THE DIVINE NINE: BLACK GREEK LETTERED FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES; BREAKING THE MENTAL CHAINS

By Fahim A. Knight-El

This article came about do to an email that I received on April 11, 2012 from an anonymous member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., which is an African American Black Greek Lettered Fraternity and they make claim to be the oldest black Greek Lettered Fraternity in the United States of America founded in 1906. However, the oldest Black Greek Lettered Fraternity was actually the Boule possessing the Greek name Sigma Pi Phi founded in 1904, two years before Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. I will not go over the significance of the Boule (actually Steve Cokely is the authority on this powerful and little known black secret society). However, as I was writing this article, I found out that our Brother, Cokely had transitioned. So I am dedicating this article to Steve Cokely who made his transition back to the Creator on April 11, 2012; I also partook and drank from his in depth fountain of knowledge. No, present day African American thinker could decode a conspiracy like Brother Steve Cokely, he was affectionately known as the “Boule Buster” and if he scored a good and valid point with the many audiences that he spoke to he would verbally yell out ‘CHECK’. The best way to honor a fallen warrior is to pickup the baton and continue running the race toward our struggle for liberation.

I refer you to my Brother M’Bwebe Aja Ishangi website: http://daghettotymz.com/rkyvz/articles/b..., whom I believe is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Brother Ishangi stated this about my first article on the ‘Black Greeks’: “Excellent info Soul-jah!”. I very seldom desire to answer or respond to bloggers who want to engage me in dialog, but do not have the courage to identify themselves, but post their views under Tthe heading of anonymous. This is cowardice at its best because if this person truly believed in their comments and position and had unwavering convictions, then they would openly stand by their words and not hide as a ghost. But I could not resist deconstructing his argument relative to him critiquing my article on Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities (Internet published November 23, 2008) http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20....

Anonymous: “Greetings, I know this article is a few years old and you may not ever read this but on behalf of a movement I would like to share a few words with you. Let me assure you that as your brother this is all said out of love. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. is the oldest collegiate fraternity founding by men of African Descent and it was never GREEK. Upon its inception on 1906, it has grown to be millions strong and maybe all of its members didn’t join for the right reasons, but most did. You apologized Delta sister in saying you weren’t against Black Greeks, well I took to mean that you were. Your words about Alpha specifically were without understanding its history and therefore misrepresenting its place in African American culture. Alpha Phi Alpha is not Greek but African, not Masonic, but African and its been that way since the beginning. Now as a gentleman, I read your article and so I would expect that you read on through mine. Our organizations were built out of necessity, whether it was Alpha Kappa Nu in Indiana or Omega Psi Phi in D.C. our organizations gave rise to the Black Panther Part for Self Defense, the NAACP and other organizations that are for the betterment of African's living this American experience. You Sir are wrong! You are wrong for attempting to demonize our organizations and discredit the merit of our founders.”

Anonymous continues: “You and others like you are need to read the true history of these organizations as they have little to do with "Greekdom" and more to do with Blackness, the stepping you made reference to is has African roots, the Greek letters you make reference to has Phoenician (African) roots, our rituals and tradition are none of your concern and our motives are simple and plain, we must fight until hell freezes over, then fight on the ice—Jewel Tandy Alpha Phi Alpha Founder, for our piece of this American Pie. Its almost like you are criticizing us for speaking the same English=language of the colonizer) and not accepting your role in the play of assimilation. You are wring, and your facts are not adding up, before you attack an institution that has saved the lives of millions of African American youth, consider if there was no Alpha, Kappa, Omega, Phi Beta (an not Sigma), AKA's, Deltas, Simgas (Sigma Gamma Rhos), Zeta's or members of Iota Phi Theta, then half of African American progress would not exist. We are NOT children of the Illuminati or Knights of the Round Table or any of that rubbish, we on your side fighting against them. In all due respect, go back and do your research. Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and not ashamed of it either”.

I stand by every word that I wrote because it was rooted in historical and cultural truth. This anonymous responder felt that I had attacked and disrespected Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and according to him, I allegedly did not present factual information about the Alphas; although, my article was not about attacking any of the Divine Nine Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities, it was more about exposing the reactionary contradictions for example, the Greek Letters—Alpha Phi Alpha (1906), Kappa Alpha Psi (1911), Omega Psi Phi (1911), Phi Beta Sigma (1914), Iota Phi Theta (1963), Alpha Kappa Alpha (1908), Delta Sigma Theta (1913), , Zeta Phi Beta(1920), and Sigma Gamma Rho (1922). All of these Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities have missed the mark to be still identifying themselves with an alien culture. The authority on the history an evolution of Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities has to be Lawrence C. Ross, Jr., who authored the definitive book titled, “The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities.”

I received a telephone called recently from a brother, informing me that Dr. Na’im Akbar (professor of psychology at Florida State University and another one of my intellectual mentors) had joined Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., he was one of the most prominent Afrocentric scholars and Pan-African intellectual in the 1990s along side Dr. Leonard Jefferies, Marimba Ani, Dr. Maulana Karenga, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Ashra Kwesi, Dr. Anthony Browder, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan, Amos Wilson, etc. I became aware of Dr. Akbar’s writings when he used to write a column for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam newspaper titled, “Muhammad Speaks”. I have always had tremendous respect for Dr. Na’im Akbar because in his lectures he would always point us back to Kemet and his talks and writings would often challenge the authenticity of the Eurocentric idea of hailing Greece and Rome as superior cultures to those of Kush, Nubia, Kemet and other darker people of the planet. Dr. Akbar has lectured on many black and white college campuses and is an authority on interpreting “Black Psychology” and human behavior. I must honestly admit that I was rather shocked that Dr. Na’im Akbar had chosen to become a member of a black Greek society. I will not pass judgment on Dr. Akbar because I know that he was not joining this organization out of ignorance and I also know that he was well informed and is an intelligent African centered scholar who literally can run circles around the best of minds in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

May be he will use his membership to wakeup these sleeping brothers and lead them to acquiring the knowledge of self, that they may come to a complete understanding that they are not Greeks but Africans—and are the true Fathers and Mothers of civilization. Dr. Akbar truly knows what it means to cross the hot burning sands and could give Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., a much better understanding of the Kemetic symbolism that is incorporated in their rituals and teach them what the Seven Jewels couldn’t teach them, which was to give them360 degrees of knowledge (bring them to a complete and whole truth and not a partial truth—which is rooted in understanding the knowledge of self) and he also understands that we are presently traveling from West to East (and not the other way around) in search of our hidden wisdom and light that was stolen and corrupted by the invaders. Dr. Akbar in all reality could just refer the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., to his book titled, “Light From Ancient Africa.”

This is a heavyweight scholar and I pray that they do not stifle him because of the fear of being associated with unconventional information—he may from time-to-time introduce knowledge that may appear provocative and even radical or militant, but the knowledge that this man has in head, it’s adequate and sufficient enough to truly raise the entire Pan-Hellenic Council and its Greek members organizations to the next level. Dr. Akbar knows the truth and I am going to challenge him to use his intellectual expertise to take this/his brotherhood to next level. To whom much is given, much is required and expected of. I equally challenge the conscious Alpha men to help assist brother Na’im Akbar in the work to make our Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities better societies that is rooted in African tradition and work to see people of African descent politically, economically and socially independent and above all promote unity. Dr. Akbar also authored, “Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery,” “The Community of Self,” Natural Psychology and Human Transformation,” and “Visions for Black Men”.

Tom Burrell in his monumental book titled, “Brainwashed: Challenging the Myths of Black Inferiority” stated: Great social movements require a great change in consciousness. By fate, profession, or life experience, I am unabashedly race-conscious. Therefore, I’m calling for a new generation of race consciousness—but in a new way. Disengaging ourselves from the word ‘inferiority’ and replacing it with its opposite, ‘black superiority,’ will be just as damaging, just as illusory, and just as counterproductive for us as it has been for whites. Our mission is more complex than a label. We tried ‘Black Power’ and ‘black is beautiful.’ We’ve been emancipated, liberated, and integrated; now we supposedly live in a post-racial society. Those labels gave some of us hope and helped us feel momentarily better. None, however, have been strong enough to truly convince us that we are as beautiful, as resourceful, and as equal as whites. New race consciousness moves us beyond labeling. It’s no longer about changing our collective mindset. It’s about people dedicated to destroying the myth of black inferiority. . .” (Reference: Tom Burrell; “Brainwashed: Challenging the Myths of Black Inferiority”; p. 264).

However, to re-address what I wrote in my original article titled, "Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities: A Tradition of Mis-education" reference the link: http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20..., it would be a bit redundant and serve no further historical critique or evaluation—one could just refer back to my previous article that I have cited above, as opposed to me rewriting and restating the same historical facts again because there was nothing in Anonymous rebuttal that required me to reconsider my initial analysis and assessment. I must give Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., some propos because they do include some Kemetic symbolism in their rituals such as the Great Sphinx of Giza and other relics from the history and tradition of ancient Kemet (Egypt). But here lies the challenge, if you properly understood that the Greeks were students of the Kemetic sciences and learnt their knowledge from the Fathers and Mothers of civilization; why don’t these societies correct the wrongs and chart a new course and direction for future young college bound black students to follow that would be rooted in African tradition?

I stand on the fact that Kemet (Ancient Egypt) fed Greece and Roman civilizations and Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities have found themselves in a peculiar situation in 2012, because it stands as a racial, ethnic and historical contradiction for these societies to continue refer to themselves as "Black Greeks," although the largest majority of the hundreds of thousands of members that belongs to Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities are people of African descendent and have no ethnic lineage ties to Greece or Rome (now, for the record the African General Hannibal (247 – 183/182 BC) crossed the Alps with elephants into Europe and the African blood of the Sicilian Italians of Sicily is very evident that African blood runs deep in these people, however, this same African DNA can be seen throughout the majority of the southern European nations that borders the Mediterranean Sea—the kinky hair and dark skin and the overt African features came from the African blood left behind by Hannibal and his men.

It would have been their Kemetic (Egyptian) ancestors that gave the world language and symbolism—most scholars would agree that may be China is the only other nation that perhaps predated Kemet (Egypt) as the mother of civilization, but nevertheless, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Herodotus, Democritus, Solon, Lycurgus, etc., sat directly or indirectly at the foot of the ancient Nubian Sages and High Priest who were master teachers in the metaphysical sciences, spirituality, astronomy, astrology, law, architecture, medicine, religion, physics, mathematics, engineering, philosophy, biology, hydraulics, etc. There is no other known civilization other than Kemet (Egypt) that has astounded even the modern curiosity of man about the ancient past as has Kemet (Egypt) because we have come to accept that these Nubians had a much more advanced and superior culture in which the present evidence is forever being uncovered in the Ruins that depicts ancient civilizations that were royal and magnificent in scope and the longevity of the Pyramids and the ancient burial chambers are left behind as testimony of Kemet’s culture superiority—this phenomenon still have Egyptologist, historians, archeologist and pure scientist baffled about the perfection of such high technology some 15,000 to 20,000 years ago (most of this high science still remains unduplicated today).

Dr. Carter G. Woodson in his book titled, “The Mis-Education of the Negro” Stated: “The oppressor, however, raises his voice to the contrary. He teaches the Negro that he has no worth-while past, that his race has done nothing significant since the beginning of time, and that there is no evidence that he will ever achieve anything great. The education of the Negro then must be carefully directed lest the race may waste time trying to do the impossible. Lead the Negro to believe this and thus control his thinking. If you can thereby determine what he will think, you will not need to worry about what he will do. You will not have to tell him to go to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door he will have one cut for his special benefit.” (Reference: Carter G. Woodson; “The Mis-Education of the Negro”; p. 123).

The people of Kemet (Egypt) had a deep sense of appreciation for knowledge and the concept of language and symbolism existed beyond just the physical libraries and/or even before books were recorded. But the Medu Neter was seen inscribed on the Temples at Giza, Cheops, and Luxor and many ancient sites in Kemet. It was Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. who raided the libraries at Alexandria with an attempt to steal, destroy and desecrate the Ancient knowledge that had existed long before Greece and Rome were even a thought on the stage of human civilization. The Greeks stole most of this ancient knowledge and took it back to Greece and proclaimed it as their own.

Dr. George G.M. James in 1954 authored one of the most prolific books ever to be written by a so-called African American scholar titled, "Stolen Legacy" in which James definitively challenged the basis of Western scholarship who had elevated Greek Mythology above Egyptian philosophy; there was little doubt that Kemet (Egypt) had predated the pinnacle and height of Greek civilization by some thousands of years and Greek Mythology heavily borrowed from the ancient Egyptians and the foundation of their history and culture was interdependent on Egyptian philosophy. James further maintained that many Europeans and scholars from around the world studied in the Egyptian Mystery Schools. Kemet was originally a black civilization before the external invasions from foreign and alien nations and racial miscegenation—the light skinned mulatto and later the Arab Semites are Johnny-come-lately imposters who share very little to no DNA with the original man. So for young black college students in 2012 who are still pledging Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities is proof positive and evidence that we still suffer from a cultural identity crisis by still referring to themselves as "Black Greeks" and this is inexcusable and we as a people should declare a cease and desist order in name of our Kemetic ancestors. It was African people that gave the world a written language and an alphabet system, as well as a numerical system.

Shahid M. Allah in book titled, “Take A Second Look” this is a relatively small book, but it’s a powerful tool for breaking down and understanding not only Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities but he uses the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and other theoreticians to decode symbolism—relative to numerology, alphabets and hidden riddles behind secret societies and he shows the interconnectedness with myths, rituals, folkways, customs, etc.—this brother is cracking atoms. He stated: “W.M. Finders, the author of “The Formation of Alphabet” (London 1912), informed the public that the Egyptians had markings on the back of tiles which they used on rare occasions to calculate scientific problems. Sir Finders says that this script presumably was known in Egypt for thousands of years. But, it was never used to write down an Egyptian text. Later on the Phoenicians and the Greeks received this script from the Egyptians. Hence, what the people of Greece claim to be their own alphabet finds it’s origin in Ethiopia and Egypt” (Reference: Shahid M. Allah; “Take A Second Look”; pp. 69-70).

The ancient coffin text and the "Egyptian book of the Dead" properly known as "The Coming Forth by Day" indicates in the ancient scrolls, that even before the language was symbolized on papyrus there was a higher system of learning being carried out in the Egyptian Mystery Schools; where the knowledge of the esoteric and occult were being spread amongst a select sector of neophytes. The real knowledge was best manifested in the sacred temples and was inscribed on the walls of the pyramids in which these were the more sacred libraries (anthropologist and Egyptologist are still digging up earth and attempting solve this ancient puzzle and riddle). Most Europeans who address topics dealing with Kemet (Egypt) often address these ancient originators of civilization from a Eurocentric perspective and this lead to the research being flawed.

Why would not these Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities change their organizational identities to reflect their own culture and heritage? I recommend that these Black Greek organization adopt Kemetic symbols from the Medu Nater (the name of the original language of Kemet that Europeans falsely misnomer as hieroglyphics—this a Greek terminology) and prove to the world that we have moved beyond our indoctrination and mis-education by renaming our so-called Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities to Nubian Kemetic Lettered Fraternities and Sororities. Not to do this is convincing evidence that our minds are still under the psychological control of the Eurocentric persuasive power and worldview.

White Elitist college societies and orders, perhaps with the establishment of the Skull and Bones Fraternities founded in 1832 in which African American Fraternities and Sororities modeled and emulated themselves after these white Elitist college societies. This was, one of the first white college fraternities was Skull and Bones founded on the campus of Yale University, and some Masonic historians have traced this Order back to the Medieval Knights Templar, which was rooted in the Crusades and the fight between Islam and Christianity over Jerusalem and the Holy Land. I am of the opinion, relative to the Skull and Bones, it was established as a feeder organization for the sons of wealthy and Elitist Dynastic families with the objective of teaching their young Heirs what it meant to be a part of the 'superior' race and privileged class.

Thus, more so than that, it gave these aristocratic sons a working knowledge of how wealth and power compliments each other and taught them invaluable lessons in networking”. These Fraternities boys would eventually become international bankers, high level politicians, presidents of nations, lawyers, businessman, international diplomats, etc. They would be prepared to venture into assisting their parents (wealth building) and eventually succeeding them as the new Heir Apparent power brokers. They transitioned into Freemasons organizations and organizations such as the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg and the Council on Foreign Relations..

The majority of white based Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities did not allow black membership into their fraternities and sororities from their initial inception, thus, overtly discriminated against blacks seeking admission into these feeder Elitist college societies that were designed for the white aristocracy and privilege. Blacks in 1832 at the establishment of Skull and Bones on the campus of Yale University were still considered Chattel Slaves (1555-1865), but after passing of the Thirteenth Amendment (1865) to the United States Constitution, which so-called freed the slaves, it still did not necessarily equalize the playing field. Although, from 1865-1877, it was called the Reconstruction Period in which many blacks rose to political and economic prosperity during this historical time period. But in 1896 with the Plessy versus Ferguson decision the practice of segregation became a legal institution in America pursuant to this United States Supreme Court Ruling.

Lawrence C. Ross, Jr. in his book titled, “The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities” stated: “Secret societies in 1906 provided the support structure for students on the Cornell campus. Besides the benefit of finding students common interest, secret societies such as fraternities and sororities also provided students with housing, study groups and a social environment in which students could grow with others. However, since African American students were excluded from these organizations, there was literally nowhere for these African American students to turn except inward for solutions.” (Reference: Lawrence C. Ross, Jr.; “The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities”; p.6).

Also, what eventually became known as historical black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were coming into existence in the late 1800s and early 1900s and at the turn of the 20th Century Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities sprung up as well. These societies in many ways were like their white counterparts they too recruited petit bourgeoisie well-to-do black students, but many of today’s young neophytes members do not know that for decades probably up until the 1960s and beyond that the majority of the Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities would conduct the brown paper bag test in order to determine membership suitability and if a potential candidate’s skin was darker than the brown paper bag they were denied membership because these societies catered to curly head and light skinned African Americans—the more you looked like the ex-slave master's children the better chance one had of gaining membership into these societies. The Chicago University trained sociologist E. Franklin Frazier wrote about this class of blacks in his book titled, "Black Bourgeoisie".

Some of the most influential and prominent African Americans belong to these college societies and they wail a lot of power and influence in black life even after college. Blacks/African-Americans as I stated above copied and emulated these white fraternities, but lacked generational wealth to make a serious impact on the overall political, economic and social reality of black people (However, the Divine Nine historically used its miniature networking systems to create black 'Elitist' personalities and movements) what Professor E. Franklin Frazier called a black bourgeoisie class (this class became the Talented Tenth that W.E.B. Dubois made reference). So this translated into blacks attaining upward mobility and having an influence on black life, which on a small level was no different than their white fraternal counterpart.

The Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities without a doubt had serious Masonic influences and roots because many of the original founders were Masons and Eastern Stars. Many of our early civil rights leaders and social activist belonged to one of the Divine Nine organizations and were Freemasons. The Masons however work a lot more discrete and it is not permissible for Masons to recruit and establish interest meetings on college campuses (you have to ask one, to be one and recruiting is not allowed). Yet, most of your top level black leaders even today are both Freemasons and Greek and many who serve in various capacities on the academic and university levels are Masons”. The Masons understand that often those who pledge Greek Lettered Fraternities will eventually make their way to the Masonic Order (its really a natural progression) and the Freemasons benefit from these college based Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities organizations (so there is a passive relationship) and yet Freemasons can hold true to their edict of not publicly recruiting its membership and at the same time reaping the benefits relative to Greek members being covertly directed into their various Masonic Orders.

The college fraternities and sororities members have gone through a similar process of what the Masons and Eastern Stars go through (For example, they understand the meaning of secrecy--handshake, word, sign and most of all how important it is to protect the ancient process from the uninitiated). The pledging process is similar in some ways. Now, Masons have no interest to functioning as Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities would on a college campus; they view themselves to be a lot more sophisticated than the average college fraternity and sorority. They also know and understand that many of your chancellors and college presidents are Freemasons and a host of others who are considered the movers and shakers in academia are Masons.

