THE FEDERAL RESERVE: A CRIMINAL CARTEL IN WHICH THE WORLD IS SILENT ABOUT

By Fahim A. Knight-EL

No one wants to admit, especially not our elected politicians that the problem, which is destroying and ripping the United States and globe apart, is the Federal Reserve System, but this writer suspects that many of those who sit in congress and oversees the federal government has to know that the root of the economic and global woes are inextricably tied to how the Federal Reserve is allowed to function (the Fed functions with no rules and is all sovereign). However, to admit this fact and phenomena would automatically indict themselves and show forth their complicity in this criminal act. How about their oath of office in which they swore to uphold—defend and protect the United States Constitution against all foreign and domestic enemies, as well as observed the law. (Reference: YouTube Link Minister Louis Farrakhan:

All five hundred and thirty-four (534) congresspersons have violated their oath of office with the alone exception and dissenter being, the Republican Congressman Ron Paul (there might be a few others that have openly attested and protested the Federal Reserve). Some may agree with Paul in private, but lack the courage to stand front and center, to oppose by far, the most powerful entity in the world. Most politicians do what is considered politically expedient (it is not expedient to publically oppose Ben Bernanke—the godfather of banking and finance, if you desire to have a further political career) and are willing to be very opportunistic. If a politician can exploit a situation without bearing little to no negative personal consequences to extend their political life, then only is it worth the risk of venturing into certain waters. But to tackle the Federal Reserve could quickly short lease a politician who has aspirations of upward political mobility. (Reference: Congressman Ron Paul YouTube Link:

Some of my pundits and critics have deemed these type discussions as being old and/or obsolete because many have argued that the Internet has made this type information accessible and available to all. Moreover, in theory this might be true, but if you asked the average person of how the Federal Reserve and Central Banking systems functions; you might get a blank stare. I do agree that perhaps since the collapse of global economy many may have heard about these institutions from a surface perspective. But this writer is convince that 95% of the world's people still can not give you an intelligent response relative to understanding and knowing the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System.

Therefore, this writer does not view this topic as being exhaustive because of the many layers of deceptions which still begs to be decoded. We can not assume just because we may have come in contact with certain information and may have even internalized that information, but those that are in power, are often there, because of their ability to exploit the ignorance of the masses of the people (this is the formula to keeping them in power).

There is not a time that this writer does not pick up Eustace Mullins book titled "The Secret of the Federal Reserve" and or William Greider's book "Secrets of Temple" and walk away unchanged; each time this writer reads these timeless treatise more, and more are revealed, which I perhaps did not get in the first, second, third or even fourth time reading these treasured pieces. If it stands true that the masses have been exposed to this level of information and have failed to act on it, it then renders us latent and even active agents in our political, social, and economic demise. There is a war going on for the hearts and minds of humanity.

The greatest enemy to the freedoms of America and the international community is the Federal Reserve, it shrewdly connives and manipulate world events by manipulating the fluctuation of money; therefore constantly producing artificial crisis that is given life via the propaganda machines, which pit nations and people against each other, instigate racial and cultural differences amongst the people of the globe, antagonize religious differences—Muslims versus Christian, Jew versus Muslim, Catholic versus Protestant, Hindu versus Sikh, poor versus rich, black people versus white people, etc., this list by no means represents a complete list of the tricks and manipulation that the Federal Reserve and their arm of operatives play on humanity.

They are even behind sectarian conflicts of Sunni versus Shia and often it is their dirty invisible money that is backing both sides of these type internal conflicts. They truly do not give a damn about two religious peasants squabbling of religious dogma, as long as the ultimate objective still remains the same, divide and conquer. Their ultimate loyalty is to money and whichever side is propped up in power, it will be designed to serve their financial interest; winning is to be determined at any cost and does not matter which form of government is in power—all them will be subservient to the highest orders of the food chain. (Reference: YouTube Link Minister Louis Farrakhan:

Carroll Quigley in his book “Tragedy and Hope” stated: “It was this group of people, whose wealth and influence so exceeded their experience and understanding, who provided much of the framework of influence which the communist sympathizers and fellow travelers took over in the United States in the 1930s. It must be recognized that the power that these energetic left-wingers exercised was never their own power or communist power but was the ultimately the power of the international financial coterie.”
(Reference: Pat Roberson; “The New World Order;” p. 114. Quote lifted from Carroll Quigley; “Tragedy and Hope”).

The Federal Reserve always creates win--win situations for themselves and it is Ben Bernanke that's influencing the course of domestic and foreign policy (simply, he controls the money and the world's monetary reserve), it is not congress and it is not President Barack Obama—they are just visible pawns and low level operatives who are just following the script. (Reference: Congressman Ron Paul YouTube Link:

This writer has said over and over again, that 9/11 was one of the most deceptive ploys and criminal acts ever to be recorded in human history—imagine the planning that went into staging an event like this and lining up all the players who would participate in the duping, as well as creating symbols of radical militant Islam and personalities such as Bin-Laden, et., and other pasties. The people are always left embracing the decoy, which leads them into senseless directions while the wickedly wise use their ignorance to further the global agenda and New World Order.

9/11 would be the event that the Federal Reserve would use to call the world's debt-in and justify their actions by imposing on the globe an economic induced artificial crisis (depression or recession) and us peasants are left squandering over a dead economic corpse/carcass and for good measure they threw in the likes of a Bernie Madoff to sooth our pain and misery. The ignorant found a sense of comfort by accepting Madoff as a scapegoat and in reality, you can line up a million Madoffs and their ponzi scams and they still will not factor into the level of thievery and criminal activity that those Invisible Forces who operate under the cloak of darkness and secrecy have committed against humanity.

Many even felt a sense of reprieved that some petty conman billionaire went to prison and do not realize that the Bernie Madoffs are just convenient fall guys, but the real criminals are faceless and nameless—they from time to time throw out the likes of Bernie Madoff as fresh meat in order to keep the masses pacified and content with their oppression. The Invisible Rulers crimes are protected under sovereign immunity and will never be brought into a so-called court of law. They used 9/11 to alter and change the world—led the people to believe that their national security was under attack—gave them government sanctioned terror alert color codes and every now and then, they manipulate these so-called various alerts by elevating the code to red and/or orange whether or not these threats are real or not the masses of people will never know. This writer believes that this is systematically done to send the masses of people into panic mode, it makes them more susceptible to being controlled.

For example, this is how the market is tied to their efforts to induce panic and fear; thus this writer witness last week, the former head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, I believe it was on CNN and he was talking about the so-called recent breach of airport security involving the allege terrorist suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Chertoff was given some good information about what the United States needed to do to improve airport security and the reporter said in all fairness Chertoff is a consultant for one of the hardware companies that makes the full body scanners. So immediately, I asked myself, was he really interested in providing homeland security and after the reporter revealed his hold card could I believe that he was being objective or was he just a low level operative that was hustling panic and fear to make money.

They had already after 9/11 used the U.S. Patriot Act and other executive orders to strip the American people of almost all their civil liberties and this recent event involving this young Nigerian is giving them more cause to eradicate some more civil liberties and guess what we will applaud their actions and view them as working in the interest of keeping us safe. They also are now revisiting the 9/11 Commission report in which they have already constructed the language in the Military Commission Act, Anti-Terrorism Bill, U.S. Patriot Act, etc., ridding us of the freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.

The real terrorist sits in the office of the Federal Reserve and he is the most dangerous entity on the planet—he rules the world with the stroke of a fountain pen and with a money printing press, which is more lethal than all the world arm forces and military capabilities put together. Bernanke does not have to fire a shot; he just withhold currency, flood the market with to much money, impose unbearable interest rates, create inflation—overvalue precious metals such as gold and silver and most of all determine who eats and who starves. This is just too much power for one individual to have over humanity.

Thus, after reading this article you should stop looking for some Islamic Middle Eastern terrorist to wreck havoc on the American people and the western world, but since we are looking for such characters; thus, for good measures the Invisible Rulers will throw in the likes of the Fort Hood Attack and Nidal Hasan and the so-called Nigerian born terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (who I believe is an innocent young pasty) and even have the ability to create a new Osama Bin Laden in Anwar al-Awlaki. May be after these recent events the State Department will put Nigeria on the terrorist nations watch list and upgrade them from 419 scam country of the world. This writer doesn’t know how committed they are to radical militant Islam, but they are masterful 419 scheme artists.

Most of this is orchestrated in part from the Federal Reserve because they are masters at fear baiting in which each crisis is calculated in terms of dollars and cents—they set the global stock markets around war, which is one of their greatest assets and intangible commodities; next to stealing and exploiting people's natural resources and labor, war is highly profitable—this is why there is no sense of urgency to leave Iraq (still plenty of oil money to be made) and the U.S. is definitely not leaving Afghanistan (huge opium and poppy plants markets; to much dope to be sold and to much money to be made in the western governments economies) no time soon and now they are creating this public perception that Yemen is the new hub for terrorist activity (if I did not know any better these wars, Islamic nations versus Christian western nations resembles the Crusade Wars of the 11th Century).

Most Americans are so ignorant they can not locate Yemen on the world map, but you will find many echoing the sentiments of their invisible masters—death to the people Yemen. This is the same cry that they are echoing against the nation of Iran and even the present internal conflicts in Iran is being exasperated by money changers and the international bankers, which brings us right back to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve since its inception in 1913 was created by the international bankers to be impenetrable insulated by law and the world's treasures; this agency is more secret than the Central Intelligence Agency and unlike the CIA; it has no legal obligation to be transparent or answerable to the American people.

The United States Congress nor does the President of United States has the authority to intervene in the affairs of the Federal Reserve. This writer will not accept that this august body is oblivious and/or ignorant to the type of leverage and unconstitutional powers that the Federal Reserve possess. Thus, this writer is confident in making this statement because most of your congresspersons have often acquired a first class legal education from some of the top universities and colleges in America in which most of them are lawyers by training.

At the basis of our jurisprudence system lies the United States Constitution and having some understanding of the constitution is a perquisite to being an effective legal advocator and having the legal intellectual ability to interpreted the law and engage case law and legal precedents in order sway a jury or judge to consider the validity of an argument based on having the ability to meet certain standard of proof. Now, surely these legal counselors (U.S. Congresspersons) have read the U.S. Constitution where it plainly stated: "To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures". The U.S. Constitution pursuant to the above legal language did not grant congress a provision which to delegate our money system to any other agency or entity This writer took a course entitled, Constitutional law, but the professors never delved into the question of the legality of the Federal Reserve, but looking back this writer wonders why. (Reference: Congressman Ron Paul YouTube Link:

Andrew Gause stated "My contention is that the Federal Reserve Act was put into place in order for the wealth of the United States to be stripped and transferred to Britain so that she would be able to win World War 1 . . .behind the scenes, the banking powers in the U.S. wanted to help the British all they could, so they created this wonderful Federal Reserve System with its private notes, calling it the money of the United States, then loaning it to Great Britain, while at the same time circulating it here at home. Then on through the Twenties, when the war was over all the money created by the Fed came home to roost.” (Reference: Andrew Gause; "The Secret World of Money”; p. 90.).

Gause continued: “If you question whether the real purpose of the Federal Reserve was, initially, to provide England with funds to fight World War One, ask this question: Hadn't the English banking interests been to institute the Federal Reserve System for the previous 100 years? Clearly they had control of U.S. monetary policy. The Rothschilds had control of the United States' monetary system through the House of Morgan" (Reference: Andrew Gause; "Secret World of Money”; p. 90.).

I am quite sure they have heard the sentiments of Congressman Dr. Ron Paul on Capitol Hill relative to the Federal Reserve. So this writer believes that the problem has been well defined, but no ones seems to be anxious or even willing to offer a solution to reeling this out of control monster in and it is even sadder that our elected officials will not even engage in a debate relative to evaluating and assessing the present day necessity and relativity of such an agency called the Federal Reserve system that was empowered by the Federal Reserve Act.

The manner in which the Federal Reserve system functions make the Italian Mafia appear as child's play because in many instances the Mafia and their bosses have been reeled into Federal Courts where many throughout American history have stood trial and were convicted of violating U.S. law (some of the Mob bosses appeared to be untouchable). However, the U.S. legal system for the most part, did not allow the Mafia criminals that went afoul of the law to appear beyond criminal prosecution and often the long arm of the U.S. jurisprudence system eventually caught up with them. We were told early on that there was no one above the law, but this writer would later find out that this axiom was not true and there existed a sector of Elitist individuals that were above the law and functioned outside of all nations jurisprudence systems (even on a lower level, money determines how justice is dispensed, in particular in the United States and believe me justice is not blind).

Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chairman is willfully and intentionally breaking U.S. law every time he gives the Federal Reserve consent to create money out of thin air and flood the domestic market and the global market knowingly with worthless paper that in of itself has no value, it is an act of conspiracy against the American people and most of all it violates the United States Constitution.

This writer witness 60 Minutes CBS television news show this past summer, which was
allowed to take their cameras into the chambers of the Federal Reserve board meeting room and the public for perhaps the first time got a look at the architecture style and decorum of this solemn edifice. But after the interview with Bernanke, it was clear to me that the seat of power was there and not the oval office in the White House; However, Bernanke did not agree to allowing 60 Minutes to shoot a clip of its board meetings or allow these investigative reporters access to the minutes from the Federal Reserve Board meetings. If President Obama was really trying to solve America’s problems he would start with the ending the Federal Reserve and 50% of world’s problems also would be solved overnight

No system should be allowed to function inside America, a so-called Democratic society without any checks and balances. The Federal Reserve is perhaps the only system that possesses this type of unmitigated latitude, which makes it undemocratic and fundamentally wrong. If the Federal Reserve was not over and responsible for the overall management of the U.S. currency system, which ties it directly to the heart and soul of our society, it would be more acceptable and perhaps even viewed with less suspicion. If it was a government agency, at least it would be mandated to have some level of transparency. But it has the highest level of federal responsibility, although it is a private entity that is not bound or binding by the United States governmental processes. (Reference: Minister Louis Farrakhan YouTube Link:

The Federal Reserve does not have to seek executive, legislative, or judicial consent to determine U.S. and global monetary policy. It just says, be and it is. Ben Bernanke does not have to telephone the president of the United States in which to prior inform him that he has decided to raise or lower interest rates. The president like all other Americans receives the daily Federal Reserve monetary decisions from the mass medium outlets—he may have to even read about it in the Washington Post, Washington Times or hear about it on CNN or Internet.

Thus, often what the Federal Reserve does effects the political course of foreign policy—war and peace is at their disposal. The biggest deception, is that even in 2010 most Americans still think and believe that the Federal Reserve is “federal” agency, which is ran and operated by the U.S. Government. This is the furthest thing from the truth; this all powerful agency from its inception in 1913 has been a private corporation; in fact the Federal Reserve is a government that functions inside a government, it is a supreme government, but functions very separate and apart from the United States sovereignty. But its power and authority is recognized on a daily basis by all the nations on earth. (Reference: Congressman Ron Paul YouTube Link:

William Greider author of “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country” stated: “Eventually, the political hegemony of money must end. As history had demonstrated again and again, the economic system could not forever endure stable money. Sooner or later, the pendulum must move back in the other direction, either gradually or violently, if people wished to restore a vigorously expanding economy. If financial speculation and the developing vulnerabilities did indeed reach a climactic point of collapse, the shift in political values might be quite sudden. The confident money orthodoxy that had dominated the decade would be smashed in a single illuminating moment, its illusion of stability finally exposed by the deeper fundamentals that had always been present.” (Reference: William Greider; “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country;” p.715).

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

STAY AWAKE UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN,
Fahim A. Knight-EL

I AM NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2010: A NEW YEAR SAME AGENDA

By Fahim A. Knight-EL

This writer is not very optimistic about the future of America and the globe; thus, he predicts that 2010 will look just like 2009 because those who have led and caused the entire planet to become unbalance are still in power and they have set in motion systems that are running off automatic pilot destined to navigate with the highest level of precision and accuracy when it comes to deception and manipulation. It doesn't matter who is at the helm of national or international government(s) leadership because the projected course has already been pre-determined.

William Cooper author of the monumental book titled, "Behold a Pale Horse" stated: "I cannot and will not accept the theory that long sequences of unrelated accidents determine world events. It is inconceivable that those with power and wealth would not band together with a common bond, a common interest, and a long-range plan to decide and direct the future of the world. For those with the resources, to do otherwise would be totally irresponsible. I know that I would be the first to organize a conspiracy to control the outcome of the future, if I were such a person and a conspiracy did not yet exist. I would do it in an attempt to ensure the survival of the principles in which I believe, the survival of my family, my survival, and the survival of the human race, if for no other reason.”

Cooper continued: "I believe, therefore, that a grand game of chess is being played on a level that we can barely imagine, and we are the pawns. Pawns are valu¬able only under certain circumstances and are frequently sacrificed to gain an advantage. Anyone who has studied military strategy is familiar with the concept of sacrifice. Those who have seriously studied history have probably discovered the real reason we go to war on a regularly scheduled basis." (Reference: William Cooper: Behold a Pale Horse;" p. 2).

The United States Government is involved in two known wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where innocent people are being killed (but know telling how many covert wars that the CIA is involved)—United States veterans are returning home mentally and physically distraught and our own government has turned their backs relative to granting them the proper medical care and rewarding them with housing (in particular those with disabilities) and all the other necessary services they need to sustain a somewhat positive quality of life. It saddens this writer to see former U.S. servicemen return after fighting for the interest of the Super Elite and come back to America as throwaways in which many still do not realize that they were only foreign policy tools who bought into a false bill of goods—believing that their bravery, honor, valor, etc., and U.S. service uniform represented freedom and patriotism.

Cooper in "Behold of Pale Horse" makes another excellent point: “Before reading this book (Behold the Pale Horse) I advise you to play at least two complete games of chess. You must learn the rules THEY play by. You must realize objectively that some pieces are more valuable than others and that the king is the most valuable of all. You cannot learn reality if you get caught up in the fantasy that "it's not fair." You must come to know that the ultimate outcome of the game is the only thing that counts. You were lied to when you were told that "it does not matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." Winning in the world of the elite is everything. Indeed, it is the only thing. The power elite intend to win.”

“My research has shown, at this point, that the future laid out for us may be just about impossible to change. I do not agree with the means by which the powerful few have chosen for us to reach the end. I do not agree that the end is where we should end at all. But unless we can wake the people from their sleep, nothing short of civil war will stop the planned outcome. I base that statement not on defeatism but on the apathy of the majority of the American people. Twenty-five years ago 1 would have believed otherwise - but twenty-five years ago I was also sound asleep. We have been taught lies. Reality is not at all what we perceive it to be.” (Reference: William Cooper: Behold a Pale Horse;" p. 2).

We are accustomed to at January 1 of each year to making various New Year's Resolutions and do not realize that for the most part all of them are superficial because our lives are already planned unknowing to us—as slaves we have very little autonomy to determine the next step in our lives. But this writer is here to warn you, that we are going to be in it for a rough ride, as we transition into 2010; they are going to first change the United States currency and the global currencies—the U.S. Dollar has continue to sink to all time lows in which this writer is projecting that Ben Bernanke Chairman of Federal Reserve is going to rollout the Amero in 2010

/> and replace the U.S. Dollar; in particular after they have induced the present crisis in order to justify a new global monetary strategy and direction that will allow the Dynastic families to totally break ties with the old medium of exchange, as well as bearing no legal responsibility to redeem and/or compensate a valueless paper money currency held in trust by the ignorant masses (U.S. Dollar has become a liability). .

The Central Banks and the international bankers have a master plan to make the new currency lead you into believing and to forgetting that there was ever such a thing called the Gold Standard—after the Money Changers collapse the global monetary systems—the global financial markets will be begging for economic relief and Rothschilds will introduce to them to a new currency. This time around it will bear the Rothschild Standard (I am god and you are my slave. Trust me). Who in hell you think that has been running the money game for centuries?

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board once stated: "Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden confiscation' of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."

The same players are still in charge and although they are better disguised and they keep the masses so confused and distracted, as well as dummied down that it is no concern to them of who is truly ruling America, as long as they are allotted the crumbs that fall from the master’s table. John Maynard Keynes in his revealing piece titled: "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" stated: "By a continuing of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily, and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner not one man in a million is able to diagnose." (Reference: John Maynard Keynes; "The Economic Consequences of the Peace”; quoted in Ralph Epperson, Unseen Hand, p, 57.).

They are motivated by the lust of power and greed—they have disrupted the balance of nature and the universal order will eventually turn on them. President Barack Obama goes to Oslo to receive a Nobel Peace Prize as a recipient of one of the most prestigious awards to be granted to a human being for their outstanding contribution towards the advancement of humanity. Thus, demonstrating exceptional and outstanding work in the fields of the arts, sciences, human rights, civic affairs, business, intellectual advancements, politics, religion, etc., which expands and advances humanity’s quality of life by impacting civilization beyond the realm self and ordinarily the recipient’s work has to be seen as possessing global significances and implications.

Sorry, President Obama hasn’t done anything that would measure up to having achieved a Nobel Peace Prize and this is not to say that he might not live up to such a lofty award in his relatively young political career. He has not done anything in the area of civil rights and/or human rights which at least could have made the award justifiable (who was behind him receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?). If President Obama had any character and/or conscious he would have humbly turned down the award. I know he is the first African American commander-in-chief of the United States of America and to many, if nothing else this was a noteworthy historical moment worthy of international recognition (it appears on the surface that the Nobel Peace Prize selection committee and the African American community both perhaps saw it that way).

However, if the Nobel Peace Prize committee selected him because of his racial and ethnic status vis-à-vis becoming the first African American United States president, then this prestigious award has been cheapen and lessen to an insignificant popularity contest based on the perception of political correctness, as opposed to granting it to individuals who have made solid contributions towards human progress. Perhaps just before receiving the Nobel Peace prize President Obama announced that he was committing an additional thirty (30) thousand troops to Afghanistan—this military step was a further affirmation towards war and in no way differed from the previous administration of President George W. Bush who many viewed as a warmonger. The timing of the Nobel Peace Prize and the announcement of additional troops being sent to Afghanistan appeared to be an oxymoron and contradiction. (Reference: Council on Foreign Relations web site link: http://www.cfr.org/).

Many in the African American community have this unconditional support for President Barack Obama and we have placed him above offering a critical analysis. This writer had a discussion with his father-in-law who is close to seventy (70) years old and he doesn't think that African Americans should criticize America's first black president. Perhaps my father-in-law's loyalty to President Obama is a fair representation sample of black Americans sentiments. My father-in-law’s position conceivably has more to do with America’s history of racism and segregation in which he himself was a by-product of the Civil Rights movement and vicious the Jim Crow era.

President Obama to them symbolizes the hard fought struggles against racial injustices and his presidency represents the aspirations of the social progress that the United States has made in the last forty-five (45) years. It is not that this writer does not share their passion and understand their loyalty because he shares the African American experience with them—which encompasses the pain, suffering and success of a historical marginalized people. Many of the African American community has little understanding of American Foreign Policy and will never believe and accept that their vote and the electoral process had very little to do with President Obama becoming the first African American president.

Their thinking is a mere product of western corporate media (controlled propaganda) and many have failed to see and accept that President Obama's policies are as reactionary as was President George W. Bush in which most African Americans were extremely critical of Obama's Republican counterpart, but I am dismayed how they have turned a blind eye to the policies of this present presidential pawn.

He signed on to stealing the taxpayer’s money and rewarded the visible corporate elite for failing in a capitalist free enterprise system whereas prior to that time they had made trillions upon trillions of dollars (who were the true forces behind this conspiracy?)—Obama and the United States Congress rubber stamped this den of thieves being gift wrapped over a trillion dollars in U.S. Government bailout tax money. Yet, the American people aren't worthy of having socialized medicine and true universal health care coverage for all citizens (President Barack Obama’s health care reform is a joke and perhaps when he leaves presidential office, American Medical Association will hire him as chief consultant and handsomely reward one of their most loyal and faithful servants).

This writer would have rather seen our taxpayer’s money being allocated to benefit the American people, as opposed to greasing the palms of Lehman Brothers, AIG, Bear-Stern, Chase, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc. The corporate bailout was a criminal act of unprecedented proportion within American history. Black leadership has also been reluctant to challenge him and take him to task—I do not agree with a lot that Fox News report, but Glen Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have consistently challenged President Obama’s policies and in many regards, this is good for the country, it creates the anti-thesis (but even these pawns have already been factored into the other side of the duping equation).

This writer does not believe that President Obama should be giving a free pass to operate without a critical political assessment from his loyal black constituents (Many African Americans have never heard of the CFR, Bilderberger and Trilateral Commission these are the entities that Obama is loyal to; not to African Americans). If he is advocating a Foreign Policy of warmongering and has shied away from talk diplomacy and is not willing to concede that by overstaying in Afghanistan, it will continue to create a huge tax burden on the American people, he stands to be condemned and in reality just as the prior administration; there is no clear military strategies and objectives to this war. But many do not understand that the same driving forces who were behind all wars, are the one's who decided that President Obama should continue the course of action. Why do not we just take the time to look around us and just view the present day political, economic and social condition of America?

They perhaps could never grasp and accept that their is an all formidable shadow government existing of powerful and invisible men that decides who will sit as president of the United States and the appointment is made in closed quarters prior to the citizens casting a vote; moreover, they even give an appearance that democratic elections were held, but it is their money and power that influence the ballot. Democracy is a forest, but it allows the people to think and believe that they are part of a participatory governmental process. This makes the ignorant feel good and they will unconditionally fight to secure and protect the interest of the Invisible Rulers.

