(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been made increasingly clear over recent months that when World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-6, 26 KO’s) takes to his Twitter account it is done with drama in mind.

Floyd Mayweather Jr has been successful at staying relevant through his Twitter’s, mainly to his arch rival World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s). Floyd Mayweather Jr. has also been successful at shifting the blame from himself to team Pacquiao as the reason the much anticipated Mega fight between himself and Manny has not happened. And make no mistake Floyd Mayweather Jr’s tweets are effective at conning his fans.

Last November, prior to Pacquiao’s fight with lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KO’s) the Floyd Mayweather Jr camp reserved the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas for May 5 with a fighter they ambiguously referred to as the “Little Fella”. Of course boxing fans and writers assumed that the “Little Fella” referred to was Manny Pacquiao.

When “Pacman” put in a sub par performance against Marquez, a fighter that Floyd had basically shut out, the Floyd Mayweather Jr camp seemed to be emboldened and more interested in taking on Manny than it had been previously.

The tweets by Floyd Mayweather Jr increased. When Floyd Mayweather Jr. tweeted Manny a few weeks ago telling him “step up punk!” Floyd Mayweather Jr’s fans were overjoyed that their hero was calling Pacquiao out.

A couple of days ago when Floyd Mayweather Jr revealed that his May 5th opponent would be WBA light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) and not Manny Pacquiao, it was reported on PhilStar.com that Floyd tweeted Manny saying:

“I’m fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5 because Miss Pac Man is ducking me.”

Pacquiao for his part has remained calm and refuses to be drawn into a Tweeting war.

Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz was quoted also by PhilStar.com regarding his negotiations with Mayweather saying:

“I thought we made a reasonable, fair offer. The last offer given to him was a $50 million guarantee with a 45-55 split, with the winner taking the extra 10 percent. He had other plans obviously so I wish him luck and we are going to move on. We’re not devastated by the fact that we are not fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr.”

Koncz made note of the fact that his talks with Floyd Mayweather Jr were cordial. Koncz also said that initially he kept his conversations with Mayweather private and only went public when Foyd went to his Twitter account to accuse Pacquiao of ducking him.

It goes without saying that boxing is now a very big business. The Pacquiao – Floyd Mayweather Jr fight had promised to bring in some $200,000 million in revenue. Both fighters would easily eclipse anything they had earned from any previous fight. And if you were serious about negotiating such a huge business deal why would you attempt to negotiate the deal through your Twitter account? And why would you reserve a venue without first contacting Team Pacquiao? Floyd Mayweather Jr would never let anyone shove anything of such importance as the venue and the date down his throat.

And why would Floyd Mayweather Jr turn down a Mega deal which gives him $50 million up front and 45/55 deal with the winner (presumably Floyd Mayweather Jr) getting the extra 10 percent?

Forget the ludicrous argument that Pacquiao does not deserve a 50/50 split. That is utter nonsense when you consider that Manny’s Pay Per View (PPV) buys for his last three fight exceed Mayweather’s. In Manny’s recent fights he has also sold out the venue’s where Floyd has come up short.

This all from a boxing writer who is pretty sure that Floyd Mayweather Jr would come out on top in a Floyd Mayweather Jr – Pacquiao fight.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The majority of the Republican candidates are focused on the Nevada Republican caucuses Saturday, but Texas congressman Ron Paul’s campaign is also looking for a win in the Maine Republican caucuses.

The Maine Republican caucuses start Saturday February 4th, and last until February 11th. It is one of the only states where voting will occur over a seven day time period, and Mr. Paul is the only candidate to have conducted recent on the ground campaigning in Maine.

There are a total of 24 delegate votes up for grabs in Maine, however, the Maine Republican Party does not distribute their delegate votes until their annual convention in May.

Ron Paul’s campaign is focusing on courting voters in states where delegate votes are distributed proportionally, so that he can make a case for the nomination at the Republican National Convention in August. Candidates need 1,144 delegate votes to win the nomination, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads the race thus far with 74 votes.

Last weekend Ron Paul made six campaign appearances during a two day campaign swing in Maine, and saw good sized crowds, as his rival candidates were focusing on Florida. The Texas congressman ( Ron Paul ) said the interest of Maine voters in his campaign was “phenomenal,” in an appearance on CNN last Sunday. He believes that Mr. Romney is the most popular candidate in Maine, but that he might be able to pull off an upset victory there.

