Giant Marimba O' (smile).
Black Men e
Obama, first black US president was 20 years old 27 years ago. Given that, it is not ironical, & it is certainly understated that "Nationally, less than 60% of black men age 20 and older were employed in February, the lowest share since the government began tracking such data in 1972, and down from 66% a year earlier.” ~Peter S. Goodman in the Boston Sunday Globe on April 5.
Well designed information item here on cowardice.
Well designed information item here on cowardice.
Awake or Asleep
How yehudim, greeks & romans, not to mention some weak-minded mn-nfr negroes, took the spirit* out of the ancient african spiritual system and normalized it, universalized it, & through it keep idren sleep-walking today, is reflected in these pictures separated by many-fold millenia but joined by deepest irony [or ignorance...or providence].
*& womban.
*& womban.
Bconx Alert
"The release of the Fed’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances, a triennial assessment of American financial trends, reveals that a focus on policy through a racial lens could come none too soon. The report found that, as a group, people of color held roughly 16 cents for every $1 held by whites in 2007. For Hispanics, the figure was 12 cents. For blacks, a dime*. And those figures were crunched before the collapse of the economy. Advocates fear that the gap probably widened since then because, while fewer minorities than whites own their homes, minority homeowners tend to have a higher percentage of their wealth wrapped up in their homes.
Similarly, blacks and Hispanics have fewer credit cards, but tend to drive up higher debts per card. As a result, said Jose Garcia, associate director for research and policy at Demos, a liberal policy group, “more of [minorities'] income goes to pay debt, and less goes to buy assets.” (article).
So, when a raging fever burns,
We shift from side to side by turns;
And 'tis a poor relief we gain
To change the place, but keep the pain.
~ Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
*Remember the Grand Master Flash 'NYNY' lyrics?
On 42nd Street, lookin for some action
Women standing on the corner selling satisfaction
One young punk just leaning on the fence
Tryin' to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
Really is a prankster, tried to be a gangster
Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands
Just did a stick-up, just got picked up
One dead punk, killed by the man.
...everything ain't always what it seems...
...but'm down by law, & know my way around.
Similarly, blacks and Hispanics have fewer credit cards, but tend to drive up higher debts per card. As a result, said Jose Garcia, associate director for research and policy at Demos, a liberal policy group, “more of [minorities'] income goes to pay debt, and less goes to buy assets.” (article).
So, when a raging fever burns,
We shift from side to side by turns;
And 'tis a poor relief we gain
To change the place, but keep the pain.
~ Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
*Remember the Grand Master Flash 'NYNY' lyrics?
On 42nd Street, lookin for some action
Women standing on the corner selling satisfaction
One young punk just leaning on the fence
Tryin' to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
Really is a prankster, tried to be a gangster
Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands
Just did a stick-up, just got picked up
One dead punk, killed by the man.
...everything ain't always what it seems...
...but'm down by law, & know my way around.
Pirates? Don't Believe the Hype. (AFRICOM)
Any y'all feel yourselves in any measure interested/curious by the Pirate story...don't get caught watching. If you felt any relief when you heard the word 'rescued', then put the little bby man in your brain in check. (blackhawk down in the 'jungle' once mo'gin'd).
The news of the brave New England Captain [us?] & the win against the (african) Indian Ocean 'Pirates' [them] must generate other ideas than 'courage'. How about 'foreigner PRETEXT' instead? No. Then we might ask questions bby won't answer. Like what exactly was the humanitarian cargo (gm-rice)? What is the root cause (vid) that these ex-fishermen are piratical? Who weaponized them? What resources are at stake (land & sea)? Does this general global excitement (hype) legitimize different new military & political foreign inroads to Africa? What will involve the legal processing of the last ‘pirate’? (...the sole alive was a 16 year old boy). Are there African pirates in Indian Oceans breaking American laws?
Criminal or Terrorist? Idren, in the very near future, you are about to be excited'd by Obama’s first state visit to Africa, the land of his father. You are also about to be hyp-ed by some other event terror-crime to occur in west africa (nigeria delta? ghana? liberia?). Please don't believe it, we must stop being force-fed camels as we strain our wine for gnats (so to speak). Try to remember only two words: PRETEXT & AFRICOM.
HIV Resistant People Found in Uganda
(New Vision) A small fraction of Ugandans have been able to naturally knock off HIV from their body, a development that could lead to an HIV vaccine, scientists have said.
Dr. Pontiano Kaleebu, an immunologist heading the Basic Sciences Programme of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), told Saturday Vision that an ongoing study and a previous one at the institute had unearthed signs that some Ugandans may be resistant to HIV.
They have special white blood cells that can only be produced when the virus attacks the body. However, even with the most sophisticated tests, HIV could not be found in these individuals, implying that the virus had tried to infect them but the immune system kicked it out.
