Before I start this, I don’t like “Dr.” Umar Johnson, I don’t like the Nation of Islam cult, or generally most black nationalist movements. However, I want the best for black people.
Blackness in the context of Western Civilization was intended to be the “antithesis” to the “thesis” of white supremacy, colonialism, exceptionalism, deification, etc. Better put, blackness is the “yang” to the “ying” of whiteness. Though this is a manufactured dialectic, an engineered binary, etc., which was intended to create a caste system for the benefit of generating wealth for a top-down hierarchy between the ruling class and the peasantry – where race was used as a layer of division to disunite the common human proletariat – the truth is that the dialectic has sunken deep into the ontology, consciousness, what have you, of Western civilization. Even if the dialectic isn’t purely from a wealth accumulation standpoint, the truth is we are all human laboring under the illusion of self, etc.
As a result, blackness as personified by African bodies that were forcibly absorbed into Western civilization during the Trans-Atlantic Slavery and Colonial periods, notably of the Americas and continental Africa itself, is…black. By black, I mean nihilistic.
Blackness is the personification of Western nihilism that was constructed to give purpose and meaning to “solution” of “whiteness”. Black bodies are seen as “challenges” to be triumphed against, trained for, brutalized, humbled, etc. Black culture is seen a reminder of the civilizing tendencies of “white culture”. Black de-valuation is seen as an easy means of boosting “white valuation”, for example, impoverished whites seeing themselves as more in alignment with the white upper class rather than black lower class, i.e., whites at the bottom can appropriate upwards, whereas black people who succeed are continuously dragged down by the “black bottom”, etc. Yet, the irony is that black culture is all of these things, i.e., black people also choose to live in the binary of being polar opposites just for the sake of it, and as a result, the system gets what it wants…an easily agitated and divided public.
The further construction of blackness is the tendency towards self-annihilation, and by that I don’t mean breeding or baby making, but rather the cannibalistic and infectious nature of toxic masculinity (street law, street justice, etc.). To me a black man for example means to push out emotion, care, sympathy, honor, etc. Black men brutalize each other each day as black men jockey over petty squabbles of maintaining societal notions of masculinity, but not just any notion, but this purposely crafted dialectical notion explicitly intended for black people.
Hitler, the Nazis, the Holocaust, have become, sadly, and oddly, a form of pop culture, and not just any pop culture, but a hyper-real form of culture perpetuated by the omnipotent and fate-sealing power of the “algorithm”.Quinton Mitchell
I call it Nazi Pop.
I understand that history should be taught and preserved. I also understand that having different content creators helps analyze topics form different perspectives. However, I think there should at least be more disclaimers relating to Nazi content or at least some sort more intensive vetting process including but not limited to peer-review for YouTube videos on the subject. Also, creators of such content should have to disclose their public identity rather than hide behind avatars.
A large chuck of the profit percentage should go to charities such as those dedicated to Holocaust education or hate-group watchdog groups.
It seems many content creators have learned that making videos about Nazis is an easy way to get paid, yet many people don’t care about the money but rather they are potential Nazi sympathizers who have adapted to not seeming radical but instead brand themselves as “amateur historians”. For example, the YouTube pages such as the Zoomer Historian and History-at-War.
Sure, not everyone talking about Nazis are bad and the intent is often educational. Yet, even with these good faith actors the need to make money off Nazi content still stands. For example, let us look at lovable and iconic YouTube creator, Simon Whistler.
When I type in Simon Whistler Nazi on YouTube I see the following videos. Why Did So Many Nazis Choose Argentina to Flee to After WWII? (on Today I Found Out); Why Did So Many Nazis Choose Argentina to Flee to After WWII? (on Into The Shadows); Adolf Hitler – The Rise of a Fanatical Fuhrer (on Biographics); The “Nice” Nazis (on Sideprojects); War and Drugs – WWII Soldiers Go Mad on Meth (on Brain Blaze); Inside the Meeting that Engineered the Holocaust (on Into the Shadows); The Rise and Fall of the Nazi War Machine (on Warographics); The 1936 Olympic Games: Nazi Germany’s Gambit (on Into the Shadows); The “XX System”: How MI5 Made Fools of the Nazis (on Into the Shadows)…and honestly, there is at least 20 plus more.
I must stress that I think Simon Whistler is a legitimate content creator interested in sharing snippets of lost history.
Him aside, we have to be real there are likely Attomwaffen SS sympathizers etc. secretly making ambiguous pro-Nazi videos.
This is what I am saying. Is it education or entertainment? Sure, I have hope that humanity has learned its lessons but…we do live in a world that does seem to be dangerously flirting with a nostalgia for strong-men fascism, largely as a means of curbing the externalities of global capitalism (mass migration, free trade, etc.), which ironically is controlled by those who often fund…fascism.
In other words, the elite capital class are responsible for most of the world’s social ills but while they make profit, they also fund isolationist, nationalist, and often racist regimes because these fascist regimes often side with capitalism, especially as a means of opposing egalitarian ideas such as communism.
Elon Musk is the avatar for everything negative I am stating or insinuating in this post. An alleged “autistic savant”, Sorrow of Young Werner, edge lord, “Sit on my face” (Grandma’s Boy film reference), billionaire capitalist who panders to right wing grifters because they are more so aligned with the economic ideology that enables him to exploit, loot, scam, borrow, fake it till he makes it, and profit, etc.
I call this tendency to make Nazi videos for money on YouTube as being Nazi Pop. Nazi Pop Culture.
There seems to be something going on. There are a lot of “historical analysis” videos dedicated to “studying” (cough – worshipping) the Nazis, especially with a target audience comprised of Millennials, Zoomers, and this odd new “Newsweek”-coined generation called “Generation Alpha”. It is as if there is a bot farm spewing out these Nazi historical analysis videos as a means of subconsciously brainwashing a new crop of unwitting racists, “race realists”, etc., notably in the wake of a world that is unfairly – in my opinion – rallying against “wokeness”, where said “wokeness” is often, but not always, code-word in conservative circles for anything that is not white, straight, male, capitalist, selfish and likely Christian.
“Whiteness” has cleverly positioned itself as an “oppressed” status group, however, the political left often can’t help but to not use “whiteness” as the target to most of its own philosophical juxtapositions. Adding to this, because of the burdens of globalism, climate change, poverty, and wars, many refugees have fled into the Global North, thus causing race realist nationalism to rise.
The political left – though not wrong in its political and economic analysis of contemporary issues, at least from a pure analysis standpoint, as opposed to real life political experiments – often uses whiteness as the focal and starting point for many of its analytical arguments, and this, therefore, helps create a situation that actual white supremacist can exploit by providing a “safe space” for the often lost, frustrated, guilty, etc. White people who are tasked with analyzing their privilege but then rejecting the guilt associated with it when they feel they are being unfairly singled out, and at worst, disarmed from self-defense from the basic truths of human nature beyond race or color.
