CNN, Essence Magazine, The Black Experience and the Solution of If

On 7/19/o8; CNN aired a quasi symposia or discussion organized by it's media group sister publication Essence Magazine. It was titled "Reclaiming The Dream", a reference to Martin Luther King Jr.

It was hosted by CNN's Soledad O'brien and the panel was an attempt at cross sampling Black Intelligentsia. Cornel West, Professor at Princeton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, actor cum Aids activist, T.D. Jakes, Preacher, Julianne Malveaux, President Bennet College, Tom Joyner, Radio Personality, Ed Gordon, Journalist, Hill Harper, Actor cum Writer, Roland Fryer, Economist Harvard, and Jabali Sawicki, Principal Excellence Charter School.

The subject matter was the Black Experience. An attempt was made to focus and isolate solutions to questions on Gender Relations and Marriage, Intermediate Education and the Aids Disease as a social and health issue.

All sorts of words filled the ninety minuets of the show airing, of course minus commercial time and not once was job creation discussed.

But the question is and will always be Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and more Jobs.

If every single Black Child graduated from College, If every single Black Man and Woman married and affiliated their self with religion. If every Black Man, Women and Child seeked employment and for the children summer job's---can American Political-Economy provide universal employment?

If the question of job creation isn't seen as the fundamental motive it should be---If there is always this fraudulent exercise of intellect.

If rote-education, religion and marriage are the cure-all then why hasn't the millions of Black university graduates, the millions of Black religious adherents and the millions of married Black couples been able to stabilize, nurture and lead Black Political-Economy in that viable direction where social and criminal deviancy is nothing more than an irrelevant anomaly?

But despite the millions of educated, religious and married Black people when that marginalized reality of the Black Experience sneezes the Black community as a whole catches a cold and CNN makes more money selling commercial time, hosting another panel of the well-fed who naively ignore the Political-Economy dearth causality, as they labor propping up If as reality.

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Dissidents, Informants, Traitors and Politics

With Daily revelations out of Eastern Europe and Russia, of former dissidents who played central roles in the much claimed transition from state capitalism to private speculation. Being state informants of the various Communist Parties and State Security apparatus.

It then frames the question how much of the so-called dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and Eastern European politics has been merely tactical?

What does it then mean for informants and traitors to assume leadership roles in pluralistic parliamentary politics and its political-economy?

For example the Former Polish leader Lech Walesa is claimed by the recent book, "The Security Service and Lech Walesa", to have been an informant for Poland's Communist Party during it's rule in the 1970's and 1980's. Yet he was the face of The Solidarity Movement and it's dissident politics and subsequently became Poland's President. Lech Walesa has long since denied these claims.

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Mitt Romney on Crime: 27,000 Black Males killed in Past Five Years, It's a Parental Issue

Mitt Romney, the Republican loser and Mormon. A so-called business genius who couldn't even manage his own political campaign for the Republican nomination for President. Making one bad Judgement after another, sinking money and more money when it was clear S.S. Mitt had run a ground.



Has once again shown that prejudice distorts and clouds his grasp of social reality. In response to a question on the disproportionate killings of young Black Males and crime within the Black community. Mitt Romney flippantly remarked, the 27,000 young Black Males who have been killed across the nation in the past five years was a parental issue.


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The Cold War, Botox and CNN: At least Neanderthals had an Excuse

Does any one remember Nadia Comaneci and Mark Spitz? Two Olympic athletes from the Cold War Era when Botox wasn't something vain crazies puffed their faces up with. But it was something humorless men and women, drones for ideology tinkered with behind blast proof doors, in places germ war thriller fiction writers imagined. When it was Botulism.

What then does the corporate media giant CNN have to do with this? Well it seems nothing is more newsworthy than the fact Nadia Comaneci and Mark Spitz are shrills and peddlers for Botox and CNN reasoned it would justify it's bottom-line quest with, considering the success of the "make-over" phenomena, an infomercial disguised as news.

So on 7/16/08; on it's head-lining morning news was CNN's Alina Cho, concluding her report with (and I'm paraphrasing) What troubles critics is a lot of athletes will see how much money can be made plugging Botox and all sorts of Cold War unmentionables and I guess the Vandals will be at the gates!

The Surreality of what passes as objective necessities of the human condition these days... at least Neanderthals had an excuse! They didn't have Lou Dobbs harrumphing and Rick Sanchez haranguing.

