Giving Thanks ! From family destruction to family and friends dinner !

From family destruction to family and friends dinner ! http://daghettotymz.com/rkyvz/articles/thanks/thanks.html

A first legally recognized day of thanksgiving was ordered by the Governor in Massachusetts Bay to celebrate the the victory of Indians. A second day of Thanksgiving was ordered by the church in Standford Connecticut to celebrate the victorious slaughter over the heathen Indians. Numerous days of thanksgiving developed after each slaughter. President George Washington ordered that all these celebrations be celebrated on one day. President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national Holiday on the day he order the slaughter of the Sioux Indians. Today we celebrate family and friends and the blessings we have enjoyed. Let us not forget the lives who paved the way for our luxury.
Enjoy the video: The True History of Thanksgiving by Susan Bates: http://youtu.be/C4nQPI0AV7Q 

Enjoy an historic analysis of the tradition of Thanksgiving, documenting the only written document that describes the original feast.: http://youtu.be/QZRI1BIaER4

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 Giving Thanks ! From family destruction to family and friends dinner !
     As we give thanks today, pour a libation for our ancestors whose lives became the fertile soil for today's American celebration.In our festivity we will not forget.
For sacrifices of the Indians stolen and taken to England and enslaved in 1614 we remember you. Ashee ! 
For the Pautuxen Indians murdered English small pox clearing land for Pilgrims, we remember you. Ashee !
For the enslaved yet optimistic Squanto who fought for and brokered peace, we remember you. Ashee !
For the nation who didn't agree to Squanto's peace treaty and were slaughtered, we salute you. Ashee !
Your slaughter became the first legally recognized American Day of Thanksgiving celebration.
The success of the slaughter led to numerous Day of Thanksgivings. We remember you. Ashee !
The people were enslaved and sent to England.
The lands were systematically taken, as the people were systematically diminished.
And Now today America has become a leading Nation neglecting the soil of your blood.
May we never forget, may we not get stuck in the despair of the past.
May we move forward together, being aware and conscious. Ashee

Food for thought:

Umoja Karamu- Giving thanks to Afrikan Culture

The cultural creativity of Afrakan people is ever redemptive. Afrakans in America continue in the ways of their continental ancestors in conceiving ongoing methods of institutionalizing our unique heritage. This is the time of the holiday tradition of Umoja Karamu. This celebration was initiated in 1971 by Brother Edward Simms, Jr. of Philadelphia, Pa. Umoja Karamu is a Swahili term that translates as “unity feast.” As practiced in The Temple of the Black Messiah, Umoja Karamu is held on the fourth Sunday in November.
Its purpose is to instill a sense of unity and appreciation of Afrakan heritage into Afrakan families. This is done through prayers to the traditional deities of Afraka, libations to honor our Afrakan ancestors, historical Afrakan centered readings and Afrakan centered films all of which culminates in a healthy, nutritious feast. In his own words Brother Edward Simms, Jr. states “[Umoja Karamu] injects new meaning and solidarity into the Black Family through ceremony and symbol. It is unique in that it bridges the gap between diverse religious persuasions through a ritual which is easily understood and appreciated by all the participants. Moreover, it draws on the collective Black experience with which most Black Folks are familiar.”


The Umoja Karamu celebration is based on five major epochs in the lives of Afrakans in America and each represented by a distinct color. The feast should include foods representing the color of each epoch.The prayers, libations, historical readings and films should also center around these events:

1st Epoch – Afrakans prior to the invasions and influence of Europeans and Arabs. The color Black, is used to delineate the unity of the Afrakan people.

2nd Epoch – Captivity of Afrakans during which the Maafa occurs. The color white symbolizes the adversary and their role in the attempted destruction of Afrakan culture.

3rd Epoch – Self Emancipation. The fight against forced labor and captivity in the United States of America through revolts, Civil Rights and the Black Power movements. The color red is used to represent those who lived and died in service of freeing captive Afrakans.

4th Epoch – National Liberation. The fight for decolonization of Afrakan countries the formation of the Organization for Afrakan Unity and the diasporac Afrakan liberation movements. The chosen color is green, symbolic of land and all that comes from it.

5th Epoch – The Future of Afraka and Afrakans. The Afrakan Union, The African Socialist International, The Sankofa Movement. Afrakan centered perspectives for the future. The color gold is chosen for the future is a most valuable asset.

Kwanzaa, Umoja Karamu, Odunde. Afrakans in America – earnestly engaged in the reclamation of their culture and its institutionalization.

Article by Pya Kule
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Is Disney promoting Dominate/Subservient relationships for people of color ?