In other words, many white people feel they can’t defend themselves while also being blamed for the ills of society, and many people reject these feelings and are often recruited by bad faith actors who want to inculcate them into race realism, racism, Nazism, etc. Yet, the left or liberals can often be dismissive of this sentiment, but being dismissive doesn’t mean it goes away. However, this does not mean we need to coddle or excuse the truths of toxic masculinity, entitlement, the hypocrisies of patriarchy and the male gaze onto the female form, racism, etc.
I am not saying that whiteness, colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, etc., as is, as they are linked in our contemporary society, are not topics worth studying, however, the folly of let’s say…Marxists analysis…is that it reduces everything to base “non metaphysical” material that is in need of study, analysis, etc. Yet, my argument is that human nature is sure able to be understood, yet most humans are not thinking too deep about social issues besides simply trying to survive in peace. Also, my rebuttal to a full acceptance of applying Marxist analysis is that life is inherently…nonsensical and absurd. The Marxist tries to reduce everything to realist, evolutionary struggle in a sort of godless universe where no objective truths actually exist besides the truths we can analyze based on our evolution as a species, here and only here on Earth, based on understanding the crux of class throughout space and time. Sounds somewhat reasonable.
But why do we make art? Why do we do anything? What’s the point? The point is there is no point but there is a point. Life has purpose and in theory doesn’t. Life is a walking contradiction but because it is, we naturally apply some level of metaphysical justification to our actions. Sure, we can debate about the scope and scale about how we apply metaphysical explanation or justification to sustain our existences, yet, still humans often operate indifferent to being “analytical nerds” where everything is seen as a mindless construction of petty human efforts.
The tin-foil hat in me thinks that our current racial situation is in part manufactured. A sort of dialectical warfare situation where those at the top, typically the capital owners, use race as a means of disguising the institutional power that ironically helps maintain the one percent. The left thinks it is immune to this, but I suspect this is not the case because those at the top, are smarter than given credit for, considering that the left spends so much time in analyzing them. The one percent needs a racially divided proletariat in order to maintain the systems that maintains their power, yet, oddly, when someone says that “things are rigged” notably in matters of race, I notice the political-left itself is often dismissive of this allegation (which I can understand because such as allegation can be used lazily as a means of not deeply analyzing systemic power, however, it is naïve for the left to not admit that pitting the races against each other has always been a key strategy in debasing proletarian and labor-centric power). However, those on the Left don’t want to be dismissive of marginalized groups voices by prioritizing class consciousness over intersectionality, so if anything, it’s on said marginalized groups to accept that such divisive strategies are possible, but it may ironically not be good strategy for historically oppressed groups to acknowledge this considering the status quo can use this as a means of furthering silencing specific causes. Just one of the many seemingly, damned if you, demand if you don’t Catch 22’s we live under.
With the toxic revolt and reaction against diversity and inclusion, I, as black man who grew up largely in predominately white environments (which, I admit were often positive experiences, but yes I have experienced blatant racism), I notice on YouTube that many “content creators” are uploading videos dedicated to studying Nazism.
And, sure, there’s a lot of unpackage there, but I often suspect more sinister intentions. The phenomena are similar to the notion or trop of the “edge lord”. Instead of seeing what the Nazis did as bad, rather the Nazis are “pornified”. From their Hugo Boss uniforms, their innovations (rockets, synthetic oils, jet engines, the interstate systems, intercontinental ballistic missiles, propaganda, etc.), their national unity, etc., there is something that many people seem to deeply want to emulate. That is the sad thing about these YouTube videos for example. Many but not all seem to be about nostalgia rather than analysis of evil.
We must remember than since 2012 for example, which was the era that kicked off the police brutality riots – often against black people – than many college age people were children. Many have adopted the tenants of social justice to varying degrees, but others see social justice as establishment. This therefore opens the opportunity for actual Neo Nazis, who have innovated into doing video essays online, owning video game Reddit communities, etc., the ability to recruit a new crop of followers or apologists.
At first, the book White Noise by Don DeLillo creeps up in my mind. In that book, the main character, Jack Gladney, is the professor of Nazi Studies at some Midwest college, yet the character of Gladney was used by DeLillo as a means of detailing how even a monster such as Adolph Hitler became a sort of pop culture commodity in a postmodern and post-capitalist world. Even Family Guy by Seth MacFarlane pointed fun at this with his Hitler talk-show in his cartoon.
Even atrocities of wars gone by and the lessons thereof which should humble us as a species, instead become commodities or a means of gaining an income.
DeLillo’s prophetic words in his 1985 National Book Award winning novel (which were not done with justice in the 2023 movie adaptation in my opinion) sort of became reality. Hitler, the Nazis, the Holocaust, have become, sadly, and oddly, a form of pop culture, and not just any pop culture, but a hyper-real form of culture perpetuated by the omnipotent and fate-sealing power of the “algorithm”.
(1) Many Christian conservatives often fall into conspiracy theories, yet, isn’t obsessing over conspiracy theories a sign of not having faith? If their faith is so strong and God is in control, then it seems that Christians don’t really believe God…is…in…control. Once could go further and say that Christians who engage in conspiracy theory are actually engaging in blasphemy because people are still trying to control things rather than having faith in God making things right.
(2) It’s funny how people say the Second Amendment is about protecting us against a tyrannical government, yet, if that’s the case then why did so many white people not pick up arms to liberate black people from Jim Crow? Or, at a minimum be supportive of black people taking up arms to liberating themselves? Maybe it’s because what is “tyrannical” is subjective, i.e., just because you don’t like something you call it tyrannical, but what’s tyrannical to one is not to another. A lot of people seems Ok when a segment of the population was being oppressed.
(3) It’s interesting how conservatives said that COVID was a hoax, yet, the only way how Trump kept out migrants and refugees was through acknowledging that COVID existed with his use of Title 42 laws (the ability to keep people out of the USA because of public health concerns). So either COVID is real and was a real threat, or the Trump Administration used a hoax per conservative logic to keep out migrants, and in theory, per the law, violate the ability for people to seek asylum.
(4) Republicans say they want to bring money home, such as when talking about the Ukraine Russian War, etc., yet, this is the same party…. that wants to cut public education, raise social security (thus, increasing the chance of not getting it since you’re closer to dying, etc.).
(5) Conservatives are trying to argue that religion should not be separate from state, yet this just leads to xenophobia because society therefore becomes a battle of which religion has more power over the other because people don’t want to be rulee by a religion they don’t align with. Christian Nationalist also wanting secular power also negates their faith because in theory God is control and has a plan, yet it seems Christian Nationalist want to control the plan because deeply they don’t have faith and/or their faith is “bad faith”, i.e., for selfish, racist, sexist, etc., reasons. Which church would even rule? There are thousands of Protestant churches. Will we be…Church of God, Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptists, Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist, African Methodist Episcopalian, Seventh Day Adventist, Unitarian, Roman Catholic, Coptic Christian, Orthodox, Quaker, Mennonite, Amish, etc.?
(6) Conservatives say they dislike government, despite hailing police agencies which are government institutions. Not saying that is good or bad, but just admit that conservatives do like elements of government.
