Ad Hominem Attacks and Black Mentacide
Ad Hominem Attacks and Black Mentacide
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.
A. Introduction
Brown v. Board of Education is no different than Dred Scott and Plessy in its harm. This is inevitable because judges must construe the Constitution according to its original intent, a euphemism for criminal intent. Dred Scott outlined the reasons for our unenforceable rights. Plessy instituted apartheid and Brown instituted educational mentacide as a national policy.
William Bennett was appointed U.S. Secretary of Education for a simple reason. His assignment was to enforce Brown. It is for this reason that President-select George Bush was only able to describe Bennett’s terroristic threat as “inappropriate.”
Skull and Bones disseminate its members throughout the United States and particularly in top government positions to kill Black minds. The Republican Party gave this assignment to Bennett. Apparently, Bennett is now impatient. Black leaders, on the other hand, have been Mirandized.
This article has been written to counteract the criminal intent which has officially bleached the mental complexion of Blacks since 1954. Before 1954, Blacks were busy bleaching their skin. Brown instituted an official program of enforcing mental bleaching. The federal court in South Carolina was the incubator for the decision in Brown.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg disenfranchised Blacks and seized the school system to condition rather than develop the minds of Black children. Among other things, he has elevated testing over teaching. They are being trained rather than educated. This is another example of putting the cart before the horse and it eliminates critical thinking and creativity in our children.
Joel Klein is a lawyer out of the Department of Justice. He was an enforcement officer. The DOJ vigorously prosecuted Black dissidents in addition to brutalizing Blacks like Robert Davis of New Orleans. Klein has no interest nor experience of any kind in education. He has always been an assassin.
Everyone is entitled to an argument. Once the argument is put into the public domain, however, it is subject to public critique. Everyone should avoid ad hominem attacks. Our jurisdiction, as critics, should be limited to examining an argument’s structure. This concerns the application of logic. An argument is divided into premises and a conclusion.
The first step, however, is to lay out a proper foundation. Before a judge permits the introduction of evidence, for example, the lawyer must first demonstrate that the proffered evidence has a foundation. There must also be a basis for the argument.
If a witness seeks to testify about a telephone conversation, the witness must first prove that he or she is familiar with the voice of the speaker. If contraband is being introduced into evidence, the witness, usually a police officer, must establish a chain of custody.
On the issue of logic, Kwame Ture, Louis Clayton Jones, Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour and myself share a common thread. We studied logic under the same philosophy professor at Howard University. Ture, Jones and Al-Mansour’s studies at Howard, particularly, emphasized philosophy.
Critical thinking is essential to seeing and interpreting the world with proper lenses. Logic is also necessary to identify and weed out militant rhetoric which is fueling and misdirecting the Black community. A person who thinks critically will invariably be out of line with persons who frown upon logic.
B. Bill Cosby
Immediately after Bill Cosby made statements which chastised the Black masses, I put pen to paper to question his worn out argument of blaming the victim and calling for pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps. His argument sounds like the rhetoric of Rev. Jesse L. Peterson who harbors deep self-hatred.
Conservative Party mayoral candidate, Thomas Ognibene, gratuitously condemned the Black community for this city’s social ills while Black leaders sat on the first row of the Apollo Theater “skinnin” and “grinnin.” Fernando Ferrer went into a cold sweat. Ferrer refused to defend Blacks. Obviously, he is not Black. This retreat is on videotape.
I was able to hear the recent comments of Min. Louis Farrakhan on “Like It Is.” Gil Noble asked him to comment on Cosby’s comments. My first reaction was to listen in adherence to the teachings of Dr. John Henrik Clarke. Listening allows you to objectively examine a person’s argument even though it seemingly contradicts your position.
Min. Farrakhan approved Cosby’s comment about Black children not speaking proper English and this being an impediment to our positive development. I disagree. Cosby’s attack on the Black masses only includes half-truths. It sounds too much like blaming the victim.
English is not the natural tongue of any person of African ancestry. Moreover English is a racist language. Noah Webster authored a dictionary to accommodate the original intent of the “Founding Fathers.” His first Dictionary was published in 1806 to standardize American thinking.
Language and thinking enjoy a symbiotic relationship. This does not mean that Blacks should not master English. It means that English should only be a second language. Our first language should be our natural tongue or at least a language which is associated with African culture. Accordingly, it is appropriate for Black children to speak Ebonics as a first language.
