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Why is Obama Allowing Black Americans to Be Murdered and Beaten?

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Why is Obama Allowing Black Americans to Be Murdered and Beaten?

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Ethnic Cleansing in Compton California prompts Blacks to Call out Obama and Black “So-Called” Leaders.

Preface: Watch this video and you will see how things got to where we are today.

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Illegal Aliens Murdering Black Americans Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-p5UZMH6jP4

http://www.examiner.com/video/why-is-obama-allowing-americans-to-be-murdered-by-illegal-aliens

U.S. President Barack Obama Visits Connecticut Town Where Massacre Still Fresh

FYI: Ethnic cleansing started in 2008 according to the residents of Compton California. See the correlation? If not I will connect the dots for you. President Obama was elected in 2008, then giving Eric Holder the nod as Attorney General and allowing a new flexibility to guns, Fast and Furious, and Mexican cartels in America. Compton, once a Black staple hold now is overrun by hundreds of Hispanic gangs. Blacks now live in fear for their lives. Yes sure, it was not the safest place to be, but now thanks to our new regime, Blacks like our brothers and sisters in Chicago are even more “under the gun.” While this president says his “watershed” moment is Sandy Hook, Blacks are waiting for this Chocolate Savior to address them and send help their way as well.

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This story made me real upset and I do truly chalk some of it up to Obama’s Dream of allowing everyone (illegal and otherwise) rights to the kingdom with no restrictions! How else does Compton get overturned so quickly leaving Blacks so helpless and defenseless (Fast & Furious like)? Of course since these are all fake leaders and will do nothing unless there is a camera attached they will not act, they have done nothing. FINALLY this latest tragedy has caught some needed press and may prove to be the final straw that brings the black residents help and safety. After all we are talking about COMPTON CALIFORNIA. Yeah NWA, Icecube, Snoop, Dr. Dre and “dem.” That Compton! California dreamin and so on. Well not anymore! Can you say “que todo fue un sueño” …….”it was all a dream”

Well actually a nightmare!

So I am presenting this story so that you too now know and can help our family and put the pressure on. I also leave you with one question. What does this do for Black and Hispanic relations? Where are Hispanic leaders on this and why are they not in the streets fighting this and these gangs and calling this out from every street corner. Where are their leaders and why are they not stepping this up from their end?

Peace Fam,

WW

 

Black Americans Are Systematically Suffering Violent, Racially Motivated Attacks: Where Are Jesse, Al & Toure?

Written By : John Hawkins
January 28, 2013

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If you listen to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Cornel West, Toure, Melissa Harris-Perry and the other professional race hustlers out there, you’d think conservatives are the new KKK. That’s because according to them, opposing Barack Obama’s policies, being against voter fraud, and opposing Affirmative Action are the equivalent of lynching black Americans. Well now, we have thugs systematically engaging in KKK style racially motivated violence against black Americans — in areas completely controlled by the Democrat Party — and you could hear a pin drop on the Left.

The trouble began soon after they arrived.

The black family—a mother, three teenage children and a 10-year-old boy—moved into a little yellow home in Compton over Christmas vacation.

When a friend came to visit, four men in a black SUV pulled up and called him a “nigger,” saying black people were barred from the neighborhood, according to Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies. They jumped out, drew a gun on him and beat him with metal pipes.

It was just the beginning of what detectives said was a campaign by a Latino street gang to force an African American family to leave.

The attacks on the family are the latest in a series of violent incidents in which Latino gangs targeted Blacks in parts of greater Los Angeles over the last decade.

…Federal authorities have alleged in several indictments in the last decade that the Mexican Mafia prison gang has ordered street gangs under its control to attack African Americans. Leaders of the Azusa 13 gang were sentenced to lengthy prison terms earlier this month for leading a policy of attacking African American residents and expelling them from the town.

Similar attacks have taken place in Harbor Gateway, Highland Park, Pacoima, San Bernardino, Canoga Park and Wilmington, among other places. In the Compton case, sheriff’s officials say the gang appears to have been acting on its own initiative.

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Sheriff’s detectives said Friday they had arrested Jeffrey Aguilar, 19, of Gardena and Efren Marquez, 21, of Rialto, both alleged members of the Compton Varrio 155 gang, and are continuing to look for more assailants.