The Pan-Hellenic Conferences and the coming together of Black Greek organizations where the "Divine Nine" works together in the area of promoting academic achievement, community service, citizenship, networking, etc., represent an area of progressiveness and no one can deny the good that Black Greek Lettered Fraternities and Sororities do and have done historically in helping to elevate the African American race. I still maintain that the Greek Letters should be changed and abolished today and new African based symbols must be adopted to reflect the tradition and culture of African people and I make no apology for this position.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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

OIL, OIL, OIL: WHAT WOULDN’T THEY DO FOR THE LOVE OF OIL? LETS UNTANGLE THE WEB

By Fahim A. Knight-El

I was recently at a gas station filling my truck up with some midgrade gasoline and there were two gentleman conversing over on the next two pumps (they were talking relatively loud); one of the gentlemen was well dressed and looked liked the professional type and he was driving a seven series BMW and other gentlemen was dressed rather casual and was driving an older model Ford F-150 pickup truck, but these two men were having interesting small talk about the rising gasoline prices in which premium gas in North Carolina is close to $5.00 per gallon and in the conversation you could hear the anger and discontent coming from both individuals. The conversation quickly shifted to political in nature in which one of the gentlemen started lambasting the Arabs in the Middle East for the oil crisis and other gentleman focused his blame on President Barack Obama and the Obama administration (this gentlemen said I voted to put Obama in office implying that Obama had betrayed his trust and fail to see that President Bush had betrayed the American people trust even more). I started listening even more attentively and yet at the same time appearing to be discrete and not appear as being to obvious that I too was engaged in their conversation as an objective listener who was merely trying to discern if these two gentlemen really understood who were truly behind the oil crisis and for that matter the world crisis, or were they just two duped ignorant fools just like 85% of population that are wandering in the western propaganda of darkness. I wanted to interject and give my opinion and weigh in on this oil crisis debate that was taken place—these two patriots thought they were well informed and in their minds there was no doubt that it was Arabs and OPEC and/or President Obama who were responsible for creating the oil crisis and putting the United States in this predicament.

I was taught about oil interest and OPEC by a very intelligent intellectual named Dr. Sheik R. Ali (a Pakistani national who I believed became a naturalized U.S. citizen) who was a professor of political science and an expert on OPEC and Middle Eastern oil; he authored a book titled, "Oil, Turmoil, and Islam in the Middle East" and "Oil and Power Political Dynamics". However, Dr. Sheik R. Ali (who is now deceased) was a well published expert on Middle East international affairs. But he never talked about who was really behind these powerful oil cartels—the non-Arabs who are members of the Super Elite Dynastic family clans and behind the curtain international bankers (this is who rule the world and control all the global markets). But as much as I appreciated one of my mentors Sheik Ali's Middle Eastern foreign policy wisdom, I did not get the full picture until I read a profound book in 2010 authored by Dean Henderson titled: "Big Oil & Their Bankers In The Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network" this work helped me to further connect the dots relative to oil, Dynastic Families and International Banking Houses.

If you still do not know President Obama is slavish lapdog employee of the Seven Oil Sisters and possesses no power or authority to determine the affairs and interest of the Seven Oil Sisters and/or Big Oil in general—these decisions are above his pay grade. For example, when British Petroleum (BP) created the oil spill off the gulf coast of Louisiana, it was clear that the United States Government had no enforcement power to regulate this catastrophe (this was a criminal act, but no arrest warrants were issued for the Rockefellers and Rothschilds as culprits). Although, BP after being cited for negligence they committed to a 20 billion dollar fund (financial crumbs for a disaster of this magnitude) set aside in an escrow account which was being overseen by the Zionist "pay czar," Kenneth Feinberg as a compensatory liability fund for the victims of the BP Gulf disaster. Nevertheless, this gesture appeared sound and reasonable, but it did not even begin to scratch the surface relative to the environmental and the economic impact this disaster has had on the people who lived in and around Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, etc., the people in that region will never be made whole again and/or fully compensated for the damages caused that was rooted in greed and exploitation. But also, BP was allowed to walk away from the projected long term health and environmental affect that I predict this disaster will eventually have on the American people in general—there is little doubt that our seafood consumption from that region of the country has been contaminated forever and this alone will have long term future health ramifications down the road. But to BP and their capitalist interest, we are expendable this part will eventual help factor into their wicked plans to depopulate the earth of us useless eaters and in the next 10-20 years we will start seeing high incidents of cancer deaths and birth deformities because of the oil spill contaminant and pollution that is still lurking in the gulf waters.

President Obama issued a temporary moratorium prohibiting offshore drilling off the U.S. coastlines and I think this ban has been since lifted (this was not a punishment, it was not even a slap on the wrist because less than a year later BP and the other oil giants were conducting business as usual). Why didn’t the United States Justice Department head Eric Holder issue criminal warrants for those individuals who were responsible for this disaster? President Obama and the entire U.S. Congress are bought and paid for by Big Oil. They are not interested in making the United States independent of foreign oil this is only a smokescreen to pass imaginary blame and still be able to declare oil wars in the name of the American people and this is how they partially justified their actions to invade Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and with the gun and trigger now already aimed at Iran.

In an on-line article taken from Oil-Price.Net that was authored by Tobias Vanderbruck titled: ‘Iran, Oil, and the Strait of Hormuz’ stated: "Strait of Hormuz , for the uninitiated, is the narrow passage connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea, surrounded by countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Iraq and Oman. It is significant for the simple reason that about 17m barrels of oil produced in the Middle East is transported through the Strait. Right now, the strait is in dire straits. Why? For many reasons, most of it centered around oil. How? At about 54 km wide (34 miles) at its narrowest point, the strait can be blocked with ease, and Iran has threatened. Why? Well, the European Union has placed an embargo on Iranian oil imports, and some sanctions on the central bank. In the US, on Dec 31, President Barack Obama has signed a bill imposing new sanctions on Iran under the National Defense Authorisation Act. This law, apart from targeting the revenue from oil imports, also targets financial institutions from other countries that conduct transaction with Iran's central bank. From March, such institutions would be barred from doing business in the US. The Lawmakers in the US are also planning to blacklist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini”

The American people are feeling the pain at the gas pump and in reality have accepted this as the new normal; yet many still do not know that this crisis is being well organized and induced in which OPEC and the Arabs have very little to do with what we are experiencing relative to the oil crisis and high prices at the pumps. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have completely sold out to western interest and what bothers me about these reactionary Arab Islamic oil producing states is their hypocrisy—Islam prohibits usury and forbad the charging of interest on money/capital and they are well aware of this contradiction, but they continue to allow their oil revenues wealth to be dictated and control by Zionist international banks located in Europe, America, Tel Aviv and Russia. These imposter Saudi Arabian Arabs think they are above the National Defense Authorization Act and the Patriot Act—they really do not think this devil will eventually betray their political and economic interest—let the oil start to dry up and I am willing to bet you overnight that Saudi Arabia will be on the U.S. terrorist list.

Yet, once the U.S. betrayed Saddam Hussein, they used the U.S. Patriot Act and so-called anti-terrorism laws to freeze Hussein’s international bank accounts and confiscated his assets. The U.S. is still illegally holding onto billions of Iranian Government dollars that were stolen under former Iranian dictator Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (who was overthrown by Imam Ayatollah Khomeini as a result of the 1979 Iranian Revolution), but the United States Government has yet to release these funds and assets over to the Iranian people. These Wahhabi imposters (if you desire to know who occupied the Arabian peninsula before these imposters refer to the work of Wesley Muhammad titled: “Black Arabia and the African Origin of Islam”) the present day occupiers who are the mulatto ruling class of modern day Saudi Arabia is nothing but Zionist controlled puppets.

They even claim to be in support of the Palestinian people's right to sovereignty and self-determination, which they have enough power and influence based on their oil domination to demand that the human rights of the Palestinian people (their Arab brethren) are honored and respected as human beings on their land. It's a shrewd triangle of deception where the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia have duped the Islamic world, in particular and the entire globe in general—Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest reactionary supporters of helping to maintain the Zionist State of Israel. Many of the top level Suad family are high degree Freemasons (some are honorary Members in the Scottish Rite and York Rite Orders, but others have traveled all way up the ladder to the United Supreme Council and have received their 33rd honorary Masonic degree) themselves and are covert agents as members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission (these groups represent the highest orders of what we deem as "secret societies"). Moreover, the Islamic hierarchical class and Arab Elitist even have membership in powerful international organizations such as the Club of Rome and the House of Rothschild (they might profess Islam with their tongues, but their actions describe another type picture).

These imposters out of Mecca and Medina have always demonstrated one of the biggest reactionary contradictions as leaders of the Islamic world, which was their diplomatic relationship with United States of America whom Imam Ayatollah Khomeini called the "Great Satan" (the gatekeepers of the Zionist State of Israel ). Now, reason with me, America is the number one ally of the Zionist State of Israel and the seat of Islam is selling untold oil to the United States (it does not take a rocket science to figure this out). But those who might not know, Saudi Arabia covertly sells oil directly to the Zionist State , but always give the dumbfound Muslims and have-nots the impression that they have an adverse relations with the Zionist State of Israel.

I think many people continue to desire further explanation, but the evidence and facts are clear, it is difficult to convince anyone that is in denial (they are connected to the Dynastic Families, possesses memberships in Secret Orders and are low level operatives of the Money Changers in which all this powerful intertwining makes up this Elitist hidden Cabal—these oil wealth Arabs are puppets of the worst kind). The former President Jimmy Carter was heavily criticized after he published his book in 2007 titled, "Palestine Peace: Not Apartheid" where he offered an honest and objective analysis of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. President Carter was immediately labeled as an anti-Semite and they forced him to repudiate his book and his own words (this action only stifled the debate).

Why have not Saudi Arabia (as a so-called powerful oil broker) demanded a solution to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict?—there must be a solution to stop the killing on both sides and resolve the land dispute. I denounce Zionism because I view it as a form of racism (I make no apology for this position) and as an African American who ancestors were victims of the heinous crime of Chattel Slavery understand the impact that racism and white supremacy had on the physical and psychological history of African people; so it is difficult for me not say something on the side of the Palestinian people. Yet, I do believe that there are many Jews/ Israelis who truly believe in the tenets of the “Torah” and do not support Zionism in any form, but they are often overlooked relative to this debate and conversation. I will never support the killings of Jews or Arabs—I support the concept of love and freedom, justice and equality amongst the human family. So hold your comments from falsely declaring me as an anti-Semite—I want peace in the Holy Land for all its inhabitants—this is the place where the Nubian/Hebrew Israelite Prophet Yeshua Bin Yusef (Jesus the son of Joseph was born).

Thus, just reason with me for a moment on September 11. 2001 better known as 9/11, the United States Government and its state control mediums reported that 17 of the 19 so-called confirmed highjackers (or the language they used terrorist) who flew those planes into the World Trade Center were supposedly Saudi Arabian nationals. Yet, the Bush (George W. Bush) administration in the interest of oil relations manipulated the dissemination of information and infused it with vitriol propaganda swaying negative public sentiments against Iraq (many of us knew early on that Iraq and Osama Bin Laden were innocent patsies). As I have stated above, I think many people continue to desire further explanation, but the evidence and facts are clear, it is difficult to convince anyone that is still in denial in 2012. 9/11 revealed so many things. The Dupers in my opinion, could not keep up maintaining and control over the 9/11 deception based on technology and people now having the ability to research and having access to alternative information and this level of information since the Internet is now being revealed in real time scenarios (for the most part the truth now has out ran the lie). They established a 9/11 Commission insinuating that an objective unbiased investigation had taken place (this report was inundated with massive lies and distortions). This was done to appease the dumbfound masses, but the masses did not understand that Larry Silverstein and his criminal culprits are above prosecution and U.S. law and you know the Rockefellers were lurking behind the scenes and would never be brought into a court of law, not to mention an indictment.

There were multiple motives and agendas on the table pursuant to the 9/11 hoax. Thus, foremost being oil and a planned assault on destroying the image of Islam as a reputable faith tradition that is worthy of respect. They bombed the World Trade Center and the first thing President George W. Bush (a low level operative of the Hidden Hand) does, is to blame Al-Qaeda headed by the so-called radical Islamic extremist Osama Bin Laden; a member of the Saudi Royal Elite whom Bush and the United States Government enjoyed a high level international business relationship with Osama Bin Laden’s family and he was the U.S. Government point man in the former Soviet Union and Afghanistan war; he was a CIA operative leading the Mujahideen in their fight to oust the USSR oppressors. The U.S. initially in 2001 accused him of so-called waging his anti-American assaults from Afghanistan and not Iraq (how did Iraq enter the 9/11 equation?)

But as Bush was steadily blaming Al-Qaeda, he was simanteously leading and focusing our attention on Iraq and Saddam Hussein (actually he was following instructions from Rockefellers to gain control over Iraq's Ramallah oil fields) because in reality, Bush and the United States Government knew that there was no connection between Hussein and Al-Qaeda; this move was strictly about further securing United States oil interest in Iraq. Yet, this also propelled them to further justify their war on Islam in the name of fighting international and domestic terrorism and at the same time putting the clamps on the American people by infringing and robbing them of their civil liberties.

Why haven’t the Royal Saud family been charged with mass murder for the allege crime that the United States Government accused them of being involved in after the 9/11 hoax? The United States Government has been in bed with the Saud family since 1933 and as long as oil remains the number one world commodity and the Saudis continues to play their role in controlling and pacifying the Islamic world—this relationship will remain solid as a rock. Although, it appeared that the guilty nation based on the United States presented evidence was that Saudi Arabia had so-called participated in one of the most horrific crimes ever committed against the United States of America. Why wasn't there economic sanctions and embargoes imposed against the nation of Saudi Arabia for their involvement in the 9/11 crimes against the American people? The Saudis were part of a conspiracy—their involvement was a perfect example of militant and radical Islam at its best—but we know it was much more to this puzzle than Saudi Arabia’s overt participation.

The Seven Oil Sisters (ExxonMobile, British Petroleum, Gulf, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Standard Oil of New Jersey—these are the oil masters of the world—now, this a real criminal cartel. Dean Henderson in his article titled, "The Four Horseman Behind America's Oil Wars" stated: By the late 1800’s John D. Rockefeller had become popularly known as ‘the Illumination Merchant’ during a time when oil was powering the reading lamps of every American household. Rockefeller figured out that it was the refining of oil into various end products and not actual crude production which held the key to control of the industry. By 1895 his Standard Oil Company owned 95% of all refineries in the US while expanding operations overseas. Summing up his attitude towards his new oil monopoly, Rockefeller once stated, “The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism is gone never to return”. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust began illuminating the New World with funding from Kuhn Loeb and Rothschild banking families. While the Rockefellers worked the American side of the energy matrix, the Rothschilds consolidated their control over Old World oil resources."

This is an example of the power of the web and most of all the oil cartels relationship to international organized crime and racketeering. The money changers have decided that it was to much oil money on the table to risk the delicate and strategic relationship of publically indicting Saudi Arabia after the 9/11 hoax because they serve under the auspices of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the overseers of how Islam will be disseminated throughout the Islamic world in which the Saudis have a secret pact with the United States Government to so-called keep radical Islam under raps, as well as maintain civility and peace in the region. Although, they shroud themselves as being Islamic purist and fundamentalist; after all the Holy City of Mecca is where the Kaaba is located—there is no shrine or city holier in Islam than the Kaaba. These imposter Arabs are corrupt to the core and are being used to theologically pacify Muslims and Islam in the name of adhering to the Qur'an and the Sunna—but take it from me, these hypocrites have deviated from the teachings of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (PBUH) and are motivated by greed and the lust of power. They serve their masters well.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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MARCUS GARVEY VERSUS W.E.B. DUBOIS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT FROM THESE TWO GIANTS?

By Fahim A. Knight-El

There have been various black leadership personalities and black spokespersons that have risen to national and international prominence since our sojourn in America (1555 to Present), which have shaped and impacted the intellectual landscape of the so-called African American, but perhaps none have had the lasting affects as Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) and WEB Dubois (1868-1963) on the organizational and intellectual development on those who followed; these two, (along with Booker T. Washington) individuals truly laid the modern leadership foundation for most black leaders that followed after them. This writer has written many pieces on the Black experience, but I have never written a complete article dedicated to the life and times of Marcus Garvey. I have always admired his work and legacy and his commitment to the causes that affected African people and over the years I have deeply incorporated his philosophy into my personal life and worldview. There was no reason for me over the years not to have written and dedicated an article to the work of Marcus Garvey. But I do believe everything happens in the universe when it is supposed to happen and I believe that today as I write this article I have entered this paradigm—the Creator has finally brought me to this space and time, which to intellectually revisited one of my activist heroes and pay homage to him by dedicating a 4,000 word essay in his memory—no other leader has shaped my cultural worldview like Marcus Mosiah Garvey and I must admit that I am standing squarely on his foundation and legacy. Black leaders who often did not go along with the status quo has been systematically written out of history, but I do not blame them, we have an obligation to write and document our own history and cite our historical worth and contribution to human civilization—this is what I do as the chief researcher of the Keeping it Real Think Tank.

The United States Government and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an ambitious Federal agent named J. Edgar Hoover in 1922 led the criminal prosecution against Marcus Garvey charging him with mail fraud and in 1923 Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in which in 1925, a Federal Judge imposed a five year prison sentence where he was sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary. In 1927 Garvey’s sentence was commuted and he was deported to his homeland of Jamaica where one of the largest crowds in the history of Jamaica welcomed one of their fallen son’s back home. Garvey became a victim of United States Government dirty tricks and conspiracy. Hoover would later craft one of the largest and far reaching government espionage programs called Cointelpro, a counter-intelligence operation that was organized in 1950s under the leadership of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover aimed at destroying progressive black leadership which lasted until the 1970s.

I had in the past read the books written/edited by his wife Amy Jacques Garvey titled: “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, and “Garvey and Garvyism”, John Henrik Clarke’s book titled: “Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa”, Tony Martin’s book titled, “Race First’, Robert A. Hill’s book titled, “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, and E.D. Cronon’s book titled, “Black Moses, the Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association”. These resources and others have been in my personal library for some time now and advise those who are seeking a deeper understanding and interpretation of Marcus Garvey’s philosophy and theories to consult the works that I have cited above.

Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Dubois was not created in a historical vacuum, but it was the history of Chattel Slavery (1555-1865) that gave rise to these two distinct and revolutionary personalities. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Middle Passage was one of the greatest crimes ever committed against humanity where over 100 million Africans were kidnapped from Africa brought to the Americas as slaves. Millions were killed and died in the hulls of slave ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the deadly passage known as the Middle Passage, this tragic represented a holocaust and this was nothing they made up in Hollywood and even Alex Haley's book titled, "Roots" and movie of the same title, "Roots" doesn't even come close to an accurate account and depiction of the pain and suffering that my African Ancestors may have experienced for 310 years under this inhumane system. No, movie or book can ever captivate the magnitude of the crime of Chattel Slavery. It was this process where Africans were rob and stripped of their names, religion, culture, land and was forced to accept and embrace an alien people's culture and history. This physical, mental and spiritual assault left a people forever scared and who now have been on a quest for over 450 years to reconnect with a land, people and culture of their ancestors. This spirit can be found in the Akan language of Ghana described in Sankofa—“It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.” Garvey’s movement typified the spiritual intent of Sankofa.

The social and psychological affect of plantation life and the dehumanization process that took place left a race of people who are still suffering from Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (this an extreme psychological condition akin to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in 2012 because the pain and suffering of the African slave has been passed down in the African American and those Africans who have been scattered throughout the Diaspora collective biological DNA and certain present day behavior that we demonstrate is a direct result of a race of people who have never been allowed to properly heal from the devastating and traumatic experience of Chattel Slavery. There was no debriefing and no psychological therapy—the slave master in 1865 told blacks they were now free to legally go by the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) under President Abraham Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865). Black leadership evolved from this historical experience—good, bad or indifferent.

Marcus Garvey was born in Saint Ann’s Bay Jamaica in 1887 and was inspired by his father who served as the unofficial lawyer in their village and who was deeply committed to the labor movements and justice for black workers and even young Marcus Garvey received his first political activism working in the Jamaican Labor Movements traveling outside of Jamaica to Costa Rica, Panama and other Latin American States working to organize labor. Many African slaves landed in Jamaica and other Caribbean nations that were under British Rule (however, many slaves who became known as the ‘Maroons’ upon landing in Jamaica fought and resisted slavery by escaping into the mountains of Jamaica and was never captured by the British slave makers). Marcus Garvey’s father was a direct descendants of the ‘Maroons’, But prior to British domination of the Caribbean Islands in 1494 Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas where Spain and Portugal divided the newly discovered lands outside of Europe between themselves. This treaty was later reaffirmed by Pope Alexander VI of the Catholic Church with the signing of the Papal Bull of Demarcation.

