folks get their news from this website along with listening to Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. John Perry in is September 29, 2009 article called for the military to take over the government from Obamalama. He should never have been elected President. The White House is not called the White House for nothing. Only whites are supposed to be in control of that house. Now there is a Black man in control, who wasn’t even born in America and we don’t like it. We are promoting for those loyal to us in the military to take it back.
Black Man: Man you sound like a lunatic. This Perry guy has got to be a journalist that is on the fringe. He could never had been in the main stream.
Racist: You are so uninformed. That’s why we treat you as inferior. You don’t even know what is going on around you. John Perry is not someone on the fringe. John L. Perry, an award-winning newspaper editor and writer, who served on White House staffs of two presidents, contributes a regular column to NewsMax.com.
Newspapers under his direction were consistent winners of awards for journalistic excellence. The Associated Press Managing Editors Association named him one of the 12 best newsroom managers among the AP's member newspapers.
Perry has received numerous awards for column and editorial writing and for public-service and spot-news reporting.
He has worked as an editor or reporter for several daily newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, the Buffalo Evening News and the Clearwater Sun.
With a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, he was one of the first American journalists allowed into the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.
Perry also has had a distinguished career in public policy. He served President Lyndon B. Johnson as deputy under secretary of commerce and was a White House speech writer and race-relations trouble-shooter for President Johnson.
In the Jimmy Carter administration, he was executive assistant to the under secretary of Housing and Urban Development and was interim director of public information for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Does this sound like someone on the fringe? You better wake up!!
Black Man: My God! This guy is accomplished and he worked for two Presidents, both of them Democrats. But what did he say.
Racist: You know you cause mixed feelings in me. At one point I feel frustrated because I am talking to such an uninformed person. While on the other hand I feel elated because I know the educational system is still working. We educate you to be uninformed so that we can stay in control of you. That is why our schools perform well and the schools in your neighborhood don’t. It is by our design and it is still working. Look Perry said:
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
#Officers swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to “obey the orders of the president of the United States.”
Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Black Man: Perry said that!! And he worked for President Carter!! Carter tried to tell us that the
opposition to President Obama had a strong race element to it.
Racist: Carter needs to sit his butt down and shut up. He has got to understand that he is a white man. He grew up in the South. He knows how we do it whether we were born in the South or not. White, no matter what, is right. He is going to mess around and wake up this Black sleeping giant and we won’t be able to get anything done. White must stay supreme. Equality is not in the equation. White must always stay on stop. Obamalama is tipping the apple cart. He thinks he is in control of military, but we are getting ready to show him the might of white. Showing up armed at his rallies is not an idle threat. It is for real.
Black Man: Wow!! Are you a Christian?
Racist: Hell yes!! What else is there to be if you are white. What you have to understand is the Christianity that we practice is different from that stuff you do in the Black church. Our Christianity is about staying in control. Our god says whites must be on top. We taught you this during slavery and to some degree it is still working. However, there are some cracks in the armor. I don’t know how we went to sleep on that Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Them preachers are suppose to teach their congregations how to use Jesus so that they will continue to suffer peacefully. Don’t look for heaven on earth. That’s for whites. Blacks will get their heaven when they die. Some of those preachers are not sticking to the script. That’s alright. We’ll get them. Watch my word. Whether it be Tim McDonald in Atlanta, Al Sharpton in New York, Jeremiah Wright in Chicago, or Mmoja Ajabu in Indianapolis, we’ll get them. The nerve of them to try and wake you all up. We are going to get ol’ Jimmy too. We are planning a coup.
Black Man: Well I am going to pray for you!! You need it.
Racist: Thanks. You don’t know how well you do me by praying to my god. Your prayer keeps me in control and you in bondage. Don’t let me know your faith by your works. If you do something then you will change things. Let me know your faith by your words. That way I know I will stay in control. See you in church. God bless.
Now the above dialogue is fictitious but very real. Saints, it is time to get out of them pews. You know the devil is a liar!! God is calling us to duty. Main stream people are calling for the overthrow of the government!! God is recruiting Christian soldiers to make God’s will exist on earth as it does in heaven. We must heed the call. Support this ministry!! It’s what the true and living God would have you to do. Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.
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This article will expose questionable behavior by government at the state and local level. At least one preacher will also get some light shown on him. I am using Indiana and Indianapolis as the model, but I am wondering if this is happening in other states and cities. The following is reason why you must support this ministry. I attend Light Of The World Christian Church but this ministry is independent of the church. This ministry is ordained by God and necessary for God’s will to exist on earth as it does in heaven. This ministry must not be silenced because of financial games being played by people in government and other places. I know y’all are saying, Reverend, what are you talking about. Buckle up. I am getting ready to take you on a rough ride.
For those who live in Indiana you recall that the State government increase in property taxes caused some people’s taxes to increase two, three times what it was previously. The increase caused a tax revolt. People, black and white, rich and poor, were in the streets letting it be known that we were fired up and couldn’t take no mo’!! The state legislature heard us and voted to put a one per cent property tax cap on the assessed value of privately owned homes. The tax cap caused the state legislature to have to re-evaluate the budget. Project Impact (PI) was in the budget for crime prevention. State Representative Bill Crawford noticed that the money for PI had been removed from the budget. Because he is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, he used his power to put PI back into the budget. He informed me that he could put the money back into the budget but could not keep it there without support from Senator Luke Kenley. I spoke with Senator Kenley and he assured me that the money would stay in the budget. This is where it gets murky. Suffice it to say that the money survived the fiscal ax.