The Hapsburgs, Rockefellers, Harriman, Morgans, Oppenhimers, Kissingers, Rothschilds, DeBeers, etc., are the ones who function without borders and have no rules—they are the modern Sovereign Dynastic Emperors that’s responsible for choking the globe to death.

The first thing one should notice is that we produce very little in this country and we have become an import nation and simultaneously have transferred American jobs overseas; it has been sheer greed which has led to an economic decay of one of the greatest free market systems in the history of the world. The American people have become expendable and no longer will factor into the new economic paradigm; thus these vipers has found that they can maximize profits and exploit Developing Nations labor and natural resources (and make them believe that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund is working in their interest enslave them on their own lands), as well as human resources while at same time duping the American people into believing that there is going to be an American economic resurgence (the days of booming America is long gone and is never to return).

They foolishly trust the government and think that our economic collapse is temporary—the front men politicians and media personalities constantly assure the American people that a brighter future is on the horizon. This is done to curb apathy and silence any level of resistance. We will just accept this new form of slavery without opposition. The United States Government is bankrupt and more of the financial burden is being shifted to the American people (they have passed the debt on to the poor); yet the people are victims of corporate downsizing, employment layoffs, high unemployment rates, underemployment and the subsistence economy just doesn't have the earned revenue power to sustained the economic burden that is increasingly becoming their responsibility. They have replaced corporate America with Wal-Mart industry and private ran prison industry—they continue to score high on the public stock markets.

Why would the American people allow TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) money or better yet bailout money (some of it unearned taxpayers money) to be used to further enrich private capitalist empires and at the same time has wrecked the standard of living and quality of life for the every day citizens?

Tony Brown in book titled, "Empower the People: A 7-Step Plan to Overthrow the Conspiracy that is Stealing Your Money and Freedom" stated: "Most Americans sense a danger--a loss of control, an erosion of their standard of living, a social drift. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, special interest groups are at each other's throats for ever more scarce resources, and power continues to be consolidated in the hands of a small ruling class. Things have gotten so bad, in fact, that a majority of Americans--74 percent, according to a poll conducted by George magazine--believes that the government is involved in a large scale conspiracy." (Reference: Tony Brown; "Empower the People: A 7-Step Plan to Overthrow the Conspiracy that is Stealing Your Money and Freedom”; p. xiii).

The New Year 2010 is going to reveal which ultimate direction America and globe will be headed and our expectations should reflect a sense of urgency because the Federal Reserve is going to continually flood the market with valueless money. Bernanke is going to print so much worthless paper money in 2010 that gullible Americans will be enticed and lured into stockpiling this worthless paper, which to later find out it was a hoax and many are already being tricked into selling their valued precious gold and silver for the paper currency. If you had any sense you would hold onto your precious metals, it will serve you good in the very near future. But most have no idea that a new money revolution is on the horizon and the new currency is ready to be put into monetary circulation and at same time heighten inflation—give the appearance of prosperity and hopelessness—two different realities. The final objective is that ball and chain—slavery.

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

STAY AWAKE UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN,
Fahim A. Knight-EL

THE THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE: THE ROBBER BARONS

By Fahim A. Knight-EL

The arch deceivers of humanity have brought civilization to the brink of political, economic and social destruction. They are well disguised, insulated and masters of the art of distraction (the latest being placing Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban back on the radar screen) as well having the ability to move humanity in various directions for their financial benefit and working pleasure. Many of my fellow Americans do not have a clue about what’s going on around them (but this holds true for the entire globe); although they are the unfortunate recipients of the Elitist gamers who have worked piece by piece to dismantle our economic system and has created global economic disillusionment and has wrought the environment for anarchy, which will eventually lead to mass desperation—the masterminds behinds these ploys have many objectives. (Reference Texe Marrs; “Circle of Intrigue: The Hidden Inner Circle of the Global Illuminati).

The Invisible Elitist are hidden and veiled, under many layers and tiers of covers and deceptions; they operate out of the Bilderberger Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Club of Rome, House of Rothschild, Carlyle Group, Roundtable, etc., as well as many more secret societies. Its from these well selected federations that rest the seat of world power and influence in which most Americans know very little about these powerful front organizations (they ordinarily meet in secret and a few of these groups membership are concealed from the public). (Reference: Daniel Estulin: "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group).

It is their Machiavellian set of connections and intellectual minds that determine the economic markets, foreign policy, and international relations which effects all nations; they decide presidential elections (you did not think that President Barack Obama became the first African American president because of the United States electoral process and was not aware that he is an appointed pawn) and are the indisputable movers and shakers over the world’s systems that answers only to the Committee of 300, who ultimately answers to the Elitist twelve families (which are some of the most Invisible human beings on the planet and has enough wealth to choke a billion water buffalos). (Reference: John Coleman; The Story of the Committee of 300”).

There is not anything relative to an equation that occurs politically, socially and economically that their illuminated low-level operatives do not factor in. William Cooper, Carroll Quigley, William Guy, Eustace Mullins, Allen and Abraham, Texe Marrs, etc. Many committed a lifetime to investigating and researching their history and inner workings and decoding their vast networks of the Dynastic Families Empires—who established well thought out genetic and descendents bloodline organizations that would operate mainly from the banking and finance domain with the ultimate objective of controlling the world’s money systems. They accomplished this feat along time ago and this is why and how the global economy is in the condition it is in today. (Reference Carroll Quigley: “Anglo-American Establishment”).

However, since the 9/11 hoax, it has caused many people to revisited the theories of these above mentioned alternative writers which to seek a better understanding relative to deciphering some of these so-called unexplainable political and social trends that have impacted humanity in the last eight years. But still many believe that there are no Invisible Elitist Groups that functions outside of the established polity framework (their ignorance has made them prime candidates for cannon fodder) and as things in the social order continues to collapse around them, it is their denial that continues to cause them to view these induced phenomena as mere coincidental and will not entertain that perhaps someone has the power to bring about the instability of the global economic markets, as well as staged the American economic depression, which is making the Great Depression of 1929 look like child’s play because our suffering is disguised.(Reference: Daniel Estulin: "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group).

The ordinary working class people of the United States are tormented and anguished, but many do not know where to look which to gather some understanding of their circumstances and crisis (surely the corporate mainstream media will not tell thing and will continue to feed them hogwash). Our nation is utterly bankrupt the Federal Reserve and the Central Banks have the United States Government in a stranglehold while the politicians, intellectuals and talking heads continues to create this false image that we are in an economic recovery. What planet is they living on or is it that they are operating out of a bubble? Which makes them immune to the daily suffering of their constituents—useless eaters, but all the subordinate classes are deemed useless eaters other than those Dynastic Families that have the power to assign humanity their stations.

However, no politician is standing up saying lets reform the Federal Reserve System or lets restructure the Central Banking System in order to save the United States from further future economic meltdowns, but this would put them on a collision course with some of the most wealthiest and powerful entities the world-over. This is why you must admire the Republican Congressman Ron Paul from Texas because he has at least from time to time been critical of the Federal Reserve and very few politicians have stood with him to raise a dissenting voice against this un-police and unregulated agency that answers to no one and function with complete autonomy and sovereignty. The Federal Reserve is nothing but a criminal cartel which has a license to continually holdup the American people by selling our government bogus money and driving us into longstanding debt(Reference: Anthony Sutton; “America’s Secret Establishment”).
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This writer has been sounding the alarm for a very long time because the handwriting is on the wall and it will not be long before Invisible Elitist call for the entire outstanding global debt—this will create unimaginable pandemonium and untold suffering (blood will be up to the horse bridle), but these induce crisis historically has been proven throughout their reins of power to create prosperity and untold wealth for the Invisible Rulers. They calculate human suffering and misery based on how much financial gratification and the positive monetary yields that will be ascertained from the crisis—human suffering is just one of the high stakes or from their vanish point perhaps a low-stakes played on the money market.

This writer has never doubted the credibility of the likes of a Carroll Quigley who authored the book titled, “Tragedy and Hope” who wrote the dossier on the inner workings of the Invisible Elitist. Quigley was a Georgetown professor who was permitted access for two years in the early 1960's to the private archives of the Committee on Foreign Relations, a Rockefeller internationalist organization that compliments the work of the Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Former President Bill Clinton was mentored by Quigley who said in 1992: "...As a student at Georgetown, I heard that call clarified by a professor named Carroll Quigley, who said to us that America was the greatest country in the history of the world because our people have always believed in two things: that tomorrow can be better than today and that every one of us has a personal, moral responsibility to make it so." (Reference: Carroll Quigley; “Tragedy and Hope”).

The media is their most lethal weapon, serving at their disposal, as the mass propaganda machines (both electronic and print mediums) and like a musical composer these above mentioned Invisible powerful groups direct the affairs of all humanity to one tune—globalism and One World Government. They constantly give the masses a heavy dose of disinformation which to keep them disorientated and confused about the Invisible Rulers sinister agenda. They will become willing participants in their servitude by believing and trusting their governments who are serial liars, tricksters and pawns that work in the interest of the Invisible Elitist. (Reference: Gary Allen and Larry Abraham; "None Dare Call it Conspiracy").

The sad phenomenon is that humanity is so gullible and sheep like in spirit and are no match for the diabolical minds of Invisible Rulers. Very few modern analyst and researchers who understand the duping and hoodwinking has the ability to offer analysis right down to the modern times. Many alternative researchers know that the Rothschilds and their bloodline descendents staged an international financial coup in 1913 by co-opting the world financial systems and the international markets. But we have had a difficult time trying to wake humanity up from its slumber. (Reference: John Reeves; “The Rothschilds: The Financial Rulers Of Nations”).

They have been bent on acquiring all the gold and silver (and the natural resources) on the earth for over 2,000 years—their god is money and their religion is usury. Thus, as we move closer to 2010 and the media is steadily sensitizing humanity into believing that the United States economy and the global economy are on a positive upswing and is recuperating from record market lows for the last three years (although the economic data does not reflect this optimism, but most of your top level economist are card carrying members of the CFR). The masses of the people in last twenty-years have been made poorer and more destitute and have lost most of what was once deemed disposable or discretionary income. The middle class has shrunk to almost nonexistent (there are really just two classes of people the Haves and the Have Nots). They should be able to see the visible economic collapses around them relative to high unemployment rates, high inflation, housing foreclosure, soaring fuel cost, and like never before in my lifetime you can actually feel the economic crunch. This writer like many countless others was raised in what appeared to be one of those most prospers nations in the history of humanity, but something has gone terribly wrong.

The United States is bankrupt and people seemed baffled that President Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who just this past week announced to the American people and the world that he is committing an additional 30,000 United States Troops to the war in Afghanistan. People fail to understand that war is the only viable economic solution for the United States and it is the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that is keeping the United States economy afloat and without this option our government would have already been completely collapsed. War is extremely profitable, in particular if the poppy plant is the commodity or booty that is being sought after; there is no military objective to this war other than that President Obama was giving orders by the Rockefellers to secure the United States interest in the dope trade. Obama might be Commander-in-Chief, but he is just a window dressing servant and the Invisible Rulers are directing the affairs of government. Just take a good look at President Obama’s cabinet and top level advisors and that will give some indication of who is running our government.

The United States dollar has been systematically devalued and weaken—most foreign nations (China and Japan) who possess currency strength has already abandoned their U.S. trade ally—the United States has a foreign debt of close to 600 billion dollars owed to China and she is steadily mortgaging off our nation to foreign investors, but as the depreciation of the U.S. Dollar has dwindled to an all time low, it does not command the power and dominance over the world market it had twenty-five years ago. The United States Dollar has been dumped for more economically sustainable currencies such as the Yen, Euro, Renminbi (Chinese Yuan) and prior to September 11, 2001, it was unthinkable that other non-western nations currency would have more tangible significance and purchasing value than the most powerful nation in the world, but now the once economically powerful United States is being view as a weak nation and as a foreign investment liability. (Reference: Andrew Gause; “The Secret World of Money”).

No, one wants to lend the U.S. money because our nation is being strangulated by both a national deficit and trade deficit of 400 trillion dollars; a trade deficit is a calculation of the difference between the goods and services Americans sell to foreigners and the goods and services that Americans purchase from foreigners. A trade deficit with one country or in one year is not necessarily worrisome, and according to standard economic theory, will correct itself over time. But the theory has been proved wrong over the last 30 years as the United States has run consistent and increasing trade deficits. The enormous size of the trade deficits over the last several years raises the possibility of a severe international economic crisis should foreigners begin to dump the dollars they hold in world currency markets.

In addition, the United States has a 13 trillion dollars national deficit, in which the Federal Reserve is steadily printing money as illusionary currency and creating interest rates and trying to dump this worthless paper on the global market (but there are very few takers) as real money and most foreign nations are rejecting the United States dollar because they do not want to be left holding the bag.

Eustace Mullins in his book titled, “The Secrets of the Federal Reserve” stated: "The Federal Reserve is a fount of credit, not of capital. This is one of the most revealing statements ever made about the Federal Reserve System. It says that the Federal Reserve System will never add anything to our capital structure, or to, or to the forma¬tion of capital, because it is organized to produce credit, to create money for credit money and speculations, instead of providing capital funds for improvement of commerce and industry. Simply stated, capitalization would mean the providing of notes backed by a precious metal or other commodity. Reserve notes are unbacked paper loaned at interest.” (Reference: Eustace Mullins; “The Secrets of the Federal Reserve”; pg. 119).

However, the U.S. Treasury Department and the dumbfound American people are the best market in town for dumping a deflated U.S. currency that on the surface has already led to the economic collapse of Wall Street and the primelending mortgage scandal. What happened in 2008 to our financial markets was much bigger than the failures of AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear-Stern, Merrill Lynch, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, etc., their demised represented a shattering and snapping the elasticity of the U.S. dollar that for almost one hundred years had given the appearance of being resilient and permanent, but in reality, it never possessed any durability from its inception in 1913 (U.S. paper money was created only as an illusion), although it reined supreme because, it always gave the appearance to other global markets of being above reproach.

Yet, many never realized that the Rothschilds had set the standard for the U.S. currency and had insulated the U.S. dollar with mere economic prosperity propaganda which led others to engage in foreign trade and investments based on the U.S. dollar perception of sturdiness —this perception for almost a century lured global markets to sleep because the U.S. Dollar was being touted as invincible and many were led to believe that it would continue to standup against the test of time. They bought the worthless paper and filled their national treasures with the idea that this U.S. paper money (or Fiat Currency) was almost equivalent to gold and silver (hardcore tangible currency) of course this was the furthest thing from the truth and the global economy has suffered tremendous economic loses because traditionally they have been so tied to the U.S. dollar and they should have ran when the U.S. Government in the early 1930s abandoned the gold standard relative to its currency. (Reference: Edward Griffin; “The Creature from Jekyll Island”).

Robert Morley in an articled entitled, “World Prepares to Dump the Dollar" published on July 21, 2009 in online magazine called thetrumpet.com http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php? Stated: “What do China, India, Brazil, Russia, France and Germany have in common? These countries most often can’t agree on anything. But they are united in one strange—and ominous—way. They blame the United States for wrecking the global economy. And they think the dollar is the wrecking ball.

One rock-solid, foundational belief underpins almost all economic theory in America: faith in the dollar’s unassailable status as the world’s reserve currency. Foreigners hold so many dollars that they can’t afford to stop buying them, the theory goes. Therefore the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is sound. But the dollar is now coming under a concentrated attack. Are American economists about to get schooled?”

China and Japan although like the United States function off the Central Banking system (not to suggest that the Chinese and the Japanese Elite hasn’t been co-opted by the Elitist Rothschild Clan), but their cultures have insulated them from total domination of Rothschild Family money trust but this writer is no way suggesting that these ancient Asian nations haven’t been impacted by the Rothschilds Dynastic influence. Thus, to even to imply and/or give inference of such would be false and scholarly irresponsible because the Rothschilds control over the financial and money system stretches across all seven continents in which no one has been able to escape their dominance and influence.

However, the Chinese has always shown a resilience to sustain itself from the arena of vast international economic debt and this alone has kept the international bankers under control to a certain extent (they also have held on to their gold and silver). The Chinese are resourceful, inventive, discipline and the cultures has a built in instinct of fostering their people to live within their means (debt is minimized and goods and services aren’t completely tied to a credit base economy). They know how to stretch a dollar and have you noticed Asian businesses are steadily flourishing in the United States even in a so-called downward economy. (Reference: George Armstrong; “Rothschild Money Trust”).

President George W. Bush in 2008 at the behest of the Rothschilds banking family extraordinaire pulled the rug from beneath the feet of the national and global markets, but the United States dollar had been showing vulnerability as early as 1990 and was in a spiral decline—the Federal Reserve just kept on infusing worthless paper money into the U.S. economy as the solution to resolving our financial crisis—this wasn’t even a temporary fix and in fact it has helped to bring us to where we are in space and time today.

The wickedly wise knew and had anticipated that if the United States Government continued to borrow money from the Federal Reserve that it would be committing fiscal suicide because, it could never accumulate enough tax dollars to even service debt and it would eventually bring the U.S. Government to its knees. What manner of people would have that level of sophistication and possess that type of diabolic intent which to systematically deceive the whole of humanity? How much money for this den of thieves is enough money and will their propensity for greed eventually totally wreck the United States economy and the world economy. (Reference: William Greider; “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country”).

No one has the courage and the moral vision to standup to these damnable thieves and perhaps we all are guilty of being derelict in our civic duty to evoke the words of Patrick Henry “give me liberty or give me death” and work to take our nation back from this Invisible Cartel. They have mastered the art of divide and conquer—create racial disharmony, political discord, religious animosity, agitate class wars, etc., in which these social variables will forever keep humanity preoccupied in useless squabbles and conflicts while they maneuver to keep all focus off themselves.

This strategy has been successful for generations and they have mastered the art of distraction, as a herding tool to lead us into sport and play, games of chance and keep us in an infantile mindset while they rule the world with an impenetrable iron claw. The Invisible Rulers are the true warmongers and they do not give a damn about human life—money and natural resources are their motivational factors.

The pawn Barack Obama campaigned on a slogan “Change You Can Believe In” and as you can tell hasn’t really much changed from President George W. Bush administration to his administration because neither he or the United States Congress has the power to alter the political and economic paradigm that has been established by a small, but powerful cabal, in which all United States presidents and all world presidents serve at their pleasure. This was not President Obama’s decision to commit 30,000 more U.S. soldier to Central Asian country of Afghanistan, but he like his predecessor is only following orders. The U.S. Foreign policy remain reactionary under President Obama and this liberal pawn is continuing the mission of military aggression and international instigation just as the prior administration under George Bush who should have been charged with war crimes against the innocent people of Iraq.

Now, once again the United States has been pushed further into the Afghanistan War under the false pretense of neutralizing Al Qaeda and the Taliban in this strategic region where India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons. The United States has spent over a trillion dollars in the Iraq War and close to five thousand (5,000) U.S. soldiers have lost their lives fighting for the interest of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, these are the true beneficiaries of U.S. soldiers valor and patriotism, which they care about neither. Their interest is to expand their dynastic family empires—President Obama has no choice but to aid his masters, it was they who appointed him president and he is obligated to follow the script. However, this war might be the mother of all wars because it will unite the Islamic world and intensify their hatred for the West. (Reference: Andrew Carrington Hitchcock: “The Synagogue of Satan”).

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

STAY AWAKE UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN,
Fahim A. Knight-EL

IS ISLAM A TERRORIST RELIGION?

By Fahim A. Knight-EL

The United States Government and the American media after the 9/11 crisis brought the religion of Islam front and center and subsequent to this incident, Islam as a religion would never be the same again. Islam prior to 9/11 had almost lingered in obscurity, in particular in the United States of America. Although, the religion of Islam claims about two billion adherents and is perhaps the fastest growing religion in the world, it’s projected in the very near future to surpassed Christianity as the number one faith tradition in the world.

Thus, Islam, Arabs and Muslims appeared front and center, as the number one topic of discussion within a nation that had become so ethnocentric and so culturally arrogant—no one outside our sovereign boarders mattered. 9/11 created a hostile, insensitive and intolerable environment mainly aimed at Arabs, in particular but all Muslims in general, they were being viewed with suspicion and Muslim discrimination was going unabated. The American people perhaps already had some preconceived prejudices against foreign Muslims; perhaps for no other reason than they were not Christians and some had followed the lopsided reporting of the Middle East conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians—and had accepted the propaganda that the Arab Muslims were bad people because they practiced a “strange” culture and prayed to a God other than Jesus Christ.

But let me clarify that statement; Islam, perhaps had arrived to the Americas when the first slave ship docked on the eastern seaboard in 1555. Some historians maintained that the Moors during the 8th Century had voyages to the Americas long before Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ponce De Leon, Vaso Da Gama, Hernando de Soto, Ferdinand Magellan, etc., and had established diplomatic treaties with the Native Americans in the Western Hemisphere before the coming of the European explorers.

Most Americans were oblivious to Islam prior to 9/11 because of cultural ignorance and Eurocentrism. Although, Islam had formalized it-self in America in the 1800s and started to make inroads into African American community by 1913 under Noble Drew Ali and the establishment of the Moorish Science Temple of America. It later would make greater inroads into the black community under the leadership of Wallace Fard Muhammad (founder of the Nation of Islam) and Elijah Muhammad in the early 1930s. (Reference: Adib Rashad; “Elijah Muhammad and the Ideological Foundation of the Nation of Islam” article submitted by Sulayman S. Nyang; titled: “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Black Quest for Identity in the U.S.”).

The Nation of Islam in the 1940s attracted an ex-convict named Malcolm X and he helped Elijah Muhammad build many Islamic Temples and somewhat brought Islam to mainstream America. Islam for over sixty years in the United States was ignored and seen as an insignificant religious cult and was deemed unworthy of scholarly attention. Thus, as the black Muslims (Nation of Islam) splintered after 1975, many Sunni, Shia, Sufi, etc., Islamic groups and Muslim associations began to rise, which led to the building of eastern traditional Mosque and Masjids, in which the Islamic teachings was strictly based on the Qur’an and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad of 1400 years ago. Some would argue that this religious thrust brought a more authentic version of Islam and would relegate the Nation of Islam teachings as being heretic and un-Islamic. (Reference: Clifton Marsh; “From Black Muslims to Muslims: The Transition from Separatism to Islam, 1930-1980).

Islam in the United States has been able to attract people of all races, ethnicity, nationality, class, etc., they can be found at the highest levels of white collar professionals and businessmen to janitors and street cleaners. There is no longer this idea that only “Black Muslims” in America are faces of Islam. But with the influx of Muslim immigrants from Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Pakistan, Yemen, Palestine, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Iraq, Iran, etc., the demographics of how Islam in America use to look, thirty-years ago has changed.

The majority of Muslims are not terrorist and do not condone terrorism. But Islam’s theology has a covert duplicity in which no one has to openly advocate or even suggest Jihad (holy war) for some Muslims to be drawn to this ideological position—two Muslims sitting in Jummah prayer service could hear the same message being delivered by the Imam and both upon exiting the Masjid may have received two different and distinct interpretations of the message. One walk out of the Masjid and finds personal and spiritual content in Allah’s words, while the other thought he heard a more radical and militant espousing of the Qur’an and walkout with the objective of becoming a martyr.

Tariq Ali in his book titled: “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity” Stated: “The necessity to explain these reactions does not mean justifying the atrocity of 11 September. It is an attempt to move beyond the simplistic argument that 'they hate us, because they're jealous of our freedoms and our wealth'. This is simply not the case.”

“We have to understand the despair, but also the lethal exaltation, that drives people to sacrifice their own lives. If Western politicians remain igno­rant of the causes and carry on as before, there will be repetitions. Moral outrage has some therapeutic value, but as a political strategy it is useless. Lightly disguised wars of revenge waged in the heat of the moment are not much better. To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppres­sive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.” (Reference: Tariq Ali; “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity”; pg. 3).

This is what the west does not understand about Islam; it does not take the teachings of a militant and radical cleric to inspire Muslims to become a “terrorist” or “Jihadist” these are mere relative terms; they only have to subconsciously visualize the enemies of Islam and this sentiment alone is enough to create a “Jihadist” or “terrorist”. Perhaps to ease the social and political tension inside of America, the United States propaganda machines often try to relegate Muslim rage to insanity, militancy and radicalism that without reason or cause are bent on destroying America.

Then they demonize the likes of a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and portray to the public that he is a Muslim madman bent on destroying Israel and America, and if he is allowed to pursue nuclear armament; he would be irresponsible with possessing weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. and the west are in denial when it comes to the Islamic problem and are too arrogant to admit that there is a problem. The genie is out the bottle and Islam is too entrenched and it’s to far reaching be isolated.

Congressman Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania in his book titled, “Countdown to Terror” stated: “Civilization is at a disadvantage in the war on terrorism, as it is always harder to build than to destroy. Sixteen centuries ago the Roman Empire fell to barbarian invasions. Rome, with its cities, aqueducts, roads, and far-flung commercial empire, became a victim of its greater economic and social sophistication. The barbarians could sack cities and pull down aqueducts more easily than the Romans could rebuild them.”

“Terrorists are the new barbarians. These new barbarians are far less numerous than the barbarians of old, but hold the possibility of far greater power in their hands because of the existence of WDM. America’s highest priority must be to defeat the new barbarians. If we want to avoid the same fate of the Romans, we must stop the next, possibly catastrophic terrorist attack against the United States”. (Reference: Curt Weldon; “Countdown to Terror”; pg. 157).