"We are seeing some immune responses but it is still too early to see if there is a lot of meaning to these responses," said Kaleebu.
"Such people are of interest to many researchers worldwide."
At the AIDS Information Centre in Kampala, the UVRI scientists are studying 70 discordant couples to see if some of them are indeed resistant to HIV. These are couples that have had unprotected sex for more than a year, one partner has had HIV for long while the other has not become infected. "We have set up a clinic in Kampala where doctors and counsellors do a lot of counselling and give them condoms to reduce risky sexual behaviour," Kaleebu said.
Despite early signs of resistance to HIV, Kaleebu said meaningful results can only be released at the end of the study. The five-year research, expected to be completed in 2010, is sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health through the British Medical Research Council (MRC). It is part of a multi-country study coordinated by the US-based Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) and involving Oxford University of UK.
Prof. Heiner Grosskurth, the Director of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, said: "A lack of ability to becoming HIV infected is extremely rare, but there is evidence meanwhile that people who have this characteristic exist worldwide, although in very small numbers."
Although they are so few, he said, studying them could generate new knowledge that would enable scientists to develop a vaccine. "Such work is going on with a lot of speed and effort in many countries, but there is no breakthrough yet! I think it will still take years until we have good vaccine candidates."
Earlier in 2002, Prof. Andrew Mc Michael of the University of Oxford and the late Dr. Anthony Kebba of UVRI announced that they had identified some eight Ugandans in Kampala and Entebbe, who were exposed to HIV but remained uninfected. One fifth of the discordant couples they studied showed some signs of resistance to HIV, but this required further confirmation. Mc Michael is involved with Kaleebu in the new study. Similar studies are going on in Kenya and the Gambia.
Kaleebu cautioned that nearly all people are vulnerable to HIV and Ugandans should not relax simply because a few individuals seem to be resistant to the virus. "It has to be clear that this apparent resistance is not a common thing. If you are HIV negative and your partner is HIV positive we cannot say you are resistant and you cannot become infected. If you continue to have unprotected sex you might become infected in the long run," said Kaleebu.
Indeed, in the late 1990s some people in Rakai were reported to have become infected with HIV after being discordant for many years. On discovering that they were discordant, scientists had advised them to begin using condoms. Later, some of those who declined to use condoms became infected. (more).
Dr. Pontiano Kaleebu, an immunologist heading the Basic Sciences Programme of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), told Saturday Vision that an ongoing study and a previous one at the institute had unearthed signs that some Ugandans may be resistant to HIV.
They have special white blood cells that can only be produced when the virus attacks the body. However, even with the most sophisticated tests, HIV could not be found in these individuals, implying that the virus had tried to infect them but the immune system kicked it out.
"We are seeing some immune responses but it is still too early to see if there is a lot of meaning to these responses," said Kaleebu.
"Such people are of interest to many researchers worldwide."
At the AIDS Information Centre in Kampala, the UVRI scientists are studying 70 discordant couples to see if some of them are indeed resistant to HIV. These are couples that have had unprotected sex for more than a year, one partner has had HIV for long while the other has not become infected. "We have set up a clinic in Kampala where doctors and counsellors do a lot of counselling and give them condoms to reduce risky sexual behaviour," Kaleebu said.
Despite early signs of resistance to HIV, Kaleebu said meaningful results can only be released at the end of the study. The five-year research, expected to be completed in 2010, is sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health through the British Medical Research Council (MRC). It is part of a multi-country study coordinated by the US-based Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) and involving Oxford University of UK.
Prof. Heiner Grosskurth, the Director of the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, said: "A lack of ability to becoming HIV infected is extremely rare, but there is evidence meanwhile that people who have this characteristic exist worldwide, although in very small numbers."
Although they are so few, he said, studying them could generate new knowledge that would enable scientists to develop a vaccine. "Such work is going on with a lot of speed and effort in many countries, but there is no breakthrough yet! I think it will still take years until we have good vaccine candidates."
Earlier in 2002, Prof. Andrew Mc Michael of the University of Oxford and the late Dr. Anthony Kebba of UVRI announced that they had identified some eight Ugandans in Kampala and Entebbe, who were exposed to HIV but remained uninfected. One fifth of the discordant couples they studied showed some signs of resistance to HIV, but this required further confirmation. Mc Michael is involved with Kaleebu in the new study. Similar studies are going on in Kenya and the Gambia.
Kaleebu cautioned that nearly all people are vulnerable to HIV and Ugandans should not relax simply because a few individuals seem to be resistant to the virus. "It has to be clear that this apparent resistance is not a common thing. If you are HIV negative and your partner is HIV positive we cannot say you are resistant and you cannot become infected. If you continue to have unprotected sex you might become infected in the long run," said Kaleebu.
