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EXCUSES, EXCUSES: Politics of Interracial...

Some say this is a "new year," so for those who believe this, I extend greetings of health & prosperity to you.

A thread was started titled "Know Thy Enemy" or something like that; rather than post this excerpt there I do it here. It can help also to know a little more about one's self. And its accompanying enemies. Comments are welcome.

EXCERPT FROM Mwalimu K. Baruti's: EXCUSES, EXCUSES: The Politics of Interracial Coupling in European Culture
"Negroes and negroettes(1) are the only people on the planet crying for integration. As Chancellor Williams teaches us, integration is nothing more than "a code word for amalgamation." So whatever it should even be a goal, less known a primary one, makes it highly suspect and ethically questionable. Integration is an obvious form of self-hate that feeds off of European acceptance. As Claud Anderson points out,
  • Racial integration is the enemy of unity because it requires the integrating group to be subsumed, weakened and scattered as a minority in a society in which the majority rules.(2)
"To which John Edgar Wideman wisely adds,
  • Integration can be interpreted as a scheme for legitimizing a form of conditional adoption.(3)
"Women would have to universally embrace the philosophy of producing a grey race. In order to achieve such an end without cloning and within a reasonable period of time, they would have to commit to popping out a new baby every 10 months or so for many, many, many generations.
And, even if the idea of total amalgamation were universally accepted and attempted, the oppressive and divisive nature of European capitalism requires the constant creation of new forms of human exploitation for its survival. War/conflict, at all levels of society and in all forms of interaction, is a prerequisite for western profit. White supremacy will find a way to divide, segregate, antagonize and then exploit.
In the end, the lie behind this excuse* is that we here in this particular western society as leading examples of the new world order, are simply perfecting the melting pot theory. Accordingly, in the end we would supposedly become one global people, indistinguishable by color or physical features. The delusion is that we are only fulfilling some racial amalgamation prophesy...for those who are deceived but still question their motives out of a glimmer of historical awareness, interracial interbreeding must come to be seen as only an unavoidable biological necessity until everyone becomes visibly united as one. We feel compelled by social pressure to keep false hope alive by mentacidally believing in liberal pseudo-scientific concoctions that have no objective basis in historical fact, like races become more viable and industrious only when and if there is this crossbreeding, a misguided, wishful Darwinian thinking..."
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1. In the context of my discussion, the label negro
  • ..."marks those among us who grow from our knees; those of us who believe that crawling is fine as long as they get the biggest crumbs. Or as Kelly Miller says, 'The negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.' The question should not be, 'Shouldn't you crawl before you walk?' Instead, the question is, 'How long must you crawl before you walk like a man?' How long must your four appendages be your mode of transportation before you recognize that two will more efficiently and effectively do the job? (Larry D. Crawford, "I Am Not Ashamed," World African Net Website, August 1998)