It would be Bishop Bartholomew Las Casas in 1517 that decreed that it was a Christian obligation to civilized the heathens from around the world and he upheld the so-called sanctity of the Treaty of Tordesillas and Papal Bull of Demarcation. The European Slave Traders often used the Caribbean Islands as seasoning grounds before the African slaves were transported to Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, etc. However, there were times that African slaves were brought directly from Africa to the U.S. slave markets and ports in Savannah, Charleston, Virginia, Mobile, etc. I cite this history because it properly lays out a historical foundation and it is this history that permeates the black liberation struggles that evolved in the United States of America (slavery is a historical reference point for everything that is wrong about America). Marcus Garvey was influenced early on by the work and legacy of Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) and his leadership at Tuskegee Institute. Garvey had read Washington’s autobiography titled, “Up From Slavery” which was written in 1901. Washington became one of the leading black spokesman during the early part of the 20th Century and he was sought of handpicked by the powerful white establishment in which many blacks viewed him as an “Uncle Tom” and an apologist for the racist system of America and they rebuked him for his social, political and economic compromises he made with the white status quo.

Washington was a southerner who did not openly view Civil Rights and political agitation as a good tactic or strategy which to fight racial injustice and he preferred a more passive and nonthreatening approach to get things accomplished on behalf of black people (some refer to him as a genius and others refer to him as a traitor of the worst kind). It was W.E.B. Dubois that became one of his most outspoken critics and condemned Washington for desiring to keep blacks in a servitude position. But Garvey who was in Jamaica admired Washington's do-for-self and pull yourself up by your bootstraps economic concepts. Washington preached the importance of blacks owning land and remaining in the south as farmers and tradesman. He also, advocated that blacks should attain vocational and technical education and training over a liberal arts education; as much as Marcus Garvey could appreciate Washington's philosophy, it infuriated Dubois that a black leader would be advocating that blacks remain on the plantation as planters and farmers.

Let me interject that Washington was the recipient of huge amounts of white philanthropy money (it was white philanthropy that helped him build Tuskegee Institute) and many believed that it was they who were shaping his political leadership agenda. The whites at this time were concern with maintaining the status quo and the historical arrangement of the existing power dynamic. Nevertheless, in 1916, Marcus Garvey emigrated from Jamaica to the United States with aspirations of meeting Washington, but upon his arrival to Harlem, New York he learned that Washington had died a year earlier in 1915. But Garvey believed in the value of vocational and technical training espoused by Booker T. Washington and most of all valued the importance of land ownership. Garvey would later purchase commercial cargo ships such as the Black Star Line Steamship Company, Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company, the Negro Factories Corporation, the Black Cross Nursing Unit, the, doll factories, restaurants, publishing housings, grocery stores—Garvey believed in economic self-sufficiency and with the exception of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam no other black leader or organization has had that type of economic success. Garvey had a program; the majority of the militant and radical black leadership of the latter half of the 20th Century have not introduce nor built anything since Marcus Garvey. This plank would stand later as the basis to Garvey's ideology relative to Nationalism and Pan-Africanism.

Garvey did not accept Washington's political accommodation approach as being the ultimate solution to black liberation and Garvey stated: "Africa for the Africans at home and abroad." Garvey was indeed a political agitator and intentionally made provocative statements to agitate the white establishment as well as show courage to the black disenfranchised. Dubois in his book titled, "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903) called Washington's "The Atlanta Exposition" (1895) speech (this speech would have been equalvent to the leader of the present day National Urban League president giving his speech on The State of Black America), in which Dubois in his critique called the speech "The Atlanta Compromise" maintaining that Washington would make us money, but not men. Dubois had some fundamental disagreements with Washington and those differences were clear.

But at times, it was difficult for me, to navigate through my research to draw some distinct ideological and philosophical and clear delineations between Garvey and Dubois; yet this was not to say that there were not any because there were; I make this statement because both men were deeply committed to Africa and Africans on many different levels. Dubois no doubt was an intellectual genius who became the first African American to received a Ph.D in history in 1895 from Harvard University in which he wrote a dissertation titled, "Suppression of the African Slave Trade" and used his scholarship to debunk the racist notions that Africa was the dark continent and they made no worthwhile contribution to human civilization. Dubois was a fair skinned mulatto black who grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and based on the United States being a ‘pigementocracy’ where rewards and privileges were granted based on skin color—Dubois physical complexion benefitted him to the determent of the dark skinned Garvey. No doubt Garvey was very dark skinned with overt African racial features and he was ridiculed by the light skinned Dubois and A. Phillip Randolph.

Garvey was received upon arriving to New York by another powerful and prominent West Indian from Saint Croix named Hubert Henry Harrision (1883-1927) who Dr. John Henrik Clarke deemed the "Black Socrates". It was Harrison who gave Garvey his first political platform in Harlem and was a great influence on Marcus Garvey's early development as a black leader in the United States. Perhaps the one relationaship next to Washington that had an everlasting impact on shaping young Garvey’s international ideological framework was in 1912 when he traveled to Great Britain and London there he met an Egyptian (of Black Sudanese origin) Muslim named Duce Muhammad Ali who operated a Pan African periodical titled, "African Times and Orient Review". Some historians argued that Garvey was introduced to Islam under Duce Muhammad Ali. But lets be clear Garvey linked up with Bishop George Alexander McGuire who in 1920 founded the African Orthodox Church and this became the official religious affiliation to the UNIA and like black specific Islam it was steeped in black symbolism which created God, angles and the prophets in the image of African people.

Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914 in Jamaica with a mission to organizing Africans at home and Africans throughout the Diaspora from around the world behind the concept of Pan-Africanism which called for the collective unity of Africans throughout the world. Garvey is known and often associated with the Back to Africa movement, but lets be clear, I do not think Garvey realistically had a plan to relocate 22 million blacks back on the African continent and even to this date I do not think there is any African nation or government that has the political, economic, and social infrastructure to accommodate that type mass migration. But I do think that Garvey’s back to Africa Movement (Martin Delaney actually coined this phrase Back to Africa) and theories had a physical component and psychological component—History has revealed that, perhaps Garvey from a psychological and culture standpoint understood the importance of identifying with Africa better than any other black leader in the history of the black liberation struggle and the struggle for political, economic and social redemption. Garvey totally understood that there had to be a reaffirmation and a declaration that rooted the people of the African descent who was scattered throughout the Diaspora to a legitimate connection to a homeland, which in this case was Africa.

However, this was not to suggest that Garvey did not believe in a true physical remigration back to Africa and this was not just some emotional sounding off because Garvey was negotiating with the Liberian Government for land (to establish a resettlement) as well as seeking to establish an international trade and commerce pact. Liberia in the 1820s was colonized by former slaves from the United States of America in which many blacks migrated from America to this West African State. Liberia received its independence from the United States in 1847 and Garvey was well aware of the historical relationship between the two nations.

Three years before Garvey was born Africa was divided up and partitioned by the European powers at the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885, it has been this devastating colonial act that destroyed African sovereignty, culture and left a people, politically, economically and socially inept. Africa is still presently suffering from these artificial barriers that were set up for the historical benefits of Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, United States, etc. I believe that slavery raped Africa of its human resources and the colonization of Africa raped Africa of its material resources (these were crimes of great magnitude). Garvey understood that he had to teach the knowledge of self and connect the disconnected cultural dots that were severed doing the dehumanization process of Chattel Slavery. They gave black people the false image of Jesus ('God' but all wise people know that Jesus was a prophet and there is no where noted in the Bible where Yeshua Ben Yusef taught Christianity) in Leonardo Di Vinci rendition of Yeshua Ben Yusef (Jesus the son of Joseph) was lie and a historical distortion—Leonardo Di Vinci painted himself and not the Nubian version of Yeshua Ben Yusef (Jesus the son of Joseph). It was this image according to Dr. Naim Akbar that had the most devastating and everlasting affect on the thinking and minds of black people.

Garvey in order to redeem a people who were victims of this heinous crime their minds and thinking had to be reformed—African symbolism, literature, African Tradition, African religion, African culture, etc., this type of nationalism was more than necessary to inspire and empower a people who had lost everything. Garvey knew and understood that white supremacy had evolved based on a misconstrued interpretation of history, which was falsely rooted in the superiority of white people and the inferiority of African people. His mission was designed to decolonize the minds of black people; this plank was essential for people who had experienced a holocaust to make an attempt reclaim their own heritage, traditions, legacy, culture, etc., in order to foster a disperse nation towards personal empowerment and nationhood. His mission was to deconstruct the images that were given to us under a system of white supremacy. Garvey also understood that every sovereign and independent nation had a flag and he gave us the red, black and green: the Red (signifies the blood of the people), Black (represents African people) and the Green represented the land. I have a huge African liberation flag in my home.

Many of the Black bourgeoisie establishment leaders became increasingly jealous of Marcus Garvey's success in which eight of the top black leaders at that time sided with the United States Government plot to destroy Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Dubois spearheaded this attack and he constantly made some disparaging remarks calling Garvey a buffoon, ugly monkey, clown, idiot, etc., these reactionary black leaders were jealous and envy of Garvey's organizational success and Dubois did whatever he could to sabotage Garvey. Garvey had a very large appeal to the grassroots and masses (attracting Blacks in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Africa in which he established UNIA chapters throughout the world and at the peak of his organization he had the largest black membership of any organization consisting of five million people. Many of these black bourgeoisie leaders were members of the Boule (Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity) founded in 1904 as oldest Black Greek Society in the United States (it was founded two years before Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated in 1906) modeled somewhat after Skull Bones founded on the campus of Yale University.

The Black Boule is perhaps the most powerful black secret society in America possessing much more political clout than the Black Prince Hall Masonic Order, but lets not be confused these two groups are intertwined on many different levels. Dubois who was one of the founders of the Niagara Movement (1903) which became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909), but these groups could not mobilize black people like Garvey and UNIA. Also, Dubois vacillated between Socialism/Communism, Nationalism, Pan Africanism, Integration, and scholarly intellectualism. Dubois believed the way to elevate the African American race was sending 10% of the best of our minds to liberal arts colleges and universities, he referred to this approach as the Talented Tenth Theory, but most of his critics viewed this approach as an Elitist movement and this would only create a petit bourgeoisie black class of reactionary uppity Negroes. Dr. E. Franklin Frazier in his book titled, "Black Bourgeoisie" wrote about this sector and Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), (defined the circumference and diameter of the thinking of this class in his book titled, "The Mis-Education of the Negro”). Garvey was more in line with Woodson's scholarly assessment who was the second black to obtain a Ph.D in history from Harvard University and wrote articles for Garvey's periodical titled, "The Negro World".

Dubois view of Pan Africanism lacked the militancy and radicalism of Garvey's view of Pan Africanism; it was as though that Dubois understood the necessity of a Pan African movement (at least in theory, but Garvey was implementing the practical tenets of the theory) and would argue that if Dubois truly understood the Pan African dynamic, why didn't he support Marcus Garvey's cause of a unified African world? (Yet, Dubois called his first Pan-African Congress 1900 and would called four more Pan-African Congress 1919, 1921, 1923 and 1927) . There were many reasons, but the one that sticks out was that Garvey was unlettered, he did not attend the Ivy League and prestigious universities of America and Europe. Garvey had no college degree from the white man's schools of higher learning, but his charisma and passion to see black people liberated and free was captivating and most established "Negro' leadership did not have the mass appeal that was associated with Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).

Black intellectuals have always felt that they were card carrying white citizens and it was they who had a moral obligation to lead the so-called African American race to social, political and economic redemption and salvation. Many of these ego tripping "Negro' leaders saw themselves as being better trained and educated for the job of 'Negro' leadership than leaders like Henry Highland Garnet, Paul Cuffee, Bishop McNeil Turner, Marcus Garvey, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Clarence 13X (Father Allah) and the Nation of Gods and Earths, Yahweh Ben Yahweh and the Black Hebrew Israelites known as the Nation of Yahweh, Dr. Malachi Z. York-El and the Nuwaubians, etc. There would not have been a Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America, Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael) of the African People's Revolutionary Party who coined the phrase 'Black Power', Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seales and the Black Panther Party, Imari Abubakari Obadele and the Republic of New Africa, Louis Farrakhan and the revised Nation of Islam, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad and the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Maulana Karenga and the United Slave organization—scholars such as John Henrik Clarke, Yosef Ben A.A. Jochannan, C.L.R. James, George Padmore and the Pan African Congress Movement, the Rastafarian movement, etc., are forever linked to the spirit of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

All of them have Marcus Garvey's imprint written all over most of these above mentioned organizations and leaders that I have cited. Many of them have used the cultural, theoretical, and political model of Marcus Garvey to create neo-Pan Africanist and Nationalist based movements and ideologies, which can never escape the contribution Garvey made to lay the original programmatic blue print that we see rooted in the present day African Liberation Movements. I would go as far as to say, you cannot have an intelligent conversation about Black Nationalism and Pan Africanism without Marcus Garvey being at the forefront of the discussion. Most of the revolutionary organizations and leaders have grabbed a piece of Garvey's coattail along the way. I say long live Marcus Garvey and the UNIA. I also can remember back in the late 1980s and early 1990s there was an academic led movement referred to as Afrocentricty or the African Centered movement being led my Molefi Kete Asante and other black scholars, but as I studied and embraced the African Centered movement, it was easy to see that it too, was so in debt to the cultural and intellectual philosophy of the ideology of Marcus Garvey.

Dubois out lived Washington and Garvey and he later would admit that looking back on things that Garvey and Washington was right about so many things and he issued a historical apology to both of these prior leaders who preceded him in death. Dubois like Garvey was eventually conspired against by the U.S. Government and was charged with un-American activity and brought into a United States Court in 1951 because of his Communist views, but was later legally exonerated. He gave up his United States Citizenship after this trial and migrated to Ghana, Africa to live in the country of his Pan-Africanist friend, President Kwame Nkrumah where eventually died in 1963.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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

USE THE BEST OF INTELLIGENCE: LETS SEE WHO IS BEHIND THE CURTAIN AND ASSESS THE MOTIVES

By Fahim A. Knight-El

President Barack Obama and his warmonger cabinet members have already decided to invade and declare war on Iran (Iran has been a big discussion in the Situation Room—the question is when will the attack begin), they have created a template and blueprint with the 2003 Iraq War as the model for future war deceptions and the toppling of their agent Saddam Hussein provided them with a new war draft (they have only received little resistance from the American people and to be quite honest with you these Devils don’t give a damn anymore about public opinion). If the United States goes to war with Iran just like Afghanistan and Iraq, it would further overly tax the America taxpayers with more senseless war debt. However, by me knowing what kind of agent Saddam Hussein was, he got very little sympathy from this writer, when his former U.S. bosses betrayed and then trampled over him. There is no doubt in my mind, that he was a ruthless United States lapdog and international agent who in the long run probably got what he deserved (but I am still saying this cautiously) and as much as I despised the United States aggression and imperialism, it was difficult for me to shed a tear for Saddam Hussein and his rogue government who spent decades on the CIA payroll and betraying the interest of Islam and the Iraqi people.

Yet, I will always stand in solidarity with the innocent people of Iraq who were guilt of nothing other than sitting on the second largest known oil reserve in the world. The innocent people of Iraq has paid a very heavy price because of the United States and Western nations greed to dominate and control the global oil resources in the region, but in particular in the Middle East and the African nations oil reserves. The Iraq War has led to over a half million Iraqis losing their lives at the hands of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers. I recently heard Council on Foreign Relations agent, Senator John McCain this past week beating the war drum and using political provocative propaganda against Iran and is trying to militarily set President Obama into motion to attack Iran prior to his presidential reelection with an objective to use this deceit to derail Obama’s presidential re-election bid.

But as I have stated in recent and previous articles, lest not be confused about Obama, he has already been promised another four year presidential term (and he has been mandated by the Hidden Hand to go through the motions and appear to give credibility to the concept of U.S. Democracy—the one man, one vote scam) to over see the global affairs of the Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Henry Kissinger. Lets ask the United States Government, a very simple question: explain to us in specific terms, detail and length of how and what threat does Iran poses to the United States of America. Obama knows that Iran does not pose a threat to the United States National Security interest, however, the political propaganda is getting more massive and deceitful than it has ever been in the last month and the United States military is perhaps gearing up to attack Iran. Don’t be fooled this is about gaining control over Iranian oil—I do not blame the interest holders, when are we the Sheepel who consistently allow ourselves to be duped is going to wake up from our slumber? When are we going to wake the hell up and not send our sons and daughter to fight unjust wars for the Super Elitist?

I cannot say it any plainer they are only being used as U.S. Foreign Policy Tools—better yet ask this ‘Negro’ president will he sign his daughters, Malia and Sasha over to joining the United States military infantry squads and/or if they receive a military greeting’s letter informing them that they have been drafted in the U.S. Military will he be enthusiastic about them fighting for the Invisible Rulers. Furthermore, will he patriotically send them to foreign lands to fight and die to make the world safer for democracy.

I do not view dissention as being anti-government and/or against United States Law, I see it as the highest act of freedom that we have as United States citizen and I will do all that I can to continue to fight for that right for all Americans. I do not think because a person disagrees with the policies of the American Government that this position should be viewed outside United States law because one openly expressed disagreement (or dissent) of political opinion (this is fundamentally American and the basis of how the U.S. Constitution is legally structured). This in the long run gives way to a healthier government and society. I have always cautioned my critics for using open-end loose language of implying censorship because a political pundit expresses disagreement with the Status Quo; this could on day easily and eventually backfire on them. Now, I explained in one article titled: “Freedom of Speech: No Such thing it has a Price” http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20... about the importance of Free Speech, which is protected under the First Amendment Right to the United States Constitution. I do respect the laws of my birth and home which is the United States of America and yet at the same I feel that I have the right to detest some of those same laws and render legal and political criticism without being fearful of persecution and/or government retaliation (I know there are consequences for all of us who disagrees with the status quo).

President Obama’s ruthless Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (she is worst than a trained killer and assassin) knows that international embargoes and economic sanctions are ineffective within today’s global paradigm, in particular when it comes to isolating oil producing nations, because the oil commodity is beyond sanctions based on global need and its often western consumption that weakens these type international embargoes and sanctions—they have always violated international law when it comes to the acquisition of oil. For example, Libya under the leadership of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was afflicted with United Nations and United States imposed sanctions for decades, but France and Italy, two close United States Allies were steadily buying Libyan crude under Qaddafi's ruler-ship, like there was no tomorrow. When it comes to oil there are no true friends or permanent enemies (just paying customers) and within the recent schemes of United States diplomacy they cannot sit idly by and wait on sanctions, embargoes and talk diplomacy to weaken a nation that they might-be in conflict with. The short and long term measures of international sanctions have been proven to be ineffective in so-called punishing international leaders and nations for demonstrating bad behavior (they now send Drones as their latest attack weapons).

International imposed sanctions failed in Bosnia, Libya, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Syria, Somalia, etc. But after the disposing of Saddam Hussein in 2003, they decided to change strategies and tactics; however, I keep reiterating that after the 9/11 hoax everything on the national and global scene changed forever. They have used the 9/11 hoax to transition the thinking of the people (to unconditionally support the New World Order and the Global Agenda) and overturned what was once considered at least being publically ethically and morally wrong for the government to openly talk about killing and assassinating Heads of State, this was unheard of just twenty five years ago. We can remember just yesterday that the president in order to declare war would have to seek approval from the United States Congress (so-called representatives of the people) not that this procedure really meant anything, but it did give the appearance of balancing authority and establishing a checks and balancing process.

But we know that all wars are declared outside of the Oval office and Capitol Hill—who gets jumped on are decisions made by the heads of the Dynastic Families. The sad thing is that most people do not have a clue about what is taking place. Let me interject this, no one is safe anymore and we have allowed our government to venture into a Fascist paradigm in the name of fighting international terrorism and so-called radical Islam. They can now make political and military decisions without the consent of the American people—these are truly dangerous times that we are living under and they are about to get a lot more dangerous. The American public for decades was shielded from having firsthand knowledge of knowing about the possibility of a hit on a Head of State or some other sensitive target—these covert operations were under the secret guidance of the Central Intelligence Agency. 9/11 has changed all of this.

Many do not yet realize that we have had transitioned into a quasi police state pursuant to some of the new reactionary laws, legislation, enactments and Executive Orders such as the United States Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act. We have to take into account the legal and political climate that we live under. The United States Justice Department, Central Intelligence Agency, State Department, local police departments and the business of U.S. National Defense have been empowered with unlimited authority since the 9/11 hoax.