“I’d even give him a chance of winning (the Maine caucus) if he can get his supporters organized,” said Jim Melcher, an associate professor of political science at the University of Maine at Farmington in an email to the Lewiston Sun Journal last week. “Being the only major candidate to campaign here recently won’t hurt, either.”

As of Friday, the RealClearPolitics.com poll average showed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich holding a slight lead over Mr. Romney in Maine.

It is unclear how much impact the results of the Maine Republican caucuses will have on the race going forward though, considering that CNN reported just 5,500 voters attended Republican caucuses in Maine for the 2008 presidential election.

“The caucuses here are kind of a hard sell,” said Michael Quatrano, executive director of the state GOP, United Press International reports. “We’re a very liberal state.”

Maine is similar to New Hampshire, as Mr. Romney enjoys regional popularity there. The large presence of independent voters in Main though could prove to be an advantage for Ron Paul. The Texas congressman did very well with independent voters in the New Hampshire Republican primary election, where he came in second place.

Ron Paul 2012 campaign still marches on, as his devoted followers admire such a strong man. Ron Paul will make sure all us citizens voices are heard. 2012 Ron Paul the man of the people. Ron Paul 2012 – Ron Paul 2012.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Kym Worthy is a celebrated Wayne County prosecutor who is most noted for her prosecution of former Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. When pressed by Kilpatrick supporters about why she was being so relentless in going after the mayor, Worthy began making public statements about how no man is above the law. If that is true, it seems quite odd that her office has failed to prosecute those responsible for the horrific 2007 Runyon Street slayings.  Is it possible that Kym Worthy is part of the corruption that has plagued Detroit while pretending that she above it?

Davontae Sanford was a 14 yr.-old mentally and physically disabled teen when he was convinced/coerced by his attorney at the time, Bob Slameka, to pleading guilty to the Runyon Street slayings when all evidence pointed to Sanford’s innocence.  Davontae Sanford has been imprisoned for the killings a little over four years of his 40 year sentence. Slameka, according to critics, is a prime example of attorneys who do not do everything in their power to help  their clients but instead only seek to take short cuts to get a case over quickly so they can increase their volume of business.  According to records obtained by NPR, Slameka has been reprimanded by the Michigan Supreme Court for misconduct involving the cases of 16 of his clients. Yet, as NPR notes, Wayne County, Kym Worthy’s county, keeps appointing him as a public defender when Slameka arguably should not be allowed to practice law period.  Perhaps the county uses public defenders like Slameka because it will increase the prosecutor’s office chances of getting plea deals and convictions.

Is Kym Worthy’s office engaged in a cover up and it certainly appears that way too many, then the question is why? Why would Wayne County’s prosecutors cover up the confession of Vincent Smothers to the Runyon Street slayings and why do they continue to allow a disabled teenager to be framed for the crime? Why do they have a weapon used in the slayings in their possession which was recovered from a suspect’s home, Ernest Nemo Davis, whom Smothers has named as his accomplice, but has failed to charge either with the crimes? Smothers has confessed to the Runyon Street slayings numerous times and once gave his attorney permission to testify in his stead at a hearing for Davontae Sanford, which the prosecutor’s office objected to because it would be hearsay. However, Smothers has confessed to the Runyon Street slayings yet again, this time to Associated Press writer Ed White but what is different this time around is that Smothers told White that he would be willingly to go to court, take the stand and testify that he does not know and has never met Davontae Sanford that Sanford was not part of the Runyon Street slayings in 2007 for which he (Smothers) is guilty.

While one can only speculate as to why Smothers is finally ready to clear Davontae Sanford of the terrible crime he and an accomplice committed. Perhaps Smothers developed a conscious and wants to try to atone for his life of crime and does not want to see a young Black male, like so many others, spend time in prison for crimes for which they are innocent. Perhaps he was moved by letters from supporters of Davontae Sanford who wrote him in prison encouraging him to do the right thing and clear Davontae Sanford in court. Whatever the reason, the Sanford family is grateful but yet fearful that something might happen to Smothers to keep him from testifying and clearing Davontae.  It is not every day that a hit man confesses to his crimes and the fact that the Wayne County prosecutor’s office knows about the multiple confessions and has in its possession evidence implicating another man, it makes one wonder about what Kym Worthy or others in her office have to hide? Why have they continued to oppose Sanford’s innocence in court and failed to bring the real perpetrators of the Runyon Street slayings to justice?

