The attack of September 11, 2001, though said to have been conducted by "Muslim extremists" and characterized as an "attack on Freedom", did not target the structures of Christianity, nor the symbols of freedom, but those of capitalist exploitation and military oppression.

These exist, as at the founding of Islam and Christianity, in opposition to freedom, even today, as man’s own man-made devil, fueling not the capacity of holiness, but that of evil. Under color of religion, both Christians and Muslims have served in the devil’s army, over centuries of assault designed to raise capital and gain power in elevation of themselves over others, eschewing the cooperative example of Adam and Eve, for the competition between Cain and Abel.

As Jesus said, "what you do unto the least, you do unto me", America is founded where "all men are created equal" in the understanding that we need not to compete for God’s favor, but to cooperate to build and secure favor with one another. We must not limit our cooperation to the confines of deviled regimentation, but abandon the regiment altogether, for the universal respect of boundaries, through which cooperation is hewn.

The free and the holy stand in opposition to oppression and exploitation. It would be nice to imagine that their spirits united to effect the attacks of that day, but the reality of grief suggests a more sinister plan was afoot. Whether the towers were brought down by unscientific Muslim extremists assisted by a sympathetic God, or by a very scientific capitalist plot, has yet to be addressed and determined by public and congressional investigation.

"International Koran Burning Day" has been suspended, by the pastor, pending a meeting with the Iman of the proposed Mosque in New York City. If the day is revived, should demonstrations by Muslims burning the Bible, and of Atheists burning both, be staged in opposition and sympathy?

The Bible and Koran convey different and somewhat complementary versions of devotion to the same God. God-inspired activity in the men known as Jesus Christ and Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, inspired religious devotion to their methods and intents of worship, by populations subjected to their teachings. Now is poised a competitive scrimmage between those populations, that neither prophet would encourage. In that Christianity spread through Europe, and Islam through Africa, this may seem a continental contest. In that Christianity was adopted by whites and Islam by blacks, this may seem a racial contest. In that the Black American Muslim mission established by Elijah Muhammad employs the divinity assigned to both texts, it seems a curious contest.

That the versions of our marriages, to which we vow before God, as they are approached, engaged, and aged, differ between the mates, should render a clue that our versions of worship may differ, but remain valid. Oppression is all that should be not tolerated. Its presence is proven by damage and harm, torture and vandalism, and its endurance concludes in complete deprivation.

We protest the deprivation. Of what are we deprived? Somehow, a thirty-member congregation pastor is not deprived of national and world-wide attention for a rather radical, dubious, and offensive proposition. Perhaps it aligns with the considered offensive, but hardly radical or dubious, proposition for the all-faith mosque and community center near the hallowed "ground zero". The radicalism of book-burning is well documented in the novel "Fahrenheit 451". Not so well portrayed are the actual burnings of native scripture by Christian invaders around the world. The test of freedom is, "how much variety can I brave?".

The pastor’s plan seems dubious because no seems to have asked him, "do you have a Koran", nor, "whom do you expect to donate, or sell, Korans to be burned". The more Christian thing to do, if he has Korans to burn, is to keep one to read himself, and donate the remainder to Muslims too impoverished to afford their own. If nothing else, both books, Bible and Koran, convey a divine love and devotion, that of man for world, community, and self, proven in sacrifice of all of these, for the art of its conveyance, the recorded speech, the book, too heavy to own.

In our freedom, we own our burdens and dispose of them as we wish and as we are able. The burden of our sadness, our anger, our evil, is not upon any art, nor book, but upon our own minds, our own conscience, and are dispersed not by the devil’s signature fire, but by the cool calculations of repentance, indeed restoring the honor of our lands, through our souls. "I submit only to God", is the statement of Muslims, and is the pledge of the free. It is not the purpose at odds, but the perspective and methods, not only between the camps, but within them. Hate can be changed into hope. To achieve this recipe, at the point where hate simmers into a boil, add a complete package of humility.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

6:42:59 AM

Miscegenation: The Last Stand

That "Blacks and Whites should not procreate and raise babies together" is the basic premise of the theory of miscegenation, promoted by American segregationists, to maintain "whiteness" in the position of social dominance and theoretical supremacy. The current "republican/democrat" impasse over health care, is really the final scrimmage line, battlefront, of the forces supporting and those neutral to miscegenation.

"Health Care Reform" was a Hilary Clinton project, now adopted by Barack Obama, and this black/white, male/female collusion is subtly, provocatively, rumbling rumbling beneath the surface of its opposition’s objections. Barack Obama, himself, is the product of such miscegenation, but avoided the condemnation of having been reared among blacks, or secreted among whites. Elevated on the images of blacks placed into positions by conciliatory whites, Obama felt safe enough to the American spirit, for it to compose his election, and proper to the liberal attitude, to share a stewardship with Ms. Clinton.

