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1-17-2025 7:05pm
OP-Ed Part II: "No Weapon Formed Against Us" ... As We Prepare for MLK Day in the USA
S RENEE GREENE
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Part I Link Here
Part II
The Second Influx of Continuing Slavery
The second coming of U.S. slavery rode in on Black internalized anger and self-hatred.
It strode in with the help of Ronald Wilson Reagan and the financing of wars between the Contras and Sandanistas and on the backs of the drug mules in the Black community(ies). They asked Reagan, who wanted war, how he was going to pay for it and it began in the inner cities of South Central LA. In California, a state that he was once Governor of, a job at which he failed as as governor, he also failed as a man, and as a man of God.
REAGAN and Oliver North and others in the game at the time figured out how to kill two birds with one stone - sell drugs to fund it, and sell a cheaper COOKED DOWN version of cocaine that was more affordable for people with lower income: CRACK.
These actions in the political mainstream bled into the "New Jack City" of our worst imaginations.
We invented a masterful way of rhyming ourselves into dance beats that overcame and surpassed anything the nation, the world, had ever seen. Black America had a history of creativity and ingenuity and inventiveness that came from the forefathers and ancestors of the Far and Middle East.
The "status quo" hated every second that Black People began to feel good about who they were/are IN SPITE of the nation's history of hatred.
Warner states that the initial Civil Rights Movement, which began in 1865 and lasted until 1875, did not give "Black America" true freedom. It just stated that the Ancestry (former slaves) could not be enslaved again EXCEPT as punishment for CRIME for which they were "duly convicted".
AI Reference: "The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Then there was a gap from 1875 to the 1950s-1960s as Black America sought to rise up from a history of Black Codes and lynchings under Jim Crow law that institutionally abolished Black freedom along with slavery.
ONLINE REFERENCE: "Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. Though the Union victory had given some four(4) million enslaved people their freedom, the question of freed Black people's status in the postwar South was still very much unresolved. Under black codes, many states required Black people to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested, fined and forced into unpaid labor. Outrage over black codes helped undermine support for President Andrew Johnson and the Republican Party."
If you don't know this: Making something against the law and convicting people of breaking the law you just made is the same as enslavement, whether they committed a crime or not.
Slavery still existed AS PUNISHMENT FOR A CRIME, so laws had to be instituted that made nearly everything a Black person did a crime--and in the case of the more recently lynched George Floyd, even his right to breathe was a crime for which he received the death penalty in the streets. We have since discovered that the fake $20 Floyd is said to have passed off was given to him by a white man who "wanted to see him get arrested just for fun."
End Game: Floyd never knew it was a fake bill.
He accepted it from a white guy pretending to help him in the streets, where he was selling loose cigarettes to earn money after losing both his jobs during the Trump COVID pandemic. (What you got to lose?, Trump asked. Then EVERYTHING was lost for nearly three years.)
Floyd's life-even after college-had been a wrecking ball of nationalist confusion. His story is a living example of how life can go wrong, even for the best and brightest among us.
Warner makes careful note that Republican capitalists made toying with Black Lives a game.
And I note, the same kind of a game we watched happen in a fictionalized movie called "Trading Places" which starred actors Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd. There were several types of 'games' going on at once, so this movie was a comedic gesture. But more dangerous games, of course, were being played in the real world.
To this day, Georgia is known among others who are educated about it as "The Cornerstone of Racial Hat/red of America."
As we stated in the earlier article, the State of Mississippi itself did not ratify the 13th Amendment until 2013. Today, the state remains at Number 30 in rankings among the educated, the highest it has ever achieved.
Warner tells us that to this very day, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as 'Parchman Farm', is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. ZIP Code: 38738 Acres: approximately 18,000 acres.
Mississippi has not changed. It is 2025.
My People Perish, saith the Lord God
Nearly no one acknowledges that there is HIGH profitability in ignorance and its continuance. There is no need to educate people who are preset for failure, morally and educably.
This is why it is so easy to replace schools with private vouchers and learning institutions with prisons.
Black America, ad majorum, is being spooned into thinking that "private school" is an out for them and their children's future when nothing could be farther from the truth.
