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I was alerted by Zoe of the Ultraviolet Underground that the on idetification of the body was premature.

This article says that but it is from yesterday:
www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070928/LOCAL/309280002/-1/LOCAL17

This report is from this morning, and confirms that she dead, but doesn’t address the initial premature identification, so who knows when it was actually put on the web despite the date becasue you can put a timer on post appearing:
www.suntimes.com/news/metro/580074,CST-NWS-missing29.article

Since there’s not a lot of news on tv or the net about Nailah, it’s hard to know.

I’ve created a new blog.

Because this space was set up to deal with various issues of the Diaspora, yet, I constantly have stuff to say about the Jena 6 and related issues everday - I’ve set up The Jena 6 Blog.

Man, y’all really don’t understand. I’ve got a back log of saved Jena 6 post. Some of this stuff y’all see I started writing a week or two before it’s posted. I just don’t have a chance to get it up, because I don’t like to do 4 and 5 post a day; and I want each of them to be read because I think they each have value. I know if I go to somebody’s blog I’m not reading 5 different post in one day. I read too many blogs and news articles to devout that much time to one place, so I pick 1 or 2 to read and keep it moving.

And this is not to mention the back log of other post I’m not getting up. I have over 20 all together at this moment.

I’ll still post about the Jena 6 here some, but mostly I’ll just give a review here of what you can find at The Jena 6 Blog, so you can go check it out.

This blogged acted up on another of my post, so Again, I send you here to read: community.livejournal.com/black_intellect/31909.html

You can comment here or there.

Here’s a preview: Justin Barker, The True Victim in the Jena 6 Case

This is the line we keep getting from the ‘status quo of racism’ defenders.

Sure, he’s the purist, most innocent kid that ever lived. He’s such a good kid he got expelled from school 5 months after the fight for brining a gun to school. Now he’s a high school dropout as I understand it.

Their should be some recompense for the butt kicking that was delivered to Mr. Barker, but some recompense does not = anything goes.

He’s out right now on 45,000 dollars bail.

More details when I get them.

I’ll try to get with his lawyer Bob Noel, or family legal advisor Alan Bean of Friend’s of Justice, tomorrow

Video Here on CNN. Look to the bottom right.

If you came here looking for “Most Whites - Including Progressive Bloggers - Don’t Think Jena 6 Charges Are Wrong” then go here: www.associatedcontent.com/article/396536/most_whites_including_progressive_bloggers.html

This original link posted here kept going to an error page when you clicked on the article or clicked to comment. I tried repeatedly to correct it and repost it here but it would not work.

You can comment annonymosly there or comment on any post here.

Have you heard about Blackwater in Iraq? They’re the powerful, international security firm that guards U.S. diplomats and others in that country. There guards were recently involved in a very contraversial shooting of Iraqi suvillians. Blackwater says they were fired on first. Iraqi’s say, response to hearing a bomb a mile away, Blackwater started firing indiscrimanently.

Blackwater is a private company, that sales itself a some sort of peace keeping contractor and security force. But everything about them screams mercinary army; they’re guns for higher. They even have helicopter gunships(which I can’t understand how it’s legal to privately own those) and now a warship

http://media.hamptonroads.com/media/content/pilotonline/2007/09/critic500×285.jpg” alt=”Protesters demonstrate on Boush Street in front of Nauticus near where Blackwater had an open house to celebrate its new ship. MICHAEL KESTNER | THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT ” />

This video gives a demonstration and talks about this private malitarism:

Jeremy Scahill authered the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army describes the outsourcing of military operations in Iraq as the coalition of the billing, instead of a coalition of the willing. He and others contended that Bush is using mercenary armies to supply a private army troop surge, in place of state military.

You can watch this video of him being intervied:

The story of Uganda and it’s response to AIDS is one of tragedy and triumph.

According to PETER MUGYENYI, M.D., Joint Clinical Research Center, “by mid-1980s, Uganda had the highest incidence of HIV in the world, way and above any other country in Africa or any other country in the world.”

