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Monday, March 26, 2012
Afrikaner Racism Is Still Alive Inside "Rainbow" South Africa
New VideoDoc: Afrikaner Blood
Thanx, in part, to South Africa's super conciliatory "Truth & Reconciliation Commission," rabid white supremacists are free to roam the nation spreading their racist hate without fear of reprisals. Groups like the KommandoKorps can exist and grow into strong paramilitary terrorist formations while ANC and its white liberal allies perform even more nervous hang-wringing rituals.
<<The shocking video Afrikaner Blood by Elles van Gelder and Ilvy
Njiokiktjien from the Netherlands has just won first prize in the World
Press Photo multimedia category. This slideshow comprises photographs of
young white South African teenagers who attend a holiday camp set up by
a right-wing racist group.>>Pambazuka News (pambazuka.org)
Multimedia production by
journalist/videographer Elles van Gelder & photojournalist Ilvy
Njiokiktjien about the right-wing organization Kommandokorps in South
Africa.
White South African teens wrestle with an uncertain identity.
An extreme right-wing group is teaching young Afrikaners to eschew
Nelson Mandela's vision of a multicultural rainbow nation. The fringe
group Kommandokorps, led by old-apartheid leader Franz Jooste, organizes
camps in school holidays where Afrikaner teenagers learn to defend
themselves against crime in South Africa. But that's not all. They learn
they are their own people - not South Africans but Afrikaners - that
shouldn't integrate in the new democratic South Africa.
Below is a teaser for the Akrikaner Blood documentary.
Uploaded to youtube.com by ilvynjio on Dec 11, 2011
Friday, March 16, 2012
Charter Schools Are Not the Answer to the US Black/Latino Education Crisis
Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable released the
following position paper on charter schools. The paper highlights that
most charter schools do not outperform traditional public schools; that
massive amounts of state funding would be diverted from traditional
public schools into privately-owned, privately-governed public-funded
charter schools; and that MS proposed charter schools bills do not
provide any meaningful parental engagement in the creation of the
schools, the governance of the schools, policy formation and
implementation in the schools, or meaningful participation in the
development of the culture of the schools. The paper also highlights
recommendations if authorizing charter schools cannot be avoided.
Boston U Students Speak Out About Affirmative Action
(including my Granddaughter- Nandi Anderson)
Sunday, March 04, 2012
New Orleans- A Case Study of Privatizing thru Charterizing
From Parents Across America - New Orleans Nightmare
Choice really means:
"Schools choose [students] and parents and children lose. We really don't have choice."
PAA's Karran Harper Royal at the inaugural PAA event on Monday night
share her experiences with the ed deform privatization scheme in New
Orleans where choice turns out to be between KIPP and KIPP.
"Charter schools' solution to school improvement is to change our students." "The principal became a CEO and her salary went from about $80,000 to $250 thousand."
See our future under ed deform, when public schools only exist for students unwanted by charters, in all its glory.
Friday, March 02, 2012
Remembering Samuel F. Yette- Brave Journalist, Author of the Controversial Black Classic: "The Choice"
Samuel Yette: My Book, “The Choice” exposes high level eugenics efforts against the black community
Samuel Yette (July 2, 1929 to January 21, 2011) was one of the first Black journalists to work for
Newsweek. After he published his book, The Choice” which exposed high
level attempts of Black Genocide through birth control , abortion, and
additional means , he was fired by Newsweek. Yette claims his superiors
told him that the “Nixon Whitehouse” wanted him out of Washington.
In One chapter on Birth Control Yette exposes President Nixon’s White House Conference on Food and Nutrition
of December 2-4, 1969. In Mr. Yette’s words it, “was worse than a
farce.” President Nixon opened the conference with 3 recommendations
designed to reduce the number of hungry people! He suggested no measures
for the relief of hunger in America.
1. He wanted everyone to have a guaranteed minimum income of
$1,600 a year. (This is less than welfare was paying at that time.)
2. A supposed expansion of the food stamp program that would be tied
into and compliment the welfare reform package in #1. (His plan would
have actually reduced the amount of food stamps. Less money + less food
=more hunger.)
3. Provide family planning services to at minimum 5 million women in low-income families.
This last proposal was part of a plan formulated by Dr. Charles Lowe
of the National Institute of Health. The plan recommended Congress pass a
law that:
1. Made birth control information and devices available to any and
all girls over the age of 13 with or without parental consent.