C. Black Land Ownership
Malcolm X stated, “Land is the basis of all revolutions.” Even before the Civil War, many persons of African ancestry recognized the need to live on free soil. John Russwurn, co-founder of Freedom Journal, departed the United States for good. The happiest person in the world would be President Abraham Lincoln.
After the Civil War, Blacks established their own towns like Princeville, NC in which the Army Corps of Engineers built a flawed levee system like the levee systems in New Orleans. Blacks built a thriving neighborhood in Tulsa. Marcus Garvey advocated a “Back to Africa” Movement. Hon. Elijah Muhammad called for five states in the South. These demands are consistent with sovereignty.
Min. Farrakhan argued on “Like It Is” that Blacks should own a piece of America by investing dollars in a, presumed, trust fund. Blacks could possibly raise $40 billion immediately to purchase land. In his last speech, Dr. King said that we would get to the “Promised Land.”
To be sure, Blacks will never be free without full sovereignty. Land ownership follows sovereignty. Land without sovereignty is like a lion hunter in the woods with only a peashooter. In 1868, the United States substituted the U.S. Constitution for sovereignty. This was illegal under international law and Blacks are owed damages.
Yahweh-Ben-Yahweh led by example. His leadership led to the Nation of Yahweh acquiring substantial landholdings on Miami Beach. If left unchecked, it was projected that the Nation of Yahweh would own Miami Beach. Something had to be done.
In cases of Black success, the modus operandi is to prosecute an authentic, Black leader. Yahweh Ben-Yahweh found his name on an indictment. He was prosecuted in a kangaroo court in Florida for exercising rights of sovereignty on U.S. soil.
Similarly, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was prosecuted in a kangaroo court in Fulton County, Georgia. He was convicted of murdering a deputy sheriff and seriously wounding his partner. There was no credible evidence presented at trial to sustain his conviction. It was a strange trial.
While no one is saying that Brian Nichols is justified in taking the lives of others, it is clear, without dispute, that Nichols was being railroaded in the second trial for allegedly raping a white woman, his sugar mama. Two wrongs do not make a right. It is a question of cause and effect.
The Nichols case is off limits to Black leaders. They have not received a Nichols script. Nichols is not an open and shut case on either the rape charge or the murder charges. It is not what leaders are saying. It is what they are not saying that count. See also Tawana Brawley. Don’t expect to hear her name in D.C. this weekend.
Unlike Nichols, who spent his leisure time chasing white women, H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) spent the 60’s struggling for Blacks. Congress passed federal legislation to restrict his activities. This legislation put a muzzle on activists crossing state lines. He was also sent to prison.
Afterwards, he moved to Atlanta and established sovereign rights over an Atlanta neighborhood. He pushed out drugs and prostitution and, therefore, reduced police criminality. His past conduct plus his current mission was too much for Uncle Sam. Even Indians enjoy limited, sovereignty rights on U.S. soil. Blacks have zero rights.
If Blacks leaders believe in the right of sovereignty, they would have attended the trials of Yahweh Ben-Yahweh and Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. No Black leaders of any dimension attended either trial even though most Black leaders were in Atlanta at some point during Al-Amin’s trial.
Unfortunately, I have been banned from being a legal advocate for the oppressed and the railroaded. I had to witness these legal charades from the peanut gallery. The same leaders that welcomed the incarceration of Ben-Yahweh and Al-Amin for advocating sovereignty rights are also opposed to my reinstatement to practice law. It is not personal. It is business.
D. The Black Network
Anyone who lives in the tri-state area knows that “politics makes strange bedfellows.” There is a marriage of Black Leaders, politicians, talk show hosts and activists. Their role is to provide misinformation and disinformation to the Black community. They also provide cover for each other in their assigned misdeeds.
The Black community behaves like sheep following Judas goats. We are too meek and too gullible. Silence is a form of endorsing your oppression. And yet, we refuse to support anyone who dares to speak out on behalf of the Black masses. This conditioning started on the plantation and it is, obviously, infectious.
Councilman Charles Barron was, at the very least, an honorary member of the coterie until he questioned Rev. Al Sharpton about endorsing Ferrer over C. Virginia Fields who has her own checkered, political career. Ferrer endorses or condones racial genocide. In any event, he has no history of defending Blacks. We will support him but reject anyone who has vigorously defended Blacks with great sacrifice.
