TEA PARTY MOVEMENT COMMENT

In response to an article I wrote about two African American men who were speakers at the American Tea Party Movement convention on October 8 - 9, 2010, one of the men, Bishop E W Jackson commented:

The writer is ignorant of American and black history. Those Judeo-Christian values are precisely what made slavery controversial from the time slavery was imported to this continent. It was a source of serious contention precisely because it contradicted those Christian values which most early Americans held. Slavery was not invented by Americans. Muslims were enslaving Africans long before Europe began to colonize Africa. Slavery is a spiritual problem born of the sinfulness of the human heart. It is not a racial issue. Christianity - with its ethic of love, forgiveness, reconciliation and salvation - is precisely the answer, but our country is moving away from that ethic. (Beware of what you ask for.) That is why you had Europeans having European slaves and indentured servants. Wake up from your racial myopia!
Bishop E W Jackson Sr.

My comment to the comment made by Bishop E W Jackson Sr. is:

This writer is very aware of American and African American history and knows that those white Americans who professed Judeo-Christian values and attended church religiously had no qualms about enslaving and brutalising enslaved Africans in America. Even after slavery was abolished these proponents of Judeo-Christian values continued to brutalise African Americans. In 2005 this writer had an article published about the story of Lena Baker (June 8, 1901 – March 5, 1945,) an African American woman who was executed by the State of Georgia after she defended herself against a 67 year old Christian white man who had been physically and sexually abusing her for several years. On the day that this dreadful torment of Lena Baker came to a head, her abuser had locked her in a building on his property for several hours while he and his son went to a Christian worship service. When this Christian white man returned from the service he once again attempted to rape Lena Baker at gunpoint and in the ensuing struggle he was killed with his own gun. Lena Baker was executed by electrocution by the State of Georgia on March 5, 1945, but was granted a full and unconditional pardon by the State of Georgia in 2005, 60 years after her execution. There are many other horrific incidents of white Christian abuses of African Americans documented in books like Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America published in 2000 and at the website: http://withoutsanctuary.org/

This writer is also very aware of and has written articles about the history of Muslims enslaving Africans and transporting those enslaved Africans to the Middle East and Far East. This article to which the good Bishop is referring is not about Muslims who are right now in this 21st century, the target of rabid Islamophobia.

This article is about the Tea Party Movement in America which is overwhelmingly peopled by white Christian supremacists, extremists and foaming at the mouth rabid racists.

The enslavement of Africans in America became “a source of serious contention” not “because it contradicted those Christian values which most early Americans held.” It was the continued resistance of enslaved Africans to the state of slavery and the continual debasement of their humanity that put the fear of God into the Christian white men and women who held the Africans in slavery. Africans refused to be complacent in a state of slavery and attempts to dehumanise them by white Christians.

Africans were resisting from the moment they were captured and bound; they resisted in the coffles, they resisted on the slave ships, they resisted at every point and by any means necessary. They struggled mightily against great odds. The names of those freedom fighters in the USA are legendary: Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman etc., The enslaved Africans in America also heard about the many enslaved Africans who fought for their freedom in the Caribbean and throughout the Americas because enslaved Africans were sold across the continents and the word spread. The crowning point was the revolution in Haiti. That revolution really drove the point home and very shortly after that victory in 1804, the British abolished their slave trade in 1807 then slavery 1834 -1838. The Americans abolished their slave trade in 1808 but it took a further 57 years (until 1865) of struggle to end chattel slavery in America.

Finally, to the good Bishop’s statement: “That is why you had Europeans having European slaves and indentured servants.” You are wrong my brotha! This writer is saying that Europeans in America did not enslave other Europeans. Europeans in America were indentured for a few years and then were free to live like any other white person in America. They were not stripped of their belief systems, language and names. They and their children were not ripped away from each other and sold to work their entire lives for no pay. It is utter nonsense to compare white indentured servants to enslaved Africans. It is very unfortunate that some of us are blinded by the illusion of inclusion. Watch out for that coiled, ready to strike snake that is the emblem of the Tea Party Movement, my African American Christian brotha!

POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME

LETHEM POLICE STATION REBUILT

SHORT HISTORY RUPUNUNI UPRISING

On January 2, 1969, the police station at Lethem, the administrative
center of the Rupununi District, was attacked by ranchers, mainly from the
Hart, Junor and Melville families, who were armed with bazookas, pistols and automatic weapons.

The Lethem Police Station was completely destroyed by bazooka shells and
policemen were riddled by bullets as they ran out of the collapsing building. Five policemen and one civilian were killed, the government dispenser (pharmacist) at Lethem Hospital Mr. Batson was shot and wounded, and a number of people, including the assistant District Commissioner Steve Sagar, the District Commissioner Motilall Persaud and his wife, were herded into the abbattoir and held hostage. The five policemen killed during the attempted secession are: Inspector #4412 Whittington Braithwaite; Sergeant #4590 James Anderson; Constables #5611, James McKenzie; 5691 William Norton and # 7178 Michael Kendall.