This is not done to oppose the opposing Americans, but to sway their infantile concepts of America into maturity. As well, it is not done with intentional perfections. The perfect intents of infancy grow jagged with age and experience, sour and corrupted without truth. Yet humanity’s truth was written and signed in our founding documents, by white hands under black manners and influence. But these hands drifted between pen and whip, chain and gun, under minds starved of truth by years of mutual subjugation, toward the false shores of mutual collaboration to suppress those beyond the agreed mutuality. Within that agreement are those capitalizing on the fear they create in others, the despair and disaster they inspire, cause, and orchestrate. Indeed, they encourage illnesses of all sorts, and charge exorbitant costs for pretend cures. Such strategies extend from the practices that enforced slavery, the divide, between slave and master, standing still, throughout, today in that between the corporate giants and common citizens.

This divide mirrors those instituted between royalty and subject, king and serf, prophet and congregation. This divide is the actual thing that the "conservative" is working and looking to preserve. Though Americans are a people devoted to self-government, implied by their rhetoric is that it should, and does, exist between the citizenry and those we assign to authority. Such implication is assigned by the enemies of government regulation, those serving the corporate lobby, who claim their greed is actually a service because it increases the national financial capacity, above the constituency.

Yet, with the power bestowed by their money, earned on subjected citizens, they insist on immunity from taxation, their class rising above the citizenry so, that the "robber barons" of the "monopoly age"–at their heights, would be standing too low to see that high. It’s not really the "reform" they object to, but the "care", and ultimately, the "health". Extending this attitude from the current arena, one sees it applied against the prospects of "education" and "welfare", "gayness" and "communism", "socialism" and "liberalism", but ultimately portray tyrants against all "freedom", but their own. Like the plantation masters at our founding, they express loyalty to naught but their envy, their jealousy, their crime, their cover.

The stresses of today are equal to those of slavery, multiplied over a more diverse and larger population, and measured most deeply in Black Americans, those originally and most targeted. These stresses have never been healthful, but generated wealth into the estates of those who caused them. Enriched by such an unhealthful environment of oppression, the oppressors invested in more empowerment and invention, to refine and excavate more organic sacrifice, gorging on spiritual and cultural cannibalism. With no equitable opposition but the truth of time and nature, and a conscience shunted away from the natural truth within themselves, there has been no cause to think that this methodology has not continued into today. Generating and accumulating a massive and unstable store, of hypocrisy and confusion, that threatens to collide in a suicidal explosion, or merge into a suicidal poison, major and general change is inevitable. Our patriotic duty is to join these energies together in conversion, to create of them a kernel and a seed, by acknowledging, facing, and grappling with our historical and current injustice, to repair our character, rePAR, our peerage.

In this tact, America will become the nation waving its flag over the home of the brave, giving land to the free, but against this fact, will maintain its creation by saving its bag to fill, like Rome–of the slave–living hand-to mouth in conspiracy, depleting all stores of liberty, and die in its condemning of equality.

8:00:50 AM

Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:48:07 AM

I’m not trying to organize America. I think America is organized on the blood, sweat, tears of its citizens and ancestry. Also, I am generally satisfied with the outcome and spirit of the original "Boston" Tea Party, and have no interest in the "Mad Hatter" Tea Parties in vogue today. Rather, my aim is to let America organize itself around the sound principles of its founding documents, or should I say principle, "freedom through equality".

This simplification is the nutshell of the boiled down meaning, promise, and duty of constituent America. Francis Scott Key plainly stated that the flag should "wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave", and I can say with full faith, based on perceptive observation, that Americans have struggled to create that land, the brave few, for all, the cowardly masses, for themselves. As a result, the struggle has been harder than it has needed to be, more lethal than nature is expected to be for too many, more comfortable than just desserts for too few.

There is little debate that this divide exists, and huge and innumerous debates about how it exists, and what its course may be. Some theory, or rhetoric, asserts that this divide is a reflection of any number of fill-in-the-blank divides that are present by force of nature, will, or both–divine, human, or both, each and every combination thereof yielding a multitude of subsets and combinations. Most of these dovetail into inescapable conclusions, of prejudice and self-fulfilling prophecy, the "big-game" players simply manipulating and gambling on the outcomes. Yet, the American flesh carries the American spirit, both corrupted by the banishment of the American mind and the exile of the American act, as accomplices to the doom against tyranny.

"America" the capital society borne of European competition won by the English over a contesting Spain, and a fading France, was formed on tyranny, sponsored by tyranny, and instituted tyranny as its first order of national business. Francis Scott Key recognized that the freedom so hailed at America’s founding, could only be bravely won, and his poem was adopted in song as our national anthem. It was written at the sight of our flag under bombardment at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by the invading British in the War of 1812. Its singing and adoption in the 1930’s spoke not only of our bravery against the British attempts at tyranny, but against our own tyrannies as well. General Stonewall Jackson turned the tide at the Battle of New Orleans in 1814, by raising a local militia, largely consisting of enslaved Africans promised their freedom with victory, who were then stripped of their heroism by legitimate cowards who shackled them again to their masters.