(7) Conservatives want to ban adult content yet state they value free speech between consenting adults, where adults are legally allowed to enter into contracts, including contracts that includes the use of their bodies. By banning legal pornography all you do is create the market for illegal pornography which empowers criminals and ironically may help increase human trafficking. It’s also insane how Conservatives try to merge legal desire between adults with crime as a low IQ and strawman strategy to guilt people away from not being sexually empowered, educated, fulfilled, etc.
(8) Conservatives were saying All Lives Matters or say “I don’t see Color” but then freak out when a person of color is cast in movie in a role that was traditionally played by a white person.
(9) JD Vance, Trump’s Vice President, made fun of modern, independent-minded women by calling them “childless cat ladies”, yet, his benefactor, Peter Thiel is a gay man (not a crime) who can’t have children. Vance claims that people without children don’t care about the country, yet Peter Thiel is his benefactor and mentor
(10) It’s interesting how much the Blue Lives Matter crowd is silent when it comes to supporting Kamala Harris who was a prosecutor helping cops get convictions
(11) Conservatives are saying now that the Democrats are warmongers, yet, Republicans have made it very clear they are willing to go to war with Iran, and some even with China. They also pretended to care when Biden left Afghanistan. So… they wanted us to stay in the war in Afghanistan, yet are saying the want to end wars?
(12) Many American Christians are capitalist, but you can’t bring your money into the afterlife, and what is the point of making a lot of money if you want End Time to happen?
First off, black people can be racist despite this insane notion these days that black people cannot since black people “lack power”. But to believe this actually defeats Black Nationalist claims of supremacy and fosters a victim mentality, yet being ambiguous between victim and bigot is a form of power but being deceptive about it. Believing black people can’t be racist ironically is dehumanizing which defeats the claim of being empowered. Black people can be racist yet the scope of that racism is lesser if talking in terms of systems. So it’s not that black people objectively can’t be racist if we’re to entrain this often leftist notion, but rather their racism has little impact on larger systems; however, within smaller or interpersonal dymanics, of course black people can be racist within the context of tjem being minorities. Not holding us to the same standards is proof that certain forces want to instigate and perpetuate the racial divide. Everyone can punch but some punches have more weight behind them.
Regardless, I don’t want to hate Umar Johnson. I feel his intentions to want to help are correct but his prescription to solve the problems facing black people are unnecessary. He is playing the racial dialectic game without realizing that in many ways that is…the point of America, i.e., to keep the black-white binary (or, black-white and white adjacent binary – which includes white Hispanic, Arab, Asian, etc.) in perpetual struggle as a means of dividing the public, where such division notably amongst the traditional white poor (and, more recently the social climbing first to second generation Latino still figuring out where they stand in the racial hierarchy scheme) serves to protect the capitalist ruling class of predominantly white or white adjacent men.
Instead of a true class struggle beyond identity politics, figures like Umar Johnson exploit the more-so Left Wing (anti-colonial and self-deterministic) sentiment which calls for the need for certain communities to have their own “incubation period to resolve the issues of colonialism”, etc.
Umar usurps this calling for what I call the “incubation/healing phase” for oppressed groups and instead hijacks it to create a version of black supremacy and what I would argue is black fascism.
Hence, why I say Umar Johnson is the perfect example of the Horseshoe Theory, i.e., in the case of Left-Wing politics, if you go too far Left (for example through “woke territory”) you end up at the opposite end of the spectrum and wind up in Right Wing territory. Same can be said if you go too Right Wing, i.e., what we see to be white racial collectivism abandoning notions of individualism as seen in the liberal tradition in exchange for dictatorial leaders who oversee an expansive police-government state, i.e., a sort of Communist totalitarian state.
In theory, Umar is an unwitting agent to give the system what it wants (a continuation of the colorist and racial caste system needed for divide-and-conquer purposes over the proletariat) because it wants segregation and will use anything, including the political left or wokeness on top of the traditional right-wing methods to achieve that.
I do not think that black people attempting to incubate our own wealth and prosperity is bad thing at all considering the truth of our history, yet, you can do this without being a racialist, colorist, patriarch, etc.
One simple flaw that black people or activist seem to make without realizing it is that they don’t have to call every initiative that attempts to help black people as being “black”, because we already know who the initiatives are for, and often “the system” uses such “exclusive-seeming marketing” as a means of encouraging the further solidification of white supremacy. For example, White Power actually was a reaction to Black Power in the 1960s through white supremacist figures such as William Luther Pierce (author or The Hunter and The Turner Diaries), and sure, of course, we know that Black Power and White Power are two different things – at least in their origins and original intent – but still, black people need realize strategically speaking that marketing every helpful black movement as explicitly black, ironically and systemically is used to continue the oppression black people.
Yet, many black activists would reject my analysis on this because to them they are wanting to make a firm statement and they see anything that doesn’t go “hard enough”, i.e., seen as being un-apologetically black, as not being authentic.
However, my rebuttal to such an accusation would simply be…don’t broadcast all your moves, i.e., don’t put a target on your back just to make a moral or figurative statement. In other words, do not make this about prideful proclamations when you can achieve more without people noticing you often.
For example, “white companies” which are the majority don’t market themselves as “white owned” even though it is understood that most of the profits are going into white hands. Yet, black people wanting to make a powerful statement, flaunt, flex, etc., to prove “we can” always want to slap the “black” this or that label on everything, which ironically limits one’s market-size and potential for market capitalization because…most people will think it’s “only for them”. This is ironic because white or Asian business firms will take money from everywhere rather than just their own respective race or ethnic group, and thus have more capital to assert their dominance over institutions. For example, if we are to accept that hierarchies form naturally in society, then self-segregation limits the scale thus power of your “pyramid”.
And that last paragraph brings me back to the adage of “By Any Means Necessary.” By Any Means Necessary does not necessarily mean “by our own means only”.
Regardless, back to Umar, he cherry picks from the Marxist or Communist/Socialist or Critical Theory analysis of intersectionality and class struggle (spanning black leftist figures from Cornell West, Angela Davis, Huey Newton, Omali Yeshitela, Bell Hooks, etc.), yet, inserts his deep-rooted desires to have a conservative, Right Wing, “blood and soil”, male-driving nationalist community.
The mixing of Left-Wing analytical methods with that of Right-Wing concepts such hierarchies, firm binaries, hyper masculinity, etc., is textbook…fascism. We cannot forget that Mussolini started as a Communist before becoming a fascist. We cannot forget that even though Nazis were not “true Socialist” according to many socialist, notably the Communists because the Nazis hated Communism, we still must realize that early Nazi ideology was influenced in part by post-WWIs strong socialist sentiments. Hitler just so happened to reject the Marxist interpretation of history and co-opted socialism by infusing it with a Right-Wing traditionalism, which interestingly became advantageous to the pre-existing capitalist and industrialist class (i.e., Nazi economics was essentially corporatism ruled by a dictatorship of profit seeking industrialists operating in state-sponsored cartels who owed allegiance first and foremost to the German people and state, i.e., state capitalism nuanced by a cultural or racial supremacy).