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What is the Black Father and The Black Experience

Cover of Jesse Jackson

Okay so Barack Obama is being critical of parenting in the Black community. Jesse Jackson whispered his intention of castrating Obama to a bewildered face on of all places Bill O'Reily at Fox News Studios. Because in Jackson's view Barack Obama is talking down to Black People. Eric Dyson an ardent Obama supporter apologizes then criticizes Obama's formulation and presentation of a fact, everyone agrees is material and objective.

Eric Dyson's position is , criticism, of what is the Black father in U.S. political-economy is first and foremost that of a status-quo distortion. Because certain studies show that Black fathers are as much involved in the lives of their children, despite the fact it is not universal total involvement because the fathers are not with the mothers, it is still involvement and as such it's critique hints at another motive.

Jesse Jackson's position is Barack Obama's critique is demagoguery and it doesn't expand and effectively lay bare the issue in the context of the effects of U.S. political-economy on the question, What is the Black Father.

The question What is the Black Father automatically anticipates What is the Black Mother.

How was this question formulated during the philosophizing period of Black American self-determination? What was the context of it's impact as it contended with that one and only underlying basis of it's existence, that of historical and specific American injustice?

It is relatively an idealist exercise to statically criticize dynamic elements. Specifically whether it's the idealism of Barack Obama, the reaction of Jesse Jackson and the apologetic-intellectualism of Eric Dyson.

Jesse Jackson's Operation Push hasn't presented the question and it's antagonistic element to the fore of U.S. political-economy, contrary to Jackson's assumptions.

Eric Dyson's writings has simply been preaching to the choir.

So besides the leveraged pabulum spoon fed the Black Condition by minds and hearts that seek manna from skies that can only reflect the steel, glass and concrete of it's contradictions.

What exactly is critique for it's own sake? Where is the formulation and it's organic intent to resolve the What is the Black Father question and the Black experience in U.S. political-economy?

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NuJood Ali, The Ten Year Old Girl who Stood Up to Child Sexual Abuse in Yemen

What is it with Yemen? Are adult females in Yemen that small of stature and stunted in physical development that a ten year old girl, a child, can pass as an adult and is an adequate representation of Yemeni feminine maturity?

A ten year old Yemen girl NuJood Ali was sold for marriage by her family to a thirty something Yemeni man and according to their tradition and culture it was appropriate.
This ten year old girl NuJood Ali was unlike the average Yemeni child. NuJood Ali correctly understood her predicament as child sexual abuse and despite the weight of Yemen tradition and culture rebelled.

NuJood Ali proactively went to the Court House and presented her case to a Judge. On the grounds, her thirty year old so-called husband , beat her, assaulted her and raped her.
The Judge ruled in her favor, annulled the "Marriage" and required ten year old NuJood Ali pay alimony of $200!!!!!!

The relief agency OXFAM claims the majority of Yemen brides are under 18.
Ten year old NuJood stood up to child sexual abuse. Now Yemeni adults have to stand up with her, redirect their Political-Economy and abandon child molestation as Marriage and tradition is not an excuse.

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The $700 Billion Hoodwink, A Tactic for Big Oil

Lately a phrase has been falling from the lips of corporate media parrots, the mind numbing of so-called pundits. The phrase is $700 billion is sent to oil producing nations and it is the greatest transfer of wealth the human condition has ever witnessed. The point, with exception to a few others, is the rapacious Big Oil Companies should be allowed to have their way extracting oil from places opposing analysis say will be harmful to the human condition.

I want to focus on this $700 Billion transfer of paper money idea as having this dire negative consequence. First of all $70 Billion sent by the United States to oil producing nations simply means American industry recoups it and American productivity expands.


Lets take Dubai an oil producing nation and it's hell bent policy of playing with glass and steel. Every single dollar of Dubai oil revenue spent on it's glass and steel infatuation is returned to the United States and other Western industrialized nations, to do what? Buy the necessary technology and know how to erect it's Sky Scrapers.

This simply means companies as Caterpillar in the U.S., Komatsu in Japan and many others are able to keep their production lines churning heavy equipment for Dubai. Meaning job creation and national productivity stability.

Big Oil Companies will stop at nothing in this war for the hearts and minds and any and all skew of political-economy is fair tactic.


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John McCain, Taxes and the Super Rich: "Straight Talk" in Plunder and Looting

John McCain's argument for continuing George W. Bush extreme tax cuts for the super rich is down right obscene.

