Just got a little surprise…………..the Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, is a black female…………………..blacks have come a long way, particularly with a country like France given it’s history.

You about to witness the Pied Piper effect making children follow the music

Babylon your mental chains break
yea yea yea yay yay
For Ethiopia’s progress ourself we educate
Well a lightning hotta earthquake
Babylon your mental chains break
yea ea ea ey ey
Black people go home for righteousness sake
oh rugu rue rue rue

The preaching is over, what’s your actions to this ?
So long up inna them land, nothing you have accomplished
Them inna them computer age, children beware of it
Because everything, everything becomes cybernetic
Repatriation, we endeavour, we’ll all make it
Too much inna Babylon, that is too much for your kit
Computer is them world, them number is 666
That’s the mark of the beast, look out for micro-chip

@ Well well
I don’t know where you have gotten the idea from that the bible was used to keep the slaves in line? When the historical record clearly shows that slaves who were found to be literate endured harsh punishments, and sometimes death at the hands of their masters; maybe you meant to say that the bible was used to justify slavery in: Europe Africa, South America, and the Caribbean?

Something that might be of interest to professionals and experienced entrepreneurs willing to consult with Africans from Bim or elsewhere is the following website and organisation http://www.growmovement.org . Maybe peeps that contribute on this site,ie BU, may want to start a similar project for Bim?
I have consultants available to participate here in TO, and could draw such a venture to others attention.

Moneybrain……………You might have missed some comments maybe a month or two ago dealing with the fact that Arabs enslaved blacks and still continue to do so today in certain parts of North Africa………….long before whitey.

Obzocky…………Don’t know if you ever hear of Kwame Nkrumah, I think he was president of Zambia, I may be wrong, but he wrote a book detailing that the white man went into his country with the bible and when he left he owned all the land and the only thing blacks were left to hold was the bible…………don’t get tied up, it was a powerful tool.

Okay! I understand the argument that the Bible had been used to keep the slaves in line.

But, I must also ask this rather stupid question though: what has God to do with man’s erroneous interpretation of the Bible?

And why are we blaming the Bible as though the Bible interprets its self; blame the interpreter and not the designer.

@Obzocky and 555
The blame obviously must be placed on those who participated in the EVIL!

However, The Bible should not really be open to interpretation that is a flaw as is the Law in our Justice Systems. Humans of all colours, classes and creeds have far too many evil mofos extant, that is the real problem. Pols, Bankers etc lead that parade.

Just look at the many black leaders in Africa who treat their own peeps horribly eg powerful Nigerians dont treat Delta peeps too well ie where the Oil is. Does Mugabe treat the Zim Opposition followers properly?

@WW
I am skeptical bordering on cynicism!
Without doubt some of the very best CONMEN are in the Religion Industry!
They will sell your soul to the Devil for a couple cents. The Ten Commandments are lucid and should be obeyed and many other stories make sense BUT when the Cons decide they can corrupt anything! The Vatican Bank has dealt with some very dangerous criminals WHY? How come the RCs are so rich? Give us your $$$$ to help others! WHO?

@Well Well

“I still believe the bible is nothing more than a history book…”

Well! You’re obviously free to exercise your gift of self-determination/ freewill the way you see fit. This however, does not change the fact that God’s word will be the final arbiter of man’s destiny here on earth. And whether you choose to accept the bible as fact or fiction, it has no relevance to God’s divine purpose for our human existence; his words will be made know with or without your unqualified opinion. You have question the existence of God, why? Because you believe that the very notion of God is impractical to authenticate through the applicable medium by which we engage our empirical reality. Surely, this does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that just because he can’t be seen with the human eyes and touch with the human hands, that he fails to live. Even our universe in all it splendor, gives witness to the awesome power of a merciful God who awaits the repentance of a rebellious lot. Moreover, your belief I surmised, is based fundamentally, on the inanimate pages of a book that requires the spirit of the living God to actuate its very essence. Indeed, the Almighty God communicates to his people through the intuitive-conscience; the very notion that appears extraneous to our human understanding.
Finally, in the not to distant future, the power of the living God will make itself felt upon the face of the earth. And at the moment, every knee should genuflect, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is God…

Obzocky……………..you gotta learn to differentiate…………..i don’t believe in religion……….i think the man made version of the bible is suspect…………….this has nothing to do with a higher entity which may be responsible for creation…………the things i don’t believe in are all man made. there are very separate and distinct from each other.