President Barack Obama is contemplating sending additional United States troops to Afghanistan, thus this is neither the long term and/or short term solution to resolving radical Islam. If you do not know this by now, the war in Afghanistan isn’t about the Taliban or Al-Qaeda insurgents nor is it about slowing down radical and militant Islam from making inroads into Pakistan and/or controlling Kabul.

This war is being motivated by dope—heroin (Opium poppy plant) and who will control the future heroin (Opium) trade and to ensure this Central Asian nation oil pipelines remain open to western exploitation. The Elite-superrich uses poor and middle class U.S. servicemen to fight and die on foreign battlefields in order that they might continue to steal other people’s wealth and natural resources. (Reference: Lyndon LaRouche; “Dope, Inc: The Book that Drove Henry Kissinger Crazy”).

Those who orchestrated to 9/11 hoax had a number of agendas, perhaps none more important and sinister than demonizing Islam and to further bring into question, a marginalized people; in particular in this instance this writer is referring to the Arabs. Although the largest segments of the Muslim population are not Arabs and do not reside in the Middle East. Asia, Africa and even in the former Soviet Union there are more Muslims in these non-Arabic speaking lands than perhaps the entire Arabic speaking Islamic nations combined.

Former President Richard Nixon perhaps authored a monumental book titled, “Seize The Moment: America’s Challenge In A One-Superpower World” which he dedicated a chapter to assessing and analyzing Islam; President Nixon stated: “Many mistakenly assume that the Mus­lim world is equivalent to the Middle East. But more than 850 million people-one-sixth of humanity-live in the thirty-seven countries of the Muslim world. These nations have 190 ethnic groups who speak hundreds of distinct lan­guages and dialects and who belong to three main religious sects-the Sunnis, the Shias, and the Sufis-and dozens of minor ones. They cover a 10,000-mile-long swath of terri­tory extending from Morocco to Yugoslavia, from Turkey­ to Pakistan, from the Central Asian republics of the Soviet ­Union to the tropics of Indonesia. More Muslims live ­China than on the Arabian peninsula, and more live in In­donesia than in the entire Middle East. The former Soviet ­Union, with over 50 million Muslims, has more than any Middle Eastern country except Turkey. At current birth rates, there will be more Muslims than Russians in the former Soviet Union in the next century. (Reference: Richard Nixon; “Seize The Moment: America’s Challenge In A One-Superpower World”; pg. 195-196).

This ethnic, cultural, and racial diversity that exist in Islam is also a reflection of the mosaic of ideological differences in which all the Muslims subscribe to one holy book and that is the Qur’an. But it is there, from which the radical and militant Islamic worldviews are formulated and it’s also from there, you will find human beings who possess a deep sense of love and a relentless concern for all of humanity. The religion of Islam represents submission and calls for the highest expression of peace whereby the faithful submit their will in order to do the will of Allah (God).

Islam is an Arabic word which means peace, purity, acceptance and commitment. As a religion, Islam calls for complete acceptance of the teachings and guidance of God. A Muslim is one who freely and willingly accepts the supreme power of God and strives to organize his life in total accord with the teachings of God. He also works for building social institutions which reflect the guidance of God.

However, Allah’s will can be interpreted in many different ways by the Muslim clerics and the adherents of Islam and this is what has brought us to a crossroads in time and history. The United States in many ways has instigated this conflict between Islam and the west in which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with some long term planning had masterminded (let me stated it this way, they as well as others played a role in the hoax) the so-called bombing of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001.

Noam Chomsky in his book titled, “Hegemony or Survival; America’s Quest for Global Dominance” stated: “Important questions should have risen at once: what constitute terrorism? How does it differs from aggression or resistance? The operative answers are revealing, but the questions never entered the arena of public discussion. A convenient definition was adopted: terrorism is what our leaders declare it to be. Period. The practice continues as war is redeclared”. (Reference: Noam Chomsky; “Hegemony or Survival; America’s Quest for Global Dominance”; pg. 109-110).

They strategically needed a new make believed enemy after the 1989 collapse of the former Soviet Union in which Islam became the choice. This decision would allow the United States Government to justify its aggressive Middle East foreign policy and eventual military decision to invade Iraq under the guise of toppling a military dictator in Saddam Hussein who was allegedly involved in state sponsored terrorism. The ignorant applauded the United States military assault while very few saw the real Bush objective, which was stealing Iraqi oil.

The U.S. Government rolled the dice by feeding the people a heavy dose of propaganda and decoys—demonizing Iraq and Saddam Hussein, but simultaneously blaming Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden as the masterminds behind 9/11 hoax. Osama bin Laden who was in hiding in the rugged mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, but he was being made public enemy number one and become the poster boy for terrorism. General Colin Powell and President George W. Bush used the most powerful bully pulpit, the United Nations to make their case in 2003 against the innocent nation of Iraq. Now, reason with me; sixteen of the allege hijackers were from the Kingdom, Saudi Arabia which is a puppet Islamic regime and a staunch ally of the United States and yet it was the United States ally Saudi nationals who were active participants in one of the most horrific crimes to ever take place on the shores of America.

The United States Government following 9/11 found it easy to rationalize this type of Saudi Islamic militant fundamentalism and continued diplomatic international relations with the perceived 9/11 culprits (this writer is quite aware that all the external 9/11 players were only pasties); moreover U.S. Foreign Policy towards Saudi Arabia never blinked an eye, before or after 9/11. The Saudis represented a vital and strategic interest to the United States national security, which is our government dependency on Middle Eastern oil. The oil dependency has allowed the CIA and the United States State Department to overlook the Saudis spreading and funding a radical and militant Wahhabist Islamic philosophy throughout the Islamic world. It would be acts of terrorism that would heighten these types of political contradictions. (Reference: Richard A. Clarke; “Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror”).

Michael T. Klare in his book titled, “Blood and Oil” stated: “The most significant of these is our unseemly alliance with Saudi Arabia, which, from the very beginning, has rested on the understanding that the United States would defend the House of Saud against both foreign and domestic enemies in return for privileged access to Saudi Oil. This arrangement must now be terminated. We can not and should not bear the ultimate responsibility for the royal family’s survival”. (Reference: Michael T. Klare; (Reference: Michael T. Klare; “Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Dependency on Imported Petroleum”; pg. 189-190).

Thus, in many ways, the United States Foreign Policy instigated this antagonistic relationship between themselves and Islam. If Al- Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden had so-called spearheaded the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States according to the 9/11 commission report, then logically speaking, it never made military sense to attack Iraq and Saddam Hussein, if Iraq had no political affiliations with Al-Qaeda and possessed no Weapons of Mass Destruction. (Reference: George Tenet; “At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA).

President Bush was obsessed about launching a military attack against the innocent people of Iraq—let me get this right for you because even in 2009 many still have not gotten it, if sixteen of the nineteen the so-called 9/11 terrorist hijackers originated out of Saudi Arabia, why wasn’t there military strikes against the nation who committed this horrid crime of blowing up the World Trade Center? (Reference: Scott McClellan; “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception”).

Surely, you would have thought that the United States must have learned something from the former Soviet Union who had fought and lost an over ten year war in Afghanistan against the Taliban (remember in this conflict the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were the good guys, which was financed by the CIA) and left as a shamelessly and defeated military superpower.

Islam and Muslims became expendable because the United States Government had its eyes on the prize, which was gaining control over the Ramallah Oil fields and stealing the nation of Iraq’s oil and the consequences to do so, will continue to reverberate throughout western society in what is deemed terrorist attacks. The American people seemed shocked every time an incident like the one that took place recently at Fort Hood Texas, in which a United States Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly turned on his fellow soldiers—killing thirteen innocent soldiers and wounding dozens of others. The Holy Qur’an forbad the innocent killing of fellow Muslims and many Muslims throughout the western world and the Islamic world view the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as wrong and unjustifiable. (Reference: Andy Stern: “Oil: From Rockefeller to Iraq and Beyond”).

The United States Arm Forces will continue to have incidents of mutiny and what amounts to treason, if they do not reassess their position relative to Islam and Muslims. Islam is different than Christianity in many ways—many Muslims will not publically say this, but Muslims have a greater patriotism and loyalty to Islam than to any national or sovereign government. Muslims recognizes Allah (God) as their protector and redeemer and he Allah (God) is one and there is none like him. (Reference: Qadi ‘Iyad Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi’; “Muhammad Messenger of Allah”).

The Qur’an stated, "Say: We believe in Allah and that which was revealed to us, and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and to the Prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we submit". Qur'an 3:83

Islam is a religion of peace and is not a religion of violence, but the Qur’an admonishes that Muslims have the right to fight with those who fight with them. President Bush declared war against Islam and Muslims after 9/11 and he tried to disguise the war under the guise of being a war against terrorism. Noam Chomsky further stated: “After eight years, more reactionary sectors of the Reagan-Bush 1 administrations regained political power in the contested 2000 election. They recognized that the 9-11 atrocities provided them with an opportunity to pursue long-standing goals with even greater intensity, closely following the script of their earlier tenure in office”. (Reference: Noam Chomsky; “Hegemony or Survival; America’s Quest for Global Dominance”; pg. 109). Here is clip of Bill O’ Reilly and a guest this is the type of ignorance that will keep the conflict between Muslims and the west hot: http://newsone.com/nation/oreilly-we-can...

Thus, United States isn't in a moral position to determine who should be labeled a terrorist nation. And have we picked a fight that we can not win and ultimately incidents of so-called domestic terrorism will continue to haunt us as a nation. Islam’s theology similar to the other two major world religions—Judaism and Christianity teaches the principles of brotherhood, love, charity, morality, and it circumscribes what is deemed ethical under Qur’an and the Sunna relative to govern the Muslim as an individual and as a community and it stands as the foundation of Islam.

Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the last revealed word of God and the basic source of Islamic teachings and laws. It deals with a variety of subjects including the basic beliefs of Islam, morality, worship, knowledge, wisdom, God ­and-man relationship, and relations among human beings. Comprehensive teachings on which sound systems of social justice, politics, economics, legislation, jurisprudence, law and international relations can be built from an important part of the Holy Qur' an.

But since Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (Peace and Blessings of Allah Upon him) received his first so-called divine revelation from Allah (God) in 610 A.D. via the angel Gabriel (Jabril). Islam has had a controversial existence—most western scholars would argue that Islam spread by the sword and Muslims conquered many foreign nations based on violence and even in 2009 media continues to perpetuate that Islam is a violent religion and portray Muslims as being bent on Jihad (advocating holy war) against the west and the enemies of Islam.

Islam enjoins faith in the oneness and sovereignty of God, which creates an awareness of the unity and meaningfulness of the universe and of man's place in it. This belief frees him from all fears and superstitions by making him conscious of the presence of the Almighty God and of man's obligations to Him. But this realization must be expressed and tested in action. Faith alone is not enough. Belief in one God requires that we look upon all humanity as one family under the universal omnipotence of God—the Creator and Nourisher of all. Islam rejects the idea that there is a "chosen people" making pure intention, faith in God, and good deeds the only way to heaven. Thus a direct relationship is established with God, open to all alike, without any discrimination or intercession.

The Old Testament teachings of the Torah liken to the Qur’an does not condone certain behavior and there were penalties applied to those who violated or broke the law. But you rarely hear someone referring to the teaching of the Torah as having a propensity to advocate violence. Islam, based on western propaganda has in many ways been stigmatized and people view Muslims with much more suspicion since 9/11. Islam and Muslims have been unjustly discriminated against, which has had a political backlash in what the United States Government calls increasing incidents in homegrown terrorism.

Muslims and Mosques throughout America since 9/11 have been placed under Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance and are being constantly monitored by various levels of Homeland Security agencies, which to counter any subversive plots that might lead to so-called acts of domestic terrorism. Islam as a religion and subculture has taken a firm root within American society in which immigrant Muslims and native born Black American Muslims share a religious allegiance and often this complex racial and cultural differences are interwoven into brotherhood that is built around the principles of Islam.

The homegrown so-called terrorist concern is centered on the U.S. Government failure to admit that Islam has developed and evolved as a major ideological religious school of thought in Christian America and has taking root throughout the United States, which is being disseminated pursuant to an enculturation process taking place amongst native born African American Muslims and their relationship with Middle Eastern Muslims. The religious bond they share transcends race and class (Islam as a religion seems to be the glue that holds these two distinct cultures together).

Black Americans represent one of the largest non-Middle Eastern Islamic blocs in the United States and many of them each year are making Hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia and starting to visit other Islamic nations and societies. In some instance, there has been a forged alliance between Middle Eastern Muslims and African American Muslims. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency after 9/11 started all types of covert and overt surveillance aimed at monitoring Islam and Masjids across America, in particular in cities like Newark, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Detroit, Michigan, New York City, San Francisco, California, Washington, D.C., etc., where there were large Middle Eastern and African American Muslims attending the same Masjids.

But it is the specific acts of worship termed the Five Pillars of Islam which provide the framework of Muslim spiritual life. These are given below:

1. The declaration of faith. "I bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except God (Allah), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger." The Prophet-hood of Muhammad obliges Muslims to follow his exemplary life in every respect.

2. Prayers are prescribed five times a day as a duty towards God. Prayer strengthens and enlivens belief in God and inspires man to higher morality. It purifies the heart and controls temptation, wrong-doing, and evil.

3. Fasting during the month of Ramadan. This means abstention from food, beverages, and sex from dawn to sunset, and curbing evil intentions and desires. It teaches love, sincerity, and devotion. It develops patience, unselfishness, social conscience, and willpower to bear hardship.

4. Zakah is a proportionately fixed contribution collected from the wealth and earnings of the well to do and rich. It is spent on the poor and needy in particular and the welfare of the society in general. The payment of Zakah purifies ones income and wealth and helps to establish economic balance and social justice in society.

5. Hajj, or pilgrimage to the Ka'bah in Makkah, once in a lifetime, provided one has the means to undertake the journey. (Reference: The Islamic Affairs Department the Embassy of Saudi Arabia; pamphlet titled, “Understanding Islam and the Muslim”).

The United States Patriot Act had made it easy for the law enforcement community to violate the United States Constitution—illegally wiretapping, conducting seizure forfeiture proceedings, imprisoning and jailing Muslim defendants without the benefit of due process of the law, etc., all the government has to say is that you’re a potential threat to United States national security and they suspect that you’re conspiring against the United States Government—thus, this alone is enough to bring you before the U.S. Justice system and no tangible evidence is needed to apprehend and detain you indefinitely.

Muslims are frustrated and tension has steadily risen and the United States Government is somewhat in denial of the Muslim paradigm and in all reality, the U.S. Government does not know how to rectify the problem. Yes, the two wars—Iraq and Afghanistan is a point of contentious political discord between the United States and Muslims in America and Muslims outside of America. This will continue to be fuel to the fire along with the United States reactionary foreign policy; if we continue to allow it to go unchallenged by the citizens of this great nation.

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

STAY AWAKE UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN,
Fahim A. Knight-EL

Lets Talk About Race, History, and Social Politics: Question and Answer Session; Bring it On

By FAHIM A. KNIGHT-EL

This article/blog came about as a series of Internet conversations and debates that this writer has had with a number of Caucasians relative to ancient Kemet (Egypt), slavery, culture, reparations and the historical paradigm that evolves around the African/African American experience. The topic of race, just like the topic of religion, is one of those hypersensitive topics and often people become immediately defensive, aggressive, agitated, angered, closed minded, etc. When discussing such a topic, time and again, human beings seem to possess a need to secure their place in the discussion by consciously and/or subconsciously elevating their race, ethnic group, tribe, etc., into the best positive light possible (I think from time-to-time we all are guilty of this).

We have an even greater need to define the political, economic and social history of our clan at all cost, and often the first casualty of our misconstrued reality, is always truth. Perhaps this is a tragic human defect and it will continue to lead to social discord, if humanity fails to reckon with the planet and rapidly move away from injustice—and man’s inhumanity to man. (Reference: Joel Kotkin: “Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy”).

Thus, sometime even at the expense of truth, which becomes a compromise for accuracy, legitimacy and genuineness; this is often where humanity has found itself. Many cultures and races, and even us as individuals, are guilty of fallen into this trap of putting forth nationalism and obscuring the veracity of the historical evidence in order to make our case on the stage of human civilization, at any and all expense. (Reference: Cornel West; “Race Matters”).

This discussion pertaining to Kemet, in particular ignited a controversial debate between myself and approximately twenty or so Caucasians who were Internet Bloggers on the David Icke web site. My thesis centered on Kemet (Egypt) being a society that was originally inhabited and built by the Nubians 3,000 years before Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ben Yosef) and I came to this conclusion by reading the works of white scholars such as H.G. Wells, Will Durant, Gerald Massey, Godfrey Higgins, Albert Churchward, George Frazer, etc., which they either came directly out and stated that Kemet was Nubian or gave strong historical inference that indeed Kemet (Egypt) was perhaps Nubian (black African) land. (Reference:Ivan Van Sertima: Great African Thinkers: Cheikh Diop”).

This writer, equally understands that Kemet (Egypt) had been invaded by external forces and civilizations such as the Greeks, Romans, Turks, Phoenicians, Italians, Arabs, etc., and these invasions led to the history of racial miscegenation in which ‘genotypical’ and ‘phenotypical’ the racial identity and physical characteristics of the people of Kemet began to change from how the original people that once inhabited Kemet use to look. But we should not mistaken the light skinned and Caucasian features of the people today who presently occupy Kemet as the original people, because they are not, but these Semitic tribes are mere imposters and have usurped the history and culture of the original people who once occupied Kemet (Egypt). (Reference: George G.M. James; “Stolen Legacy).

The religion of Islam and Christianity are new religions to this region—the Nubians had mastered moral and ethical principles long before the arrival of so-called “Holy” books were to be introduced into Kemet (of course you must know that all spiritual schools thought had their origin in Kemet and Cush). They were in line with the universal order of things. This writer know and understand that racism is a disease and within the American context, it is incurable and will continue to serve as a divisive variable, until we overcome our denial relative to this race issue, which will continue to work towards impeding human social progress. Moreover, my citing that Kemet (Egypt) was Nubian (African and non-Semitic) stirred a hatred and racist frenzy that appeared to be much deeply rooted than our disagreements about the racial identity of the ancient Egyptians. But their disagreement went to the core of a racist mindset that for centuries have been conveyed in the popular political culture, in particular of the United States and Europe and it is still very much unresolved. (Reference: Yosef A.A. Jochannon; “African Origins of Major "Western Religions").

Many of them detest African people and how dare this so-called American “Negro” attribute the highest cultural civilization—Egypt to people of African descent; this by far is the greatest civilization on earth, which to ever be recorded by man. It was unthinkable that this writer would attribute such loftiness to the Nubian (African-Black) race; to them this was blasphemy of the highest order and absurd, because of the unjust perception and racial bias that some Caucasians hold against people of African descendent; thus, even within the intellectual arena. (Reference: John G. Jackson and Willis N. Huggins; “A Guide to Studies in African History”).

However, this writer does not object to their right to have an opinion on all matters including critiquing the African experience and even disagreeing with me and arguing from a basis of historical interpretation and demonstrating an intellectual dissenting conviction that is rooted in research and scholarly evaluation and assessment. This approach is acceptable and is deserving of intellectual consideration and any critique rendered under these premises would hold a lot more merit. We live in the United States of America where free speech is protected under the First Amendment right of the U.S. Constitution and it does not matter how distasteful or obnoxious the speech may be, it too is protected under the United States Constitution, just as any speech that you and I would find agreeable and therefore to censor one’s right to free speech violates one of the fundamental rights that undergirds our fragile democracy. (Reference: Chip Smith; “The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy”)

Many that participated in this dialog could not phantom African Nubians constructing the pyramids of ancient Kemet or at least their racial attitudes did not allow them—because in some instances, it was this experience from which their socialization process took shape and developed from which became their worldview. They do not see African people as being intellectually equal to Caucasian people and in most instances they view African people as being inferior, which is rooted in a social structure of white supremacy—this breeds a system of racism on every level—politically, socially and economically. It also feeds into old culture serotypes that Africa is the "Dark Continent" and black people gave nothing worthwhile to civilization. (Reference: Tim Wise; “White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son”).

Thus, as you read some of the responses in this article you will see the obvious and many of the questions and answers were ingrained in the socio-politics of racism and the 450 year old dilemma and the 6,000 year conflict that has existed since he has been on the planet, which still speaks to race and racism as being unresolved within the United States of America. This writer did minimum editing and for the most part, is presenting this dialog within the context, grammar and thoughts conveyed by these bloggers in order captivate the mindset and present this thinking to my reading audience of the Keeping Real Think Tank, in particular and the broader reading audience in general, for further investigation. (Reference: Michael Bradley; “Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression”).

Bendoon stated: Africans hadn't invented the wheel in 1500AD, are you honestly saying that they had chariots in 2000BC? All this stuff is pure fantasy, Black Egyptians, right sure.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Yes, to a racist Eurocentric mindset, it might be considered fantasy, but the pyramids, science and architecture of Kemet stands as proof positive that the Nubians had a high civilization that is unmatched by any other civilization throughout the annals of time. Your comment is emotional and lacks any scholarly proof. This is the type of thinking that we must uproot because it’s this type of thinking that has helped to take humanity off its course; because it lacks respect for other cultures and civilizations and view western civilization as being superior. Please cite your proof and documentation that “All this stuff is pure fantasy, Black Egyptians".

Kingmob stated: Its a only a foolish statement to a fool. You are a racist, and unable to see beyound color unfortunately. Just remember, that adding a few accomplishments on the merit of color adds no value to the "black" race in the eyes of most objective people.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Cheik Anta Diop in his book titled, “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality” stated, “Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and can not be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt. In particular, the study of languages, institutions, and so forth, can not be treated properly; in a word, it will be impossible to build African humanities, body African human sciences, so long as the relationship does not appear legitimate. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective, nor unruffled; he is ignorant, cowardly, and neurotic. Imagine, if you can, the uncomfortable position of a western historian who was to write the history of Europe without referring to Greco-Latin Antiquity and try that off as a scientific approach.” (Reference: Cheik Anta Diop; “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality”).

Zedd stated: That's probably because the people who espouse the ideas are militant in tone and deride white people at any opportunity. Like you just did in your above post about one white person not having their head up their ass, imply the rest (or mostly all) do. It is also because people like yourself ignore any questions and immediately play the race card on those who question you instead of answering legitimate questions, like the one previously posted about why the Egyptians portrayed themselves as being tan, and yet others as being black and white.

Fahim A. Knight-El: I do not think surveying the historical record and evaluating past evidence, is neither black supremacist nor white supremacist in scope, but if the evidence and the data draw us to a reasonable conclusion about certain aspect of history; how willing are we to accept certain outcomes, even if those finds go against the popular version of the truth? Or do we find comfort for the most part, based on our own cultural socialization process and relegate truth to cultural bias and stereotypes. For example, many Caucasians can not even phantom that the people of Kemet were Nubians and often this position is not based on any scholarly findings or intellectual outcomes, but their disposition is often driven by the raw emotions of racism, which is often rooted in a social structure. (Reference: Yosef A.A. Ben Jochannon; “The Black man of the Nile and Family”).

Rapunzel stated: You have never produced any evidence the ancient Egyptians were Nubians. The Egyptians didn't think they were Nubian since they portrayed Nubians very differently than they portrayed themselves.

This has been mentioned before but you fail to address it. Why? Can you explain why Egyptian women were painted yellow if they were jet black? And why Egyptian men were painted red if they were jet black?

Fahim A. Knight-El: The Caucasian history only goes back 6,000 years. Thus, that much is a fact; I have given many sources through out the thread; perhaps you need to re-read the thread. Who is the original man? (Reference: Elijah Muhammad; “Message to the Blackman of America).

Bendoon stated: As opposed to your racist Black supremacist mindset? Look its been proved already in this thread that the Egyptians weren't Black, just leave it out you are only making a fool out of yourself. They even left us some mummies with straight red and blonde hair as proof.

Fahim A. Knight-El: I noticed every time someone challenges you all on this forum relative to this topic; you are quick to use the term "Black supremacist" what ever that means, as to dismiss the facts and truth. This is not Black supremacist, the Caucasian history only goes back 6,000 years (that is a truth and fact) and ancient people that occupied Kemet goes back tens of thousands of years (classified as the lineage of the original man, which is also connected to Cush (Ethiopia)—this is where scientist keep on finding fragments of the original man). Now, you do the math and you review the record of the anthropologist and Egyptologist relative to when the external invaders ventured into Kemet. Moreover, and most of these conquering nations left their print relative to miscegenation on the people of Kemet (From the word Chem Land of the Blacks or burnt faces). All of the races you mentioned or colors are rooted in the fathers and mothers of civilization genealogy, which is the original man. (Reference: Paul Lawrence Guthrie; “Making of the Whiteman: History, Tradition and the Teachings of Elijah Muhammad).

Bill23 stated: you may well be right on alot of things but saying 'Remember the Caucasian history only goes back 6,000 years' is like me saying 'white people built the Great Pyramid of Giza'. dont let your hatred of white racists cloud your judgment.

Fahim A. Knight-El: I think my body of work on this forum speaks for it self. I do not have a hatred for whites. I side more with justice and my topic on Kemet was to correct some of the inaccurate historical information, which in many instances has been racist inspired and was designed to denigrate and minimize the African contribution towards world civilization. Moreover, for me to mention that the Caucasian's history only going back 6,000 years was to counter the claim that the people of Kemet was European as some ill-informed scholars and laymen alike have maintained. This article was not written to elevate the Nubian race over, lets say the Semitic race (or so-called mix racial-ethno who by western standards and racial classification is deemed white) but I was attempting to prove that these people were not the original inhabitants of ancient Kemet (Egypt). So I asked the gentleman, who is the original man? I do no think these questions and statements that I have posed can be considered that I have hatred towards whites. Perhaps that assumption is a bit unfair. (Reference: Ella J. Hughley; “The Truth About Black Biblical Hebrew-Israelites (Jews) ).