Normally the money for PI is distributed to PI by Judge James Payne. Somehow this money has found its way into someone else’s coffers. Judge Payne was made aware of this mishap and said more than a month ago that he would rectify the situation. Because the situation has not been rectified my house is in foreclosure. I am aware of others whose income has been impacted but I will let them tell their own stories. If money allotted is not delivered would that qualify as theft? Crime prevention money not delivered is a crime by some other name. This is where your phone calls come in. Judge Payne was appointed by the governor. Out of his own mouth he said it looks like someone is trying to sabotage you. He should know. Call Governor Mitch Daniels 317-232-4567 and ask him to tell you what Judge Payne is doing with the money? They are trying to silence this voice and don’t care who they hurt in the process. You must support this ministry. Click on the donate button now!! This is the state issue. Are you buckled up? The ride gets even rougher on the local level. None of this is personal. It’s just the facts. I’m telling you. Buckle up!!
While this tax revolt was taking place the city of Indianapolis at the direction of then Mayor Bart Peterson raised the local income tax by 65%. This is not a mis-print. In this climate of revolt, I don’t know why he would listen to who he was listening to and raise income taxes in the climate created by the states rise in property taxes. Democrats, Peterson is a democrat, were in control of the city county council so the council pushed through Mayor Peterson’s tax initiative. To try to appease their democratic base they put into the city’s budget a line item of $5 million dollars for crime prevention. Because of their miscalculation the Mayor got defeated by an unknown Greg Ballard. The control of the city county council turned over control to republicans. The republicans on the council had voted against the income tax increase which means they voted against the crime prevention money. All this took place in about 2006. The money that the city realized from the income tax increase was never in control of the democrats. The republicans who were against the tax increase, because of their victories in the election, are the only ones who have been in control of this added revenue. Lord help us today. Check out their shenanigans.
The $5 million for crime prevention was not spent the first year it was available. The second year the $5 million is available Mayor Ballard’s administration takes a million of the money because it says it needs this money to administer the $5 million. At the budget hearing I find out that only $200,000 of the one million was actually used to administer the $5 million. Are you with me? Nobody from the city can, or will account for what happened to the first $5 million allotted. Nobody from the city can, or will tell me where is the $800,000 taken from the second $5 million that was left from the million that was for administration of the money where only $200,000 was used. Now, this year instead of $5 million being available for crime prevention, the city’s budget only reflects $4 million!! What the heaven is going on!! Notice I said heaven. You know things like this don’t go on in heaven. This is a living Hell!!! This is your money. They don’t want this ministry to enlighten you about what is happening with your money. You must support this ministry. Click on the donate button right now and make a contribution! Those who have supported thank you, thank you, and thank you again. Make this ministry part of the contribution you give to do the Lord’s work. We must raise $10,000 dollars over the next thirty days. Do not let this ministry be silenced.
I won’t go too deep into how tax increment finance money was taken from the United Northwest Association (UNWA) by the city. When we found out about it and tried to stop the theft I had a Pastor threaten me with bodily harm if I did not quit telling the truth! He threatened me right in the city county building in front of three to four policemen. The officers ignored the threats. Residents from UNWA were standing right there and know that I am telling the truth and have said so and I am positive will say so again. He told me don’t get caught in the UNWA area. Now y’all know thatthis man of God is above threats from sheer humans whether they call themselves pastor or something else. The devil is a liar!!! No weapon formed against the people of God will prosper. I telling you people from all walks of life are getting compromised by money being stolen from the people. Along with calling the Governor about the missing state funds, call the Mayor about the missing city funds. Mayor Ballard’s number is 317-327-3601. Call and ask where the money is? Right now the saints are calling. Pretty soon it will be time to do some voting. Are you registered? Stay tuned. We will be making a slate of people with integrity to whom we should support. Your calls are making a difference concerning my son. We must expand the struggle. Make the call.
For those in other parts of the country, Is this going on in your area? Then you should support the people who are trying to make God’s will exist on earth as it does in heaven. Do not let this voice be silenced. I ain’t through. Yes I said ain’t. More has to be told. Human beings are being used as guinea pigs to test drugs right here in Indianapolis. Some have died from the tests!! What? Yes that is what I said. Stayed tuned. Don’t let this ministry be silenced. Donate. The truth will be told. Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.
]]>CNN reported the following on former President Jimmy Carter:
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter reiterated Wednesday that he believes racism is an issue for President Obama in trying to lead the country.
"When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds," the Democrat who served from 1977-1981 told students at Emory University.
"I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.
"It's a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States," Carter said.
If you want to hear former President Carter in his own words go to the link below:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/15/carter.obama/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCVideo
Many pundits, Black and white, are saying that President Carter is correct if you look at how things were in his era. They say that racism is not so much a factor in this era because this generation has moved on. When you read the information below you will have to ask yourself the question, has America moved on from using race as a defining factor to determine its political stances? You will see below that the racism that was displayed that caused the death of Emmett Till has been inherited and promoted by the generation after the time of Emmett Till. The following proves that racism is alive and well. Don’t fool yourself!!
Nearly 54 years after the traumatic lynching of Emmett Till which shocked the nation and galvanized the Modern American Civil Rights Movement, the son of one of the lawyers who defended Till’s murderers organizes another lynch mob in Tallahatchie County out for blood…
This isn’t a Hollywood movie…Nor is this Wilmington, NC, 1898; Elaine, Arkansas, 1919; Tulsa, Ok, 1921; Rosewood, Fl, 1923…This happened Thursday, August 20, 2009 in Sumner, Ms, in Tallahatchie County…Yes the same county where a young Black boy named Emmett Till met his doom/destiny some 54 years ago this week…This time a young Black man named Will Pittman,28 years old, of Tutwiler, MS, was the target of an unauthorized manhunt by a law official and his posse of “deputized” gun toting thugs…
Sometime Thursday, August 20, 2009, Pittman & his friend McKeel Scott (at the time of this writing his whereabouts is still unknown) were accused by John Whitten III, the County Attorney of Tallahatchie County, of burglarizing the home of a neighbor and quite possible a relative…According to several sources, the boys were not actually caught in anybody’s home at that time, but were still accused. This supposed act infuriated Mr. Whitten, whose father, John Whitten Jr., was the defense attorney for the killers of Emmett Till (the brothers J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant), and so instead of going through the proper channels he decided to seek his own brand of vigilante justice, southern style.