Many fascists though they agree with concepts of collectives particularly on a racial-cultural sense, often reject the erosion of hierarchies. Fascist economics could be seen as a “Third Way” or “Third Position” framework where they combine some elements of socialist or egalitarian thought but often reject the Marxist view of history (class struggle), yet, through a type of Will to Power (coopted from Friedrich Nietzsche) via an unconscious “spiritualism” (e.g., Carl Jung’s emphasis on subconsciousness and archetypes) in the “zeitgeist” (i.e., collective spirit as in the writings of Hegel) apply a Right-Wing political framework that justifies the needs for rigid hierarchies, notably in a world of cyclical disorder (e.g., the Kali Yuga in Hinduism which inspired the Occultism elements of European fascism) and where people-groups are engaged in perpetual battle (for example through Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection).
This is why fascist countries, though seeming to emulate elements of socialism are effectively “modern feudalist states” shrouded with cultural imagery, religious devotion, etc. Yet, feudalism evolved into capitalism and capitalism into corporatism, thus current definitions of fascist countries could be defined as “hierarchical corporatist states”.
This is what Umar really wants. A black fascist state, but he could only achieve such goals by band-wagoning or “Trojan Horse-ing” off of current black Left-Wing movements such as Black Lives Matter or even the capitalist inclusion of black empowerment as a marketable product with Disney-Marvel production such as the Black Panther franchise. For example, we live in the era of hashtags such as #staywoke #BLM #wakanda or #wakandaforever. Yet, like most aspiring autocrats, they are often failures at something in their buried past they wish not to be discovered. They also lack the technical expertise to achieve their goals so instead they rely on fiery rhetoric to convince enough smart people to accomplish their goals for them.
In other words, Umar wouldn’t be the Umar we know without him using the current chaos of political discourse and Left Wing wokeness though he opposes the Left Wing and liberalism. Like fascism which has caused many debates about its actual definition, Umar represents a sort of logical ambiguity yet expresses emotionally his deep-rooted desires and dreams of grandeur. He splices ideology to achieve a fascist conclusion.
There are a lot of scars and traumas within the Black Community and in theory that is what wokeness attempts to heal.
Wokeness simply means aware, i.e., being aware of topics such as systemic racism, voter suppression, lack of access to capital markets, police brutality, gentrification, mass incarceration, the complex systems of industrial scale slavery, Jim Crow, Jim Crow’s effects on the modern prison industrial complex, unauthorized and/or inhuman experiments on people such as the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments or how economically weakened African nations are given foreign aid to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDs or malaria, etc., only on the condition they remain cheap resource depots for the “imperialist powers”, etc. We can go on and on. WTO, IMF, World Bank, etc.
I purposely rapped off all that because…that is what wokeness has become. Knowing so much but what does knowing do once it reaches a logical conclusion? It either A) creates a depressive state in a person once they realize how “smart they are” but how helpless they are, B) it creates anger and radicalism to resolve said problems of A, or (C) it creates a manic rollercoaster ride between A and B.
Wokeness is a mixture of factual analysis but also an emotional desire for self-empowerment in the face of a civilization that defined blackness to be the “antithesis” to the thesis of whiteness. Woke is also not inherently political but just so happens to lean to the Left. For example, figures such as Joe Rogan who often expresses Right Wing views could be considered “woke” himself because he too engages in the “factual rapping” of statistics or events to explain how our world works, why its oppressive, and why systems should be seen with suspicion.
So woke is not bad, however, the constant deconstruction, Critical Theory, qualitative studies, anthropology, intellectualism, and faux intellectualism, has not really achieved the goals of what communities such as the black community wants, because in many ways there is an underlying notion that someone owes us something or the reason why we can’t build ourselves up is because no one is providing us our “just dues”.
It’s a contradictory sentiment. We preach how strong we are to not need anyone but then often want someone to help us, and this contradiction can be heard in Umar Johnson’s rhetoric. Also, wokeness meaning aware does not actually mean intelligent, and if so, only means intelligent enough to sense things, but not necessarily to do anything about it.
What I mean by that is the black community needs science, technology, engineering, and math to navigate the complex challenges of the modern/post-modern world, yet, the resounding resolution within most woke circles is simply more…analysis, i.e., an emphasis on social sciences, political science, history, video essays, book publishing, etc.
Better put, wokeness has only solved a fraction of the problem, i.e., we know how to see the sickness within the body (problems within the community) but often don’t push for technical skills to do the surgery. Umar wants to get credit for organizing the surgery though he too is helpless hence he overcompensates with toxic rhetoric. In other words, he’s in his feelings.
For example, why would Umar Johnson start an all-boys residential school that will likely not going to achieve accreditation from any governmental body, when he could have had an online education model? Why invest in physical property with taxes, safety guidelines, health guidelines, FDA and Department of Agricultural school meal guidelines, etc., when he could have had a collective of certified educators via online subscription service? Yet, when Umar was talking on VLADTV, Umar made more excuses by saying that black people in charter schools can’t teach because they need professional certifications. But…wouldn’t you want educators to be certified? Also, there’s plenty of educators with certifications. The thing is, is that Umar wants a school with no accountability so he can craft it in his own image, but to do so he must simply blame the system for not giving him what he wants, though this is on the belief that the rules of the system aren’t there for good reason. For example, we don’t want an Aryan Nation Nazi Schools with no accreditation and un-certified educators teaching children about the superiority of the white race and teaching pseudo-science such as…white people are from Madame Blavatsky root races who once lived on Atlantis or some nonsense.
Umar Johnson at this point is just trying to stay relevant with his racist bombastic style.
I honestly think he is crazy, and I mean as far as mental health. I can’t prove it on the clinical front, but he seems to have some sort of narcissistic personality disorder (dreams of grandeur and with an emphasis on being chosen) and I suspect it may be childhood trauma induced (since he rarely speaks of his past, family, etc.). His professional work involves studying the effects of ADD/ADHD diagnosis on black male youths, which is a noble endeavor, but I’m suspecting that Umar (Jermaine) was one of these kids and held a grudge about his possible experiences. But, this is speculation. He’s set himself up like many online figures to not be criticized because he’s stitched himself to the movements he’s co-opted, so to many people criticizing Umar now somehow means…criticizing black empowerment, but this is the fault of certain segments of the black community for consistently searching for what I call…a “Fuhrer” or Chosen One.
As a side note, this emphasis on looking for a chosen one interestingly can be seen in hip hop with figures such as Tupac (who depicted himself on the Cross in Killuminati – The 7 Day Theory, i.e., Makaveli), the Biblical Ezekiel-like prophetic rage of DMX, and of course the current Charles Manson-like delusions of Kanye West (Ye) who associated with Nazi like figures such as Nick Fuentes.
Umar hiding his past to me is a sign of distancing one’s true identity, a possible sign of embarrassment, etc. This seems especially true since he specializes in family and childhood counseling. In other words, he is not providing any examples of his home life, experiences, traumas, over-comings, etc., to explain or relate to the advice he is giving. If anything, Umar (Jermaine) doesn’t practice what he preaches which will be discussed in this section of my post/paper.
