ANALYTIXZ: 20 Years of Conversations and Enter- Views with Public Enemy’s Minister of Information Professor Griff
(239 pp. Rathsi Publishing. $19.95)
ANALYTIXZ:
20 Years of Conversations and Enter- Views with Public Enemy’s Minister of Information
By Professor Griff
Reviewed by Kalonji Changa
Analytixz highlights over two decades of candid interviews with a man once considered the most controversial figure in Hip Hop. Professor Griff, one of the founding members of the legendary music group Public Enemy – who brought us classics like “Fight the Power”, “Bring the Noise”, and “He Got Game” – has dropped a historical text that expands beyond the boundaries of Hip Hop and branches into analytical critiques of politics, pop culture, and other facets of entertainment.
Professor Griff, whose role as the Minister of Information for Public Enemy, compiled some of the most revealing, hardcore interviews that he has done over the span of his career as an artist, lecturer, author and activist. The book is an extraordinarily informative literary assemblage that any true Hip Hop aficionado or cultural connoisseur could appreciate.
Analytixz goes into Professor Griff”s role in bringing into existence the image, ideology, and philosophy that paid homage to revolutionaries like the Mau Mau and the Black Panther Party. The interviews discuss everything from the infamous Washington Times article in which writer David Mills allegedly misquoted Professor Griff, to what the Minister of Information felt was his betrayal and ultimate dismissal from PE.
The interviews bring to light the attacks by the Jewish community that accused him of making Anti-Semitic comments, they mention his beef with rap group 3rd Base, and address two assassination attempts. The book is a compilation of a broad array of pieces that take the reader on a journey from discussions with The Final Call to Tavis Smiley, in which Professor Griff holds no punches.
Whether your interest is piqued by Griff’s discussions on the offbeat buffoonery of group member Flava Flav, his views on the “Obama Deception”, or the occult practices of rappers Jay Z and Kanye West, the book is absolutely a must have. Continuing in the vein of Professor Griff and Public Enemy, Analytixz is certain to spark both curiosity and controversy. Analytixz undoubtedly gets a Black Fist raised high!
Kalonji Changa is the Founder/National Coordinator of The FTP Movement
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In those soft quiet moments..is where I find the essence of you..I breathe you in and allow you to bring your gentle tranquility within my being.. lingering long after the strings have been played.. Long after the warm sunrays of a brand new day..long after your Guitar has been put away.. still your melodies remain.. liberation.
DO YOU HAVE A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE FOR TEA AND ME
MASSAGES, WATER , FIRE , EARTH , WIND AND SPEECH THERAPY
CONVERSATION AND ELEVATION, BALANCE AND MEDITATION
PHYSICAL UNIFICATION, MENTAL RE CALIBRATION
SPIRITUAL VIBRATIONS, ONENESS AND RELAXATION
DO YOU HAVE A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE , FOR FRUIT JUICE AND
CRUSHED ICE, STEAMED VEGETABLES WITH RICE , LIGHTLY SPICED
INFORMATION TO STUDY, MUSIC TO DANCE TO, HUMOR TO LAUGH TO
I ASK YOU...
DO YOU HAVE A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE FOR ASTRAL PROJECTION
ETHERIAL PROTECTION, TO BE GODS REFLECTION
BE IT SO... PLEASE ENTER MY SECTION , LETS MEET AT THE CROSSROAD
WHERE SOULS ARE SOLD, FOR ABOUT , HALF THEIR WORTH
WHERE THE FIRST SHALL BE MADE LAST AND THE LAST SHALL BE MADE FIRST
DO YOU HAVE A PLACE IN YOUR LIFE , TO BE
MY GODDESS, MOTHER, SISTER, FRIEND, AND / OR WIFE
IF NOT ... ARE YOU WILLING TO CREATE THIS PLACE ?/K THYSELF
Some of the largest public outrages against the police came through the tragic mishandling of events. These events, which include the fatal shooting of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Chicago and the later bombing of MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia disproportionately involve African-Americans. This is not merely coincidence but rather shows a sad fact of policing, one that is described by “Black (1980)…[who] found that encounters between police and African Americans were more likely than encounters between police and White Americans to result in formal or legally based decisions (398).” Consequently, the amount of publicity these events get is nowhere near the amount given to negative portrayals of African-American individuals, and with each year that passes fewer and fewer individuals recall the events that transpired.