Indeed, in the late 1990s some people in Rakai were reported to have become infected with HIV after being discordant for many years. On discovering that they were discordant, scientists had advised them to begin using condoms. Later, some of those who declined to use condoms became infected. (more).
G20 Babylon Essence
"For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates
his existence. The settler owes the fact of his very existence, that is to say, his
property, to the colonial system." ~Sartre, (preface of Fanon's The Wretched of the
Earth)
Marlena I Want
Marlena I Want...
I want my people to be happy I told my little neice
But not Obama change happy
I mean truly happy
Not happy to be able to have the chance to finally get the opportunity to try to see the happiness on the horizon.
I mean not having your breast fondled during an arrest happy
I mean not having to teach the same brother every day who comes to you for you to have something for him because he is sick happy
I mean not having to teach black boys and girls that they are african and that is a good thing happy.
I want my people to be happy Marlena.
I want you to be happy chicken.
December 25, 2008
Livicate to Ant Martha - Quiet Music of an Intact African N8V R.I.P.P
Play:
“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.” – Shakespeare
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.” – Shakespeare
'pon Idren mind
long live ithiopia
blackaman where is your country? (trod it outa bby)
where is your king?
where is your nation? (had it ina Africa)
where is your god?
you fi look upon the land ithiopia where we belong
u fi look upon the land of a nubia where we belong
you fi look upon the land of africa where we belong
u fi look upon the land itiopia where we belong
blackaman blackman there is no justice
lion can tell ya, there is no peace
there is no freedom
while living in captivity so dem dem can fool ya
u fi look upon the land of ithiopia, nubia, africa, ithiopia where we belong...yeaah.
~Nasio Fontaine, Positivity
For Ryan Moats in that Moment
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (with Robinson) after the U.S. gov't kidnapped him & took him to Antigua and then CAR.
"I tried to love America, its places, its well-ordered marrow, its surplus appurtenance. But I could not love a place. I could not love things. No one in good health can. Imagine a world of material wealth devoid of people. What's to love? Nothing.
I tried to love America but America would not love the ancient, full African whole of me. Thus I could not love America. I had come to know too much of her work. ...Then I stopped trying to love America. I have not despaired the moment."
~Randall Robinson, Quitting America, 2004
"For the Negro, pure and simple, there is no country but Africa, and in America his deeper instincts tell him so. He will never be understood, nor will he ever understand his European guide and teacher, as long as he remains in the countries of his exile. He is often misled by the overflowing and ceaseless generosity of white men* into a belief that his benefactors are getting nearer to the idea of practical oneness and brotherhood with him. But among the phenomena in the relations of the white man to the Negro in the house of bondage none has been more curious than this: that the white man, under a keen sense of the wrongs done to the Negro, will work for him, will suffer for him, will fight for him, will even die for him, but he cannot get rid of a secret contempt for him."
~Edward Wilmot Blyden, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race 1887
*["hey, obama ... is."]
Wanted: Word-Sound-Power artists
Calling any & all sista/bruddah who can put words to new music, come contribute. Choose a melody or bring it.
It Takes COuRage
Philadelphia Police Attack Uhuru Movement Protesters in City Council. Dem chant popo down with word-sound-power "Everybody Stays..." in that minute random folks are asked will you stand or will you go... this is how it always was-is from when humans fell(ed).
Left Right Human Space Map
Fascinating pictures of Mercury & Jupiter as if there were map-minded humans aboard. Small power we. (link)
Jimi Hendrix - sumgun played upside down y'all. UPSD-DWN
Voodoo Chile & Hey Joe, (& sisters by Steve vai) supreme nice on six strings fingers.
KnauOghtty Dreads & Afros
If idren are unfamiliar with m130s-affi ovas: global afric -dem na all bby poisoned deaded...Yet.
Weighing Scales vs. Pre-Civilization Ourstory
Light As A Feather
(kiotd-ownload)
The wonderful songstress Caron WheelerSister bringing word sound power fi yuts rise dem up. She is referring to the ithiopian ostrich feather (below-across the judgement scale from the heart). "You can be, light as a feather".
Ka, Ba, Ancesta. 42 Negative Confessions ("I have not..."). How does the jackal know what im'know? (smile). Light as an ethiopian ostrich feather. This is to be snkfd. & then ...forward further, go fetch the source of this here Ma'at too-these things are older still.
James Crow's children of Fair East Haven CT
Priest Arrested After Defending Immigrants, Videotaping Police
On the evening of his arrest, at around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19, Father Manship walked into My Country Store, a convenience store in East Haven run by Ecuadorians. Inside, the police were removing over 60 expired license plates that had been hung as decorations in the store. The license plates were government property, the officers had said, and they were confiscating them.