I stumbled upon a video on Instagram by user ” Commonsenseeli” in which Umar is in a room filled with clutter with some odd speech patterns (repeating the same thing over) but he says he was moving to Wilmington, Delaware – where his school for black boys is at. I assume he was just practicing a speech or pitch.
As far as absurd rhetoric, recently he has told black people not to vote in the USA and South African 2024 elections, adding to the already cynical and paranoid public (post CV19 lockdowns, Donald Trump & January 6, the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the riots over George Floyd, etc.) as if not voting will somehow mean someone won’t win and won’t take power.
Even if black people do not vote, you are just increasing the odds of having a party that has openly said anti-black rhetoric or at least uses coded language to criminalize black people. In other words, he is suppressing the black vote or getting black people to suppress it themselves. But, Umar just like Elijah Farrakhan (who won’t die) want this because they are advocates for…Race War.
I personally think that how Marcus Garvey admired the KKK, Umar admires the modern Alt Right and GOP (defined by MAGA). He’s not a liberal. He admires power and a patriarchal form of it. Imagine Umar with unlimited power. It would not be a good thing. [See Article: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/garvey-must-go-campaign/%5D
It is as if the GOP and its wealthy donors realized the Candace Owens, Turning Point USA, etc., route can only work so much with black – especially “hood black” – audiences, so the GOP is getting “multi-racial and religious” in its caucus such as using patriarchal, anti LGBTQ rhetoric etc., within certain elements of black and/or Muslim political discourse.
For example, Patrick Bet David while hosting Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA advocates for including more Muslims into Republican politics despite a likely apprehensive Kirk realizing a big element of right-wing, predominantly white, and Western liberal (in the classical sense) politics has anti-Islam as a key cornerstone (e.g., the European Identitarian movement, the Deus Vult movement of Right Wing Catholicism — typically defined with an anti-Pope Francis undertone for his progressive and reconciliation views).
Culturally, the online space as of 2024 is a mix of “Capitalist grind culture” (which is nuanced by the concept of “manifesting”, i.e., the belief in using psychic power to create your dream reality — which thus links to Zodiac, astrology, and New Age beliefs), memes, A.I. videos pushing conservative tropes (e.g., Thomas Sowell, Pat Buchanan, Milton Friedman talking points, etc.), Jordan B. Peterson musings, the anti-feminist Manosphere/Men’s Rights movement, conspiracy theories with often pseudo-science and religious undertones, etc.
Many black people – some not doing too well economically – seem to be “chronically online” and find themselves absorbing information from the Black spaces of the Red Pill space.
Umar’s core demographic is “woke” people from low income urban areas, black women (despite his patriarchal overtones), and maybe many Africans or Caribbean peoples with online access to black American media. Yet, these African and Caribbean cultures often apply what we would consider in the West to be pseudo-science such as spiritual medicine, witch doctors, but also the residuals of Christian missionaries where many pastors in Africa and the Caribbean use faith-healing, etc. You can also add on indigenous “pagan” religions, Rastafarianism (which has nods to Zion, i.e . Blackness as ordained since Ethiopia for instance has a biblical link) etc.
What we are witnessing in “woke” black culture something similar to European white reactionary politics which also “rejects modernity” and strives for a “racially pure”, organic, etc mindset.
For example, the Fresh and Fit podcast despite being hosted by two black men where one is a Muslim, are linked to figures such as “Rollo Tomassi”, author of the Rational Male, who has ties to racist figures such as Stefan Molyneux, who therefore leads to figures such as Lauren Southern, which therefore links to figures such as Jay Dyer who has contributed to Alex Jones’ InfoWars. We know Alex Jones is the kink between the conspiracy Right Wing to the MAGA movement, with Alex Jones even being on-site with Kenneth Chesboro of the Trump fake-elector plot scandal.
Popular black YouTuber, DJ Akademics (of a conservative Jamaican heritage) is a vocal Trump supporter and he’s collaborated with Fresh and Fit thus by proxy Andrew Tate, Kevin Samuels, and Rollo Tomassi. All are Trump supporters. This thus creeps further and further down the Rabbit Hole leading to the Young Americans (whose clips have been used by Fresh and Fit), the Alt Right, and back to literal Nazis.
In other words, figures like Charleston White, Umar Johnson, Fresh and Fit, etc., represent the “Red Pill of Black Culture”, but the Red Pill community is adjacent to conspiracy culture across racial lines, since conspiracy theories often have the underlying agenda of preserving the status quo by vilifying progressive movements.
Who is Umar Johnson?
But, who is he? He was born Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah Johnson (Jermaine Shoemake) on 21 August 1974 to a father named Jamal Abdullah Johnson. Doing a simple Google search of Jamal Abdullah Johnson, I see a Jamal A. Abdullah-Johnson, Appellant,v.William J. Henderson, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service (Allegheny/Mid-Atlantic), Agency.
Umar’s possible father filed a suit against the US Postal Services in 1998 alleging discrimination for his race, religion, and mental health issues. KryeirBut this Mr. Abdullah Johnson was denied. Could this possibly have influenced Umar? Umar in an interview admitted to having a disciplinarian father.
I also found online Jamal Abdullah Johnson who served in the US Marine Corps from 1975 – 1985. Possibly, if this is Umar’s dad, that means his dad enlisted just after he was born and possibly after 10 years, went to work for the Postal Service, likely working there for a long time before he had his lawsuit. So, possibly a Black Nationalist, intense Marine, postal service worker father but had a gripe with the “white man” and government. His marine only served 10 years and not the 20 years required a pension. Also, there’s a chance he also didn’t service his 20 years as a postal worker which would give him a pension.
Yet, Umar’s real name may be Jermaine Shoemake, according to a Facebook post I had found, his name was changed by his father per this post when he was in the 3rd grade while in North Carolina. The idea of changing your child’s name when he’s already at least seven years old insinuates his father was a true believer in the Pan Africanist cause.
Philadelphia has always had issues with race like many Northern cities which emphasize racial/ethnic neighborhoods, yet poverty, crime, drugs, etc. are rampant. From New York, Boston, Philly, D.C., Baltimore, etc.
Philadelphia is where the 1985 Move Bombing happened in which the Philadelphia Police Department dropped C4 on the home on the MOVE organization. MOVE is an Afrocentric, anti-government, and naturalist movement founded in 1972 by US Army veteran Vincent Leapheart, i.e., John Africa. 61 homes were destroyed, 250 homeless, and 6 adults with 5 children were killed.
Umar’s possible father if he was the US Marine left the military in 1985, the same year as the MOVE bombing. So, if Umar was born in 1972 by the time, he was 13 the MOVE bombing happened, but Umar’s father likely got involved in similar Pan Africanist movements earlier in the 1970s. I am sure such as event played a role in the Umar, we see but would have likely influenced his father’s beliefs as well.