…The gang members were gone by the time deputies arrived, but they kept coming back, almost daily, driving by slowly until they got someone’s attention, then yelling racial insults and telling them to leave. The mother sent the children to live with relatives and is now packing up to leave herself.

“This gang has always made it clear they have a racial hatred for black people,” said Westin, who has worked in the area for more than two decades. “They justify in their own sick minds because of their rivalry with the Compton black gangs. They repeatedly used racial epithets, they use racial hatred graffiti and they tag up the black church a lot.”

The professional race hustlers aren’t making this sort of thing into a big issue because they can’t raise money off it. It also would lead to their getting in fights with the Hispanic race hustlers, they’d have to talk up the police, admit that some people belong in jail — and they’d also have to get in a fight over illegal immigration. What percentage of these thugs standing on people’s lawns and calling them n*ggers are illegal aliens? The numbers aren’t small. It wouldn’t be a shocker if half of them are here illegally. But, once you start getting into how Americans are robbed, raped, and murdered as a consequence of our federal government’s willful decision not to control our borders, then there are a lot of people uncomfortable

It is a disgrace that black Americans should have to worry about racist gangs killing them over their skin color because liberal political correctness prevents us from doing what we have to do to keep them safe. Compton needs some Rudy Giuliani-style aggressive police work. The whole city should be flooded with police officers, they should be aggressively targeting these gangs, and we should be looking to put every gang member we can find there in jail here, if they’re American or in jail in their home country, if they’re illegal. No American should have to be afraid to walk into his own front yard, walk to the store, or live in fear of gangs. With all the money we spend on taxes, surely we should have enough to police cities like Compton. If we don’t, maybe Big Bird could skip a few lobster dinners and we could put the money into keeping American citizens safe from the Mexican Mafia. To me, that seems like a better use of the money.

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http://www.examiner.com/article/mexican-gangs-trying-to-run-black-families-out-of-southern-california  

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Wonder Woman is a community activist and blogger.

She is a proud member of the JustUs League!

She has her own blog site at http://www/wonder2woman.blogspot.com

She also contributes to The Milwaukee Drum, the Black Convo Network, Insane Asylum Blog, and Black Bloggers Connect.

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Harry Belafonte Calls Out Jay-Z and Beyonce for Selfishness!

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In case you missed this article it is worth taking the time to read Brother Belafonte’s words and ingest his food for our starving souls. Although only two are mentioned by name, this article pertains to many of the Blacks that we patronize in the entertainment, athletic, and all money making communities. The next time we idolize and run to give our money to these people let’s think about how they support us. Their “little” foundations may help them sleep at night, but are they really helping us sleep at night? They have the access and ability to create true Black Economic Empowerment that would sustain us all but yet look where Blacks are in 2013 still with our hands out. These people should be creating lasting Black enterprises that build up our communities, schools, youth and family organizations, and churches so we too are self sufficient. That is what those how came before them did FOR THEM! Instead they are buying little pieces of teams, making “car” music that we certainly cannot afford and other silly materialistic things “N” in Paris? Really?  We should be investing into a sustainable future for the whole instead of the few. But without the community “sounding the alarm” they will continue to think their lifestyles are okay and we are in agreement. After all silence is complacence and we have been far too silent for too long. It is time we demand that our brothers and sisters who take so much from us give much more in these tough economic times. From whom much is given, much is required right?  

Peace Family,

WW

 

Harry Belafonte Calls Out Jay-Z and Beyonce for Selfishness

Originally published in

http://www.kulturekritic.com/2012/08/news/harry-belafonte-calls-out-jay-z-and-beyonce-for-selfishness/

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, KultureKritic.com

Harry Belafonte, who did a great deal of work for the black community during the Civil Rights Movement, is making no secret of the fact that he’s very disappointed in many young black celebrities when it comes to social activism.  Speaking this week with the Hollywood Reporter, Belafonte pointed out Jay-Z and Beyonce as prime examples of what he’s talking about.

THR: Back to the occasion of the award for your acting career. Are you happy with the image of members of minorities in Hollywood today?

