Finished my morning workout. Still battling whooping cough and fatigue, but frankly I just don't give a fuck because My eBook is what matters most and its almost done! Typed my ass off all day yesterday and made edits and expansions, too! So I've finished my workout, need to hit the shower, decided to take a look around and I found this article in the Washington Post, of all places. Where one of its contributors, Nyasha Junior, talks about her experiences growing up in what she calls;
PWI's. Which means Primarily White Institutions.
Now? Another article I'm going to post, by an Old White Duke University Professor, highlights, HE HIGHLIGHTS, that Black People have these counterproductive, rebellious names that show we don't wanna conform to American Society. Translation we won't or no longer use WHITE NAMES LIKE ROBERT, ROBERTA, JOHN, JIMMY, ETC!
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!
Now? As if getting robbed of everything we were to start off this fuckin country wasn't enough. Then being enslaved with no pay and having OUR WHITE MASTER'S NAMES FOR EVEN THAT TO BE OMITTED FROM THE COUNTLESS ACHIEVEMENTS THAT BLACK SLAVES CONTRIBUTED TO AND USED FOR EVERYTHING FROM MANUMISSIONS RIGHTS, by being a good little SLAVE and Massa deciding to let your Black-ass go. Or having to come up with ideas, inventions and innovations for Manumissions Rights where as a Black Person you then GOT NO RIGHTS OR ROYALTIES TO YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND YOUR WHITE SLAVE MASTER OR MISTRESS COULD THEN PAWN IT OFF AS THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS AND IDEAS! These FACTS, are not only VASTLY OMITTED BY WHITES, but they are worked overtime to try to cover up more facts that many Blacks gave Whites, NOT BY CHOICE, everything from the Patio, which was a Black African architectural design that Black Slaves gave over to White Slave Masters. To the planting of various crops that Whites knew nothing about where Black Slaves again used this as a means to either gain their own freedom or more privileges under White Slave Owners.
This kind of horrific UNEQUAL EXCHANGE STILL EXISTS TODAY BETWEEN BLACKS-&-WHITES where too many Black People GIVE UP INNOVATIONS AND IDEAS TO GET PEANUTS BACK FROM WHITES WHO THEN CLAIM THEY DID EVERYTHING ON THEIR OWN AND THEY OMIT THE FACT THAT THEY GOT THE IDEA OR INVENTION OR INNOVATION FROM SOMEONE BLACK. I've said it before and I'll say it again, THIS IS OUR FAULT. AND IT IS UP TO US TO PUT A STOP TO THIS. We cannot continue to do BAD BUSINESS AND THEN BITCH-N-MOAN BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING SCREWED OVER BY OUR OWN DUMB DECISION TO FURTHER ENRICH NON-BLACK PEOPLE. Coming back around....
Look up Manumissions Rights, simply type in the word Manumissions and you will get the definition from Google and even WITHIN THAT, you know what, fuck it! Here;
Manumission, from manumit /ˌmænjəˈmɪt/, is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. Different approaches developed, each specific to the time and place of a society's slave system.
The motivations of slave owners in manumitting slaves were complex and varied. Firstly, manumission may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture. One typical scenario was the freeing in the master's will of a devoted servant after long years of service. A trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude; for those working as agricultural laborers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed.
Such feelings of benevolence may have been of value to slave owners themselves as it allowed them to focus on a 'humane component' in the human traffic of slavery. In general, it was more common for older slaves to be given freedom, once they had reached the age where they were beginning to be less useful. Legislation under the early Roman empire put limits on the number of slaves that could be freed in wills (Fufio-Caninian law 2 BC), which suggests that it had been widely used.
Freeing slaves could serve the pragmatic interests of the owner. The prospect of manumission worked as an incentive for slaves to be industrious and compliant. Roman slaves were paid a wage (pecunium) with which they could save up to, in effect, buy themselves. Manumission contracts found in some abundance at Delphi specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation.
United States
African slaves were freed in the North American colonies as early as the seventeenth century. Some went on to become landowners and slaveholders in the colonies. Slaves could sometimes arrange manumission by agreeing to "purchase themselves"; that is, to pay the master an agreed amount. Some masters demanded market rates; others set a lower amount in consideration of service.