2. Claud Anderson, Black Labor, White Wealth, Edgewood, MD: Duncan & Duncan, Inc, 1994, p.187.

3. John E. Wideman, Fatheralong, NY:Pantheon Books, 1994, p.74.

*Baba note: this "excuse" comes in section: "The Grey Race." Old timers know who's referred to; yunguns, a meaning is clear in context of author's use in this section.
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from EXCUSES, EXCUSES: The Politics of Interracial Coupling in European Culture by Larry D. Crawford
Afrikan parents know who they are dealing with. That's why we lie to our children in the name of protecting them. Such excuses are shameless. We are not protecting them. We are trying to protect ourselves from the pain we know will come to them and us if they stand up.
No matter how we try to play it off, we understand that Europeans will kill them in a second, for nothing. We understand that our sons are looked upon as the greatest threat to European hegemony for good reaseon. And yes, as men, they are our last line of defense. There is nothing unrealistic about these fears. They are reasonable for a people who subconsciously understand the nature of their oppressor, as evidenced in historical fact, yet feel powerless to confront it.
However these reasonable fears lead to insanity when they cause us to believe that no matter what we do the European will rule forever. 'Oppression does not destroy a people. It is the acceptance of oppression that destroys.' Our actions become divorced from our words. We consistently comlpromise our stated power and morality. By example, we subconsciously establish limits for our children at the same time that we tell them they are limitless. By following the example set by their parents, emasculated Afrikan males become living expressions of confused, powerless mentacidal negroes.
To insure the safety of their children Afrikan parents know they must make integration and absorption a foremost priority. It becomes more and more urgent that they be spread out among our enemy. And in doing so we must make them believe that it is their responsibility to make a color-laden world colorless.
POalestinians once hid their European-Israeli hostages throughout their cities in the hop that the knowledge that they would kill one or two of their own would deter Western missiles. Like Afrikan parents, they misunderstood European's sense of martyrdom. Racial nationalism has always overridden any appreciation of life in European culture. Any notion of sparing an innocent's life has naever stopped them from sacrificing their own.
Yet this mentality is not incompatible with encouraging interracial dating and marriage. Nonwhite people don't understand the necessity for white supremacy domination, but white people understand that they have to dominate. So when a white person is in bed with a nonwhite person, because of the long history of conditioning that tells them nonwhites are inferior, the nonwhite person will be programmed to love white people.... The highest desire, under white supremacy programming, is to be loved by a white and validated by a white person. So the white person who is acting counter to white genetic survival by engaging in sexual activity with the nonwhite person is actually achieving a greater goal: the goal of domination. The nonwhite person's mind has been turned against their own interest...the nonwhite person has to turn against the interests of other nonwhite persons to protect the interests of the white person they're in bed with. That means the white person is the dominant person, no matter who's on top or bottom in the act of sexual intercourse.8
She is far from (being) alone in her duduction. In his discussion of The Insane Nigger Mack B. Morant concurs with this when stating that:
...any black person who buys into an inter-racial marriage can in no way stand up and support the black race completely. He or she will compensate psychological or physical defense mechanisms to protect his or her white wife or husband and in many ways shield their own conscience.
Plus it emasculates potential Afrikan warriors. Interracial marriage and statements of colorlessness are based on the desire to become indistinguishable from the master and get as far away from the Afrika we still hate and are embarrassed by as we possible can, except in misguided efforts to go back and economically and religiously exploit it as new world colored carpetbaggers. Afrikan males exhibiting the least aggression against European cultural imperialism are increasingly rewarded with superficial tidbits of success. The marriage and care of a European girl shows her father that her negro is safe and worthy of larger crumbs. Negroes must successfully pass every proctology exam in order to move to the head of the class."
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8. Francis Cress Welsing interview in Kwaku Person-Lyn (ed.), First Word, NY: Harlem River Press, 1996,pp.74-75.
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Its doubtful that "integrationists" will see Dr. Welsing's article as interesting; probably see it as an attack. One lil note: the weak do not integrate into power; they're swallowed... so many of our learned today use the term amalgamationists rather than integrationists

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A Parent's Love***

"In whatever country on whatever continent you look, after the people from the Caucasus Mountains ravage and appropriate their civilization, you see the proliferation of children produced by Caucasians raping conquered women and girls. The majority of these offspring, siding with their most powerful parent, come to form a buffer class between paranoid European elites and terrorized dark hordes. Because of their dual racial citizenship, mulattoes have historically been favored as agents of 'crowd control' over the darker masses. Many scholars make note of this phenomenon in the history of European global imperialism.

"If history is a tool for learning so that mistakes are not repeated, and if we are wise enough to discern events repeating themselves over and over again forming patterns to our disadvantage, then we must understand the connection between a developing privileged mulatto class to the maintenance and strengthening of white supremacy. Chancellor Williams detailed this pattern in his The Destruction of Black Civilization. But, regardless of the qualifying recognition that should be given to those mulattoes who understood and understand who their people are, his point taken out of early Egyptian history has remained a constant that deserves our undivided attention here and now.
  • The end result was always the same: The Blacks were pushed to the bottom of the social, economic and political ladder whenever and wherever the Asians and their mulatto offsprings gained control. This scheme of weakening the Blacks by turning their half-white brothers against them cannot be overemphasize because it began in the early times and it became the universal practice of whites, and is still one of the cornerstones in the edifice of white power.(11)

"The bastardization of a people is a basic European divide and conquer strategy. It enables the absentee owership of people through the biological creation of a home grown marginal elite intensely loyal to their fathers. We find this as a pattern throughout the world Europeans have violated and laid claim to. Scholarly examinations of some better known examples of the mulatto nationalism handcrafted by the intentional cultural politics of European imperialism can be found in the interactions of the Blacks, Coloreds, Indians and whites of Azania(12) and the international descriptions given by John Henrik Clarke,(13) Chancellor Williams,(14) Randall Robinson(15) and Jacob Carruthers.(16)

"This evidence in no way condemns all or even most of those who had no choice in being born of two races. House slaves caught hell, too. Nor, for that matter, is it an attempt to confer on all relatively 'pure' Afrikans an Afrikan nationalistic loyalty. There is no doubt that negroes contaminate the range of our complexion. However, Williams' suggestion that those mulattoes who remained loyal to their Afrikan heritage should be praised, singling them out for 'special honor,'(17) as compared to Afrikans born without the privilege of choice, is a recommendation.