The Annai and Good Hope stations were also seized and the personnel held captive along with Government officials and civilians in the abbattoir at Lethem.

News about the insurrection reached Georgetown by noon that day and
policemen and soldiers were flown in to Manari Ranch (owned by Maggie Orella and her son) by Guyana Airways. When the government forces moved on Lethem the rebels fled, eventually going across the border to Brazil and Venezuela. The mastermind of the attempted secession of the Rupununi, Valerie Hart, fled to Venezuela, was never brought to justice for the execution of the five police officers and reports are that she still lives in Venezuela. These people are terrorists because they executed government officials and declared that the Rupununi District had seceded from Guyana and that they would set up a Government of the "Republic of the Rupununi". They are being sheltered in several countries whose leaders condemn terrorism.

ACID ATTACK HOAX

A Vancouver, Wash., woman attacked with acid on her way to a Starbucks coffee shop says she could feel her face sizzling as her skin began to burn.

"It was the most painful thing," 28-year-old Bethany Storro told reporters. "My heart stopped. I almost passed out. Once it hit me, I could actually hear it bubbling and sizzling on my skin."

Storro was getting something out of her car outside a Starbucks on Aug. 30 when she saw a woman, around her own age, standing before her and heard the chilling words that would change her life: "Hey, pretty little girl, want to take a drink of this?"

Then, inexplicably, the woman threw a cup of acid-like liquid in Storro's face, sending her screaming out in pain in the middle of the busy street. Passers-by rushed to her aid and called 911.

Storro had just moved to Vancouver, just north of Portland, Ore., to be with her parents after living in Idaho. She said she had never seen her attacker before that day. Police say the bizarre and horrific acid assault -- far more common in other areas of the world -- appears to be random. There are so far no suspects, and the motive remains unclear.

The acid was so strong that parts of Storro's shirt simply disintegrated, The Oregonian reported. Doctors said Storro suffered second-degree burns all over her face -- except, fortunately, on her eyes, which were protected by a pair of sunglasses she bought less than an hour before the attack. Doctors said the glasses may have saved her eyesight.

"I had this feeling that I need to go buy sunglasses," she said, according to KPTV in Oregon. "It's hard finding sunglasses that are cute. I finally found a pair that I liked, so I went and bought them. That was 20 minutes before the acid was thrown in my face."

But the excruciating pain didn't stop Storro -- who is hard of hearing because of two bouts of spinal meningitis she suffered as a child -- from joking around Thursday night in front of family members and reporters.

"Oh, my gosh, to be hard of hearing and blind? That would drive them nuts," she said of her parents. "They have to be in the same room for me to hear them. I'm just so glad it's a miracle."

Her father, Joe Neuwelt, was less jovial. "You can imagine how I feel," he said. "This is my little girl." Her mother, Nancy Neuwelt, called the attack "an act of evil," according to The Associated Press.

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• A Washington state woman made up her claim of an attacker throwing acid, police say
• Bethany Storro, who was hospitalized, and now may face charges
• Police conducted search of her residence
Read more about this story at CNN affiliate KATU.
(CNN) -- A 28-year-old woman who said an unknown assailant threw a cup of caustic liquid in her face has admitted her injuries were self-inflicted, Vancouver, Washington, police said Thursday.
Bethany Storro was being interviewed by detectives, and whether she will be charged will be up to prosecutors, police said.

"She is extremely upset," said police Commander Marla Schuman. "She is very remorseful. In many ways it got bigger than she expected."
Police would not speculate on Storro's motives, only saying the August 30 incident did not occur as she described and that there were discrepancies in her account, including wearing sunglasses in the evening.

They also had questions about the liquid's splash patterns on Storro's face.
Officers acquired a search warrant and conducted a search Thursday morning. They removed several undisclosed items, but said they did not find a substance that might have caused her injuries.

Vancouver had searched for an assailant, described as an African-American woman with an athletic build and slicked-back hair pulled into a pony tail.
Storro was released from an Oregon hospital on September 5 after undergoing surgery for her injuries after the alleged attack.
Police spent hundreds of hours on the case and the community came together to offer donations for Storro's treatment.

"It has had an impact on our community," said Police Chief Clifford Cook. "It has brought negative attention on our community that is undeserved."
Storro's family was also being interviewed, police said. They described her as being in a fragile mental state.Storro credited a new pair of sunglasses -- which she said she bought just 20 minutes before the attack -- with saving her eyesight.

"God is watching over me," Storro, of Vancouver, told CNN affiliate KATU in Portland, Oregon, at the time. "I believe in him. That his hands are on me and I can't live the rest of my life like that -- in fear. I can't let what she did to me wreck my life."

Storro told KATU that she had stopped at a Vancouver Starbucks about 7:15 p.m., just after she had gone back to buy a pair of sunglasses that she had seen earlier. The woman walked up to her and said, "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"
When Storro declined, the woman threw the contents of the cup in her face and ran off, Storro claimed at the time.

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