2. Allowed mandatory abortions for unmarried girls within the 1st three months of pregnancy.
3. Mandatory sterilization for any unmarried girl giving birth out of wedlock for the 2nd time.
Yette describes how female black activist, Fannie Lou Hamer was there for the Conference on hunger. When she heard about the birth control proposals
she grabbed about a dozen young black men, walked into the room, and
demanded to be heard. She spoke about ten minutes on the evil results of
this plan and the conference dropped it from consideration.
Perhaps these “Conversations” with Richard Nixon will explain
why he didn’t want Yette to have an shpere of influence. These are from
the film: Maafa21 Black Genocide in 21st Century America and the film has more on the Yette story and more history on Black Genocide in America Today !
Today, Black women account for almost 40% of the abortions.
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Sam Yette Dies, Wrote of 'Black Survival'
By richard.prince
January 23, 2011- the root.com
Samuel F. Yette, a reporter, teacher, author and
photojournalist whose publication of the 1971 book "The Choice: The
Issue of Black Survival in America" coincided with his dismissal as the
first black Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, died Friday
at an assisted living facility in Laurel, Md.
He was 81 and had Alzheimer's disease, a son, Michael Yette, told Journal-isms.
"My dad would like to be known for teaching," Michael Yette said. "He
was a natural teacher, and he wanted to spread knowledge and wisdom to
particularly his people to help them advance the lives of his people,
and journalism was his tool of preference in doing that."
However, Yette's controversial Vietnam-era book "The Choice" put him
in headlines. It came to be used as a textbook on 50 college campuses,
including DePaul University, the University of Chicago and the
University of Nebraska, he said, as well as at traditionally black
schools such as Howard University.
"The book dealt with things they did not want people to know about at
the time," Yette told the Tennessee Tribune, which he joined as a
columnist, in 1996. "There were those well-placed in our government who
were determined to have a final solution for the race issue in this
country — not unlike Hitler's 'Final Solution' for Jews 50 years earlier
in Germany. I wrote this and documented it. It caused the Nixon White
House to say to Newsweek in effect, 'Don't come back until you are rid
of him.' "
Yette charged that he had become "unacceptable on the scene" as a
correspondent for Newsweek as a result of the book, and filed suit. He
was represented by Clifford L. Alexander, former chairman of the U.S.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who went on to become secretary
of the Army, consultant and board member at Fortune 500 companies and
interim chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet.
"I don't mean to be pejorative or vindictive when I say this," Yette
said at a 1972 news conference, "but had I been a nigger instead of
Black, a spy instead of a reporter, a tool instead of a man, I could
have stayed at Newsweek indefinitely," Jet magazine reported.
Michael Yette said that his dad won the wrongful termination case in a
lower court but that Newsweek won on appeal. Osborn Elliott,
editor-in-chief of Newsweek, said then, "The decision to dismiss Mr.
Yette was made on purely professional grounds."
Michael Yette said his dad anticipated that Newsweek would fire him
over "The Choice," which was inspired in large part by what Yette had
seen from his reporting on Capitol Hill. So he lined up a position with
the then-new School of Communications at Howard University and taught
journalism there from 1972 to 1986.
When black scholars commemorated "The Choice's" 13th reprinting in
1991, Ronald A. Taylor wrote in the Washington Times that Yette asserted
that the book "best documents the genocidal conclusion" held by many
about the effect of government policies on blacks.
Yette was born in Harriman, Tenn., in 1929, according to a
biographical piece in 1996 in the Tennessee Tribune. He attended
Morristown College in that state, earned a bachelor's degree at
Tennessee State University, and went on to secure a master's at Indiana
University.
"Yette founded Tennessee State University's The Meter — a publication
that for more than 60 years has gone on to train, educate and provide
practical journalism experience to thousands of TSU graduates who've
darkened the doors of its office," alumnus Marshall A. Latimore, who now
works at the school, wrote to Journal-isms.
"Yette's legacy is still very strong at Tennessee State. A number of
former Meterites have even begun trending topics mentioning their times
as staffers, editors and managers working for the publication. Some of
the hashtags include #RIPSamuelFYette, #themeter, #metermemories and
#MeterAlumni."
When the Tribune piece was written, Yette was a Washington
correspondent and columnist for the Richmond Free Press, the
Philadelphia Tribune, the Tennessee Tribune, the Miami Times — all part
of the black press — and the World African Network, an Internet
publication.
