AFRICAN DIASPORAL ENTERPRISES

Importance of Myth's Public Disclosure


        A
woman is beaten to the point of exhaustion by her husband. Then she is brutally raped. She endures this abuse for years on end. Finally, she summons all the courage she has. When her husband beats her yet again, rapes her again and leaves, she runs to a neighbor. The kind neighbor convinces her to call the police. The woman, although very afraid, bravely calls the police. The police arrive. They take pictures of the woman's bruises -- both old and new. The police then obtain the husband's whereabouts from the wife and arrest him. Sometime later there is a trial. The husband is found guilty and made to serve 15 years. Later, the woman goes to counseling, and amazingly, uses the counseling sessions she has learned to go to college to help other victims of domestic violence.

        What led to the eventual end of this poor woman's abuse? GOING PUBLIC. Publicly disclosing the abuse ended the woman's cycle of abuse.

        The same is true for societal abuse. Perpetrators of societal abuse use their positions of power to strengthen themselves at the expense of their victims. Publicly exposing their abuse warns others and helps to create a group of individuals who can successfully fight the abuser.

        Perpetrators of societal abuse do not always limit their oppressive conduct to one particular region. On many occasions, these societal bullies force their behavior on the international community.

        Why did the European Jewish community engage in the slander of Africans? It stands to reason that if not for deriving a sadistic glee from watching others suffer, there must be some other advantage for them to render Africans to be beneath public contempt.

        The main advantage of ruining the reputation of a person or group of persons is the ability to engage them in an unethical, immoral or illegal fashion for unjust profit. Once the group's character is effectively assassinated, the group must rely on some entity to reestablish the group's character. In such a case, the victim often has to depend on the slanderous entity itself to reacquire that which was originally stolen by the slanderous entity. The slanderous entity then makes regaining the destroyed reputation a privilege -- not a right.

        As stated under the subheading entitled The Maafa, there are past occasions where some members of the European Jewish community have engaged in underpaying their African servants, using the pejorative term "schvartzes" in their description of them. The website http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/exploit.htm explains how in the 1930s, unemployed Black women would hope to be hired by Bronx women to do housework for fifteen to thirty cents an hour (emphasis added) and that most of these housewives were Jewish.

        Although not restricted to the European Jewish community, some members of the European Jewish community regularly hire individuals who are negatively viewed by the public. Africans in the Diaspora are not the only individuals who are "consigned" to engage in unethical or illegal conduct at the behest of middle-class and wealthy European Jews. Ethnic groups and societal outcasts (i.e. illegal aliens) against which the media has offered negative publicity are no strangers to oppression. Groups entitled "illegal aliens," ex-convicts and others are often underpaid, due in part, to their nonexistent reputations and the public's lack of sympathy for their plight.

        The European Jewish community's promulgation of the myth of the inferiority of dark skin is also perpetrated against dark-skinned Jews in Israel.

        Author Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht, in the book The Fate of the Jews explains the European Jewish Israeli's treatment of darker-skinned Jews: "Sephardic Jews have menial jobs and less education; they live in overcrowded rooms in overcrowded slums. They are Israel's blacks; some Ashkenazic women refer to their Sephardic maid as the "schvartze."

        Ms. Feuerlicht goes on to say: "Sephardic children go to schools where they learn about Ashkenazic heroes and European culture; their own culture is ignored or denigrated. There is a high rate of juvenile delinquency and petty crime among them. According to Yakim, when a crime is committed in a Sephardic community, the police don't necessarily look for the criminal; instead there is collective punishment. A group of Sephardim are rounded up, beaten, and released."

        Reuven Abargel, a member of Israel's former Black Panthers Party, and now a founding member of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow, is a member of Israel's dark-skinned Mizrahim majority.  http://www.sfbayview.com/070506/israeliblack070506.shtml explains how Reuven Abargel, a North African Jew,  describes the oppression and degradation of the North African/Middle Eastern Mizrahi Jews at the hands of Israel's European Jewish minority: "The Mizrahim in Israel went through a sophisticated process of oppression under the guise of slogans such as "we are all brothers" and "we are all Jews." While the Ashkenazi establishment beamed with "solidarity" toward us, it committed crimes against us, such as medical experiments in radioactive radiation of about 100,000 children, almost all of whom are immigrants from North Africa, the kidnapping of children from large Mizrahi families to transfer them to childless European Jewish couples, and the exclusion of Mizrahi Jews from Israel’s educational institutions and centers of influence.