Belafonte: Not at all. They have not told the history of our people, nothing of who we are. We are still looking. We are not determined. We are not driven by some technology that says you can kill Afghanistans, the Iraquis or the Spanish. It is all – excuse my French – s**t. It is sad. And I think one of the great abuses of this modern time is that we should have had such high-profile artists, powerful celebrities. But they have turned their back on social responsibility. That goes for Jay-Z and Beyoncé, for example. Give me Bruce Springsteen, and now you’re talking. I really think he is black.

My friend Alexis Stodghill at TheGrio makes the point (in a news piece where she carefully cites both sides of the issue) that perhaps Belafonte is off-base with his critique.  She notes that Beyonce has spoken up for her fellow recording artist Frank Ocean when he admitted that he was gay, and that Jay-Z has chumed it up with President Obama during his presidential campaign and supported him on the issue of gay marriage.

We must note that Beyonce and Jay-Z speaking up on gay marriage and homosexuality is little more than a political decision designed to remain in alignment with the Obama presidency.  If Barack had said nothing on the issue, Jay-Z would have said nothing.  So, we have to be sure not to mistake meaningful advocacy for elitist political shoulder-rubbing (wealthy famous people tend to take care of one another).

But when you look at the black aristocracy that is known as Jay-Z and Beyonce, one form of activism that is missing is anything that involves the words “poor black people.” Also, when it comes to issues that affect the least of us, including poverty, mass incarceration, urban violence, unequal educational systems and the like, it’s easy to say that Jay-Z and Beyonce have been effectively missing in action, unless it’s time to show up and utilize this audience to sell albums.

One exception noted by Kirsten West Savali at NewsOne.com is the Shawn Carter foundation, created by Jay-Z and the people who work for him.  According to the foundation’s website, “Since the Foundation’s inception, over 750 students have received awards totaling over $1.3 million dollars.”

<insert WW-$1.3 mil but a lunch outing for them? Come on. Let’s be real she bought him a jet and he bought her an island. Surely they can buy poor blacks fine arts programs, quality education, and clothes, foods, etc…>

Jay-Z should certainly be commended for doing something he didn’t have to do, but let’s really think about this for a second, shall we?  First, most corporations have some kind of foundation.  Even Wal-Mart can claim to have sent thousands of kids to college, as they simultaneously strip workers of their rights around the world, drive small companies out of business and refuse to pay a living wage to their employees.  Secondly, if you divide the $1.3 million given away by the foundation by 750 scholarship recipients, that’s about $1,733 per child.  Please tell me what college in America has a tuition bill of $1,733?  Of course Jay-Z gives away more than most of us can afford, but even the local drug dealer can also afford to use heroin money give away turkeys at Christmas.  The point here is that if I pillage half a billion dollars from the black community over a 10-year period, it’s pretty easy for me to give back $1.3 million of it.

I noticed a line in Jay-Z’s song “n****z in Paris,” where he says, “Can you see the private jets flying over you?”  This line is part of a consistent message of black elitism that has become all-too prevalent in the entertainment industry. It is a statement which says, “I’m better than you, and I am not one of you.  Your job is to either worship me or hate on me, I don’t care which one.”

Beyond the “extensive” efforts of his foundation, Jay-Z is also the man who earned over $63 million dollars last year and only gave $6,000 to charity.  Unfortunately, this has become par for the course in a world where poor black people are not nearly as fashionable of a cause as gay white kids from the suburbs.  Poor black kids can’t buy your records, rendering them effectively useless.

So, while Beyonce and Jay-Z speaking up on marriage equality is a politely cute form of activism, you have to agree with Belafonte that today’s artists are taught not to care about anyone other than themselves.  At best, we might get a photo op at a charity event, but the real pressure to sacrifice for those who are suffering is lost as millions of us forgive celebrities for being unwilling to use their power to make the world a better place.  The rule is simple:  If you’re rich, we love you.  It doesn’t matter if you’re a former crack dealer (Jay-Z), brag about murdering women and children (Lil Wayne) or sleep with middle school kids on the weekends (R. Kelly).  Money is used to wash away all sins, and people are quicker to disrespect an icon like Harry Belafonte than they are to challenge celebrities to do more than tweet pictures of their newborn baby.