The thing with religious people, they are not able to separate man made nonsense from spirituality……………that is why we have wars, ethnic cleansing and all kinds of crimes being committed in the name of everyone’s individual religion, and everyone seem to have a different version of God…………yet the world is on a fast track to hell in a handbasket. I like keeping things simple…………..Don’t know if anyone one has noticed but all the religious tele-evangalists are now crawling out of their holes…………watch out for more corruption on earth.

The former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thacther, was viewed by many as a vile racist .

Margaret Thatcher ‘Unabashedly Racist’ Says Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr .
The Huffington Post UK | By Jessica Elgot Posted: 10/04/2013 09:06 .

Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr has claimed Margaret Thatcher made ”unabashedly racist” comments when they last met, warning him not to let immigrants “take over” Sydney.

‘I recall one conversation I had with her in her retirement where she said something that was unabashedly racist,” he told ABC television on Tuesday night.

”She warned Australia – talking to me with Helena [his wife, who is of Malaysian origin] standing not far away – against Asian immigration, saying that if we allowed too much of it we’d see the natives of the land, the European settlers, overtaken by migrants …..

The Huffington Post UK | By Jessica Elgot Posted: 10/04/2013 09:06 .

You see with farrakhan he does not preach theology like the Christian faith . He dissects the bible so that it could be understood as a book that chronicles the lives of ordinary people trying to survive under extraordinary circumstances ,he is not a “pie” in the sky preacher.

@WW
While I have little knowledge of Maggie’s racial views I am very aware of her Economic Views and Policies. The saying “we are all Thatcherite’s now” was born as a result and has been used by Russian’s et al. Maggie saved the UK and many different Nations with her Iron hand fix of the languishing Socialist Sclerosis.
Greatest Economic UK PM in at least 100yrs!

Ac
Louis Farakhan is one of the best smooth talkers in the USA. You took a real look at the church where he was preaching. Do you really understand his brand of muslimism. Elijah Mohammed is a god; Christ and all the other people are just good men. Elijah Mohammed is the one and only true god. Don’t let me and Caswell see coming down Broad Street in a couple weeks stumbling over you muslim dress hear. i like him as a speaker but he is a real fraud.

“The Bible is so called “Black” History Book.
.. ..
“Blacks” are the Jews
“Whites” are the Jewish , ish means LIKE us, not us ”
=
that’s like an epiphany

The Reparation Movement needs to file a lawsuit against Britain . There is no time to delay, act now before the British destroy all the secret documents containing the atrocities they committed in the colonies from slavery to independence .

There will be no more worrying about bag or grub worms, moths, etc.
Most people have their own reasons to landscape their yard
to attract wildlife. Also known as the weed-eater, the string trimmer is indispensable if you
have a lot of trimming to do around the house, fences, walkways, or posts.

BRITAIN DESTROYED RECORDS OF COLONIAL CRIMES

Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.

Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.

The archive came to light last year when a group of Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion won the right to sue the British government. The Foreign Office promised to release the 8,800 files from 37 former colonies held at the highly-secure government communications centre at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire.

The historian appointed to oversee the review and transfer, Tony Badger, master of Clare College, Cambridge, says the discovery of the archive put the Foreign Office in an “embarrassing, scandalous” position. “These documents should have been in the public archives in the 1980s,” he said. “It’s long overdue.” The first of them are made available to the public on Wednesday at the National Archive at Kew, Surrey.

The papers at Hanslope Park include monthly intelligence reports on the “elimination” of the colonial authority’s enemies in 1950s Malaya; records showing ministers in London were aware of the torture and murder of Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, including a case of aman said to have been “roasted alive”; and papers detailing the lengths to which the UK went to forcibly remove islanders from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

However, among the documents are a handful which show that many of the most sensitive papers from Britain’s late colonial era were not hidden away, but simply destroyed. These papers give the instructions for systematic destruction issued in 1961 after Iain Macleod, secretary of state for the colonies, directed that post-independence governments should not get any material that “might embarrass Her Majesty’s government”, that could “embarrass members of the police, military forces, public servants or others eg police informers”, that might compromise intelligence sources, or that might “be used unethically by ministers in the successor government”.

