[cure-news] Foxworth: They do know what they do!

[Ida Hakim]

They do know what they do!

By Nilene Foxworth

IT is difficult to understand why a handful of European members of the 
religious group now visiting Zimbabwe, known as the Europe and African 
Reconciliation Church, find it necessary to repent for the sins of their 
European colonisers, who not only took the land from the indigenous 
people, but also took the lives of millions of indigenous Africans and 
African descendants who were shipped away from their homeland and 
treated like cattle being sold on the auction blocks of the Western world.

How can anyone expect African people to forgive them, when the holocaust 
still continues today? I have watched the Western world try to stagnate 
Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, and have continued different 
destabilisation tactics until today ? with high interest rates, 
inflation, sanctions, meddling in internal affairs, and the list goes on 
and on.

Blacks must never forget that Europeans came in a very deceitful 
religious manner (David Livingstone), who immediately began to rename 
African special and sacred places after his queen Victoria. He was told 
the indigenous name for the Mosi oa Tunya falls, but he ignored and 
disrespected the indigenous terminology to appease his queen. When his 
so-called religious exploration was concluded, the bullets of Cecil John 
Rhodes took over. Most of our people are very religious and spiritual; 
however, there is a very thin line between white illustrated Bibles and 
bullets of white interests.

The greatest strength of the colonisers and slave masters has been their 
ability to keep people of colour divided, ignorant and insensitive to 
important issues and problems of their own people. The brainwashing is 
so serious that many of our people believe that white problems are also 
our problems and that we should assist Europeans in their worldwide 
greed for power and wealth. Whites come with many different faces: 
smiling faces and religious faces, humanitarian faces; even academic 
faces, but usually a face to divert our progress as a people and/or 
neutralise our progressive goals. Blacks must study the faces well, but 
not always listen to what comes out of the mouth of the face -- but 
study what they systematically do.

Serious Black people of today, who have their indigenous African people 
at heart, would suggest that such religious groups as the European 
African Reconciliation group, go deal with the minds of their white 
powerful economic giants of this world, who became wealthy from the free 
slave labour and rich minerals of our homeland. They must tell them to 
pay us for our great loss. Yes, they have a large debt to pay as they 
spend billions and billions of dollars on wars worldwide. So, why should 
Blacks forgive them when they continue such acts of evil?

Our people are in the middle of a serious struggle to eradicate poverty 
and Aids ? both created by colonisers and their scientist maniacs to 
imprison the Black male and control our Black population growth. Asking 
Black people to forgive them for their sins is the most asinine request 
in history -- also an insult on our intelligence and integrity. When one 
sins, he or she must ask God to forgive them.

The third definition for the term "reconcile" in Webster?s New 
Collegiate Dictionary means to cause to submit to or accept something 
unpleasant. Blacks have been submitting to unpleasant things for many 
centuries. How many centuries must Blacks continue to forgive White 
people for their sins? Our religious leaders have forgiven them over and 
over again -- in the name of Jesus. Since childhood, I have heard them 
say: "Father forgive them for they know not what they do". Truth of the 
matter is: "They do know what they do! They distorted our history and 
our culture, and brainwashed our people to believe that everything black 
was negative and ugly, and until this day most educators refuse to teach 
attributes of the melanin factor in genetics/biology classes.

Thousands of black people have fought in the white man?s wars, and died 
at a very young and tender age, knowing very little about the wars 
created in the interest of the whites themselves. They have never kept 
an agreement when it comes to the land issue. When African-Americans 
were freed from the ruthless system of slavery, we were promised 40 
acres of land and a mule. The promise was never fulfilled. Many 
African-Americans today are requesting reparations for slavery, which 
was a heartless system of free labour, plus 400 years of unfair and 
racist intolerance. Today many indigenous people worldwide are fighting 
for their land, because land is the most precious thing a person can 
have. A very good example is Zimbabwe -- a very strong Black people who 
fought for their land -- and won! Then successfully completed its Land 
Reform Programme as of 2005.

It is a fact that Blacks are living in poverty around the world, and are 
still victims of European subjugation, hate, lynching and double 
standards. Racism in America is still overt, with thousands of Hurricane 
Katrina victims still homeless and devastated, as Black leaders continue 
to expose the evils of the American system, which allowed thousands of 
Black people to die due to little concern and negligence, according to 
many Black leaders struggling for equality and justice in the so-called 
most powerful country in the world.

Recently, a television producer and journalist named Tavis Smiley 
organised a historical forum called "State of Black America". The forum 
was made up of articulate and sensitive African-American scholars, who 
addressed issues dealing with the historical and contemporary state of 
Black America. Many statistics on the imbalances of black and white 
conditions were indeed shocking. Some conditions have not changed since 
1865. One of the most disgusting imbalances was the median net worth of 
US$5 900 for blacks and US$88 650 for whites. It is a pity that 
television, movies, entertainment and sports have concealed the real 
condition of African-Americans, 32 percent of whom have a zero or 
negative net worth.

Both Harry Belafonte and Louis Farrakhan advocated the dire need for 
African-Americans to become global -- something I tried to share in my 
books "Bury Me in Africa" and "African Pride". I have always said that 
our people must stop appeasing themselves with the colonial master?s 
false promise and fragmented forms of freedom and independence in the 
name of an integrated melting pot. We must keep our eyes focused on our 
future generations -- never to toss them to the enemy for any reason.
>From hakimida at reparationsthecure.org  Sun Sep 10 06:20:43 2006
From: hakimida at reparationsthecure.org (Ida Hakim)
Date: Sun Sep 10 06:15:28 2006
Subject: [cure-news] Landmark Reparations Case In Court  9/29/06
Message-ID: <4504031B.2070008 at reparationsthecure.org>

Landmark Reparations Case In Court - September 27, 2006

Oral arguments for the landmark slavery reparations cases against 
corporations will take place on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 in 
Chicago, Il.  The cases were filed by plaintiffs around the United 
States in 2002, and consolidated in a Federal Court in Chicago, 
Illinois.   Various corporations are defendants including: JP Morgan 
Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank of America, Aetna Inc., New York Life 
Insurance Company, and CSX railway (see complete list below*).

When:
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 9:30 a.m.

Where:
United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Illinois
219 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL

Case name: Farmer-Paellmann, et al v. Brown and Williamson

Case number: CV 05-3265

To see a clip on Cain Wall, one of the plantiffs in the case -- a 
108-year-old man who was enslaved in the United States until the 1960's, 
click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6yLcmGjeug
 
For footage from original case filing, click here: 
http://video.wtnh.com/news/2002/mar/clips/03262002-slave.ram
*Defendants include: Aetna Inc., American International Group (AIG), 
Lloyd's of London, New York Life Insurance Company, Southern Mutual 
Insurance Company, FleetBoston Financial Corporation (Bank of America), 
AFSA Data Corporation, Brown Brothers Harriman, JP Morgan Chase 
Manhattan Bank (Bank One), Lehman Brothers, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, 
Brown and Williamson, Liggett Group Inc., Loews Corporation (Lorrilard), 
Canadian National Railway, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern Corp., and 
Union Pacific Railroad.

Contact: Restitution Study Group: 917-365-3007 or paellmann at rcn.com

Case documents: www.onestudent.us