Regulation of manumission began in 1692, when Virginia established that in order to manumit a slave, a person must pay the cost for them to be transported out of the colony. A 1723 law stated that slaves may not "be set free upon any pretence whatsoever, except for some meritorious services to be adjudged and allowed by the governor and council."[6] In some cases, when a master was drafted into the army, they sent a slave in their place, with a promise of freedom if they survived the war.[7] The new government of Virginia repealed these laws in 1782 and declared freedom for slaves who had fought for the Colonies in the American Revolutionary War. The 1782 laws also permitted masters to free their slaves on their own accord; previously, a manumission required obtaining consent from the state legislature, an arduous and rarely granted request.[8] However, as population of free negroes increased, the state passed laws forbidding free negroes from moving into the state (1778)[9] and requiring newly freed slaves to leave within one year unless they had special permission (1806).[10]
Various other states at this time established laws governing manumission and tended to make it easier to accomplish. In the first two decades after the American Revolution, many of the new states passed laws allowing slaveholders to declare slaves free by filing papers, and numerous manumissions were made in the idealism of the war. The percentage of free blacks as a proportion of the total black population increased in the Upper South from less than 1 percent to nearly 10 percent in this period. In Virginia, the proportion of free blacks increased from 1% in 1782 to 7% in 1800.[11] Together with several northern states abolishing slavery during this period, the percentage of free blacks nationally increased to 13.5 percent of the total black population.
After invention of the cotton gin in 1793, which enabled the development of extensive new areas for new types of cotton cultivation, manumissions decreased due to increased demand for slave labor. In the nineteenth century, slave revolts such as the Haitian Revolution and especially the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner increased slaveholder fears, and most southern states passed laws making manumission nearly impossible until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, after the American Civil War in 1865.
In the Upper South in the late eighteenth century, planters had less need for slaves as they switched from labor-intensive tobacco cultivation to mixed-crop farming. Slave states such as Virginia made it easier for slaveholders to free their slaves. In the two decades following the American Revolutionary War, numerous slaveholders accomplished manumissions by deed or in wills, so that the percentage of free blacks to the total number of blacks rose from less than one percent to 10 percent in the Upper South.[12] Some northern states quickly abolished slavery, adding to the national population of free blacks; New York and New Jersey adopted gradual abolition laws that kept the free children of slaves as indentured servants into their twenties.
My point in posting all of this is the fact that just because we have White Names that has done absolutely positively NOTHING to deter Whites from fucking with us and fucking us over and then pretending to be the fuckin victims. This shitty mentality made it easy for me TO KNOW, not think. Not guess, BUT TO KNOW. That Abu Ghraib would become a reality, remember that?Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
During the war in Iraq that began in March 2003, personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.[1]These violations included physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder.[2][3][4][5] The abuses came to light with reports published in late 2003 by Amnesty International and the Associated Press. The incidents received widespread condemnation both within the United States and abroad, although the soldiers received support from some conservative media within the United States.[6][7]
The administration of George W. Bush attempted to portray the abuses as isolated incidents, not indicative of general U.S. policy. This was contradicted by humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. After multiple investigations, they stated that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were not isolated but were part of a wider pattern of torture and brutal treatment at American overseas detention centers, including those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. There was evidence that authorization for the torture had come from high up in the military hierarchy, with allegations being made that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had authorized some of the actions.
The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and March 2006, these soldiers were convicted in courts-martial, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialists Charles Graner and Lynndie England, were sentenced to ten and three years in prison, respectively. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the commanding officer of all detention facilities in Iraq, was reprimanded and demoted to the rank of colonel. Several more military personnel who were accused of perpetrating or authorizing the measures, including many of higher rank, were not prosecuted.