But many people, scholars and laymen alike who venture into this type of research are constantly leaving a window open when it comes to the question of Dynastic Family Rule and their global domination (I often use my research and evidence to closed the door—because it is proof positive that the evidence lead us directly to the door steps of the Conspirators). Now, there are some that still seem to be a bit unsure of whether or not there exist a present motive for these Invisible Rulers to still exist and operate —I maintain that their motive have been the same throughout human history i.e. power and greed this has been their consistent Modus Operandi.

The evidence is clear that there is a small Cabal of men and women who seek to shape, guide and determine the global affairs of humanity. Some will always try to dismiss this type conversations/research as mere conspiracy theory, and then seek to minimize the credibility and accuracy of who is behind the curtain (it is this contention that keeps the puppeteers shielded in disguise).

For example, the economy did not collapse because of coincidental economic circumstances or because of the housing market going belly up and/or the Wall Street (Fortune 500) international banks defaulting because of the national debt and reckless consumerism. Let me ask a question, who do we owe the debt to and who is behind the debt? Yet, someone had the power to call the debt-in and then even had the ability pass it on to the American taxpayers (perhaps 3-5 generations of unborn Americans have already accumulated a debt that they did not incur) the bailout of the international banks was criminal and a stickup of the American people.

The power and deceit of the Federal Reserve (a private money changer institution, which has no legal ties to the United States Government) that wears the title “Federal”, but function outside of the rules, enactments and laws of the United States Congress and even the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has no legal obligation to report nor answer to the United States president. And since the Federal Reserve is a private corporation who owns and control the Federal Reserve?

Thus, for many years, its Board of Directors were a secret (and even the Twelve Central Banks that make up the Federal Reserve was once a big secret until it was exposed and uncovered) and even today Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court nor the Executive branch of the United States Government can call for an audit or even conduct a due diligence oversight of the Federal Reserve (this private ‘government’ entity functions with immunity and sovereignty) and also it has been proven that the Federal Reserve Act was unconstitutional.

Who are the hidden names and faces that posses the power to dictate the United States and global monetary policy and has the ability to continue print Fiat money and worthless currency to the detriment of American citizens? They control global interest rates and inflation and determine who eats and who starves. What has been the political and economic consequences of what took place in 1913 on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia in which the international bankers conducted a silent international coup d' tat and literally subverted the United States Constitution and gained total control over our system of money.

May be some of you think these events still fit into the category of "historical possibilities" and/or even conspiracy theory. U.S. Currency was once backed by gold and silver, but in the 1930s someone had the power to move our monetary policy off the gold standard, which is interpreted to mean that our U.S. Currency is valueless. Almost every political, economic and social crisis is induced and is not happenstance occurrences that have set these things into motion. But who has the power to do that? We did not arrive at our economic depression in 2008 (yes we are in a depression which in reality is no different than the Great Depression of 1929 and not a recession they use certain language to keep us Sheepel under control and in lax mode) because of bad domestic and international investments. These chain events were orchestrated by the Hidden Hand.

I read a recent blog article were George Bush was listed in the line up next to the Rothschilds (I immediately started laughing because someone was giving the public gross false misinformation). Let me clarify for my reading audience that George Bush and all of his prototypes are nothing but low lever operatives and agent provocateurs who work for the likes of the Rothschilds and the Twelve Dynastic Families who rules the world. It was an insult to see some of the billionaires listed in the link as being on the same power line with the Rothschilds (believe me they are not). I refer you to more accurate sources if you truly desire to understand the Circle, in a Circle, within a Circle (the true Hidden Hand)—George Soros or George Bush can not even shine the shoes of the Dynastic Family members.

The first book that I would recommend to you all is John Coleman's book titled, "The Committee of 300", Larry Abraham and Allen's book titled, "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" and Carroll Quigley’s book titled, "Tragedy and Hope" these sources will give you a much better understanding of the faces and the power schemes that truly rule the world. I think that many are still not clear on whether a not there exist a present day motive for the Invisible Hand to still exist and operate behind the cloak of darkness—there is, it’s the same one that they have been operating off for centuries, which is power and greed.

I cite the above sources because they will provide my reading audience with a better understanding of this complex issue at hand. I am very passionate about this subject and I do not think there have been many more so-called African American bloggers that have been as passionate about this subject as I have and I am not making these points from some ego driven mindset. I know that the evidence is empirical and objective enough to demonstrate proof positive that our history and world events are being induced by hidden external forces.

I don’t think that the Club of Rome, House of Rothschild, Carlyle Group, Bilderberg, Milner Group (the Round table), Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral commission and there are many other hidden elitist subsidiaries that are under their control is just a part of my imagination, but these forces are real. Many people use the term Illuminati in a broad sense because it sounds like something cute and New Age to echo, but in reality do not have a clue to what they are talking about. Some even try to connect Open Freemasonry as the foremost Illuminati organization the world-over today and ignorantly talk about secret societies in the same breathe; moreover, many do not have a clue that the power Elite uses organizations as Freemasonry as mere fronts—they do not factor into real power dynamics.

The American revolution, in particular was a well organized and crafted ploy and it did not represent the changing of power and rule, it gave the appearance of a break between Great Britain and its colony nations, which eventually became the United States of America—the merchant class eventually under Mercantilism and the War of 1812 went to war again to regain international money interest. Some historians have traced and documented that it was Freemasons who actually led and were the focal point of the American Revolution because it was they who led the instigation of the war under the guise of the Boston Tea Party.

Let me drive this point home, the United Grand Lodge of England was established in 1712 or 1717. The British was already big in the Occult, Esoteric and Gnostic societies—they left the United States in charge of one of their Masonic brethren named George Washington, the first president of the United States of America who was initiated into the brotherhood of Freemasonry, his ultimate loyalty would be more to the United Grand Lodge of England, perhaps than to the interest of the newly formed citizens of this newly established Republic and just coincidental the allege Illuminati agent Weishaupt formed the "Order of Perfectibilists" on May 1, 1776.

Who gave the United States order of Freemasonry their charter and did Washington and the many other (Founding Fathers) Freemasons who helped frame the United States Constitution were they directly under the influence of the British Invisible Hand? At times these Orders are deeply intertwined with the covert schemes of the Dynastic Families and the Bank of England that was established in 1694, which makes it second oldest central bank in the world.

The Federal Reserve somewhat modeled itself after its mother bank, which is the Bank of England these two nations are/were inseparable even to this date. The British Royal Dynastic Family and the Paul Warburgs, J.P. Morgans, Harrimans, etc., and many U.S. Banking Houses were directly tied to the wealth of the Bank of England. This was all part of the duping and deconstruction of a once stable and viable United States Market and economy (the Invisible Hand and the international banks often induces misery in which they financially profit even off the worst of crisis), it also led to us importing more than we were exporting creating deficits that has left our nation and economy upside down. The Elitist made these moves on the chessboard out of greed and the American people do not have a clue as to what has happened to them. We the useless eaters have become obsolete in the larger scheme of things.

But I think if we are making the argument from the rugged views of western capitalism and social Darwinism—this perspective renders less optimism for humanity relative to the question of economic, political and social justice. Some Western scholars who question and oppose my research is done from a basis of emotionalism and cannot phantom that we have been played on—their opposition often speaks to the raw emotions of western man's instincts which have governed their social behavior and global interactions since they have been on the planet (during the duration of which his 6,000 year history speaks for itself). This (Western) psychological paradigm has been more rooted in greed and exploitation—many native and indigenous people lived in harmony under a system of justice and equality; they accepted and embraced the importance of the universal laws, these societies would only kill to supply and sustain their existence as members of the food chain, but the hording of resources was outside of these many nations social structure.

What else can be driving the collapse of humanity other than greed (which is rooted in a false class system and structure), but there is enough resources to allow all of humanity to not go to bed hungry, have adequate health care, access to clean and sanitized water, livable housing and suitable shelter, etc. The lack of humanity to have access to food, clothing and shelter is being done, because someone is the beneficiaries of humanity's misery and it’s profitable to keep a segment of humanity in this predicament. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once stated that he knew something was wrong when he realized that over 70 percent of the earth was water and we have to pay for water. The western media demonized him as a communist for relating to something inside him that led him to challenge what was ethically and morally wrong. It had nothing to do with a Marxist analysis.

I think we have had some good examples of human beings who saw the world beyond the rugged individualism that many of us have come to accept as the 'norm'. Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, etc (there have been many countless more of the human family who are faceless and nameless that arrived at the same conclusion) where human examples embraced a high level of spirituality and left us with examples of models of human excellence.

My worldview has been determined outside of how we in the West perceive authority, wealth, power, class, etc., in which it is these things that have fostered and contributed partially to the behavior that I have described above and has created an antagonistic contradiction throughout human history. I am optimistic that we as human beings who are Homo Sapiens Sapiens still have the ability to transition beyond a survival of the fittest paradigm (the planet is turning against us and this is evidence that something is terrible wrong, but we still have a choice which to line ourselves with the natural order of things or be destroyed). I think we have the potential to rise above this model.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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

THE DECK HAS BEEN STACKED: WHAT ARE WE ‘SHEEPEL’ SUPPOSED TO DO?

By Fahim A. Knight-El

I have been somewhat keeping up with the Republican presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul (all pawns of the Rothschilds and Rockellars may be I should exclude Dr. Ron Paul from this indictment). However, they all are out of touch with the common people and their reality have been dimed because of the blinders they have agreed to wear as potential candidates who are in quest of the assignment to be the next out front low level operative for the Rothschilds (they could have just consulted me and I could have told them that President Obama has already been selected to serve his masters for another four years and remember I have been telling you all that our vote don't mean a damn thing); for start, most of the above mentioned politicians are wealthy and cannot relate to the struggles of the poor and oppressed (the plight of ordinary common folk). They are constantly talking about the economy and projecting to balancing our national deficit on the backs of the poor, and the poor are so dumbfound and foolish, they think that they have a shared political and economic interest with the rich and wealthy (lets be clear these millionaire politicians are considered peons and powerless in lieu of their bosses—the Hidden Hand—the true wealth holders).

Ashahed M. Muhammad in his book titled, "The Synagogue of Satan" stated: "The economic health of the United States is in trouble with unemployment at the highest level in years. The members of the Synagogue of Satan are economically insulated from that which befalls the masses of the American people as a result of their investments in foreign land and contracts delivered through bid-rigging in support of the American Empire and its unrestrained war machine. Politically speaking, the different branches of government, including members of his staff are involved in numerous scandals. Information leaks at the highest levels of government are prevalent. Each week new lies and more memos are uncovered, more deliberate deceptions are being revealed causing the people of America to have little confidence in the government. Most Americans believe that the government lies regularly. A government which lies to its people is not a government at all. This continues to undermine its effectiveness." (Reference: Ashahed M. Muhammad; "The Synagogue of Satan"; pp. 21-22).

The Talking Heads (liars and manipulators) have thoroughly convinced the Neocons rightwing conservatives and the outright ignorant that America's economic crisis was created by to much government handouts earmarked to the poor and oppressed and they believe that it has been the so-called subsidy of the poor that has wrecked the United States economy (this presumption is rooted in American style racism and bigotry and is allowed to fester because of unresolved racism within the United States). But they are too cowardly to mention that it is the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers that have the global economy in a stranglehold and it is they who have wrecked the U.S. and global economy and not the poor. However, to state this fact, it would shift the conversation to how true power is being perceived and carried out by a small minority of individuals who literally Rules the World (but no politician dares to expose these hidden vipers).

They control the money and most of all they control the global debt and if one controls the world debt, money then becomes secondary in the grand scheme things— Eustace Mullins in his book titled: "The Secrets of the Federal Reserve stated: "The editorial page of the 'New York Times', January 18, 1920, carried an interesting comment on the federal Reserve System the unidentified writer, perhaps Paul Warburg, stated, 'The Federal Reserve is a fount of credit, not 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 the formation of capital, because it is organized to produce credit, to create money for credit money and speculations, instead of providing capital funds for the 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”; p. 119)

The flow of money is channeled through two main sources, the Bank of London and the Federal Reserve, which the entire world crisis are being orchestrated by these two untouchable entities and their puppet Central Banks subsidiaries. It is these two powerful institutions that determine wars, famines, calamites, international conflict, etc., they even decide the how the global financial markets fluctuates, in particular which nations wins (prosper) and loses (suffer). The international bankers and the Dynastic Families never lose.

For example, China’s rise to global prominence and dominance, has not taking place because the Chinese is functioning outside of the global established ‘House Rules’ in fact, it’s just the opposite, thus, many have been fooled and duped into thinking that the Chinese recent economic and military prowess is taken place because of some unperceivable phenomenon has occurred—that has evolved out of our present world history in which China is fulfilling a new incidental destiny of becoming the modern global leader and superseding the West in this new paradigm (this history is being carefully crafted, monitored and controlled by the Dynastic Families). This like all other events is under the direct control and dictates of the Invisible Rulers. So it is made to appear that the Chinese has overtaken Russia, United Kingdom and the United States as the new global economic superpower (do not be fooled by the United States borrowing ploys and appearing to be in debt to China, it’s much more to this equation than meets the naked eye). The Chinese Elite and even the North Korean Elite are under the direct control of the House of Rothschild (these Communist leaders are mere fronts and many of them live extravagant bourgeoisie life styles at the expense of the Lumpenproletariat) their new so-called global status are allowed to take place within the scheme of the money masters plans and global machinate.

These Invisible Banking families uses the Federal Reserve to regulate and control the global monetary system—Wall Street is only a financial front where the Invisible Rulers allow the Classes the opportunity to play high corporate stakes within the stock market, which is no different than the poor ‘wannabes’ that gamble in Las Vegas—neither realize that the deck is stacked against them. The public financial markets are no real indication of how the global economy is fairing because the masses are not allowed to see or know who is pulling the trading index purse strings—the Dow Jones Industrial Average, National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (Nasdaq), Standard and Poor's (S&P) and the New York Stock Exchange in general, these financial indexes are insignificant and they do not reflect the accuracy of the national and international financial markets.

They use Wall Street as a tool to continue having the masses to chase 'Fool's Gold' and it keeps the Capitalist idea propelled as being front and center in the minds of the American people. Many still think that the United States economic crisis is going to blow over (they foolishly see this economic crisis as temporary) and they have visualized that United States corporations will eventually becoming back to our nation and they have failed to accept and realize that America has changed forever and it will never even closely resemble the America that we once knew over fifty years ago—factories and manufacturing, decent wages, labor unions who truly fought for workers rights, pension plans, stock incentives/options, paid health care plans, etc. But in trusting our government the American people have become destitute and disillusioned; our jobs and future (even our children’s futures) have been outsourced to India, Vietnam, China, Mexico, Korea, Thailand and to other developing nations. Many would like to blame President Barack Obama for our present predicament and not realize to even to think this way, is playing directly in the hands of the Rothschilds and the money changers. We cannot even blame former President George Bush for our nation’s present economic status this ordeal has been in making for decades, but my contention still does not absolve Obama and Bush of the role and part they have played in the recent demise of the United States.

We have ignored writers such as Dr. Ravi Batra who authored the book titled, “The Great Depression of 1990” Amazon on-line Publisher weekly stated this about Batra’s economic predictions: “Southern Methodist University economics professor Batra bases his prediction of a "great depression" around 1990 on a pattern of 30- and 60-year recession-depression cycles in the U.S. dating back to the 1780s. He cites factors leading to the stock market crash of 1929 that also are present today: intense concentration of wealth, a depressed farm economy, heavy speculation, bank vulnerability, protectionist trade sentiment and fiscal corruption. The author relates all this to a theory of India's social scientist Prabhat Sarkar who divides human experience into ages of "laborers, warriors, intellectuals and acquisitors," the latter with their "merger mania" being dominant today. Batra's defensive formula for weathering the next slump includes such steps as converting one's assets (home and all) into cash, which, if widely followed, could bring on recession all the sooner. He does, however, propose a tax plan, admittedly unlikely to be adopted, which could puncture the Federal deficit and make a true depression virtually impossible”.

Also, I found Alvin and Heidi Tofflers book titled: “Creating A New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave” to be intriguing in which they layout how our political and economic systems have made and continue to make historical transitions, but I do not think that the masses of the people understood that after 9/11 America and world had changed—these shifts were well documented in 1994 in the above said book written by the Tofflers. We did not realize that what took place in 2008 relative to the downward economic spiral was preplanned, it was not just a so-called global economic meltdown that occurred by happenstance, but it represented the dawning of a new era in which a true paradigm shift had taken place right before our eyes—out with old and in with the new.

They constantly feed us propaganda which maintains that it has been social government entitlements (handouts) to poor that has caused our insurmountable national deficit, which is steadily escalating and the rightwing conservatives believe that, if we cut social programs, it would allow us to balance the budget (these liars are dangerous because they are constantly misleading white people and appealing to their raw emotions). Yet, the U.S. wealth holders will continue to receive tax breaks (and other financial incentives) and Congress will continue to enact laws that protect and shelter the rich to the determent of the poor and the Have nots. All the global financial crisis are induced to intentionally and systematically create panic and fear in order to allow the Invisible Rulers (Hidden Hand) to take another step on the chessboard and continue to make money hand over fist.

William Greider in book "Secrets of the Temple" stated: "The question of who owned financial wealth--or who not--was the buried fault line of American politics. The wealth holders whose money circulated through Wall Street markets were an untypical minority of Americans, with distinctly different economic interest than the majority. The distribution of wealth was the subtext beneath nearly every important economic question that faced the government, yet it was seldom discussed in politics. Political leaders, instead, treated wealth like a taboo subject, cloaked in euphemisms, as if the hard facts of who owned capital might excite class jealousies they could not satisfy or raise questions about the system for which they had no answers." (Reference: William Greider; "Secrets of the Temple"; pp. 37-38).

We must understand that the different moves being made on the global chessboard is about maintaining power in which the Invisible Rulers have mastered the art of deception and propaganda in order to keep us sheep in line and in control (for centuries they have done a good job at this); they have the power to drive humanity because of debt that have been imposed on them. Many of my thoughts comes from a life body of research and experience in which has led me to think outside the box and confront my own fears relative to the possibility of "What if" (many choose to dismiss the notion of "conspiracy") and my empirical findings have led me to accept that there are some powerful hidden forces driving humanity, which is unknown to humanity (the sheep does not even know that they have been hoodwinked and cable-towed).

The New World Order and Global Agenda is real and there are many major (really not many major players—just 12 players that makes up the inner circle of Dynastic families that control the world) and minor players (low level operatives) who are responsible for carrying out their bidding such as President Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, etc., and host of other Rothschild agents that occupy seats in Congress, Supreme Court, presidential cabinet positions, business leaders, international leaders and there are many who are nameless and faceless. No, one person and/or group of people have all the answers to the puzzle, but through visiting different websites and engaging in certain alternative research this allows us to at least consider knowledge and information that is outside the mainstream media in order to determine the truth and not be swayed by United States propaganda. It is this approach that may further assist us in objectively connecting the dots and making more sense out of these well thought out agendas and plans being put forth by the enemies of truth.

They must continue to instigate wars and global conflict because it is the only variable left which to give life to United States Stock Exchange and prevent the total economic collapse of our government. However, ultimately the economic collapse of the U.S. economy is inevitable. President Barack Obama nor does the Republican Party have the solution to the crisis; the crisis is much larger than themselves in which they are agents of the Power that created the economic predicament. The entire political, economic and social paradigm has changed within the United States. Thus, as you know 9/11 was a set-up designed to disarm the American people politically, economically and socially in which 43 days after 9/11 the President (George W. Bush) and the United States Congress imposed the U.S. Patriot Act and this action rendered the United States Constitution as a worthless piece of paper. These type actions have eroded the basic rights of us as citizens and deteriorated our civil liberties; we have been stripped of what the U.S. Constitution use to grant its citizens.

We ignorantly applauded America's so-called war on terrorism, but did not realize that the real war was against the citizens of this country. They passed the Military Commission Act, Enemy Combatant laws, Anti-Terrorism Bill, and the latest of these treasonous and seditious acts was the Obama administration passing the National Defense Authorization Act, etc., and most of all implemented Homeland Security initiatives that violated the United States Constitution and the civil liberties of the American people. The entire so-called economic crisis was induced by the Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign relations; moreover, these organizations have historically taken the concept of organized crime to the next level, but the said organizations functions with the highest level of prosecution immunity; they are above all nation’s laws and rules. Who stole the wealth?—they actually legislatively stole the U.S. wealth in 1913 and culminated in the 1930s when the politicians working in conjunction with the international bankers strategically moved the U.S. monetary system off the gold standard (which meant the U.S. Dollar was no longer being backed by gold and silver) and some 80 year later capitalism has lost its ability to expand and produce.