His silence at the Apollo Theater while Ognibene gratuitously accused Blacks of being responsible for crime and other social ills in New York City amounts to what Blacks believe is political representation. Black leaders were in the audience snickering. In any other community, he would have to put on his Jesse Owens’ sneakers. We have no insult level.
I have not heard Charles Barron on radio since he questioned Sharpton’s sincerity. Unless you are a nitwit, it is impossible to believe that Rev. Sharpton is, simultaneously, and uncompromisingly, an advocate for the family of Amadou Diallo and a loyal supporter of Ferrer who is a closet Wilson Goode.
The Black community has gone silent. Now, nobody is calling Charles Barron’s name on radio. Charles had an obligation to defend a woman of African ancestry. Blacks, by behaving like chickens, are endorsing their own oppression. During the debate, Ognibene praised Sharpton. I wonder why?
I choose not to remain silent because those who do remain silent are betraying the vision and sacrifices of our ancestors. I prefer not to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds. The Black network engages in this practice with the approval of the Black, activist community.
My actions are guided by this teaching of Frederick Douglass: “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” Speaking truth to power has dire consequences.
E. Whose Streets? Our Streets!
This mantra has been a rallying cry in New York. Words, however, fail to match actions. The words suggest that Blacks are asserting a human right to use the streets without government permission. This human right died, seemingly, after I was wrongfully suspended from the practice of law in 1990.
Police files will show that activists have routinely sought permission to exercise human rights after 1990. The files of the National Park Service will show an application to use the National Mall this weekend by the Congressional Black Caucus under stringent and unconstitutional conditions. The right of free speech must be curtailed.
After the 1964 March on Washington, Malcolm X went on the attack. He mocked the “Big Six” for exchanging their human rights for a government script in order to use federal land in D.C. Even Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was suspect and he had to bring up the rear.
Jim Crow had limited the movement of Blacks. Certain public and private property was off-limits to Blacks. These restrictions negatively affected public accomadationists. Whites have always enjoyed common law rights. The result was boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, picketing etc. Malcolm saw the march on Washington in 1964 as a contradiction.
When the Giuliani regime was installed in New York City, in 1994, Black activists, who will be in D.C. this weekend, started to seek police permission to use New York streets. I retired my marching boots until July 1996. This insulted our ancestors.
A lot of history and strategy was behind this strategic march in July. Suffice it to say that the Giuliani regime was unprepared to stop more than 50,000 Africans with African flags from the continent and throughout the Diaspora from exercising human rights without police permission.
The route of the march was not only substantive but also symbolic. It started at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. It proceeded down Fifth Avenue, the major retail district in New York City, to the United Nations. Over the protest of major shopkeepers, the street had to be shut down. It was a Sunday afternoon. The march commemorated a silent march led by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois down Fifth Avenue.
This march would change radio communications for Blacks in New York in violation of rules promulgated by the FCC which is still waiting for an unscripted and competent complaint from any Black organization about the terroristic threat from William Bennett. Today, Blacks have no African drum nor spear.
I was present in the studio of WWRL-AM and on mike when a Black employee demanded that Rev. Al Shields, the radio host, pull the plug on the interview. He refused. After I left the studios, I was told that Rev. Shields was assaulted with the approval of a Black activist prominent in this weekend’s march.
Afterwards, I took the deposition of Minoo Southgate who, with the Giuliani regime, was suing me and UAM for not allowing whites to control the organization which, according to her, is a normal procedure for Black militant organizations.
She also testified that Shields was fired because Jewish organizations had given him a script and he refused to follow it unlike other, Black talk show hosts. According to her, they all receive scripts if they are to stay on radio. Censorship is necessary to control thinking.
In 2000, I led a group of Blacks from North Carolina and the tri-state area to Washington, D.C. No Black leader would accompany us. The Congressional Black Caucus, which is a co-sponsor of this weekend’s event, instructed me not to lead Blacks to Capitol Hill. I refused.
Among other things, buses from North Carolina and the tri-state area were en route. Secondly, the residents of Princeville, NC had legitimate grievances against FEMA and Army Corp. of Engineers after Hurricane Floyd. The levee system had broken and floodwaters had destroyed the first, all-Black town. Caskets were floating through the town.