Manship entered the shop, took out a digital camera, and began videotaping the East Haven police officers who were removing license plates from a wall in the rear of the store.
The officers immediately ordered Manship to stop videotaping, seized his camera and put him under arrest, according to Manship. Everyone in the store fell silent as Father Manship was led out in handcuffs. He was charged with interfering with a police officer and creating a public disturbance.
After the police arrested the priest, they noticed that the store was equipped with security cameras.
Elio Cruz, a leader in New Haven’s Virgen Del Cisne Ecuadorian community, was in the store that night.
“When [the police officers] realized there was videotaping from My Country Store, they went crazy,” Cruz recalled later. “They said it was illegal and they tried to grab the computer.”
Matute said that three officers entered the back room without his permission and searched the shelves in his storeroom. When they found the hard drive containing the store’s digital security camera footage, they wanted to take it, but Matute wouldn’t let them, he said.
Matute said that the officers then called a detective to bring a video camera to record the security footage off of the computer screen, but the detective’s camera didn’t work.
[See a video clip of three East Haven police officers searching the back room and talking to Matute about his security camera computer and monitor, below.]
Manship entered the shop, took out a digital camera, and began videotaping the East Haven police officers who were removing license plates from a wall in the rear of the store.
The officers immediately ordered Manship to stop videotaping, seized his camera and put him under arrest, according to Manship. Everyone in the store fell silent as Father Manship was led out in handcuffs. He was charged with interfering with a police officer and creating a public disturbance.
After the police arrested the priest, they noticed that the store was equipped with security cameras.
Elio Cruz, a leader in New Haven’s Virgen Del Cisne Ecuadorian community, was in the store that night.
“When [the police officers] realized there was videotaping from My Country Store, they went crazy,” Cruz recalled later. “They said it was illegal and they tried to grab the computer.”
Matute said that three officers entered the back room without his permission and searched the shelves in his storeroom. When they found the hard drive containing the store’s digital security camera footage, they wanted to take it, but Matute wouldn’t let them, he said.
Matute said that the officers then called a detective to bring a video camera to record the security footage off of the computer screen, but the detective’s camera didn’t work.
[See a video clip of three East Haven police officers searching the back room and talking to Matute about his security camera computer and monitor, below.]
(more)
Here be more sons of James Crow Sr.: Jim Crow Jrs. (the milders). Btw, are the signs getting clearer? (Madoff , Manship). Or am I just getting older? (smile). Folks THEIR NAMES ARE MADE-OFF and huMANSHIP.
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Pictures speak 172,000 words
thanks & praises for dem dancing stand up Africans
pon San Domingo isle dis day.
Decades of Disparity: New Study Underscores Severity of Racial Bias in Drug-Related Law Enforcement
A new study underscores the severity of racial bias in drug-related law enforcement. According to Human Rights Watch, African-Americans were arrested as much as five and a half times as whites on drug charges every year for the past three decades. The trend dates back to 1980, the earliest date with complete data.
Babies: Roots of Our Social Glue
NYT- ....Babies became adorable and keen to make connections with every passing adult gaze. Mothers became willing to play pass the baby. Dr. Hrdy points out that mother chimpanzees and gorillas jealously hold on to their infants for the first six months or more of life. Other females may express real interest in the newborn, but the mother does not let go: you never know when one of those females will turn infanticidal, or be unwilling or unable to defend the young ape against an infanticidal male.
By contrast, human mothers in virtually every culture studied allow others to hold their babies from birth onward, to a greater or lesser extent depending on tradition. Among the !Kung foragers of the Kalahari, babies are held by a father, grandmother, older sibling or some other allomother maybe 25 percent of the time. Among the Efe foragers of Central Africa, babies spend 60 percent of their daylight hours being toted around by somebody other than their mother. In 87 percent of foraging societies, mothers sometimes suckle each other’s children, another remarkable display of social trust. (more)
By contrast, human mothers in virtually every culture studied allow others to hold their babies from birth onward, to a greater or lesser extent depending on tradition. Among the !Kung foragers of the Kalahari, babies are held by a father, grandmother, older sibling or some other allomother maybe 25 percent of the time. Among the Efe foragers of Central Africa, babies spend 60 percent of their daylight hours being toted around by somebody other than their mother. In 87 percent of foraging societies, mothers sometimes suckle each other’s children, another remarkable display of social trust. (more)
[wonder what the 'negro urbaner' of the Hood baby-hold rate is...certain it would be high compared to other bby 'tribes': idren in tact, sometimes despite we.]
Learning Landscape
Interesting project to re-enforce yut understanding. "Learning Landscape", at the Kutamba School for orphans of AIDS in rural Uganda. (more). Affi call on all design ideas for ground breaking of RBG facility :)
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