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Lean on Me (1989)

“ Imbrue-to taint, to stain.

The cancer of racism imbrues our national character.

It stains the spirit, taints the soul.

It is a blot, a shameful, greasy spot on the fabric of our national conscience.”

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KKK Cop Fired After Nazi Salute Photo Surfaces Officer Raymond Mott initially said he was working undercover, but later admitted that he was lying.

Louisiana police detective Raymond Mott was fired this week after a local newspaper showed him giving the Nazi salute and wearing a Ku Klux Klan crest at a rally.

The Jennings Daily News published a photo of Mott at a 2014 anti-immigration rally, wearing his KKK garb. Police Chief Ray Marcantel immediately called on the Lake Arthur Town Council to fire the officer, who refused to resign, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The council voted unanimously on Wednesday to end Mott’s employment, and officials say all of his cases are now under review, the Jennings Daily News reported.

The detective initially said he was working undercover when the photo was taken, but he later admitted that he was lying and was involved with the Loyal White Knights chapter of the KKK at the time.

On Wednesday, Mott tried to explain himself.

“The picture speaks for itself,” he told local ABC affiliate KATC. “I’m standing at a rally against illegal immigration. There’s not much to be said about the picture. I’ve never denied it was me.”

Mott called his firing illegal and said he has plans to sue the city, the New York Daily News reports.

Meanwhile, District Attorney Michael Cassidy told the paper that there were numerous complaints about Mott’s conduct as an officer. Local authorities will review the arrests he made, and will likely drop charges against defendants in cases where Mott’s testimony is the only evidence available.

Lake Arthur residents said they couldn’t believe there was a member of the KKK on their local police force. “Nowadays, all over the United States cops are getting killed and cops are killing others,” Ace Beverly of the Better Lake Arthur Foundation told KATC. “Me, myself, personally, I don’t want that to happen right here in my own hometown.”

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YOU UNDERSTAND NOW ????

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Western corporations carve up Africa!!!!!!!!!!!

By Grace Kiwanga on April 1, 2014 — A newly released report reveals how the British and American governments are facilitating the corporate takeover of African food systems.

Campaigners protest outside the UK Department for International Development. Photo: WDM

Huge tracts of land in African countries with access to the sea and high economic growth are being targeted by corporations such as Monsanto and Unilever with help from the British and American governments –including millions of dollars that are intended for helping the poor, says a report published today by UK campaigning group World Development Movement.

The document, titled Carving up a continent: How the UK government is facilitating the corporate takeover of African food systems, explains that a G8 initiative called the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is using money intended for poverty reduction to instead ease access to key African locations for some of the world’s biggest companies, which already control much of the global food market.

Using money intended for poverty reduction to ease access to key African locations

Doublespeak and the new “scramble for Africa” What’s more, the New Alliance agreements signed with ten key African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania) are conditional, and many of them require the country in question to bring legislation – for example, revising seed laws to force small farmers to buy seeds and fertilisers from the corporates rather than seed sharing, which has been practised for generations and ensures biodiversity.

Under the new paradigm, multinationals gain access to fertile land and agricultural corridors on the pretext of tackling food poverty and helping Africa’s starving and needy. In reality this is doublespeak. If the New Alliance continues unchecked, it’s likely that problems are stored up for the future, as small scale and family farmers are forced off their land to make way for industrial scale crop production. WDM also identifies issues such as insecure and poorly paid jobs and a focus on producing for export markets rather than to feed local populations.

The report’s introduction, by WDM director Nick Dearden, says: “This is an old story given new impetus. More than a century ago the ‘scramble for Africa’ was instituted under the pretence of civilising the continent. Barbaric crimes were committed and the continent systematically de-developed because it profited Europe. Since that time, Africa’s problem has never been a lack of integration into the international economy – the problem is how it is integrated and in whose interests.”

One of the campaigners outside Downing Street – where the UK Prime Minister and Chancellor live – holds up a cake of Africa with New Alliance countries marked out with flags. Photo: WDM

Oblivious citizens This isn’t the first time the New Alliance has come under fire – the Guardian newspaper published a critical piece last year. But the general populations of the countries whose taxpayers are supporting this power grab are woefully unaware that it is even happening, and so too are the citizens in whose countries these events are unfolding. This despite the fact that a whopping £600 million of UK aid money, for example, via the Department for International Development (DFID), is being channelled into this between 2012 and 2016.

Ironically this comes at a time when alternatives to the industrialisation of agriculture are being explored worldwide, and as the realities of climate change are being better understood. Africa is a place where new models of permaculture could meet old models of sustainable farming and cooperation to leapfrog the West – finding sustainable and locally owned solutions to nutritious food production.

The wheels are already turning But this hangs in the balance. Many New Alliance partnership countries, such as Malawi, have already instituted many of the changes demanded as part of their agreement, and it has become much easier for foreign corporations to buy great tracts of land. Ghana recently saw the Plant Breeders’ Bill being pushed through its Parliament by politicians that Food Sovereignty Ghana implied might be on the take.