This was of no moment to the CBC which is co-sponsoring the Millions More Movement. Our presence on Capitol Hill, and not on the National Mall with an unconstitutional permit, was a recreation of the Black struggle against Jim Crow.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 created the Congressional Black Caucus to serve as the primary eyes and ears of the ruling class against unruly, Black dissidents. Read between the lines in its legislative history and the three-fifths provision of the U.S. Constitution. The objective is political control and not political representation.
CBC was enforcing Alderly v. Florida and Walker v. City of Birmingham which, in 1967, restricted the right of Blacks to enjoy First Amendment guarantees. The CBC threatened us with bodily harm and accused us of attempting to make their lives harder with whites in Congress. Politics is not supposed to be a cushy job especially when politicians are political cops.
They have never heard of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Harry T. and Henrietta Moore, Fannie Lou Hamer and Martin L. King, Jr., et. al. Politicians elevate their personal selfishness over racial sacrifices. No entity exists in the Black community to enforce respect for our ancestors. This is why we get no respect from anyone.
When we plan another march on Washington, we must study A. Phillip Randolph and his original demand for jobs in the defense industry and his threat to march on Washington. He had no intent to apply to the National Park Service for a permit. Like all other civilized people, we must also follow the teachings of the dead and not the rhetoric of the living.
I am not opposed to appearing in D.C. to petition the federal government for a redress of grievances. Dr. King’s Poor People’s Campaign must be continued especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Blacks have spent too much time investing their resources in political hustlers. We must now take care of the least of us. Our next campaign should be on Capitol Hill.
F. Solution
Decades ago, Carter G. Woodson published “The Miseducation of the Negro.” Like the teachings of Malcolm X, Woodson’s writings sound like he wrote the book yesterday. Of course, Woodson spoke as a guinea pig that had broken out of his cage, started connecting the dots and thinking outside the box.
Woodson had been miseducated at Harvard University. He spent nearly four decades breaking the shackles around his brain. Thurgood Marshall, apparently, never read his book. Many Blacks go to their graves with shackles on their brains and smiles on their faces.
The process of Black mentacide has been in place for centuries and it became the country’s official policy in 1954. Like Thurgood Marshall, most civil rights leaders are federal informants. Marshall and not Charles Hamilton Houston aided and abetted this process.
Houston died under mysterious circumstances. His name has been erased from most history pages. Houston’s emerging writings suggest that he was shifting from civil rights to human rights. All mass events, seemingly orchestrated by Blacks, have been scripted by whites. This is also true of Brown and much of the civil rights movement.
As Dr. Molefi Asante said on “Like It Is” Sunday, Blacks have to be re-educated. Actually, Blacks must be deprogrammed. This virus has negatively affected every Black leader. The war against Blacks has shifted from Jim Crow to pseudo-science.
Most Black leaders are ministers and they invariably teach us from the slavemaster’s scriptures –Christian or Muslim. Our religions, adopted from our slavemasters have to be put on the shelves as instruments of oppression. Africans must go back to “The Teachings of Patahhotep.”
We must establish deprogramming centers. The weekly forums of the United African Movement were once a start. These forums emphasized the philosophical diversity of our people. Unlike every other Black organization in New York, an appearance, as a UAM speaker, was not based on membership in a clique. People with divergent views were welcomed in order for the audience to dissect arguments and learn how to engage in critical thinking.
New York City refuses to operate like UAM once did. Black leaders use radar to shoot down serious, critical thinkers. UAM was swarming with racial saboteurs to stop the Black-only forums. The proof in the pudding is that many speakers at UAM have now been told that they are unwelcome to speak in New York City. This is a part of Black mentacide and most activists are participants.
Blacks in New York City and New Jersey have now been restricted to only listening to mental midgets. Without an opportunity to participate in mental exercises, the mind becomes flabby. We will have no future without a mental gymnasium. Imparting any knowledge to Black children is like threading a camel through a needle without knowledge of history.
Black people must understand that freedom is not free. As individuals, our first responsibility is to develop our minds and bodies and not spend our money, first and foremost on criminal enterprises which will never petition any government for a redress of grievances or make a demand to the federal government with an ultimatum.
To participate in any activity, you must be both physically and mentally fit. When a POW returns to his or her country, the first step is to sanitize the effects of brainwashing. No army will immediately put that soldier back on the battlefield except Blacks in our struggle for freedom.