By “social responsibility,” I don’t think that Belafonte is referring to charity concerts or speaking to Congress about saving dolphins.  He’s talking about the kind of activism that requires b***s.  He’s talking about the black men and women during the 1960s who used their voices loud and clear to state that things need to change in America soon, or else.

Those days are long gone.  In the 1960s, oppression was much more rampant, so nearly every black person was banging on the door of equality.  Today, those who’ve been allowed access to predominantly white institutions are asked to sign a “Good negro forever” card, and disavow any meaningful political stands that might get them into trouble with a corporate sponsor or record label.  As a result, we have a group of celebrities who are very quick to build their brands off the “street cred” granted to them by impoverished African Americans, but don’t feel compelled to use those brands to become anything other than corporate-sponsored slumlords.

So, a “gangsta rapper” can speak all day about his time in prison, but he dare not say anything about the fact that the United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any country in the world, earning billions on the backs of black men and women, destroying millions of families in the process. He can rap all about “all his homies that done passed away,” but he’s better off staying away from a conversation about how gun violence is fueled by manufacturers who are happy to build profitable corporate tools to fund black male genocide.

It is the lack of acknowledgement of the deep and piercing artifacts of black oppression that bother Belafonte and others the most.  It’s what bothers me too, for I’ve always been raised to believe that (to recite the words of Spiderman’s Uncle Ben) great power comes with great responsibility.

Perhaps when Jay-Z really understands what wealth is all about, he can take a note from Warren Buffett, Oprah and others, who’ve convinced several billionaires to give half of their wealth to charity when they die.  A billion dollars is far more than enough for one family so why not use the rest of save 1,000 families?   Is it nothing less than utterly shameful to have 10 houses, 15 cars, 200 expensive suits and several private planes?  Maybe there is a point where such gluttony should not be celebrated by the rest of us, and instead be called out as pathetic in a world where millions of children are going to die this year from starvation.

Anyone who disagrees with me might want to consider the fact that there is nothing consistent with the teachings of Jesus about letting innocent people starve while you’re burning money in your basement.  The principled stands by men like Muhammad Ali, who gave away nearly everything to stand up for his values, are virtually non-existence when our leading artists write songs about excessive materialism, getting high and drunk every day, killing other black men and unhealthy s****l promiscuity.  Belafonte is right on point and we should look to our elders to remind us of what it means to live a purposeful and righteous life.

Harry Belafonte, by speaking up at the age of 85, is effectively asking that young people pick up the baton that he’s been running since Dr. King was a teenager.  But instead of picking up the baton, we’ve thrown it at his feet and signed ourselves up for corporate slavery. I congratulate Harry for taking a stand on this important issue, and I am hopeful that his courage can spark the cultural revolution necessary to make our people stronger as a result.

Way to go Harry, I respect you.

Dr. Boyce Watkins is a professor at Syracuse University and founder of the Your Black World Coalition.

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Wonder Woman is a community activist and blogger.

She is a proud member of the JustUs League!

She has her own blog site at http://www/wonder2woman.blogspot.com

She also contributes to The Milwaukee Drum, the Black Convo Network, Insane Asylum Blog, and Black Bloggers Connect.

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I’m Not African American; I’m Black

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I know everyone is into the national politics and debates and caught up in everything going on around us, but this story caught my eye. I thought it was an interesting piece and something worthy of discussion. It is not a new topic but still a hot topic. Every now and again it is healthy to look at the other topics being discussed around the blogosphere. Hope you will find it as interesting.

Peace Family,

WW

I’m Not African American; I’m Black

By: Shahida Muhammad | Posted: June 14, 2012 at 12:43 AM

Ebony contributor Shahida Muhammad argues that the “politically correct” term doesn’t say enough to be useful.

http://www.ebony.com/news-views/im-not-african-american-im-black

What does it mean to be African American? This is a question that is quietly resurfacing in Black discourse, due to the fact that many of our people are rejecting the term as a means of identification. While “African American” still manages to be socially accepted, it seems many privately take issue with the term. I’ll admit, I’m one of those people. I have never truly felt connected to ‘African American,’ yet have never felt compelled to argue my standpoint publicly because our discussions on identity tend to be dividing and non-productive. However, I believe it’s a topic worth re-examining, as the term has been the questionable dashiki in the room for quite some time.