If the Bush Administration's economic policy and it's tax cuts for the super rich as supported by John McCain has brought the Nation to this speculators orgy in the oil and real estate industry with it's rat abandoning ship consequences.

If the Bush Economic Policy which stands for the super rich hardly paying any taxes. Has presided over bridges tumbling, crumbling and pot holed roads. Entire cities swamped and flooded and the stand alone, in a class by itself violation of New Orleans because of organizational incompetence, infrastructural neglect and the infamous "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job".

If a primary argument for the rich not paying taxes as supported by John McCain: A less taxed rich is dynamo for job creation. Then why has the outsourcing of a substantial type of American productivity grown exponentially with the rich enjoying tax cuts?

Then what is John McCain saying? That the plunder and looting under George Bush and tax cuts for the super rich hasn't been completed so he is running a Bush third term to complete it?

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Jesus Christ, Mark Twain and the Moral Revision of Steven L. Carter

What exactly would happen were the much idealized by Western Civilization, Jesus Christ, the Son of Man to storm into the New York Stock Exchange and re-create the assault on the New Testament's Temple money changers with another whipping and beating of contemporary speculators? There would naturally be another Crucifixion re-creation.

Fast forward to this moral revisionary excuse of Mark Twain's racism by the Yale Professor of Law. Stephen L. Carter in the 7/14/08; time Magazine. Every time the failings and shortcomings of accomplished human beings are explained either in diminishing posture as Mark Twain's racism or the exaggerations of those history revilies. Contemporary sensibilities and the human condition as a totality is defined fraudulently.

In a preparatory essay for the Obama Presidency. Stephen L. Carter on Mark Twain on the issue of race wrote:

"Twain's racial pitch was not perfect. One is left uneasy, for example, by the lengthy passage in his autobiography about how much he loved what were
called "Nigger Shows" in his youth..."

Carter goes on to pose this question:

Was Twain a racist?... If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of considered moral judgements of the present, we will find othing but error.

First of all the only error to be found is Stephen L. Carter's pathetic mental cowardice. The oppositionary root to American racism of Mark Twain's period is the contemporary reality of racist and racism being anathema. Carter's "pompous "wisdom" of the present," has nothing to do with historical racism of Mark Twain nor does excuse or mitigate it.

The human condition would be better served with dialectical facts which simply state: A Mark Twain could be a racist and schizophrenic-like, critically satirize it's hypocrisy.

If as Stephen L. Carter proposes that the specific backwardness of racism is a mere relative sensibility. Then religious fundamentalism of all stripes should be given no quarter and ridiculed as mere idealistic exercise devoid and divorced from the objectivity of Carter's "pompous wisdom".

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Alhurra Television, Blue Jeans , Apple pie and Genocide

Alhurra Television America's medium of superficiality into Middle Eastern propaganda is a $500 million strategic failure. Still it's a talking point for neo-conservative choir, who harbor delusions of empire by military action.

In response to criticism the Bush Commander-in-Chief governance motive authorized the creation of Alhurra Television to combat what is naively thought as the Middle Eastern and Islamic question formulated in purely public relation terms.

So $500 million produced an hour of focus on blue jeans, that Pax Americana staple. $500 million showcases the 2008 election with naturally extra emphasis on Barack Obama. The symbolic embody of this inclusive Uncle Sam, if you welcome the rain of bombs and Dick Cheney's Halliburton trillion dollar reconstruction.

Despite the Genocide slaughter of Iraqis, the editing trick of a tight shot of freshly baked apple pie and transformational visage of a Barack Obama. The fact remains Alhurra Television is nothing less than the after thought behind scraps tossed to the true believers naivete', a'la Scott McClellan and their bound to happen epiphany.

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Hurricane Katrina, The Barack Obama Candidacy and the Million March

Not only did the Hurricane Katrina disaster show governmental injustice but it also revealed the organizational mess of the Black-American center and it's political reality.

Back in the early 1990's Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam led a march of one Million Black Men on Washington D.C. to listen to Thesis on the Masonic and Illuminati Foundation of the United States. The Million Man March begot a Million Women March, all Black assembly, where Winnie Mandela was a keynote speaker. Then the Million Family March followed in New York. The symbolic point that political maturity is the result of an economic foundation, so organize

Then came Katrina and it's devastation and the raw images of that vein of Black American History, once again victimization.

Fast forward to the Barack Obama Presidential Candidacy and it's organizational adroity to amass money and it's lesson as it applies to the Katrina reality. Once again organize! With approximately 1.5 million contributors, the Obama candidacy is well on the path to a $500 million precedent.