He organized a militia of what could best be described as a lynch mob. Some of these men were actual law enforcement officers while others such as the case of an unidentified white maintenance man from Tutwiler, MS, simply wore a police uniform and was given a police car along with plenty of booze, guns and ammunition. Even the K-9 unit from the Department of Corrections at the notorious Parchman State Penitentiary was alerted for this mission. In addition to the man, fire and canine power, Whitten deployed two military tanks for the purpose of hunting down Mr. Will Pittman as well.
Around 5pm on Thursday evening, Will Pittman was Public Enemy # 1 of the Magnolia State as far as Whitten was concerned. Whitten proceeded to chase Pittman with his posse of dogs, firepower and tanks for what seem to be several hours and a hauntingly surreal event for anybody who witnessed the spectacle…As bullets were whistling all around him, Will Pittman had the presence of mind to run into a field and drop to the ground to cover himself in mud and grass.
Not knowing where Pittman was hiding with the only visible evidence being footprints that seemed to lead to nowhere, by this time the would-be executioners, literally drunken with sadistic power as well as large quantities of alcohol, out of frustration of not being able to find the wily Pittman, began to shoot wildly into and around the field with their 50 caliber machine guns, assault rifles and tank.
Several law officials in the area were well aware of as well as disturbed by what was going on in Sumner. Sheriff Deputy Willie Booker of Tallahatchie County was at the scene and called Sheriff William Brewer about what was taking place to stop the potential lynching and reinforce law and order, but was told not to get involved and leave. Not wanting the death of Will Pittman on his conscience, Sheriff Deputy Booker alerted Attorney Ellis Pittman of Clarksdale, MS, the father of Will Pittman, about the mayhem taking place up in Sumner. Once he became aware that his son was the target of lynch mob justice by a man, John Whitten III, who is a sworn mortal enemy of his from their confrontations in the judicial arena, Attorney Pittman immediately alerted the appropriate authorities and shortly thereafter got into his car in a literal race of life and death to Sumner, Ms.
However, it was the very courageous gesture from the younger brother of Will Pittman, Cornelius Pittman,24, that stopped a true tragedy from happening that day. Without a hesitating thought for his own safety and life, Cornelius went into to field to talk down the lynch mob from doing the unthinkable. Through a true act of God, Cornelius’ words of mercy resonated with one of the law enforcement officials at the gathering, K-9 Officer Michael Davies who then pleaded with the others to back off as well…
Once they find out who Will’s father was many more heeded the call…Some of the law officials then negotiated a peaceful surrender of Will Pittman to law enforcement officers and he was placed in Sumner jail without any further incident or bodily harm. John Whitten frustrated and enraged in coming up short of his intentions then allegedly told Cornelius Pittman in the field the following:
“I am going to kill Will and his whole g****** family if I have to!”
Attorney Pittman successfully made it to the Sumner town jail to bail his son out later that evening. His son currently is being housed in a safe place and has not been publicly seen since his horrifying brush with death. Attorney Pittman was also successful in interviewing and recording several law enforcement officials about last Thursday’s incident…Surprisingly all interviewed were refreshingly honest with Attorney Pittman about the details of the manhunt confirming 'the fact is stranger than fiction tale' without hesitation.
As far as the behavior of lynch mob leader John Whitten is concerned, Attorney Pittman told W.E. A.L.L. B.E. News that Whitten “is supposed to be enforcing laws and not breaking them.” From what I was able to find online, Whitten was a municipal court judge for the towns of Charleston, Tutwiler, Webb and Okland, Ms. Ironically, in addition to his duties as county prosecuting attorney for Tallahatchie County he is also the city attorney for Tutwiler, a predominantly Black town with a Black mayor and 100% Black town council. Attorney Harvey Henderson was Tutwiler’s attorney before John Whitten. Harvey Henderson was also one of the actual attorneys that defended Till’s killers with John Whitten, Jr.
W.E. A.L.L. B.E. News was made aware by several sources that the FBI have just started an investigation this past Sunday August 23, 2009, working closely with several state officials to get to the bottom of this incident. And on Weds. August 26, 2009 @ 9PM Central/10PM Eastern, W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Radio will be interviewing Attorney Ellis Pittman & longtime Mississippi Civil Rights activist and artist Sis. Margaret Block for an update about the case. Please call 646-652-4593 and join the conversation as well as tune in online at the following link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/weallbe/2009/08/27/Tha-Artivist-PresentsW E-ALL-BE-News-Radio
Help Bring Awareness About What Happened In Sumner, MS, By Doing The Following…
Although WABG CH 6 in Greenville,MS interviewed some principle players in this story last week, currently there is a media blackout on this story. However, there are some things you great citizens can do to bring some truth and light to this horrible case of true human rights violations in a supposedly post-racial country supposedly governed by laws and not men. Remember we have the power of the information highway (internet) let’s use it for the power of good. The best weapon in any arsenal and war is knowledge!