Blind_raven stated: You are the one putting words in peoples mouths. He was putting very reasonable proof with his source being the artwork that the ancient Egyptians themselves left behind. All he said is that if Egyptians were black, then why did they paint themselves so radically different from the Nubians as a standard? No where did he make any claim that they were Caucasian, only that there is a difference. In fact to quote his words: "that the ancient Egyptians were 100% black". The 100% black implies that he accepts there is some black in them.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Perhaps you do not understand what the word implied and inference mean. He did not have to come right out and say that Ancient Kemet was Caucasian in its ethnicity, but his various post gave an intellectual suggestion that they were. No. we do not have to put words in people's mouths. So, before the miscegenation of Kemet took place, what was the racial identity of the people who occupied what is presently called Egypt by the Greek invaders? Where is your proof that they where not Nubians? I have listed my sources in the above post or are you to hiding behind a Eurocentric frame of reference. (Reference: John G. Jackson: “Introduction to African Civilization).

Blind_raven: I know exactly the difference between the two words, and you make inferences all day that everyone on this forum is a white supremest trying to keep black people down. There are more races then the Whites and the Black, and you do not seem to realize this. You are once again throwing around white and no one said they were. You are the one confused if someone could imply that they believe the Egyptians have Nubian ancestry in them, and you infer that they are racist for not accepting that Egyptians were full blooded Nubians. Once again I ask you to explain why the Egyptians chose to paint themselves in a different tone then the Nubians.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Already answered this question; no need to re-entertain or revisit.

Kingmob stated: LOL, you are a racist, no matter how many quotes you try to bring up in order to defend your racist stands. It makes no difference if you are black or white if you make excuses for yourself in order to elevate one color over another.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Relaying historical facts is not based on racial superiority. You just do not have the intellectual tools to debate this topic, and it is a copout, to yell that I am racist and have nothing of substantial to offer to this discussion relative to Kemet. Thus, that is the easy way out; I cite sources and references as documentation and verification (third party independent) of myself. Perhaps you need to be schooled on research methods and what it means to present an empirical argument (based on what can be counted and measured). See you are blowing hot air and have no scholarly defense for your emotional position relative defending your anti-Nubian stance as it pertains to the people of Kemet. Perhaps you do not know that this debate is about whether Kemet was ethnically Nubian. I stand by the many scholars of various disciplines who maintain that historical contention. I asked the question, who is the original man?

This discussion is not about elevating one race of people over another, but it is a healthy conversation to hear what others have to say on this topic; although I might still disagree when it is all said and done. I believe based on my research that ancient Kemetic people where of a Nubian strain. Sir, that is not racist because other scholars have wrote and authored books and scholarly articles espousing the same. Your argument has been deduced to shallowness and it deconstructs itself because it is more rooted in ignorance and possess little to no content relative to the discussion about Kemet. There is no defense for ignorance. But I would like to have an intelligent conversation with you, if you are serious about debating the history and culture of Kemet. (Reference Anthony Browder: "African Contribution to Civilization").

Fahim A. Knight-El: You are trying to hide behind a non-question that has been answered by scholars over and over again. For example, the native Americans and other ethnic cultures painted their faces and bodies for ritualistic ceremonies and at other times for festive celebrations, i.e., they did this to admonish the Gods, war games, marriages, child birth, honoring the changing solstice, etc., They used elaborate symbols and rituals to honor Ra and Ptah—some of this is covered in the Book "Cometh forth by Day" (the Egyptian Book of the Dead). You are looking at the painting of images from the ethnic racial lens of Eurocentric and White Supremacy and really I should not be even be dignifying this type of racist nonsense. Kemet due to racial miscegenation by external nations and after many outside invasions from the Romans, Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Italians, and Phoenicians, etc. took on an entirely new racial identity and classification.

This phenomena came much later in the history of Kemet, which we witness Kemet ethnically transition from a Nubian society into a lighter skinned mulatto people that resembled the Arab imposters who occupies modern Egypt today (they are not the original people). But they the Arabs are new people along with the religion of Islam they brought to Kemet. Now, the Zionist Jews have even further confused the ethnicity of these people in this equation who presently live in North Africa and the so-called Middle East as being Semitic (a mix race of Mediterranean region people) and languages, but fail to tell you that these people are Johnny-come-lately inhabitants of that region and has little kinship with original Nubians who occupied Kemet of yesterday (refer to “Destruction of Black Civilization” by Dr. Chancellor Williams). Your argument has no validity. Once again the Caucasian history only goes back 6,000 years. (Reference: Chancellor Williams: “Destruction of Black Civilization).

Rapunzel stated: You haven't answered my questions at all except to assert, without any evidence that the colours the Egyptians painted on the walls was due to some ritual practice which you have not been able to identify.

I suppose this is a better excuse than the Afro-Centrist view I have heard which says that white archaeologists went round repainting all the figures on the tomb paintings!

I have never said or even inferred that the Egyptian civilisation was Caucasian. You are the one who seems to be obsessed with race not I. You seem to think that humanity is composed of only two types of people: African blacks and white Caucasians and if the Egyptians are not black then they must be Caucasian. I know of no-one else who views the history of the human race in the rather strange way.

My mindset is not shaped by a Euro centric ideology; it is shaped by what can be observed and proved. As for your authorities, apart from two amateurs from the 19th century, they appear to be Afro-centrists who parrot the same line. It may have become fashionable in some academic circles to pander to these views due to fear of being labelled a racist but in my opinion this is craven cowardice. Facts are facts no matter how much they upset some people.

The ancient Egyptians clearly distinguished Nubians in their art. Why do you think they did this? The ancient Egyptians appear to have been a Mediterranean type people with an admixture of black genes which is what would be expected. They were not racist and the colour of the skin was not important to them. The most important thing was to be Egyptian. What modern Egyptians are is not the issue and need not be discussed.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Racism is a mindset that considers black people as a group as being inferior to whites because of physical (‘genotypical’ and ‘phenotypical’) traits. The racist further believes that these physical traits are detriments of social behavior and moral or intellectual qualities, and ultimately presumes that this inferiority is a legitimate basis for inferior social treatment of black people in society.

Dr. Asa Hilliard who authored book titled, “Reawakening of the African Mind” stated, “mental bondage is invisible violence. Formal physical slavery has ended in the United States. Mental slavery continues to this present day. This slavery affects the minds of all people and, in one way, it is worst than physical slavery alone. That is, the person who is in mental bondage will self-contained. Not only will that person fail to challenge beliefs and patterns of thought which control him, he will defend and protect those beliefs and patterns of thought virtually with his last dying effort.”

You keep mentioning a so-called Mediterranean type people; could you please give us the ethnic and racial classification of these people. When I last checked Kemet (Egypt) sits on the African continent only a small portion borders the Mediterranean Sea. There is no such thing or unless you are grouping the people of Greece, Italy, Turkey, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, etc., under one ethnicity and one racial classification, which you call Mediterranean people. This assertion is ridiculous and has no bearing on how these people of these sovereign nations identify themselves. Egypt is in Africa and it has always been in Africa, what part of that geography that you do not understand. (Reference: Asa Hilliard; “Reawakening of the African Mind” ).

Rapunzel stated: There is evidence of very ancient man in Pakistan and Asia and there is no agreement between scientists as to where the original humans came from whether they arose in one place and spread out or whether they arose in several places at more or less the same time. Perhaps you should read more.

Even if mankind originated in Africa as you maintain how do we know that these humans had black skin? Chimpanzees live in Africa and have pale skin but are protected by their layers of hair. Early man also had layers of hair so it's not unreasonable to question the colour of skin that early man had.

It depends what you mean by "history" and what you mean by "Caucasian". Are you saying there were no humans at all in Europe until 6000 years ago?

You are trying to explain away the contradiction between the paintings the Egyptians made of themselves and your belief that the ancient Egyptians were black. I am quite aware that some cultures have painted colourful designs onto their bodies for various ritualistic reasons but I look forward to your explanation, using ancient sources only, that this is the reason high class Egyptian women were painted yellow/cream. It's noticeable in the paintings that working women were painted slightly darker. Obviously they were forced to be out in the sun a lot whereas wealthy women could stay inside or in the shade.

I'm very familiar with the Book of Coming Forth by Day. Nowhere does it say that whole body colours were changed for ritualistic reasons. You call what I am saying "racist nonsense" but you have provided no proof that the ancient Egyptians were 100% black. Nor have you given me an explanation as to why the Egyptians clearly painted themselves totally different to the way they painted the Nubians.

My argument has validity; yours comes from wishful thinking

Fahim A. Knight-El: Yes, I did reference the Torah and you have not giving anything to refute the testimony. Thus, I gave you the lineage and I am waiting for you to cite your sources and lay out the lineage of the people of Kemet. The Caucasian history only goes back 6000 years. So we do know this much the original people of Kemet were not Caucasians and we further know this much the Nubians have a much older civilization than western man. So what was the likelihood of the people of Kemet being Nubians, as opposed to Caucasians (I know historian Erik Von Daniken said the ancient pyramid builders dropped out of space). Second point: I can point to all the works of Dr. Cheik Anta Diop and Dr. John Jackson's works in which both of these scholars have done monumental work in anthropology, Egyptology, archeology, genetics, race, paleontology, etc. and have verified that Kemet was a Nubian culture. Here is another good source "Destruction of Black Civilization" by Dr. Chancellor Williams. He traced how in Kemet the darker skinned original people were pushed to the south. Now, we also know this much for a fact, the people that occupies Egypt today are Johnnie-come-late imposters along with their Semitic kith and kin those who called themselves Jews. You still did not answer the question, who is the original man? Please stop giving me these abstract—no answers. (Reference: Chancellor Williams: “Destruction of Black Civilization).

Thelonious stated: That book has been widely discredited. Here, for example, is one of many claims that G.M. James' book is fraudulent:

http://www.prometheism.net/euvolution/le...

James's 1954 book 'Stolen Legacy' is a deliberate perversion of history to support the false claim that black Egyptians were the true originators of Greek philosophy. James's unsupported theories have been taken as fact by many people unfamiliar with Greek history. - From the above link.

Fahim A. Knight-El: No. I disagree, there is no doubt that Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many more Greek philosophers who originated Greek philosophy were influenced by the Sages of Kemet either directly or indirectly; there is proof positive that the Greeks stole (or may be the most proper way of saying it is that the Greeks borrowed) a sizable amount of its mythology from ancient Kemet; surely ancient Kemet predated Greek civilization by some thousands of years.

Some white and western academics took issue with the entire Afrocentric movement of the late 1980s and the 1990s. Many Afrocentric intellectuals and scholars used George G.M. James book as one source, which to disapprove an intellectual worldview that was rooted in white supremacy ideology and challenged old norms that advocated that the world evolved around Europe and western civilization.

However James' work predated the Afrocentric movement by 30-40 years and he had garnished a sizable amount of scholarly credibility prior the Afrocentric movement embracing his scholarship.

The Zionist Jews and Black Nationalist scholars were deeply at odds with each other in the early 1990s; in particular after Reverend Jesse Jackson presidential run in 1984, in which Zionist Jews and even Jackson eventually repudiated Minister Louis Farrakhan and falsely labeling him anti-Semitic, but black America who had been accustom to following the dictates of the Zionist Jew, bucked on the Zionist and continued to embrace Minister Farrakhan at the disapproval of Zionist forces (this position furthered the rift).

Also this position angered the Zionist Jews and created a further political, economic and social wedge between two people—Zionist Jews and Blacks who had been traditional allies. These disputes played themselves out on various fronts; in particular after the Nation of Islam Historical Research Department published the controversial book titled, "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" (which was adopted by the African centered movement) and right after that the Zionist attacked one of the big named Afrocentric professors from Wellesley College in the New England area named Dr. Tony Martin who dared to use the Nation of Islam book as supplemental reading inside his classroom.

But there were Zionist agents planted in Dr. Martin's classroom who had an objective to disrupt this peaceful academic setting. This event led to Dr. Martin publishing a book titled, "Jewish onslaught" and few a years later his colleague, the Zionist scholar Mary Lefkowitz wrote the book titled, "Not Out Of Africa" which she attacked professor James as a pseudo historian and accused him of fabricating the history of Kemet to favor the Nubians.

Lefkowitz made every attempt to construct Greek and Roman society as being almost independent of Egyptian (she tried to take Egypt out of Africa and place Kemet in the Middle East and ethnically labeled the people as Semites) influence and at best it was perhaps and equal cultural exchange between the two societies and the two European societies were not as interdependent upon Kemet as James maintained.

Mary Lefkowitz felt that James historical accounts were the basis and the premises from which the African-centered theories rested; thus, if she could discredit James this would dismantle the intellectual foundation of the entire African centered movement. James was just one scholar of this intellectual movement and all of his contentions were well cited. There is much more to this, but let me put a pin in this for now. (Reference: Tony Martin: “The Jewish Onslaught”).

RR X Stated: Scholarly? "I make no claims to being a scholar - only that I found it amusing that you would promote an Afrocentric theory by using authors who claimed Egypt for the white man, as your proof that Egypt was exclusively Nubian. I mentioned India and last time I checked that wasn't in Europe."

Fahim A Knight-El: If the Afrocentric is speaking the truth; then truth is the truth. It does not matter who the truth teller is, ethnic or racial factor or variable do not lend more credibility relative to a fact of truth. Thus, your above comment further predisposed your unwillingness to consider scholars and their scholarship just because you have placed the label "Afrocentric" subtly implying and with the inference that this is something negative and not worthy of intellectual consideration.

RR X Stated: "You claim to be a scholar yet you don't seem to be aware that Knight and Lomas were writing that Hiram Abiff was a real person in history because they claimed to have found his mummy - this does not support your Osiris analysis. Knight and Lomas also have a book out called 'Uriel's Machine' where they argue that all sciences had their root in Western Europe - a position which does not correspond to your Khemit hypotheses"

Fahim A Knight-El: Whether Knight and Lomas consider Hiram Abiff as a real person or not, it is inconsistent with the Masonic teachings of the majority Grand Masonic Lodges and their Jurisdictions within the United States, in particular within the Ancient Free and Accepted Masonic body and the Prince Hall (Free and Accepted Masons). Now! I have access to many official Masonic Monitors from both the Scottish Rite and the York Rite side and I have been involved in Masonic research for a very long time. Speculative Masonry and all Masonry teach and view the story of Hiram Abiff as a SYMBOLIC and MYTHOLOGICAL figure. Moreover, the character is inconsistent with the biblical interpretation and every Master Mason that is raised in the Masonic ritual is taught that fact. There is a biblical Hiram described as Hiram of Tyree, but this is not the Masonic Hiram; yet this Hiram is spoken about within mythical legend of the building of King Solomon Temple. All the major Masonic Historians ranging from Manly P. Hall, Albert Pike, Albert Mackey, etc., teaches that Hiram Abiff is a symbolic character. Where did they find the mummy in Kemet? Perhaps it is King Hiram of Tyree (to separate Masonic individuals). (JSM Ward; “Who is Hiram Abiff”).

RR X Stated: "YOU claimed that Blavatsky traced everything to Egypt in Isis Unveiled yet the passage YOU quoted if YOU bothered to read the rest of the page said that Egypt and Ethiopia were colonized from India. I'm not saying if that is true only highlighting how your scholarship decided to stop reading after you felt your point had been proven. If YOU bothered to check just the contents page of that book you could have verified everything I said (that is of course if you have the book and weren't just parroting someone else’s work). I read the Blavatsky passage that was provided and the following sentences contradicted what YOU claimed it said. That is poor scholarship if it can even be called that"

Fahim A Knight-El: Yes: I quoted Madam H.P. Blavatsky words accurately and precisely relative to her comment about Egypt (Kemet) feeding and enlighten the world in culture. The quote is not out of context nor have I added anything to Blavatsky words. However, if you wanted to make a different scholarly argument that is your right and prerogative. The original Dravidians inhabited India long before the imposters that occupy India to today. No, doubt India and China are ancient civilizations (I am surprised to hear a Eurocentric at least admonish that point). But Kemet (Egypt) has the oldest recorded civilization known to humanity. Yes, the Nubians. We reject the Greek names of Egypt and Ethiopian—these are the names giving by the colonizers. (Reference: Madam H.P. Blavatsky; “Isis Unveiled”).

RR X Stated: Nobody said Egypt was in the middle east. lol."

Your inferences were good enough for me because many of the Eurocentric scholars have suspended Kemet (Egypt) in the so-called Middle East and your argument defense resemble the mindset of your brothers.

"I never denied that. I only pointed out that the authors you cited (like Blavatsky) stated that Egypt also either borrowed or was influenced. Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva predates Osiris, Horus, Isis."

Fahim A Knight-El: REALLY!: You did not cite any proof of your claim; I have given you many references and sources for all of my contentions; on almost EVERY POINT I made there is a citation and scholarly documentation. You are writing just to sooth your large ego. WHAT IS YOUR ARGUMENT? PLEASE STATE YOUR POSITION, but right now you are just taking a reactionary position.

RR X Stated: "For a so called scholar her knowledge of ancient Greece was not of a particularly high standard and she should refrain from any Masonic comments in future as she clearly doesn't know what she's talking about. My argument is not the same as hers because I never stated my argument. I am not denying the Egyptian influences within Christianity, Ancient Greece or Rome only your statements of Egypt being the beginning point."

Fahim A Knight-El: You will not get an argument from me on that point. We are in agreement about Mary Leftkowitz inept and her poor Masonic worldview. Amen! (Reference: Mary Leftkowitz; “Not Out of Africa”).

"RR X Stated: "Let me now state the main problems with your research - it's nothing new. If you bothered to check this site before posting you will have already seen how citing Kersey Graves won't go far. The solar mythos has been argued a million times on this site (and I actually agree that Christ is a composite character). And the scholars you cited will hold no weight as they are theosophists and Freemasons who have always been using opposing arguments to Christians. It seems to me that you've only recently come across this information and field of research as your article is not very well thought out and the scholarship is poor. You probably recently came across Zeitgeist."

Fahim A Knight-El: This was the most laughable and ridiculous point you made. Let me start by saying this THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. The majority of every thought, thread, idea, philosophy, etc., on the site is just recycled information, but that does not compromise intellectually credibility. For example, what might be old information to you could be new information to someone who has not heard or come in contact with a source of information. So, the terms "Old and "New" is RELATIVE. You are really funning; you stated: "You probably recently came across Zeitgeist." Really! Will not dignify the comment.

You got to come better than what you are presenting, which is nothing but a recycle Eurocentric argument

Bendoon stated: Germany pays around 1 million Euros a year to Israel 64 years after WW2, a child born today in Germany will be paying towards this compensation as soon as they start work in 16 to 20 years time.

How absurd is that, that people who weren't even alive when a crime was commited will have to pay compensation when all the victims will be dead.

Only Jews could dream up such a disgraceful scam.

Whats the difference between that and African Americans asking for compensation for slavery ? none except slavery was a lot longer in the past.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Reparations as a topic is very close to my heart as an African American and as a descendent of slaves. But here are a few brief thoughts that I have on the topic and perhaps someone on this enlightened forum need to write something in depth on the topic of Reparations. We will never back down from such a discussion. Chattel Slavery wasn’t anything created in Hollywood, it was the real deal and this movement isn’t based on a historical hoax nor is it an unjust financial shakedown.

We as Africans of the Diaspora and the descendants who survived the most brutal acts of man’s inhumanity to man, have been inspired by our ancestors to seek justice; moreover, our ancestors were kidnapped, raped, robbed, murdered, etc.—Chattel slavery endured from 1619-1865, (although the Transatlantic Slave trade was outlawed in 1807) for 310 years this was an accepted economic arrangement. It was slave labor that built the economic foundation of the United States and the present day white Americans and their European brethrens are the private and corporate beneficiaries of the legacy of slavery. The Reparations Movement is not anti-America, but the majority of Black Americans who are sane and in their right minds views it as a call toward achieving historical justice and righting a historical wrong.

Reparations; We as Africans of the Diaspora and the descendants indeed survived the most brutal acts of mans inhumanity to man, thus, there are many around the country that have been inspired by our ancestors to seek justice. Moreover, our African ancestors as I stated above were kidnapped, raped, robbed, murdered, etc., and it was slave labor that built the economic foundation of the United States and the present day Americans and their European counterparts such as: Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, etc. All of these European nations were the beneficiaries of this forced labor arrangement and should be mandated by the United Nations to pay reparations to African-Americans based on their participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage. All the said nations are the private and corporate beneficiaries of the legacy of slavery and this much is undeniable.

The reparations movement is based on a proposed solution of correcting a historical wrong and amending that wrong by compensating the descendants of this human tragedy. The majority of American scholars such as Kenneth Stamp, Stanley Elkins, Herbert Aptheker, John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. Dubois, etc., agree that blacks in this country (in the United States and the Americas) arrived as slaves and the present generation of blacks is here based on that historical tragedy. Yet, we are 150 years removed from slavery and although, the topic of Reparations has been echoed throughout American History and for the most part it has stalled because blacks lack the political lobby and the financial wither-all too seriously sway this racist nation to engage in a serious conversation relative to the Reparations debate.

President Bill Clinton was prepared to issue African Americans in this country an official United States Governmental apology for the wrongs of slavery in the 1990s, but it was later deemed politically expedient for the president to remain quiet on such topic and not issue Africans an official government apology. I assume his legal advisors, advised him not to do this because this admission of guilt perhaps could be used by Africans in their legal quest for Reparations and legally hold America liable to pay Africans living in America a 150 year old outstanding debt.

The Southern Baptist, a predominantly white Christian association, a few years ago had the humanity and the proper spirit of God to admit the wrongdoings of the Christian church in slavery. They did not go to the grave yard and issue this apology to the dead, which would have been partially suffice, but the church issued the apology to the living ancestors of those who lived and died under the evil institution of slavery.

U.S. Representative John Conyers, a Democrat of Michigan (presently chairman of the Judicial Committee) has introduced into Congress a Reparations Bill titled H.R. 40, which is in theory, is a fact finding committee offered to study the possibility of Reparations for the descendents of Africa. Chattel Slavery still remains the greatest crime that was ever committed against humanity. The United States Congress recently issued black descendents of slaves a weak official governmental apology, but made no offer to repair the historical damage.

In reality, we do not need a fact finding committee, here we are the sons and daughters of Africa who have been robbed of the knowledge of self, snatched from our native land, made inferior, unjustly persecuted, destroyed our family bonds, etc., in the name of greed and capitalism.

Throughout the history of black America there have been movements and leaders that took up the fight to advocate for Reparations. For example, Marcus Garvey, the black nationalist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), W.E.B. Dubois and his Pan-African Congress Movement, Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, Paul Cuffee, a Boston ship builder who was one of the earliest exponents of the Back to Africa Movement, The Christian ministers Martin Delaney and Henry Highland Garnett, etc., also were early exponents of the Reparations Movement.

They all either in aggressive politics or passive politics did raise the question of Reparations for the African descendents of those who suffered under chattel slavery. Randall Robinson, the former Executive Director of TransAfrica, a political lobbyist group that advocates on behalf of the interest of Africa in Congress wrote perhaps one the most definitive books on the subject of Reparations titled, "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks", which explores and names the public and private companies and their present day subsidiaries that were financially and corporately historically tied to Chattel Slavery.

For example, it was slave labor that brought untold wealth to Phillip Morris Brothers Tobacco, J.R. Reynolds Tobacco, Ligget and Myers Tobacco, American Tobacco, which allowed the Dukes to accumulate, as well as other private and corporate entities untold financial wealth. The United States Government and private U.S. corporations are guilty of being active participants and collaborators in the slave trade; moreover, no amount of money could ever repair the irreparable damage that was perpetrator against black humanity. Slavery was the greatest act of negligence ever committed on one race of people and all those who played a part are considered financially liable.

The only thing they initially said that we were legally entitled to was 40 Acres and a Mule. If our great, great, great grandparents did not receive this promise yesterday, then the debt still remains outstanding. It is then still owed by the federal government to the African descendants of America. There is a way to determine if your ancestor was a slave and if they ever received their land and a mule. If they did not, then that is a debt owed by the U.S. Government in 2009. Could you imagine the value of 40 acres of land and all monetary interest that has compounded.

I am a supporter of Reparations and view it as just cause, but not withstanding the reparations movement has had both its internal and external critics from both the white community and the black community and there appear not to be any happy medium. (Reference: Randal Robinson: “The Debt: What America Owes Blacks”).

Bendoon stated: What a load of ignorant self centered, self pitying crap. People have suffered just as much through all history, last century 70 million Chinese were killed by their own Government as were 30 million Russians. Why don't you just drop the self pity, like Bill Cosby said it just holds you back, blaming someonelse for all your problems.

Fahim A. Knight-El: The Russians and the Chinese (the Russians have Russia and Chinese has China) were not robbed from the base of their feet to crown of their head. They have a common culture, language, and land. You are truly missing the point and your argument is very emotional. We lost over 50 million Africans during the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage and there was no system of evil that was comparative to Chattel Slavery (1555-1865), which lasted for 310 years (three centuries). This was one of the greatest criminal acts ever recorded anywhere in human history. Thus, because of this tragedy hundreds of millions of African people have been scattered throughout the Diaspora and are lost to the knowledge of self. When you rob a people of their language and land, it is the basic ingredient for culture destruction and it cuts them off from a tradition that is rooted in the power of memory and which is design to give them a historical reference point that connects them to something much bigger than themselves.