Kym Worthy and her office have a lot of questions to answer.  She owes the Sanford family answers, the people of Detroit and Wayne County and most importantly, the victim’s families of the Runyon Street slayings. Considering all these questions, if Kym Worthy is re-elected, the people of Wayne County will have questions to answer about why they continue to allow corruption to rule their communities.

Staff Writer; Scotty Reid

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(ThyBlackMan.com) “The World Teaches You How to Make His Nature Rise; I’d like to Teach You How to Make Him Rise into His Nature”

Sisters I know that Ebony, Cosmo and whatever other magazine that you faithfully read tells you how to seduce a man, how to drive him crazy sexually, how to entice him and they lead you to believe that by doing all of those things, you will be his woman. While they teach you how to make his nature rise, I’d like to teach you how to make him rise into his nature (God).

Let me break a few things down. Having sex with a man, doesn’t make you his woman, it just makes you a woman he had sex with.  Whatever/wherever you intentionally appeal to is what you will receive. You appeal to the lower nature of a man, that’s exactly what you will get. Nothing more; nothing less.

Sisters, are you telling me that all you have to offer a man is your womb?  You think your sex is kryptonite and will just render a man helpless right? After you make his nature rise then what? After the act is over; then what? What are we left with besides stained sheets?  Your womb does NOT come with an iron  clad guarantee Sisters! Having sex with a man doesn’t guarantee marriage, security, or stability, what it will guarantee is continued emotional and mental wear and tear on our bodies, minds and spirit.  Why is that we seek advice or instruction from those types of magazines when the BEST instructions resides in the Bible? Does the Bible not speak on the importance of a virtuous woman? Is not her price far above rubies? So why are we cheapening ourselves?

Since so many of us focus on making his nature rise, let’s talk about “nature“.  We were made in God’s image right? So the nature of God is in US. What is HIS (a man’s) nature?  A man’s nature is to protect, maintain, secure, defend and provide.  Sisters, you think a man will protect us, secure us, defend and provide for us all because we creatively brought him to an orgasm? What did you offer besides pleasure?  What can he expect from you, outside of making him FEEL GOOD?  You think a man marries a woman solely based on the fact that he can have sex with her? No a man marries a woman he can MAKE LOVE to and WITH. By making love I mean when a woman introduces a man to her mind and he falls IN LOVE with it, when a woman introduces a man to her spirit and he falls in LOVE with it, when a woman introduces a man to her character and he falls in LOVE with it when a woman shows she is a woman of God and he falls in LOVE WITH her because he sees God in her.  He loves her enough to “make” her his wife, to “make “a future, to create children with her, that’s “making love“.

Now what is YOUR nature Sister?  A woman’s nature is to nurture, console, support, and comfort.  Women were created to be HELPMEETS. That means that we HELP our husbands to achieve their fullest potential, we HELP our husbands reach their goals, We HELP them be GODLY men, by being GODLY women FIRST.  When we help our Men “rise” into the thinking of God, it is then we will experience TRUE ascension.  Your womb wasn’t created as an “incentive” or a bargaining tool for marriage, your womb is the privilege AFTER marriage has already taken place.

Men need to be fed mentally, spiritually and emotionally as well. As much you think he wants a freak, at the core of his essence he wants a woman with substance. I know this world tells you that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach or lower desires….but I can definitely tell you it is through the path less traveled….”his mind”. When a man seeks a wife, he probes her MIND more than anything else, because while he realizes that in her womb is where his legacy will be cultivated; he further realizes that in her mind is where his legacy will be CONCEIEVED.

“A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Woman“.  So Sisters, let’s rise from the bedroom. Let’s rise above our waistlines. When WE rise, so does HE. When WE lie down so does HE. We can’t have vertical outcomes with horizontal thinking and actions. There is only so much we can accomplish on our backs. Contrary to what you’ve been taught, a man wants his MIND BLOWN…above anything else. Your brain is your most powerful muscle…learn how to work that!

Staff Writer; Nojma Muhammad

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Alas, another Black History Month, or as the left likes to view it, their annual “Opportunity To Exploit Race Month”. It is the month in which liberals attempt to convince us that race relations in America have progressed very little since the days of police unleashing dogs on civil rights activists.