HIV having spread there undiagnosed for at least a decade; was starting to mature. I ask the question, but have not yet come by an answer to why no one noticed this epidemic until white men in the United States began to die from it. It seems that it was written off by the world health community when it was just Blacks in West-Central Africa. But that’s another issue to explore for another day.

When testing did come to that part of the continent, it was alarming. Infection rates were already creeping into the double digits. While many countries in Africa and throughout the world, including the United States, played a game of Tabo, denial and stigmatize, Uganda went to work to combat the disease – champion by Norriene Kaleeba.

The Frontline documentary The Age of AIDS captures the story. The whole program can be seen online, and to see the part about Uganda, go down to Part One - Chapter 6.

Kaleeba states in The Age of AIDS, “I had read that the World Health Organization has appointed a man, Jonathan Mann, to lead the first global program on AIDS. And this man was in Geneva, and my interpretation of that was that he must have a cure if he was within WHO…He told me that my husband was probably going to die because at the time, there was no cure. But he also said, “There is prejudice that is attached to this disease that we have to fight. And will you help me fight it?”

She did. As it says in the film “Noerine found a powerful ally in Uganda’s new president, Yoweri Museveni.”

From the Age of Aids:
YOWERI MUSEVENI, President of Uganda: On the other hand, it is not so dangerous because it does not infect easily.

NARRATOR: Museveni preached tolerance and told his people they should not be afraid.

YOWERI MUSEVENI: You can greet somebody with AIDS, it will not catch you. You can sit next to somebody with AIDS, it will not catch you. You will only get AIDS if you go and look for it where it is hiding itself.

They came up with a model, ABC. An Excerpt from this article describes it:

“FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Uganda had Africa’s earliest campaigns to urge love and support for those in need. In the 1980s, when most African governments seemed in denial, Ugandans readily acknowledged the AIDS epidemic and encouraged programs to deal with it, including a network of community support groups called TASO [The AIDS Support Organization].

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Acting Health Minister Dr. Samuel Okware says ABC made no value judgments. It just offered options for everyone, whether they were ready to abstain, be faithful, or use condoms.”

Noriene Kaleeba says “this has been one of the key successes of the Ugandan response to HIV- positive people, families who have been affected, who share their experience and exude hope because hope is a key ingredient to survival.”

This is not only a triumph against AIDS, this is a triumph in African leaderships. It shows what Africa can do if it were to rid itself of the Western interlopers and the corrupt African thugs running so many of the continents countries.

They have no vast amount of money, no significant technology, and not much in the way of fancy drugs. Yet, with a sensible program, a commitment to saving lives, a little compassion for people; they have decreased AIDS rates in different demographics by 66 to 75 percent in the early 90s to the beginning of this decade.

Uganda is an example to the world, not just to the rest of Africa. It even has many lessons for high-tech, higher education America. Education and prevention is the greatest key to stopping something like AIDS and other sexual and drug related diseases. Yet, even 35 years since its identification, and with millions of Americans dead; there are some in America that continue to play moral politics with prevention techniques such as needle exchange and the dissemination of information.

Also, Brazil has a Model Response To Aids; including being the first to simple guarantee AIDS treatment to everyone: www.pbs.org/newshour/health/aids/brazil/

The term “race card” the vast majority of the time when used, is used in order to not have to deal with race and racism; and to dismiss the concerns of people who’ve had race used against them. The only time that term maybe can be appropriately used to me is when someone is crying wolf; even then with it’s evolved connotation, I couldn’t really say it’s appropriate. But white people use it to deflect from the issue anytime they don’t want to have to acknowledge a racial issue. The term is used mostly in a racist manner on their part. It’s the same old trick used by white people to try to call Black folk racist for pointing out white racism. They used to do it to the likes of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X all the time; they just didn’t have the term “race card”, yet.