Where racial antagonism between “predominantly white police forces and expanding black communities” may have offered an explanation for police racism in policing in Hahn and Feagin’s 1970, the approach loses robustness with the increasing prevalence of African-American police officers. This tendency to disproportionately affect African-American individuals (whether it be through arrest or force) has not changed in light of more diverse police; cases including those of Rodney King (1991), Abner Louima (1997) and Amadou Diallo (1999) show that this problem is as prevalent as ever.
MOVE started as the American Christian Movement by Vincent Leaphart, a former dog-walker. The group began gaining converts when Leaphart’s (now John Africa’s) musings on a variety of subjects were transcribed and put into a book form by graduate student Donald Glassey (Maddox 1995, 30). These teachings held that all living life is sacred, that all matter should be “cycled” (recycled), and that childbirth should be a natural happening, without drugs. Couple these beliefs with a revolutionary strain of thought, that human law was not to be followed due to it not equally affecting individuals (through loopholes) and that “all living things instinctively defend themselves”, and one has a dogma that brought in a number of individuals to a communal house in Powelton Village (MOVE 2005). Powelton Village at the time was a heavily-black neighborhood that was fending off the gentrification advances of Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania; it was with this obvious intrusion against the MOVE belief that “all living things, beings that move, are equally important” that MOVE began to agitate for change. This agitation would eventually bring a bomb down upon MOVE, in a typical bout of police over-action that killed 11 citizens of the United States in 1985.
Above Photo: The body of a dead Black man is displayed out in the open on a flat bed truck for other Black men to view as they were being "Interned" at the convention center during the worst riot in US History.
Between 1824 and 1951 there were over 300 events classified as “White Race Riots” in which entire white communities turned on and destroyed entire Black communities and murdered Blacks in mass. There were 26 such major events and hundreds of smaller ones in major cities and towns across the US during the summer of 1919 alone. This period has been tagged by historians as “The Red Summer of 1919”, because many of the events happened from May to October of that year and the blood of their victims literally painted the streets of America.
That year, tens of thousands of Black Americans were killed, maimed and 375,000 were made refugees, though never being given refugee status, all for economic, social, political and other reasons both real and imaginary. They even killed Blacks for recreation activities in rural areas in events called "Friday Night Boot Burnings" (the burning of a Black man at a stake or bonfire) or " Picnic" (a slang term for pick a nigger for lynching} Lynching became a common weekly event to kill the monotony of rural life. It was not uncommon for whites to eat, drink, dance and sing church songs as they created a sadistic festive atmosphere, while their victims suffered from torture. White men, men women and children all participated in what was best described by Ida B. Wells-Barnett as " An orgy of murder and mayhem."
Many times whites massacred based purely on perceived notions and paranoia, such as in Helena and Phillips, Arkansas in 1919. The white landowners envisioned a Black union meetings was an organized uprising and Negros were planning to kill whites in mass at some future date. The reality was the Black farmers, sharecroppers' and farm workers held a meeting after forming a union to demand a fair accounting from the whites on their sharecropper accounts, after being cheated for years. They were armed and had no intention of disarming because of what happened in East St. Louis in 1917. When the sheriff attempted to serve a warrant as a pretext to investigating the union meeting, a gun fight ensued and the sheriff was killed and other whites were wounded.
The white landowners feeling depraved, feared a great financial loss and with bloodlust in their hearts over their dead friends, they hunted Blacks like dogs through the woods and killed 25 to 125 Blacks early in the manhunt. The best official death count came to 854. No on knows the actual number because of how the bodies were treated and disposed of. They wounded many hundreds more and caused every Black citizen in every surrounding county to flee for their lives too. Today, Blacks in Helena and Phillips County are now planning to seek reparations for their ordeal. They mage it perfectly clear, If you had a Black skin, you had two choices. You were either dead, or moving. Floaters (dead bodies in the river) were popping up daily for weeks after the riot was over. Again the national guard was called and again they joined the white rioters.
During the Red Summer Riots of 1919, a common characteristic in every case was the Black American was alone and helpless when it came to protecting or defending himself and his community. Many had assumed then, as we do now, that our government is supposed to protect us from invaders from within our borders and from foreign nations. THEY WERE DEAD WRONG!
After studying White Race Riots, collecting relics', investigating reports, reading hundreds of newspaper reports and first hand testimonials, I have determined based on the circumstances that Black Americans must protect and defend themselves from their countrymen. This assumption is based on the following findings:
1. No government military branches where there to protect them. The National Guardsmen would join the rioters and shoot Blacks too. Many just looked the other way because they hated "niggers" too. Or they came in time to put out fires, mostly in the white sections of town, or white owned rental properties in the Black neighborhood only.