Rather than presenting a balanced honest look at Black History, leftist school teachers and the media say America is still racist and whites should feel eternally guilty. Also included in the left’s message is that blacks must continue to vote monolithic for Democrats in order to keep rich white Republican racists at bay. Yes, for the most part, Black History Month is a propaganda tool of the Democratic party.

Black history is woven with remarkable blacks who strove for excellence and  achieved major success. Knowledge of such black pioneers would inspire black youths and help them realize how blessed they are to be born in America; the greatest land of opportunity on the planet.

America is unique in that you can grow beyond your family history and humble beginnings. Most folks around the world are destine to walk in their parents foot steps. If your dad was a peasant worker, you will be a peasant worker.

In American, countless hugely successful blacks came from humble beginnings. This is why it so offends me to hear black politicians and the media constantly telling blacks that they are not functioning in an equal playing field. Such rhetoric inspires resentment, hopelessness and a “why should I try” attitude in black youths. Consequently, 70% of black youths drop out of high school and many enter a life of crime. These self serving black politicians are selling their lie to black America solely for political reasons; to keep blacks voting for their supposed saviors and avengers, the democrats.

Allow me to address this “equal playing field” trap. Folks, “nothing” in life is equal or totally fair. I am sorry, but some folks are born thin and beautiful. In some cases, they may have an advantage. But in regards to minorities not having opportunity, there is not enough racism in America today to stop anyone from achieving anything. To blacks who “want” to believe America is systematically keeping them down, I say stop whining, making excuses, get up off of your butt and go for your dreams.

It drives me crazy hearing black and white liberal intellectuals discussing the problems in the black community without any references to blacks taking personal responsibility for their behavior/choices. Every solution offered by the left to deal with urban black issues revolve around more taxpayer spending and more failed government programs. And no discussion of problems in the black community would be complete without including the classic excuse “it’s the white man’s fault”, thrown in for good measure.

Now, I know some blacks reading this article will respond like a black radio show host did while interviewing me, “Sounds like you don’t like your own people”. Wrong! I say these things because as a Christian, I love, not just blacks, but all people. And I want what is best for them.

While some blacks may find comfort and think it racially loyal to keep blaming “whitey” for everything, black youths are going to h— in a hand basket. Blacks have epidemic school dropouts, 70 percent out-of-wed births and half of black babies are aborted via an organization founded on racism, Planned Parenthood. Blacks are actively involved in a self induced genocide.

This is why I do not give a hoot about what black racists and self-serving poverty-pimp politicians think of me for suggesting my fellow blacks assume responsibility for their own lives. Lives are at stake.

Ironically, liberals claim to want black empowerment. News flash, personal responsibility IS black empowerment!

Here’s a little of my personal black history. Back in the 70s when I was in my mid twenties, I repented from my life of drugs, sex and rock and roll to become a born-again Christian. My desire to share the “good news” of my new relationship with Christ lead me to prisons to minister to inmates. I was struck by the high number of gifted and talented blacks who were incarcerated solely because of their negative attitudes. Thank you Democratic Party.

Black History Month should not just feature “how America done us wrong”. It should also celebrate the greatness of our extraordinary nation and how both blacks and whites sacrificed blood, sweat and tears to make things right. Rather than Black History Month being exploited as a divisive tool for extortion, allow the truth of our history to bring people together.

Staff Writer; Lloyd Marcus

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Riddlemethis? Would the Government or Obama administration arrest banking Presidents/CEOs and seize their assets because it contained the money of drug kingpins? Would the Government or Obama administration arrest and seize the assets of red W. Smith, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Express because their truck may transport 10 kilograms of cocaine or a warehouse may contain 20 tons of marijuana? I don’t thinks so.

It is obvious that the Federal Government do not have the gonads to tackle corruption and white collar crime objectively. Just last week, an action reminiscent of Elliot Ness pouring beer into a river occurred when the FBI and Justice Department seized the website Mega Upload accusing the owner of causing $500 million in copyright infringements. My query is why is doing  the work of the motion picture and recording industries more vital than the work of the people?