"Skin tone is one of the least important indicators of who is or is not Afrikan.(18) Clarence Thomas, Vernon Jordan and Armstrong Williams are perfect examples of this misconception. Afrikanity is a mentality. It is an identification with a revoluntionary Afrikan history, present and future. It is mental.
  • "Those who will to work for justice and who understand that work as their conscious responsibility will be found in all places and in all walks of life, at all levels of formal education and at all income levels. There are no class divisions nor language barriers for those who do this cosmic work.(19)

"Afrikan consciousness covers the range of complexion in our community. It does not discriminate based on pigment. 'We are Africans not because we are born in Africa, but because Africa is born in us.'(20)

"From this brief look at a historical pattern it would not take a leap in thinking to conclude that Europeans today, well aware that their time is up, aare doing everything in their power to enlarge and further protect them from a forgiving but unforgetting and furious(ly) dispossessed people.(21) A racially indistinct buffer class serves to confuse, misdirect and dissipate this justifiable rage. When operating as a political unit in the service of European culture, such a buffer class escalates racial confusion among Afrikans. The mulattoization of a significant segment of the world's Afrikan population through the biological and surgical infusion of Europeanized features will seriously confuse and compromise racial origins, responsibilities and global politics.

"As already stated, this fact is not new in the minds of Europeans sitting precariously on their throne of enforced racial privilege. Their media, and the individuals selected as spokespersons in that fantasy, reflect this awareness. Because of their high visibility, such as Tiger Woods and Mariah Carey, who in their confused yearning to identify themselves as 'American' attempt to claim every possible European strain as part of their racial makeup, and consistently identifying these minority genes first, promote the spread of the racial confusion which sustains the internal chaos necessary for the voluntary maintenance of white supremacy among the darkest populations."
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*** Larry D. Crawford (Mwalimu A. Bomani Baruti), EXCUSES, EXCUSES: The Politics of Interracial Coupling in European Culture, pps.108-113. Copyright 2000 Larry D. Crawford; Ankoben Press, Atlanta Georgia 30310.
11. Chicago: Third World Press, 1987, pp.59 & 61. Especially look at pages 178-179 and 185 and 186 for a discussion of that historical collection of mulattoes who chose to side with their Afrikan mothers against the enemy of their people. This is but a very small sample of the documented evidence of a divisive conspiracy that finds itself wherever we find European invaders.
12. Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1994; Chancellor Williams, The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D., Chicago: Third World Press, 1987, p.76. Also see Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall, The Color Complex, NY: Anchor Books, 1992,pp.60-61 for a short summary of the institutionalized racial classification system.
13. He wrote, I have always threatened to write a massive book about...The Role of the Bastard as a Factor in History. How people have bastardized other people through their women and used the bastard to control them. Then having used the bastard, refuse to accept the bastard in the home of the father that created him and send him back to his mother's people to start confusion. (Notes for An African World Revolution, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1991, pp.252-253)
14. The Destruction of Black Civilization, pp.50, 51, 71, 73-79, 154-155,208,218,298 and 304.
15. Defending the Spirit, NY: Dutton, 1998, pp.75-77.
16. Although his discussion begins on page 33, he makes the same point about mulatto nationalism during the Haitian revolution. They...did abolish slavery but forced the Blacks to remain on the plantations and work as before, but this time with wages. They also recruited many Blacks into their army but never let any rise above the rank of Captain and none were civilian office holders. The Mulattoes, however, were even more harsh on the Europeans, exterminating many and allowing them no positions of authority. (The Irritated Genie, Chicago: The Kemetic Institute, 1985, p.36)
17. While his statement must be assessed in the context of his Destruction of Black Civilization it has face value. We should begin by drawing a vast African Circle of Honor around all those millions of Africans of mixed blood often referred to as Mulattoes, who from the earliest times to the present have stood steadfast and loyally identified with the race of their originally black mothers. They deserve special honor exactly because they did not have to do so when amalgamation of the races spread over Egypt and the Arabic world, and they had compelling reasons for not being identified with black-skinned Africans. For they were classified as 'white' and, therefore, not subject to enslavement. (p.334)
18. Carwford, "Racism, Colorism and Power", "Frontline", Vol. 3, No. 7, October 1999.
19. Francis Cress Welsing, The Isis Papers, Chicago: Third Word Press, 1991, p.xvii.
20. Chester Higgins, Jr., Feeling the Spirit, NY: Bantam Books, 1994, p.233.
21. Except for the truly insane, we must understand the politics of our oppressors for what it is. Forgiveness is supposed to be a recognition or belief by the forgiver that the perpetrator's action will not occur again, that there will be a conscious attempt to never do whatever was done again. They have not stopped. Nor do they intend to. Second, forgetfulness downplays, to the oppressor's advantage, the roots of all revolutionary change - someone was wronged, with malice, forethought and beyond reason, and continues to be wronged in the same intolerable way....And, third, remembrance is a necessary and natural cleansing/healing ritual where the Maafa (the destruction of Afrikan civilization and culture and the enslavement, colonization and dehumanization of its people) is transformed into a wisdom that brings us as an Afrikan people back toward our rightful cultural Way. Our self-determined historical memory serves as a constant reminder to never let what happened to us happen again. (Larry D. Crawford, "The New Humanity," The Faith Tribune, March 12, 1999, p.5)
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"In whatever country on whatever continent you look, after the people from the Caucasus Mountains ravage and appropriate their civilization, you see the proliferation of children produced by Caucasians raping conquered women and girls. The majority of these offspring, siding with their most powerful parent, come to form a buffer class between paranoid European elites and terrorized dark hordes. Because of their dual racial citizenship, mulattoes have historically been favored as agents of 'crowd control' over the darker masses. Many scholars make note of this phenomenon in the history of European global imperialism.