On VLADTV, he stated he grew up in North to North-Central Philadelphia. He attended George G. Meade Elementary School in Philadelphia. Per a Facebook post, he also attended at least two other elementary schools in the Philadelphia area such as Hartranft and Duckery Elementary. But he didn’t go to an HBCU, which could’ve been for various reasons, yet there are many HBCUs in the Mid-Atlantic such as Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Delaware State, Morgan State, Bowie State, Howard, etc. I assume this is because interestingly, Umar may have benefited from some sort of affirmative action or racial scholarship to attempt Millersville.
In the interview, he stated he went to the Scotland School for Veterans Children which I found is near Chambersburg, I Pennsylvania. According to Matthew Christopher (2019) of Abandoned America, “According to a state website, “Founded in 1895, SSVC is the only residential school in the nation specifically designed and accredited to educate and care for the children of Pennsylvania military service veterans.”
This would validate the possible link to Jamal Abdullah Johnson.
In the same VLAD interview, Umar said his goal is to open an all-boys residential school…
When I googled Scotland School for Veterans with the word “abuse” a few articles comes up.
I have said aid this before but Umar as an aspiring Right Wing black authoritarian is a rare example of the “Horseshoe political theory” being true in which contemporary progressive discussions/movements of the Left opened the Pandoras box of fringe Afrocentrism which is ironically ultra conservative (patriarchal, homophobic, etc.) and contradicts reason because it is often in alignment with New Age conspiracy theory/cults.
He has a doctorate in osteopathic medicine which is widely considered pseudo-science using practices such phrenology.
Also, for all of his racial division standpoints, Umar claimed descent from Frederick Douglass (which has been denied by the Douglass estate) yet Frederick Douglass had a white wife despite Umar being so against interracial marriage. So, either Umar is a partial descendant of European ancestry (common among some Black Americans) or he hates (well, per his own theory) his family…for being interracial?
Further, Umar says that a “non-African” can’t be good at things “created by Africans or black people”, but sports like basketball were created…by a white guy. Yet, I am sure Umar’s rebuttal is to simply say…black people invited this or that, etc.
Umar also continues to live in a multi-racial country which is 60%+ white and could leave anytime he wants just as Marcus Garvey – who Umar wants to name a school after – would have advocated for. Umar says he respects Kanye because of his antisemitism (a lazy way of explaining the complex issues affecting the world), but Kanye was married two non-black women.
He says the “Prince of Pan Africanism” (a clear sign of narcissism) but then wants to rep Foundational Black Americans who are theoretically opposed to Pan Africanism since there’s an inherent territorialism to FBAs. For example his xenophobic comments about Daniel Kaluuya.
Further, he plans on opening a school, which in theory is noble but…who will accredit the school especially with a curriculum that could be argued as fostering racial supremacy? Not getting accreditation would make the children’s education be worthless as far as higher education, etc.
John David Norman (born 10/13/1927, died 5/22/2011) California Death Certificate No. 3201110002677 is known as one of the United States most notorious pedophiles and…he may be another character in the ant colony of characters involved with the JFK assassination. Jeffrey Epstein seems to have nothing on this person.
It is my impression that if true, Norman’s involvement is an example of the very dangerous underworld that was behind the JFK and later RFK assassinations.
This underworld was the cross juncture between state law enforcement and intelligence agencies with that of the criminal underworld (involved in gun trafficking, drug trafficking, laundering, contract killings, pornography, and sexual content featuring minors). The State has always had ties to criminal organizations either to get informants, infiltrate foreign governments, move weapons/money/drugs, incriminate enemies, and make the careers of aspiring bureaucrats.
We will never really know who killed JFK directly, but his death is a symbolic representation of where the underworld meets the mainstream world. Big business, mob-controlled unions, the Mafia, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the military, etc., are all layers.
But back to Norman, he created an industrial scale operation for illicit content depicting minors that spanned decades until his eventual incarceration at a California mental asylum and then later death. His operation involved various newsletters that acted as a sort of “back page” or brochures that sold minors to pedophiles across the globe. But Norman despite being arrested multiple times in multiple jurisdictions, often using confusion across police jurisdictions and aliases to avoid detection, was essentially…let off the hook for nearly 50 years.
The thing is, Norman with his rolodex, black-book, and memory of names/numbers, likely had dirt on very influential people who likely still needed to get their “fix” while Norman was able to provide. There are two proven cases of rolodexes associated with John David Norman having gone missing, where one was destroyed by the US State Department which was confirmed by Matthew Nimetz in 1977 after John Norman was investigated by the Chicago Tribune journalist Michael Sneed (pronounced Michelle) for crime in Illinois. [See: https://archive.ph/MkYUC/c6e92138f14b14e3b86c692223c5c14841b5837a.jpg]
Why would the State Department take or destroy his files? It could be possible that incriminating information found in his index cards could be helpful to the US government to bribe officials, etc.
In Episode Two of the Clown and Candyman by ID Discovery, Norman fled to Homewood, Illinois and police there led by Frank Flannery found another batch of index cards. Homewood PD gave the cards to the Chicago P.D. but the cards were never seen again.
In other words, John David Norman made himself an indispensable part of the world of pedophilia so he was likely kept around for fear of what information may leak if he were to be killed or imprisoned, etc. Norman, even admitted if the index cards ever got out it would send shockwaves.
John David Norman’s heyday was before the internet, before Amber Alerts, etc., where mail was often not checked, and the general public was ignorant about the mass abuse of minors notably of young boys (often because a naive conservatism about the world).
John David Norman was featured in the Clown and the Candyman docuseries which ties serial killer Dean Corll of Houston, TX to John Wayne Gacy of Chicago, IL. In the documentary, it was John David Norman’s name was mentioned during a Dallas area sting operation into pornography featuring minors.
While arrested for his Illinois crimes, Norman (who went by multiple aliases and was described as being a “jailhouse lawyer”) met a young local hoodlum named Phil Paske, who wanted in on Norman’s national/international “boys for sale”/child content ring. Paske, interestingly was an associate for John Wayne Gacy, going so far as working for Gacy’s PDM Contractors and having a key to Gacy’s house. Gacy while in jail alleged, he didn’t kill all those boys and young men found under his house.
To add more insanity to the situation, a later crew of Satanic serial killers called the Ripper Crew (yes, for real – i.e., I am not trying to push “Satanic panic”).
Further, another Chicago area serial killer Brian Dugan alleged he has been assaulted by Gacy (where Gacy was known for “cruising” for young males).
So, think about that, Gacy had possible ties in varying degrees to multiple serial killers, which to me sheds light on how serial killers were often “cleaners and fixers” or “sharks” for larger parts of the underground economy such as sex trafficking and illegal pornographic content.
But, what about Norman?
Norman may actually link to the confusion web of plays, plots, and subplots involving the assassination of John F. Kennedy and by extension Robert F. Kennedy (where RFK was shot by Sirhan Sirhan who may have had ties to California gangster and nightclub owner Eddie Nash, who thereafter had ties to the Corsican Mob – themselves known for the French Connection, and some theories concerning the JFK assassination such with Lucien Sarti).