The corporations involved in the New Alliance are huge – Monsanto, Unilever, Syngenta, DuPont, Cargill, Diageo, SABMiller, Coca Cola, Yara. The last company – Yara – may not be a name you recognise, but is the largest global manufacturer of fertiliser. According to the WDM report, these agrochemicals “already cause serious levels of food poisoning in sub-Saharan Africa, with the UN estimating that health problems linked to pesticides could cost the region $90 billon between 2005 and 2020. Fertilisers also damage soil, leading farmers to rely on them even more in order to maintain production, which increases their risk of getting into debt.”

“The tragic consequences of small-scale farmers’ reliance on fertilisers in India have been much reported. An estimated 250,000 farmers committed suicide between 1995 and 2010 after getting into debt through buying agrochemicals.”

Campaigners representing the New Alliance multinationals carve and eat up Africa. Why no protests anywhere in Africa? Because most of us are oblivious to what’s being done behind our backs, is the simple answer. Photo: WDM

Under the guise of charity Remember that old development chestnut “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Show him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”? The New Alliance seems to be about snapping his fishing rod in half, throwing it into the sea and telling him that you now own the sea and he must buy his fish from you, at wildly fluctuating prices. And it’s under the guise of charity.

The ‘scramble for Africa’ was instituted under the pretence of civilising the continent Yet look at the personnel. Unilever’s external affairs director was previously at DFID and DFID’s director of policy used to work for Unilever. Meanwhile, for all the talk of wanting to solve African hunger, the chosen countries are almost all coastal, and tend to have high economic growth. Of the countries in Africa that have the worst hunger index scores, only one – Ethiopia – is a New Alliance country.

While all the players talk about poverty reduction and food security, the reality is that the path that will have the most positive effect for African farmers and populations long term is food sovereignty. That means ownership and control of land and non-reliance on imported seeds and foods, as well as being able to adjust crops to need. It might be tempting to apply the machine logic of industrialisation to agriculture and scale it up, on the basis that more food grown equals more people fed. But in reality the problem of hunger is not one to do with volume of food produced worldwide – rather it’s to do with existing unjust systems of food production and distribution. These are the very systems that the New Alliance is desperate to bring to Africa.

Other players are the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa, set up by the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Gates Foundation; the New Vision for Agriculture, launched by the World Economic Forum and led by 33 multinationals from Monsanto to Walmart; and Grow Africa, a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and the African Union.

Of course, the New Alliance does have its defenders. Namely, international pop gimp Bono’s ONE Foundation, which hit the headlines a few years ago for giving a whopping 1% of its funds to actual charity…

In its 2013 report Growing Africa: Unlocking the potential of agribusiness the World Bank said: “Africa represents the ‘last frontier’ in global food and agricultural markets.” Once Africa’s greatest commodity to line the pockets of its pillagers was its human capital. Now they’re coming for the land, and the sustenance it offers. Don’t wait until it’s too late.

Now read this What did African countries promise to secure New Alliance agreements? The full Carving UP A Continent report

Get mobilised now! Join a local or continent-wide movement to find out more African Biodiversity Network Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers’ Forum Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee Food Sovereignty Ghana Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania

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Shark Island is a small island located off the coast of Nambia. It’s the site where over hundred years ago the Germans held a concentration camp which was also known as “Death Island”. Shark Island Concentration Camp is something like other African tragedies that is omitted from history

Over 10,000 African people from the Herero and Namaqua tribe were killed between 1905 to 1907. At the time Nambia was under the German empire, On the island, Germans used some of the same methods they used on Jews on the Herero and Namaqua. Methods such as torture, forced larbor, and went as far cracking the skulls of the Herero and Namaqua. WIth the dead bodies, the Germans ran “Medical Investigation” on the Herero and Namaqua to see which was the inferior race. Other methods of torture were rape and forcing the women to do hard labor after and kept them starved for many days at time. Its not Ironic to me events like this committed to African go omitted but Jewish Holocaust “Never Forget” slogan is used.

This is the final Installment of SanCopha League White History, where the Whites Lies were exposed, and omitted events that Europeans were finally revealed for you see and learn from. “Those who do not understand true PAIN can never understand true PEACE” ~ Pain Maybe now you can understand our Pain

Post written By: @Oba_Tayo

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Happy Birthday, Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland would have turned 35 today. May we continue to #SayHerName and the names of many other Black women and girls who are impacted by violence. May we continue to center their voices, experiences, and protect them. Happy Birthday, Sandra Bland.

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#WomensHistoryMonth'22

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Divine Duty by Annelie Solis

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You know what the British Royal Family showed the world tonight?

“That being silent about racism is being COMPLICIT in racism.” Or in the words of Desmond Tutu

Same goes with their stands on Andrew.

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one year later, no justice

source: Ariel Sinha's Instagram

from the artist's post:

In the middle of the night on March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was senselessly killed in her own home by police as they looked for someone who didn’t live at her address and who had already been arrested. Breonna was a hero in her community, serving as an essential worker on the front lines of the pandemic. My heart is broken for her loved ones suffering this immense hurt and injustice. Rest in power, Breonna.