The Lesson of the Barack Obama candidacy is : Those symbols of a Million Black Men, Women and family could each have donated a $100 to something with the objective name as "Reconstructive Fund for Black New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward" and just as easily accumulated a half-billion dollar fund for Black Self-Determination.

Why the specificity of Black New Orleans? Because specifically Black New Orleans suffered and bore the profane and psychic injustice of the Katrina consequence.

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Hymen Reconstruction and Feminine Freedoms

Maybe the jaded and eclectic American Woman who isn't caught up in the abstraction of tradition, doesn't even know what a hymen is to worry about it's consequence on her marriage. That isn't to mean it's concurrent alienation isn't creeping up and impacting the quality and definition of Feminine Freedom.

Certain contradictions of the human condition glare the most than at the intersection of Feminine Freedoms and sexuality. Mental ignorance and emotional ignorance quickly assert itself when the issue is gender relations.

Historically Femininity has been bound to the chaste ideal and all its presumptions. So it isn't surprising that Hymen-Management is another anti-Feminine reality.

It's a well developed fact that Arabicized-Muslim traditions is brutal on Women and Femininity. So it isn't surprising that Arabicized-Muslim Women are caught in the traditional consequence of hymen-integrity.

Imagine a young Women putting on the marriage planner "to do list", "see Surgeon for Hymen reconstruction".


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Treason and the WNBA: Anne Donovan's attack on Becky Hammond

When the United States kept on losing to the Soviet Union at International and Olympic Basketball. It responded with redefining eligibility for Olympic athletes and the "Dream Team" was born. Which simply meant multi-million dollar earning professional Basketball players made a mockery of the amateur ethos of the Olympic Games. By the way, this also mocked the arbitrary sanctions against Jim Thorpe, one of the worlds greatest athletes. But then Jim Thorpe's experience had more to do with the prejudice of being Native American.
So it's downright interesting listening to Anne Donovan's of U.S. Olympic Basketball attack and characterization of Becky Hammond's decision to represent Russia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with Becky Hammond is a traitor , unpatriotic and mercenary.
Becky Hammond a U.S. citizen is a WNBA ( Women's National Basketball Association ) All Star Player. She was left off the U.S. Olympic Basketball team. Russia where she makes $2 million playing during WNBA off-season offered her money and lots of it, to play on the Russian Olympic team and she accepted.
Russia is simply redefining Olympic participation as it furthers it's interest. Becky Hammond's action is simple. The Olympic experience and Russian money is too powerful an incentive.
Is this treason and the WNBA? Anne Donovan's attack on Becky Hammond is just another example of contextual fraud.
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Al Qaeda and Evangelicals, Sex and Fear in uncertain and threatening times

What has Al Qaeda begat? Frolicking Evangelicals in the bedroom under the post bed banner of Genesis 2:24..."And they shall be one flesh."

The latest front in American Christianity's battle with Militant Islam is the bedroom. Where parishioners are enthusiastically urged by Pastors and Preachers to use Song Of Solomon 2:3 as guide for oral sex and The New Direction Christian Church, "40 nights of Grrreat Sex" program and it's daily planners with plums like Tuesday: Quickie in any room besides the bedroom. Are among a number of other Evangelical Christian sex instructors.

The new Direction Christian Church of Memphis , Tennessee, The relevant Church of Tampa, Florida and Evangelical-Fundamentalist authors as Tim LaHaye of the best selling Apocalyptic series "Left Behind", are the vanguard elements exhibiting the classic response of Sex as recourse in uncertain and threatening times.

The Boomer Generation lest we forget was the direct result of the uncertainty and threat from Hitler and Nazism, which spilled over into the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

Despite the biblical quotations as exhortations and the Dr. Phil like one-dimensional psychology in LaHaye's , "How to be Happy Through Marriage" book. Evangelical Christians are feeling pretty besieged these days. From their nightmarish honeymoon with George W. Bush and his absurd expedition in Babylonia, unable to tame and bring to heel the whore of war. To the triumph of Gays parading down California streets, marriage License in hand, a mortal blow to 40 years of conservative dictatorial aspiration.

Is it then any surprise that sex is their only refuge, a tether to convention from the fear of an Al Qaeda sought after caliphate.

