The ISIS Papers with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing 07/24 Interview on Blog Talk Radio

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publishing of The Isis Papers. While I read this book several years ago I have embarked on the journey once again. While I in no way agreed with everything the good Dr. had to say I found The Isis papers to be a good read and the first steps to clarifying color, race, and symbolism in a racist capitalistic society.

Psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing’s functional definition of racism - the local and global power system structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined; this system consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of human interaction (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war). The ultimate purpose of the system is to prevent white genetic annihilation on earth - a planet in which the overwhelming majority of people are classified as non-white (black, brown, red and yellow) by white-skinned people. All the non-white people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetically recessive white-skinned people.

This book opened my mind to many issues; the essays make you think. Hit the link below and take a listen to the radio show, see what you think.

The ISIS Papers with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing 07/24 by WombMans Song | Blog Talk Radio

International Day of Protest and Solidarity with Prison Hunger Strikers

In support and respect for the courageous prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison and other prisons all around California, whose July 2011 hunger strike challenged the inhumane conditions of the Security Housing Units (SHU) and inspired the support of people far and wide; people of consciousness everywhere across the U.S. and beyond, are to joining in an International Day of Protest and Solidarity with the Prison Hunger Strikers on Monday, August 1, 2011.

The Hunger Strikers achieved real success; the conditions of systematic abuse and torture in the SHU—and widespread throughout the prison system—were brought to the attention of the general public. Their original five core demands:

1) End Group Punishment & Administrative Abuse,
2) Abolish the Debriefing Policy, and Modify Active/Inactive Gang Status Criteria,
3) Comply with the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons 2006, Recommendations Regarding an End to Long-Term Solitary Confinement,
4) Provide Adequate and Nutritious Food, and
5) Expand and Provide Constructive Programming and Privileges for Indefinite SHU Status Inmates,

have now been acknowledged—although not yet met—by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), which promised to consider them. On Monday, August 1 many diverse people and organizations will publicly speak out and act in support of these demands. Prisoners must gain the human and civil rights demanded by their very humanity.

To find an event in your city go to: http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/take-action/demonstrations-actions-events-in-the-us-canada/

NATO & U.S. After Libya's Oil

The claim back in March was that NATO, along with Britain, France, the United States, England, Germany, and Italy, intervened in order to protect civilians. So waving the banner of “human rights” - the most hypocritical and deceitful of all justifications for imperialist war - my government, the United States, along with NATO has stepped in so that they may secure their economic and political interests.
At this point there is a blockade on Libya; the west and its allies are trying to keep everything from going into Libya, including food and energy products in order to starve out the population while supplying huge amounts of military support including acting as the air force for the revolutionaries.

As you all know during civil war humanitarian concerns are last on the list of objectives. Consequently, it is deceitful for the United States, the United Nations, NATO, France, England, Italy, and Germany, to foster armed rebellion to conceive civil war in order to facilitate the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi and create regime change.

NATO’s strategy is to install a puppet regime so that Libya’s great oil resources will be turned over to the imperialist countries and their oil companies. There was no possibility of the rebels in Libya succeeding without the help of NATO and the United States.

Democracy in Libya is an urgent issue to solve. But it does not come by tanks and aircraft carriers from the U.S. and NATO. The democratic struggle is inseparable from national sovereignty and popular sovereignty. The armed aggression violates the principles of the UN Charter.

Imperialist intervention in the name of oil has caused unspeakable harm to civilian lives and property. The United States war of aggression in Iraq has so far claimed more than 92,000 civilian lives, orphaned 35 percent of Iraqi children, and created 4.7 million Iraqi refugees. The world should not allow the US and other Western powers to make Libya another Iraq. The sovereign right of the Libyan people to resolve their internal conflict must be respected.

Discrimination Is Discrimination

Kymberly Wimberley is a black teen mom who earned the highest GPA in her class at McGehee High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; but she wasn't allowed to be the valedictorian.