Norman in 1973 was arrested in Dallas at his apartment at 3716 Cole Avenue by Detective RC Nelson, just one week after Dean Corll was killed by one of his youth accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley in Houston.
Norman was arrested through an anonymous tip from a male sex worker living in San Fransisco, yet, Henley down in Houston told authorities after being arrested himself that Dean often bragged about being part of a larger ring.
Yet, earlier in the 1960s, Jack Ruby who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, may have moved from 500 Marsalis to 223 South Ewing St., apartment 207″ and “Receipt for $40 deposit on 223 South Ewing is signed by John D. Norman.
Jack Ruby was alleged to have been a homosexual with his possible lover, George Senator, etc. This room at this Ewing St apartment was a boarding room type apartment.
Regardless, if this receipt of Jack Ruby was indeed signed by the same John D. Norman, then this opens the players involved in the JFK and later RFK plot to the underworld of child trafficking. If this is indeed the same Norman, then this seems to link back to the New Orleans branch of the larger JFK conspiracy. But, why?
The infamous case of Boy Scout Troop 137 in New Orleans from around 1974-1977 involved many men but notably a Raymond Woodall, and Woodall’s name was found in John David Norman’s rolodex during his arrest in Dallas. This Troop 137 case by proxy allegedly had ties to former District Attorney, Henry Connick, Sr., who was known for having shelved the case files of previous D.A. Jim Garrison who connected CIA affiliate, Clay Shaw to the JFK assassination. CIA Director, Richard Helms admitted to Congress that Shaw was a member of its Domestic Contact Service. Shaw was an associate of David Ferrie (a Bay of Bigs CIA affiliated pilot and disgraced aspiring Jesuit priest with a penchant for young boys), who was an associated of Lee Harvey Oswald, notably during Oswald’s younger days in the Civil Air Patrol.
New Orleans during this period of the pre-planning of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions involved Cuban nationals, Civil Air Patrol pilots, the Italian Mob under Carlos Marcello (with links to Florida’s Trafficante Family), and a dirty cop turned New Orleans P.I., Guy Bannister, etc.
In 1976, detectives Frank Weicks Jr. and Gus Stansbury of the New Orleans Police Department received a call from a film developer in Dallas TX after it was discovered the film developed involved minors, and this later implicated Boy Scout Troop 137. In the case, detectives stated they had come upon a photo a person, largely understood to be a Robert Lang (an alias), where this person was photographed wearing multiple military uniforms. This connection to Dallas further links to John David Norman. Both detectives invited an FBI agent to review the files they had found but the FBI agent never returned after a four to five interview.
My belief is that this man was likely David Ferrie known for wearing disguises, or possibly it could have been Frank Sturgis who served in multiple branches of the US military. Both Ferrie and Sturgis ran arms to Cuba.
Lee Harvey Oswald may have killed the President, but he still had very odd “few degrees of separation” connections considering CIA spymaster Richard Bissell had a loose connection to Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was stationed in Japan under the secret U2 program. Bissell interestingly made contacts with Chicago Outfit mobsters Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana (both murdered); James Jesus Angleton had a 201 File, i.e., a personality file, on Oswald which is a Wet or Liquid Affair File relating to assassinations, and later CIA director Richard Helm under oath admitted that Clay Shaw was a member of the CIA’s Domestic Contact Service. Shaw was an associated of David Ferrie with Ferrie an associate of Oswald; CIA banker Paul Helliwell who financed the operations involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion [Operation 40, Brigade 2506, Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, Crusade to Free Cuba Committee] that was managed by Richard Bissell – largely with veterans of the successful CIA overthrow of Guatemala, and the failure of that plot is what drove David Ferrie to make public comments about killing JFK, etc.
Paul Helliwell was a member of OSS Detachment 202 in China during WWII where he worked with future CIA spooks Lucien Conien (a French American who had ties to the Corscian Mob and later became head of Nixon’s drug policy under the Federal Bureau of Narcotics which became the DEA. Conien was also involved in the November 1, 1963 coup and Strategic Hamlet Program in Vietnam); John K. Singlaub who managed the Secret War in the Golden Triangle during the Vietnam War and had ties the World Anti-Communist League (which had ties to Far-Right groups, racists, etc.); E. Howard Hunt who was involved in the Bay of Pigs and Watergate, and Mitchell Werbell III.
Also, anti-Communist zealot, Guy Bannister, an ex-FBI member with ties to Chicago, later turned “Red Squad” cop in New Orleans and then later a P.I. had ties to Oswald via the Newman Building where the Pro-Castro organization Fair Play for Cuba Committee was in the same building that housed Anti-Castro Cuban expats who wished to overthrow Castro.
This seems strange but there was a murky time before Castro was on the bad list of the USA, where the US supported Castro, which seems similar to the older Dixie Mission of the US Army making relationships with Mao’s rebels in China during the Chinese Civil War [See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sturgis#Section – Moves to Cuba, joins Castro forces]. Oswald may be a left-over of US support for Castro yet didn’t adapt to the shift that as the US became vehemently Anti-Castro. If Oswald were truly a Communist and not some sort of double-agent, stooge, etc., he must have been delusional to think the US at that time would ever have an appeasement policy with Communism.
CONNECTIONS:<<<<A>>>JFK Conspirators (Locations: New Orleans, Dallas, Chicago, South Florida. Organizations: CIA, The Italian Mob such as the Marcello Family, Trafficante Family, and Chicago Outfit, and its Corsican Mob subcontractors, Dixie Mafia, The Gay Underground, etc.) <<<<B>>> Lee Harvey Oswald <<<<C>>> Jack Ruby who ran strip clubs in Dallas but was from Chicago originally <<<<D>>>John David Norman > (1) Dean Corrll? and (2) John Wayne Gacy/Phil Paske/Ripper Crew and (3) Boy Scout Troop 137 with Raymond Woodall and via Richard Halvorsen <<<<E>>> Richard Halvorsen under alias John Douglas had ties to Rev. Bud Vermilye’s Boy’s Farm Scandal in Tennessee <<<F>>> Boys Farm had possible links to various web of shell companies dedicated towards children involved with those responsible for the North Fox Island Scandal by Francis Shelden – and possible ties to the Oakland County Child Killings<<<<G>>> Francis Sheldon had ties to an Adam Starchild, alias for libertarian fraudster Malcolm McConahy who was included in the Boy Scouts America Perversion Files (See: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/471954/1051.pdf). Starchild helped Sheldon flee the USA and Sheldon had ties to Edward Brongersma who was a Dutchmen who advocated for legal pedophilia. Norman was known to have sent minors to “sponsors” over state and international lines, but foreign nationals, US government officials, etc., were alleged to have used the trafficking services of Boy Scout Troop 137.
