Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera and Malik Zulu Shabazz go at it in the video below. And, it is my opinion that Geraldo Rivera blew it.
Geraldo should have let the man speak all he wanted and then counter with “facts” ….if there are any. Instead he chose the stupid patented Fox mode of operation — scorn and lecture interviewees they don’t like.
According to Media Matters for America, Fox News has hyped phony New Black Panthers scandal at least 95 times. On July 16 alone, Fox devoted more than 8 hours of airtime to discussion of New Black Panthers.
Malik is just a “cruder” version of Malcolm X — [It is very unproductive to praise a scum-bag like Osama Bin Laden, for many blacks died in 9/11 too].
Like Malcolm X, Malik correctly advocates for the rights of African Americans, and indicts white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Crimes which should have been forgiven by now — but which we are constantly reminded of by the racist clown show at the Fox piss-hole.
Geraldo Rivera makes sense most of the time, but in this session he reverted to his opportunistic, tabloid worst.
By: Paul Scott “If I’m not who you say I am then you are not who you think you are.” — James Baldwin
I want to extend my sincerest apology to the Right Wing Republicans; the Tea Party people, the Birthers, etc. For the last year, I have been calling you “narrow minded bigots who are just hatin’ on the president because he’s black!” However, based on the recent Facebook “Obama Assassination Poll“, I stand corrected.
You guys don’t hate him because he’s black. You hate him because he’s smart…and black.
Back in the early 90′s there was a short lived fashion trend when black youth like the ones wearing Scarface T shirts, today, were proudly sportin’ shirts with slogans such as “Knowledge is Power,” “The Blacker the College the Sweeter the Knowledge” and my all time favorite, “Warning: Educated Black Man.”
The latter was the expression of a sentiment that has existed in this country for centuries. White America is scared to death of a black man who can read and articulate a position.
On the plantation “Simple Jim” and “Big Buck” were never threats to the status quo . Nor are Krazy K and T-Bone who walk around with guns in their waste bands shouting obscenities at anyone who passes by. However, “uppity Negro” Frederick who would hide behind the barn and read a book and Marcus who walks around with “48 Laws of Power” instead of a 40 oz of Old English have always been public enemy #1.
Historically, it must be noted that up until the later part of the 19th century, black people were not,legally, allowed to read as the plantation owner didn’t want the people on whom he counted to pick his cotton to have delusions of grandeur that they could one day be running the joint and make his little rotten kids pick the cotton, themselves.
During the period following slavery it was necessary to give the newly emancipated slaves just enough training to make them productive parts of an economic system that was changing from agricultural to industrial. The idea was never to give the masses of black folks enough education to achieve equality with white Americans.
While an education indeed, was hard to obtain during the 1800′s, some were able to break the color barrier. In 1826, John B. Russwurm became the first black college graduate. It must be noted that many of these early intellectuals used their education to write and speak out against slavery and later, with the coming of the WEB Dubois‘ and the William Trotters’, speak out against racial inequality.
The continuing education of the masses of black folks has always been a controversial issue.
According to Harold Cruse in his book, “Plural but Equal,” during the 1880′s there was an attempt to pass a bill by Senator Henry Blair that would have required the government to provide $77 million dollars to be spent “equally for the education of all children, without distinction of race or color.” This was followed by the investment of white philanthropists in the movement of Booker T. Washington that favored an industrial education for black folks instead of the challenging white folks intellectually and politically as advocated by Du Bois.
During the mid 1900′s, many African Americans thought that public school desegregation (Brown vs the Board of Education, 1954) was going to be the key to social and economic equity that we have yet to achieve.
In regards to the Black Power Era of the 60′s, while white washed history paints the protesters as “angry black militant thugs,” it must be noted that the most vocal members of the leadership were intelligent and college educated such as Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and H. Rap Brown. And while the powers that be may have feared Black Panther, Huey P. Newton‘s gun, they were more afraid of the bullets that came out of his mouth.