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.
A. Introduction
Brown v. Board of Education is no different than Dred Scott and Plessy in its harm. This is inevitable because judges must construe the Constitution according to its original intent, a euphemism for criminal intent. Dred Scott outlined the reasons for our unenforceable rights. Plessy instituted apartheid and Brown instituted educational mentacide as a national policy.
William Bennett was appointed U.S. Secretary of Education for a simple reason. His assignment was to enforce Brown. It is for this reason that President-select George Bush was only able to describe Bennett’s terroristic threat as “inappropriate.”
Skull and Bones disseminate its members throughout the United States and particularly in top government positions to kill Black minds. The Republican Party gave this assignment to Bennett. Apparently, Bennett is now impatient. Black leaders, on the other hand, have been Mirandized.
This article has been written to counteract the criminal intent which has officially bleached the mental complexion of Blacks since 1954. Before 1954, Blacks were busy bleaching their skin. Brown instituted an official program of enforcing mental bleaching. The federal court in South Carolina was the incubator for the decision in Brown.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg disenfranchised Blacks and seized the school system to condition rather than develop the minds of Black children. Among other things, he has elevated testing over teaching. They are being trained rather than educated. This is another example of putting the cart before the horse and it eliminates critical thinking and creativity in our children.
Joel Klein is a lawyer out of the Department of Justice. He was an enforcement officer. The DOJ vigorously prosecuted Black dissidents in addition to brutalizing Blacks like Robert Davis of New Orleans. Klein has no interest nor experience of any kind in education. He has always been an assassin.
Everyone is entitled to an argument. Once the argument is put into the public domain, however, it is subject to public critique. Everyone should avoid ad hominem attacks. Our jurisdiction, as critics, should be limited to examining an argument’s structure. This concerns the application of logic. An argument is divided into premises and a conclusion.
The first step, however, is to lay out a proper foundation. Before a judge permits the introduction of evidence, for example, the lawyer must first demonstrate that the proffered evidence has a foundation. There must also be a basis for the argument.
If a witness seeks to testify about a telephone conversation, the witness must first prove that he or she is familiar with the voice of the speaker. If contraband is being introduced into evidence, the witness, usually a police officer, must establish a chain of custody.
On the issue of logic, Kwame Ture, Louis Clayton Jones, Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour and myself share a common thread. We studied logic under the same philosophy professor at Howard University. Ture, Jones and Al-Mansour’s studies at Howard, particularly, emphasized philosophy.
Critical thinking is essential to seeing and interpreting the world with proper lenses. Logic is also necessary to identify and weed out militant rhetoric which is fueling and misdirecting the Black community. A person who thinks critically will invariably be out of line with persons who frown upon logic.
B. Bill Cosby
Immediately after Bill Cosby made statements which chastised the Black masses, I put pen to paper to question his worn out argument of blaming the victim and calling for pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps. His argument sounds like the rhetoric of Rev. Jesse L. Peterson who harbors deep self-hatred.
Conservative Party mayoral candidate, Thomas Ognibene, gratuitously condemned the Black community for this city’s social ills while Black leaders sat on the first row of the Apollo Theater “skinnin” and “grinnin.” Fernando Ferrer went into a cold sweat. Ferrer refused to defend Blacks. Obviously, he is not Black. This retreat is on videotape.
I was able to hear the recent comments of Min. Louis Farrakhan on “Like It Is.” Gil Noble asked him to comment on Cosby’s comments. My first reaction was to listen in adherence to the teachings of Dr. John Henrik Clarke. Listening allows you to objectively examine a person’s argument even though it seemingly contradicts your position.
Min. Farrakhan approved Cosby’s comment about Black children not speaking proper English and this being an impediment to our positive development. I disagree. Cosby’s attack on the Black masses only includes half-truths. It sounds too much like blaming the victim.
English is not the natural tongue of any person of African ancestry. Moreover English is a racist language. Noah Webster authored a dictionary to accommodate the original intent of the “Founding Fathers.” His first Dictionary was published in 1806 to standardize American thinking.
Language and thinking enjoy a symbiotic relationship. This does not mean that Blacks should not master English. It means that English should only be a second language. Our first language should be our natural tongue or at least a language which is associated with African culture. Accordingly, it is appropriate for Black children to speak Ebonics as a first language.