To review: The use of the term “race card” is a racist attempt to dismiss people affected by racism out of hand, allowing the user to not have to think about race; for the purpose of maintaining the racial status quo.

Those who are not affected by racism don’t have to think about it; and most of them choose not to. But understand that people you hear dismiss racial concerns of others, out of hand, without consideration of the issue, do not want racial harmony; they just want the Negroes, or whomever not to complain. And they want white people to maintain their place of privilege. This includes many, many liberals. Condescending white liberals are the worst racist.

This is not to say that every time a Black person, or whomever, says something is racist, that it is; but if one dismisses the possibility out of hand, and does so as a matter of course; it is clear that their motivation is to maintain the social status quo as is, and that they want racism to thrive.

I find Black people who accept “playing the race card” as a legitimate term, have assimilated into white supremist thinking, and in a number of cases, are so eager to show they’re not like those other ” bad angry Negroes” (again, a stereotype and ideology that they have accepted from white ideology), they must show their separation by embracing supremist and racially dismissive terminology and thinking. I would hope such persons would begin to take a more critical and analytical look at such things, and not swallow whole the ideology of the mainstream white paradigm.

In his book 21st Century Africa: A Paradigm Shift, Dr. Wosene Yefru enlightens us that paradigm = epistemology(thought process) + canon(sources recognized as credible information). If either our epistemology or canon are external derived, rather than internally; we have a false paradigm. We must think for ourselves, not parrot white people, and build a sound paradigm with which to operate from.

From The Little Rock 9 Fondation’s Page:

September 25, 1957, became a historic day in the Nation when nine courageous children risked their lives to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Confronted by a hostile crowd and escorted by the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airbourne, they shouldered the burden of integrating a then segregated public school system. Although the Supreme Court’s Landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education struck down racial segregation in public schools, it was the courageous actions of these nine young champions of school integration that tested the strength of that decision. Their actions not only mobilized a Nation to insure that access to a quality education was granted to all Americans, but they helped to define the civil rights movement. They became known as the Little Rock Nine.

A community unwillingly to except Blacks and people of other races into their school sparked this historic event, that today we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of. I applaud the 9’s bravery, as they were juveniles taking a stand for all of our opportunities in a trying situation.

Fifty years later, another community not too far away, in the bordering state of Louisiana had still not decided that Blacks were worthy of going to school with white children. They maintained a white’s only tree at the school, and defacto segregation in the school.

As much as our society likes to pretend things are different, beneath the surface layer, things have scarcely changed, and much is still the same. One thing that has changed from the day of the Little Rock 9; there’s no federal intervention from for the Jena 6. The foot shuffl’in, head scratch’in, Black U.S. Attorny in Shreveport Louisiana isn’t gong to do anything as he’s justifying what Reed Walters is doing and won’t even move on the hanging of the nooses as a hate crime (though the FBI recommended just that) because he says the kids who did the noose hanging didn’t have a bad history. Do you think he’s then going to actually move on Reed Walters or Judge Mauffray for civil and constitutional rights abuses?

As equal justice, treatment and protection under the law are being rolled back, as I will make evident in coming post, people of color had better learn to take a stand and fight, like our forebears did. They better learn to follow the lead of the children in Little Rock and Birmingham.

As the movement song lyrics go, “the one thing we did right, was the day we started to fight”.

A strange situation.

Pros in the news, covering this case, don’t know what’s going on; so again I went straight to the source.

Just spoke with Bob Noel, one of Mychael Bell attorneys.

Question: Why is Mr.Bell not being allowed to post bail?

Mr. Noel: We’re having a problem with the Judge. We have something working in the court of appeals.

Question: SO you’re addressing the Issue with the appeals court?

Mr. Noel: Yes

Question: Was bail even brought up in the hearing on Friday?

Mr. Noel: I can’t discuss anything that happened in court because it’s a juvenile matter.

Question: When might we know something about a decision on bail?

Mr. Noel: Should be soon, I can’t really say more, but should be soon.

Here’s some background to the current situation from USAToday.