"If history is a tool for learning so that mistakes are not repeated, and if we are wise enough to discern events repeating themselves over and over again forming patterns to our disadvantage, then we must understand the connection between a developing privileged mulatto class to the maintenance and strengthening of white supremacy. Chancellor Williams detailed this pattern in his The Destruction of Black Civilization. But, regardless of the qualifying recognition that should be given to those mulattoes who understood and understand who their people are, his point taken out of early Egyptian history has remained a constant that deserves our undivided attention here and now.
  • The end result was always the same: The Blacks were pushed to the bottom of the social, economic and political ladder whenever and wherever the Asians and their mulatto offsprings gained control. This scheme of weakening the Blacks by turning their half-white brothers against them cannot be overemphasize because it began in the early times and it became the universal practice of whites, and is still one of the cornerstones in the edifice of white power.(11)

"The bastardization of a people is a basic European divide and conquer strategy. It enables the absentee owership of people through the biological creation of a home grown marginal elite intensely loyal to their fathers. We find this as a pattern throughout the world Europeans have violated and laid claim to. Scholarly examinations of some better known examples of the mulatto nationalism handcrafted by the intentional cultural politics of European imperialism can be found in the interactions of the Blacks, Coloreds, Indians and whites of Azania(12) and the international descriptions given by John Henrik Clarke,(13) Chancellor Williams,(14) Randall Robinson(15) and Jacob Carruthers.(16)

"This evidence in no way condemns all or even most of those who had no choice in being born of two races. House slaves caught hell, too. Nor, for that matter, is it an attempt to confer on all relatively 'pure' Afrikans an Afrikan nationalistic loyalty. There is no doubt that negroes contaminate the range of our complexion. However, Williams' suggestion that those mulattoes who remained loyal to their Afrikan heritage should be praised, singling them out for 'special honor,'(17) as compared to Afrikans born without the privilege of choice, is a recommendation.

"Skin tone is one of the least important indicators of who is or is not Afrikan.(18) Clarence Thomas, Vernon Jordan and Armstrong Williams are perfect examples of this misconception. Afrikanity is a mentality. It is an identification with a revoluntionary Afrikan history, present and future. It is mental.
  • "Those who will to work for justice and who understand that work as their conscious responsibility will be found in all places and in all walks of life, at all levels of formal education and at all income levels. There are no class divisions nor language barriers for those who do this cosmic work.(19)

"Afrikan consciousness covers the range of complexion in our community. It does not discriminate based on pigment. 'We are Africans not because we are born in Africa, but because Africa is born in us.'(20)

"From this brief look at a historical pattern it would not take a leap in thinking to conclude that Europeans today, well aware that their time is up, aare doing everything in their power to enlarge and further protect them from a forgiving but unforgetting and furious(ly) dispossessed people.(21) A racially indistinct buffer class serves to confuse, misdirect and dissipate this justifiable rage. When operating as a political unit in the service of European culture, such a buffer class escalates racial confusion among Afrikans. The mulattoization of a significant segment of the world's Afrikan population through the biological and surgical infusion of Europeanized features will seriously confuse and compromise racial origins, responsibilities and global politics.