C. Black Land Ownership
Malcolm X stated, “Land is the basis of all revolutions.” Even before the Civil War, many persons of African ancestry recognized the need to live on free soil. John Russwurn, co-founder of Freedom Journal, departed the United States for good. The happiest person in the world would be President Abraham Lincoln.
After the Civil War, Blacks established their own towns like Princeville, NC in which the Army Corps of Engineers built a flawed levee system like the levee systems in New Orleans. Blacks built a thriving neighborhood in Tulsa. Marcus Garvey advocated a “Back to Africa” Movement. Hon. Elijah Muhammad called for five states in the South. These demands are consistent with sovereignty.
Min. Farrakhan argued on “Like It Is” that Blacks should own a piece of America by investing dollars in a, presumed, trust fund. Blacks could possibly raise $40 billion immediately to purchase land. In his last speech, Dr. King said that we would get to the “Promised Land.”
To be sure, Blacks will never be free without full sovereignty. Land ownership follows sovereignty. Land without sovereignty is like a lion hunter in the woods with only a peashooter. In 1868, the United States substituted the U.S. Constitution for sovereignty. This was illegal under international law and Blacks are owed damages.
Yahweh-Ben-Yahweh led by example. His leadership led to the Nation of Yahweh acquiring substantial landholdings on Miami Beach. If left unchecked, it was projected that the Nation of Yahweh would own Miami Beach. Something had to be done.
In cases of Black success, the modus operandi is to prosecute an authentic, Black leader. Yahweh Ben-Yahweh found his name on an indictment. He was prosecuted in a kangaroo court in Florida for exercising rights of sovereignty on U.S. soil.
Similarly, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin was prosecuted in a kangaroo court in Fulton County, Georgia. He was convicted of murdering a deputy sheriff and seriously wounding his partner. There was no credible evidence presented at trial to sustain his conviction. It was a strange trial.
While no one is saying that Brian Nichols is justified in taking the lives of others, it is clear, without dispute, that Nichols was being railroaded in the second trial for allegedly raping a white woman, his sugar mama. Two wrongs do not make a right. It is a question of cause and effect.
The Nichols case is off limits to Black leaders. They have not received a Nichols script. Nichols is not an open and shut case on either the rape charge or the murder charges. It is not what leaders are saying. It is what they are not saying that count. See also Tawana Brawley. Don’t expect to hear her name in D.C. this weekend.
Unlike Nichols, who spent his leisure time chasing white women, H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) spent the 60’s struggling for Blacks. Congress passed federal legislation to restrict his activities. This legislation put a muzzle on activists crossing state lines. He was also sent to prison.
Afterwards, he moved to Atlanta and established sovereign rights over an Atlanta neighborhood. He pushed out drugs and prostitution and, therefore, reduced police criminality. His past conduct plus his current mission was too much for Uncle Sam. Even Indians enjoy limited, sovereignty rights on U.S. soil. Blacks have zero rights.
If Blacks leaders believe in the right of sovereignty, they would have attended the trials of Yahweh Ben-Yahweh and Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. No Black leaders of any dimension attended either trial even though most Black leaders were in Atlanta at some point during Al-Amin’s trial.
Unfortunately, I have been banned from being a legal advocate for the oppressed and the railroaded. I had to witness these legal charades from the peanut gallery. The same leaders that welcomed the incarceration of Ben-Yahweh and Al-Amin for advocating sovereignty rights are also opposed to my reinstatement to practice law. It is not personal. It is business.
D. The Black Network
Anyone who lives in the tri-state area knows that “politics makes strange bedfellows.” There is a marriage of Black Leaders, politicians, talk show hosts and activists. Their role is to provide misinformation and disinformation to the Black community. They also provide cover for each other in their assigned misdeeds.
The Black community behaves like sheep following Judas goats. We are too meek and too gullible. Silence is a form of endorsing your oppression. And yet, we refuse to support anyone who dares to speak out on behalf of the Black masses. This conditioning started on the plantation and it is, obviously, infectious.
Councilman Charles Barron was, at the very least, an honorary member of the coterie until he questioned Rev. Al Sharpton about endorsing Ferrer over C. Virginia Fields who has her own checkered, political career. Ferrer endorses or condones racial genocide. In any event, he has no history of defending Blacks. We will support him but reject anyone who has vigorously defended Blacks with great sacrifice.