2. The Police joined or aided the white rioters. Deputized white Policemen burned out women and children and used them for target practice, for sport and wager, as they threw them back into the flames that they attempted to escape. Police disarmed Blacks and stud back to let the white rioters do what they wanted without fear of justice or the law.
In the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, police flew airplanes and dropped nitroglycerin and dynamite on 600 Black businesses, burned 1500 homes and destroyed a 35 square block area of the Black community of Tulsa also known as the Greenwood District. It was so prosperous it was nationally known as Black Wall Street. The riot was intended to put Blacks back in their place.
3. The American Legion and the KKK and white military veterans and fraternal organizations offered their services in tracking down and killing Blacks. They often lead in mobs and initiated the riddling of many of their Black victims. ROTC cadets assisted in hunting, dragging, burning, killing and maiming during post war times.
4. In all cases not one white person was ever convicted of murdering a Black person regardless of how horrible their crimes. Hate was part of the fabric of white American society. They protected their "Supreme" status at all cost. Blacks had no value and no souls. Blacks had no rights. Blacks weren't people and in political discussions Blacks existence was referred to as the "negro question". To the average whites ALL Blacks were niggers. In 1920 2 out of 10 whites in America were members of the KKK. Blacks were de-humanized so whites could commit any heinous act without guilt and with impunity. It's hard to kill one of Gods human beings, but easy to kill a thousand niggers.
5. In Detroit 1943, 4300 Federal Troops wounded 2500 Blacks after the last of the great white race riots. Police, local whites, National Guard and Federal troops turned on Black Detroit. Blacks were beaten openly in public by literally thousands of whites chasing and beating them while police searched and disarmed them to make them easy prey. The Detroit Police Department participated in many murders and freely participated in mayhem towards Blacks.
Every Black person in sight was searched and even their pocket knives were removed. Then they were left to the white rioters who in turn, maimed or murdered a totally defenseless victim. Police were rerouting Blacks in motor vehicles to dead ends where white rioters where waiting to beat and murder them. Many Blacks had placed their faith in the hands of Police for protection, only to have that trust betrayed, and their lives exterminated.
6. The methods of murders in white race riots were similar in each case, which included but not limited to: Lynching, burning, castration, stoning, bullet riddling, just plain shot, dragged in the street, drowned, beat, punched, hit with assorted objects, heads split with an axe and more than can be imagined by any ungodly person. It was common for a single Black victim to incur all of the above forms of punishment from his fellow American. Bodies have been subjected to this type of treatment with as many as 100 plus individual whites to 1 Black victim. Many bodies were reported to be punished for hours after the victim was already dead.
7. They became merchants of the macabre as they cut up the victims bodies into parts for resale as, souvenirs, mementos, and mantle pieces. Black victims had hearts, lips, ears, fingers, spleen, liver, lungs, intestines, penis, hands, heads, scrotum and all other body parts and even the Black fetus was not spared.
A poor Black pregnant woman Mary Turner in Georgia, had her unborn child cut from her womb as she burned at the stake. While she was inflamed a white man stepped from the crowd, slit her stomach with his pocket knife, and when the fetus fell to the ground, he stomped it and said "One less nigger". Thousands of curbside spectators slapped their knees as they laughed in amusement.
Mary's crime: She had disputed the word of a white man that falsely accused her husband of murdering a white man in a dispute over money owed him by the white man. A shoot out ensued. The white man died in what otherwise was a fair fight. For her protest after they lynched her husband before her eyes, they tied her to a tree, poured gas on her, oil and set her on fire. After she writhed silently in the flames in defiance of the "mad and hungry dogs", she was doused a second time as white children danced and chanted in song and rhyme.
In the terms of property damage. Whole city blocks in Black communities have been burned to the ground and many Black property owners had to abandon their homes while running for dear life, with only the cloths on their backs, if they were lucky enough to live through home invasions, hails of bullets, and fire bombs during the initial attack. Many of the aftermaths resemble ground zero of a nuclear blast. In the Tulsa riot, you could see from one end of the Black business district, and see clear to the opposite side without the obstruction of your view by any physical objects. The land was totally leveled for 3 miles through Black Tulsa.