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Contacts:
Whitten, John (The Would-Be Lynch Mob Leader)
Tallahatchie County Prosecuting Attorney 662-375-8726
P. O. Box 369
Sumner, MS 38957
U.S. Department Of Justice
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This ministry is struggling to stay alive. Because truth is being spoken to power resources that were always there are now not available. Most people think that I am paid by Light of The World. This is not true. What I do for the church is volunteer. I was Director of Mentoring for a State Funded program which paid my salary. This money was taken out of Indiana’s budget. A State Representative had the courage and power to put the money for the program back in the budget. Even though this money was put back into the budget it is not getting to the program. Therefore, I have not had income since March 15, 2009. When we met with the person who is supposed to get the monies to the program, he made the comment: “Well it looks like someone is trying to undermine you.” He said he would get back with us. Do you think we have heard from him? These financial games are the costs for speaking truth to power. Scripture says you have not because you ask not. Saints, I am asking. Please click on the PayPal donate button located on the right of this page so this ministry is not silenced and truth will prevail. It is through us that the will of God will exist on earth as it does in heaven. Thank you for listening and supporting AjabuSpeaks.
]]>John 8:32 says you should know the truth and the truth shall set you free. If we look at the scripture in context we see that Jesus is telling some Jews that through him they will know the truth, but because he is trying to tell them the truth, they are trying to kill him. These Jews tells Jesus that they are the children of Abraham and have never been in bondage so how is He going to set them free. Jesus explains that sin is a form of bondage. A person that sins is in bondage to that sin. Then He lets them know lying is sin. Jesus knows that these Jews are lying about never being in bondage because he knows that Moses led their fore fathers and mothers out of enslavement in Egypt. Either these Jews don’t know the truth or are ignoring it. Either way, Jesus is letting them know to accept the truth, because the truth will set the free to do what God would have them to do. Reverend, where are you going? Let me tell you.
I am very concerned with the environment that is being created presently here in America. All of you have witnessed Congressman Joe Wilson from South Carolina calling the President of the United States a liar. Never before in the history of this nation has a congressman disrespected the office of President or the congressional chamber by sinking to this depth of incivility. NEVER!! Congressman Wilson does not like President Obama’s quest to get healthcare for all, which the plan excludes illegal immigrants, so he felt compelled to call the President a liar as he addressed a joint session of Congress. This is one act that concerns me out of many. Walk with me.
We also see people showing up at events where the President is speaking armed with handguns and long guns standing on private property. It is legal in America to own and carry a weapon. It is not legal to carry a gun on public property in the presence of the President. These people are sending the message that they are willing to fight if the President’s attempts to get healthcare for all becomes the law of the land. So some people legally carry their guns on private property in the presence of the President. If that is not shocking enough we find out that in some cases the private property on which these armed people stand is the property of a church!! Lord help us today. Again, this behavior is unprecedented. But it doesn’t stop here. Keep on walking with me.
There is a movement calling themselves the 9-12 movement. This movement is supposed to be highlighting the behavior of Americans after the 9-11 incidents when high jacked planes flew into the world trade center and caused the two largest buildings in the world to crash to the earth. On this day another high jacked plane also was flown into the Pentagon. It is speculated that another plane was supposed to have flown into the White House but some brave people on board caused it to crash in Pennsylvania before it could reach the White House. This rally was organized by Eric Cantor, the congressman from Virginia and who is the second highest ranking Republican in the United States Congress. One of the sponsors of this rally is the National Association Of Rural Land Owners. This organization on their website calls for the violent overthrow of the United States government. People have been trying to say that the people carrying arms at the President’s events are on the fringe of the Republican party. On the fringe means not in the main stream. I don’t know about you, but I am not going to be in bondage to a lie. Those calling for an armed insurrection to overthrow the government are not on the fringe when congressmen as powerful as Eric Cantor are at their event speaking. Mike Pence, congressman from Indiana was also there. What are the people really saying? Let me help you. Someone has to tell the truth here. The truth will set us free to deal in the way that God would have us to deal. Don’t be afraid to continue to walk with me. No weapon formed against the righteous shall prosper.
I truly do not want to be the one to put this behavior in perspective. We can’t be like the Jews who were speaking to Jesus who tried to ignore their history. Those of us who are old enough to remember the 1960’s have seen this environment before. We know that it was in this environment that President John F. Kennedy ended up assassinated. Elements in the country did not like President Kenned supporting equal rights for all. The racial aspect of the environment was much clearer then. This environment caused the nation and the world to experience the death of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and a host of others. What these people are actually saying is that they want to kill the President and are creating the environment in which to accomplish the mission. I know some are saying Reverend Ajabu don’t say these things. It has got to be said. It’s the truth. We must be told the truth so we can deal with the truth. Dealing with the truth will set us free. I am sure when Barack Obama contemplated running for President he sat down with Michelle and his close advisors and the danger of him running had to be topic of discussion. He has had secret service protection earlier than any other presidential candidate in history. Other Presidents have received death threats but none have received as many as President Obama. And now we have mainstream republican congressmen helping to create the culture that could make this possibility of our President’s demise more probable. And they want to kill President Obama just because he wants to have all Americans to be able to have affordable, quality healthcare.
When Jesus was asked what was the highest commandment he answered to put God first. But the commandment that ranks just as important as putting God first is the one that says to treat your neighbor as you want to be treated. President Obama, who is a Christian, wants to treat his neighbor as he wants to be treated by giving his neighbor the same healthcare that he has. Therefore, some people, who include congressmen wants to cause the President’s demise. What has America come to?
Somebody had to say it. The question that we as a nation have to ask ourselves is are we who are the people of this nation going to sit idly by and let this group continue to ferment a culture that will allow the possible killing of the President? What will God do to this nation if his Saints just ignores the efforts to kill someone who is trying to make God’s will exist on earth as it does in heaven? Using my prophetic vision I will say God will not treat kindly a nation that kills its President because he wants quality healthcare for all. The nation erupted when Martin and Malcolm were killed, but this is much bigger. This man has support that actually transcends race and ethnic background. In actuality, this man has worldwide support that other American Presidents have never experienced. I prophesy that God will disrupt the world if somehow this culture being whip up by fringe republicans who have mainstream republican support is allowed to be successful in their attempts to maintain healthcare as an exclusive advantage of the rich to the extent of causing the demise of America’s first Black President. The stakes are high. Are you as an American willing to pay that price? The question is for each of you to answer for yourself. God is waiting on your answer. YOU SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE!! Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.