His silence at the Apollo Theater while Ognibene gratuitously accused Blacks of being responsible for crime and other social ills in New York City amounts to what Blacks believe is political representation. Black leaders were in the audience snickering. In any other community, he would have to put on his Jesse Owens’ sneakers. We have no insult level.
I have not heard Charles Barron on radio since he questioned Sharpton’s sincerity. Unless you are a nitwit, it is impossible to believe that Rev. Sharpton is, simultaneously, and uncompromisingly, an advocate for the family of Amadou Diallo and a loyal supporter of Ferrer who is a closet Wilson Goode.
The Black community has gone silent. Now, nobody is calling Charles Barron’s name on radio. Charles had an obligation to defend a woman of African ancestry. Blacks, by behaving like chickens, are endorsing their own oppression. During the debate, Ognibene praised Sharpton. I wonder why?
I choose not to remain silent because those who do remain silent are betraying the vision and sacrifices of our ancestors. I prefer not to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds. The Black network engages in this practice with the approval of the Black, activist community.
My actions are guided by this teaching of Frederick Douglass: “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” Speaking truth to power has dire consequences.
E. Whose Streets? Our Streets!
This mantra has been a rallying cry in New York. Words, however, fail to match actions. The words suggest that Blacks are asserting a human right to use the streets without government permission. This human right died, seemingly, after I was wrongfully suspended from the practice of law in 1990.
Police files will show that activists have routinely sought permission to exercise human rights after 1990. The files of the National Park Service will show an application to use the National Mall this weekend by the Congressional Black Caucus under stringent and unconstitutional conditions. The right of free speech must be curtailed.
After the 1964 March on Washington, Malcolm X went on the attack. He mocked the “Big Six” for exchanging their human rights for a government script in order to use federal land in D.C. Even Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was suspect and he had to bring up the rear.
Jim Crow had limited the movement of Blacks. Certain public and private property was off-limits to Blacks. These restrictions negatively affected public accomadationists. Whites have always enjoyed common law rights. The result was boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, picketing etc. Malcolm saw the march on Washington in 1964 as a contradiction.
When the Giuliani regime was installed in New York City, in 1994, Black activists, who will be in D.C. this weekend, started to seek police permission to use New York streets. I retired my marching boots until July 1996. This insulted our ancestors.
A lot of history and strategy was behind this strategic march in July. Suffice it to say that the Giuliani regime was unprepared to stop more than 50,000 Africans with African flags from the continent and throughout the Diaspora from exercising human rights without police permission.
The route of the march was not only substantive but also symbolic. It started at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. It proceeded down Fifth Avenue, the major retail district in New York City, to the United Nations. Over the protest of major shopkeepers, the street had to be shut down. It was a Sunday afternoon. The march commemorated a silent march led by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois down Fifth Avenue.
This march would change radio communications for Blacks in New York in violation of rules promulgated by the FCC which is still waiting for an unscripted and competent complaint from any Black organization about the terroristic threat from William Bennett. Today, Blacks have no African drum nor spear.
I was present in the studio of WWRL-AM and on mike when a Black employee demanded that Rev. Al Shields, the radio host, pull the plug on the interview. He refused. After I left the studios, I was told that Rev. Shields was assaulted with the approval of a Black activist prominent in this weekend’s march.
Afterwards, I took the deposition of Minoo Southgate who, with the Giuliani regime, was suing me and UAM for not allowing whites to control the organization which, according to her, is a normal procedure for Black militant organizations.
She also testified that Shields was fired because Jewish organizations had given him a script and he refused to follow it unlike other, Black talk show hosts. According to her, they all receive scripts if they are to stay on radio. Censorship is necessary to control thinking.
In 2000, I led a group of Blacks from North Carolina and the tri-state area to Washington, D.C. No Black leader would accompany us. The Congressional Black Caucus, which is a co-sponsor of this weekend’s event, instructed me not to lead Blacks to Capitol Hill. I refused.
Among other things, buses from North Carolina and the tri-state area were en route. Secondly, the residents of Princeville, NC had legitimate grievances against FEMA and Army Corp. of Engineers after Hurricane Floyd. The levee system had broken and floodwaters had destroyed the first, all-Black town. Caskets were floating through the town.