Going back to school a few short weeks after having a child Kymberly worked hard to achieve high grades in advanced placement classes and she achieved higher scores than any of her classmates.

According to an article in the Courthouse News Service and the court document itself, Wimberley's mother, Molly Bratton, who has filed a lawsuit on her daughter’s behalf, heard school personnel discussing that Kymberly’s valedictorian status might cause a "big mess."

The next day, high school Principal Darrell Thompson told the mother that he had decided to name a white student as "co-valedictorian," even though Wimberley had a higher GPA and a press release had already been sent out to the local paper naming her in the position.

Teen parents are routinely discriminated against and face significant institutional barriers to education. While teen mothers are often expected to fail, Kymberly Wimberley defied both the odds and the stereotypes. Unfortunately, Kymberly's case is not an isolated incident. She alleges the school has a pattern of academic discrimination against other black students, including discouraging them from taking advanced courses.

Whether Ms. Wimberley was discriminated against due to her being a teen mom or due to her being African American is not the issue. The mere fact that in 2011 a school would treat a student like this is barbaric. Please join me in calling Principal Thompson at (870) 222- 5026 to voice your opinion.

President Obama has asked us, the American people, to make our voices heard. The Republicans are set on seeing Obama fail at the expense of the country. The Republican plan is entitled A TWO-STEP APPROACH TO HOLD PRESIDENT OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE. This plan, which actually has five steps, is as follows:

1. Cuts That Exceed The Debt Hike
2. Caps To Control Future Spending
3. Balanced Budget Amendment
4. Entitlement Reforms & Savings
5. No Tax Hikes

This is still Cut, Cap, and Balance. The Republican strategy is to obstruct everything President Obama puts on the table. Their plan includes no sacrifice on the part of the rich and corporate America. The Republicans want to slash spending on health-care, education, and nutrition. The Democrats have compromised, and compromised, enough is enough. The President should not even listen to conversations which include cuts to social spending. The wealthy and large corporations must contribute to deficit reduction.

Eighty percent, that’s a big number! H-e-l-l-o, Dems, 80% of America is insisting that the BIG 3 – Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, - be untouched during negotiations. What is it that our elected officials in Washington D.C. don’t understand? The majority of Americans want the social safety net that they were promised to actually be there and without any cuts.

Social Security has been around since 1935 and is the most effective government run program in this nation’s history. Before its enactment over 75% of the nation’s senior citizens lived in poverty. Today the poverty rate for elderly Americans is right around 10% and over 9 million disabled people are on social security; 6.5 million widowed families also receive social security payments. There are a lot of Americans depending on the Big 3.

Democrats need to find or grow some backbone and ensure that shared sacrifice is indeed shared. The working poor and the middle class have already sacrificed. It is time for the rich and corporations to dig deep and sacrifice, the time for just contributing is over, sacrifice those Bush tax cuts, their corporate jets, and obscene profits.

Crises in the Congo

The Congo is the heart of Africa and one of the most mineral rich countries in the world; its people have been the victims of oppression, domination, and tyranny for the past 125 years. King Leopold II of Belgium was given the Congo during the 1885 Berlin Conference. He stole a fortune from the country by enslaving its people and forcing them to mine the resources for his personal benefit.

The Congolese people then endured 52 years of colonial rule under Belgium. After winning their independence and free elections, Patrice Lumumba became the Prime Minister. Belgian paratroops supported by the United States (for political and economic reasons) kidnapped and executed Patrice Lumumba within a year.

For the next 32 years the people of the Congo were subject to dictatorship that was supported by the U.S. Government. You see friendships with dictators are far more easy to manage than relations with independent governments. In 1996 to add insult to injury the U.S. government backed an invasion by Rwanda with the help of Uganda. To date over 6 million Congolese people have been exterminated . . . genocide.

The Secretary of State can put an end to this by fully enacting Public Law 109-456. Write and call your state representative and request that our country stop supporting mass murder and genocide in the Congo.

The Pot Calling The Kettle Black

Mayhem In Dallas As Hundreds Scramble For Section 8 Vouchers

Homelessness, hunger, lack of universal health care, debt ceiling crises . . . it seems that the U.S. government has plenty to focus on. It is time for a change in U.S. foreign policy that allows this country to switch from being an oppressor of others to a country that takes care of and provides for their own.

15,000 people are expected to apply for 100 available vouchers. Instead of using resources to help attack Libya (who until the NATO action had no homeless people) why won't the government make sure that there is adequate housing for its citizens???

Pastors For Peace Caravan To Cuba - Atlanta, GA Stop

Why Do Cuban Citizens Have Better Health-care Than We In The U.S.?

Cuba's health care system is an international success story, despite the U.S. embargo. Almost 50 million people in the United States lack adequate health care coverage. How is it possible that Cuba, an island nation of limited resources, can provide health care to all of its citizens?

The U.S. government has refused to allow exports of medicine and medical supplies to Cuba because "it would be detrimental to U.S. foreign policy interests." This policy is designed to systematically strip Cuba of essential resources.

Since most major new drugs are developed by U.S. owned pharmaceutical companies, the U.S. can and does block export to Cuba of more than 50 percent of new medicines available on the world market. Despite this form of oppression, Cuba has galvanized its efforts to remain self-sufficient, and no hospitals have closed. The island nation is known the world over for its advances in medical research.

Among other feats, Cuba has developed a Meningitis B vaccine, a less expensive interferon as well as AIDS and cancer vaccines. Cuba has the highest rate of public health services in Latin America and one of the highest physician to population ratios in the world.

If the United States changed its social and economic policies and priorities its citizens and those of other countries would benefit greatly.

“OF ALL THE FORMS OF INEQUALITY, INJUSTICE IN HEALTH CARE IS THE MOST SHOCKING AND INHUMANE.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pastors For Peace Caravan To Cuba - Sacramento, CA Stop

July 4, 2011

There is no nation on this planet guilty of practices of more shocking and bloody that of the United States . . . For revolting vulgarity and shameless hypocrisy America reins without rival. - Frederick Douglas

Every year I write a piece on the hypocrisy of celebrating the 4th of July . . . Not this year. We are having a Michael Moore moviethon, watching (and reviewing here) everything that he has released. ENJOY

Roger & Me: How one company, General Motors, devastated a whole community, Flint,MI, by laying off thousands of auto workers so that the company could make a LARGER profit. The jobs going to cheaper labor in Mexico, leaving the city to literally crumble. GM does this while experiencing record profits. Companies (and their owners/boards) Get Richer While The Average Person Suffers: another definition for capitalism.





Canadian Bacon: Well, it was ok, but not as interesting as what I have come to expect from Michael Moore. If your short on time skip this one.







The Big One: An effective look at how big (greedy) business is crushing the little man (people) while on their quest to increase the gap between the rich and poor by squeezing out the working class.


Bowling For Columbine: Even the ease of getting guns, the violent national history, violent entertainment and poverty are don't explain our country's violence when other cultures share these same factors (some to worse degrees) without the equivalent carnage. The culture of fear, bigotry and violence in our country along with corporate interest, i.e. unscrupulous gain, however, goes along way to explaining this phenomena.


Fahrenheit 9/11: I won't even attempt a synopsis, if you haven't seen this one you must be living under a rock or just have chosen to stay uninformed.







Sicko: What Can I say . . . YOU NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE; it compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system (greed, pure greed) with the non-profit universal health care systems (interested in keeping people healthy) of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.


Slacker Uprising: Michael Moore tours college campuses in swing states during the 2004 election to encourage them to get out & vote. My 17 yr old son actually watched this one w/us. He just can't understand why/how Bush got a 2nd term, he is not alone.

It reeks of hypocrisy that we as a nation would celebrate stealing land from the Native Americans and Mexicans. It reeks of hypocrisy that we celebrate a period when Africans were treated as property and no apology and/or reparation has been made to these groups as a whole. How hypocritical it is to celebrate land, property & wealth that rightfully belongs to others.