Slavery emasculated that sovereign right to Africa and now people of African dissent are left scattered as vagabonds of France, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, United States, (alien nations and cultures), etc. Bill Cosby is one voice and he is entitled to his opinion, but our ancestors are crying out for justice and we have the job, duty and responsibility to never allow ourselves nor the historical perpetrators to overlook this human tragedy in name of trying to minimize the social, political and economic damage caused by Chattel Slavery; by espousing ignorance and using glossy diversionary tactics to confuse the issue. We must have an honest conversation about race and racism and allow the chips to fall as they may. I hope this response clarifies for you our position and we are not dealing from a basis of emotionalism. (Reference: Walter Rodney: “How Europe Under Developed Africa”).

Bendoon stated: Arabs took far more slaves from Africa than Europeans ever did, over a far longer period. They castrated the men and used the women as sex slaves. What about the Jewish slave ship owners ? When you start asking them for reparations you might get some respect. Till then you are just a working a scam on whitey, an easy target.

Fahim A. Knight-El: This is what you do not understand. You have to at first admit that Chattel Slavery did take place and once you can get out of this state of denial and admit we have problem; thus, only then can we pursue a possible course towards a solution. This much of your argument is valid, which is yes the Arabs under Islam in the 8th Century created the Trans-Sahara slave trade and they transported Africans across Africa into the Middle East as slaves and they are guilty and in complicit of slavery by also dispossessing Africa and its people of their humanity. But Islamic missionaries and Arab slave makers based on the principles of the Qur'an had a very different form and system of slavery (their slavery was not equivalent to Chattel Slavery) than the Christian missionaries.

For example, you might find a Senegalese Muslim from West Africa and although Islam is not the indigenous faith, however you can see that these people that accepted Islam did not lose their historical and cultural reference point. But the infusion of their African culture is well intact and interacts side by side with Islam. Islam did not destroy or wipeout many of the African customs and traditions. Thus, in many ways it complimented African folkways, mores', values, customs, traditions, etc. Yes, the Arabs are part of the reparations equations and they too are guilty of raping and robbing Africa in the name of Islam. Yes, the Jews were African slave merchants, brokers and financiers of the African Slave Trade and they too are part of the reparations equation. The Nation of Islam historical Research Department published one of the most definitive books on the Jewish involvement in the African Slave Trade titled, "The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews".

Last but not least, African nations themselves who worked in alliance with the Europeans who captured Africans from the Hinterlands and sold them to the slave merchants are also part of the reparations equation. I do not know where you are getting your information, but you are truly misinformed about what the reparation movement entails. It is not just an inclusive movement aimed at financially shaking down Europeans. Money is just a portion, but there is much more to this tragedy than just financial compensation. Black America had a Gross National Product (GNP) over 800 billion dollars last year, which would make us the 12th or 13th richest nation on earth, if we were a sovereign independent nation. So you are not talking about a people who do not have the ability to do for themselves. Sir, this is about legal justice and fostering this issue on the table of the United Nations as a human rights violation and eventually pushing it all the way to the world courts. Now! I am not in the business of continuing to argue with ignorance. (Reference: Edward W. Blyden; “Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race”).

Rapunzel stated: No you didn't. You gave me the mythical lineage from the Hebrew Bible. I don't know; neither do you nor do we know who the "original woman" was, if there was one. It has never been proved that mankind originated from just two people.

I am trying to say that the Egyptians were not exclusively Black, nor were they Caucasians, if by that you mean white. The world is not divided between black and white you know. Were the ancient African Libyans black? They were painted as paler skins than the Egyptians. The Egyptians did not represent themselves as black though some of them undoubtedly had some black blood in them. One of the Mentuhotep pharaohs was married to a Nubian princess. The Egyptians were not racist and married into numerous different peoples.

Around 730 BC Egypt was invaded by Nubia and a line of Nubian pharaohs took over for 75 years

Fahim A. Knight-El: I have answered your questions over and over again. I have deconstructed the first fallacy that you have implied relative to the inference that ancient Kemet was Caucasian, which is the covert root of your argument and you are attempting to use intellectual distractions to shield a mindset that has been shaped by Eurocentric ideology. I have given you facts, but you insist upon giving us undocumented rhetoric. Here are my sources.

"African Presences in Early Asia" By Ivan Sertima

"Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire" by Drusilla Houston

"Black man of the Nile and his Family" by Yosef A.A. Jochannon

"African Origin Of Civilization" by Cheik Anta Diop

"Civilization Or Barbarism" by Cheik Anta Diop

"Ethiopia the Missing Link" Sterling Meanings

"Introduction to African Civilization" by John G. Jackson

"Ancient Egypt the Light of the World" by Gerald Massey

"Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man" by Albert Churchward

“Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry" by Godfrey Higgins

"African Contribution to Civilization" by Anthony Browder

"African Glory: The Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations" by J.C. deGraft-Johnson

"Metu Neter" by Ra Un Nefer Amen

"The Journey of the Songhai People" by Napendo Ulinzi Milele

"Yurugu" by Marimba Ani

"Predynastic Egypt: An African-centric view" by James Edward Brunson and Runoko Rashidi

The above represents a list of scholars and scholarly works that proves based on extensive research that (Kemet) Egypt was a Nubian society. Now, could you please list your documentation for your argument that Kemet was Caucasian or cite some sources for your argument. Thus give us something to substantiate your argument

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

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Fahim A. Knight-EL

Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story; Unmasked and Uncovered

By Fahim A. Knight-EL

My wife and I went to the movies this past week to view Michael Moore's new documentary titled, "Capitalism: A Love Story". Most people who seriously study the plots and ploys of the Invisible Rulers, as well as tracking global international economics were highly disappointed in how far short the film failed in telling the American people the unadulterated truth. Let me start off by setting the tone of this article/Blog for my readers by quoting the former Congressman Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania Who in the 1930s served on the Housing Banking and Currency Committee.

McFadden stated, “Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupted institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Banks hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States, and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation’s debt. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed, and through corrupt practices of the money vultures who control it. Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions; they are private monopolies which prey the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers, foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders.”

Perhaps it might be a legitimate assumption that Michael Moore just does not know, who is actually behind the global collapse of the world economic system? But he appears to be an extremely intelligent man who is perceptive and thought provoking—it then becomes difficult to accept the notion that he is ignorant of who the true deceivers are. Thus, indeed, perhaps these would be the same culprits who are behind manipulating the flow of money, are the same paymasters that financed and distributed Moore’s movie.

Moore's documentary for the most part, continued to shield their identities and do not reveal or expose the true hidden profiteers, those that hold the purse strings. He exposes the puppets, which is of no real value, but was careful not to expose the puppeteers—the Invisible Money Changers. This writer has written at least twenty articles dedicated to uncovering and unmasking the true players behind money and high finance.

For example, topics such as: “The Potter and the Clay: Emperors With No Rules”, “The Decoy and the Symbol: Baiting and Switching, You Can't See the Hoax?”, “Money Has No Value, People Do: The Bailout; the Rothschilds Said Give it Up”, “The Domino Effect: Don't Believe the Hype”, “Con Game is an Art: No One Plays it Better Than the Power Brokers”, “The Circle, Within A Circle, Within A Circle: The Art of Deception”, “The Money Changers: The Federal Reserve, Robbery by Deceit”, “The Money Changers: The Federal Reserve, Robbery by Deceit”, “The Pawns In The Game”, “None Dare Call it Conspiracy: There is No Other Name to Call it by”, “The Agenda: And The Agenda Setters”, “Conspiracy Theory: Makes Sense to Me; What About You?”, “The Fall of America: Our Government Has Been Hijacked”, “Who rules America and why do they hide?”, “The Hidden Hand and their quest for world domination”, etc.

This above list of topics are just a small example of the type research that this writer has been engaged in and perhaps it is unfair for him to hold the filmmaker Michael Moore to a higher standard than he would the average American citizen who have been made blind, deaf and dumb by those who practice ‘tricknology’.

Here is where this writer stands on Moore’s documentary; after fully evaluating and assessing the film, it will perhaps do more good than bad, because most people in the United States and the world for that matter, are truly dumbfound relative to this economic crisis and do not understand that our lives have been relegated to controlled pawns. The movie is not necessarily sounding the alarm, but it might prick someone’s curiosity and conscious to desire to do further research and lead them towards broaden their personal investigation into the diabolic schemes of the Invisible Rulers.

However, this writer has come to the conclusion, that the majority of those who have ventured to view Moore’s documentary will perhaps only resume the same mindset, they possessed prior to seeing the movie and rationalize that Moore has bought into these wild conspiracy theories and many that will fall into this category are betting that this crisis will blow over and eventually dismiss Moore as just a paranoid liberal and a conspiracy lunatic. They are in for a rude awakening. You can only lead a horse to the well, but you can not force him to drink. This crisis will not blow over any time soon; we better get prepared for the long haul.

Michael Moore’s movie on its opening weekend finished a disappointed seventh on the theater’s list—last place only grossing 4.8 million dollars and it is perhaps an indication that people would rather be entertained than spend money to be educated and involved in serious intellectual discussion. This does not say much about our society and culture; in particular in light of how the Invisible Rulers have led us out to Pasteur and many of us still do not understand that we have been hoodwinked and cable-towed by this Den of Thieves.

But this writer wonders did Michael Moore take the basic course of Dynastic family investigation, Who is Behind High Finance?—the course is titled Rothschild 101 (there is not an actual course, I am being bit facetious and rhetorical) in which every person that seeks to investigate the hidden money trail must be willing to put in many hours of doing independent research and utilizing many nonconventional sources to connect the dots; because much of this history has been scattered and fragmented, but this has been done intentionally in order to keep humanity confused about the issues. This writer must say, that Moore still needs to take some remedial courses, which to learn the history and practices of the Dynastic Families—they have always used decoys and front men as mere distractions. (Reference: Carroll Quigley; “Tragedy and Hope; A History of the World in Our Time”).

Moore appeared to have not consulted some of the greatest professors, teachers, and writers on this type of topic such as Professor Carroll Quigley author of the book titled, “Tragedy and Hope”, “None Dare Call it Conspiracy” by Gary Allen and Larry Abraham, “Behold a Pale Horse” by William Cooper, etc.

Moore did not untangle the invisible web of deception and many that saw the movie, may have become fixated on Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubens, Timothy Geithner, Paul Volker, Henry Paulson, Barney Franks, etc., and would take these front men as the real powerbrokers and not realize that these low-level operatives are nothing but symbols and decoys. (Reference: Ashahed M. Muhammad; “The Synagogue of Satan”).

When the enemy of deception writes and endorses a script or anything that appears to exposes him; it is most lethal and dangerous because of the level of sophistication and chicanery that have gone into the deception relative to the writing, producing and defining genre. Some would scream that Michael Moore is an independent filmmaker, that he is, but those who control finance and cinema making and film distribution are the real masters. Their objective is never to enlighten humanity, but to keep them in darkness, while these slave drivers remain invisible. What would make me think their objective would be any different relative to the intended outcome of the movie “Capitalism: A Love Story”?

This movie was strategically crafted—it never mentioned Jekyll Island and how the Federal Reserve got started in 1913 and how the international bankers had hijacked the United States money system and the world money system a long time ago. (Reference: Andrew Gause; “The Secret World of Money”).

Thus, Moore’s movie did an adequate job of exploring the economic symptoms of our present crisis and yet at same time shied away from the true causes that have brought us to this present moment in world history. How can you do a documentary on the collapse of the United States economy and not mention Paul Warburg or not dedicate segment to Rothschilds, the Godfathers of money? Money is synonymous with Rothschilds name and legacy; surely Michael Moore must know that it is not Wall Street that is dictating and controlling the rise and fall of the global economic markets; he must also know that the New York Stock Exchange or how Dow Jones fluxuate have nothing to do with buying selling and of stocks and/or commodities. (Reference: Pat Robertson: “Right on the Money”).

Also, you can not talk about or write about Capitalism and money and not mention Adam Smith; in particular if you are doing research on any aspect of banking and finance unless you have cited Adam Smith’s work, the research is incomplete. Smith authored the definitive treatise on Capitalism entitled, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” it is two (2) volume book set. Smith is the father of Capitalist theory.

The collapse of the United States economy and world economy has a much deeper origin than what the mass mediums are presenting and reporting. We in the U.S. have not seen this type economic crunch and crisis, since the Great Depression of 1929, which crippled the economic, political and social fabric of our society. (Reference: Ravi Batra; "The Great Depression of 1990”).

Now, for example, the merger of Wells Fargo Bank and Wachovia and various other financial institutions can not be properly assessed outside of our requirement to at least give a brief historical analysis and evaluation of how and why these financial institutions arrived at this merger position. There are some serious historical implications that perhaps occurred, which got us to the point in which the U.S. Free Market Enterprise system and Capitalism in no uncertain terms collapsed in 2008. This writer presents you with a YouTube clip of former President George Bush making some serious statements relative to Capitalism: I wonder did anybody else hear President George W. Bush say that he has had to abandon the free enterprise and free market system: Reference:

. Wow! It shocks me how this most powerful and significant statement went right over most Americans heads.

We know that President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney worked to deregulate Wall Street and in the scheme of who controls the flow of money, even this maneuver is insignificant. When Michael Moore was going to Lehman Brothers, AIG, Citi Bank, Bear-Stern, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, etc., and yelling out who has our money? This writer could have answered this question with two names—Rothschilds and Rockefellers. I guess when he was yelling out, where is our money? Moore was referring to the trillions of dollars that U.S. Congress and President George W. Bush heist from the American taxpayers, one of greatest open crimes within history of America, which to so-called bailout these above mentioned financial rogues and gangsters.

We authorized the United States Government to hand over $750 billion dollars to some of the most powerful and wealthiest free market enterprise entities in the history of capitalism. These various government economic bailout packages and/or maneuvers relative to Wall Street was a clear indication that what took place was a sham; it appeared at best on the surface of not being consistent with the principles of capitalism (the free enterprise system has always been a cruel economic system of survival of the fittest), or was it.

The bailout and/or rescue package (they use language as a tool of manipulation to exacerbate or soften an intended objective) of the United States financial institutions was essentially a form of nationalization (central government control). Since the United States president has declared abandoning the free market system; what type of economic system will be put in its place? (Reference: Ellen Hodgson Brown; "Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free").

Moreover, just think about this, two United States Presidents (Bush and Obama) have given the world's corporate Elite over 161 billion dollars of the taxpayers money.

Mr. Moore did not thoroughly follow the money trail because it would have led him to the same names and faces that have been the premier Money Changers throughout the annals of time. These people have their tentacles wrapped around all of humanity and for Michael Moore to omit so much pertinent historical and economic history has bewildered me, and it forces one to believe that he is probably part of the duping and the hoax. (Reference Texe Marrs; “Circle of Intrigue: The Hidden Inner Circle of the Global Illuminati).

Perhaps Moore is an agent provocateur, that is being systematically used by the Invisible Rulers to further disguise the Secrets of the Temple—the mass mediums and propaganda machines are one of their chief ploys of human deception. Those who own and controlled Hollywood will never expose themselves, they are not in the business of snitching on themselves and leading the dumbfound masses to where the real action is taking place. (Reference: “Who Rules America”)

Moore’s scenario gave us the effect and by-product of greed and the structure of a capitalist economy—he stated this in terms of the pyramid scheme paradigm in which one (1) percent of the population (the super Elite) sits at the top of the pyramid; it is they who controls ninety-nine (99) percent of the world's wealth and resources. The masses who are always stationed at the bottom of the pyramid are represented as the ninety-nine percent; this segment of the population is called Goyim (Chattel, Useless Eaters, Peasants) are left to fight and squabble over a measly one percent of the world's wealth and resources. (Reference: William Guy Carr; "Pawns In The Game").

Moore does not understand that those that stole the United States money and world's money (gold and silver) are above the laws and jurisprudence systems of all nations. This Invisible Cabal possesses a true sense of Sovereign Immunity and their wealth insulates them from criminal or civil prosecution and they are shielded by layers upon layers of deception. No citizen or COURT THE WORLD-OVER HAS THE POWER TO ARREST THE INVISIBLE RULERS (Reference: Ashahed M. Muhammad; “The Synagogue of Satan”).

One must also know something about the Federal Reserve System (and how it is structured) and how the United States Monetary System was taking over by a private entity called the Federal Reserve (note: this is a private institution and not governmental; although it wears the name federal), which has the powers, duty and responsibility of printing money and establishing interest rates. It was founded in 1913, by powerful banking families such as Rothschilds, Morgans, Rockefellars, Warburgs, etc., and it would be these families that still possess control over the Unites States Monetary System and now for over 90 years have control over the flow of money. Those International Bankers that set-up the Federal Reserve devised one of the greatest criminal cartels in the history of humanity. (Reference: Anthony Sutton; “America’s Secret Establishment”).

The Federal Reserve is comprised of twelve Central Banks—1. Rothschild Bank of London, Rothschild Bank of Berlin, 2. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York (Rockefeller) Chase National bank of New York (Rockefeller). 3. First National Bank of New York. 5. Hanover National Bank of New York. 6. Goldman Sachs of New York. 7. Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York. 8. Lehman Brothers of New York. 9. Warburg Bank of Hamburg Warburg Bank of Amsterdam. 10. Lazard Brothers of Paris. 11. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy. 12. JP Morgan. (Reference: Eustace Mullins; “The Secrets of the Federal Reserve”).

We abandoned the gold standard system and were duped into accepting a Fiat money system and this is what has gotten us to where the United States economy is in 2009. The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are root causes of wrecking the global economy—they are allowed to print paper money out of thin air and set interest rates indiscriminately and now this rubber currency, which has no real collateral (gold and silver) backing or value it is bouncing all over the place. (Reference: William Greider; “Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country”) Please Reference Rod Parsley YouTube clip

Yes, to steal the world's money and control the global monetary system is a criminal act because this small minority answers to no one. The United States is in an economic depression (the politicians refer to this downward economic spiral as a recession, but most Americans do not know the difference between recession and a depression). The term recession is strategically used in order to not send the masses into a panic mode and language is used like Minister Malcolm X would say that we have become like the patient whom the dentist has injected with the medicine Novocain for pain and we have learned to suffer peacefully.

This economic phenomena has been induced and has very little to do with subprime loans fiasco, which so-called led to the collapse of the housing market and it even has less to do with Wall Street. However, I do think the housing crisis with the subprime lending institutions and the big banking and financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear-Sterns, JP Morgan, AIG, Wachovia, etc., collapsing it was all induced by the Central Banks and the Hidden Dynastic Families. They have achieved in part their objective—misery and desperation.

The Invisible Rulers are restructuring the new terms of servitude and part of this equation was to call the debt-in and rearrange the labor paradigm. This also would allow them to measure and assess, if the masses had any resistance left in them and a willingness to rebel against this modern Caesar’s decrees and revolt in accordance to the United States Constitution or will they lie down and permit these generation of Vipers to continue to trample over them like a defenseless doormat. (Reference: Pat Robertson; "The New World Order").

The American Declaration of Independence gives us some beautiful instructions and it is about time we take heave. It stated, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Government are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed will dictate that Government long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experiences hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, and to provide new Guards for their future security." (Reference: The United States Declaration of Independence the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776).

The Invisible Rulers have tied the masses of people to a system of debt which is the driving force of assuring societal obedience and this is choking the economic lifeblood out of the globe and the staggering unemployment rates are all done by designed to create a control sense of misery.

I came across an article which was one of the best critical evaluations and examinations of the United States and global economy that I have read in recent times. The piece was written by Robert Morley entitled, “World Prepares to Dump the Dollar" published on July 21, 2009 in online magazine called thetrumpet.com http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=63... is some of what Morley stated: “Japan is America’s second-most important creditor nation—lending the U.S. billions of dollars each year. If Japan won’t lend unless America pays it back in yen, then China and other major lenders may quickly follow suit. This would eliminate America’s ability to use inflation to cheat on its debt payments. America’s debt burden would soar, interest rates would jump, and national default—Argentina-style—could be staring America in the face within months instead of years.”

Morley continued: “America is making a terrible mistake which will result in the greatest fall in all of mankind’s history!” Tim Thompson wrote for the Trumpet in 2000. “As soon as America is no longer a safe place for foreign money, that money will be gone. And once the foreign money is gone, it will leave us with a mountain of debt that we cannot repay.”

This will cause a social implosion and the have-nots will help the enemy in their secondary plan, which is to depopulate earth of us useless eaters. The individuals that Moore identified in the documentary as key players in banking and finance are gofers and powerless; moreover, these low level operatives are only paid agents of the Dynastic Families—they are really public pawns and are not part of global decision making process, but this was strategically done to keep humanity distracted—keep your eyes on the prize. (Reference: Terrance Jackson; “Putting it All Together: World Conquest, Global Genocide and African Liberation’).

My friends those who rules America and the world are often faceless and nameless—they are hidden and protected—they give the Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke orders and they were the ones responsible for putting a half billion dollars behind a relatively unknown pawn named President Barack Obama and getting him elected to the highest office in the world.

He too is just a political prostitute and his loyalty to their agenda is unquestionable and it run deeper than his loyalty to Goldman Sach, as Moore implied in documentary, but this writer is going to go a step further, Obama pledged his loyalty directly to the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers a long time ago. He is a creation of their money, power and influence because you do not rise to the perception of power as quick as he did without confirmation and backing of the Invisible Rulers. (Reference: Webster Griffin Tarpley; "Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography").

Michael Moore cheated us, by not giving us all the storyline, but the documentary played on the emotions of the Have-nots and those that Moore's movie indicted as being the insensitive ruthless capitalist are only playing a minor role in our oppression. There job is to read the script and act. They do this in order that the guilty can continue to hide their dirty hands. Mr. Moore did not mention the House of Rothschild, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Club of Rome, the Carlyle Group, Milner Group, Bilderberger, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, the Roundtable, etc., surely he must know that those who truly controls the flow of money operates on different fronts and we must understand that power concedes nothing without a demand. (Reference: Daniel Estulin: "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group).

The majority of Congress and those who view the vote as the great equalizer do not understand and foolishly thought that the politicians that we elected to serve and is so-called place there to protect the legitimate political aspirations of the electorate; however they are only pawns. Thus, they failed to understand that these operatives are put there by us, but ultimately they all will windup serving one master—the Dynastic Families and the oath that your politicians took on the Bible and swore to uphold the United States Constitution means absolutely nothing. (Reference: John Coleman; The Story of the Committee of 300”).

Moore left the viewing audience with nothing, but instructed us to try democracy in which we have tried Democracy for over 200 years and we are partially in this predicament because Democracy does not work. Our Democratic Government has been hijacked by the money changers and capitalism reached its zenith under the United States democratic system. But it has never been able to secure and protect the masses of people from being victims of greed and exploitation. It has been Democracy that has allowed the Invisible Rulers, a free reign to commit all manner of criminal acts and those who control money, care not who write its laws. Mr. Moore perhaps has yet to realize that Democracy is synonymous with Capitalism—they are one and the same. Why trade Capitalism for Democracy? When the results are going to be the same, which is more exploitation. (Reference: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles; “Communist Manifesto”).

With all this said, go see the movie and tell me what you think; in particular since you have read my concerns and thoughts about Michael Moore’s movie “Capitalism: A Love Story.” I would love to hear from you.

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

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EGYPT (KEMET):THE DNA SCIENCE, HISTORY AND RACISM REVEALED

By FAHIM A. KNIGHT-EL

There are two website named HALL OF MAAT; WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY and the GRAHAM HANCOCK website, both seemed to have dedicated part of their discussion forums to the intellectual and scientific research of Kemet (Egypt) and while blogging on the TDG (The Daily Grail) site this writer discovered on the sidebar of the site there was an icon referencing these two above said Internet forums. Thus, this was in late December 2007, I had just web/blog published an article titled, “Christmas—Jesus the Sun God: Lies, Deception and the Truth,” which this controversial subject and topic, had its pundits and apologist debating the article on various Internet websites. One of the above listed forums allowed me to submit the article, but the article was immediately removed—I contacted the webmaster who informed me that it was a matter of a technical glitch and he assured me that article would be reposted. Thus, if my memory serves me correctly, the webmaster was celebrating his birthday in December and was at a social outing, commemorating this occasion with his family and friends, when this writer emailed him. He emailed me back and stated after the outing he would investigate this matter and repost the article. I do not know if the article was ever re-posted. (Reference: Fahim A. Knight; “Christmas—Jesus the Sun God: Lies, Deception and the Truth”).

Cheik Anta Diop in his book titled, “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality” stated, “Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and can not be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt. In particular, the study of languages, institutions, and so forth, can not be treated properly; in a word, it will be impossible to build African humanities, a body African human sciences, so long as the relationship does not appear legitimate. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective, nor unruffled; he is ignorant, cowardly, and neurotic. Imagine, if you can, the uncomfortable position of a western historian who was to write the history of Europe without referring to Greco-Latin Antiquity and try that off as a scientific approach.” (Reference: Cheik Anta Diop; “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality”).