This was of no moment to the CBC which is co-sponsoring the Millions More Movement. Our presence on Capitol Hill, and not on the National Mall with an unconstitutional permit, was a recreation of the Black struggle against Jim Crow.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 created the Congressional Black Caucus to serve as the primary eyes and ears of the ruling class against unruly, Black dissidents. Read between the lines in its legislative history and the three-fifths provision of the U.S. Constitution. The objective is political control and not political representation.
CBC was enforcing Alderly v. Florida and Walker v. City of Birmingham which, in 1967, restricted the right of Blacks to enjoy First Amendment guarantees. The CBC threatened us with bodily harm and accused us of attempting to make their lives harder with whites in Congress. Politics is not supposed to be a cushy job especially when politicians are political cops.
They have never heard of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Harry T. and Henrietta Moore, Fannie Lou Hamer and Martin L. King, Jr., et. al. Politicians elevate their personal selfishness over racial sacrifices. No entity exists in the Black community to enforce respect for our ancestors. This is why we get no respect from anyone.
When we plan another march on Washington, we must study A. Phillip Randolph and his original demand for jobs in the defense industry and his threat to march on Washington. He had no intent to apply to the National Park Service for a permit. Like all other civilized people, we must also follow the teachings of the dead and not the rhetoric of the living.
I am not opposed to appearing in D.C. to petition the federal government for a redress of grievances. Dr. King’s Poor People’s Campaign must be continued especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Blacks have spent too much time investing their resources in political hustlers. We must now take care of the least of us. Our next campaign should be on Capitol Hill.
F. Solution
Decades ago, Carter G. Woodson published “The Miseducation of the Negro.” Like the teachings of Malcolm X, Woodson’s writings sound like he wrote the book yesterday. Of course, Woodson spoke as a guinea pig that had broken out of his cage, started connecting the dots and thinking outside the box.
Woodson had been miseducated at Harvard University. He spent nearly four decades breaking the shackles around his brain. Thurgood Marshall, apparently, never read his book. Many Blacks go to their graves with shackles on their brains and smiles on their faces.
The process of Black mentacide has been in place for centuries and it became the country’s official policy in 1954. Like Thurgood Marshall, most civil rights leaders are federal informants. Marshall and not Charles Hamilton Houston aided and abetted this process.
Houston died under mysterious circumstances. His name has been erased from most history pages. Houston’s emerging writings suggest that he was shifting from civil rights to human rights. All mass events, seemingly orchestrated by Blacks, have been scripted by whites. This is also true of Brown and much of the civil rights movement.
As Dr. Molefi Asante said on “Like It Is” Sunday, Blacks have to be re-educated. Actually, Blacks must be deprogrammed. This virus has negatively affected every Black leader. The war against Blacks has shifted from Jim Crow to pseudo-science.
Most Black leaders are ministers and they invariably teach us from the slavemaster’s scriptures –Christian or Muslim. Our religions, adopted from our slavemasters have to be put on the shelves as instruments of oppression. Africans must go back to “The Teachings of Patahhotep.”
We must establish deprogramming centers. The weekly forums of the United African Movement were once a start. These forums emphasized the philosophical diversity of our people. Unlike every other Black organization in New York, an appearance, as a UAM speaker, was not based on membership in a clique. People with divergent views were welcomed in order for the audience to dissect arguments and learn how to engage in critical thinking.
New York City refuses to operate like UAM once did. Black leaders use radar to shoot down serious, critical thinkers. UAM was swarming with racial saboteurs to stop the Black-only forums. The proof in the pudding is that many speakers at UAM have now been told that they are unwelcome to speak in New York City. This is a part of Black mentacide and most activists are participants.
Blacks in New York City and New Jersey have now been restricted to only listening to mental midgets. Without an opportunity to participate in mental exercises, the mind becomes flabby. We will have no future without a mental gymnasium. Imparting any knowledge to Black children is like threading a camel through a needle without knowledge of history.
Black people must understand that freedom is not free. As individuals, our first responsibility is to develop our minds and bodies and not spend our money, first and foremost on criminal enterprises which will never petition any government for a redress of grievances or make a demand to the federal government with an ultimatum.
To participate in any activity, you must be both physically and mentally fit. When a POW returns to his or her country, the first step is to sanitize the effects of brainwashing. No army will immediately put that soldier back on the battlefield except Blacks in our struggle for freedom.
posted by Attorney Alton Maddox at 6:54 AM
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