]]>If you were not at Light of The World Christian Church, I telling ya, YOU MISSED IT!!! Bishop Benjamin gave an inspiring message that probed into the depth of America’s Christian beginning. He went so far as to say that America is no more a Christian nation. It now has become a post Christian nation. What!! Yes that is what he said, here’s why.
Bishop taught that some powerful people in this nation are trying to confuse the populace. These people are sowing confusion by saying that affordable healthcare for all is nothing more than socialism. These people are trying to confuse people to think that caring for the least of these is a system of socialism, when it is no more than what a Christian is obligated to do. It is a Christian that is concerned about the least of these. The very foundation of this country speaks to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How can one be happy without healthcare? How can one sustain life without health care? How can one say anyone is free is someone does not have affordable healthcare? When this country was formed if a neighbor went to a neighbor and asked Neighbor, Can You Help A Brotha Out? The neighbor, if they were a Christian, would emphatically answer yes. If the neighbor was sick, then his neighbor would harvest the crop from his field. The doctor would make a house call, not concerned about whether the neighbor could pay or not. That was when this nation was a Christian nation. Compare now.
President Obama asks those with health care to help those without health care to get health care. In other words the President is asking neighbors to help each other out. He is asking the nation to remember its Christian roots. In the Priests’ Manual it clearly states “You should not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you should love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord” (Lev. 19:18). This was the instruction, found in the book of Leviticus, and was given to Moses by God to delliver to the Israelites. I know you religious scholars will say that neither Moses nor the Israelites were Christians. They were Jews. These instructions were given to Moses before Christianity became a reality. And you know, your point would be right. What makes a Christian a Christian is that a person follows the teachings and the behavior of Jesus the Christ. Let me answer the point of these scholars.
Those who have healthcare are rich compared to those who don’t have it. One has to go to the nineteenth chapter of Matthew and the nineteenth verse to get the answer for these scholars. The rich man asked Jesus “What good deed must I perform in order to have eternal life” (Matthew 19:16). Jesus answered to “Honor your mother and father; also, You should love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 19:19). When you have healthcare and want healthcare for your neighbor then you are following the teachings that God gave Moses and that Jesus gave the rich. To follow the teachings of Jesus makes you a Christian, not a Socialist. To help your neighbor as you would help yourself is straight from the Bible. Why are the opponents of healthcare reform trying to confuse Christians into believing that wanting what they have for their neighbor is to be a socialist? These people opposing treating their neighbor as they want to be treated is why Bishop says that America is post Christian. These deceptive people who probably call themselves Christians are obviously after something other than eternal life. If they wanted eternal life then they would want healthcare for the poor as they want it for themselves. These same people who oppose healthcare for the poor also oppose President Obama addressing the nation’s school children. What the HELL is going on!! Let’s see if we can’t figure this thing out.
OneNewsNow is a conservative on line newspaper. This week they reported the following:
Diane Jewell is a former homeschool mom who decided to send her daughter to public school in Junior High. Jewell is now regretting that decision because she says her daughter is being indoctrinated into socialism.
That concern led Jewell to become involved in her school district to "help steer" the school back where she believes it needs to be. In working with the school, she found that many teachers and administrators were pro-Obama. Jewell adds that when she heard about Obama's planned address to school children, it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
OneNewsNow asked Jewell if the speech turns out to be an educational pep talk if she will allow her daughter to view it. She says it is not Obama's place to talk to children directly, without parental input. Jewell adds that she is very concerned with the increasing involvement of federal government in education.
Diane Jewell’s comment that is in bold above gives us insight to what is really going on. “She says it is not Obama’s place to talk to children.” So Ms. Jewell does not think it is proper for the President to address the children of the nation. I would agree that it is not proper for a private citizen to address all the school children of the nation, but this man is the President. When did the President of the United States addressing the children of the nation become an indoctrination? The motivation for the children to stay in school is now an indoctrination into socialism. Lord help us today!! In my opinion, she is disrespecting the office of the President. Why? Is it because he is a Democrat, a Black man, or a Christian?
President Obama’s trek to the White House has been all of historic proportions. Things fell into place that no man could have controlled. Only God could have caused the economy to fail at the time it failed in order for enough people to support then Senator Obama so that he would eventually become President Obama. Historically, before Barack Obama, enough people in America has never supported a Black man taking the ultimate place of leadership in this country whether the man be Democrat, Republican, or Christian. The very issue of a man being Black had historically disqualified him to becoming President. America's history is so dispicable that it was the law that it took five Black people to make three white people. Surely, that legacy is not expressing itself in people's opposition to having the President address the school age children of the nation. What people in American meant for bad, God has made into good. These people who don’t want the President to talk directly to their children are afraid that the President might start the swing of this nation back to its Christian roots. The President, along with Congress, must go on and do what’s right. Christians must become more vocal and stop being the silent majority. Doing for others what you would do for self is what a Christian would do. America has to accept that the President is a Black man that has been chosen to lead America back to its Christian roots. To deny the children of America the opportunity to hear the President is to deny the very Christian foundation on which this nation was built.
Bishop’s germinal idea was: Compassion only costs those who count the cost.
The teaching points, called nuggets, are:
1. The thieves believe: What You have is mine.
Luke 10:30
John 10:10
John 8:44
2. Religion believes: What I have is Mine.
Luke 10:31-32
James 1:26-27
3. Christians believe what I have belongs to You too.
Verses 33-36
Matthew 16:25
1 Samuel 18:4
2 Corinthians 8:9
Enlightenment
It's more blessed to give than to receive.