Either Congress or the President is so brazen or so cretinous, that they cannot envisage what they are doing me their efforts to censor the website Mega upload. Maybe a little bit of bot now that I think about it. Brazen because it is pronounced their actions are mainly taken on the bequest of the motion picture and recording industry lobbies. Stupid because most politicians prefer to brag on their ignorance on internet technologies and their low level use of such resources that attempting to learn more about the – a myopia more prescient of Washington politicians dysfunction than seeing the desires and needs of the common, non-super Pac affiliated US denizen.

The Obama administrations seizure of the site and the owner’s assets is more an attestation and forewarning of America’s fascist future of protecting US oligarchs than the penchant of protecting liberty. I mean really, going after a site and using the FBI and department of Justice Resources for what is basically a cloud-based repository for data storage, is like the examples I cited in the beginning of this essay.

No bank or Delivery company or website can track all of the user lot, packages or uploaded data which it hosts. To assume that one could, is silly. Meaning – to arrest the site’s founders under the assumption that they knowingly participated in copyright infringement, is moronic if we’re blaming site owners for user uploaded content now, we’d better start arresting people affiliated with all industries from YouTube to Bank of America (THEY HAVE MORE THAN $1 BILLION IN TOXIC ASSETS).

Now I know inside the belt way folks don’t understand. As an artist, mega upload allows me to get 90% on all the music I write, make and produce without the need of a record company gatekeeper who wants to Romanesquly decide for the public if they should hear or have the right to purchase my music. Not to mention this 90% on every dollar made allows them to get my music for free.

Maybe it is about the loot. Former Democratic senator and current head of the Motion Picture Association of America Chris Dodd have given tons of loot to the campaign of President Barack Obama. DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg raised at least $500,000 for the campaign and the Democratic National Committee and contributed $2 million to a super PAC backing the president was his biggest donor. Not to mention the zillion times the President has held fund raisers held by Hollywood big wigs the likes of Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein and Sony Pictures .

I also think that we have ignorant folks making laws and talking about things they have no honest understanding about. I’m sure there are large numbers of individuals inside the beltway like Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as “a series of tubes,” or Rep. Mel Watt who proudly asserts that declares proudly that he doesn’t understand internet/computer technology.

The truth is that a host of variables and factors are involved with the recent and present this financial crisis including everyone from the rating agencies, the bankers and the brokers, and that there is strong evidence for criminal culpability. However, no Wall Street banker wreaking havoc via their exotic derivatives has been charge criminally. What Madoff did to individual investors is what the mortgage & banking industries and Wall Street did to the US taxpayer and the US economy. No one from Goldman Sachs, Lehman’s, Countrywide, Citi, AIG, Bea Sterns or Wachovia just to name a few have been charged criminally or prosecuted by the Obama Administration. Why because we do not count and although the majority of Americans would see greater value in using the FBI and department of Justice Resources by going after criminals that looted $100s of millions and even billions of dollars, congress and Obama do not have the gonads to do such and wag the dog by going after mega uploads $42 million.

Wall Street controls D.C. As long as the financial companies can donate as many dollars as they have been to both sides of the aisle, you will see little in the way of reform of the financial sector and even less in the way of prosecution of wrong-doers. Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild was correct when he said, “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws”.

Staff Writer; Torrance Stephens 

(ThyBlackMan.com) A number of newsworthy events have transpired within the past week that have shaken our confidence in parents and children of urban, uncultured hood rats, as some see them. Take another look. But by the grace of God, some of us would see our own reflection. How many of you have subscribed to the notion that, “It takes a village to raise a child,” or better yet, “let the change begin with me.” Please do not misinterpret what I am saying here to conclude that youth violence, parent apathy or black on black crime in general is acceptable in urban centers (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit etc.) of America, however, my next question would be, “What have you done personally to stem the tide of violence?”

 As stated in the title of my recently published book, Not All Teachers Are Parents, But All parents Are Teachers!  Parents serve as “role models” sometimes by default and are, at all times, worthy of expressing and receiving empathy.  It is an acquired art and not to be confused with sympathy.  Rather,  it is the ability to be “in touch” with other members of the human race—the only race in our quest for distinction as parents in a progressive society.  Empathy then is the ability to put us in someone else’s position.  As a parent, for example through empathy, we can begin to feel and understand another’s pain or pleasure, as well as their misfortune.  As a democratic society, we must recognize the importance of having a high degree of empathy for low income and disadvantaged youths whose parents may not have the capability to deal with challenges and opportunities that some of us take for granted. Some parents, for example, are not in control of the forces, culturally and economically, that bind them.