ABC/Disney Does Not Promote Interracial Relationships, But Dominate/Subservient Relationships

ed June 29, 2013 Strategies

http://dreamandhustle.com/2013/06/abcdisney-do-not-promote-interracial-relationships-but-dominatesubservient-relationships/ 

For several decades, ABC/Disney has knowingly promoted a racist propaganda on their media channels and continue to do so with a sense of impunity. Over and over, ABC/Disney have been promoting the media image of a White male in a relationship with a woman of color and this is a racist media practice known as “grooming”. In this article we are going to explain the practice of grooming, how ABC/Disney practice it and our initiative to bring what ABC/Disney is doing to light and how to confront ABC/Disney on this racist media practice.

What Is Grooming?

Let’s have a quick discussion about interracial relationships and ABC/Disney portrayal of interracial relationships. First of all, interracial relationships are extremely minute and insignificant and overhyped – the overwhelming majority of people are dating and marrying among their ethnic lines. However, the majority of interracial relationships that do occur are based on mutual love and rising above each other physical attributes, a beautiful thing that no one can argue.

ABC/Disney do not and have not and appears to have any plans to show any portrayal of interracial relationships based on love. Because if ABC/Disney was truly being honest and wanted to show the true picture of interracial relationships, it would be between a Black man and a White/Jewish woman. This is your biggest giveaway to date as ABC/Disney has never showed this realistic portrayal of interracial relationships that match reality.

However, what ABC/Disney has displayed over the years is a racist portrayal of a White male having dominate interracial relationship with a subservient woman of color. This has been done on Disney cartoons such as the Princess and the Frog to various Disney Channel TV series to ABC primetime programming. The problem and the reason why ABC/Disney was able to get away with this extreme racism with a sense of impunity is because no one really defined or understand what ABC/Disney was doing. What ABC/Disney was doing was a racist practice called “grooming” and let’s explain further.

Grooming is the racist media programming of one ethnic group trying to assert their dominance over another ethnic group (usually a minority) by targeting their women. Another term many people are familiar with is droit du seigneur. Germany has done this with Jewish women prior to World War II and this practices been done since the beginning of civilization in both Egypt and Roman times. You don’t just take another ethnicity of minority women when oppressing them, what you do is present yourself as the superior man to the ethnic minority women so they can choose you based on materialism/false sense of power over their own man from their own tribe.

What is the Agenda behind Grooming?

The overall goal of grooming is to perform passive genocide through propaganda with the sinister goal of breeding out the minority race within a few generations. In fact, this was part of the Native American assimilation process by Americans during the early 1900s and late 1800s by Whites marrying Native American women and devalue the Native American male – this is real and documented. So we know and it is established that this grooming is a real practice rooted in genocide propaganda and is a racist act. In fact, we are seeing new strands of “assimilation” talk leveraged towards the growing Hispanic and Asian base and creating strategies to see how to apply White male dominance to Hispanic, Indian and Asian women in media programming.

I will be honest, I do not know what ABC/Disney agenda is and what the hell are they thinking because it stupid and ineffective. The best theory I heard is ABC/Disney want to show and reinforce a racist narrative of dominance by White men over women of color here in America. Noticed the goal is not to show Martin Luther King, Jr vision of Black boys and White girls holding hands saying free at last – the goal of ABC/Disney is to show a racist image of a White male having his way with a woman of color who is part of a minority race in his country.

How to Detect Grooming by ABC/Disney

It is extremely easy to detect the racist grooming pattern by ABC/Disney and in fact, it is so predictable also. Let’s explain how you can reveal ABC/Disney grooming practices.

Suppressing Portrayal of Men of Color Having Relations with White Women.This is the biggest giveaway because the racist doctrine of the White woman on a pedestal who cannot be touched by others is evident in the programming. A huge percentage of real-world interracial relationships are between Black men or other men of color with White women or other cultures. ABC/Disney has no history of showing a Black male having a dominate lead in an interracial relationship with a White woman and this is proof they preserving a racist doctrine instead of accepting reality.

Promoting Portrayal of Women of Color Having Subservient Relations with White Men. In order for a successful interracial relationship to succeed among American women, the relationship has to be mutual and usually involves dual income households. To put it real simple, most women of color in an interracial relationship are working class and independent women and are not subservient and cannot be subservient to survive in their career in the real world. However, ABC/Disney portray these Black women or other women of color as needing or desiring or curious about White men and answers to these White men in some shape or form.

ABC/Disney suppresses images of men of color dating White women but promote images of women of color having relations with White men and this is proof enough ABC/Disney is engaged in grooming, a racist propaganda practice to passively encourage genocide.

What to Do About ABC/Disney Grooming Practice?