Yette points to his assignment with Gordon Parks for Life magazine as
the beginning of his understanding of the power of photography," the
Tribune continued. " 'As reporter, researcher, pack-horse,
camera-loader, Kian scout, front-man and chauffeur for Gordon, I began
to appreciate the importance of photography as a powerful — and
sometimes indispensable — tool in modern storytelling. On train rides,
he would suck up magazines or newspapers and have me select the best and
worst pictures, and tell why. I learned also of the responsibility the
journalist assumes for the welfare of those he exposes in his process.' "
Yette worked with Parks in Alabama in 1956 for a series in Life about
segregation in the South. They soon became close friends. Yette was an
adviser in Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign and his official
photographer in the 1988 campaign, Michael Yette said.
The HistoryMakers added, "As their first black reporter, he covered
City Hall for the Dayton Journal Herald in 1962. Yette became the Peace
Corps's press liaison for Sargent Shriver's visit to Africa in 1963 and
was made the executive secretary of the Peace Corps . . . in 1964. He
was then appointed special assistant for civil rights to the director of
the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, a position he held until
1967."
Coincidentally, services were held Saturday for Shriver, who died Tuesday at age 95.
In 2005, Yette returned to his native Tennessee to become a writer in
residence at Knoxville College. But he took ill there, and his sons,
Michael and Frederick Yette, brought him home to Maryland in 2008, the
two told Journal-isms.
"He was a warm intelligent man who loved his family greatly," Alexander, asked for his thoughts on Yette, told Journal-isms.
--------------- Richard Prince's popular column on the news media, published by the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (www.mije.org)
Thursday, March 01, 2012
13-Yr Old Sister Allegedly Persecuted by Rochester, NY Teachers for “Radical” Essay on Frederick Douglass
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- www.http://blacklikemoi.com
February 29, 2012 “Where
justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails,
and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized
conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor
property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass
On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New
York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a
13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on
her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative
of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never
entered. It offended her teachers so much that, after harassment from
teachers and school administrators at School #3, Miss Williams was
forced to leave the school.
We at the Frederick Douglass Foundation honored her because her essay
actually demonstrates that she understood the autobiography, even though
it might seem a bit esoteric to most 13-year olds. In her essay, she
quotes part of the scene where Douglass’ slave master catches his wife
teaching then slave Frederick to read. During a speech about how he
would be useless as a slave if he were able to read, Mr. Auld, the slave
master, castigated his wife.
Miss Williams quoted Douglass quoting Mr. Auld: “If you teach that
nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him.
It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become
unmanageable, and of no value to his master.”
Miss Williams personalized this to her own situation. She reflected on
how the “white teachers” do not have enough control of the classroom to
successfully teach the minority students in Rochester. While she herself
is more literate than most, due to her own perseverance and diligence,
she sees the fact that so many of the other “so-called ‘unteachable’”
students aren’t learning to read as a form of modern-day slavery. Their
illiteracy holds them back in society.
Her call to action was then in her summary: “A grand price was paid in
order for us to be where we are today; but in my mind we should be a lot
further, so again I encourage the white teachers to instruct and I
encourage my people to not just be a student, but become a learner.”
This offended her English teacher so much that the teacher copied the
essay for other teachers and for the Principal. After that, Miss
Williams’ mother and father started receiving phone calls from numerous
teachers, all claiming that their daughter is “angry.” Miss Williams,
mostly a straight-A student, started receiving very low grades, and she
was kicked out of class for laughing and threatened with in-school
suspension.
There were several meetings with teachers and administrators, but all
failed to answer Miss Williams’ mother’s questions. The teachers refused
to show her the tests and work that she had supposedly performed so
poorly on. Instead, the teachers and administrators branded her a
problem.
Unable to take anymore of the persecution, they pulled her from School
#3. Wanting to try another school, they were quickly informed that that
school was filled and told to try “this school.” During her first day at
this new school, she witnessed four fights, and other students asked
her if she was put here because she fights too much.
Long story short, they took an exceptional student, with the radical
idea that kids should learn to read, and put her in a school of
throwaway students who are even more unmanageable than the average
student in her previous school. To protect their daughter, her parents
have had to remove her from school, and her mother has had to quit her
job so she can take care of Miss Williams.
Jada Williams with her mother.
To
date, the administrators of School #3 have refused to release her
records, even though she no longer attends the school, and they have
repeatedly given her mother the run around. We at the Frederick Douglass
Foundation have contacted school administrators in regards to this
situation and have also been told to hit the pavement.
That’s what we intend to do. If this school will sacrifice the welfare
of an above-average student whose essay, that they asked her to write,
they find offensive, we intend to make everyone aware of this monstrous
injustice. The school has a job, and it is not doing it. We
would like as many folks as possible to call the Principal of School #3
and complain about this injustice. Her name is Miss Connie Wehner, and
she can be reached at (585) 454-3525.