If you would like to hear the full sermon call the church 317-254-5922 and ask for:
Series: The Good Samaritan, #3
Sermonic Theme: Can You Help A "Brotha" Out?, #3
Text: Luke 10:25-37
Channel 13 was at church today. You can see their coverage at:
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=11084485
America must find the courage to reclaim its Christian roots. Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.
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]]>I never want you to take the journey that I'm currently on. So, I want to tell you about it.
It starts on the front of the refrigerator. "The Healthiest Foods on Earth." A two-page primer from apple to watermelon, touting immunity to male fertility support. Inside the refrigerator, natural and organic foods only. On the countertop is the Jack LaLanne juicer, the Magic Bullet, the handy food chopper plus, the food saver vacuum sealer--all items familiar to us because they are constantly hawked on the midnight cable channels. Hanging from the kitchen cabinet door are plastic bags for recycling: one for plastics, the other for aluminum cans. The house and car are filled with reusable shopping bags made of recycled materials. By the way, a new car was in the works, and not because of the cash for clunkers program of the Federal Government. An American-made hybrid was preferred--keeping U.S. workers working. In the back seat of her Ford Focus is a booklet, "Living in a Healthy Body: A New Look at Health & Weight." What I'm trying to describe is someone working very hard at changing a typically indulgent "American" lifestyle into one more respectful and healthy for the body, healthy for our earth.
So, in an act of preventive medical care, my aunt Hazel went to the doctor to have a colonoscopy. We are all bombarded with television commercials advising us to have a colonoscopy. I know in the black media, those ads abound. And so, dutifully, my aunt abided by those suggestions for healthy choices and had her first colonoscopy. What the family knows is that her colon was perforated. That's when our journey took us on a wrong turn.
Unfortunately, the facility that performed the colonoscopy had told my aunt not to call before the results were published and that would take up to two weeks!!! When my aunt called them because she was feeling so bad, they told her that she'd be ok overnight and that they would call her in the morning. The hospital talked to her and her daughter. The hospital told my aunt to go to sleep overnight and they'd call her back in the morning. But my aunt-tee continued to deteriorate so badly that her daughter called 9-1-1 and by the morning, my aunt-tee was already in surgery at another hospital that was not too busy to care for her. This is when the perforation was discovered and repaired.
While my aunt was recovering in the second hospital, in intensive care, a letter was sent from the hospital where the colonoscopy was performed stating that they were the insured's provider and that the hospital performing the emergency surgery would not get paid. The hospital performing the mal-colostomy demanded my aunt-tee back. So, against the desires of the hospital providing the emergency surgery, my aunt, while still in intensive care, was forced to be transferred to the hospital that, in my opinion, committed a capital crime.
My aunt-tee deteriorated after the transfer, but fought like heck to live. Unfortunately, her body had been so poisoned by the doctor's failure to recognize that he had perforated her colon that her body became toxic. The third affront to my aunt-tee's health and life occurred when morphine was administered, ostensibly for pain and gave her such a blow to her vital statistics that the family objected to a second administration of morphine. But guess what!!! She was given morphine again, despite her children's complaints!!!! My aunt never recovered from that.
My aunt, a divorced mother of two, struggled to live righteously. Those of you in southern California know that she accompanied me almost everywhere I went. She was a hard-working woman, a proud homeowner in Watts, a student working on her Social Work degree, finally able to achieve her dreams after deferring them for so long in order to help her children realize theirs. She also took to the campaign trail too many times, traveling to Georgia to help my father and me realize ours. I can't even believe that she's gone--through no fault of her own--and I'm still wondering how the heck my aunt ended up in this place. Despite all the care she took of herself this is unfathomable to me. And sadly, too many families are arriving at this same place. Iraqi families devastated by U.S. occupation; Afghani families devastated by U.S. war; U.S. families also devastated by U.S. policy makers. Why?
For the last four years, I've spouted off the racial quality-of-life disparities that exist in our country. I've said it so much, it's as if no one heard me. Because even during my tenure in Congress, I gave floor speeches, but the policy change never came. I spoke at banquets and conventions about it, but the policy changes never came. Two steps forward always seemed to end with one step backward. If we got the money appropriated, in too many instances, black institutions couldn't be in charge of it, so only a trickle at best reached the community. I found that the "plantation" was alive and well in patterns of federal spending. So when Dr. David Satcher, President Clinton's Surgeon General, found in a 2005 study that over 83,000 blacks die unnecessary and premature deaths each year due to their treatment after they arrive in a doctor's office, among other factors, I added that datum to my panoply of quality-of-life stats. And now, my aunt factors in Dr. Satcher's numbers.
I have seen such betrayal and lack of principle in the current "health care" debate, I had no intention of getting into it. In our Power to the People campaign, I wrote a platform that included policy recommendations to eliminate all disparities still extant in our society, including for health care. A single-payer system is so obviously needed, it should be too politically costly for our Democratic majority in the Congress and our Democratic White House to do anything else. I recommended an end to war. I advocated public ownership of the Federal Reserve. I even anticipated the skullduggery of the bailouts and recommended that if the "powers that be" were intent on forcing Congress to give these bailouts to institutions that conducted what I would call criminal behavior, then at a minimum, a credible person like David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller, should audit all corporations and institutions receiving such funds. I suggested that Senator Obama use the power of his Senatorial pen to amend the bailout legislation to this effect. It didn't happen.
My aunt-tee had a policy of rarely voting for an incumbent. She understood that just as she was trying to change herself into a lifestyle that she could believe in, she wasn't going to get political, social, and economic change that she could believe in by voting like everyone else, for the same special interest candidates. Once she decided that it was necessary to step outside of the box of political conformity, she discovered that there were Independent, Green Party, Libertarian, and other political party candidates on her ballot that she had long ignored. She began to listen to them and learned to explore the totality of her options. It was glorious to watch my aunt-tee's liberation.