Among the documents that appear to have been destroyed were: records of the abuse of Mau Mau insurgents detained by British colonial authorities, who were tortured and sometimes murdered; reports that may have detailed the alleged massacre of 24 unarmed villagers in Malaya by soldiers of the Scots Guards in 1948; most of the sensitive documents kept by colonial authorities in Aden, where the army’s Intelligence Corps operated a secret torture centre for several years in the 1960s; and every sensitive document kept by the authorities in British Guiana, a colony whose policies were heavily influenced by successive US governments and whose post-independence leader was toppled in a coup orchestrated by the CIA.

The documents that were not destroyed appear to have been kept secret not only to protect the UK’s reputation, but to shield the government from litigation. If the small group of Mau Mau detainees are successful in their legal action, thousands more veterans are expected to follow.

It is a case that is being closely watched by former Eoka guerillas who were detained by the British in 1950s Cyprus, and possibly by many others who were imprisoned and interrogated between 1946 and 1967, as Britain fought a series of rearguard actions across its rapidly dimishing empire.

The documents show that colonial officials were instructed to separate those papers to be left in place after independence – usually known as “Legacy files” – from those that were to be selected for destruction or removal to the UK. In many colonies, these were described as watch files, and stamped with a red letter W.

The papers at Kew depict a period of mounting anxiety amid fears that some of the incriminating watch files might be leaked. Officials were warned that they would be prosecuted if they took any any paperwork home – and some were. As independence grew closer, large caches of files were removed from colonial ministries to governors’ offices, where new safes were installed.

In Uganda, the process was codenamed Operation Legacy. In Kenya, a vetting process, described as “a thorough purge”, was overseen by colonial Special Branch officers.

Clear instructions were issued that no Africans were to be involved: only an individual who was “a servant of the Kenya government who is a British subject of European descent” could participate in the purge.

Painstaking measures were taken to prevent post-independence governments from learning that the watch files had ever existed. One instruction states: “The legacy files must leave no reference to watch material. Indeed, the very existence of the watch series, though it may be guessed at, should never be revealed.”

When a single watch file was to be removed from a group of legacy files, a “twin file” – or dummy – was to be created to insert in its place. If this was not practicable, the documents were to be removed en masse. There was concern that Macleod’s directions should not be divulged – “there is of course the risk of embarrassment should the circular be compromised” – and officials taking part in the purge were even warned to keep their W stamps in a safe place.

Many of the watch files ended up at Hanslope Park. They came from 37 different former colonies, and filled 200 metres of shelving. But it is becoming clear that much of the most damning material was probably destroyed. Officials in some colonies, such as Kenya, were told that there should be a presumption in favour of disposal of documents rather than removal to the UK – “emphasis is placed upon destruction” – and that no trace of either the documents or their incineration should remain. When documents were burned, “the waste should be reduced to ash and the ashes broken up”.

Some idea of the scale of the operation and the amount of documents that were erased from history can be gleaned from a handful of instruction documents that survived the purge. In certain circumstances, colonial officials in Kenya were informed, “it is permissible, as an alternative to destruction by fire, for documents to be packed in weighted crates and dumped in very deep and current-free water at maximum practicable distance from the coast”.

Documents that survive from Malaya suggest a far more haphazard destruction process, with relatively junior officials being permitted to decide what should be burned and what should be sent to London.

Dr Ed Hampshire, diplomatic and colonial record specialist at the National Archive, said the 1,200 files so far transferred from Hanslope Park represented “gold dust” for historians, with the occasional nugget, rather than a haul that calls for instant reinterpretation of history. However, only one sixth of the secret archive has so far been transferred. The remainder are expected to be at Kew by the end of 2013.

THE GUARDIAN 18/4/2012.

£19.9m settlement for Kenyan Mau Mau
http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-commons-22798214

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