As a product of the North Lawndale community, I have seen it change for the better and worse.  After graduating college I turned down numerous lucrative job offers in the private sector in order to “give back to my community.” I decided to teach in the inner city simply because there was a need. Frustration sets in for me when violence takes the life of an aspiring young Chicago Public Schoolstudent and the mayor asks the thought provoking question, where were the parents of the perpetrator?  Knowing the whereabouts of delinquent, unrepentant or non performing parents will not solve the problem of violence, crime or disruptive behavior in and of itself. A better question would be, “Have we done as much as we can as a society to help them hone their parenting skills? Literacy for wayward parents is the predominant equalizing factor, in my view.

Parents of children enrolled in schools in urban centers through out America play an important role in a child’s development, education, and general well-being.  Although these children may have come from homes that are culturally, socially, or economically disadvantaged, parents must realize that they are guaranteed access, by law, to a free and worthwhile education in our nation’s public school systems, whether they are homeless, living in shelters, or any of a number of other transitional living arrangements.  This includes parents with high school diplomas or GED’s with children who are in elementary, middle, or high school.  If you are a parent that never finished high school, you can still better yourself and your child by setting high goals through the schools and a host of community based social-service agencies. A faith based perspective is a great start, however, nothing ventured, nothing gained!  Parents are the guiding light for the success or failure of their children.

The research that has proven this point was part of the background used in my book, Not All Teachers Are Parents, But All Parents Are Teachers! The research also tells us that dysfunctional and broken families are least likely to be successful if there is no system in place to address the problems facing parents raising children in urban America.

The next time you see or hear of a problem perpetrated by youth in the community don’t ask where is the parent? Ask yourself “What more can I do to affect a positive solution?

Staff Writer; Stanley G. Buford

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Don Cornelius was my uncle. No, he wasn’t my grandmother’s brother or some dude that grew up with my grandfather, but he was a member of my family. He came to my home every week, bearing gifts, dropping jewels and genuinely seemed to take an interest in our condition. Yeah, it was through a television screen, but he was as much a part of my family as Uncle Martin Luther King Jr.

I nearly swerved off of the rode when I heard that Don Cornelius was not only found dead, but apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. I immediately thought of what sort of pain he was in to have taken his own life at such an advanced stage in life, what private hell tormented him so to commit  such a public act? My heart dropped, because he’s family, yours and mine and that’s how you feel when someone who’s influenced your life in such a unique passes.

(ThyBlackMan.com) On February 13, 2012, renowned actor Laurence Fishburne will narrate a PBS documentary, Slavery By Another Name. The documentary will show that slavery in America did not end in 1865 with the Emancipation Proclamation as the majority of people have been led to believe.  Rather, with the federal government’s quiet complicity, slavery actually ensued for almost another 100 years with all of the evil, horror, and brutal aspects of race-hate escalating to even greater heights.

To maintain the status quo in society, the South’s judicial system was wholly reconfigured, and one of its primary purposes was to coerce African Americans to comply with the social customs and labor demands of whites by any means necessary. As such, the spirit and ways of life under slavery, as well as the inferior mentalities, also continued; and now, even at the hand of the Black community.

Whatever “education” and deformed self-image the slave master imposed upon blacks during slavery has persisted, and been handed down—by Blacks—throughout the generations. The continued self-hatred and minute or unfound self awareness that permeates throughout the Black community is a direct  result of 400-plus years of mind control.

The mentality or beliefs that the majority of African Americans presently and voluntarily adhere to is the same unfortunate policy of inferiority and self-hatred Blacks were forced to subscribe to when enslaved: Anyone who is convinced his or her past is empty, backward, shameful or, indeed, totally negative, will normally resist any attempt to revisit that past. Such a person will have no true identity, despise self, and have no real awareness of his/her culture and heritage. This same person will refuse to consciously participate in or relate to any cultural customs, and will resist any attempt to validate any “facts” discovered. They remain in the darkness, helpless, and dependent. The doctrine hasn’t changed one bit.