So why is she in the morgue now?
Not enough people took that journey with her. Not enough people saw her example. Not enough was done to change policy. At a time when the policy makers have never been so divorced from the reality borne by the average citizens that they govern, the American people have shown an amazing ability to accept graft, corruption, death, and destruction while continuing to believe that hope alone can produce real change. Why did Cindy Sheehan protest without thousands in front of President Obama's $50,000 a week vacation home?
I've tried to walk my talk. Just last week it came out that one "journalist" who called for my lynching was on the FBI payroll at the time of his comment. He claims to have been paid to say provocative things. I've withstood a lot--for the people. But now, I really don't know how much more walking or talking I'm able to do. I just wonder, how many more will have to experience this before more people write their own Declarations of Independence from this political disorder.
The phone just rang and it was the hospital that performed the botched colonoscopy on my aunt, that ignored her call for help, that demanded that she be transferred while she was in intensive care, that administered morphine twice, despite objections from the family and from which her vitals never recovered. They wanted to know how my aunt would rate their service. I told them poor on every count.
Thank you for reading this with empathy and I thank you all for your support. I apologize for any appointments that I've missed while I've been on the road to this place I'm in now.
P.S. My friend, David Josué, wrote a beautiful notice that I include in this message. Please click on the link at the end of his message because "dying while black" is real. My aunt is just the latest victim. The highlights are mine:
Cynthia McKinney lost a family member . . .
100,000 Unnecessary Black Deaths Per Year!
[09/01/09] It is with a heart full of sorrow that I have to inform you of the death of Cynthia's maternal aunt. Hazel was not sick and took all preventive measures to live a long life. She went to have a colonoscopy and her colon was punctured. What else went wrong during the procedure is still unknown to the family. Hazel survived Jim Crow but could not survive the health care system. Cynthia is deeply affected by this tragic event. She was very close to her aunt and Hazel loved her niece. Hazel was a fervent supporter of Cynthia's six terms in Congress and was so happy to see her niece run for President of the United States in 2008. Only last July the 4th she was in Atlanta with us while we were working around the clock to secure Cynthia's release from an Israeli jail. It is hard to accept that she is no more.
Please visit Professor Vernellia Randall's site http://www.dyingwhileblack.org/book.htm
Thank you
David Josué
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August 20, 2009
Statement by Faithful Reform in Health Care
140,000 people of faith participate in historic call with faith leaders and President Obama
Cleveland, OH - An estimated 140,000 people of faith listened to a conference call with faith leaders and President Barack Obama in an historic 40-minute conference call on Wednesday afternoon. Sponsored by the Faithful Reform in Health Care Coalition and more than thirty other religious organizations, the call was part of the continuing massive mobilization of people of faith around the issue of health care reform. The focus was to energize faith advocates around the moral imperative for making REAL reform happen this year.
Faithful Reform in Health Care member organizations were well-represented on the call, including a denominational executive, local clergy, a health care professional and people of faith victimized by our current health system. All who spoke addressed the urgency of moving forward together for a health care future based on our shared faith values. Call participants were urged to encourage truth-telling, to model civil discourse, to maintain a steady moral drumbeat for reform, and to lead in hope.
The Rev. Dr. Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), emphasized that we have the moral vision and the policy expertise to make reform happen, but not the political will to succeed. She emphasized how important people of faith will be in creating political will by engaging with our members of Congress in the coming days.
Congregational pastors, priests and rabbis reported the work that they are doing to engage their congregants and communities in health care reform and reminded us about how intimately our lives are connected to those who suffer in our current health system. A Muslim physician reminded us how difficult it is for health care providers to do their work in our current system.
President Obama and the White House Domestic Policy Director Melody Barnes addressed concerns, most notably, clarification of the President's priorities, issues around cost, abortion funding, and conscience protections for health care workers. They both emphasized how very important the faith voices will be in making health care reform a reality this year.
President Obama concluded the call with the reminder that "men and women of faith have shown what is possible when we are guided by our hope and note our fear." People of faith have historically been at the forefront of social reform in our nation's history, and that hope-filled leadership will be no less important as we work for health care reform.
Faithful Reform in Health Care coalition members and their congregations will be among the leaders in follow-up activities by raising a moral vision for our health care future the weekend of Aug. 28 - 30 in Health Care Sabbaths, Candlelight Vigils and other public events that will be held across the country.
The link to a recording of the call is available at http://www.faithfulreform.org .
More information about what communities of faith are doing collectively and within their own memberships is available at http://www.faithfulreform.org .
Contact Rev. Linda Hanna Walling, Faithful Reform in Health Care, 216.325.0010.
Indianapolis contact Rev. Mmoja Ajabu, Light Of The World Church 317-202-7526
Faithful Reform in Health Care is the largest interfaith coalition of national, state and local organizations and individuals working for health care reform in the United States. It is the collective voice of faith communities committed to a vision for a health care future that is grounded in their shared sacred values.
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Ok, here we go. I was trying to let this topic go but it begs for someone to touch a side of the story that folks just want to dance around. I have been caught up with being Dad. Please pray for justice for my son. However, for now I have that situation stabilized. Let’s wade into this issue that caused President Obama to hold a brewski powwow. Everyone by now knows that Henry Louis Gates, Harvard Law Professor, was coming home from a trip to China. When he got home his front door was jammed so he went around to the back, opened the door with a key and tried to open the front door from the inside. The door would not open. While trying to get the door open, with the help of his driver, a neighbor, Ms. Lucia Whalen, thought that someone might be trying to break into the house so she called 911. When Sgt. James Crowley arrives upon the scene Gates had already gotten into the house and the driver had left. Crowley says he got a report that two black men were trying to break into the home. When the 911 call was released we find that Ms. Whalen did not ever mention that black men were trying to do anything. Yet in Sgt. Crowley’s report it clearly says that she reported it to be two black men breaking into the house. This little point makes it very clear that it was Sgt Crowley who brought up the issue of Black men breaking and entering. This is significant, here’s why.