Tony Brown in his book titled, “Empower the People: Overthrow the Conspiracy That is Stealing Your Money and Freedom" stated: "The conspiracy to inflict a central bank on the United States stretches back to the very birth of the nation, as we have seen. it did not succeed, however, until the beginning of the twentieth century. The 'booms and busts' of the late 1890s and the panic of 1907--manufactured by the bankers—led to the loss of jobs, homes, and confidence. This economic uncertainty, together with a sustained propaganda campaign by the bankers was enough to convince the public that the government lacked the financial expertise necessary to manage the nation's money. The mystique of money had been created and used to flim flam the people into accepting the separation of money and state. The politicians in Congress either bought the lie or were bought off." (Reference: Tony Brown; “Empower the People: Overthrow the Conspiracy That is Stealing Your Money and Freedom"; p. 135).

Yet in 2008, the economic depression was a real life phenomenon (at least it was made to appear that way) caught the American people totally off guard and unprepared to deal with the new face of a New World Order. The collapse of the housing market and the so-called default of the international banks, these were only symptoms to a much larger problem, which was rooted in greed and political deception. This allowed the value of money to be compromised and the once most powerful currency (United States Dollar) had at a blink of an eye had lost its redeemable value; perhaps this was one of the most devastating criminal act ever committed against the American people, which was allowing the Invisible Rulers to take total control over our monetary system. The U.S. propaganda aimed at Syria and Iran has very little to do with either of these nations posing a threat to the interest of the United States or Israel, it's more about creating economic sustainability in order to make an attempt to salvaging a dying U.S. economy that no longer has the ability to expand and produce as it once did less than fifty (50) years ago.

The Warmongers fully understand that war is very profitable and it's very good for the stock market and the oil commodity is one of the most valuable assets in world and this will lead U.S. imperialist forces into Iran; it will have nothing to do with the United States national Security or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ambitions to construct an atom or nuclear bomb. America is in deep economic trouble—it does not matter who is the president because the decisions to alter and shape humanity's lives are above Obama’s pay grade and any other past or future U.S. Commander-in-Chief pay grade. I do not know if President Barack Obama knows all that is taken place around him, but there is no doubt U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have direct access to real shakers and movers. President Obama must also know because he was chosen and selected as their man, to further their national and global agenda.

Reverend Pat Robertson in his book titled: "The New World Order" stated: "Because most average voters do not understand money, they will blame their economic woes on their political leaders and will, by the same token, credit their leaders for prosperity. Therefore, if any group has control of a nation's money, it has the power to create economic conditions that will bring success or ruin to elected officials . . . If the power to create money is taken away from those whom the nation has elected to guide its destiny--the president and the Congress--then the people will have lost their democratic control. Obviously a nonelected body, serving terms that do not coincide with the terms of the presidents who appoint them and whose actions are not controlled or audited by Congress, does great violence to the carefully crafted systems of checks and balances that our founding fathers established in the Constitution." (Reference: Pat Robertson; "The New World Order"; pp. 118-119).

According to the book titled, "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" they have had a 310 year (1555-1865) economic advantage over other civilized nations do to African slave trade and labor whereas some of the most prominent present day financers were the beneficiaries of the African Slave Trade. But perhaps more germane to the United States is a deep seated historical racist sentiment (agent provocateurs like Rush Limbaugh who advocates racism on his talk show in code language) who consistently play the race card by insinuating and implying that it's so-called African Americans and Latinos who are responsible for putting our nation in this present economic predicament (this liar’s mouth is controlled by the paymasters). This allows the real culprits the ability to continue to hide and continue to make money off humanity's misery and racial divisions. These liars have the audacity to continually attack President Barack Obama as though he is the problem (he only has a minuscule roll) and if the American people voted him out today that would not solve all our economic and political problems. If Obama leaves office today, it will not solve America's economic downward spiral, the problem was not caused by President Barack Obama and it is much bigger than him. He may be the president of the United States of America, but he takes his commands and orders from the Hidden Hand and in reality he has no power other than what they give him.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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

BROTHER TO BROTHER: FREEMASONRY I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

By Fahim A. Knight-El

How does Black Freemasonry in the United States accommodate those black Masons who are conscious and awake and are about knowledge? I continuously receive a great deal of email messages from Freemasons who are dissatisfied with their lodge, Shrine Temple , Consistory, etc., membership and affiliations in most of the Upper Houses of Freemasonry. This Blog came about due to a disenchanted (this might actually be to strong of a word to characterize this brother’s important sentiments) Prince Hall Masonic Brother out of a PHA lodge in Baltimore, Maryland and Maryland Masonic Jurisdiction. I will call him Brother X, for the purpose of this article; Brother X (I did not get Brother X’s permission to cite him by his real name and identity and i did not know how comfortable he would be about me writing this blog with mentioning his real name and lodge affiliation. So I chose not to mention either (his real name or lodge), but after completing this Blog I am going to send Brother X a link to my Blog: http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20....

He had contacted me, about two years ago on April 13, 2009 and at that time he hadn’t been raised and I think that he was at the Second Degree and Fellowcraft stage of his travels (I did not engage him in a true Masonic dialog at that time because the Internet is not the place where we should have certain conversations). But he emailed me again on September 23, 2011, a very enlightened email, which was well written and well thought out. There was no doubt that Brother X had acquired the knowledge of self and he seem to be well read in African Centered literature and history. Yet, he chose the Path of becoming a Mason and I knew that after reading both of his email messages that he was going to have some intellectual challenges because most Black Masonic Orders are students of white Masonic thought and their Masonic foundations are built on the theories of Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, etc., which is Greek culture (the basis of all Western Freemasonry).

Dr. George G.M. James informed us in his monumental book titled, "Stolen Legacy" that the Greeks stole their knowledge from ancient Kemet (Egypt) in which Kemetic civilizations predated the Greeks by thousands of years. There would be no 47th Problem of the Euclid, if it was not for Imhotep, the world's first mathematical genius who had mastered the Square and Compass, the science of Geometry originated in Kemet (Egypt) and not in Greece. The minute that I received Brother X's email, I knew that he was an outside the box thinker and that perhaps most members of his Prince Hall lodge in Balitmore were not learned Masons, let me clarify this statement: They (PHA) are some of the most learned brothers in black America because of the quality of membership it attracts such as doctors, lawyers, professors, businessmen, law enforcement officers, judicial officials, ministers and all manners of professionals, yet most of them lack the knowledge of self and are not rooted in their culture and heritage, which makes them ill-equipped to teach that which they do not know.

Some of these new wave of brothers like Brother X who are awake and are joining Freemasonry represents a new mindset and there will be many more like him who will be coming to black Freemasonry and if we are serious about retaining these type brothers, it's going to require us to up our game. You have brothers who are joining the Masonic ranks who are members and/or have been exposed to the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths (the Five Percenters), Nation of Islam, Moors, Pan Africanist, Kemitic Science, Hebrew Israelites, Black Cultural Nationalist and who desire to be more than ritual Masons.

When brothers do not receive the proper LIGHT from the Worshipful Master or from the Senior Warden and Junior Warden (the principle officeholders of the lodge) and/or the Past Masters this is an outright indictment and jeopardizes the future progress of the order—these type brothers desire more than attending a lecture at Prince Hall Day and attending some backwards Church in honoring Saint Johns Day and eating a chicken dinner or a chitterling dinner afterwards. They are merely thirsty for knowledge. Where is the Masonic instructions? They want real knowledge, the type of teachings, which is rooted in the history and culture of African people. It was the works of John Henrik Clarke and Cheik Anta Diop, Ivan Van Sertima, Yosef Ben A.A. Jochannan, Chancellor Williams, J.H. Rogers, John G. Jackson and activist like Elijah Muhammad, Kwame Ture, Marcus Garvey, Noble Drew Ali, Malcolm X , Clarence 13X (Father Allah), Louis Farrakhan, etc., that helped to raise my conscious level and there is no doubt in my mind that true Masonic knowledge sprung from the Original man. I am one of the few black Masonic writers in all of black Freemasonry who is willing to tell the truth and stand on the truth (I do not believe in sugar coating). I do not subscribe to Eurocentric Freemasonry and my legitimacy is NOT tied to the recognition of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE). How could it be when these Robber Barons raided the libraries at Alexandria in 332 B.C. and heist the Nubian knowledge and took it back to Greece and then reclaimed it as their own.

When the French General Napoleon Bonaparte arrived to Kemet (Egypt) in the early 1800s according to the French scholar Count Volney in his book titled, "Ruins of Empires" who maintained that Napoleon blew the face off of the Sphinx because of its Nubian (Ethiopian) racial features. They still desire to hide the truth from the Original man. There are really two types of Masons those who are knowledge seekers and desire to continually elevating their conscious level by constantly desiring to purse knowledge and it evident that Brother X was from this class of men. Thus, I have always been very partial to this class of men because I think it is they who represents the highest aspirations of what Freemasonry is supposed to be about and anything less than this is hypocritical. These men had often acquired the knowledge of self by being awaken by the great knowledge of African Thinkers and Intellectuals—I too was touched by that school of thought that was inculcated in empirical historical theories of the African Centered concepts of analyzing our worldview by viewing Africa as subject and not just as an object; this position was enlightening to me and it ultimately gave me a new and different paradigm as far as viewing the world.

The second group are the ones who see Freemasonry as nothing but a social fraternity (no different than the Black Greek Fraternities that you can find on most college campuses and universities, in particular Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU): Alpha Phi Alpha, Omega Psi Phi, Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Beta Sigma, etc.) where partying, drinking alcohol and an over indulgence in socialized behavior. Freemasonry is supposed to be a much more serious fraternity than these college based societies. What should separate the two, is knowledge; the former desire it and latter prefer to keep the lodge ignorant and blind.

It led me to read materials that were considered outside the box and there was one brother in particular who owned and operated the Know Book Store in Durham , North Carolina, his name was Dr. Bruce Bridges and he also conducted a study group that was called the Culture Awareness Seminar and early on he became my mentor who exposed me to the power of knowledge. I was reading books written by John G. Jackson like “Introduction to African Civilization” and learning about the great African Empires of Nubia ( Egypt , Sudan , Ethiopia , etc.) and also about the intellectual and cultural and intellectual dominance of African civilizations like Ghana , Mali and Songhay. People would travel from around the world to sit under the Nubian scholars at the University of Sankore in Timbuktu . Also, there was a Nubian scholar named Ahmed Baba who owned one of the most extensive libraries in the world and scholars from Europe would come and sit at the foot of Professor Ahmed Baba; one of the top professors at Timbuktu . How could one be a student of Freemasonry and not be able to see and make the connection with these illustrious civilizations built by the Nubians? For example, Kemet (Ancient Egypt) represented one of those oldest and most splendid cultures in the history of humanity that typified the science of Operative Freemasonry and Speculative Freemasonry (the two theoretical foundations of Craft Masonry)—the testimony lies in the mathematical (scientific and spiritual codes) construction of the Pyramids.

Dr. Rudolph R. Windsor in his book titled, "From Babylon to Timbuktu" stated: "Until comparatively recent times, knowledge that black Africa was the seat of highly evolved civilizations and cultures during a time when Europe stagnated was limited to a small group of scholars. That great empires such as Ghana, and later Mali flourished for centuries while Europe slept through the Dark Ages almost has been ignored by historians. Thousands of years before that, as Rudolph R. Windsor notes in this enlightening book, civilization began with the black races of Africa and Asia, including the Hebrews, who in biblical times were jet black. Then Western Europe had no nations as such, and its Stone Age inhabitants had the crudest tools and lived in caves. Because of the scarce literature on the contributions of blacks to world civilization, most people today hold the erroneous opinion that the black races have little real history. It was not known, for instance, that the ancient Hebrews, Mesopotamians, Phoenicians, and Egyptians were black. Now, a growing body of literature is presenting the illustrious history of the blacks enormous contributions." (Reference: Rudolph R. Windsor; "From Babylon to Timbuktu"; back cover of book).

The science of architecture, engineering, physics, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, religion, etc, had its origin in Kemet (our Brother Anthony Browder verifies this in his book titled, “Nile Valley Contribution to Civilization”) in which true Freemasonry must be perceived and taught as a philosophy that is interdependent on various schools of thought other than Eurocentric Christianity—Kemet is the origin of it all. The Masons in American Freemasonry are beginning to isolate members in the Craft because they have gotten stuck on Christianity, the wrong type of Christianity (Thus, Constantine in 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea set up Christianity and established a corrupt version of the Christian Creed). And many Masonic Jurisdictions are in direct violation of one of the most important Masonic Creeds (religion and politics should never enter the lodge), which Freemasonry is supposed to be a strict none religious institution (Freemasonry is not Church and it is not Bible Study)—I will never acquiesce to anything other than the universal principles. If we believe that Geometry represents the science of understanding life and next to God (belief in Deity). There is no other symbol that explores the depth of our connection with the metaphysical world and the physical world than through Geometry, which is the 7th letter of the Alpha-Bet and having great numerical significance with how our Eternal Lord laid out the Uni-Verse. All things of spiritual value is written in the Numbers and the Zodiac. Tap your brother in the lodge and tell him to wake up and truly stand perpendicular on the Square. Below is the dialog that that I had with Brother X, a Prince Hall Mason.

Brother X: (PHA Baltimore, Maryland): “Brother Knight-El, How are you? Its been a while since I wrote you last. I have been keeping up with your blogs. I recall one of the brothers mentioning that he would rather have knowledge than have a chair in the lodge. I can completely empathize with that brother. With time I've learned that a wise man considers his steps, but a fool believes anything. I did a lot of studying before ever considering the craft. There was a lot of books that shared much esoteric knowledge. However, after being raised and going to the regular meetings, it just seemed to be same ole' mundane stuff after while. All they discussed was business. It was always about a crab feast, a bull roast, a bus trip to Atlantic City, and pushing tickets. The brothers never hit on anything heavy or esoteric, yet this is an institution that prides itself in having esoteric knowledge and light. These brothers argue about ritual, but can't see what is hidden within it. The walk around like peacocks with there chests poked out and full of Masonic lapels or regalia and take pride in reciting ritual like a parrot, but have no idea what it means and are no deeper than a puddle on a city sidewalk”.

“We give praise to the Greeks in our ritual when talk about the 47th problem of Euclid, which is nothing but the Pythagorean Theorem which Pythagorus got from his twenty-five years of study in the mysteries in Kemet. They know the story of Hiram Abiff, discuss the positions of the sun at the opening and closing of the lodge when reciting the parts concerning positions of the worshipful master, Senior, and Junior wardens. They have candidates circumambulate around the lodge(following the path of the sun), but don't know what it really symbolizes. This is an astronomical science, but we never discuss these things. We raise candidates with the lions paw, but there are few brothers, who when asked, know why?”

“Masonry, much like the allegories taught in religion tells of the travel of the sun in its yearly procession of the equinoxes and the solstices. How the sun allegorically dies going into the fall (our 3 ruffians September, October, November), lies dead in the winter months (December, January, and February) , returns to life at the vernal equinox, but doesn't reach it's summit and full strength until the constellation of Leo, with it's paw, raises it back to its splendor and glory. Thus, being raised by the lions paw. Brothers argue all day about where Solomon's temple is located. However, spiritually we are taught that our body is the temple. The temple that houses the soul of man (Solomon), and to climb the winding stairs from darkness to light, or from ignorance to knowledge is to raise the serpentine fire or to climb Jacob's Ladder up the 33 vertebrae of the spinal column or until we reach the pineal gland where one receives the lost word or the king is returned to the throne of Egypt (Kemet). Solomon's name broken down phonetically SOL-OM-ON are three names of the sun as well”.

“I got frustrated with masonry for a minute. There are only a few brothers that I can count on one hand who really and truly study for esoteric truths. I realized before coming in to the lodge that the continual search for truth is a path that is less traveled, but I'm ok with it. I don't discount the brothers in the lodge. I know that everyone comes to the craft for different reasons. However, I have mentioned that there is more to it than just hustling tickets and crab feasts/bull roasts/cook outs. There is more than going over to the Shrine and drinking until you're incoherent. I have mentioned in lodge meetings that young brothers desire esoteric knowledge and they are guaranteed to come in and do an about face when hearing the same ole' surface level information. However, I know that I am here for a purpose, and I am going to get all I can get. I know that no institution has a monopoly or holds all the light in the word. A true traveler seeks knowledge where he may find it. I will continue to climb until enlightenment and oneness is reached. I've learned to build with those who want to build with me, respect all, and keep it moving”.

“With that said, I have recently petitioned the consistory. I wanted to know what books would you recommend before going in? I have “Morals and Dogma” and started reading through some of it as pike discusses the esoteric apsects from degrees 1 to 32. I read through some of Corrine Heline's book Mystic Masonry and Bible. There's a section where it goes over a summary of the degrees in the consistory and their symbolism. She speaks of traveling from Babylon (bondage and ignorance) to Jerusalem (liberation and enlightenment). I already know that a city often symbolizes a state of consciousness. I picked the Secret Teachings of All Ages back up and started looking at the chapter on The Tree of Sephiroth because I know that to climb the Kabbalistic tree is synonymous with moving through the chakras or climbing Jacob's Ladder until we reach the crown where enlightenment is achieved and one's consciousness is expanded.
I was thinking about purchasing Scottish Rite Masonry vol. I and II by John Blanchard or possibly a book called Ordo Ab Chao by an anonymous author.
http://www.amazon.com/Ordo-Chao-Original... were two others that peaked my interest which were: The 32 Secret Paths of Solomon: A New Examination of the Qabbalah in Freemasonry http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Paths-Solom...
A Textbook in Advanced Masonry
http://www.amazon.com/Text-Book-Advanced...

Fahim A. Knight-El: “Good evening Brother, it has been a long time and yes I do remember and recall our correspondence, perhaps two years ago. I believe at that time you had not been raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason. Let me first, let you know that I feel and share your frustration and your assessment and analysis is also shared by many others around the country who are part of the Masonic family. I am going to give it to you as level and square as possible, which is when you have acquired the knowledge of self and kind prior to attaining the three Blue Lodge Degrees, it is difficult to buy into ignorance because your level of study is diverse relative to ‘symbology’, occult, esoteric, Gnostic, etc., and possessing the knowledge and understanding that it has been empirically proven that ancient Kemet (Egypt) was the cradle of intellectual civilization where this sacred knowledge was developed and disperse by Nubians (Black Africans and not Europeans). Many of our Masonic Lodge brothers who are principal officeholders have been mis-educated, what Carter G. Woodson called the "Mis-education of the Negro" and many refuse to take the scholarly journey to do the research and tie the science of Speculative Masonry back to Kemet (Egypt) and make the knowledge live and breathe amongst the Craft. Thus, this would aid in retaining an active membership as opposed to having an inactive lodge of dues payers who are financial, but beyond that have no obligation to doing the work that is required to make a lodge successful on many different levels”.

“Many like my self came to Freemasonry because we heard that there were some great truths and knowledge being imparted (this pricked our inquisitiveness). Knowledge is power. Moreover, because there is no real interest in research and study, the Masonic Houses have become a revolving door—there is nothing to hold the newly raised Master Mason's interest and it does not take long before a brother(s) to become disenchanted. Some of us who are voted and elected to serve in the East (Worshipful Masters) are often unqualified to hold such illustrious position and in most Prince Hall and Ancient Free and Accepted Masonic jurisdictions these position are bestowed and granted based on internal power clicks and often there is no qualification (or mandate) that will require that the Worshipful Master has acquired an extensive knowledge base, which is rooted in the history, culture and tradition of African people”.

“You are right, often we can demonstrate our ability to master the Ecce Orienti Masonic rituals (and can recite these lessons with precision and perfection), but lack the intellectual ability to interpreted, decode and breakdown the intrinsic meaning and message behind these physical lessons and be able to see their spiritual significance (this is the duality that has gotten lost). So the LIGHT of Masonry has become dimmed because it is an organization that is being led by ego-driven personalities who are motivated by the lust of power and it's their ignorance that has taking Freemasonry off its course. Yet, there is so much written and given in our various obligations that we affirmed to uphold and we did come to Freemasonry on our own Free Will and Accord (we asked one to be one) in which this is our institution and I believe change could take place in small increments”.