Documents popularly known as the Torture Memos came to light a few years later. These documents, prepared shortly before the Iraq invasion by the United States Department of Justice, authorized certain enhanced interrogation techniques, generally held to involve torture of foreign detainees. The memoranda also argued that international humanitarian laws, such as the Geneva Conventions, did not apply to American interrogators overseas. Several subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), have overturned Bush administration policy, and ruled that Geneva Conventions apply. (Note; That by GRACIOUSLY acknowledging WELL-AFTER-THE-FACT that now? Awwww, we made a mistake peoples, so sorry, so sad. Now? The Geneva Conventions apply... now that we've fuckin done whatever the fuck we wanted to do. So-so sorry about what happened. Awwww, we were so wrong. And SCOUT'S HONOR... It'll never. EVER. Happen again... Till we want it to. Which could be by the time I finishing typing this po
With this kind of cavalier, ASSHOLE MENTALITY, where we can just do whatever the fuck we want! Or at least White Americans think they can do whatever they want, hmmmm, interesting? I don't recall too many White Gun-Nuts threatening Bush Jr., hmmmm, OH YEAH I KNOW WHY!? BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE HAD THEIR ASSES RENDITIONED, TORTURED, LABELLED ENEMY-COMBATANTS AND THEN KILLED! That's why! I knew there was something going on during the Bush Jr. Imperial Presidency that kept all those White American Patriots quiet as shit as he stole their Civil Liberties and Rights and got caught time-after-time-after-time-after FUCKIN TIME, LYING!WMD's! OOPS! GOT IT WRONG, but that's okay cuz I'm gonna steal Iraqi Oil FOR ALL OF YOU LOYAL WHITE AMERICAN PATRIOTS AND GET JUSTICE FOR 9/11!
OOPS! SORRY, BUT THE IRAQI'S WON'T LET ME RAPE THEIR COUNTRY FOR YOUR CUT, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH...!? Sorry. But you're shit outta luck. Well? Just because you can't get your cut of the Iraqi Rapefest, DOESN'T MEAN I CAN'T STILL GET MINE FOR ME AND MY BASE! Cuz!? ALL YOUR BASE... ARE BELONG TO US.....
They didn't give a fuck. That's why. That's why all of this happened and it was why it was easy for me to see the Iraqi strategy to counter the fact that the Iraqi Military had no air force capable of defeating the Nazi-American Imperial Air Force, so!? The most logical way to do things would be to simply fall back and fall back and fall back and then disperse and blend in with the civilian populace. Wait for the invasion to shift to occupation. And then begin an insurgency from there disguised as IRAQI CIVILIANS. Force the Nazi-American Military Forces to have to use actual restraint. To actually go on a case-by-case basis instead of just randomly shooting whenever they got spooked!
But since the whole thing was never about HELPING THE IRAQI PEOPLE, THEN!? We'll just MUSCLE OUR WAY THROUGH CUZ WE COULD GIVE 2-FUCKS ABOUT THE ACTUAL IRAQI PEOPLE AND THEIR FUTURE! My point is, if shit is shitty here for MOST Black Americans, how the fuck can any Black Person fall for White Americans are going to go elsewhere and be FAIR towards the Iraqi's there, when they can't even get that shit right HERE!? I'd have to trip up the steps to fall for this crap of we give 2-fucks about some sand-niggers. And that was often times what Iraqi people were called.
Sand-niggers.
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Apple pie and freedom anyone?
What does all of this have to do with a Black American teacher?
^_^ C'mon now, you're better than that! It has EVERYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS SAID. Without creating a safe haven FOR OURSELVES, then we become subject to whatever it is that Whites FEEL LIKE DOING FOR WHATEVER REASON AT WHATEVER MOMENT. 9/11? Total inside job. And sloppy as fuck too. Now? I see some of you, SOME OF YOU, saying "Fuck outta here, Shawn! 9/11 wuz DA TERRORIST!"
Yeah just like Saddam Hussein was in on 9/11, which he wasn't. And he had WMD's, which he didn't. But Bush Jr. and his cronies SURE DID MAKE A LOT OF MONEY FOR THEMSELVES FROM ALL OF THIS, NOW DIDN'T HE? DIDN'T THEY?
But...? Let's take a trip down the blind side... and see what we find down this... path...! Called!