If Sgt. Crowley does not know the racial description of the suspects supposedly breaking into the house then he has no reason to suspect Prof. Gates as being the crime suspect after Gates shows his driver’s license and his Harvard identification which both items show him to live at this address. At that point anything the neighbor said is neutralized, although it’s good that she was looking out, but when the officer gets to house and the person that lives in the house is not talking about someone has broken in the house then the officer has no more business at the house. But noooo, he wants to continue to do an investigation when an investigation is not warranted. Even when Prof. Gates has proven that he is the legal resident of the house and would like the officer to get out of his house, because the officer came into the house without an invitation, yet the officer wants to ignore Prof. Gates wishes for him to leave and continues the unwarranted investigation. Now I don’t know about you but I think Prof. Gates had every right in the world, and by law the legal right to be highly upset that someone was in his house without his permission. In fact, when Prof. Gates asked the officer to leave and the officer didn’t leave at that point the officer was trespassing. So now the officer is outside the law, and decides to arrest the legal resident of the home in which he is trespassing. The officer made an arrest out of no arrest. This is part of an officer’s training. What, yes that’s right. Officers are trained how to make it look like you broke the law when no law was broken. Looks like Sgt. Crowley learned the lesson well. So what do we have? We have a police officer trespassing in Prof. Gates’ home who arrests Prof. Gates for no reason besides the Professor being Black in his own home. My Lord!!
President Obama rightly observed that the arrest of Prof. Gates was an act of stupidity. I agree. What is not stupid about a police officer arresting a man in his own home for no reason? There couldn’t have been a legitimate reason because the charges were dropped. Prof. Gates was being loud and obnoxious. That’s not a legal reason to rest anyone. And so what? The man is in his home. The call was not for disturbing the peace. The call was for breaking and entering. A man can be loud and obnoxious in his own home. This is not a police state we live in, or is it? What is America becoming, or has it already become? The last time I looked a man’s home is supposed to be his castle. You can get away with stuff at home that would be illegal on the streets. That’s what makes your home your castle. You can get highly intoxicated at home that would get you arrested if found intoxicated on the street, especially if you are behind the wheel of a car. Being able to do in your home what you can’t do on the streets is what makes your home your castle. Now this is what burns me up!!
When President Obama said the Cambridge police acted stupidly for arresting Prof. Gates in his own home the press jumped on him. Not only did the press jump on him but the Cambridge police came in full force against the President. The police even had some Black officers who clearly displayed that they were more Blue than Black. Not that they should have supported the Professor because they were Black but they should have broke the blue code and supported the professor because it did not make any sense for him to be arrested in his own home. The officers had already maligned Prof. Gates for saying he got racial profiled but now all the talking heads wanted to advise the President that he should not have gotten into a local issue. What happens locally has national implications, especially when the issue is race centered. The President was correct for weighing in. He himself is a Black man who has experienced the same nasty behavior by America’s finest. What burns me up is that both the President and the Professor backed up from continuing to telling the unadulterated truth. It was the cop that said two Black men were breaking into the house. The neighbor didn’t say it. It was the cop. So when the cop saw a Black man in the house the Black man had to be a criminal in the sight of the cop. Any time a Black man is near the scene of a crime then he becomes a prime suspect. This is racial profiling. Stopping a Black man because he is near the scene of a crime but has clear evidence that he didn’t commit a crime, yet he is still treated like a criminal is classic racial profiling. Prof. Gates showed concrete proof that he was in his own home and still got arrested because there was a report of a crime. Prof. Gates was too close to the report of the crime so he became the prime suspect. President Obama called the cop’s behavior stupid and stupid was the cop’s behavior. Yet, both of these Black men stepped back from telling the unadulterated truth. Why? This is where the ride gets really rough. Buckle up!!
President Obama backed up because it was not good for him to get into a racial situation because it would cause his white support to erode. Erosion of white support could mean that the President might lose his job. Prof. Gates backed up because all that talk about racial profiling could cause him to lose stature and possibly his job. The reality of the situation is both of these prominent Black men, and the President supposedly the most powerful man in the world, got timid because they did not want to lose their positions. When I was on moving kind of tough on the streets we would have said they both got punked. They were given the choice of being Black men or rich punks and they chose the money. How do we expect our young men to respect these male models when they allow themselves to be less than men for their love of money? It looks like money has become their god. We cannot continue to run from having the discussion on race that this country needs to have. America, because of President Obama’s election, has not become a post racial society. I would go as far as to say that the issue about President Obama’s birth certificate, Prof. Gates arrest, and the accusation that has the nerve to get in the national dialogue about President Obama possibly being a sleeper agent is all based on the underlying effort of people trying to sustain the false concept of white supremacy. Another racial incident is going to come up again. In fact it is a very good bet that it has already happened several times since Prof. Gates arrest. However these racial incidents just didn’t make the national news. But be patient, it will. We cannot decrease the hate and increase the love if we are afraid to have an open and honest dialogue about what Condoleeza Rice called “America’s birth defect.” Making Black men choose between manhood and a descent quality of life is not the answer. That will only intensify Black rage that if not given a legitimate release will eventually explode into heaven knows what. We must talk before the explosion happens. Lord I pray y’all are feeling me. I run into a lot of young black males. Dem youngsters are fired up and can’t take it no mo’. We must get ahead of this looming curve!! Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.
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