In order to correct the problem, Blacks must consciously and sub-consciously realize that what they were taught was not for their liberation, but was and still is only in the best interest of the ruling class. History translates into “his-story”—the manner in which one understands or interprets history from his or her own perspective to his or her own benefit. Today, Blacks are living witnesses as to how real black history has been—by “his-story”—distorted, misleading, deceptive and mind controlling. 

American history teaches that slavery ended in 1865; this misinformation is a blatant example of how the truth can be and is tampered with to seemingly save face for America, “the dream country”. However, the obvious suppression of or disregard for such a critical piece of American history makes one question what other aspects of history, in general, have the people been lied to and deceived about.

Evidence all around the world suggests that Black civilizations were far more advanced than the images portrayed to the black community by the ruling class. The ruling class would have Black America believe that the Black race is limited to huts, spears and jungle life with no trace of civility, culture, organization, and self-sufficiency.  Research exposes this as a gross fabrication.

Further, Black America must confront and correct the lies that have destroyed the group as a people. With the exception of the Black man’s image as presented by academics, the average African American knows very little, if anything at all, about his or her African heritage, and has, more than likely, been misinformed. The American-born black man and black woman are completely brainwashed beings who only know, recognize and comprehend or experience what their slave master has decided for them. It’s incumbent upon Black America—as a group—to liberate their own minds.

Secular and non-secular people who have spent centuries strategically and heinously orchestrating the black community’s physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual enslavement are not going to just turn around and set Blacks free; Blacks must remove the shackles of mental enslavement themselves.

Consider a white hunter who sets out to capture a baby elephant. He approaches a baby elephant and its mother.  Sensing danger, the mother charges at the hunter who raises his rifle, pulls the trigger, and kills the charging elephant.  The baby elephant is captured, tranquilized, and with a cable wrapped around its neck, taken into captivity where it is tied to a post. For five years, it remained tied to that post even though it is now full grown and could have uprooted the post at any time. However, the elephant did not realize it possessed this strength as it had been trained to accept enslavement and that bondage was the norm. Finally, one day, it unintentionally broke free of the cable, and rather than scuffling off, the elephant chose to remain close to the post even though it was now free.

The elephant elected captivity, which is unnatural, because it was so accustomed to being tied down and stuck in one spot. This story is analogous to Black America’s predicament and its use of the n-word. Black Americans’ use of the n-word is a result of being conditioned, programmed and trained to carry out the bidding of a manipulative racist society.    

There are many Black African Americans who really do not want or know how to be free, for with freedom come accountability and responsibility. Just as White America continued promoting slavery well after the Emancipation Proclamation—a supposed hard and immediate stop to all forms of slavery, the Black community has [also] allowed the slave mentality to continue: Blacks have continued to promote and keep alive the demise of the Black community and stifled progression by use of the n-word, which was created to hold blacks in an inferior place in society.  As such, this has caused learned helplessness, docility and passivity in the black community, keeping many Blacks cerebrally anesthetized no matter the extent of education attained.

Many Blacks have chosen not to move away from the post, and, frankly, that’s quite bewildering. How is it that so many in the black community have chosen to remain captive and stationary?  The RIGHT mix of KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, and WISDOM enables one to move away from that post and toward progress. These three essential components that are necessary for resurrection and empowerment are defined as:

1)     Knowledge: awareness of the facts, truth, and reality. Black America must undo fables, lies and fantasies.  Blacks as a people are more committed to fables, lies and fantasy than facts, truth and reality, which is a tremendous problem.

2)     Understanding: comprehending the “right” knowledge, and manifesting it into action. 

3)     Wisdom: the optimum combination of knowledge and understanding expressed in the ability to make things happen. 

Acquiring this enlightenment will automatically cause one to deviate from the norm and move away from that post or bondage. However, many remain captive because they have consciously chosen not to acknowledge and garner the elements needed for resurrection and empowerment.

Until African Americans as a group are ALL free, none are truly free. Need the name Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. be raised?  Or the 2004 political incident where the Black Caucus was virtually told to be quiet and sit down by a combined show of force from the Democrat and Republican parties?

Black America has taken non-black man made doctrines—rather, white man made doctrines—as the inflicting rule and guide over and above facts and reality.  Blacks have literally accepted that which does not even make sense as fact and truth.