But what struck me about the Hall of Maat and Graham Hancock sites were that they had a body of scholars, scientist, social scientist, laypersons, etc., dedicated to investigating the history, culture and genealogy of ancient Egypt (Kemet). These scholars and researchers seemed to have one common thread relative to ancient Egypt (Kemet), which was disproving that this North East African nation was African (black) in genotypical’ and ‘phenotypical’ terms. Western historians, however, say that the word "Kemet" refers to the color of the soil of the land rather than its people. But, the word "Kemet" is actually an ethnic term being a derivative of the word "Khem" (Cham or Ham) which means "burnt" or "black." Ham, who was one of the three sons of Noah and the direct ancestor of the Egyptians, was black. The Bible, in the Old Testament, repeatedly refers to Egypt as the "Land of Ham" (i.e., Psalm 105:23, 27; 106:22). Regarding the ancient Egyptians, there is also considerable historical evidence, aside from the Holy Bible, that they were of Black or Negro origin. (Reference: http://www.theconservativevoice.com/arti...).

There appears to be an academic-led movement, amongst some Caucasian scholars in the United States and Europe, to use a new wave of technology and science which to reevaluate and re-access the genealogy of those who inhabited ancient Egypt (Kemet) by using the availability of DNA testing. (Reference: John G. Jackson; “Man, God, and Civilization”).

Thus,“According to the Bible the ancient Egyptians were descended from Ham through the line of Mizraim. Ham had four sons: Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan (Genesis 10:6). The name "Mizraim" is the original name given for Egypt in the Hebrew Old Testament. Many Bibles will have a footnote next to the name "Mizraim" explaining that it means "Egypt." The name "Egypt" itself actually comes to us from the Greeks who gave the Land that name (i.e. "Aegyptos" from the Greek). In addition to the name "Mizraim," the ancient Egyptians also referred to their land as "Kemet" which means "Land of the Blacks." (Reference: http://www.theconservativevoice.com/arti...).

This will allow a field of pure science to be the guiding force of re-determining past historical evidence which was once guided mainly by social science that allowed history as a discipline to interact in an interdependency manner with anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, sociology, etc., to validate past events. But according to this new wave of historical research methodology, scholars and scientist argue that it will allow for so-called more reliable objective research findings and provide us with definitive and substantiated evidence in order to tell us more about the original inhabitants of Ancient Egypt (Kemet), which was the original name of Egypt prior to the Greeks, Arabs, British, Assyrians, Turks, and the European invaders occupying and colonizing this North African nation. (Reference: Molefi Kete Asante; “Afrocentricity”).

Wikipedia online research source had this to say about DNA testing concerning Egypt (Kemet), it stated, “Blood typing and DNA sampling on ancient Egyptian mummies is scant; however, blood typing of dynastic mummies found ABO frequencies to be most similar to modern Egyptians and some also to Northern Haratin (Mauritania and Western Sahara—Black Moors) populations. ABO blood group distribution shows that the Egyptians form a sister group to North African populations, including Berbers, Nubians and Canary Islanders. DNA extraction (namely from the 12th dynasty) indicates multiple lines of descent, including sub-Saharan Africa, while the other lineages were not identified, but may be African in origin as well (according to Keita, 1996)”

Some of the most glorious and dynamic history evolved out of Egypt and many alien people and cultures have worked diligently to claim this nation, that has enlighten humanity in the realm of civilization falsely as their own. The historians have attributed the disciplines of architecture, physics, engineering, mathematics, medicine, religion, art, music, science, etc., all originated in ancient Egypt (Kemet) and no doubt this truth is indisputable. This writer, believes that most scholars will not be resistant to any new form of science that will lead us to a higher historical confirmation and evidentiary of scholarly proof in undertaking the ancient people who lived in Egypt, Africa.

This writer desires to believe that both scholars and laypersons alike, perhaps could appreciate and somewhat be receptive to this ground breaking efforts of DNA research being applied to re-examining history and Egyptology. However, this writer after thoroughly reviewing Graham Hancock and Hall of Maat websites and the writings of the scholars who submitted articles for posting; He was not left convinced that it was the truth that these scholarly pioneers were pursuing. (Reference:Gerald Massey; “Ancient Egypt the Light of the World”).

This writer can not help, but to question the motive and integrity of these social scientist who are pushing this effort of pure science (DNA testing) as the ultimate determining factor, which to be used to reevaluate ancient Egypt (Kemet) in order to provide us with more definitive and factual information about the race and ethnicity of the pyramid builders. But is there an unspoken, covert and clandestine agenda other than being able to access and use present day technology to enhance the definitiveness of perceived past historical facts. This writer agrees that scientist, social scientist and scholars should be able to use all the available technology at their disposable in order to bring us closer to the genetic truth of the original Egyptians (Kemites). However, perhaps those who are pursing this new historical and scientific investigation type scholarship, which to definitively determine the race and ethnicity of the ancient people who lived in Egypt (Kemet) is bit in genuine and is looking to demystify the notion that these people were of a Negroid strain. (Reference: Cheik Anta Diop; “Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology”).

This writer believes that the Afrocentric movement in a America had made serious inroads in the areas of promoting historical pluralism and multiculturalism and as a intellectual school of thought and it was they that had to be challenged by those who desired to maintain the status quo. This concept allowed African American scholars and black academicians such as Molefi Asante, John G. Jackson, Cheik Anta Diop, Chancellor Williams, IvanVan Sertima, Amos Wilson, Asa Hilliard, Kobi K. K. Kambon, John Henrik Clarke, Leonard Jefferies, Yosef Ben Jochannon, Frances Cress Welsing, Ishakamus Barashango, Naim Akbar, etc., to redefine history and view Africa as a subject rather than an object, as well as questioning the Eurocentric worldview. (Reference: Ameen Yasir Mohammed “Afrocentricity, Minus Al-Islam, Cheats: Exposing The Conspiracy to Rob African Americans of their Most Precious Heritage”).

Runoko Rashidi stated, “In the intense and unrelenting struggle to establish scientifically the African foundations of Egyptian civilization, the late Senegalese scholar Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop remains a most fierce and ardent champion. Dr. Diop (1923-1986) was without a doubt the world's leading Egyptologist and held the position of Director of the Radiocarbon Laboratory at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa in Dakar, Senegal. In stating the importance of the work, Diop noted emphatically and early on that, the history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt."

Rashidi goes on to state, “The solid range of methodologies employed by Dr. Diop in the course of his extensive Afro-Egyptian labors included: examinations of the epidermis of the mummies of Egyptian kings for verification of their melanin content; precise osteological measurements and meticulous studies in the various relevant areas of anatomy and physical anthropology; careful examinations and comparisons of modern Upper Egyptian and West African blood-types; detailed Afro-Egyptian linguistic studies and the corroboration of distinct Afro-Egyptian cultural traits; documents of racial designations employed by the early Africans themselves; Biblical testimonies and references that address the ancient Egyptian's ethnicity, race and culture; and the writings of early Greek and Roman travelers and scholars describing the physical characteristics of the ancient Egyptians.”

The advocators of DNA testing and the question of racial determination really have some serious house cleaning to do relative to racial identification and classification standards that were previously established in the United States (more prevalent during the Jim Crow Era 1896-1954)—The 1/8 rule was a standard racial assessment that the white status quo used to determine who would be classified as being black and white, was based on the variable of a person having 1/8 percent of African blood flowing through their veins (this was enough evidence to consider a person black). This writer does not think the 1/8 RULE has ever been appealed and rescinded by the United States Government and the scholars who used it to create HIS—STORY. This flawed classification of race designation be it defacto/dejure practice has never been officially recognized as being wrong and immoral; moreover, THE 1/8 RULE CLASSIFICATION MUST BE DEEMED RACIST and faulty and most of all unscientific. (Reference: Floyd B McKissick; “Three-fifths of a Man’)

Thus, these racist past and present, owe an apology to all of those that were adversely affected and denied Freedom, Justice and Equality because of the 1/8 Rule and this writer is old enough too have heard about this. We shall perhaps never know the total implications and the affect of this unjust racial classification system, had socially, politically and economically on people living in the United States, in particular and the world in general. This writer in reality, could end this topic of ancient Egypt (Kemet) by simple stating that there is little doubt that the original Egyptians (just based on physical appearance) had greater than 1/8 percentage Nubian African-black blood flowing thru their veins—end of discussion and this is not to discount the fact that there were other racial-ethnic miscegenation evidence pointing to a mix race—ancient Egyptian population. (Reference: Sterling Means: “Ethiopia & The Missing Link”).

This intellectual movement is quite bothersome to this writer, because it appears to be another sophisticated stratagem to once again relegate blacks to an inferior role and reposition Africa, in particular sub-Sahara Africa as the dark continent (gave nothing to civilization). No different than how past historians help set the stage for Africa to be raped and robbed by alien peoples and it justified slavery and the Transatlantic slave trade because of this “Dark Continent” myth; Yet, are these scholars hiding behind the newest and latest DNA historical technology, but their primary motivation is racism and the secondary motive is it more of a white supremacy smokescreen hidden under the guise of improving on ancient Egypt’s ethno-racial scholarship by heighten the evidentiary proof relative to getting closer to the truth, as it pertains to race, ethnicity and genealogy of the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptians were intellectual genius possessing the ability to erect the greatest structures ever built by man—the pyramids. These temples may have housed the dead or were the Egyptians teaching us something much more profound about immortality of the soul. These wonders of the world have baffled both social scientist and pure scientist alike for centuries. (Reference: John G. Jackson; “Introduction to African Civilizations and Walter Rodney: “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’).

The geopolitical and ethno-racial identification and classification of ancient Egypt (Kemet) was thought to be originally inhabited by Nubian blacks. Thus, these new CSI type historians and scientist desire to use DNA testing to determine proof positive the racial identification of the ancient Egyptians. Popular thought and racial classification/identification had systematically categorized the human race in four distinct racial groupings—Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid and, Australoid (this racial classification might-be somewhat outdated, but it set the racial classification standard) in which skeletal physicality were the definitive variable for racial indexing. For example, cranium structure, hair texture, jawbone structure—lips , nose, etc., were used to determine, which peoples, lands, and cultures would be designated and placed in the said four racial groupings.(Reference: Ivanvan Sertima; “The African Presence In Early Asia”).

Wikipedia the on-line free encyclopedia stated, “Studies performed to determine the population characteristics of ancient Egyptians have used various methods including examining craniometric pattern and variation of skeletal remains. A 2007 study which examined craniometric variation among ancient Egyptians of the predynastic and early dynastic periods found high levels of diversity but concluded that the formation of the Egyptian state was predominantly indigenous in development, with some, but limited migration from elsewhere. A craniofacial study by C. Loring Brace et al. concluded that; "The Predynastic of Upper Egypt and the Late Dynastic of Lower Egypt are more closely related to each other than to any other population" and that they show ties with North African, Somalian, European, Nubian and, more remotely, Indian populations, but not with Sub-Saharan Africans or populations from other continents. Anthropologist Shomarka Keita and geneticist Rick Kittles have criticized this study because of what they describe as "a socially constructed typological paradigm" in which Sub-Saharan Africans are treated as a monolithic, and biological African groups such as Nubians, Somalians and Egyptians are viewed essentially as non-African for having a craniometic pattern more similar to that of non-African populations.”

But from this unscientific, but agreed racial identification, a system of anthropology, archeology, and sociology were formed and began to validate the history, culture and civilization of past peoples and nations. What has always alarmed me, as a social scientist were certain geographical regions in Africa, in particular North East Africa (Egypt, Palestine, Ethiopia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Somalia) were classified as Caucasoid; although many of these people were very dark skinned (black). But this racial and ethnic contradiction was strategically established by Great Britain, United States, France, Germany, Spain, etc., who desired to create a Eurocentric racial-ethno worldview, which to show forth superior racial kinship with a people and culture that has stood head and shoulders above other societies in the realm of civilization. Perhaps China is the only other society with an equal historical civilization in longevity and cultural advancement compliable to Egypt (Kemet). (Reference: Drusilla Dunjee Houston;” The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire”).

This writer has personally met North Africans and East Africans that were dark skinned and by United States racial taxonomy they would be considered on the surface black and African. Nevertheless, by western racial-ethnic classifications—they would be deemed white. The Arabs and the people that occupy Egypt (Kemet) today are not the biological or even ethno-kindred to the original inhabitants that lived and occupied ancient Egypt (Kemet) 10,000 years ago, they are a Johnnie-come-lately race. For example, the former Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar Sadat by United States racial standards would have been considered black. The present Saudi Kingdom Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud would be considered black, both of them are from North East Africa. (Reference: Chancellor Williams; “Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 BC to 2000 AD)

This writer does not accept the geo-political lines drawn which separates the so-called "Middle East" from the African continent; divided by the man made Suez Canal which serves as an artificial line of demarcation. Perhaps these scientists have no ulterior motives for pushing DNA analysis testing as the latest measuring instrument in the field of Egyptology; this writer doubt this contention because it has the words politically inspired written all over this movement. Or is it just another racist attempt to culturally denigrate blacks in the scheme of civilization and to once again propel themselves to superior status? Ancient Egypt (Kemet) has to be touted the EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD and there is an intellectual war of ideas going on and I am quite sure there are a slew of scholars who are apologist and pundits in this DNA debate relative to Egypt (Kemet). (Reference: Bruce Bridges “Recapturing the African Mind).

These reactionary Egyptologist and DNA proponents have carried Professor Mary Lefkowitz, the author of “Not Out of Africa” argument to another level. Lefkowitz argued that Afrocentric scholars had exaggerated the black historical role in Egypt (Kemet) and created undocumented myths coupled by shoddy research methods and documentation. Lefkowitz attacked George G. M. James who perhaps wrote the Afrocentric intellectual treatise in 1954, titled, “Stolen Legacy”. Lefkowitz stated, “Perhaps the most influential Afrocentrist text is Stolen Legacy, a work that has been in wide circulation since its publication in 1954. Its author, George G. M. James, writes that the ‘term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence’. He argues that the Greeks ‘did not possess the native ability essential to the development of philosophy.’ Rather, he states that “the Greeks were not the authors of Greek philosophy, but Black people of North Africa, The Egyptians. . . It is not hard to understand why James wishes to give credit for the Greek achievement to the Egyptians, even if there is little or no historical foundation for these claims. Like the other nationalistic myths, the story of a ‘Stolen Legacy’ both offers an explanation for past suffering and provides a source of ethnic pride.”(Reference: Mary Lefkowitz; “Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History.”

Quite obvious this writer disagrees with Professor Lefkowitz because her assessment and other scholars like her, desire to play up the so-called Semitic lineage and through faulty deductive reason they would like to even argue that the Ancient Egyptians were white and these traditional, Revisionist and reformist historical schools of thought have united behind DNA testing, as representing the last resort to rob ancient Egypt (Kemet) of an African origin, but the preliminary DNA testing wasn’t as conclusive as they expected, which resulted from the unavailability of physical evidence that has faded away with time. The DNA testing has verified overwhelmingly Nubian blood present in the Egyptian corpse and mummies and DNA testing has yet to disqualify the non-presences of African blood in the ethno-racial lineage of the Ancient Egyptians.

Even today the true Egyptian is not to be found in the cities but in the country sides and farmlands of Egypt. Most of the Egyptians in the cities carry a mixed ancestry of European and Asian, but mostly Asian from the immigration and invasions of various people into Egypt throughout the centuries. Very few people realize that Cleopatra was of Greek origin because the Greeks once ruled Egypt and she was descended from one of those Greek rulers. The true Egyptian found in the countryside, however, has dark brown to black skin and very pronounced Negro features. This is particularly true the further south one travels in Egypt. It was from the south that the original pharaohs and the people of Egypt settled the land. The original rulers and builders of Egyptian civilization were of completely Black or Negro origin.
This writer even read articles written by credible Masonic writers and historians such as Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas that had posted articles on the Hall of Maat and Graham Hancock sites, but intellectual racism, is in one sense, more dangerous because it sets the mental premise and gives meaning, rationale, validation, justification and serve as the foundation for the underlying principle that racism needs to rationalize its existence.

Lastly, from the http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/nod..., I received some valuable lessons and instructions from a blogger who goes by the name of Kats and this is what he left me with relative to my post titled, “Christmas—Jesus the Sun God: Lies, Deception and the Truth.”

“I have always believed that our understanding of the 'past' and 'future' plays the role of two wings of a bird (us), and only in good balance can we then fly where we want to go. So all efforts to elucidate and not compromise with the facts is valuable. Where it gets a bit uncomfortable is when we start getting ideological and tend to paint some facts with brighter colors and some in darker. It is important that more researchers like yourself write about the likelihood of incorrectness of Jesus bd to maybe encourage finding new innovative ways to dig for a true bd.”

“The need for knowing or yet better replacing it is its incorrectness and not because it is a 'pagan celebration'. If the latter is the reason, we can be sure the corrections won't end with bd. This is where we arrive at a juncture where what we think civilization is becomes crucial. All religions, spiritual belief systems, philosophies, theologies, theosophies, etc. are languages of mind, just like languages of mouth, and languages of heart (music) and are precious heritage of our civilization.”

“We have had enough of rough minded powerful leaders who ram thru nations and cultures and destroyed their language of mind, mouth, and heart which took them millenniums of hard work to create, and left them like cats with chopped off whiskers who can't tell which side is up which down. A truly irreparable damage to our civilization. We might have been a bit numbed up by western historians who put heavy emphasis on tool making in ranking civilizations. To me, millions of people around the world died during thousands of years in the process of figuring out which mushrooms are edible and nutritious without side effects, which plant roots have medicinal effects, which deep sea vegetations are good for us, is civilization.”

“That's why I think, did Egypt feed the world with civilization or China, is a question that can only take you to a wrong answer. We can appreciate and respect their contribution, but not the claiming ownership. No body owns civilization. Your description that what premises Dr. John Jackson might have been operating under makes sense, only if he doesn't fall into the same trap.”
I do not know if I have fell into that trap that Kats were referring to, but this writer knew that Graham Hamcock and the Hall of Maat forums were mixing truth with falsehood and in some cases was outright lying about the history and culture of ancient Egypt (Kemet) in order to covertly push their intellectual racist agenda. Some of these scholars even held doctorate degrees in various disciplines, but this writer could no longer sit quietly by while they pillage and plunder over African history. Someone will argue that Knight seem obsessed with the question of race and fail to recognize and acknowledge my core base, which is African, African American and all people of goodwill. This is my response to setting the historical record straight and to letting Graham Hamcock and the Hall of Maat forums know that THERE ARE EYES ON THEM.

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

STAY AWAKE UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN,
Fahim A. Knight-EL

WHITE FREEMASONS AND I DISAGREE: HOW DO WE UPROOT MASONIC RACISM?

By FAHIM A KNIGHT-EL

This writer wrote an article entitled "HIRAM ABIFF: SYMBOLIC OF THE BLACK MAN IN AMERICA" October 13, 2008, in which the article as far as, a thought had laid dormant inside of me for perhaps over ten to fifteen years; this is when I actually began to write the article, but just could not pull my Masonic research together in order to at least put forth a half way decent argument that would be empirical and scholarly. This writer in 2008 was contacted by an active United States Serviceman named Wayne T. Muhammad who had read some of my articles relative to Islam and Freemasonry, but he was more interested in my opinions on Hiram Abiff being an allegorical prototype of the African American experience. Mr. Muhammad was doing some writing in this area and this writer thinks that he was searching to see what other writers and scholars have said on this topic.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam have always drawn this parallel between Hiram Abiff and the Black man of America and it was always an intriguing topic for me and no doubt, it caught my intellectual imagination some years ago. No other group has taught on this aspect of Masonic History, Hiram Abiff and Black man’s plight and their sojourn in America being kidnapped from Africa and robbed of the knowledge of self as a symbolic parallel to the mythological character Hiram Abiff other than the Nation of Islam.

This writer has sat under many lectures being delivered by the late Minister Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad and Minister Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad; both of these ministers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had the ability to make Speculative Masonry come alive and could decode the symbolism and take all the Masonic lessons back to Kemet (Egypt) where our ancient ancestors had mastered Operative Masonry and Speculative Masonry.

Yes, the Egyptian Mystery Schools predated European Freemasonry by some thousands of years and the basis of modern Masonry rest upon the esoteric, occult and mythical lessons that were being observed and practice as moral lessons based on the Kemetic sciences. The Masonic regalia, rituals, signs and symbols go back to Kemet, for one to argue this is a sign of ignorance and perhaps it is this denial that has fueled Masonic racism—Royal Arch Masonry, Blue Lodge Masonry, Scottish Rite Masonry, Mystic Shrine Masonry, York Rite Masonry, etc., have an interdependency on the ancient teachings and scrolls of Kemet, without Kemet (Egypt) these Orders would have a difficult time existing.

Some scholars have tried to sum up the intellectual geniuses and the creative energy of Kemet (Egypt) by trying to interpret and explain its rituals and symbolism in books such as the “Egyptian Book of Dead” and others have turned to the “Kyballion” but the Kemtic wisdom is infinite in which it can not be contained; not even, in all the volumes of books recorded by the ancients. The Original Man was a Master Builder and had the building skills that would put an artificer and craftsman like Hiram Abiff the Widow’s Son to shame. In Masonic liturgy Hiram Abiff is considered an allegorical story and a symbolic story in which the biblical account does not go hand and hand with the Freemasonic Speculative Masonic theories.

This writer is very familiar with works of Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas; “The Hiram Key: Pharaoh’s, Freemasons, and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus” and Robert Lomas: “Turning The Hiram Key”. These are new Masonic writers argue to a certain extent that Hiram Abiff perhaps was a mortal being who walked this earth, but if you are looking for a much older source who contradicts Lomas and Knight; here is one for you "Who is Hiram Abiff?" by J.S.M Ward, which was first published in 1925, and he records a number of historical characters and allegories associated with the name of Hiram Abiff that transcends many ancient societies and cultures. My Brother Zachary Gremillion author of the book titled, ”African Origins of Freemasonry” and founder and Soverign Grand Master of non-Masonic order named the Imperial Cushite Order, Ancient Grand Lodge of Khamet. Brother Gremillion always end his blog posting with this quote "Who is that its is he whom was slain that now lives". The answer to this question can only be understood, if my readers know who is the original man?

The Kemitic (Egyptians) had mastered science, medicine, architect, art, philosophy chemistry, religion (spirituality), etc. The story of Hiram Abiff, the Widow’s Son was borrowed from the ancient story of Osiris (Asar), Isis (Aset), and Horus (Huru); (the Father, Son and Holy Ghost)—the birth, death, resurrection and ascension that we attribute to Hiram Abiff, it was actually predated by some thousands of years by the Osirian Myth, even before the advent of Isa bin Yusuf or Yeshua ben Yosef (better known in the West as Jesus Christ—the so-called Son of God).

These legends were rooted in the Sun God and Solar God concepts. For example, right-minded historians and social scientists have traced these rituals and customs back to the worship of the Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice; in fact Kersey Graves in his monumental book titled, “The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors” he listed at least sixteen World Saviors that had the exact same identical advents attributed to their lives that we have associated with Yeshua ben Yosef (Jesus the son of Joseph). These are the facts and they are undisputable.

The Caucasian history only goes back 6,000 years. So we do know this much, the original people of Kemet were not Caucasians and we further know to a great extent that the Nubians have a much older civilization than western man. So what was the likelihood of the people of Kemet being Nubians, as opposed to Caucasians (I know historian Erik Von Daniken said the ancient pyramid builders dropped out of space (lol). Second point, the works of Dr. Cheik Anta Diop and Dr. John Jackson in which both of these scholars have done monumental work in anthropology, Egyptology, archeology, genetics, race, paleontology, etc. and have verified that Kemet (Egypt) was a Nubian culture.

Here is another good source "Destruction of Black Civilization" by Dr. Chancellor Williams. He traced how in Kemet (Kemet) the darker skinned original people were pushed to the south. Now, we also know this much for a fact, the people that occupies Egypt today are Johnny-come-lately imposters along with their Semitic kith and kin those who called themselves Jews. The question that I that pose to those who opposed me is, who is the original man?

One writer gives us the linage of the people of Kemet as it is traced from the Biblical context.

According to the Bible the ancient Egyptians were descended from Ham through the line of Mizraim. Ham had four sons: Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan (Genesis 10:6). The name "Mizraim" is the original name given for Egypt in the Hebrew Old Testament. Many Bibles will have a footnote next to the name "Mizraim" explaining that it means "Egypt." The name "Egypt" itself actually comes to us from the Greeks who gave the Land that name (i.e. "Aegyptos" from the Greek). In addition to the name "Mizraim," the ancient Egyptians also referred to their land as "Kemet" which means "Land of the Blacks." Western historians, however, say that the word "Kemet" refers to the color of the soil of the land rather than its people. But, the word "Kemet" is actually an ethnic term being a derivative of the word "Khem" (Cham or Ham) which means "burnt" or "black." Ham, who was one of the three sons of Noah and the direct ancestor of the Egyptians, was black. The Bible, in the Old Testament, repeatedly refers to Egypt as the "Land of Ham" (i.e., Psalm 105:23, 27; 106:22).

Regarding the ancient Egyptians, there is also considerable historical evidence, aside from the Holy Bible, that they were of Black or Negro origin. Even today the true Egyptian is not to be found in the cities but in the country sides and farmlands of Egypt. Most of the Egyptians in the cities carry a mixed ancestry of European and Asian, but mostly Asian from the immigration and invasions of various people into Egypt throughout the centuries. Very few people realize that Cleopatra was of Greek origin because the Greeks once ruled Egypt and she was descended from one of those Greek rulers. The true Egyptian found in the countryside, however, has dark brown to black skin and very pronounced Negro features. This is particularly true the further south one travels in Egypt. It was from the south that the original pharaohs and the people of Egypt settled the land. The original rulers and builders of Egyptian civilization were of completely Black or Negro origin.