I have never been offended by the use of ‘African American,’ but personally there are a few reasons I don’t particularly like the term. I have used it in my writing when making efforts to be politically correct, or as an alternative reference to Black people. Yet I have always viewed it as just that: a politically correct alternative to Black. Never something I whole-heartedly embraced. I have checked it on applications, but never used it to self-identify in real-life. It has always felt forced, redundant, and quite frankly, inaccurate. Using the term ‘African American’ feels like using Kente cloth made in China trying desperately to authenticate myself. In theory I know where I’m from, but in actuality I wasn’t made there.

I’m very much aware that my ancestors were from Africa, and in no way would I want to distance myself from that fact. From an early age my family taught me the painful context of our history in this country, and also that our history as a people did not begin solely with slavery. We come from great peoples and civilizations, and it’s something that has always given me a sense of pride and dignity. However, knowing all of this, there is still no way to pinpoint exactly where my African ancestors came from. Therefore, I have no direct lineage, specific heritage, language or traditions to lay claim to.

I see ‘African American’ as both ambiguous and limiting at the same time. It’s an ethno-cultural term that has become synonymous with race and “regular Black folks.” It’s used exclusively in reference to Black people in the U.S. who are descendants of the Transatlantic slave trade, yet excludes anyone who is an African immigrant or first-generation citizen–who in my opinion would be most fitting of the title. African American is also very vague and simplified. Africa is a vast continent, made up of various nations, cultures, languages, traditions, etc. So to associate myself namely with the continent, without a specific point of reference, doesn’t bring me any closer to my roots, yet it subtly reinforces the misconception that Africa is a simplistic, homogeneous land.

The history of the term is said to have begun with poet and civil rights activists, Johnny Duncan. In 1987, his poem “I Can” was published in the Black History Calendar. Towards the end of the poem he writes: “The last 4 letters of my African Heritage and American creed spell “I can”!” It was this line that inspired Jesse Jackson to coin the term and he along with other civil rights leaders began to encourage Black people to begin using it shortly after. During a 1988 press conference to discuss a national Black agenda, Jackson confidently announced that Black people now preferred to be called ‘African American,’ opting for an ethnic term opposed to a racial one. He stated that “to be called African American has cultural integrity,” citing groups like Italian Americans and Arab Americans as examples.

While I can understand why one would want to have a distinct cultural identity, the difference between our people and the ethnic groups Jesse Jackson referenced that day to support his statement, is that they all came here willingly, as immigrants. And of course, we did not. In addition to this, we have systematically been far removed from our cultures of origin. Making our ethnicity and nationality far more complex.

Finally, ‘African American’ just does not invoke the same bold pride as Black does. (And I’ve always suspected that was one of the reasons we’ve been encouraged to use it). During the heights of Black consciousness and the Black Power Movement throughout the 60s and 70s, when everything black had previously been associated with inferiority and despair, our people began redefining and embracing it as a means of identification. It took on a spirit of self-pride, self-love, dignity and even resistance. And we began opting out of terms that had been previously imposed on us such as colored and negro.

Black connects me with that struggle. Black also connects me to my people throughout the world, whether they are in South America, the Caribbean, Africa or elsewhere. I identify as Black in terms of race, American (by default) in terms of nationality; always keeping in mind that my ancestry ties me to Africa and the original peoples of this earth. To me, Black unites us beyond our various geographic locations, nationalities or cultures; whereas we can all say we are Black, connected and proud.

Wonder Woman is a community activist and blogger.

She is a proud member of the JustUs League!

She has her own blog site at http://www/wonder2woman.blogspot.com

She also contributes to The Milwaukee Drum, the Black Convo Network, Insane Asylum Blog, and Black Bloggers Connect.

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Professor Griff Visits Milwaukee! Free to the Public Friday July 27, 2012

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Fatherhood, personal responsibility vs Government entitlements!

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While self-serving local, state and national politicians and activists run around rallying people of color to claim anything they can get from the government they distract us from the heart of the problem in our communities and that is the effect that these programs have had on the collective psyche of our communities. These politicians and activists have advocated for a more prominent position at the government trough which has replaced fatherhood and personal responsibility with dependence on the government. Here is a great segment that focuses on the real antidote to the fragmentation of our communities: