This article is a little lengthy, but I definitely think that u would enjoy (if u read it in it entirety). Reggie
"Now that the neo "second coming of Christ" frenzy is over with and history has been made (giving many what they wanted: a Black president), now the historically politically unastute, ignorant, and progress stagnant COLLECTIVE of Black folks must know WHAT TO DEMAND of a Democratic President (with executive order signing powers like all other presidents before him) and Demorcratic Congress (shouldn't be no problems now in granting bills good for the people).
Minister Farrakhan was right in how Blacks get caught up into appeal and charm of a candidate but you see, it's BIGGER than that. ACTIONS are the key. You must deliver after a vote is given. The Jewish community knows this and knows it well. You must know what to demand from a politician whom you gave your popular vote. Obama is a PUBLIC SERVANT of the highest order now and now the serious issues of the nation must be addressed, at least the surface issues. The root issues can never be discussed because our brother will be murdered like John F. Kennedy in 1963 so we have to keep the Federal Reserve Bank, IRS, and all the other agencies that REALLY strangle this potentially great nation. So F the root issues, let's just deal with the surface issues.
Blacks can't think strictly BLACK because of a Black President. They must think (or learn to think) AMERICAN because Barack is the leader of the whole nation (at least on the surface) and not just Black folks and he can't show discrimination and bias (not that he would anyway as he's too intelligent and he showed this during the campaign).
Barack gave us the example of getting up and doing something constructive and positive and overcoming the odds and now it's time for the collective Black people to follow lead. Black people collectively as individuals must do a Barack Obama (especially if we want more Black presidents in the future).
When it comes to keeping the Black family together: YES WE CAN!
When it comes to rebuilding Black communities: YES WE CAN!
When it comes to starting successful independent Black businesses: YES WE CAN!
When it comes time to making decent and respectable music (especially about Black women): YES WE CAN!
When it comes time to stopping the senseless violence in our communities: YES WE CAN!
When it comes time for Black males to support all babies (via child support payments) they produced even though they just had in mind to fuck a Black woman and bounce: YES WE CAN!
When it comes time to recycle Black dollars in the Black community: YES WE CAN!
When it comes time to stop the sexual abuse and molestation of Black people, especially young Black girls and boys: YES WE CAN!
When it comes time to saying "NO!" to record deals because the White record company executives only wants music about sex, drugs, and violence: YES WE CAN!
Mr. "GET OUT AND VOTE" P.Diddy, when it comes time to not advertising poisonous alcoholic beverages in rap music videos (i.e. Pass the Courvoisier): YES WE CAN!
I have no problems with Barack Obama because I understand the Game and Obama understands it and played it well. But can the rest of the 40 million Blacks play it as well as Obama? Don't put everything on Barack! That ain't fair! He did his part now what are YOU (the People) going to do? Are you going to simply revel in Barack's and Michelle's success while you live a mediocre and insignificant life not making a dent in this society or world and just work a 9 to 5 and party on the weekends, go to church every Sunday (to only hear about Jesus but to never "act" out or "live" Jesus), try and get your side hustle on just to make ends meet (pay bills), etc. Oh, so you're cool with this kind of existence? Oh, you're exercising your free will? Really! Well let me ask you this: are you following your heart? Are you doing what YOU want to do? Are you doing your higher self/soul's purpose? This is something you may want to think about and fast!
Obama, the radical Djehuty Ma'at-ra wants a law passed to prevent these goddamn U.S. corporations from leaving American soil unless 60% of their jobs are in the U.S. The unemployment scene in the U.S. is horrible and corporations are partly responsible. These goddamn corporations pack up shop and go to poor countries and exploit the people over there and get products made for cheap and then sell them at high ass astronomical prices to the collectively dumb American people who are consumerist whores who are too dumb to not purchase a goddamn thing from any corporation that shut down shop in America and headed to a poor country. You don't like my calling Americans consumerist whores? Well check out the DVDs: "The Story of Stuff" by Annie Leonard; "The Overspent American" by Juliet Schor (visit
www.meanmore.com) and "In Debt We Trust" (
www.indebtwetrust.org).
Obama, if the federal government can give $700 billion to corporations, then the government can give $70 billion to bailout small businesses that go out of business far quicker than any corporation. After all, it's SUPPOSEDLY our tax dollars the government is spending on big bailouts (though we know our federal tax dollars don't even go on one thing in this corporation/country as Aaron Russo showed us in "America: Freedom to Fascism" and as former president Ronald Reagan publicly admitted back in 1986). But hey, we're playing the Game! It's our goddamn money so we have some say so (or do we really?).
If we can spend $700 billion on a few corporations to bail them out, I know we can afford FREE college education in this country or give these colleges $70 billion for the next 10 years to drastically cut down college tuition so most Americans can attend college for a 2/4ths the rate at present. Better yet, if the government can bail out a few corporations, why not bail out the American people who STILL have college grant/loans debt hanging over their heads? I personally know a lot of people who are still paying on school/college loans despite being out of college for 10-15 years and not even in a career that they obtained a degree in and got in debt over in the first place.
You see, I have no time for the bullshit being legally and politically astute (and I never went to college either)! I have a duty as a Citizen to be legally and politically astute lest I become enslaved by my servant (government). I know what this country needs to progress (on all levels) and so do many other astute individuals, but do we really want progress, especially if we don't know what to demand from government? Maybe people are just afraid of true freedom, personal responsibility and accountability, sovereignty, etc. Maybe this is the case! Maybe it feels good to have someone else do everything for you (despite it leading to atrophy). But hey, there's a maxim that goes: "He who does it for you can do it to you!"
Don't look at if what I'm saying is radical! If it's radical and legal but good for the people and thus the country: DO THAT SHIT! Period!
America can prosper as a de jure government. YES WE CAN!
America can prosper without a central bank (it did for over a hundred years). YES WE CAN!
America can prosper with free healthcare for all citizens. YES WE CAN!
America can prosper with free education! YES WE CAN!
America can prosper with a military/defense budget half the size it is now and for half the money we spend on national defense. YES WE CAN! We are the biggest terrorists to the world and our own nation. Let's keep shit real! America not a terrorist unto itself? I dare you to watch the DVD "Loose Change, 2nd edition," "The Reflecting Pool," and "In their Own Words" (
www.meanmore.com). "Why We Fight" is another exceptional video I recommend.
Presidents play a role in keeping war going for the International Bankers who profit from war (see "War Made easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Shinning Us To Death"). Will Obama too play a role in keeping war going? Will the war in Iraq switch to Afghanistan? Will there not be a single war in the next 4-8 years? keep your eyes open! Will Obama's Christian ethics ("Thou Shalt Not Kill") prevail over politics? Have you ever wondered, how come we can't follow our religious convictions in politics? Why does politics (man) rule supreme over religion (God)?
We can prosper with a national minimum wage of $8.50 (for starters). YES WE CAN!
We can prosper with government protecting us without the citizens having to lose or give up their civil liberties and constitutionally protected rights. YES WE CAN! (see the video "Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties" visit
www.disinfo.com)
We can prosper without a national drug war that costs $18 billion per year that uses Blacks and poor people as scape goats to justify the phony war on drugs that hurts Black people more than any other people in the U.S. YES WE CAN! (see "American Drug War" at
www.meanmore.com). We can take that $18 billion and use it to get drug addicts help in drug rehab centers. I mean, let's keep it real: drugs will always be in America because government (C.I.A.) brings the shit in via military cargo planes and Air America (C.I.A. privately owned fleet of airplanes).
Can we pull an "Eagle Eye" (great movie, by the way) on the government? YES WE CAN!
So now let us become disciples of the Lord and Savior Barack Obama!
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Obama!"
LOL!!!! Just having some fun but I'm very serious about my above words. They CAN be applied! But folks must become legally and politically astute! We as people/citizens can not leave law and politics up to politicians, judges, and lawyers. We just can't!
Listen, corporations get from government because they give to government (via lobbyists) so they receive pursuant to demands from government. Great video on corporations is: "The Corporation" (
www.zeitgeistvideo.com" scroll down to "Bestsellers")
The people allegedly give to government (via tax dollars, tribute, forced taxation under duress) but don't receive because they don't demand. It is legislators who choose what propositions the people will vote on in election years, but you never have any propositions that will make real change, like propositions that will end the Franchise Tax Board, Capital Gains Tax, Tax on Property and Labor (income tax, remember 0% of collected taxes goes to support the government: watch "America: Freedom to Fascism"), etc.
Most Americans are suffering financially and just think if citizens could keep that 40% of their salary the government steals via federal income taxes and F.I.C.A. Forty percent is a lot of money (regardless of how much money you make on your job). I'm willing to believe that if government was to really do right by people that people (citizens) wouldn't mind giving government 15-20% of their saved 40% which used to go on federal income taxes (which are 100% unconstitutional when you know law - which most Americans don't which is why they are paying the illegal tax via voluntary participation in the first place). Your money via your salary is being stolen (see "The Money Masters: How Banks Create the World's Money" visit themoneymasters.com)
Thomas Jefferson said it best: "No people can be free and ignorant at the same time!" The average American (U.S. citizen) is not free and/or prosperous today because they are ignorant. Period! Don't think so? Watch "The Cause and Effect of Hijacking Humanity" visit
www.theCauseOfEffect.com or
www.meanmore.com
Now before you get mad at me for all of the above see if you know all 10 Amendments to the Bill of Rights as well as your State's Constitution's Article of Rights by memory. Many people can quote rap lyrics but not their secured state and federal constitutional rights and you wonder why we have lost most of our civil liberties? We're still free? You better watch "Cause and Effect of Hijacking Humanity," "The Money Masters," and "Unconstitutional."
Alright folks, I've made you mad enough so I better bounce from the scene for a while.
Check out Paris' latest albums "Acid Reflex" "Hard Truth Soldiers, Vol.1" "Rebirth of a Nation (Public Enemy), and "Sonic Jihad" visit
www.guerillafunk.com! Paris is giving us what we're missing in hip hop: HARD TRUTH
A few recommend videos (DVDs) from my private collection to stimulate your mind and to better understand my words and views above:
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price
The Made For TV Election
The Reflecting Pool
American Blackout
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need To Change Course
The Cause and Effect of Hijacking Humanity
War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Shinning Us To Death
Why We Fight
The Future of Food
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Manufacturing Consent
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Who Killed the Electric Car
The Money Masters: How Banks Creates the World's Money
Zeitgeist
America: Freedom to Fascism
American Drug War: The Last White Hope
The Corporation
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Militainment, Inc.: Militarism & Pop Culture
The Story of Stuff
Out-Foxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Blood and Oil
Bush Family Fortunes
American Jobs
Generation M: Misogyny in Media and Culture
Challenges For Democracy: The Future of Voting in America
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video
Earthlings
Sicko
Control Room
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
The Capitalist Conspiracy
Oil, Smoke & Mirrors
In Their Own Words: The Untold Story of the 9/11 Families
9/11 Press For Truth
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
In Debt We Trust
Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties
The Persuaders: Americans Are Swimming in A Sea of Messages
Fahrenheit 9/11
Super Size Me!
Hidden Dangers in Kid's Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods
JFK II: The Bush Connection
When The Levees Broke: Hurricane Katrina
Visit meanmore.com for most of these videos!"
If you have difficulty locating any video, you can contact me at:
www.Dherbs.com ("Ask the Herbalist")
Peace!
Djehuty Ma'at-Ra