Many people believe if they target ABC/Disney then they won’t be able to go to Disneyland anymore. However, what ABC/Disney is engaged in should not be tolerated and there should an outrage against what ABC/Disney doing to the level of ABC/Disney executives losing their jobs, advertisers pulling their ads and shows being cancelled or rewritten. Again, we have to stress that ABC/Disney is not engaged in portraying interracial relationships but portraying White male dominant fantasy over women of color.

We brothas and sistas have to work together and work in force to deal with ABC/Disney. The first thing we can do is write ABC/Disney directly and tell them that we believe they are practicing grooming and advise them this is a racist practice that should be stopped immediately. In addition, we CC a copy of the letter to social responsibility advocates and put them on notice so we can claim they ignored us when we informed them.

The second thing we do is lodge a complaint with the FCC regarding all of ABC/Disney affiliates who broadcast this racist grooming propaganda. Any local broadcaster that continue to broadcast for example the Atlanta and Chicago ABC stations knowing a significant population is African-American need to be addressed with the FCC.

Then we move on the advertisers of ABC/Disney who advertise on these shows that promote grooming which is essentially racism. We have to educate everybody involved in what the practice ABC/Disney doing it and we also have to iterate over and over the same point – ABC/Disney does not promote interracial relationships but promote White male dominance over women of color and make sure everybody knows the difference.

But what is really important is brothas and sistas need to come out in force and I’m taking both with the pen and the sword, don’t play with these people because like I said, this is not interracial relationships, this is propaganda to promote long term genocide. In fact, ABC/Disney portrayal is a false depiction of interracial relationships and promotes White superiority, not colorblind love. For too long, ABC/Disney has engaged in this activity and it’s time for brothas and sistas to step up and not just call ABC/Disney out but deal with them – no one should be plotting genocide against us no matter how passive it is and we just sitting here allowing that ish to happen.

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If you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta - Ron Finley

“We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is — if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.” - Ron Finley

Gardening is GANGSTA ! Artist and designer Ron Finley couldn’t help but notice what was going on in his backyard. “South Central Los Angeles,” he quips, “home of the drive-thru and the drive-by.” And it's the drive-thru fast-food stands that contribute more to the area’s poor health and high mortality rate, with one in two kids contracting a curable disease like Type 2 diabetes.

Finley’s vision for a healthy, accessible “food forest” started with the curbside veggie garden he planted in the strip of dirt in front of his own house. When the city tried to shut it down, Finley’s fight gave voice to a larger movement that provides nourishment, empowerment, education -- and healthy, hopeful futures -- one urban garden at a time.

“South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.” - Ron Finley

The direct link to the video described above:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html


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Does Corey Feldman beLIEve Michael Jackson is ALIVE?

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8 Corporations That Made a Fortune Leveraging Black Culture (ATL Blackstar)

Atlanta Blackstar does it again with an interesting article on American corporations that profitted by connecting them selves with aspects of Black Culture / American Black Culture / Hip-Hop culture... Whatever you want to call it. The expose discusses brands like Starter, Addidas, Timberland, and five others. The direct link for the full article :http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/10/31/8-corporations-that-made-a-fortune-leveraging-black-culture/

Here is an excerpt:

Timberland

At the end of the 198os, Timberland sales topped $156 million, 30 percent of which was solely of its classic yellow boot, popular among urban youth in the northeastern United States.
During the 1990s, sales of the brand took off at the same time U.S. hip-hop artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Jay Z, DMX  and many more wore the boots and rapped about them regularly.
After the rappers had fully influenced a generation of fans to wear the work boots, Timberland’s footwear accounted for more than 70 percent of its sales. By the end of 1992, the company’s sales topped $291 million and at the end of the decade, sales reached $917.2 million.

The direct link for the full article:
http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/10/31/8-corporations-that-made-a-fortune-leveraging-black-culture/
Interesting comments:

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  Deborah Martin · Top Commenter

  Why does this article not mention the fact that Addidas founder and his brother who founded PUMA were once Nazis? Why does this article not mention the fact that Timbaland once told Blacks they didn't appreciate their product being associated with urban youths? Why does this article go past the fact the Cristal didn't like their product being associated with rap artists and the lifestyle?

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    Floyd Webb · CEO at Straight Out of A Comic, LLC

    Damn, must we always focus on the obvious and miss the message.The MESSAGE is that is concrete capital value to Black Culture and life. Let's run and tell THAT. NOW, how do we, the producers of this AWESOME culture, seize control and monitize it on our own in our best interest?

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    Glester Thorpe

    Not sure if that was the purpose of this article.

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    · October 31 at 2:14pm
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    Ed Dunn · Top Commenter · Atlanta, Georgia

    Please do not confuse rap artists and the rap lifestyle with Blackness...I don't want to be associated with that crap either...
    

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    · October 31 at 4:52pm

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