It must also be noted that while Malcolm X went to prison as a street cat he came out of prison as one of the greatest debaters this country has ever known, often debating his philosophies on the campuses of major white universities.
During the “conscious” Hip Hop era (1988-92) it must be noted that those rappers who promoted intellectualism and academic development were demonized by those in power but the rappers who glorified gangsta-ism are still making CD’s, endorsing products and even making kiddie movies twenty years after the fact.
I am sure that many of the parents who yanked their kids out of school, the other week, so they would not hear Obama’s “stay in school” speech, have no problem with their children listening to Lil Wayne.
So, the problem of white intimidation by black male intelligence still exists to this day. Just ask any black student who was directed to the gym or the wood shop class by his advisor while his white counterpart was guided to the chemistry lab or advanced physics. Or the black man with a Master’s degree who gets passed over for a promotion that is given to Jim Bob, who barely has a GED.
Maybe the attacks on black men like Van Jones and Barack Obama will serve a greater purpose.
We must use these instances as “teachable moments” to tell our young people that racists don’t hate strong black men because of the color of their skin but they fear the genius that lies within.
About The Author: Paul Scott is a self-syndicated columnist and author of the blog, No Warning Shots Fired.com. He can be reached at (919) 451-8283 or i...@nowarningshotsfired.com
If there is white racism, surely there must be black racism. If whites have, historically, enslaved and oppressed blacks, there has to be some remote island out in the Atlantic where Bobby Whitman is being forced to pick cotton and sing Barry Manilow songs while Tyrone Jackson stands over him with a whip and a tall glass of Country Time Lemonade. However, this Bizarro World of black supremacy only exists in the minds of Ultra Right talking heads and those who set their watches by the Glenn Beck Show. America’s search for black racists carried into the Civil Rights Era when Mike Wallace introduced America to Malcolm X via the documentary “The Hate that Hate Produced.” This frantic search for black supremacy continued into the 80′s and 90′s when black leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Minister Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Al Sharpton were labeled racists as well as entertainers such as the rap group, Public Enemy. We see the same trend continuing over the last year as Conservatives tried to link black racism to the Obama administration by their attacks on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Even the Latino community was not spared as Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor was portrayed by the conservative media as a brown racist.
By: Paul Scott With the announcement of Rush Limbaugh’s failure to purchase part of the St Louis Rams football franchise, the Right went on a safari to track down the ever elusive, black racist. As usual, the race hunters came up empty. The best specimen that they could capture was Fox News Channel’s token black commentator, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill with a picture of former Black Liberation Army member, Assata Shakur on his website. Hardly, evidence of a violent plot to take over America by spear wielding black militants.
The reason why the Right Wingers have never been able to successfully cage a black racist is simple. They don’t exist.
Now this may be a hard pill to swallow for those who, wholeheartedly, believe in a warped version of the law of opposites.
If there is white racism, surely there must be black racism. If whites have, historically, enslaved and oppressed blacks, there has to be some remote island out in the Atlantic where Bobby Whitman is being forced to pick cotton and sing Barry Manilow songs while Tyrone Jackson stands over him with a whip and a tall glass of Country Time Lemonade.
However, this Bizarro World of black supremacy only exists in the minds of Ultra Right talking heads and those who set their watches by the Glenn Beck Show.
For years, the Right has used the charge of “reverse racism” to hide their collective fears that they are losing control of America. Oddly enough, many people who scream racism don’t have the foggiest idea what the word means. While the definition of “racism” may be a doctrine of racial superiority, the functional definition is the power of a group to exercise this doctrine over others. Therefore, as author Nelly Fuller wrote “the only form of functional racism that exists among the people of the known universe is white supremacy.”
The doctrine of white supremacy is so entrenched in this society that even an African American president of the United States is not exempt.