According to research and education experts, private school vouchers are widely considered to "fail" as they often do not significantly improve student achievement, can lead to decreased funding for public schools, lack adequate accountability measures for private schools, and tend to disproportionately benefit families already utilizing private education, ultimately undermining the quality of public education for many students. - National Education Association (NEA)
As a matter of reference, Warner notes that back in the day, the hateful rap music that we hear today would not have been allowed on the radio and also that when people were caught with drugs, the drugs were burned--not recycled back into the streets. Now they are recycled to recapture more prisoners as slaves and produce more free labor for millionaires and billionaires. These over-bloated oligarchs that most have spoken to don't believe "they got that rich without committing crimes themselves." It isn't likely to acquire that kind of wealth without criminal intent and development.
As to the Prison Complex System, a bleed on the restricted Black communities, the prioritization of the penal codes demand lust for more free labor.
The only way to get it is to criminalize mostly Black men trying to "be somebody" in life. People who talk about George Floyd never hear that he was a college-educated man who held down two jobs for years before Trump's Pandemic cursed the streets and he lost it a.. Though the media portrayed him as nothing more than a jackleg bum hustling in the streets, Floyd was so much more than another "Willie Horton". [See Lee Atwater's "Boogie Man."]
Right here in Columbus, Warner states, Columbus Georgia receives between $17 to $20 Million dollars to incarcerate people and yet pay the labor force they use no more than $3-$4 per day to do whatever jobs are assigned to them.
He makes definitive note that white supremacy has financed this Complex all along. The ones who do city maintenance inside, he says, get no pay at all. NOTHING. And they are not eligible for the SAME jobs that they have experience in with the city (or state) government once they are released.
When they get out, if they get out, they don't have a dime to their names, and they stand more of a chance inside than they do out. What are the chances they will become recidivists with their names and reputations tarnished and with no jobs out here for them?
EXTREMELY high.
In the School to Prison pipeline, for example, Warner states that a child suspended from school gets a record, and from there, creates a habitual record because of the trust they no longer have with or in those who are assigned to protect and educate them. Will it be prison as punishment or an opportunity to reform?
Usually as punishment.
These bad habits IN SCHOOL will likely lead to them being incarcerated as adults, because the habitual offending pattern was already preset in school--places where Black children, even at the age of five and six years old, have been arrested and put in hand chains (handcuffs, often called "slave bracelets"). It has to be traumatizing or they won't come to expect it before they get out of school or even commit a real crime.
The "New Jack" of the 1980s set off a trend with Black babies born to addicted mothers, high on crack cocaine.
"SAVE THE BABIES" didn't save them, it just propagated an entire generation of Black children who were born addicted to drugs and with very little mental acuity with which to learn because of the stunted growth and/or mental capabilities from their poisoned mothers.
What happened to Black children?
How Did New Jack Start?
The movie "New Jack City" darn near spells it out verbatim, in a fictionalized format played by actors Wesley Snipes, Mario van Peebles, Ice T, and Judd Nelson, as well as other A-Street Players in Hollywood.
If you've seen it, you know how it ended. Don't think white people and Black people got the SAME message from it either. It isn't likely.
Almost no one also knows that the Clinton Administration not only heightened New Jack influx on Black America, starting with the Reagan Administration, but also attempted to strip low-income Black people across the nation of even the right to protect themselves against the locked-in gangbangers.
Now it has excelled WELL beyond that.
Warner states that "Like an oil pipeline, the school to prison pipeline must remain open if they are going to continue using mostly Black children for free prison/plantation labor."
Taking them from school and setting them up as alligator bait for prison from birth says a lot about the entire rouse of "aborted babies."
Wanting, desiring, Black people either dead or enslaved no matter what they had to do, felt like "good music and good times" to us, but the fire we didn't start was wetted down with reigning sadness just for being born the super-regulated skin color.
As newly imparted prisoners fresh out of grade school, able-bodied youth are literally LOANED OUT to corporations in exchange for little to nothing in terms of earnings. In other words millions of dollars that the workers will never see are paid out, but the workers will never be paid for it = SLAVERY.
They are are stripped not only of their rights as citizens, but of their human dignity because of something over which they had ZERO control.
Should NOT Criminals Be Punished?
Some would ask "Shouldn't they be forced to work?"
They shouldn't be allowed to just sit in a cell all day LAZILY doing nothing, then allowed to work out in the exercise area, take smoke breaks, eat snacks, poop and pee, shower, and then watch TV all day.