“Someone years ago planted the seed in me by introducing me to Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Chancellor Williams, Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. John G. Jackson, etc., and I eventually heard the Honorable Elijah Muhammad these enlightened stars (suns) shined upon me and eventually caused the seeds in me to take further root and germinate. My brother, where we are today does not mean that this is where we are going to be tomorrow. Our job, duty and responsibilities are to impart this knowledge to any brother who might have that tentative ear to listen and just plant seeds. The Masonic bureaucracy, it is what it is, and perhaps, if brothers like me and you can stay engaged and put knowledge in other brothers hands (introduce them to African centered books)—invite them to conscious and Afrocentric forums outside the lodge and be there to further connect the dots for them; may be we can slowly alter the paradigm (at least I desire to be optimistic).

We should establish study groups where Speculative Masonry comes under the scrutiny and critique of it relations or non-relations to the Kemitic sciences and go after the origin of the symbolism and dismantle this Eurocentric version of Freemasonry. I came to Masonry for enlightenment because I initially identified the visible symbols as having an ancient origin. I have conveyed too many brothers that I did not come to Masonry to be involved in drinking beer and whiskey—partying seven days a week and delving into an abundance of social nonsense. Ok brother here is a quick response to your correspondence and Brother X keep on walking and traveling the path that you have chosen. Your knowledge is irrefutable, but sometime we have to demonstrate patience with our brothers and ask the Creator to help guide them to become better men and better Masons”.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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

REFLECTIONS ON U.S. TYRANNY: AND WAR AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

By Fahim A. Knight-El

Sometimes at home or I may be driving and certain thoughts comes to me as I am sitting still and mediating and/or when I am asleep. I ordinarily do not keep a pen and pad next to my bed, so at times I try to recall what those thoughts were and may lose them from those two states (the conscious and sub-conscious state of being) when I attempt to translate those thoughts to paper and computer (but it's strange I really do not lose them, I can be doing something entirely different and those thoughts may resurface). I have been seriously reflecting on the events of the last 10 to 11 years relative to the Bush Administration and how we as American citizens have arrived at this space and time in our history. Some still do not know that President George W. Bush was appointed (not voted) to the office as president of the United States of America by Henry Kissinger as a favor to his father President George Herbert Walker Bush, the ex-CIA director and former president of the United States of America. Bush-1 was a loyal servant to the Hidden Hand and to the Seven Oil Sisters (this is the oil cartel who dictates the global oil flow and determines the petroleum pricing market and dictates to OPEC)—the Seven Oil Sisters functions as a Sovereign Government and functions with the highest level of criminal and political immunity and is above all nation’s laws, which all subordinate Oil producing nations and organizations are under their dictates. Bush-1 and Bush-II both went to war behind the smokescreen of combating so-called Iraqi aggression (which also allegedly included Iraq’s involvement in State Supported Terrorism) under the reign of their puppet and CIA agent Saddam Hussein relative to Kuwait.

Desert Storm which was started by George H.W. Bush and what appeared to be on the surface Bush-II instigated the Iraq War, which was based on toppling Hussein and disrupting the political, economic and social systems of Iraq by imposing our United States Military and imperialist will on the defenseless people of Iraq in which to colonize and occupy Iraq in order that George W. Bush could continue satisfying the political will and OIL interest of the Rockefellers—the ultimate objective was designed to gaining control over the Ramallah oil fields. If you do not know this by now, oil and geostrategic positioning in that region of the Middle East was the motivation of both Gulf State Wars and the region remains of great national security interest to the United States. Thus, not to mention in 2001 Bush invaded and attacked Afghanistan; it was evident that this warmonger was off the chain and they have used the CIA puppet President Hamid Karzai against his own people in Afghanistan. Who are we fighting, the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or both? And what is this war truly about—I will tell you this that President Hamid Karzai is the key player in the United States and Afghanistan Poppy Trade (dope) and he and Obama (United States Government) are international dope partners. Afghanistan does not pose any threat to the United States or its Allies. We are just throwing good money away to Pakistan, but the CIA is quite aware that Pakistan is a double agent, they share the same religious and political interest with the Taliban and this interest to Pakistan is just as important to being a U.S. allay.

If you remember in 2000 George W. Bush-stole the presidential election from Al Gore and it took the United States Supreme Court to decide in that presidential matter, although, the popular (the masses of the people) casted voting ballots for Al Gore. This confirmed for me the power of the Invisible Rulers who solidified their selection and our popular vote did not mean a damn thing in the 2000 presidential election (but let’s be clear either agent Gore or Bush both would have served the interest of the Invisible Hand with par excellence).

My writings are intended to exposing the chicanery and deceptions in our so-called 'Democracy' and showing that voting although appears to be an extension of the concept of democracy; however all presidents of these United States is selected and not "elected" by the American people. In my previous article titled, “Barack Obama the lesser of two Evils? The Cat and Mouse Game” http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20.... I used African Americans as the model and perfect example of a people that have been duped by the Democratic Party in which their blind loyalty have not rendered them anything other than broken political promises. Many pundits of the government are not dealing with the root causes of why our society, which has reached an all time low politically, economically and socially is in this present predicament. We cannot continue to focusing on the symptoms and not understand and deal with the problem and expect to disentangle this complex web of deception. One of the Rothschild's stated over 200 years ago, I care not who write their laws, as long as we control their system of money. Our Democracy is no longer in the hands of the masses, but there exist an Elite few who are bent on greed and power and in reality they decide for us the course. Now, here is the 64,000 dollar question, who do you think is behind our present political and economic predicament?

Bush’s first official act was to be a pivotal player in the 9/11 hoax after only being in office less than one year, he would make history (his presidential approval ratings at that time was close to 40% and after they bombed the World Trade Center and the 9/11 hoax his approval ratings skyrocketed—yes, the World Trade Center bombing was an inside job, which had many covert agendas). He was also a low-level player in destabilizing the greatest economy, perhaps in the history of humanity. The bombing of the world Trade Center should have led to them: George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and a host of others being charged and convicted of sedition and treason against the American people. Their actions were a direct violation of the United States Constitution and Oath of Office—they lied to the American people in order to dupe them into thinking that foreign Islamic extremist attacked the World Trade Center and the United States. He would further lie and blame Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden for the attacks and then establish a 9/11 Commission to investigate themselves, how in the hell can the government investigate itself? All the evidence to date points to a detonation and the demolition style implosion took place inside of the World Trade Center. This is not conspiracy theory independent experts have drawn this same conclusion.

They got us to thinking that the 9/11 hoax was caused by 19 so-called Arab terrorist and what did we get from this false account other than the U.S. Patriot Act, Military Commission Act, the office of Homeland Security and the latest reactionary legislation established in the National Defense Authorization Act, but you good ole American Patriots have yet to realize that we lost all of our Civil Liberties in the name of national security (trusting the government). They (Ben Bernanke, Rothschilds, Henry Kissinger, etc.) bankrupted the country in 2008 (the collapse of the U.S. economy was induced and someone had the power to call the debt in) and the American people were made slaves to debt and now the master got them paying for it. We have nothing, but some of us are still wrapped up in that American flag in which you are still saying to yourselves “our government won’t do this to us”. Just look around you and the duping handwriting is on the wall. Do you think the present oil prices is skyrocketing because of OPEC and our dependency on foreign oil or do you think someone has the power to determine and influence Arab oil and it's not the corrupt Wahhabi Government of Saudi Arabia

Perhaps the next greatest crime was Bush and Colin Powell lied to the American people telling them and the world that Iraq had acquired Weapons of Mass Destruction (although the United Nations Weapons inspectors never confirmed this contention), which led to over six hundred thousand Iraqis losing their lives and over four thousand American soldiers lost their lives (fighting for the interest of the Elite Rothschilds and Rockefellers). Many after sacrificing their lives have come back to America physically and mentally mangled—suffering from handicaps that they have to carry for the rest of their lives; others suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Upon arriving back home they recognize that they had become expendable baggage of no further use to the government and now have to fight with the government an Veteran Affairs to get the help and assistance they need. These soldiers honorably wore the American uniform and carried the flag, but only to come back to America and found out they were only used as military foreign policy tools.

The next crime of great magnitude and one of the greatest False Flags in American history was the dismantling of the global financial system. Bush as a front-man played a role in how the Federal Reserve would rearrange the national and global debt. This action would not only robbed the Have nots of their money, but decimated their civil liberties (the 9/11 hoax relaxed the American people and allowed them to ignorantly embrace the U.S. Patriot Act and other reactionary Executive Orders and Legislation) and furthered enslaved the American people—without the use of ball and chain. Then he initiated one of the greatest governmental financial rescues in the history of the financial private sectors –Wall Street, which cost the United States taxpayers 2-3 trillion dollars; the beneficiaries of this scam or Bailouts went to some of the most prosperous and powerful elite financial institutions to be found any palace on the globe. Bush’s action only passed down a debt to 3-4 unborn taxpaying generations, thus, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will inherited a debt that they did not incur. Bush and Henry Paulson work diligently to get the so-called Bailout approved before he left office. President Barack Obama inherited massive scams and problems from the George W. Bush administration and lets not be deceived he was also a player in the Wall Street fiasco and scam when it was all said and done the American people were left holding the bag.

Unless the American people fully understand the complexity of who is behind the mask and understand that the puppeteers are pulling the purse strings relative to our national and global trends. These Invisible players have the power to create panic and fear and have the power to induce crisis that impact world events. President Barack Obama, as was his predecessor President George W. Bush was a low-level operative. Nothing else matters in these type discussions unless we are willing to think out side of the box. The concept of true 'democracy' has been dead for a long time; this is more like control 'democracy'. All world events are for the most part pre-determined (including our electoral process). Yes, come November 6, 2012 American voters are going to cast ballots in which we think this is the greatest exercise in a democracy and it is (but this article is designed to put things in proper perspective). But powerful groups like the Carlyle Group and the House of Rothschild determines who sit in the Oval office and not your vote.

What gives the Hidden Hand and the Invisible Rulers power and authority over humanity is their ability to implore various strategies and tactics such as subliminal seduction. The dumbing down process in reality is so overwhelming and yet we have "Freewill" at least in theory (however once the Talking Heads shape and mold our opinions on the morning, afternoon and evening news) we become volunteer active participants in our own duping and very few have demonstrated the intelligence or discipline to exercise the type of will that could halt this neo-servitude status in which we find presently confronting all of humanity. I do not think the freewill theory holds up when you look historically and presently at humanity's active participation in their own demise (yes we have choices, but even the choices have systematically been arranged where the outcome is already predetermined to benefit the status quo which is often to the detriment of the individual. I know people have the right to exercise freewill, but that doesn't mean they even understand some of the choices and decisions that they make.

The root cause of what has taken place is embedded in a consistent historical theme that has always been carried out by the Dynastic families (to the detriment of the ignorant Have nots—the ‘Sheepel’). The media and their agents consistently have us focusing on the political behavior of the low-level operatives and puppets, but they never make mention of who and where they believe the real power lies (surely not with the 'elected' politicians of either party). The Democrats and Republicans are giving assignments (by their paymasters) they have no real decision making authority and their agenda is written and orchestrated for them by the "Committee of 300". Someone is practicing political manipulation and deception on a high level. To truly understand the deception one need to first be able to do the research in order to answer the: who, what where, when, how and why questions. If you are serious about understanding the present predicament, it will always lead you to the doorsteps of the Rothschilds and the Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. There is no way around the power of the Hidden Hand and the Invisible Rulers.

I am a student of knowledge and embracer of spirituality. The essence of one’s humanity is deeply rooted in their history and from those experiences we evolved. But unless we fully understand what I have stated in the above paragraph our mental reality will remain bleak, in particular when it comes to analyzing and critiquing how and who is shaping the world—our thoughts, ideas, vision, etc., are being covertly manipulated and we really have very little independent thoughts of our own. They have truly done a masterful job of keeping humanity in the dark and ill-informed, which allows them to continue to run circles around us. The time is run out and it's about to get a lot worse—money and credit has dried up, unemployment is off the charts and the U.S. economy has been outsourced. Let me tell you from the gate that American and global economy isn’t going to get any better' our fate has been sealed by Hidden Hand and I do believe it is going to take a mighty God to overthrow these evil Emperors. We must wake up from our slumber and reclaim our destiny in order to give our grandchildren and great grandchildren something to look forward to other than debt and misery. The time is now.

However, I just do not think that people really know how serious the present world we live in and the times that we are living in. Their orientation to the world is overly consumed with social mediums and they are not often engaged in anything relative to critical thinking and are not aware of the social and political trends around them, which negatively affects us all. The masses are not reading information that will heighten their conscious level and they are not apart of any movements or study groups where good information is being disseminated. They do not follow the various so-called counter-terrorism legislation and laws that are being enacted by Congress, the Courts and by presidential Executive Order. They do not realize that they could immediately come under the U.S. Enemy Combatant laws—where our so-called rights to due process could be stripped from us and become incarcerated because of something we said or wrote on a Blog or in a public speech, which could render our freedom being snatched away from us at the blink of an eye.

They do not realize just like the so-called "Al Qaeda terrorist" that has been housed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 9/11 and has been legally stripped of all of their rights as prisoners of war, moreover, this could easily be anyone of us. And not to mention as I stated above the recent legal ramifications of us possibly coming under the National Defense Authorization Act (passed by President Obama on December 31, 2011) which has broaden the United States Justice Department powers and possesses legality to place United States Citizens in offshore custody prisons and in places like Guantanamo Bay designated throughout the world. Many people still in 2012 do not have a clue of what the U.S. Patriot Act, National Defense Authorization Act, Military Commission Act, etc., is all about, but many of us will eventually find out real soon as the government continues to become more repressive.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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

BARACK OBAMA THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS? THE CAT AND MOUSE GAME

By Fahim A. Knight-El

I was having a conversation with an African American elderly gentleman and his wife, perhaps approximately a month ago, they were in their late 60s and we got on the conversation about voting, in particular the conversation shifted quickly to how proud they were of the accomplishments of President Barack Obama becoming the first so-called black or African American president of the United States. Many African Americans who are over sixty years of age had accepted that they would never see a black president of the United States of America in their life time. Thus, many blacks over 60 years old view President Barack Obama since his presidency, as a fulfillment of time in which his presidency represents the struggles and sacrifices they made in the area of social justice and equality—that was carried out in boycotts, walking picket lines, sit-ins, stand-ins, etc., they feel that their protest against racial segregation and their fight for integration and inclusion broke down many social barriers in order to achieve access to public accommodation and Civil Rights. This reality for them in 2008 came full circle by manifesting itself in President Barack Obama being elected to the highest office in the land and they were proud of this accomplishment. Many like them had grown up in the segregated South under divisive Jim Crow laws and their lives had been shaped by American style racism and this evil had without a doubt affected their worldview and it is understandable. I too as a black man growing up in America share their sentiments.

They have visualized President Barack Obama’s presidency as the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King's, Jr. dream (many blacks even saw his ‘election’ as the fulfillment of prophecy of course I wasn’t willing to go that far) and has embodied him to be the final pay off of the struggles they made in the civil rights movement. They ignorantly determined that he is good because they somewhat share a partial quasi ethnic lineage (President Obama's father was African) and as a people who were robbed and kidnapped from Africa (although first lady Michelle Obama share more of a kinship with black Americans than her husband Barack Obama), we are constantly looking for symbols that we can identify with. However, many African Americans are not willing to look beyond his skin color and objectively assess and critique his public policy and his political decisions as commander-in-chief of the United States of America over the last three and half years (to determine the credibility of his presidency relative to whether or not he has enacted public policy that was in line with the Black Agenda). He seems to be more sensitive to everyone else agenda other than his own people. I have to tell it like it is. President Obama and his Handlers are quite aware of the cultural and political sensitivity of his most loyal constituents and most of all they fully understand black folk’s allegiance to him as a collective voting bloc and the Democratic Party. This factor will only better set them up more for political manipulation in this an upcoming 2012 presidential election by the Obama's administration and the Democratic Party.

This translates to mean unlike all other ethnic groups inside of America, we do not effectively use our political bloc to leverage our power (get something from the deal other than unfulfilled promises) in which to affect national and foreign policy and we allow the Democratic Party to take our vote for granted. Most blacks always justify their loyalty to the democratic party as being a case of the lesser of the two evils—they may have a very good point in this up coming presidential election because the candidates: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul really there is not much to choose from in the presidential race and this includes President Obama (they are all Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg front-men and agents) in reality, the political agenda and script for next four years has already been written and set (the 2012 presidential election has already been held outside of the American electoral process and President Barack Obama has already been given a second term, which means your vote does not mean SHIT, it is the Rothschilds that determines who becomes president and not your vote. Tell your neighbor that you heard this by way of Fahim A. Knight-El Blog http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20... of the few so-called African American truth tellers. These so-called American Negroes sit in church every Sunday listening to some ignorant handkerchief head Negro preacher telling them about some mystery God in the sky that does not exist and keep us remaining the cannon fodder for other civilized nations. The preachers are an intricate part of the dumbing down process that is a big part of keeping us ignorant to how important, it is to know of the paradigm shift. Our people need knowledge and truth and not just a Sunday morning disco of no substance and sending the people away with a hooping sermon of hot air. These are serious times that we are living under.

For example, our black President Barack Obama on December 31, 2011, passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), perhaps the most reactionary piece of legislation since President George W. Bush and Congress imposed the United States Patriot Act 43 days after the 9/11 hoax (there are many false flags waving throughout America). The NDAA is one of the greatest infringements on American civil liberties since the 9/11 fallout in which they have strategically and tactfully used the 9/11 hoax to get the American people to voluntarily surrender their civil liberties, which has render the U.S. Constitution null-in-void and most all rendered the American people legally defenseless. They have done a masterful job of creating panic and fear in the name of national defense. NDAA is not another piece of political and legal ammunition designed to combat counterterrorism (from the American people’s vanish point we have been thoroughly duped into believing the NDAA was put in place as a legal apparatus to better fight international terrorism and Al-Qaeda and America's external enemies; however, it is more like they laid the groundwork to apprehend American citizens that are deemed dissidents by the government). The NDAA was put in place to check ordinary citizens who get out of line. There should have been a huge outcry from the American public demanding that this Executive Order or legislation be rescinded. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) should have filed a federal law suit under our present civil rights laws because the government has truly become all intrusive under the banner of Homeland Security and has trampled all over 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

We do not realize that we (us, you and I) could immediately come under the U.S. Enemy Combatant laws—where our so-called due process is stripped and we are incarcerated with no formal charges, no rights to an attorney, no bail and (other than a U.S Government accusation being held over our heads) we could be held captives in an indeterminate state or status; no different than the so-called "Al Qaeda terrorist" that has been housed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 9/11 (imprisoned with no legal rights and without due process) and has been legally stripped of all of their rights as prisoners of war, moreover, this could be the status of the average American citizen based on the language written in the National Defense Authorization Act, which has broaden the United States Justice Department powers and empowered them with the legality to place United States Citizen in offshore custody prisons and in places like Guantanamo Bay which has been designated throughout the world. The assistant editor of the "Final Call" newspaper Ashahed M. Muhammad in January 10, 2012 wrote an interesting article titled, "National Defense Authorization Act lays foundation for targeting political dissenters, activism" (Reference Final Call.com) http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/...) .

There is no need to change the White House decorum or change the president, the present man who sits in the Oval office from their vanish point has done a masterful job. Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta are actually running and determining United States Foreign Policy. They went into Tunisia (this was only an initial tester to soften up the region)—they ended Honsi Mubarak’s reign over Egypt, a once strategic ally to Israel and the U.S., they assassinated Colonel Muammar Qadaffi and got control over Libyan oil fields, and the wild, wild west cowboy George W. Bush invaded Iraq and killed Saddam Hussein in a kangaroo court and took control over the Ramallah Oil fields. He also invaded Afghanistan (another important geo-strategic region in Central Asia) to take control over the poppy (this occupation is based on the Dope Trade) plantations. Now, the Obama administration is using massive propaganda against Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This conflict like most international conflicts that place are initiated by the United States and the West, it is often about gaining control over other nation’s resources in these above cases it was mainly about oil and geo-strategic positioning to re-colonize the Middle East and so-called sub-Sahara Africa and gain direct control over the wealthiest continent on earth. Some conscious individuals who blog on other progressive forums seem to think that Iran and the United States could be in business together and further believe that they are possible co-conspirators in the recent international oil price gouging that have seen oil prices skyrocketed in the United States and around the world.