"As already stated, this fact is not new in the minds of Europeans sitting precariously on their throne of enforced racial privilege. Their media, and the individuals selected as spokespersons in that fantasy, reflect this awareness. Because of their high visibility, such as Tiger Woods and Mariah Carey, who in their confused yearning to identify themselves as 'American' attempt to claim every possible European strain as part of their racial makeup, and consistently identifying these minority genes first, promote the spread of the racial confusion which sustains the internal chaos necessary for the voluntary maintenance of white supremacy among the darkest populations."
================================================== =============================

*** Larry D. Crawford (Mwalimu A. Bomani Baruti), EXCUSES, EXCUSES: The Politics of Interracial Coupling in European Culture, pps.108-113. Copyright 2000 Larry D. Crawford; Ankoben Press, Atlanta Georgia 30310.
11. Chicago: Third World Press, 1987, pp.59 & 61. Especially look at pages 178-179 and 185 and 186 for a discussion of that historical collection of mulattoes who chose to side with their Afrikan mothers against the enemy of their people. This is but a very small sample of the documented evidence of a divisive conspiracy that finds itself wherever we find European invaders.
12. Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1994; Chancellor Williams, The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D., Chicago: Third World Press, 1987, p.76. Also see Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall, The Color Complex, NY: Anchor Books, 1992,pp.60-61 for a short summary of the institutionalized racial classification system.
13. He wrote, I have always threatened to write a massive book about...The Role of the Bastard as a Factor in History. How people have bastardized other people through their women and used the bastard to control them. Then having used the bastard, refuse to accept the bastard in the home of the father that created him and send him back to his mother's people to start confusion. (Notes for An African World Revolution, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1991, pp.252-253)
14. The Destruction of Black Civilization, pp.50, 51, 71, 73-79, 154-155,208,218,298 and 304.
15. Defending the Spirit, NY: Dutton, 1998, pp.75-77.
16. Although his discussion begins on page 33, he makes the same point about mulattoe nationalism during the Hatian revolution. They...did abolish slavery but forced the Blacks to remain on the plantations and work as before, but this time with wages. They also recruited many Blacks into their army but never let any rise above the rank of Captain and none were civilian office holders. The Mulattoes, however, were even more harsh on the Europeans, exterminating many and allowing them no positions of authority. (The Irritated Genie, Chicago: The Kemetic Institute, 1985, p.36)
17. While his statement must be assessed in the context of his Destruction of Black Civilization it has face value. We should begin by drawing a vast African Circle of HOnor around all those millions of Africans of mixed blood often referred to as Mulattoes, who from the earliest times to the present have stood steadfast and loyally identified with the race of their originally black mothers. They deserve special honor exactly because they did not have to do so when amalgamation of the races spread over Egypt and the arabic world, and they had compelling reasons for not being identified with black-skinned Africans. For they were classified as 'white' and, therefore, not subject to enslavement. (p.334)
18. Carwford, "Racism, Colorism and Power", "Frontline", Vol. 3, No. 7, October 1999.
19. Francis Cress Welsing, The Isis Papers, Chicago: Third Word Press, 1991, p.xvii.
20. Chester Higgins, Jr., Feeling the Spirit, NY: Bantam Books, 1994, p.233.
21. Except for the truly insane, we must understand the politics of our oppressors for what it is. Forgiveness is supposed to be a recognition or belief by the forgiver that the perpetrator's action will occur again, that there will be a conscious attempt to never do whatever was done again. They have not stopped. Nor do they intend to. Second, forgetfulness downplays, to the oppressor's advantage, the roots of all revolutionary change - someone was wronged, with malice, forethought and beyond reason, and continues to be wronged in the same intolerable way....And, third, remembrance is a necessary and natural cleansing/healing ritual where the Maafa (the destruction of Afrikan civilization and culture and the enslavement, colonization and dehumanization of its people) is transformed into a wisdom that brings us as an Afrikan people back toward our rightful cultural Way. Our self-determined historical memory serves as a constand reminder to never let what happened to us happen again. (Larry D. Crawford, "The New Humanity," The Faith Tribune, March 12, 1999, p.5)

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