The Bin Laden Family along with the rulers of Saudi Arabia have always been CLOSE FRIENDS TO THE BUSH FAMILY. You can go and do your own research, but the bottom line is FOR AN OLD "VET" IN THESE TYPES OF THINGS, FOR ME? THIS SHIT WAS SLOPPY, PREDICTABLE AND NOT ONE OF MY BLACK FRIENDS FELL FOR IT! Leading up to 9/11 ALL OF US WERE KEENLY AWARE OF BUSH FAMILY'S HISTORY WITHIN THE CIA AND THE FACT THAT BUSH SR. WAS A MAJOR ARCHITECT OF THE CRACK-EPIDEMIC! The inclusion of Bloodthirsty War Hawk Thugs like emotionlessly-evil Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfield and dirt-bags like Paul Wolfowitz, whom many don't know was the President of World Bank which is in the business of pretending to help 3rd World Nations but their main goal is to enslave those nations in debt to them and the existing White Power Structure. So just having these 3 Irredeemably Evil DIRT-BAGS UNDER ONE ROOF!? We all knew that humanity would stand a better chance AGAINST THE AGE OF APOCALYPSE AND THE ANTI-CHRIST HIMSELF THAN THESE HEARTLESS ASSHOLES!
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| The Master of Evil and Irredeemable Corruption, Dick Cheney |
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| The Supreme Commander of Nazi-American Imperial Forces of Exploitation, Donald Rumsfield |
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| Zionist-Nazi-American Chief Strategist of the Bush Doctrine & Bush Family Lapdog-Lackey |
Where like I have said before, PR Firms are created to put together propaganda to sway the public that such-&-such company or race or place is of good quality and standing and you really need to utilize their services. A company undertakes PR-campaigns to increase its standing within its community and within its field to bring in business and give itself the chance to increase its prestige, power and opportunities. Whites control mass-media mediums in order to positively reinforce that things like the Waco Biker Brawl is just a random occurrence and is in no way indicative of the White American Race as a whole.
With all of the shit that we have been through as Black People it is up to us to create our own POSITIVE PR and RESTORE OUR REPUTATIONS AS COMPETENT, RELIABLE PEOPLE. So that means that we will have to clash with Non-Blacks who have built their bones and their bases of power off of saying otherwise. It is NOT ANYMORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT. I have actually skimmed this post and have not gone into more of the detail that I'd like because I'm pressed for time and need to get to typing, never mind that I've been typing all of this right after working out. It was weighing on my mind and I needed to get this from out of my head and onto this post and then out to all of you. Now? Here is the article that caused me to post all of this and GOOD LUCK to Ms. Nyasha Junior, it is a shame that your teaching expertise is not being put to use for more Black Children and Adults but as we rebuild then the future will have facilities where you can continue to educate and enlighten Our People;
What I learned teaching at a historically black college
Both my students and I came to view ourselves differently.
Nyasha Junior is an Assistant Professor at Howard University School of Divinity and the author of "An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation."
I have attended predominantly white schools from preschool through my doctoral program. I’m used to carving out a black space in a white world. As an undergrad at Georgetown University, I sat at “the black table,” the one cafeteria table where many black students congregated for a fun, raucous dinner and discussion of the day’s news. The black table was not forced upon us — it was a refuge. The girls who wore Ralph Lauren, athletes and poli-sci presidential hopefuls sat at their respective tables, but they didn’t stand out as we did.
As a black student at predominantly white institutions, or PWIs, I focused on my studies without worrying about whether other students assumed that I was a “token minority” or invited me to their study groups. As my hardworking Southern parents reminded me constantly, I was in school to “get my lesson” and not to make friends. Nothing less than my best effort was acceptable to me, to my family and to the many people in my community who didn’t have the same opportunities that I had.
Later, as an academic at a PWI, I put my years of practice as the only black person in the room into being the first black woman to hold my position. I relied on my “make them feel comfortable” bag of tricks — smiling more so as not to be called an “angry black woman,” being extra friendly to be considered a “team player,” keeping my Warren Moon-composure in the face of many microaggressions from students and colleagues.
And then I took a teaching position at Howard University.