This writer had read the works of great Caucasian scholars such as Albert Churchward, Gerald Massey, Sir Godfrey Higgins, George Frazer, etc., who pointed to Kemet (Egypt) as being the cradle of civilization from which all knowledge sprung. I had also, read a book written in 1954 by George G.M. James titled, "Stolen Legacy" in which James attributes Greek Mythology as being stolen Egyptian philosophy and since Freemasonry is built on these scientific and mathematical principles this led me to investigate Kemet (Egypt) further and this is where I found the root of all Masonic teachings. Thus, for those who might not know when this writer speaks if Egypt, he is not referring to the Middle East, Egypt is in Africa. Refer to the link Ashra Kwesi African Origins of Freemasonry:

Manly P. Hall and Albert G. Mackey and all the great Masonic writers pointed us to Kemet (Egypt) where this great craft received its origin. On the walls of the great pyramids it was inscribed "Man Know Thyself" and as a people of African descendant we had been made blind to the knowledge of self and Freemasonry or Speculative (philosophical) Masonry had enough in its teachings to verify that this society had ancient origins that went further back than 1717. The origin gave us a black reality and all the Masonic schools of thought came from African people

This writer is laying this historical foundation because we must be able to overturn the tricks, lies and deceptions that Caucasian Freemasons have infused into Masonic historical ideology giving us the false impression that it was in England in 1717 that these enlightened men where the founders of Freemasonry. Thus, starting from this historical premise, is to negate the Nubian origin of Freemasonry and it is this fuel that keeps the social and political antagonism and divisiveness that exist between Black and White Freemasonry on the front burner.

But beneath the historical social tension between the Black and White Masonic Orders are the racial rules that society at-large has played by since the 1440s when the Portuguese first ventured to the West Coast of Africa and forciable brought black human cargo to Lisbon, which led to the modern inception of a white supremacy ideology and it created a racial system of inferiority and dehumanization of people of African descent.

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing in her book titled, “The Cress Theory of Color Confrontation and Racism” states: "Racism is viewed as a global behavior power system with a constant and specific set of power relationships. Racism evolved with the singular goal of white supremacy or white power domination by the global white minority over the vast non-white global majority. This 'colored global collective' has been forced into the position of relative powerlessness compared to the 'global white collective' establishing the power equation of white over non-white (W/N-W). Racism, whether consciously or unconsciously evolved as a survival necessity for the tiny global white minority, due to their genetic recessive status as albino variants (mutants) in a world of skin-color genetically dominant black, brown, red and yellow peoples”

Dr. Welsing continues: ” . . . Indeed, had the global white minority not evolved this specific system of power relationships (whites over non-whites) wherein whites control all of the behavior activity of non-whites in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war) as a survival mechanism, in the presence of the genetically dominant colored world majori­ty, the mutant albino genetic-recessive minority would finds itself genetically annihilated. That is, there would be no 'white' people except for the new mutations to albinism pro­duced by skin-melaninated or colored peoples. Thus, to pre­vent the genetic annihilation of skin whiteness, a behavior power system was evolved-the power system of racism or white supremacy domination.”

So when this writer has this type of conversation with white Masons; many can not move beyond the effect and influence that the larger society has had on their psychological orientation and worldview and they immediately become defensive and echo sentiments of historical denial. They are quick to let me know, that Freemasonry knows no color, but the principles of Freemasonry are universal and can not be confined to racial, culture, social, etc., politics; it is all embracing of the universality of all the systems of morality. They are absolutely correct, but many of them have done very little to breakdown the social barriers—their cable tow have been very short in this area of confronting Masonic racism and reaching out to their African American Masonic brethrens.

For example, eleven old Confederate states within the United States of America still practice Masonic racism and within these Masonic jurisdictions in 2009, they still do not recognized the largest black Masonic entity in the United States, which is Prince Hall Masonry (Free and Accepted Masons), but one must understand that the legitimacy of Prince Hall Masonry has never rested upon white acceptance as some of Prince Hall Masonic detractors have maintained.

Prince Hall Freemasons as an entity did not need white approval to justify their Masonic Order as being a body of “Regular” Masons—who gave the United Grand Lodge of England or any European Masonic governing Grand Orient the right to declare, which body of Masons shall be recognized as legitimate Masons?

Prince Hall Masons in the United States in the late 1920s won a Supreme Court decision which to be declared as a legal Masonic body and Masonic entity which was given the duly rights and authority to practice the rituals and tenets of Freemasonry in accordance to the ancient traditions. There is no court higher than the United States Supreme Court within the United States system of jurisprudence, but this right in reality, was established before the inception of the Magna Carta. This legal decision would render any other Masonic governing body's decision as a moot point relative to Prince Hall Masonic legitimacy; in particularly because we in the United States are answerable to the laws and enactments that are evoke on our soil—the legal decision over eighty years ago, if nothing else established Masonic legality for Prince Hall Masons (Jubilee Day) and this decision alone would have overriding any foreign entity such as the United Grand Lodge of England.

This writer has maintained unless we deal with the root cause of the problem which is racism then the social attitudes that undergirds this disease will continue to deny us the true meaning of Freemasonry and millions of its devotees throughout the world will never come to know the true realization of what Freemasonry stands for. We also make a huge mistake, when we try to pretend that racism doesn’t exist in Freemasonry; thus, this leads me directly into a conversation that I have had with a white European Mason who is a member of the United Grand Lodge of England.

Cecil Rhodes, in an article titled "Confession of Faith" stated: "I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present in­habited by the most despicable specimens of human be­ings. What an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence. Look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominion gives. I contend that every acre added to our territory means in the future of birth to some more of the English race. Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the fur­therance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole' uncivilized world under British rule? Poverty is better under our flag than wealth under a foreign one. Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to seize every opportunity of ac­quiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race, more of the best of the most human, most honorable race this world possesses.'"

This article came about do to a lengthy dialog that I have had with a white Freemason on David Icke web site he goes by the title Grand Secretary and he professed to be from York, England and claim to be a pseudo authority on European Freemasonry. This writer and the Grand Secretary over a couple of weeks were in a dialogue relative to a Speculative Masonic topic that this writer had written titled, “Hiram Abiff: Symbolic of the Black man of America”. The Grand Secretary accused me of distorting Masonry and imploring reverse racism and although this writer knew that most Caucasians aren’t used to being intellectually challenged by people of African descent.

The United Grand Lodge of England has never been a true ally or friend to the Black Prince Hall Masonic Order and this writer was not willing to overlook the United Kingdom’s role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which has led to the racial attitudes that many white Masons have come to embrace; even in Europe. This writer has challenged them to debunk Masonic racism and for this reason he has been ridiculed by some white Masons who refuse to let go of the past and transition their thinking into the 21st Century. The Grand Secretary and my discourse will give my readers some indication of the historical contradictions and the stereotypes, which have created Masonic misunderstanding and Masonic divisiveness between black Freemasons and white Freemasons. Some or should I say, very little of this conversation has been edited between the Grand Secretary and myself.

But this article is also written to challenge Prince Hall Masons to know that integration is not the answer to resolving this four hundred year old dilemma and we should not fool ourselves into believing that white Masonic recognition will end all of the political, economic and social problems, which exist between the two orders. Lastly, we need more black Masonic writers and historians who are willing to engage in Masonic research and began to contribute to the philosophical science of Speculative Masonic theory. I am on job, but we need help. This is a distress call “My God, My God, Is There No Help For the Poor Widow’s Son”. Sorry I can not give you the word that comes with this phrase.

Grand Secretary: God forbid, and he will.This is the most racist and disgusting corruption and misuse that I have ever had the misfortune to witness. I hope it fails, and soon. And believe me, we will stay awake.

Fahim Knight-El: Grand Secretary can you please further explain your comment before I give it response; I do not want to mis-interpreted your statement.

Grand Secretary: There is NO place for racism of any kind, anywhere on this tiny planet. We are all equal and entitled, yes entitled to be regarded, and treated as such. We must all stay awake in order to confront, fight, and emerge victorious against anything, or anybody, who treats our fellow human beings as different, or inferior, simply because of where they were born (accident of birth) or the colour of their skin. I believe that what I have said is quite clear.Free Masonry is entirely colour blind. It is the one place in this world where it is wholly irrelevant. There is NO place for it, and where there is racism the answer is certainly not to oppose it with racism of a different nature, or colour. Now you can list the Moderns Grand Lodges that are racist, and they are just as wrong as you are. Racism is NOT the answer to racism.

Grand Secretary continues: This is a treatise on the historical framework for the symbolism employed in the Moderns rituals, not Free Masonry per se. We must get over this. The Moderns form of freemasonry, as an entity, did not exist in any form prior to that meeting in the London Pub in 1717. It is, in their own words, and entirely accurate, "a product of the Enlightenment".

Moderns freemasonry is as closely connected to the Ancient Mysteries as Marilyn Monroe is to the horticulture of Ogen Melons.

Fahim Knight-El: Grand Secretary: Perhaps you are fooling yourself. I live in the United States of America where in at least 11 states, white Freemasons are still practicing racism and discrimination against African American Masons. This reality, automatically deconstructs your argument that Masonry is so-called color blind—not in the United States. Sir, you did not point out one thing that I have said in the article that was racist and unless you consider telling and exposing historical events as being a racist. Moreover, Chattel Slavery, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Middle Passage, etc., existed and happened. How is that racist? If I am only citing historical evidence. No, Sir your comments either indicate that you live in a bubble or are in historical denial. Here is my article that I wrote on Masonic Racism within the United States of America. (Reference: Journey to the East Internet Web Site link: http://masoniceducation.blogspot.com...s...

Note: North Carolina Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (AF&AM predominately white body of Masons and North Carolina Prince Hall Masons the predominately Black Masonic body—Free and Accepted Masons (F&AM) did pass a resolution of fraternal recognition in November 2008, after over 200 years of Masonic segregation. There are still eleven (11) states, which racism and segregation still exist between the two Masonic entities.

Grand Secretary: Well do something about it that is not a racist response. Sue them to Hell where they belong. It works.What is an African American anyway?You are either an African, or you are an American, and until you drop these silly racist labels that leave you wallowing in the injustices of the past, you will never make progress.We don't have West Indian English, or a Pakistani Welshman, or an Irish Liverpudlian or a Greek Londoner. These are quite preposterous notions.An Anglo-Saxon Englishman, or Scot, or Irishman, or Welshman is someone who accepts and shares the same values and national institutions within their chosen national boundaries.America is a deeply divided nation because you do not. When are you going to stop living in the past?

Fahim Knight-El: Your response is very Eurocentric and you did not address any points that I have made. I gave you a 5,000 word article that I wrote explaining and exposing American racism in Freemasonry, which initially you stated there was no racism in Masonry. I got all types of proof and documentation that Freemasonry goes much further back than 1717; perhaps you meant this as being date when European Freemasonry originated. Moreover even Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, two European Masonic historians and writers documents that Freemasonry goes further back than 1717. What sources are you reading or is it just your Eurocentric worldview that you are coming from. Thus Give Me a minute I am going to post regarding what it means for the African living in America to look back, it is entitled, "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Myth or Reality". I am posting it now and perhaps this will answer some of your questions relative to the African American plight.

Grand Secretary: Well this statement calls for an answer to a very important question. How can a self-started, un-Chartered Grand Lodge in England, issue a "legitimate charter" to any body?Firstly, a Charter is a legal document that may only be issued by a Monarch or a Sovereign Legislature. Secondly a Charter holder cannot, by law, issue a Charter, it may only issue a warrant to act under its Charter. Thirdly, a Charter may only be repealed by the Sovereign Legislature that issued it, or the Legislature that issued with the assent of the Sovereign power.Accordingly, the United States Supreme Court legitimised Prince Hall Free Masonry because it possessed the Sovereign power of the State. In effect, it started a completely new and legitimate American Grand Lodge, totally unconnected with English freemasonry.

The Supreme Court could not, by definition, legitimise an illegal, in fact non-existent, English Charter.Similarly, and earlier, after the American War of Independence, the other American State Grand Lodges were legitimised. Beforehand they were not legitimate, they were also wholly irregular, because they were working under the false premise that their English "Charters" were legal. They were, as a matter of fact, worthless pieces of paper.Scottish warrants were of a different character.Your freemasonry is pure American freemasonry, started with proper authority, by legal Charter from your own Sovereign State. You might as well just forget what happened before the Supreme Court ruling. Film flam.

Fahim A. Knight-El: Prince Hall Masonry was considered “Regular” as early as 1784 and there is a long history of racism and social antagonism that have existed within the United States. Many freed black men fought in the American Revolution—some fought on the side of the thirteen colonies and others fought on side of Great Britain (the Crown), which helped America gain her independence in 1776.

Knight-El continued: In 1775 Prince Hall and the fourteen other black military soldiers were initiated, past and raised and made Masons by a white Irish European military lodge in Boston, Massachusetts and this much we know is undeniable. This fact is irrefutable, but based on segregation and racism, American Masons did not receive black Masons as brothers of the Craft. Prince Hall petitioned the Grand Lodge of England for a charter and a Masonic dispensation to function as a legal black Masonic entity and it was granted. He received the charter for the establishment of African Lodge 459 and later African lodge number 1 was convened. Thus, with the Masonic structure in America either the initial Prince Hall lodge would have to be admitted within the body of American Masonry (white Grand Lodges) and/or function as an entity under the white Scottish Rite Masonic Order or the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (these two bodies are often interchangeably within the scheme of American Freemasonry), which was not within the rules and laws of the U.S. social structure and this also included the American Freemasonic Order.

Knight-El continued: Prince Hall charter forced him to seek to build a black Masonic institution understanding that he was not going to get any acceptance letter from the white Masonic body within the United States extending him and the other black Masons membership into their all white lodges. The Transatlantic Slave Trade relative to the United States did not end until 1807 and Africans in America at this time in history did the best they could under some unbearable political, economic and social circumstances.

Prince Hall probably did not know that it was his ancestors of Kemet (Ancient Egypt) that was the first to introduced the system of adepts initiations, rituals, qualified stages of learning, etc., to the world; in particular the Egyptian Mystery System which was based on a system of Ancient Wisdom and writings that went further back than PTAH, Amen-RA and even further than the Osirian Myth. Thus, if Hall saw the Grand Lodge of England as a credible Masonic body; it was perhaps his orientation, which was no different than the thinking of most blacks who were made slaves in the Americas and who after being made free in 1865 still followed the Caucasian's culture, mores’, folkways, norms, etc., even in 2009. Prince Hall did have the vision and wither all to establish a black Masonic order that has withstood the historical test of time for over two hundred years.

Knight-El continued: Many Prince Hall Masons have sought out the true origins of Freemasonry and is breaking the Eurocentric Masonic grip that has suffocated our ability to go further and uncover more ancient systems of initiation and learning that truly predates the western world concept of Freemasonry. They only have a fraction and distorted system of Masonry. Many like myself are doing what we can to introduce brothers to this alternative view of Masonry and reintroduce him to what his African ancestor established over 20 thousand years ago in Cush and Kemet. While the Caucasian was still toiling in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Sea.

Grand Secretary: I am not interested in when it "was considered regular". The fact is that it was not regular until the Supreme Court Judgment.It certainly is now so there is no need to be defensive on this.And what about this "African American" nonsense?

Fahim Knight-El: Thus, everything I have given you is my words. Please show me one thing that I have given that was not my words. You have no defense for Masonic racism and I have cited you an entire article giving you my well researched article assessing and evaluating Masonic racism from its inception in the United States. Why are you keeping on trying to deny this historical fact? Fahim Knight-El: The term "African American" was derived from Europeans assault on people of African dissent robbing them of a land, heritage, culture, religion, God, folkway, mores, values, customs, and traditions, etc.; this was the negative impact of 310 years of Chattel Slavery (1555-1865). It work to strip African Americans and Africans scattered though out Diaspora of unified a nationality.

Knight-EL continued: Africans in America were denied their culture humanity. This was the greatest crime ever committed in the history of humanity. It was against the law for Africans on the slave plantation to speak their own native tongue and this evil system divided those who shared ethnic lineage. They called Blacks (Negroes) from the word "necro" which means something dead, but they have duped humanity in believing that the word Negro meant black in Latin (Spanish), but it actually meant "dead" referring to a people who were being classified from their perspective as coming from the "Dark Continent" meaning a people who had no history and gave nothing to human civilization.

Yes, this type of historical onslaught, which was based in the ideology of white supremacy and by its nature left a people devastated. Although, Chattel Slavery ended in 1865 the search to reclaim an ethnic, nationality, racial and culture identity left African people in America in search of a cohesive identity and even in 2009, we have yet to achieve that objective. Blacks have attempted to make many nationality transitions. For example, from being Africans, Negro, Colored, Black, Afro-American, African American, etc., and a host of other nationalities through out their experience in America.

These different nationality claims were a direct result of the effect of Chattel Slavery. Moreover, blacks in the United States have always had a culture duality—African, perhaps in genetically and phenotype our classification would be African. But on the other hand we are considered Americans (at least in legal theory) and these complex variables are more contradictory than an agreed ethnic/nationality solution relative to the Africans living in America. In the mid-1980s Jesse Jackson and other black leadership proposed and adopted the nationality classification for blacks—African American. I hope that answers your question and give you some historical background.

Grand Secretary: I have NOT denied that there has been Masonic racism but "black Masonry" is racial segregation based upon the colour of ones skin and THAT is racism too. That was the point of my statement and question.I stand by what I said about the continuation of racial stereotypes in the United States of America. The day you can simply say "I am an American" and forget the African bit, then your country will be a lot healthier.Nationality classification? Why do you need it? This is 2009. When was slavery abolished?And by the way, the word "negro" refers to people who originated from the Niger Delta, the word Niger meaning "black" in the Latin tongue. I agree entirely with kasalt. I don't know who is filling your head with this racist nonsense, but it has nothing to do with the root necro, or death. Who told you this then? Whoever it was, I suspect was trying to wind you up for some reason.Please forget race, America. Treat everyone as an individual, as an equal, and you won't go far wrong. Fahim, your national and cultural identity is that of an equal American Citizen, and may God bless you for that.

Fahim Knight-El: No, African American identity will always be viewed separate and apart from what you describe as Americanism (they are two distinct people and cultures). You are asking 40-50 million Africans living in America to forget their cultural and nationality and accept Americanism. No, Sir what you are proposing is insane and represents cultural destruction. We will never fully embrace our former slave master’s culture, as our own for the social harmony of this nation called America. I explained to you, the entire "African American" concept (your are still in denial of this historical reality) you can accept it or leave it alone.

Knight-El continued: No European in York, England has the moral authority to assign Africans in America a nationality; thus, England was one of the perpetrators of the criminal act, in particular their role in Transatlantic slave trade. This is why we stand with the Muslims and Islam in the United Kingdom; they will continue give UK hell. This should be your concern in the UK, in particular, how are you going deal with militant and radical Islam? You have no knowledge of the history and plight of black Americans. Here is a link

that explains the word "Negro" and its origin from our perspective and not from the Eurocentric worldview. Please take a minute and view the link and let me know your thinking. Black Freemasonry was only a reaction to white Freemasonry, which was racist to its core. Now, I am not willing to continue to debate ignorance. I have giving you facts and history—your approach now boarders on a racist disposition.

Grand Secretary: Fahim, I feel so very sorry for you if you believe even 1% of what you have posted. Africa is clearly not a nation, or a culture. It is, as a matter of fact, an entire continent consisting of a large number of very disparate countries, cultures, political systems, religions, tribes and peoples, white, black, or any colour that you might care to mention.America is obviously in for some very difficult times due to blind racial prejudice from people with your twisted mentality, irrespective of your race, creed or colour.Thank God I am a typical mongrel Anglo-Saxon Englishman who will, unfortunately, have to witness the inevitable bloody outcome.Please do not claim to be a Freemason Fahim, because this you could never be, whether Modern or Ancient.This just shows what can happen when freemasons mistakenly pursue an open door policy after having comprehensively ditched its sound moral base. What a monumental mistake was made in 1723 (the first Anderson Constitutions).This is a VERY serious, and IMHO highly dangerous development, and a further quite frightening corruption of the tenets of a Free Mason.

Fahim Knight-El: Here you go again with a White Supremacy perspective; Africa is in the condition it is in because of European imperialism and colonialism, which has led to the raping and robbing of Africa's resources by past and present European powers. You have a habit of making the criminal the victim and the victim the criminal. I can just cite the Berlin Conference 1884-1885 where Africa was divided and partitioned by the European powers in which nations and people were separated to benefit the colonial masters. Sir, no European is in a moral position to judge the continent of Africa based on their roles or their ancestor’s role in the greatest human tragedy/crime ever recorded in human history.

Knight-El continued: Thus, the principles of Freemasonry were hypocritical because Americans and some Europeans nations prohibited a fellowman membership into white Masonic lodges based on skin color and this was wrong yesterday and it is wrong today. This isn't anything Fahim A. Knight-EL invented or created, but it was an agreed system to deny blacks membership because white Freemasons saw themselves as being ethnic superior. I have been on a campaign to expose this Masonic hypocrisy and break up that good ole boy network. You are still in denial of Masonic racism based on your comments. Your argument is weak and has no basis. Sir, everyone knows that there would not have been a need for two distinct Masonic fraternal orders black and white, if it were not for racism—practice by our white Masonic brothers.

Grand Secretary: There is a need TODAY for an end to racism. I demonstrated against the policy of separate development in South Africa. I did not do that in order to support the same policy in America.Your thinking is way out of date my brother.

Absolutely correct about Hiram Abiff except the rituals were developed by the white, European, Huguenot Minister, Dr Theophilus Desaguliers, between 1720 and 1730.These references to a fictional character called "Hiram Abiff" were first documented in France in the rituals of a non-Masonic organisation known as "The Sons of Solomon". This is where it is believed, Desaguliers discovered them, and in the absence of the rituals for the key "Master's Part" denied to him, introduced the fiction of Hiram Abiff.

Fahim Knight-El: Sir, Racism is a disease and this disease has even spread itself to the Masonic Order, in particular within American Masonry. Thus, as I stated before we will never let this issue go until the other 11 States in the United States abandon their racist practices against black Masons. How can one still call themselves brother Masons and so-called embrace the principles and still stand as one of the few institutions in America that stills overtly practice racism? What part of this social dilemma that you do not understand? The white Masons are practicing apartheid right inside the Ancient Free and Accepted Masonic Order (AF&AM), Scottish Rite and York Rite Orders in America. Do not attack me but go on a campaign to force your white Masonic brothers to end this unjust and deplorable and racist disposition, which stands as a Masonic contradiction. We will always oppose this type of behavior. I as a Masonic researcher will not let our white Masonic brothers off the hook. America in general, still remains a racist nation and Freemasonry as an institution in the United States reflects the larger social order.

Grand Secretary: Sue them to Hell, and at the same time replace them with fully integrated Free Masonry. Show the world by your example. You can do it.

This is probably true, but we must never allow racism without confronting it head on as being totally unacceptable thinking and behaviour.It should be made a criminal offence to handicap any other human being because of their race or their colour.We cannot stop fools from thinking (or not thinking as the case may be) but we can legislate for wrong-doing, and we should. Never give up trying to change society for the better. It is your duty as an Anglo-Saxon Englishman.

Fahim Knight-El: Grand Secretary stated: "King Solomon's Temple is NOT central to the ancient and original form of Anglo-Saxon Free Masonrie, represented by the Grand Lodge of All England. It cannot be, because Free Masonrie is pre-Davidic." Grand Secretary: Just a comment that King Solomon's Temple is central to the Moderns form of freemasonry represented by the United Grand Lodge of England, the Grand Lodge of Scotland, the Grand Lodge of Ireland, and the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of America.King Solomon's Temple is NOT central to the ancient and original form of Anglo-Saxon Free Masonrie, represented by the Grand Lodge of All England. It cannot be, because Free Masonrie is pre-Davidic.

Fahim Knight-El: I wrote this article titled, "King Solomon's Temple the Basis of Freemasonry" a few months ago and have written a few subsequent articles relative to Freemasonry since this one. I am not an authority on British or European Freemasonry. I do not think the UGLE or any Grand Orient should be the final regulatory entity on establishing Masonic "regularity". Masons come to the Masonic lodge from different religious backgrounds and experiences, but religion and Masonic teachings have some common threads—however, true Masonic philosophy (Speculative Freemasonry) is more rooted in the ancient philosophies that pre-date the three major Western religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These organized religions and their governing texts Torah, Gospel, and Qur'an; they borrowed their religious themes from more ancient sources. So Masonry embraces the ancient philosophy and not necessarily the religious schools of thought, which will only divide humanity. The Great Architect of the Universe implores Deity and this statement alone is in recognition that religion in of itself is shallow. Deity is known by many names and is received in different ways and manner relative to a culture and society—this is what Freemasonry embraces and anything less than this causes confusion.

Grand Secretary: Please carefully read our website. All is there, including a mountain of sources, references and attributions. I hope that this helps. http://www.grandlodgeofallengland.org/

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

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HANDS OFF THE KNOW BOOK STORE: ONE OF LAST STANDING BLACK BOOK STORES IN THE SOUTHEAST

By FAHIM A. KNIGHT-EL

This article is about one of the few and last standing black book stores in the southeast named the Know Book Store; located at 2520 Fayetteville Street in Durham, North Carolina, which is being threatened by deceptive forces to close its doors. I have not written on a local issue relative to Durham, North Carolina in any of my Blogs/articles because I had become extremely bored with local politics and the political stagnation associated with trying to decipher which agency—the county commissioners or the city council have more power to continue stealing the taxpayers money.