Turtles love the water. In fact they spend a lot of time in the water and some go ashore only to lay and bury their eggs. There are some 250 types of turtles found in the world, 48 of which live in the United States. Turtle survival is highly based on their body structure. They use the shell (which is actually their backbone and ribs) on their backs as their home and can retreat into it when they sense danger. Another way turtles survive is by sensing vibrations in the water through their skin and shell. If a turtle is flipped over when hiding in its shell, it will use its strong neck to flip itself back over. Turtles have slow metabolisms which enable to live a long time.
Turtle teaches us to be careful in new situations and to be patient in reaching our goals. Turtle also teaches us to take things slow, for it gives us time to figure out if we need to protect our self or forge ahead. Turtle shows up in our lives when we need to go into shell and wait until our thoughts & ideas are ready to be expressed. He also teaches us to be adaptable to our environment so we can find the harmony within it.
ARE YOU THE SUN OF A MAN OR THE BASTARD OF A MUTHAF*$$* ... ?/K THYSELF
.... and so death came into my house claiming to bring peace. We laughed and cried and became best friends, and now death serves as a constant reminder to remain both humble and fierce all in the same breath.
?/K THYSELF
"ERIE AVENUE STAND UP !!! ..." ?/K elinaj
OPA LOCKA , THE SWATTS, CHI CHI NITZA (YUCANTON PENINSULA), ROARING RIVERS (JAMAICA) AND ALL OTHER INDIGENOUS LAND STOLEN FROM OUR PARENTS !!!
only a thin line seperates the unknown from the known...
?/K THYSELF ?/K
" You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution" ...FRED HAMPTON
ZULU PRAYER
We Amazulus( The Peoples of The Heavens),
bare witness to our way of life (Religion) which is Truth,
back by facts of the known and not just beliefs although
we do have beliefs, we are always seeking,
Truth of the Known and the Unseen, which is yet Known.
We Amazulus respect The Scriptures of The Force,
Who is The Source of us all, who sent down words
and written words to all the Prophets, Messengers
and Warner's of The Creator, The Supreme One.
We Amazulus call on The Spirits of all our Ancestors
from the past, whom did righteousness, in the
Name of The Force, who is The Source, the Angels and
other Life Forms,who do righteousness,
In The Name of The Force, to watch over all of
Amazulus and all Human Beings on this planet
so called Earth. We Amazulus call on
The Force, who is The Source, to bless
The Universal Zulu Nation always, to watch over,
Mother Earth and all the Planets and Universes.
To keep us always protected from our Earthly enemies,
Subterranean Worlds enemies, Interplanetary enemies,
Solar Systems enemies, Galactic enemies, Star Systems enemies,
Dimensional enemies, Universe and Universes enemies.
Oh Great Force, who is The Source, keep us strong
and healthy in Mind, Body, and Soul. Keep us on a straight
path of righteousness and even if we fall of grace,
here and there, keep us always searching for:
Right Knowledge, Right Wisdom, Right Understanding,
for we can Overstand as Gods and Goddesses and
Sound Right Reasoning.
ALL PRAISE DUE TO THE FORCE, WHO IS THE SOURCE
OF US ALL.
US BEING
As we prepare to commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I take this opportunity to share with you portions of a sermon he delivered at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on March 31st 1968. Dr. King’s thoughts and concerns are as valid today as they were thirty-three ago.
Dr. King reminded us on that occasion of the often-overlooked social reality embedded in the story of "Rip Van Winkle." When Rip Van Winkle went up into the mountain, a sign had a picture of King George the Third of England. When he came down twenty years later the sign had a picture of George Washington. Things were different all right -- in effect, Rip had slept through a revolution. He slept through changes that altered the course of history. Dr. King’s point:
“One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands.They end up sleeping through a revolution.”
The “revolution” today is more of an evolution in technology, demography, and society. Nonetheless, the challenges are as demanding as if it were a “revolution.” Dr. King’s own words best capture the demands of the day in our communities, this nation and the world:
“We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.”
A reality is that science and technology have compressed time, space and distance to create a “global village.” However, the village seems to be one of strangers, not of neighbors. A village of individual interests, not of collective concern. On these points, Dr. King’s admonishment in 1968 is just as applicable today:
“Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this.”
Dr. King further reminds us of our inter-dependence when he states that “we must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
Dr. King’s message is quite clear in these regards, while we all are not the targets of hate, discrimination and bigotry based on race, color and ethnicity, we are all the victims of these social ills.