The relevance of historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, is an ongoing debate. Some HBCU student bodies are no longer majority black. While on average HBCUs accept more low-income and first-generation students and cope with racial disparities in state and federal funding, they have similar retention and graduation rates when compared with PWIs with similar institutional characteristics and student demographics. The debate often reduces both PWIs and HBCUs to broad generalizations. Before coming to Howard, I myself tended to lump HBCUs together, even though they constitute a diverse group of institutions that students attend for a variety of reasons. Morehouse is a small men’s college of 2,100; Howard is a private research university of 10,000 with undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Just as Georgia State is not usually grouped with Agnes Scott, HBCUs are not all peer institutions. And while HBCUs may not face the same types of racial issues that occur at PWIs, they aren’t immune to sexism, classism, colorism, xenophobia, homophobia and other matters that plague our society at large.
But as a black scholar, teaching black students, I have found that Howard helped me connect to my lineage as a black academic and helped me understand that even very bright students of color struggle with notions of inferiority in the classroom.
Teaching at Howard was my first majority black experience outside of church. Nearly all of my faculty colleagues were black. The staff was black. My boss was black. His boss was black. And his boss’s boss was black. Having been a racial minority for my entire life, this experience of widespread blackness was new to me. As a black woman scholar, for once, I wasn’t on the margins seeking to move to the center but rather a part of the group. I no longer thought of myself as an individual scholar engaged in academic bouldering without a harness or equipment. I was part of an institution dedicated to people who looked like me.
It was a dramatic change from teaching at a PWI, where once, during a class at the end of the semester, a white student yelled “Hey, when is our project due?” From his tone, I assumed he was talking to one of his classmates, but he repeated, “Hey, when is our project due?”
As I realized that he was speaking to me, I turned slowly and said in my iciest Dominique Deveraux, “Are you talking to me?” He said he was. I asked him to address me as Dr. Junior or Professor Junior, to which he replied, “Oh, I didn’t know that you were, like, a real professor.”
All semester I had prepped thoroughly, dressed professionally, made handouts, created rubrics, designed Powerpoints, arrived early, stayed late. And somehow this student still didn’t think I was a real professor.
I’m a biblical scholar, and I situate myself within the discipline of academic biblical studies. But now I also see myself as part of history and legacy of black educators with a deep commitment to encouraging and demanding the very best from my students and myself. This rich history was evident to me at my first opening convocation at Howard. While the students assemble together, the faculty gathers separately before processing into the chapel. I slipped into my bright academic regalia and entered a room full of black PhDs wearing their regalia. I wasn’t the first or only black woman. I had never been part of such a group before.
I also had to adjust my teaching style at Howard. In my opinion, I’m a tough but fair professor. On the first day of class, I make clear to my students that I have high standards and let them know that there will be no extra credit. When I taught at PWIs, I said the same thing unapologetically, but I wasn’t prepared for the many ways in which the insidious myth of black inferiority would show up in my Howard classrooms of nearly all black students. Linked to the notion of white supremacy, this myth holds that blacks are not as intelligent, resourceful or capable as whites. Compared to my experiences at other schools, I found that a greater percentage of my Howard students had severe test anxiety and lacked confidence in their academic performance, even though my students were bright, capable, articulate and eager to learn. They did the assigned reading and confidently discussed course material during class. I struggled to find ways to improve their test scores. Soon, I realized that I was combatting years of students having internalized lower expectations and the repeated explicit and implicit messaging they “didn’t test well.”
Even though I myself am black, I had to develop greater cultural competency to assist this group of students. I maintained my academic standards, but I learned strategies to teach the classes in front of me. I started giving practice tests to help students build their confidence. I provided more opportunities for students to lead discussion and to teach each other to develop a supportive learning environment. I gave pre-exam pep talks to remind students that they were excellent students and that I expected everyone to do well. I did more cheerleading because more of them needed it. I cannot state strongly enough that my students were absolutely capable and in no way inferior to any group of students I had taught in the past, but more of them needed more of a push.
After six years, I’m leaving Howard for position at a PWI in Philadelphia. Now I understand the fierce loyalty and protectiveness Howard alumni feel toward their alma mater. Howard provides a haven in which black excellence is modeled and expected. The debate over the relative merits of HBCUs will continue, and I can only say that these institutions matter, for faculty and students. Veritas et utilitas, truth and service, is the motto of Howard. I am proud to have served.
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