Additional Weapons in the Fight Against White Supremacist Domination

[JRSWRITER]

Additional Weapons in the Fight Against White Supremacist Domination
POSITIVELY BLACK
Junious Ricardo Stanton

"Thus, the Black media in its reactionary fashion seconds the motions of the White media in excluding unpopular, anti White supremacy, anti Eurocentric, anti-capitalist and other radical ideological approaches that may provide possibly promising, pragmatic solutions to problems faced by the Black community. They thereby help deny the Black community innovative and creative alternative to the failed yet socially accepted approaches advocated by the general media (including black and white media). In this sense the Black media enters into complicity with the White media against Afrikan liberation from White supremacy." Dr. Amos Wilson Blueprint For Black Power p. 237-238


When free men of color John Russwurm and Rev. Samuel E. Cornish of New York launched Freedom's Journal in 1827 they did not do so under the delusion or handicap of trying to be "objective" or present "balanced and fair" material. Nor did they hesitate to speak the truth for fear advertisers wouldn't support them or from anxiety that the white community wouldn't like, validate or accept them. Russwurm and Cornish seeing their mandate entitled their first editorial, "We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause". Their goal was to be self-determined self-supporting advocates for their enslaved brethren toiling under the abuse, rigors and debasement of chattel slavery. In a culture seeped with the blood, torture and horror of the slaughter of millions of Native Americans and kidnaped Africans, Russwurm and Cornish could not rely on white advertising support for a paper that railed against the psychopathology that propped up the AmeriKKKan culture, so they did the best they could with the meager resources at their disposal. Sadly many publishers and media owners today have lost the verve and vigor of people like Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, Henry Highland Garnett, Frederick Douglas, Ida B Wells Barnett, William Monroe Trotter and others. Much of the Negro media ownership of today is a pathetic caricature of the advocacy press of the Freedom's Journal. The North Star, Chicago Defender and a crass betrayal of papers like Marcus Garvey's Negro World of the early 1900's, the NOI's Muhammad Speaks of the 1960's or the Black Panther Party's weekly newspaper of the 1970's. The siren song of capitalist profits and assimilation have driven many publishers and media outlet owners totally mad. Drunk with the "wine of the world", an assimilationist mentality and the desire for riches these deluded media moguls have abandoned the activist and advocacy legacy of Cornish and Russwurm, Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X having sold their souls for a mess of Eurocentric porridge and thirty pieces of silver.

Last year Negro "journalists" even allowed themselves to be used and duped into being "embedded" with the invading US troops as Uncle Sam's ravenous imperial war machine rolled through Iraq. These zombies mindlessly and shamelessly beat the propaganda drum on behalf of Bush and Co.'s illegal invasion of a defenseless sovereign nation. I wonder if they can they sleep at night or look themselves in the mirror without ing at the image reflecting back at them?! Russwurm, Cornish and Ida B Wells Barnett are probably turning over in their graves at the ignominy these gutless sycophants have given to the legacy of the black press. That is the bad news, the good news is that there are countless fearless brothers and sistahs rumbling on behalf of African people.

These brave souls refuse to cower in the face of fascism or compromise their integrity for a few dollars more. While the mass media is being consolidated into the hands of a few conglomerates run by individuals with a White supremacist mind set, there are new weapons being launched against Eurocentric cultural imperialism and color domination (or more correctly lack of color domination). A year ago I wrote about the relatively new medium of Internet radio. I am proud to announce two new Internet radio stations have joined www.Libradio.com and www.Blakeradio.com to provide conscious raising programming, infotainment and thought provoking material via the World Wide Web. I am thrilled to report the venues also carry my live Internet radio program The Digital Underground on Sundays from 12 Noon to 2 PM Eastern time as well as their own freedom oriented programming. Minister General Ahmed is holding down the fort on www.WBBRadio.org Sundays from 10 AM to 3 PM Eastern time. Check him out. Also check out www.BlackMicRadio and www.Harambeeradio.com for an eclectic mix of music, spoken word and serious talk programming.

The Talking Drum Collective www.thedrum.org, the creators of www.BlackMic.com recently launched www.PanAfrican.tv which streams serious pro-African liberation oriented audio and video educational material. Do yourself a favor and log onto these powerful sites to aid your mental deprogramming and decolonization. In addition to these sites that stream audio there are dynamic Websites rumbling against Eurocentric cultural domination that provide pro-African material. Check out www.DaGhettotimez.com a serious site, Chuck D's Rapstation.com www.ChatAfrik.com www.Stewartsynopsis.com. Also www.ChatAfrik.com offers unique African Internet portal designed to link Africans throughout the Diaspora. I recommend you visit www.theMarcusGarveybbs.com www.Afrikan.net and the brand new www.PositivelyBlack.net.

We are rumbling on all fronts, there is a serious guerilla media movement going on. Please visit these sites and support these brothers and sistahs fighting to free our minds from white supremacist menticide and lay the foundation for our total liberation.
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Positively Black, Producer and host of "The Digital Underground" a live internet program aired Sundays from 12-2 PM Eastern time on http://www.newblackcity.com also stop by my site www.positivelyblack.net
"Free Your Mind And The Rest Will Follow'