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Food, Politics and Carol Joynt: The Need to Know is Always on the Menu

What Carol Joynt of Nathan's Cafe at Georgetown, Washington, D.C. is doing should be seriously replicated across the nation. Maybe not in form but in principle. In order for Government to be accountable people must be in proximity to facts as organically as possible. A priori the need to know.

Holding a question and answer session with upper echelon Government functionaries and policy makers, at a restaurant, while patrons sup is practical. Considering the primary culprit of Governmental apathy is disillusioned constituents who impotently opt out of paying attention, thereby leaving governance and it's apparatus to the preaching to the choir practice of base politics.

Carol Joynt, once a Walter Cronkite intern has fused Journalism with food. Patrons at her Restaurant, Nathan's Cafe at Georgetown are treated to in house interviews, questions, and answer sessions with agitators and apologists alike. Victims of perfidy by the Bush Administration, like Valarie Plame and Dan Rather. Have all been on the Politics of the day menu.

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Lev Grossman's Decadent Posture; Panic and the De-Humanizing Motive

Lev Grossman in his 6/23/08; Time Magazine review of the book "Say You're One of them" by Uwem Akpan. A Nigerian Priest concluded with:

"You could read it, but why? Kiss your family, enjoy a hot shower and donate the price of a hardcover book to charity instead."

The book is a horrific composition of narratives by children written by an African Priest speaking African things.

Lev Groomsman's conclusion is decadent posture. To view the human condition as he does with the elite-centric notion that horrific brutality in it's African form is anymore nasty and beyond the pale, that a cheap Irish Spring shower can cleanse the sins of the fathers speaks more of emotional cowardice and mental dwarfism than anything else.

It's one thing to review a work of art on it's creative merits. But it's entirely another to make social-commentary in the derisive context of charity as absolution.

There isn't insight to be found in Grossman's review. But panic of the self-centered, rationalizing in the Colonial de-humanizing motive with it's prey, the dark continent. Nothing less than decadent posture.

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Sex and Free Gas

Is it any surprise that in the gas give away promotion evolution, the "worlds oldest profession" had to get in the game with Sex and Free Gas.

So at the Las Vegas Shady Lady Ranch spent hours gets patrons gallons of free gas.

What a play on spent and gassed!!

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Hamas, Hezbollah and the Impending Israel-Iran War

The past week of 6/28/08; has brought disclosures of Israeli deals with Hamas and Hezbollah. Two groups constantly seen by Israel, the U.S. and Europe as Terrorist.

This comes on the heels of Israeli air-war games over the Mediterranean which conventional thinking looks upon as a test run for play on Iranian Nuclear facilities and the impending Israel-Iran War.

Hamas and Hezbollah have been commonly described as Iranian surrogates. If that is correct then this urgency of Israeli deals with both groups should be seen as efforts and attempts to keep both Hamas and Hezbollah on the sidelines when Israel attacks Iran and the ensuing Israel-Iran War.

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"Gone with the Wind" the Musical rejected by British Culture

Despite British struggles with eugenics and the historic tango with pejorative disdain for Black, Brown and Yellow nationalities of it's Colonial and Neo-Colonial Political-Economy.

Besides the quaint classicism of British society and its tumult with it's now quieting Irish question.

Taking into consideration the British affection with it's irrelevant Monarchy and discordant harmony of it's Parliamentary system. At times the Brits do get it right.

"Gone With the Wind", that blight upon the American cultural landscape has been resoundingly rejected by British Culture. For a brief spell this year while the Brits came to their senses, "Gone With the Wind" the musical had marginal run. Til the Brits recognized and realized that any pining for a way of life that built on hypocrisy and antagonisms as American Southern "gentility," regardless if it's banner proclaimed lineage to the Union Jack had no place in the milieu of humanity digitalized.

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George F. Will the Norman Rockwell of Opinions and Barack Obama

At least the hacks on Republican, Right-Wing, Conservative talk radio are straight forward and out in the open with their ire, anguish and jealousy of Barack Obama. John McCain's wake on Fox News is real.

Then is George F. Will the Norman Rockwell of opinions. The Nationally Syndicated Columnist Will, resembles Rockwell solely in affecting an idealistic veneer as substance.

With his chisel and hammer aphorisms, one wonders what exactly doesn't George Will get about Obama's Candidacy for the U.S. Presidency?

Whether it's his criticisms of Obama's campaign procedural platform or it's the humorless and weird reluctance to acknowledge history and it's precedent. In George Will's world view Barack Obama is just another dusty profile in Presidential White Maleness.

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