Dr. King also reminded those gathered in 1968 of the “challenge to eradicate the last vestiges of racial injustice from our nation.” He stated:
“It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life for the vast majority of White Americans, spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and denied, subtle and sometimes not so subtle -- the disease of racism permeates and poisons a whole body politic. And I can see nothing more urgent than for America to work passionately and unrelentingly -- to get rid of the disease of racism.”
Progress in race relations cannot be left to the goodwill and effort of others. It is a responsibility that falls squarely on the shoulders of every member of our organizations and communities. The mere passage of time will not excise the evils of racism and discrimination. Active efforts must continue in the present and we must be deliberate in our planning to address these concerns in the future. Our children and grandchildren deserve a better inheritance than trite platitudes denouncing racism and symbolic efforts toward its eradication.
On this point, Dr. King’s words are instructive:
“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."
Dr. King realized in his day, many of us today acknowledge, and many more “must come to see that the roots of racism are very deep in our country, and there must be something positive and massive in order to get rid of all the effects of racism and the tragedies of racial injustice.”
In the closing of his sermon, Dr. King reminded us that “there comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.” I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say that racism is wrong, eradicating it is right. Discrimination is wrong, eliminating it is right. Racial injustice is wrong, fundamental fairness for all is right.
These are some of the challenges Dr. King reminded those gathered in Washington D.C. in 1968; these are the challenges that we are faced with in the year 2000, and beyond. These are important and critical matters that must be faced and resolved. As we face these challenges I am hopeful Dr. King’s words will serve to motivate us:
"Our days begin to end when the day that we become silent about things that matter.”
What life has taught me
I would like to share with
Those who want to learn...
Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war
That until there are no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war
That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be persued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war, war
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
South Africa sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war
War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war
And until that day, the African continent
Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
We find it necessary and we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory
Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
The Ten Point Plan
WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.
We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by fully controlling all the institutions which exist in our communities.
WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the American businessmen will not give full employment, then the technology and means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.
WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of our fifty million Black people. Therefore, we feel this is a modest demand that we make.
WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS.
We believe that if the landlords will not give decent housing to our Black and oppressed communities, then housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that the people in our communities, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for the people.
WE WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY.
We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of the self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your position in the society and in the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else.
WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR All BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE.
We believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventive medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs must be developed to give all Black and oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide our selves with proper medical attention and care.
WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, All OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
We believe that the racist and fascist government of the United States uses its domestic enforcement agencies to carry out its program of oppression against black people, other people of color and poor people inside the united States. We believe it is our right, therefore, to defend ourselves against such armed forces and that all Black and oppressed people should be armed for self defense of our homes and communities against these fascist police forces.
WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.
We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desire of the United States ruling circle and government to force its domination upon the oppressed people of the world. We believe that if the United States government or its lackeys do not cease these aggressive wars it is the right of the people to defend themselves by any means necessary against their aggressors.
WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S. FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR All PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY.
We believe that the many Black and poor oppressed people now held in United States prisons and jails have not received fair and impartial trials under a racist and fascist judicial system and should be free from incarceration. We believe in the ultimate elimination of all wretched, inhuman penal institutions, because the masses of men and women imprisoned inside the United States or by the United States military are the victims of oppressive conditions which are the real cause of their imprisonment. We believe that when persons are brought to trial they must be guaranteed, by the United States, juries of their peers, attorneys of their choice and freedom from imprisonment while awaiting trial.
WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are most disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
STANLY TOOKIE WILLIAMS
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Turtles love the water. In fact they spend a lot of time in the water and some go ashore only to lay and bury their eggs. There are some 250 types of turtles found in the world, 48 of which live in the United States. Turtle survival is highly based on their body structure. They use the shell (which is actually their backbone and ribs) on their backs as their home and can retreat into it when they sense danger. Another way turtles survive is by sensing vibrations in the water through their skin and shell. If a turtle is flipped over when hiding in its shell, it will use its strong neck to flip itself back over. Turtles have slow metabolisms which enable to live a long time.
Turtle teaches us to be careful in new situations and to be patient in reaching our goals. Turtle also teaches us to take things slow, for it gives us time to figure out if we need to protect our self or forge ahead. Turtle shows up in our lives when we need to go into shell and wait until our thoughts & ideas are ready to be expressed. He also teaches us to be adaptable to our environment so we can find the harmony within it.
.... and so death came into my house claiming to bring peace. We laughed and cried and became best friends, and now death serves as a constant reminder to remain both humble and fierce all in the same breath.
"R.I.P. MPOZI TOLBERT"
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