Durham has two legal govern bodies—county commissioners (county manger) and city council, where the mayor functions as the chief executive officer of the city, sought of because you also have a city manager (appointed position and serve as a nonelected official on the city council) who oversees the bureaucratic governing of the city.

Perhaps it is this confusion and ineffective political structuring that has turned me completely off from covering local politics. Yes, quite as it is kept the city is run by Duke University and powerful land developers and in realty, none of the governing entities have any power other than what Duke gives these political puppets.

But I did write an article on November 15, 2008, titled, “REVISITING THE DUKE UNIVERSITY LACROSSE CASE: THE REAL DEAL” and this was perhaps the first blog/article that have done in some time, which had a local connection with Durham. However, I could not resist the controversy swirling around the Know Book Store and this alone caused me to weigh in on this subject.

This dispute between the Know Book Store and the McLaughlin Group has somewhat divided Durham’s African American community. I am of the opinion, no amount of grant money could justify how much the Know Book Store has meant to the community. Some of the black bourgeoisie who is opposing this black book store is more concern with so-called economic development and getting some economic crumbs from the master and others like myself feel a sense of obligation to protect this viable cultural institution. Many of these handkerchief head Negroes in this reactionary sector desire to play politics as usual—some of them are the same ones who sold us out in the 1960s and 1970s with the concept of Urban Renewal and now they are covertly pushing re-gentrification. They are known to cut backroom deals for themselves and we all are considered expendable in the game of politics.

I truly do not know what to say about Durham. Durham is a very conservative city disguised in liberal clothing and our race relations are shrouded in a good ole boy and good ole girl network that consist of African Americans and Caucasians. It is a nicely interwoven click that has the power to reward and punish. I still live in Durham, but I must admit that I am guilty of not following Durham's political or local issues as I once did. However, I do understand and accept that all politics are local.

Black book stores across this country have always served at the center of black activism and community based organizing; In addition, they have served as venues for black intellectuals, activist, educators, revolutionaries, etc., always having the unmitigated opportunity to speak directly to the black community, which this access provided many of them with platforms throughout black America. The large corporate book chains like Barnes and Nobles and Borders Book did not because they catered to the larger sector of society. These large corporate book chains in the last fifteen years have forced a sizable amount of small local book stores out of business and of course, Amazon books and the internet e-commerce have dramatically changed and altered the traditional book industry.

Thus, it even impacted small black book stores more, who found it difficult to compete and to be competitive with this new book business economic trends. This along with the influence of technology—Kindle 2, cell phones and the entire Internet culture and how information is being disseminated has proven to be far challenging for the traditional book industry and the print news industry (even book publishing has been revolutionized by this new computer age). Thus, many small print mediums have fallen by the waste side because they were not able to keep up with the advancing technological trends, which has impacted the market and many did not have the vision or the capital to remain competitive and/or to diversify their book businesses.

For example, Barnes and Nobles gives you that Internet Café persona with coffee and pastry shop inside the store (the full service effect). The Internet Café trends are big in Europe and it is starting to make huge inroads within the United States. I heard someone recently say that there used to be over five hundred (500) black book stores located throughout the United States and now there are less than twenty (20) left. This is alarming because when I published my first book, I could not get a major publishing house deal nor was I looking for one, but my work was carried and distributed by small African American book stores. So I will always be grateful to this medium.

This writer is not naïve to the fact and knows that some of reasons black book stores have gone out of business is directly tied to the recent economic depression that we are experiencing inside the United States, but black book stores had been experiencing financial and economic problems long before this economic depression. The Know Book store has been in operation for over twenty-five years founded by Dr. Bruce Bridges, a former college professor of Saint Augustine College (Raleigh, NC) and who also taught at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.

Bridges, professor turned entrepreneur had a vision of establishing an intellectual hub where ideals and theories could be debated that weren’t being covered by the mainstream media. The Know Book is in a city where education and intellectualism is big—the store is ten minutes away from the campus of the prestigious Duke University and twenty minutes away from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and two minutes away from one of the best historical black universities and colleges in American—North Carolina Central University. Last but not least, it is thirty minutes from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

These centers of learning are mentioned in order to give my readers a small glimpse into Durham being not just an up and coming city, but it stands as a citadel of learning in the southeast. The Know Book Store formally began at its old location of 306 South Dillard Street and in last fifteen years it relocated to 2552 Fayetteville Street its present location and home, where Dr. Bridges has leased this space from the McLaughlin Group since that time. The location is in the heart of the black community, sandwiched between a Church’s Chicken and strip mall consisting of a string of mom and pops type black businesses.

Bridges having an innovative business mind, perhaps nine years ago saved his business by establishing a restaurant inside the bookstore based on having the square footage to do so and without a doubt this part of his business has been more profitable than the selling of books. He continued to improvise with the establishment of a jazz club where on Friday’s local Jazz musicians can be heard on the restaurant side of the business; thus, unlike many black book stores Dr. Bridges was able to diversify and revive his book store from going under.

The McLaughlin Group, the property owners of Know Book Store applied in March 2009 for a grant pursuant to a Request for Proposal (RFP) for neighborhood development that was being solicited by the city and would come under the Economic and Workforce Development office, which was designed to stimulate economic development in various depressed areas of the city and the grant in question had a target area of town known today as the Fayetteville Street Corridor where the book store is presently located.

The McLaughlin Group met all the RFP requirements with the potential of receiving a hundred seventy five thousand dollar grant which would assist in renovating the existing structure and would allow them to submit their business proposal to a private lending source which to request an additional four hundred seventy five thousand ($475.00) dollars in order to expand the square footage of the building, as well as make other physical improvements to the building.

The McLaughlin Group claimed to have already spent over twenty-five thousand ($25,000) in hiring architects and engineers, and construction consultants and planners in order to submit blue prints and other engineered based specifications to city officials. The McLaughlin Group proposed establishing three to four commercial establishments—book store, restaurant, museum, Jazz Club, etc. This is how the McLaughlin Group characterized their business venture.

Ms. McLaughlin is seeking funding ($ 175,000) from the City of Durham to add a second story and additional space to 2520 Fayetteville Street. Once completed, the 2-story building will be home to 4 businesses -- a restaurant, bookstore, boutique and a neighborhood arts center (The Mok’e Jazz & Cultural Center). Some of the exciting new features of the building will include roof-top garden and outdoor patio seating for the restaurant. The Mok’e Center will offer a variety of cultural activities and events, including but not limited to visual, musical and performing arts, for the enjoyment, creative expression and enrichment of the surrounding community. The bookstore and the boutique will provide retail products and services to the area. It is envisioned that the new development will become a cultural destination, promote tourism to the historic Fayetteville Street corridor and give a much-needed boost to the area’s economy.

This somewhat infuriated me, because the Know Book Store already has a restaurant, jazz club and is a book store—let me interpreted this even further. Why would the city of Durham even consider such proposal when it will bring displacement and possible economic hardship on an already proven and established business? But not only that, this project appears to be quite risky and proposed to use taxpayers’ money for such a project is outright reckless and irresponsible to ask the citizens of Durham to finance an unproven establishment.

Durham City Councilman, Eugene Brown who is white, was the only councilperson that came straight out at the last city council meeting held on September 21, 2009 and said that the project did not make good fiscal sense, in particular during these hard economic times. This writer commends Brown’s courage and honesty in questioning the economic feasibility of the project and the so-called long term economic projections that is being lauded. Brown is a real estate man and I am relying on his expert opinion in this matter.

Councilman Brown just does not see the plausibility of contributing taxpayer’s dollars to a project that has more questions than answers. I agree with Brown. The project is a contingence project meaning the McLaughlin Group must first have $475.000 dollars in place from a private lending source before the city of Durham will release the $175.000 grant.

There is only one lending institution that is seriously looking at financing the project and that is Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank, one of the oldest black banks in the United States. But supposed M&F Bank decide not to finance the McLaughlin project. How many man hours, tax dollars, public hearings and other city resources that we would have squandered away by not requiring the McLaughlin group to have more lending prospects on the table?

Thus, you would have thought that the Durham City Council and city manager and the Economic and Workforce Development director would have required the group to submit no less than ten lenders as part of their RFP portfolio. The Mayor, William “Bill” Bell sits on the board of directors of Mechanics and Farmers Bank and although it is only proper that he legally recues himself from playing any role in the bank decision relative to the McLaughlin Group. However, he must have some indication of which direction the bank is leaning (tell me Bill and I promise not to publically reveal the decision).

This writer is going on record to state that if Mechanics and Farmers decide to finance this project it’s going to be financially disastrous and I project foreclosure in less than five years. The Economic and Workforce Development Director, Kevin Dick appears to be highly incompetent and has not done the proper due diligence relative to this project and this was evident when Mayor Bell asked him was the McLaughlin project, a for profit or nonprofit venture.

Mr. Dick answered, that it was a for profit venture. But Mayor Bell pointed out that the submitted Performa did not have itemized federal and state income taxes included as expenditure to be incurred by the McLaughlin group and this could affect the projected profit margin. For this reason Mayor Bell postponed the vote until the next City Council meeting which is scheduled for October. It appears that Dick and some members of the city council have pushed this proposed grant along because of the property owner Ms. Mozella McLaughlin long time ties to the Durham Community as an educator and business women.

This writer too applauds her impeccable record of service to the community, but business is business and taxpayer’s monies should not be allocated to support a system of cronies and disguised nepotism in the name of community development. This woman is ninety-two years old (I could only pray that the Creator blesses me with that type of life longevity) and should this age variable be overlooked in the overall decision making process.

City Councilman Farad Ali, a freshmen councilman who has been the most vocal opposition against Dr. Bridges and based on his position of opposing the black book store, I am of the opinion that he is undeserving of a second term on the council. I am personally asking the black electorate of Durham to vote him out of office and not reward him a second term to violate the trust of his constituency. No one that opposes the legitimate political aspirations of our community deserve to serve as our representatives on any political level. Ali is being perceived by many in the black community as a traitor and a turncoat, but his leader, teacher and guide Imam Warith Deen Mohammed (the son of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad) betrayed political aspirations of black people in the name of kissing Arabs ass, why should we expect anymore or less from Councilman Ali?

Ali comes across as having a personal vendetta against the Know Book Store’s owner Dr. Bruce Bridges and his comments are divisive and subjective. This writer has always considered his father, Munir Ali as a friend, but on the issue of the book store both of the Alis’ are wrong. They have tried to oversimplify this issue to a tenant-landlord dispute (no it is much bigger than that) and want the community to overlook the deception and manipulation that is taking place on various levels. No Sir, the Know Book Store is an institution, it is even bigger than the owner and founder, Dr. Bruce Bridges and we should not allow the black proponents to dupe us into going along with this trickery. What’s in this deal for Councilman Farad Ali?

There are two more tricksters out there Larry and Denise Hester; thus in an email that I received from Denise Hester stated: “ regarding Ms. McLaughlin’s development, I would like to add that Bruce signed a letter of intent to remain in the building once the construction has been completed. His letter of intent was submitted as part of Ms. McLaughlin’s package to the city and is a part of the public record on this project if you want to check it out. The other questions involve matters between Ms. McLaughlin and Bruce as landlord and tenant which we cannot answer.”

The McLaughlin group in initially inviting Dr. Bridges to the table was more about bringing credibility and economic integrity to their project because the Know Book Store was a well established business and long standing tenant of the property. It stood as proof positive of success and as an example of a thriving business already at the said location. They were not doing Dr. Bridges and the Know Book Store any favors to include them in the proposal, it was about them putting on the best business face for their lenders and not necessarily working in the best interest of the Know Book Store.

Lets not fool ourselves without Bridges they would have been considered a startup group, but they were looking to divert this stigma in order to appear as a well established business entity at the said location. Dr. Bridges at the last city council meeting presented a counter plan in the form of a written letter asking the City Council to assist him financially as they are assisting the McLaughlin Group. I must say the following council persons Howard Clement, Cora McFadden and even Mayor Bell appeared partial to Bridges request. This article tells it just like it is, I do not know any other way to tell it. Please give Dr. Bridges a holler at 919.682.7223 and tell him you read Fahim A. Knight-EL article and you stand in support of the book store.

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

STAY AWAKE UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN,
Fahim A. Knight-EL

CHILDREN NOT ALLOWED TO LISTEN TO PRESIDENT OBAMA: BUT AMERICAN EDUCATION IS ON A STEADY DECLINE

By FAHIM A. KNIGHT-EL

This article is more about American education than the form of government that we live under as citizens of the United States of America. However, in order to do this topic any justice before this writer could assess and evaluate American education, it became necessary for me to lay the groundwork that led up to me delving a little into the meaning of our constitution and principles of our democracy. But on the surface the two topics might appear to have little correlation, after all this article’s primary focus was education and children learning. Perhaps if it was not for the controversy that was swirling around President Barack Obama desiring to speak to school age children, it would not have been necessary for me to approach this topic from the reference point of government and political science. This writer could have stuck to the discussion of the plight of American education minus the need to discuss politics. Nevertheless, this writer finds it totally appropriate to begin this topic by briefly discussing government and law.

The United Sates of America proud itself of being a democratic society where it is so-called governed by the masses, which is reflected in the will of the people, at least this is what my teachers taught me in eight grade civics class. We learnt how important the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitutional Convention (1787) were to our present day nationhood and the freedoms that evolved from declaring the right to sovereignty. Thus, at the foundation of our democracy was the Thirteen Colonies right to sovereignty and independence, which led to formalizing the United States independence (expressed in the Declaration of Independence). That eventually manifest itself in the establishment of the legal and jurisprudence document—U.S. Constitution which to guide and govern this newly made Republic. These two documents by far represented the impetus and the foundation of Americanism and are endeared by all Americans and held in high esteemed within U.S. history.

The U.S. Constitution is no doubt one of the greatest documents ever written within the history of any modern Republic. The Framers defined what life liberty and the pursuit of happiness meant from the inception of our established Republic. It equally defined the rights of the individual and State and more so than that, the constitution was geared towards protecting those rights on every level. This has always afforded the citizens of the United States with certain legal and jurisprudence freedoms in which to approach our outlook on life without the threat of fear or intimidation from our government, if we criticized or disagreed with our government, at least in theory we are not put in front of a firing squad. Many foreigners would die to live under the U.S. form of government because of how it is structured (at the basis is supposed to be freedom, justice and equality for all) and the rights and privileges it afforded to its citizens.

But after this week of events, I became a little perplexed and somewhat a little less optimistic about the fundamental freedoms that I and others have come to enjoy while living in the United States. I have advocated the rights to maintain and expand civil liberties and have never been comfortable with government encroachment upon curtailing or lessening these rights which is spelled out in our constitution. Our right to dissent, is even protected under U.S. law and this is one of the beauties of our nation’s democracy. However, this past week of events relative to President Barack Obama desiring to speak to U.S. Students and the type of opposition that arose from right-wingers, it was appalling enough for me to question whether or not we are deserving of such freedoms to make certain choices. This writer also wonder were we headed for a Civil War or was this opposition to President Obama speaking to American school aged children rooted in a much older social dilemma—American style racism. What else could it have been? It absolutely made no sense when you objectively look at the state of American education. Our students are in dire need of someone to encourage and challenge their mediocrity. The students have more rights than the educators/teachers and this alone has destroyed the educational balance of power and created a negative paradigm shift that has reverberated throughout our society. This has somewhat fostered low expectations and mediocrity has become an acceptable standard inside the classroom.

The president after-all has school age children himself and this was no old cranky commander-in-chief who doesn’t have children in the educational process. But this issue of education has to be real even for the president and this writer do not think we can play political games with our children’s future. School districts and states are going to have changed the rules relative to curriculum—first order of business must be making learning applicable to a curriculum that is geared towards global projections. Women are running the schools from top to bottom and this has been an ineffective trend and has been partially responsible for placing American education in this predicament. This statement is not to suggest that women can not do an equally and effective job as men in the school systems, but here is the problem men are virtually invisible in most public school districts and we can not blame female educators for this dilemma.

We have to bear some of the responsibility for ignoring the educational crisis and not finding ways to engage this collapsing social order. Yes, there presences, physicality and their approach to the field of pedagogy would have a different social and psychological demands on learning expectations from male students, in particular and all children in general, more so than female teachers—nurturers by nature.

How do we make the National Teachers Exam (NTE) and the licensure process to expand beyond the limited and stringent requirements and allow men in the classrooms without all the bureaucratic red tape—this is a state of emergency? Men who work in the private and public sectors should be recruited and hired to teach on both the primary and secondary levels and offer their life and professional experiences in the school system. The financial compensation should be lucrative and competitive, if we can bailout some of the wealthiest crooks in the world Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear-Sterns, JP Morgan, AIG, Wachovia, etc., giving this den thieves over two trillion dollars. Thus, why can’t we compensate bankers, lawyers, scientist, computer scientist, medical doctors, engineers, writers, politicians, etc., for their professional expertise by bringing them in the classrooms of America; this would be a relative small price, which to save America’s education and work to put us back on track. American children have become lazy and un-discipline when it comes to learning.

There can not be a good learning environment, if educators and educational professionals have lost control over American educational institutions relative to discipline and there are no real initiatives in place of taking back the classroom and the school systems from unmanageable and young social deviants. This sector is smart enough to quote you the law and policies as it relates to what you can say and do in the realm of disciplinary procedures, but imposing enforcement relative to learning, is a limited option to the educational professionals.

In the 18th and 19th Century there was a religious obedience correlated to the educational process and the religious structure or sacred culture implored values, mores, folkways, morals, ethics, etc., tied behavior and discipline more to the obedience of God (this helped define right and wrong and we got more learning mileage from our children)—and in Europe the State and Religion wasn't always necessarily separated like our jurisprudence system is structured within the United States of America.

Teachers and educators are failing students because they do not know how reach children and therefore, the educational process is more about going through the motions and receiving a paycheck, as opposed to demanding learning which has to be the highest priority on all levels of teaching. Why do not we model our national school system after Japan and China which is highly successful in getting the most from their students when it comes academic performance? Surely tomorrow American children will be competing with them for an equal share in the global market. There use to be this argument of private versus public education in which many maintained that children received a better quality education, if they were enrolled in private institutions from K-12. This may have been true yesterday, but American private schools are not fairing much better than there public counterparts.

But the track that American education is presently on, our children will not be prepared to take the lead as we move further into the 21st century and this will render our nation as being even more consumers and non-producers in the coming future—looking for other nations to be the next inventors, international bankers, aerospace scientist, to find the cure for cancer, etc. It is imperative that we act and declare war on this mindset of educational indifference; in fact our future depends on us doing this.

We are plagued with tremendous social issues of poverty, gang violence, different types of peer pressures, the politics of the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex and in the middle is education which has not received the much needed attention. Something went wrong that our children are repeatedly scoring below grade levels in math and science, perhaps the two most essential subjects and/or disciplines needed in our new technological dynamics. America is rated number thirty-five (35) in math and twenty-nine (29) in science

We can no longer be imprudent, but we have to become proactive, in particular as the world becomes more global and as the political, social, and economic landscape continues to change based on technology. The global projections still have not been fully realized by American educators and when they finally wake up realized where the rest of the world is headed. It might be too late to shift gears and play catch up. We must understand that those who master technology will place themselves in a position of future ruler-ship because the age of information and our transition into a knowledge base economy is here to stay.

I believe education has to be viewed and received as any other living document, which should be constantly giving room to evolve, as it applies to the philosophy of education and the practical theories that have become acceptable to us. I also believe that historical time frames impacted the relevance of sociological and psychological theoretical models—the science (we can better measure and count) from an empirical perspective, we have acquired quantitative data and this has allowed our research theories to become more qualitative in scope and definition. This open approach allows us to accept in some areas that educational theories have evolved and improved and has become more defining, which allows us to reaffirm some of our past educational theories and debunk others based on new approaches (new information).

Thus, for the first time in my life this writer wished that the U.S. was not an egalitarian styled government but a totalitarian government—the people who were opposing President Obama and his desiring to speak to children about the importance of education and learning brought me to this decision; in my opinion, all these detractors had forfeited their right to exercise the principles that undergirds our democracy. This writer knows that the above statement crosses the line of perhaps everything he personally stands for and believes in (for the record I will always favor a democratic society over any form of a repressive government). But I must admit it angered me that those who were opposing President Obama had lost their damn minds and based on hate they were not taking into account that our educational system is failing dismally in comparison to Western Europe and Asian nations.

What shocked me the most, was that this was not Ho Chi Minh, Mao Se Tung, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Seso Mobutu, Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez (let me clarify, these personalities are most associated in the west as being brutal dictators). This was the president of the so-called "free world" and the inferences was that to have your children listen to a speech being delivered my President Obama was a form of ideological indoctrination that you would associate with a country that is ruled by a dictator. I do not necessarily agree with everything that President Obama says and does, but speaking to American children about achievement and the importance of learning in my opinion was a timely message and topic.

American children can not afford to miss an opportunity to engage in a learning dialogue. Most national and international educational experts have maintained that the United States students’ academic achievement is not making the grade, in particular as this writer stated above in the areas of math and science (29th and 36) and the U.S. stand as one of the most industrialized nations in the world. These two statistics alone should shame us to be more proactive and innovative in our approach to resolve this predicament and the question still remains, why are American children missing the mark? Who do we blame—parents, students, teachers administrators, school districts, states, federal government, etc. all of the said entities have to bear responsibility in our children educational failures and they all hold liability and culpability in what this writers deems as gross negligence. This writer is of the opinion, that someone should be held accountable for this mess and who is willing to take the responsibility to improve our children’s academic performances and demand that they become competitive in order to ensure our future on the world stage.

My wife shared with me essay that was written by an unknown author titled. “Common Sense” and this is what the author stated: "My parents told me about Mr. Common Sense early in my life and told me I would do well to call on him when making decisions. It seems he was always around in my early years but less and less as time passed by until today I read his obituary. Please join me in a moment of silence in remembrance. For Common Sense had served us all so well for so many generations."

Obituary

Common Sense

"Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape."

"He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault."

"Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not children are in charge)."

"His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a class mate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition."

"Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they themselves failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Aspirin, sun lotion or a sticky plaster to a student; but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion."

"Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband; churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims."

"Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar can sue you for assault."

"Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement."

"Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son, Reason. He is survived by three stepbrothers; I Know My Rights, Someone Else is to Blame, and I'm a Victim."

"Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing."

The U.S. students are low performing academically across the board in every subject and no one seems to have a solution to this problem. I do not think U.S. students have an inherently low I.Q.s when it comes to learning relative to students from China, India, Japan, Korea, etc. But these nations’ children are out performing U.S. students in all areas and are soaring educationally in the academic disciplines that matters the most—the sciences. What will be the long term effect of this social and educational apathy?

The Asian nations are scoring leaps and bounds above us in this area; do we continue the course or do we begin to make changes perhaps starting with our early childhood development theories and our initial introduction to learning techniques? My argument would be very simple; it would not be totally based on discarding Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934), Marie Montessori (1870-1952), Jean Piaget, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1745-1827). I just do not think these past great educational philosophers had the foresight to look that deep into the future and create social theories that could stand without the need of any new assessments and evaluations which to make them relevant to where we are in this space and time.

However, I just do not think the present day political, economic and social stages can be overlooked; thus, because many of these educational philosophers wrote and developed some of these theories over 300 years ago and could not have taking into account the modern day student and environment. I believe there must be an American educational reformation that is both socially and politically relevant and pragmatic; may be we should start as this writer stated above by studying the Asians (Japan, China, and India) models to see what they are doing different from us in the United States and begin to incorporate those principles into our curriculums of learning.

No doubt will the United States overt neglect cost our nation huge social, political and economic dividends in the future relative to the success and/or failure of our nation to continue being a one world superpower. The U.S has made a tremendous investment in war and this seems to be more of a national priority than American education. This alone stands as hypocrisy for President Obama—our government in which the bill is being footed by the American taxpayers which to finance two unjust wars in Iraq and Afghanistan where trillions of our hard earned dollars are being spent in the area of national defense and national security.

But education is viewed by our politicians has being less important. They all talking a good game when it comes to education, but they do not put their or better yet our money next to their mouths; what is more important than to render real stability of our children’s future. Yet, U.S. children are reading, writing and counting below grade levels and we continue to waste away value resources.

I live in the state of North Carolina and where I live it is considered part of the old southern Bible belt (I have always had problems with that Bible ever since them damn missionaries brought it to Africa). The conservative Bible toting Christians fought for many years against North Carolina acquiring the state lottery. North Carolina lawmakers eventually convinced the citizens of North Carolina that the lottery would be beneficiary to education and taxpayers—offsetting public education cost and expenditures. This even to me. this sounded like a win-win proposal. However, North Carolina public instruction still remains in shambles and out of 50 U.S. states it still ranked in the bottom half of nationwide educational performance. The NC taxpayers are still burden with high taxes and there is no evidence that the lottery is doing anything in support of public instruction.

The time requires and demands that we become more innovative and possessing a willingness to step outside the box to resolve the issues that confronts American education. Our future is in danger and it will not just be based on those who will acquire more military might, but it will be based on how prepared the next generation is to assume the reins of leadership. The question will be rooted in the quality of education that our children are acquiring today, which will dictate how we measure up the Asian and Western European nations tomorrow. It is imperative that we take proactive procedures, even if it means debunking past educational theories and methodologies for more practical theories based on where we are in time and space. Education in 21st Century and beyond has to be aggressively global.

Fahim A. Knight-EL Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolisms and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-EL