        Mr. Abargel, as well as fellow Mizrahi Jews learned about the struggles of the original Black Panthers Party in the United States, known far and wide for its active stance against the United States' oppressive apartheid government. Hearing of the Black Panthers Party's exploits, Mizrahi Jews soon adopted the same name.

        At the aforementioned website, it states that "while the Euro-American Ashkenazi Jews who dominated Israel’s founding Labour Party spoke of the "ingathering" of these immigrants as part of fulfilling the Zionist dream, in reality they were seen as inferior "human material" and were desired mainly as a source of cheap labor. As such, they were consigned to living situations which at times approximated the treatment of Mexican immigrants to America’s farmland. Some had their children kidnapped and given to childless Ashkenazi couples while others were used as guinea pigs in Nazi-like medical experiments."

        The same sentiments are mirrored in the periodical The Green Left. In its article entitled "Israel -- Divided By Racism, dated July 30, 1997, it says the following: "From the early days of the Zionist project, large numbers of Jews from neighbouring Arab countries were brought to Palestine. Ostensibly they were "returning home", but in reality they came as cheap labour for their European counterparts (Ashkenazi Jews). These Arab Jews were given the name Mizrahim (the eastern ones). Official Israeli history presents the emigration of Mizrahi as a result of anti-Semitism within the countries where they lived or a religious devotion to the land of Palestine. This account forgets the economic interests of the Ashkenazi Zionists and the long and largely untroubled relationship between Mizrahi Jews and the other Arabs with whom they lived. Mizrahim had lived in North Africa and the Middle East for millennia, and the vast majority were opposed to creating a Jewish state in Palestine. The Iraqi Jewish leadership, for example, cooperated with the Iraqi government to stop Zionist activity in Iraq; the chief rabbi published an open letter denouncing Zionism. In 1920, Palestinian Jews signed anti-Zionist petitions denouncing Ashkenazi rule. It is now well documented that Zionist underground cells planted bombs in Jewish centres to create hysteria amongst Iraqi Jews, hoping to encourage a mass exodus to Israel. On January 14, 1951, a bomb was thrown into an Iraqi synagogue, killing four people ... The Mizrahim who arrived in Israel landed in corrugated iron transit camps where Israeli officials attempted to strip them of their "Arabness" by getting rid of their "unpronounceable" Arab names and replacing them with good "Jewish" names. Most ended up in agricultural work, 10-12 hours a day in conditions of disease and squalor. Their high death rate was explained by one Zionist official as a "common and natural thing." One particularly damning example of the European approach to Mizrahim was the infamous "kidnapped children of Yemen" affair. Doctors, social workers and nurses worked together to kidnap 600 Yemeni-Jewish babies, telling their parents they had died and giving them to childless Ashkenazi couples.1 (Please read this article).

        In the Israeli newspaper Ha Aretz, it reported that Mevasseret Zion Mayor Carmi Gillon, a European Jewish Israeli made disparaging comments regarding the dark-skinned Ethiopian Jewish immigrants living in the town's absorption center. Mr. Gillon stated: "There is a phenomenon of vandalism by the absorption center's children ... who destroy, break and paw through trash cans." According to Ha Aretz, sources said that Gillon has been trying for some time to get rid of the absorption center because the land on which it sits is worth a lot of money. The newspaper article also states that Roni Givoni, who heads a group of Mevasseret residents who aid the immigrants, said: "... It's a combination of economic motives, racism and plain old stupidity. He added that he believes that Gillon deliberately painted a harsh picture in an effort to get more money from the Absorption Ministry.

        Most people do not know that the European Jewish community's anti-black-skin, anti-dark-skin racism is not just restricted to the Americas, Western Europe and perhaps South Africa. Based on the foregoing, it is clear that European Jewish-controlled Israel has a history of discriminating against darker-skinned African and Middle Eastern Jews. Of those who believe in the European Jewish community's preoccupation with maligning individuals who are dark-skinned, very few have clearly seen what amounts to be an international pattern of abuse against dark-skinned people. One need only visit Jewish enclaves like Boro Park and Williamsburg, both in Brooklyn, New York, where construction work is being performed by the darker-skinned Mexicans. One can rest assured that these individuals, more than likely illegal aliens, make no more than $10.00 per hour for work that should be at least $40.00 per hour.