This is what Kenny’s Sideshow (http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/) stated to me: “I rarely link Gordon Duff at VT but he makes some points that can be thrown in the mix. Take with not just a grain but a block of salt. Is Iran in on this 'confrontation' to keep the oil prices high? Is Israel heavily invested in oil futures? Even if Iran is in on it, they would be taking a big chance that they would not be double crossed. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/09/...
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Rumors that Iran bought nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union have been around since the early 90's. I don't know but it's plausible and perhaps the ultimate deterrent. I guess higher gas prices is better than WWIII. Regarding the 'war' on Islam: Santorum is a typical war mongering liar http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=41085 As someone keeps reminding me, truth understood by the masses about the 9/11 false flag is the key in ending all this madness” This is what this pawn President Barack Obama has done on the international front in less than four years. He is one of the most dangerous presidents of all times.

I do not put anything past the CIA and of course they specializes in duping—portray Iran as posing some type of imaginary and imminent danger toward the United States and Israel get the Talking Heads talking about how dangerous Iran is to global security—use the propaganda machines in which the Talking Heads are good at swaying public opinion toward U.S. Governments interest and demonizing America’s so-called enemies. But the objective is to manipulate the oil market by justifying an artificial crisis and inflate oil prices—these decisions are made out of greed. Yet, it still remains difficult for me to accept that Iran and the United States are in cahoots together, although money and power has been known to create a union of strange bedfellows. Also, they desire to openly militarily attack Syria, but China and Russia are close allies to Syrian President Bashar Hafiz Assad—he has been one of their best war machine customers. However, take a moment to assess America’s propaganda relative to Syria—They are constantly stating on the news (we know who controls the news) that Assad is killing his own people in the streets; moreover, this has become a familiar theme at least in how they portrayed the disturbances in Iraq, Libya, and Egypt before they moved in on these Muslim and Islamic societies. Someone please tell me, what were these above international crimes about? These are clear examples that Africa and the so-called Middle East is under attack and the Europeans are ravaging these people’s nations and resources in the name of working to establish so-called democracy. The warmongers are beating the war drum again and I believe that Iran and Syria are next on the war agenda.

Ron Paul has said some innovative things relative to the Federal Reserve and in his own way has taken on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (very few politicians have done this) and has publically exposed perhaps the greatest money changer (shakedown) institution in the world—the reality is that all the global misery is being created from the office of the Federal Reserve, but it appears the masses of people desire more of the same by opting to remain participants in the two party system. For example, I do think the Occupy Wall Street movement has not impacted or changed how American voters view all these corporate sponsored candidates running for president. Surely they must know and understand that the corporate politician’s interest is to continue feeding the Machine (international bankers) and to keep the 99% (the masses of humanity) fighting for crumbs that falls from the rich man’s table and scratching for their existence. We have not heard one of these corporate sponsored Republican presidential candidates come right out and say that I support the Occupy Wall Street movement; this should tell us that they don’t give a damn about the 99% percent, their interest is protecting and securing the interest of the 1% (this is who financed their campaigns) and maintaining the status quo. So we will "vote" one of their operatives into office and it will remain business as usual in which the wealth will remain in the possession of the traditional wealth holders (this hidden class who consider themselves all sovereign and above all the nation’s laws).

The entire political process is nothing but a sophisticated game and scam that is being played on the have nots designed to keep the 99% powerless with a voting lever in one hand, which assures they remain happily powerless—after all they voted. Gill Scott Heron and Curtis Mayfield was singing and telling us some of these things in their lyrics 40 years ago. Perhaps many are oblivious to the fact and do not understand that voting will not change the condition of the masses of people (voting is designed to keep the masses pacified). It’s only an illusion. Power has always been about maintaining privilege and class and not about the true essences of how democracy is going to be carried out (this is secondary). These bloodsuckers of the poor are not willing to part ways with controlling the monetary reserve (the money system) and the global resources. The Republicans and Democratics are one in the same; the two party system was not designed to ensure democracy, but to only give the appearance of given the American people political options and alternatives. This system is rooted in capitalism and greed where the major means of production and distribution is controlled by the Rothschilds—greed is driving the decision making in our so-called democracy and No one has the power to alter the present economic paradigm. These money changers are wicked and deceitful.

But AIPAC gave Ron Paul the litmus test and he buckled—they accused him of being anti-Semitic and he began to soften his rhetoric. Yet these same forces who claim to be against bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism, but you have not heard them utter one word condemning Mitt Romney and his association with the Mormon Church (Church of Latter Day Saints) and their past racist theology taught against so-called people of African descent. They held these views up until 1978 that African people were inferior and they justified these contentions with biblical scriptures. Why haven’t the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the National Association for the Advancement Colored People (NAACP) joined forces and condemned presidential candidate Mitt Romney for being connected to a right-wing theology and church? Why haven't the black leadership of America raised the issue? Thus many of these same 'Negro' leaders that were quick to condemn President Barack Obama for his association and involvement in the Ministry of Reverend Jeremiah are silent on repudiating Mitt Romney for his association with a racist church organization. Reverend Wright who taught a Black Liberation theology and it was good for the souls of black people. I am a student of Reverend Wright’s theology and I have always supported his social Gospel approach of teaching, the teachings of Jesus, the Christ (Yeshua Ben Yosef) and making Christianity relevant in lives of the black downtrodden.

However, none of them have stood front and center to focus public attention on Romney’s association with the racist Mormon Church. I am just pointing out a double standard. The white establishment and even some of the "Negro establishment accused President Barack Hussein Obama of being a Muslim (in a white supremacy society being Muslim disqualifies an American citizen from being considered for president, but being Catholic and part of sexual perverted church where pedophiles reign high you stand a better chance of being electable) —I will say this Obama's mentor Reverend Wright was definitely influenced by the life given teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and there is little doubt in my mind that President Obama was sympathetic to the teachings of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. But those who control the power inside of the United States and world flipped him.

They all have found the poor easy targets to vilify because they are without defense. These cronies want us to believe that the poor had caused the escalating national deficit and it is easy to use the poor as the scapegoat of America's economic woes, but these damnable liars will never tell the people that America and Europe are in this present economic condition because of the international monetary decisions made by the Rothschilds and implemented by the bank of International Settlement in Switzerland. It is not Medicaid, food stamps, Medicare, Social Security and/or any other social program that have caused the collapse of the American system (this is being orchestrated on a much higher and sophisticated level). But the politicians (they know their place) can play on this, as well as incite the ignorant (the 85% who has been intentionally been made blind, deaf and dumb to the knowledge of self by 10%) and if they curtailed all government subsidy programs tomorrow, it still will not factor into balancing the national budget. There is a deficit because of greed and profiteering by a small group but powerful class of men—who in 2008 altered the world, it was they that sent AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear-Sterns, Goldman Sachs, etc., and the visible banks into a downward economic spiral, which was carried out under the watchful eye of former Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson and President George W. Bush. This was all part of the scam (they are also behind the recent economic collapse of the economics markets affecting nations of the European Union—they control the Euro and the European money systems from the Bank of England).

These same culprits prematurely gave President Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize (what has he done up until this point deserving of such prestigious award other than served in state government in Illinois and served briefly in the United States Senate and claimed to have been a community organizer in Chicago?). Thus, surely these credentials did not standout as an individual who had gone far beyond the call of duty in which his work and legacy had made such a contribution that it already has and will impact humanity in a decisive way long after he is dead and gone. Perhaps there will and shall be a question mark about his significance being enshrined amongst some of greatest humanitarians and philanthropic geniuses ever recorded in modern history—recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. I personally did not think that he was worth of such lofty honor.

Some would argue that he was the first so-called black president of the United States of America and this alone is significant enough to have awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize honor that was bestowed upon him in 2009. But lets be real, if the decision to grant him a Nobel Peace Prize was on the variable of race (first black president) alone then this should have heighten our suspicion and in my opinion, it did appear up until that point that there was nothing else significant about his career other than the fact that he was hand picked by the Hidden Hand as the first black president. Let me be fair here all United States presidents were handpicked so this phenomenon was not just germane to President Barack Obama. I know that most of what I have written will be tough for those African Americans over sixty to swallow. They just cannot imagine that a so-called black American has the audacity to write and publically criticize President Barack Obama, the first black president. Also the invisible powers for the most part are not a part of the lexicon of the majority of the black community and have very little understanding of their influences over the political, economic and social global systems. And as far as I am concern they just cannot fathom that their vote and the electoral process is rigged and that there is no such thing as democracy. Sorry to tell you Patriotic Americans your vote do not mean a damn thing.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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WESTERN MEDICINE IS IT JUST ABOUT MONEY AND/OR HEALTH: OR IS IT JUST A DRUG SCAM?

By Fahim A. Knight-El

The United States as a western nation is one of the leading nations when comes to the overall consumption of the world's resources and products, which has made us one of the sickest industrialized nations on the planet. The American people in general, are very unhealthy because of our poor diets and lack of understanding about proper nutrition. The health of the American people have become expendable in lieu of greed and profit making—money making supersedes the health and welfare of the American people in which our health care and the level of care are often determined as a business decision and is not necessarily rooted in the overall genuine health care concerns for American patience—the sick and ill. This article is not intended to be an indictment of the American medical system, but it is meant to inform people that there are some alternatives and it is found in nature. All medical doctors before receiving a medical license have to take the Hippocratic Oath, which health care professional swear to practice medicine in the highest ethical manner. The Hippocratic Oath should be renamed the Oath of Imhotep. But let me first set the historical record straight, the Greek medicine man Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.E) was not the Father of Medicine, actually he stole many of his principles from a little known Nubian from Kemet (Egypt) named Imhotep (2650-2600 BC) the Greeks referred to him under the name of Asclepus and was practicing the art of medicine and healing long before Hippocrates. He lived during the Third Dynastic period under the ruler-ship of King Zoser—Imhotep was also a master architect and engineer and built the first step pyramid of Saqqara (he was of the first known world geniuses).

The ancient healers and ancient practitioners of medicine viewed the universe (meaning its laws and energy) as being inclusive (the Europeans approach to this science was exclusive) of themselves and therefore they looked to the earth and found everything they needed to sustain themselves by complimenting mind, body and spirit with the divinity found in nature (they had the same power we ascribe to a Supreme Being, the secret is that your are God)—healing was considered a High Science and the modern propaganda machines want us to believe that herbal science and natural medicine is rooted in quackery and pseudo science. This is done to keep us coming back to the doctors for synthetic medications (pills) and continues to make the pharmaceutical companies rich.

Queen Afua in her work titled, "Heal Thyself For Health and Longevity" stated: "Healing was very sacred work in ancient times. The healing arts were reserved for priests and priestesses, medicine men and women, 'bush' doctors and other people who were respected for their knowledge in the sacred mystery systems. Likewise, healing is also a very sacred work in this present time when this planet and its people are in serious need of healing--spiritually, mentally, physically, educationally, economically—in short, totally. When the three main aspects of the human body are aligned and in proper order, we feel at peace. We are then in a state of well being. We are able to function on a much higher octave mentally, physically and spiritually. However, when these three major aspects of the body are out of order or alignment, there is then a malfunctioning and the individual needs healing, realignment and rejuvenation. When any of these areas are out of order, they affect the other areas. Body areas are interrelated and have definite effect upon each other. Oftentimes when people go to the hospitals for treatment the doctors focus on their physical ailments and never look into the mental and spiritual discord which perhaps could be the root of the illness in the first place" (Reference: "Heal Thyself For Health and Longevity"; Queen Afua; p. 156).

But I believe on a small level people are starting to wake up and are taken ownership of their health and is honoring their sacred temple (the body) by choosing better quality of foods—organic fruits and vegetables and buying from local farmers and growers (many cities and towns have farmers markets) within a 50 mile radius—this can also be seen in the booming health food market and industry in last 15-20 years. Health food Markets like WholeFoods and other health food stores are popping up throughout the country and are providing the public with alternative ways of eating and possess a wide range of homeopathic herbal treatment products. Many people desire to trust their doctors and health care professionals and no doubt some are worthy of our trust and practice their profession with the highest level of honor and integrity, but when you intertwine capitalist interest (money making) with healthcare and medicine the concept of ethics goes out the window, whose interests takes priority and how are these interest reconciled to ensure the standard of healthcare providing remains the number one ethical priority? As opposed to looking at you as a patient (a human being and not as a commodity) in which the services they render should always remain as an extension of the Hippocratic Oath they took to uphold and not allow their rendering healthcare services to be dictated more by the financial interest on Wall Street (everyone has the right to make an earnest living). Do you trust your doctors? (Reference: Farmer Will Allen: Youtube clip:

Maybe it is difficult for you to come to grasp with the fact that many medical hospitals and clinics are controlled by powerful pharmaceutical cartels and conglomerates (medical corporate monopolies that have circumvented United States anti-trust laws) they function outside the laws and rules of the U.S. they answer to no one but themselves (they too like international banks function at a high level of sovereignty) and their interest are protected by American lawmakers (the so-called voice of the American people). Thus, they have powerful political lobbies on Capitol Hill in which they make huge financial contributions to members of Congress (these gifts are often shrouded and shielded from the campaign rules and given to appear not as a conflict of interest) in order to influence legislation and public policy that is pro healthcare industry. Let me give it to you plain and simple, medicine and pharmaceuticals are big business—billions on top of billions of dollars are being generated and I am of the belief that our health, the American people’s health and the huge profit incentives have made us expendable and secondary in lieu of money making.

Kevin Trudeau in his book titled, “Natural Cures: They Don’t Want You to Know About” stated: “The pharmaceutical industry has figured ways to get the government behind them. The pharmaceutical industry uses the FDA and FTC to protect their profits and protect their monopolies. The FDA and the FTC are supposed to be protecting consumers from unscrupulous companies such as the pharmaceutical industry, but the pharmaceutical companies have figured out ways to put millions of dollars into the politicians pockets, thus ensuring that the drug companies profits are protected. When the pharmaceutical companies get politicians to require drug use or have the government buy drugs from the pharmaceutical companies as exorbitant prices, the pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars in profit and their stock prices soar. What is the incentive for the politicians to do this? (Reference: “Natural Cures: They Don’t Want You to Know About”; Kevin Trudeau; p. 37).

The large pharmaceutical companies are also tied to the top Elitist medical schools such as John Hopkins University, Stanford University, Duke University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, University of California at San Francisco, Columbia University, University of Washington, etc., where they make large funding grants and provide other financial incentives to these teaching and research universities to substantiate their hidden agendas, thus providing them with unlimited resources to carry out medical studies and clinical trials designed to move a product through the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) process—this governmental oversight agency has been known to approve different medicines and food products (USDA) knowing beforehand that they were placing the public in danger and yet these products were allowed on the market. Who interest does the FDA works in?

Curtis Cost in his work titled, "Vaccines Are Dangerous", "We all must eliminate two myths from our minds. To begin with, just because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves some chemical for sale, does not mean it is safe! The FDA is a joke! Its real function is to give corporations the government's seal of approval to sell their poison to the public. FDA approved products are routinely pulled from the market after the corporations have had time to make their profits, and then often only after there has been an outcry about the harm the product has caused. Most people do not realize that the FDA allows corporations to do their own testing of their products and to 'honestly' report to the FDA whether the product is safe. If a corporation stands to make a billion dollars off of some new drug, common sense tells you that it cannot be trusted to report the truth. It would be equivalent to expecting a gangster to tell the truth on his taxes" (Reference: "Vaccines Are Dangerous"; Curtis Cost; p.95)

Kathleen Sebelius Secretary of Health and Human Services and her boss President Barack Obama are only puppets and agents of the pharmaceutical companies; this is equalvent to an old axiom that we use in the black community, this is liken to putting the fox in charge of the hen house. What do you think is going to occur? Many of the research doctors are constantly looking for cutting edge methods of treatments that can gain them immediate notoriety in their particular medical disciplines. Some even publish flawed medical studies, which the data gives the appearance of being empirical (measured and counted) and is so-called rooted in objective science; these highly acclaimed medical studies are always asserting that their evidence is based on the rigor requirements established in the scientific method and is beyond reproach. But in some instances the research was being manipulated by powerful pharmaceutical companies and the insurance industry and although, the research may be published and appear in prestigious and prominent medical journals in which the public and academic community automatically buys into the research as having intellectual credibility, integrity and medical merit. Thus, often even the top research journals where these medical academic studies are published; the primary objective is to establish research credibility amongst their medical peers and to create a level of excitement amongst the general population as well. This will eventually lead to more profit making down the road.

For example, they are constantly and strategically telling us that they are moving closer to finding a cure for cancer when in fact they already have a cure for cancer. Western medicine is really not about cures, it is about creating and an atmosphere of panic and fear causing national and global epidemics and pandemics –if we can kill millions of people with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, HIV-Aids, and other debilitating illnesses; these have become expendable deaths, which factors into how the pendulum will swing relative to supply and demand, in particular when it comes to the commercialization of supplying the medicine and treatment to the market. Above anything else, it is about money and not about providing cures. But some of this also factors into the depopulation schemes that are on the chessboard as well. Let them die and the public outcry will increase their stock value in monumental financial dividends. This is diabolical, but sadly to say, this is the present world that we live under. Most of the diseases causing deaths can be cut in half and even curtailed in which we could enjoy life and life more abundantly by consuming the proper foods. We are now reading about young high school athletes who are dying while participating in athletic events and only later to find out that they were afflicted with some aspect of heart disease at sixteen and seventeen years old. This was unheard of just 25 years ago.

Jethro Kloss who authored the monumental book titled, "Back to Eden" he stated: "Many who violates the laws of health are ignorant of the relation of the law of living (eating, drinking and working) to their health. Until they have some kind of sickness or illness, they do not realize that their condition is caused by violating the laws of nature and health. If then they would resort to simple means and follow the—the simple laws of health that they have been neglecting—proper diet, use of pure water, fresh air, sunshine, rest, and nature's remedies, herbs, etc., nature would restore the body to its original health. Had nature been supplied with them all the time, the body would always be in good condition. When a course such as outlined above is taken, patients will generally recover without being weakened. There is a wonderful science in nature, in trees, herbs, roots, and flowers, which man has never yet fathomed" (Reference:” Back to Eden"; Jethro Kloss; p. xxx).

My daughter and I was viewing a video tape of Minister Nuri Muhammad of the Nation of Islam talking about “How to Eat to Live” which originally was a two volume book published by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and I must say Minister Nuri Muhammad appears to be one of the up and coming and brightest Nation of Islam ministers under Minister Louis Farrakhan. He actually captivated the attention of my thirteen year old daughter which I was impressed that she attentively sat through the entire speech. I believe he is out of Indianapolis, Indiana and this young brother can teach (Reference: Minister Nuri Muhammad: Youtube clip:

But guess what there are some huge beneficiaries of our poor dieting—our health have been deduced to sustaining the medical profession food chain (our poor health has created massive jobs and employment opportunities for millions in the medical profession). The public poor health has ensured that the healthcare industry will remain as one of the most stable industries in America for generations to come. The Doctors and Pharmacies rather prescribe and sell you a synthetic pill that in short term may even treat the symptoms (with all types of side effects), but like any good dope pusher or drug seller the key is to keep you coming back for some more ‘legal’ dope (we wake up with a pill and go to bed with a pill). Yet, they are allowed to hide behind a medical license and operate so-called legal drug cartels while the street drug seller's enterprise is criminalized (in reality they are both drug dealers). Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Roche, Glaxo Kline Smith, Norvatis, Sanofi, Abbott Laboratories, Merck and Company, Eli Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, etc., these are some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world who prefer keeping the American people drugged out, as opposed to using their huge resources to promote making people healthy through food and proper diet (these companies have the power and resources to the change the United States health dilemma overnight).

The majority of all our illness can be traced back to our life styles—it is the food that is making people sick—we are eating processed food that's full of unbelievable sodium content causing high incidents of hypertension in adults and children. The beef, pork, and chicken (meat is some of the worst foods that human beings can consume and is unsafe for human consumption) are contaminated with poisonous hormones and enzymes that are having all types of affects on our internal organs which is contributing to some of the reasons children are now being plagued with hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc., at very early ages.

Sister Benita Gamble of Beaufort, South Carolina owner and operator of New Body Products http://www.gullah-radio-network.com/newb... who specializes in herbal treatment and homeopathic medicine stated: “To overcome ailments in the physical body, begins with strengthening your immune system from naturally, organic, whole foods...these are nature's medicine... NUTRIENTS FROM THE EARTH! Also important to remember...Your body is made up of billions of cells. Like tiny building blocks, they work together to form every part of you. Cells make up your skin, bones, muscles, and organs. Your body uses nutrients to fix damaged cells, make new ones and allow the body to heal itself. Nutrients give cells what they need to work, grow, divide, and reverse disease symptoms from ill-health to wellness. There are multiple diet regimes and concepts that we adopt in regards to eating, however, the validity of these beliefs lies in the actual health of our individual body's. I have found that what the body wants has been given to us in nature, and the naturally, organic food sources works best!”