So, sorry folks, by this definition, African Americans cannot be racist. We can be a lot of things; prejudiced, bigots, etc but the one thing that we cannot be, for social and economic reasons, is racist.
It must be noted that in order to find a black racist apologists for white supremacy have had to reach back centuries.
In his book, “The Ice Man Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism and Aggression,” Canadian author, Michael Bradley traces the foundation of the myth of black racism back centuries when the Bantu-speaking people conquered the Khoikhoi and the Saan. Because anthropologist CS Coon divided the Africans into two separate races, some have used this as evidence of “black supremacy.” However, Bradley also quotes anthropologist Ashley Montague as saying,” The modern conception of race owes its widespread diffusion to the white man. Wherever he has gone he has carried it with him.”
America’s search for black racists carried into the Civil Rights Era when Mike Wallace introduced America to Malcolm X via the documentary “The Hate that Hate Produced,” which, like future programs,confused reactionary racial rhetoric and calls for black self empowerment with black socio-economic supremacy.
This was also evident in the late 60′s and early 70′s, when those attempting to label the Black Panther Party as “racists” ignored the fact that Panther ideology was based on Marxism which downplayed race in order to organize the oppressed working class and also the fact that the party had many white supporters including celebrities such as Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando.
This frantic search for black supremacy continued into the 80′s and 90′s when black leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Minister Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Al Sharpton were labeled racists as well as entertainers such as the rap group, Public Enemy.
We see the same trend continuing over the last year as Conservatives tried to link black racism to the Obama administration by their attacks on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Even the Latino community was not spared as Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor was portrayed by the conservative media as a brown racist.
So, it is not black racism that is the problem, it is conservative talk show hosts such as Sean Hannity, Mike Savage and Rush Limbaugh who spew their hate filled venom across the planet via their satellite powered pulpits, 24 hours a day.
If Limbaugh and his ilk want to see a real racist, they need to look no further than their own bathroom mirrors.
About The Author: Paul Scott is a self-syndicated columnist and author of the blog, No Warning Shots Fired.com. He can be reached at (919) 451-8283 or i...@nowarningshotsfired.com
Huffingtonpost: SAVANNAH, Ga. — Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.
“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. “So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.” — [ READ MORE ]
I caught this just before I went to bed.
Uncle Steele is getting more and more ridiculous by the day.
Malcolm X, in his “Message To The Grassroots” famously said: “This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He’ll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about ‘I’m the only Negro out here.‘ ‘I’m the only one on my job.‘ ‘I’m the only one in this school.’” [ READ MORE ]
Michael Steele is your quintessential House Negro — not a very smart one. Colin Powell knew how to weasel his way around the racist GOP Labyrinth, and so did Condoleezza, to a lesser extent.
Not Brother Mike. He is a DUMB Negro — just the way a southern white racist slave owner likes his Negro — A CLOWN!
Ever since he was elevated to chairman of the RNC (Republican National Committee), it seems like Uncle Mike is really desperate — clamoring to impress his ARMED CHRISTIAN MASTERS every opportunity he gets — at all costs, by any means necessary. Oh! Boy …I wish Malcolm were alive.
I wonder what he (Malcolm) would have said to brother Steele if he were still alive? Probably: “Mike, You’re nothing but a ‘Gut-Eating,’ ‘Limbaugh Butt-Licking‘ house Negro.”
Here is some wisdom from Malcolm X — Malcolm X, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. He has been described as one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. [ READ MORE ]
Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?
Brother Steele Needs To WATCH Denzel’s depiction of Malcolm 100 Times
“House Negro” Miss Condoleezza Rice admitted (sort of) last night, that she joined the master in authorizing the lynching of “Arab Enemy Combatants” in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. The master(s) (Bush and Cheney) authorized the torture — so “WE” must be have been right.
“The United States was told, we were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture, and so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture,” said the Negrophobia Infected Rice. — [ READ MORE ]
“If I’m not who you say I am then you are not who you think you are.” — 