Animalized slavery was generally assigned to the lot of African persons, nearly eighty years into America’s founding, a huge divide over the issue bringing us to war among ourselves, and persisting today to a point of silent saturation that suggest a national drowning. This is no new condition for Black Americans, but is indeed our constant condition, and to swim in this muck is sane only in the attempt to escape it, and our expertise can, once again, expect to be consulted. But not nearly as sincerely, for more popularized is the condition that keeps the slave enslaved and that snares the unsuspecting in a similarly, not so much animalized as mechanized, role.

That popular condition is marketed in many guises, but it too boils down to a basic form, and that is "every man for himself". In this role, each of us abandons whatever natural position we have in a sustaining culture, to move into a social position of cosmetic import. This blocks the instinct and attempt of the mind to communicate, which is not only to engage in an exchange of point of view, but to convey all manner of humanity through all manner of sense and sensation in employment of the earthen resources. The mind, deprived of this vital exercise, cowers into selfish islands of imagined inequality, rather than forging understanding of differences into an equation of equality. So it is to establish this natural process in our society, that I struggle, for this is the American creed.

To do so, I oppose harmful tyrannies that pose as right, but are totally wrong, and are patently un-American, those that intend to extend and never relinquish the inequalities that they imagine and impose. I hope you can see where I’m coming from, because I’m coming from where we, as a country, have been. I hope you say, when you see the ugliness of inequality, that it is indeed ugly. I hope you can see the self-evident truth, and endow our creator with your humble and virile allegiance. I hope we can see America as a vibrant nation among a world of vibrant nations enduring in freedom’s harmony on equality’s string. Let us pluck that string. Fairly, we will strike a chord. The symphony is written, the chairs are in place, the instruments ready. Everybody breath. Now, the baton. Can we give it voice?

Teasing For Violence? Thursday, October 8, 2009 6:29:00 AM

     Holder’s visit to Chicago, and Detroit offices being mobbed by a crowd of assistance seekers, illustrate the profound and damaging failure to recognize that Black America continues a non-stop bearing-the-brunt of American social trauma. The attorney general in the midst of Our Black president’s hometown, recognized not that the extraordinary problems in astounding and horrendous proportion, are deserving of the nation’s fullest and finest attention, effort, and expenditure, to solve. Obviously, the funds intended for three-thousand-five-hundred people were ninety-percent short of the thirty-five-thousand people who responded in Detroit.

     Most of all, the Chicago students need cultural development and confirmation of their heritage. A comment by "vilynblackthome" on the Chicago Sun-Times website

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1813612,CST-EDT-edit08.article

shows the problem. Though the Sun-Times complains that the money proposed to address the violence in and around Chicago Public Schools, is just a drop in the bucket, no degree of money and professionalism alone will actually deliver the letter. In both cases, the financial promises made are simply a tease, to provoke exploitable despair among Blacks, and to sustain comforting ignorance among whites.

     I don't capitalize white for "white" is simply a color, and not an ethnicity. "White" is termed to distinguish the collection of those who have approvable identities, from those who have been denied them. Under the umbrella of "white" gather the French, English, Spanish, and all of European heritage, down to the plots of land from which their families have inherited and conquered over the centuries. "Black" covers only a multitude of greater and equal insults: colored, negro, mulatto, negress, and all the variations of the famous slur.

     In America, "black" people have no other cultural title that is not color based, and this one, chosen by the people stripped completely of their territorial and traditional heritage, by their fellow citizens, for enslavement that enriched every corner of the nation with wealth and opportunity, is even today not given the status of a proper noun by the bulk of the mainstream press and educational systems. "African-American" refers to an entire continent and no ethnicity is considered to be distinctly defined by merely continental boundaries. "Blackland" is America entire, for we are the brave who have no other home.

     Even accepted, "Black" is not sufficient, for Black youth must compete against the remaining, non-black multitudes who course along with generations of recognized and respected territorial and cultural traditions intact, in use, and at easy access. Even Obama is a Luo-Kenyan-American, a much more traditionally defined ethnicity. African-Americans in truth are immigrants and descendents with tribal ties within a national origin besides America. "Black Americans" are we, alone in the world, who must be granted our sole and soul affinity for our country by our fellow citizens and visitors to our home.

     It is a sabotage that Black American youth, with a four-hundred year communal familiarity with American custom, by way of a four-hundred year sacrifice for America's progress, are bypassed for work in favor of unfamiliar immigrants, who have less proficiency with the language and expectations of our laws and customs. It was drilled into me that education was the key to personal advancement. High school diplomas, testifying to a proficiency in English, were routinely required for consideration for entry level employment. It is this "odd-man-out" status, a burning residue of the African holocaust, that abuses the American prospect.

     Not realizing and facing up to this lingering trauma, in order to heal its wounds and profit its lessons, America has given favor to the immigrant influx. As sales, to those who are frustrated in communicating in English, fall, more immigrant speakers of other languages are welcomed to make up the difference, and the "Black" element becomes more and more replaceable. The "personal responsibility" of a raindrop in a hurricane is negligible. This is a massive storm requiring the calm coalescence of the entire citizenry.