“When the body becomes sick or diseased, these moments are when the Universal energies are bringing to your attention, through your body, the need for you to take notice of, take control of and bring balance to YOUR body. I strongly recommend that you begin to incorporate grass fed, hormone & antibiotic free "red meat," free range, hormone & antibiotic free chicken eggs, juice or smoothie organic raw fruit & vegetable green drinks are your best vitamin source (not the store bottled drinks) and always include kale and a raw egg in your green drink a few times a week, coconut oil, palm oil, avocados, raw dairy/goat products for a little while. When the body's immune system becomes very weaken, organic red meats have serious Omega-3 (salmon alone is not always enough) and this meat has other nutrients the body needs to renew itself. Get on your computer and do your research...YOU MUST BECOME RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN BODY!”

It never ceases to amaze me that when you start talking to your doctor or health professional about alternative medicine, herbal science and homeopathic medicine they automatically becomes defensive (some even shutdown as though you have committed an unpardonable sin by injecting herbal treatments in the conversation) and is quick to throw out that most of the homeopathic treatments/medicines are not FDA approved (as though this is the standard for medicines on the market having credibility) and have not met the so-called stringent research test instruments to determine if it is safe for human consumption and/or will it pose a danger to public health (although herbal medicine has been proven to be a lot more safer than western medicine synthetic drugs, which millions die annually). Their denunciation of herbal medicine is rooted in their allegiance to the pharmaceutical corporate giants (and many of them are outright ignorant about homeopathic medicine because this was not part of their medical orientation and training) and a homeopathic/natural/herbal treatment are on the lower end of the profit making scale and is convenient to hide behind the FDA and bring into question that herbal products manufacturing and distribution are not regulated by government oversight. Herbal medicine is much cheaper and in some instances serve as a more effective medicinal treatments, as opposed to the total reliance on highly addictive chemical treatments (pills), which is often compounded by various side effects.

John Lust who authored the book titled, "The Herb Book" stated: "Historically, the most important uses of herbs were medicinal. For the most of his existence, man had various but limited resources for treating injuries and diseases. Separately and in combination he used any and all of the following: magic and sorcery, prayer, music, crude operations (amputations, bleeding, trepanning), psychotherapy, physical therapy (diet, rest, exercise, fresh air, water), and internal and external remedies prepared from plants, animals, and minerals. Of all these, plant remedies represent the most continuous and universal form of treatment: whatever else man may have done to themselves and to each other in the name of medicine at various times, plants were the basic source of therapeutic products for professional and folk medicine the earliest days until the twentieth century. In fact, folk medicine--the household use of simple herbal remedies--is based on word-of-mouth tradition that probably stretches in a unbroken line to prehistoric times" (Reference: "The Herb Book"; John Lust; pp. 3-4).

The western medical doctors have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (actually many of them still owe these student loan debts) in schooling and training and oftentimes their fragile egos will not allow them to succumb to herbalist and homoeopathist who did not attend traditional medical schools, but have mastered what mother earth provides to us--the science of healing and curing is tied to our ability to tap into those natural herbal remedies that our ancient ancestors used over 5,000 years ago. This does not require a medical license. The American people have become a highly addicted people to the so-called legal drug industry and it has created a massive codependency society of functional junkies who are strung out on all manner of prescription medications and keep the Kingpins—pharmaceutical companies in business and showering them in money. But the United States Justice Department will never charge the pharmaceutical companies with violating the RICO Statutes and committing conspiracy.

At times I am a listener of the Tom Joyner Morning Show (just for mere entertainment and nothing else), which is an urban syndicated radio show with millions of listeners every day. Mr. Joyner has this radio initiative called "Take a Loving One to the doctor" in theory it sounds good, but someone needs to tell this idiot that his audience (which is mainly so-called African Americans) are afflicted with the highest statistics in unemployment, under employment, no access to health care, many live below the poverty line, etc., how should this class of people who have no health care insurance take their love ones to the doctor? In a capitalist society, it cost money to go to the doctor (this system is unforgiving to the poor and the Have nots). Perhaps Mr. Tom Joyner is that ignorant and/or may be he lives in a bubble and is unaware that anywhere from 60-80 million (this a conservative figure) Americans do not have health care insurance and the higher percentage lies with so-called African Americans, poor whites and Latinos. The poor is forced to use the emergency rooms across America as their primary care for medical treatment because they do not have health care insurance to access doctors and clinics. I have a solution, if we can change how people eat and teach them how to grow their own food—teach them how to tap into Mother Nature they could experience life more abundantly. Remember this: an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Minister Malcolm X: Two Black leaders who used different Strategies and Tactics “

By Fahim A. Knight-El

Thesis Statement: King and Malcolm X were deeply committed to the same cause of social justice, but they chose different leadership techniques to accomplish their goals of liberating the African American race.

This article came about as a Black History report assignment for a humanities class that my daughter is taking in middle school she is an eighth grader. I have blogged on the subject of Minister Malcolm X and here is the link to that article titled, “Minister Malcolm X: Like it or Not” http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20... and I have also blogged on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20... and wrote a second article on Dr. King http://www.dailygrail.com/blogs/fahim-kn.... In addition, I have written a definitive article on the Nation of Islam http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20.... I cited these links as proof and documentation that I am not a novice to these subjects and this article might appear quite shallow to some and yet informative to others, but those who desire a more in depth knowledge then I refer you to the various links that I have cited above.

Let met state for the record that in my home, we study and celebrate African history /black history 365 days of the year. It represents the oldest history ever recorded throughout the annals of time and I think to celebrate and commemorate the oldest human history in February, which is the shortest month of the year is absurd and insidious to make any attempt to cram this marvelous history in 29 days. This month was chosen by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History Month in honor of the birthdays of Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln who were both born in the month of February (Reference link: http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/20...). My daughter was asked to do a position paper on contrasting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Minister Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik Shabazz) views. I was personally inspired by Minister Malcolm X, it was his autobiography, “Autobiography of Malcolm X” told to Alex Haley that changed my world perspective.

I viewed Minister Malcolm X as one who was uncompromising with the system of oppression and his ideas were tailored made for me. I was not interested in going along with the status quo and living a life of not creating any waves—my environment dictated that there were many reasons that I should be fighting for social justice and for the liberation of black people. Our communities were/are deteriorating because of economic, political and social disparity—gang violence, dilapidated schools, teenage pregnancy, high unemployment, the working poor, lack of industry, sellout ‘Negro’ leadership, homelessness, etc., and other ethnic groups controlling the economic markets (mom and pop business) in the black community—Arabs (Koreans, Vietnamese, Latinos, Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, Italians, Iranians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.) from war torn Palestine have replaced the Jews as the merchants of death in the black community, they now represent the bloodsuckers of the poor. They claim Islam and profess to be Muslims, yet they sell our people pork, alcohol, tobacco and bad processed foods. These damnable hypocrites build Mosques and Masjids in the black community and strut as though they are sanctimonious, but I know that in many of these Muslim hypocrites’ native countries they would be killed under Sharia Law for the above type of behavior, which would be deemed un-Islamic conduct. Minister Malcolm X sided with the black oppressed and openly challenged the white establishment to respect their ex-slave master’s children. My inner being told me that Minister Malcolm X was correct because he articulated our present and historical pain, he made it difficult for us to overlook 310 years of slavery and dehumanization. He was, perhaps one of the best students that Honorable Elijah Muhammad ever trained—his level of activism pricked the conscious of America and I personally admired his defiance. Minister Malcolm X will always be one of my heroes because he stood up in a time in history when it was not popular.

In my early intellectual development I viewed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as an Uncle Tom and traitor who was co-opted by the white establishment in which his bourgeoisie upbringing had placed him out of touch with black suffering (boy was I wrong). Dr. King was constantly evolving and those of us who have seriously studied King know that the Dr. King in 1963 was not the same King in 1967 and 1968. King had grown to understand that class was/is an antagonistic contradiction and it was this realization that placed him outside of the civil rights movement philosophy and ultimately made him a dangerous man. Dr. King’s inner circle did not support King as he turned his attention to the Vietnam War and he began to question U.S. imperialism, as well as connect our struggle to the international struggle. Many of King’s top confidants would betray him. King stated: “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Once I read King’s book titled, “The Trumpet of Conscience: Why I Opposed the Vietnam War”, I was convinced that Dr. King and Minister Malcolm X were on similar paths and their philosophy in particular in King’s latter years did not differ as much as the scholars would want us to believe.

This led me to reassess and reevaluate my early position on Dr. King and drew the conclusion that I was wrong. I have grown to respect Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. legacy and mission which I and 30 to 40 million blacks stand as the beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Movement. There are not many who would unconditionally give their lives to a cause greater than themselves, thus, Dr. King was such a man. Both Minister Malcolm X and Dr. King became targets of the United States Government and both fell victims to former FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover's Cointelpro (U.S. Counter Intelligence) program of the 1950s-1970s that was aimed at destroying black leadership. Their assassinations were staged by U.S. Government agent provocateurs. My daughter by taking on this subject received some valuable lessons in critical thinking and at age thirteen I believe she could grow to have a much better understanding and appreciation of both of these leaders due to this exercise in critical thinking than I had at the same age. The art of critical thinking in the United States is a dying art in the scheme intellectualism.

Perhaps there have not been two most controversial and misunderstood black leaders in American history within the Twentieth Century than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Minister Malcolm X. Both leaders were deeply committed to the cause of social justice for African Americans, but what separated these two men were the strategies and the tactics they chose to achieve ultimate freedom, justice and equality for black people.

Dr. King was born in the south in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 during the Great Depression in which the south was deeply segregated and racially divided. I believe that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a product of his environment because he lived through an era of Jim Crow (1896-1954), which was solidified with the infamous United States Supreme Court decision Plessy versus Ferguson (1896) in which the high court declared “separate but equal” as being constitutional. Thus, this legal decision allowed the white establishment to discriminate and openly practice racism against black people. Plessy versus Ferguson was overturned by the landmark decision of Brown versus Board of Education Topeka, Kansas 1954 in which the United States Supreme Court reversed the Plessy versus Ferguson decision and declared “separate but equal’ as being unconstitutional. It would be this legal decision and others that led to the dismantling of racial segregation in the United States. It also, would give Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights advocates the basis to challenge racist and discriminatory public accommodation laws that prohibited blacks from having equal access to public and private establishments in the United States. King’s greatest and lasting accomplishment was his ability to effect public policy and influence legislation—for example, King’s agitation forced President Lyndon Baines Johnson (he was part of the CIA and FBI plot that led to the murder of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in which the United States Government conveniently pinned the murder on Harvey Lee Oswald) and the United States Congress to passing the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights Bill of 1965. The passing of these two pieces of legislation were monumental in the history of African American people; yet at the same time it led to the demise of separate and independent black institutions. What was the ultimate price of integration and desegregation on the political, economic and social systems of black people? Some have argued that integration and desegregation led to the demise of black independence and sovereignty (it destroyed the concept of black nationhood).

Moreover, when blacks could not enter white establishments, it forced them to build black institutions for themselves. Blacks built schools, colleges, supermarkets, movie theaters, beauty schools, barbershops, beauty salons, banks, insurance companies, owned farm land, etc., providing the black community with every service and product they needed to sustain themselves. The black dollar had no choice, but to circulate and it was economically empowering to the black community. Business enterprises and entrepreneurship were huge throughout segregated black America, thriftiness and doing-for-self was a measure of empowerment. The quest for integration became more of a business arrangement on the white establishment part—they woke up and saw that blacks represented and economic market that was more than ripe for exploitation. Their decision to desegregate America was not about the love of humanity and/or siding on the side of social justice, it was done out of sheer economic interest. Black dollars were being invited into the white economy.

Dr. King lived during an era where black lynching was occurring on a daily basis. I think what really helped to shape Dr. King’s worldview was his upbringing in the Christian church where his father the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. served as pastor over legendary Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and he learned certain Christian principles and values relative to forgiving your enemy and turning the other cheek. He accepted and believed in the parable that stated ‘forgive them God they know not what they do’. He understood that most of the biblical prophets had suffered and was rejected by the governments of their day, but King best understood that their struggles were redemptive.

Dr. King also understood the power of love and he became committed to transforming a society that represented the epitome of hate. King’s mission was to conquer hate with the power of love. It was the power of love that caused him to take on some of the most vicious segregationist and racist of all times—Governor George Wallace and Bull Connors in order to protest racial injustice. Blacks and Whites had separate water faucets, black and white bathrooms and blacks could not sit and eat in white restaurants—they often had to get their food at the back door. Dr. King was a witness of these social rules and was deeply disturbed about the affect they were having on black people. He would lead boycotts, sit-in, picket-lines, freedom rides and other demonstrations to protest racial injustices.

Dr. King entered Morehouse College in Atlanta under the guidance of its President Dr. Benjamin Mays who authored the book titled, “Born to Rebel” and Professor Howard Thurman who authored the book titled, “Jesus the Disinherited”. It was Dr. Mays and Thurman who became one of the greatest influences and mentors of Dr. King. King would attend graduate school at a Quaker school named Crozer College in Pennsylvania. The white Quakers were considered a very liberal group and did not judge and discriminate against blacks based on skin color. King would later go on and receive a Ph.D in theology from Boston University.

King studied the history of India and the effect British imperialism and colonialism had on Indian society, but what struck Dr. King the most was the discipline and passion the non-violent protest movement led by Mahatma Gandhi had on altering change and the power dynamics of the British class or caste system, which was rooted in race and economic injustice. There was an old saying that stated that the sun never set on the British Empire; this was an indication of how vast and powerful the British Empire was.

But Gandhi did not seek to alter the political, economic and social system of India through violence and radical militancy; he was committed to passive resistance—no guns and no preaching of retaliation. Gandhi advocated civil disobedience and it was this strategy that proved to be revolutionary and overturned centuries of British domination over the sub-continent of India. Dr. King saw similarities in what was taking place with the oppression of blacks in the United States and what had taking place in India and he was moved by the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. King would adopt Gandhi’s civil disobedience tactic as the primary strategy to confront American racism.

Dr. King understood that to violently confront the United States Government would have been suicidal and yet he was not willing to sit back and not challenge the injustices confronting African American people. Mahatma Gandhi presented him with a model and social blueprint that had more power than arm resistance.

Dr. King was called to preach at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. The black citizens of Montgomery who were part of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) chose Dr. King as their leader and spokesperson and not the other way around. But what sparked the fight to desegregate Montgomery and the south was a little black woman in 1955 named Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger and refuse to move toward the back of the bus. This event forced King and what became the modern civil rights movement into action.

Minister Malcolm X also was born during the Great Depression in 1925 in the mid-west town of Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm X’s father Earl Little was follower of the Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1915. Garvey arrived to the United States from Jamaica and began teaching a back to Africa philosophy for blacks, he stated, “Africa for the Africans at home and abroad” and he promoted the concept, “One God, One Aim, One Destiny”.

Malcolm X’s father embraced the teachings and philosophy of Marcus Garvey and I believe via DNA or at an early age by attending UNIA meetings Malcolm X was impacted by Garvey’s Nationalism. Minister Malcolm X unlike Dr. King grew up poor and oppressed in which he and his family had to struggle for their existences. Malcolm X at a very young age would witness the Ku Klux Klan (the white Knights) burn his home down because his father was not afraid and often stood up against racial injustice in Omaha and Lansing, Michigan.

It is believed that Ku Klux Klan in 1931 murdered Malcolm X father by tying him to a railroad track where a train decapitated his head from his body. These thoughts of white injustices never left young Malcolm X and most of all he witness at the death of his father the demise of his family. His mother was a proud West Indian from Grenada and she was forced to try to work in order to keep the family together; but she was eventually forced to welfare and based on the pressure to keep the family together, it eventually led her to the insane asylum. These and other events deeply scarred young Malcolm X and I have no doubt that it would be these experiences that would eventually shape the man, mission and his legacy.

Malcolm X family was eventually divided between family and foster care—Malcolm X recalled in his autobiography, the “Autobiography of Malcolm X” that during his eighth grade school year he expressed to his eighth grade white teacher that he wanted to be a lawyer and his teacher told him that a lawyer was not a profession suited for a ‘Negro’ and suggested that Malcolm X pursue becoming a carpenter because his race was better suited to do things with their hands and the law profession was better suited for whites. This incident destroyed young Malcolm X’s self-esteem and confidence in the educational system and from that point forward he saw no benefit in going to school.

Malcolm X after moving to Detroit (Lansing, Michigan) and Boston and working on the railroad and traveling back and forth to New York; he became involved in all sorts of petty crimes—selling drugs, pimping, burglary, running numbers and ultimately a street hustler. Malcolm X in 1946 was sentenced to prison for ten years for burglary in the Michigan State Prison system. Thus, like Dr. King (King came in contact with Mahatma Gandhi), Malcolm X met a man named Elijah Muhammad by way of coming in contact with his teachings and philosophy of the Nation of Islam and the Black Muslim Movement in prison.

The Nation of Islam taught a radical and militant theology, which was based on separation and referred to the white man as the devil who were inheritably evil (the life giving teachings appealed to the spirit of Minister Malcolm X). The teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad were based in discipline and Islamic principles, but unlike Dr. King, Malcolm X as a member in the Nation of Islam was taught to defend himself. Mr. Muhammad did not teach his followers to be the aggressor, but each Muslim had a God given right to fight with those who fought with them. They did not teach turn the other cheek and if attacked felt they had every right to defend themselves. Minister Malcolm X did not believe in violence, but he taught the right to self-defense.

Malcolm X witness the racist beatings, blacks being water hosed down and being bitten by vicious dogs on the evening news and unlike Dr. King was not willing to accept this type of abuse lying down. Malcolm X became a the new voice and image for a generation who refused to accept the racist brutality being bestowed on the black civil rights workers in particular and black folk in general. Malcolm X message seemed confrontational and radical—but the Muslims were taught not to even carry a penknife. The white media demonized Minister Malcolm X and the Black Muslims as being a violent and a subversive group who was looking to overthrow the United States Government.

Minister Malcolm X did say, “Freedom by any means necessary” and in one sense the white establishment was more willing to deal with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. call for non-violence as opposed to the radical and militant teachings of Minister Malcolm X. But let me clarify, I think Minister Malcolm X had been historically misunderstood because many believe that he taught hate and reverse racism. However, like I stated above both men King and Malcolm had the same objective which was to bring about freedom, justice and equality for the African American race—they just had different strategies and tactics relative to achieving this goal. Minister Malcolm X’s teachings balanced the entire civil rights movement and without Minister Malcolm X, I do not think that King would have had the type of success he had if it were not for Minster Malcolm X presenting his theoretical polarity.

Minister Malcolm would inspire young revolutionaries like Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture) who was a protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who coined the phrase “Black Power” which also gave rise to Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Dr. King was constantly confronted with a growing unsettlement coming from young blacks who were becoming radicalized by the militant teachings of Minister Malcolm X and Dr. King was beginning to have problems keeping young blacks under control. Thus, groups like the Deacons for Defense and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was becoming increasingly radicalized based on the teachings of Minister Malcolm X. Young leaders such as H. Rap Brown (Jamil El-Amin Abdullah) and Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture) typified what Malcolm X message meant in the civil rights movement.

In conclusion, some have tried to isolate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to the 1963 March on Washington and ‘I have a Dream' Speech and there is no doubt that this speech challenged the ethical and moral fiber of what the United States claimed she represented King stated, “But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.”

King in his latter years (1966-1968), perhaps had more in common with Minister Malcolm X in particular with his international position against the Vietnam War. King's message was becoming increasingly radicalized and many believe like Minister Malcolm X that King was beginning to pose a danger to the United States establishment and it was further believed that J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (under a government initiative called Cointelpro) was part of the assassination of King and Minister Malcolm X. Some scholars and historians have questioned that King’s so-called murderer James Earl Ray was only a pasty and not the real assassin (the real assassin was the FBI). Dr. King and Minister Malcolm X chose different leadership tactics and strategies as their methods of social protest, but they had one objective, which was the liberation of black people—King is always symbolized as the preacher of love and Minister Malcolm X is symbolized as the preacher of hate. I think both men approach to solving the political, economic and social problems of black people was steeped in love and not hate. It was more of their leadership temperaments that the media wanted us to believe that one taught love and the other taught hate. My research has led me to believe they had more similarities than differences.

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 symbolism 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-EI can be reached at fahimknight@ yahoo.com.

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