The modern day equivalent of remaining tied to the post is to verbally acknowledge that you are a n**ger/n**ga.  The Whoopi Goldbergs, Sherri Shepherds, and Byron Pitts of television land could never publicly deny the n-word and keep their coveted positions. Embracing the word assures them of acceptance.  The irony of it all is that they are not feigning or doing it for show—they truly have accepted their so-called place as the n-word.

When listening to the lyrics of rap music, the n-word is used in the same context with violence, drugs, and misogyny. Rappers such as Jay Z, P. Diddy, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, and many others have all benefited exponentially by reassuring the systemic that they are doing their part of keeping Black America in its place and tied to the post. No longer is there a need for the hooded white sheets. Black ventriloquists have voluntarily replaced the KKK , and, to be perfectly honest, are doing a far more masterful job of maintaining the mental enslavement of the Black race. 

Black African Americans unhealthy willingness to self-sabotage serves as a testimony to the effectiveness of 400 years of mental abuse (mind control).  To overcome!  A process that never took place, must and needs to take place…DE-PROGRAMMING!

Staff Writer; H. Lewis Smith

This talented brother is the founder and president of UVCC, the United Voices for a Common Cause, Inc. ( http://www.theunitedvoices.com );  and author of “Bury that Sucka: A Scandalous Love Affair with the N-Word“.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) A recent report from Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser and Duke University professor Jacob Vigdor finds segregation against Blacks is at the lowest level since 1890. The study looked at census results dating back to 1890. The professors make their finding based on the black suburbanization, gentrification, access to credit, fair housing laws, and immigration. The research from the professors was released by the Manhattan Institute. The findings on their face look promising, but critics cautioned in interviews with USA Today that the study should not be seen as declaring the end of all segregation.

While the reports findings should give the country hope, I for one remain skeptical.

I don’t know if it’s expressly the election of President Obama as the nation’s first Black President, but there is a push now like never before for the United States to be post-racial. The push of course seems forced like this report from the Manhattan Institute that looks at gentrification and suburbanization as a complete positive for the state of race relations in the country. Granted, Brown University professor John Logan acknowledges that the decrease in  segregation via the housing market is one way only.

In an interview with USA Today Logan says:

“There are still no signs of whites moving into what were previously all-minority neighborhoods and there is still considerable white abandonment of mixed areas.”

But even one way desegregation as it’s explained in this report leaves much to be desired… as in the truth.

The Great Recession begun in December of 2007 was created by the collapse of the housing market. A housing market that was booming due to rising home prices, a Presidential administration pushing homeownership, and bankers lowering standards to allow people who would normally never be able to afford a home buy a home at a significantly discounted rate for a short period of time only. The initial mess was exacerbated by bankers bottom feeding to get in on the credit default swaps and derivatives market of the investment banking world that allowed financial institutions and their purveyors to make money off of someone else’s bad investment that turned out to be the world’s bad investment.

This system that led up to the near collapse of Wall Street left one group of people more disproportionately affected than others. The working poor and minorities, Blacks especially, who tried like hell to own a piece of the American dream only to find out later the price of dreams had been raised.

Blacks flight from inner cities to the suburbs has been as much about chasing the American dream as it is about gentrification. Take for example my hometown of Chicago. The image you see as the logo for this website is the shell of the Cabrini Green housing projects on the cities westside. They are no longer standing. Neither are the Robert Taylor Homes that once lined State Street. But those residents are still in the windy city. Some of them were relocated to available homes on the South Side and the West Side where there was some room. But many more were flooded into suburbs, into ready made communities full of subsidized HUD housing made just for them. This forced desegregation in some major cities has been a way to bring back majority populations to trendy neighborhoods of the inner city.

Where at one point living in the suburbs and driving a a long commute into the city was a sign of upward mobility, it is now a sign of sheer stupidity. Who the hell wants to live in the boonies and fill up the gas tank every three days or take commuter trains into work when they can live in the city and get around for two bucks.

The report from the Manhattan Institute is noble but it remains a disparate attempt at creating a kumbaya type of racial harmony in the United States that has yet to exist naturally on its own.

Strides have been made in tolerance and combatting racism and discrimination and prejudice; but just because a few large leaps of faithful belief in humanity have been made doesn’t mean we should be naïve to think we’ve made headlong dives into the deep end of accepting everyone as they are the way they are.

Do you think the Manhattan Institute report on the decrease in segregation is indicative of present-day America or an America to come?

Staff Writer; Nikesha Leeper

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