        Of course, there is a downside to the victims, and an upside to the slanderous entity that disseminates the defamatory comments. As in the past, just as rich white landowners pitted poor whites against enslaved Africans in each other's quest to acquire the rich white entity's financial "crumbs," the same is done to poor and almost-poor Americans who are skipped over by white-run financial entities and replaced with desperate laborers who are forced to work in dumb silence as a result of being publicly labeled "illegal aliens." Both groups are pitted against each other in such a way that neither group pays attention to the slanderous entity that started the problem in the first place.

        Members of white Christian hate groups are no doubt descendants of poor whites who, because of the European Jewish community's promulgation of the slanderous myth regarding the curse of Ham in the past, were tricked into believing that dark-skinned African people are condemned by God to be enslaved. There are even those among them who believe that African people should be eradicated from the planet. Unbelievably, even they are victims. First, they are victims of being racists -- said racism a direct outgrowth of the European Jewish community's past promulgation of the myth of the inferiority of dark skin. Then, they are victims of the European Jewish community's attempt to pit poor racist whites against poor dark-skinned people to disenfranchise both groups, thereby diverting negative attention away from themselves and maintaining a false air of righteousness.  Lastly, the bear the shame of being the originators of the doctrine of dark-skin inferiority/white supremacy -- a doctrine that was given life by European Jewish teachings.

        The descendants of those Europeans Jews who promulgated this slanderous myth should want to do all they can to condemn their ancestors' behavior and to dispel any reminders of this monstrous lie. However, for Africans and other dark-skinned ethnic groups, the present European Jewish community not only refuses to publicly debunk the European Jewish-fomented dark-skin-inferiority myth, but has done all in its power to prevent its public disclosure. By its silence regarding the existence and promulgation of this myth, the European Jewish community has condoned anti-black racism and has become, at the very least, an accessory to crimes committed against dark-skinned people. At the very most, it has become an accomplice.

        On November 30, 1998, Abraham H. Foxman of the Anti Defamation League reportedly conducted a survey's called the Index of Anti-Semitic Belief. According to this survey, "one segment of American society, Jew-hatred is still strong among African-Americans." Furthermore, it states that 34% of black Americans fit into the ADL's category of most anti-Semitic" and that "34 percent of black Americans fit into the ADL's category of most anti-Semitic. That is compared to only 9 percent of the general population."

        Amazingly, this survey plays into the European Jewish religiously-fomented slanderous myth that was promulgated against Africans hundreds of years ago. In his book, Legends of the Jews, Louis Ginzberg writes: "The last will and testament of Canaan addressed to his children read as follows: "...hate your master with an exceeding great hate..."2 It almost appears as though the results of Abraham Foxman's survey were designed to buttress Mr. Ginzberg slanderous myth regarding the dark-skinned so-called "sons" of Ham.

        The European Jewish community does all that it can to fight against the Christian doctrine that the Jews were responsible for the murder of Jesus. Members of the Anti Defamation in Florida went so far as to say: "The Passion of the Christ" continues its unambiguous portrayal of Jews as being responsible for the death of Jesus."3 Well, the myth regarding the curse of Ham/dark skin is no different. It started hundreds of years ago. It still exists. It is still taught by certain rabbis within the Jewish community. If the Jewish community feels it has a responsibility to fight against centuries-old religiously-fomented slanderous Christian doctrines, don't African Americans have the responsbility to do the same? That this slanderous European Jewish teaching emanates from the Jewish community should not frighten us -- it should impel us to fight harder.

        European Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League feel they have a right to know whether African Americans are anti-Semitic. Well, guess what? There are no African American religions that teach that white skin is the sign of God's curse. However, European Judaism does teach that black skin is the sign of God's curse. African Americans have a right and a responsibility to force the European Jewish community to disclose not just the slanderous Jewish myth, but the current practice of slandering African.  Africans also have a right to determine the extent of anti-African/anti-black skin hatred in the European Jewish community.

        The European Jewish community's centuries-old practice of publicly defaming dark-skinned people is oftentimes part of an overall onslaught that can be described as its "ultimate weapon." What is this ultimate weapon? How is it used?

        Learning the use of their "ultimate weapon" affords Africans the opportunity to prepare for such an onslaught — and to fight back successfully.




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Footnotes:

1 http://www.greenleft.org.au/1997/283/16448

2http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/lginzberg/bl-lginzberg-legends-1-4h.htm

3 http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4444_12.htm