The taxpayers are paying for them to be there, they should have to earn their keep, right?
The "Bleed" as it were, Warner so ably states, is the fact that they don't know they ARE slaves.
He quotes Harriet Tubman, though others attempt to whitewash history by saying there is no real proof or evidence that Tubman made this quote, as she could not read or write. Obviously, they didn't think of her as much capable or speaking, seeing, or hearing either:
They say Tubman could not read or write, apparently she was incapable of coherent thought and speech as well...She wasn't deaf, dumb or blind and she could talk. Is it all that possible that she DIDN'T say it and someone didn't repeat what she said by writing it down? Is that totally inconceivable? Obviously, she was not an idiot.
The thief came to steal, kill and destroy and did so ... with too many Black people's permission who DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE SLAVES. Did not even know they did not come here as slaves in the first place.
If Tubman didn't read it or write it, she was danged right about it.
She never learned to read or write, but she was smart, calculating, and bold—and she was never caught during her 13 dangerous missions to lead her friends and family out of slavery. During the Civil War, she became the first woman to lead an armed military raid in June 1863.
Johnnie Warner says that if Black people they were educated to the re-enslavement piece, they might not be so inclined to get there or be proud of it, he reasons.
Or maybe the fact that they are just 'New Jack Slaves' wouldn't make them think they are so "big" in the eyes of their homies.
Besides, isn't generational entrapment and re-enslavement the same thing as generational welfare? If you're going to break people just to make them slaves, then you are responsible for feeding, housing and clothing them and all the little slaves you plan for them to have in the future.
New Jack Black America
The newly empowered USA stateside gangbangers not only raped and belittled young Black women through the influx of white supremacy and drugs and terroristic rap music, but they even cut their own mothers and grandmothers down and held them in contempt in exchange for money, drugs and sex.
This, in turn, spiraled Black communities nationwide into familial disconnect and bad peer relationships - producing a lot of unwanted, poverty-stricken and homeless children, but also caused them to self-destruct internally and mentally, thus increasing the amount of "super-predators" (Hillary Clinton's words) strolling the streets looking for alcohol, drugs and YOUNG ladies to prey on just to ease the pain of having to live while Black.
Yes. The weapons FORMED and they prospered.
But why? And what are we to do about it?
In the Long Term
Slavery is White European history and an interruption of Black history; not Black History.
Therefore, Black History is not American history, it is WORLD HISTORY.
It started long before there was an America, back in the Far and what is now known as the Middle East, in the topmost northern regions of Africa, Asia and Asia Minor, as well as in Greece and Turkey.
This is where the New Testament tells us that the Apostle Paul, a man trained in Judaic teachings, but also educated in Rome, began his journey into Europe (Rome specifically), to preach The Gospel of the Lord & Savior who met up with him ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS and changed his life.
We believe Rome started Christianity, but it couldn't have. It was named as one of the Top 10 Reasons for the Fall of the Roman Empire. They knew nothing of it until the Judean people showed up.
OUT OF AFRICA.
We like to repeat the scripture " No Weapons Formed Against Us Will Prosper " ... but we never complete the scriptural teaching of Isaiah 54:17, so we never complete the cycle.
No weapon formed against you shall prosper...
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AND every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,” says the Lord.
If the Black man had no rights the white man was bound to respect (Dred Scott/Taney Decision), then the converse on the scales of the balance of justice is that the white man made no laws a Black man/woman) was bound to respect.
Is it?
Or were we not supposed to discover that before they completed the cycle of Mass Incarceration as a substitute for Slavery? Furthermore ...
How true is the soothsaying that the one way to keep a Black person from finding $4,995.00 is to hide it in a book?
Dr. King's Last Four Speeches BEFORE "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (the last speech) were named:
"OUR GOD IS MARCHING ON" (March 1965)
"BEYOND VIETNAM" (April 1967)
"THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF A COMPLETE LIFE" (April 1967) and
"WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE" (August 1967).
Dr. King wrote many books and said a lot more than just telling us to spend the next 57 years after his demise ' dreaming ' about something that has never been completed.
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NOTE: Gallery BELOW contains footage of different library images of Bedouins in the area of Damascus, Syria that were circulated between 1892-1927.