Notes/Nodes
I call these “nodes”. I have 5 main nodes in this post (more as well) which represent 4 distinct narratives. The NXVIM-Benghazi Node (regime change, human trafficking, drug smuggling, bank havens). The Star Wars SDI – WWI/WWII Node. Also, how prolific Serial Killers had ties via child abuse networks and some allegedly had ties notable events such as the JFK/RFK assassinations
Pizzo_Exh_453-A_Oswald_leaflets_New_Orleans. Photographer not credited – Originated from the report of the Warren Commission a US Government report. From WH Vol.21 p.139. http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0082a.htm Border cropped before upload. Lee Harvey Oswald and others handing out “Fair Play for Cuba” leaflets in New Orleans, August 16, 1963
Version 1 posted on 8/17/2023. Version 2 updated on 8/18/2023. Version 3 updated 8/22/2023. Version 4 updated 8/27/2023.
I. Digging into the Hawaii Emergency Management System anddebunking the rumor that only $700 was given in Federal Aid to Maui Fire Victims
Disclaimer: This section about Hawaii despite having some research backing my thoughts is speculative. I am not putting any personal blame or libelous claims on any companies, government officials, etc. The general theory is that the fires were started by downed power lines in conjunction with environmental conditions, e.g., dry grasses. However, I wrote this specific section of this paper on Hawaii to research more about the emergency siren system itself, its possible OEMs (official equipment manufacturers), etc.
Sadly, in early August 2023, there were multiple fires on the Hawaiian Islands. Conservatives, conspiracy theorists who have blamed the fires on “Chinese Space Lasers” or arsonists trying to clear the precious real estate, anti-Ukraine War people, etc., have tried to place the blame on President Joe Biden. However, it seems this fire situation was an accident (downed power lines per Brianna Sacks, 2023, of The Washington Post) exacerbated by environmental conditions.
I personally know people from Hawaii. I went to college with many and some of my best friends are from the various islands spanning Oahu and Maui. According to one friend, when consulting his father-in-law, the emergency system was simply old and outdated. According to another friend whose father was a federal firefighter on the US military bases in Hawaii, his father said that local firefighters only “contain” fires, whereas federal fighter fighters serving the US military bases are required to fully put out fires. Sometimes there’s coordination between the firefighters on federal facilities with those of civilian firefighters, but my friend did not know much more than that.
There are many rumors being circulated online, such as Biden only gave $700. These rumors often negate to go into detail about how programs, bills, funds, etc., all work, yet, instead they appeal to emotion and rage within our already divided country, with a good chunk still reeling that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Many of these Trump supporters, but not just them, believe in various conspiracies that been within the pop culture for years such as “FEMA Camps” which are code-word for concentration camps, the New World Order, Mark of the Beast which is code for implants, surveillance, etc.
For example, regarding the $700 payment, FEMA.gov (2023) addressed the rumor, titled, “Rumor: FEMA is only giving Hawaii wildfire survivors $700 per household.”, but responding with “This is not true. There is a range of federal disaster assistance available. Critical Needs Assistance provides a one-time payment of $700 to address immediate needs such as food, water, and clothing. This is just one of several types of federal assistance you may be eligible to receive. As applications are reviewed, you can check your application status online or call 800-621-3362 to find out what types of disaster assistance you are eligible to receive.”
Looking into the CNA Program, FEMA.gov (202) stated that, ““FEMA may provide financial assistance to applicants who have immediate or critical needs because they are displaced from their primary dwelling. Immediate or critical needs are life- saving and life-sustaining items including, but not limited to: water, food, first aid, prescriptions, infant formula, diapers, consumable medical supplies, durable medical equipment, personal hygiene items and fuel for transportation. Critical Needs Assistance (CNA) is awarded under the Other Needs Assistance (ONA) provision of the Individuals and Households Program (IHP).Funds awarded for CNA count toward an applicant’s financial ONA maximum for that disaster, which is an annually-adjusted amount based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index. CNA is a one-time $500 payment per household. An affected state, territorial, or tribal government must submit a written request to FEMA to implement CNA. FEMA’s Individual Assistance Division Director may authorize assistance when the majority of applicants from the declared area are, or will be, displaced from their primary residence for an extended period of time, generally 7 days or more.” (end quote)
Note, that this quote/reference is from 2020, so that $500 must have been bumped up to the $700.
Further according to FEMA.gov (2021), Other Needs Assistance (ONA) falls under FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program and provides financial help after a disaster to cover necessary expenses and serious needs not paid by insurance or other sources (FEMA, 2021). The first two categories of assistance – transportation and personal property – are dependent on residents applying for a low-interest disaster loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration beforehand. If applicants are denied a loan, or if the loan does not cover all their needs, they may receive a FEMA grant to replace or repair transportation and/or personal property (FEMA, 2021). Survivors do NOThave to apply for an SBA loan first to be considered for the following categories of assistance, which includes (A) moving and storage equipment, (B) Medical and Dental Assistance, (C) Funeral Assistance, and (D) some miscellaneous item (FEMA, 2021). If you have already applied with FEMA for Housing Assistance, you don’t need to apply separately for ONA (FEMA, 2021).
Regarding the Small Business Loan, states such as Washington State’s Emergency Management page under its Department of Military (i.e., the National Guard) stated that, “SBA disaster loans are available even without a Presidential Disaster Declaration and are a great tool to provide low-interest loans to individuals, families, businesses and organizations that suffer physical or economic loss due to a disaster or other disruption”
But what about this Other Needs Assistance (ONA) maximum which the $700 from the Critical Needs Assistance falls under?
First off, Other Needs Assistance programs are administered by the state and funded 75 percent by FEMA and 25 percent by the state (Washington State Military Department – Emergency Management Division). This 75 to 25 cost sharing between the federal government and states can be found on multiple state’s webpages, etc.
Secondly,
According to the Federal Register (2021), where the Federal Register could be understood as the Federal Government’s bulletin board it was stated that Section 408 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act), 42 U.S.C. 5174, prescribes that FEMA must annually adjust the maximum amount for assistance provided under the Individuals and Households Program (IHP). FEMA gives notice that the maximum amount of IHP financial assistance provided to an individual or household under section 408 of the Stafford Act with respect to any single emergency or major disaster is $37,900 for housing assistance and $37,900 for other needs assistance. The increase in award amount is for any single emergency or major disaster declared on or after October 1, 2021. In addition, in accordance with 44 CFR 61.17(c), this increases the maximum amount of available coverage under any Group Flood Insurance Policy (GFIP) issued (Federal Register, 2021). [See: https://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/group-flood-insurance-policy%5D
Further, Federal Register (2021) FEMA bases the adjustment on an increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers of 5.3 percent for the 12-month period, which ended in August 2021. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor released the information on September 14, 2021.
To wrap our heads around this for the sake of clarity, $700 was given in immediate assistance under the CNA (Critical Need Assistance) Program which is based on an annually-adjusted amount based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index, but CNA falls under FEMA’s Other Needs Assistance (ONA) provision, which is a larger type of “expense account budget” where FEMA provides 75% of funding and the state provides the other 25% (as well as manages the program), which is for personal property, transportation, funeral expenses, etc., that is not necessarily for FEMA Housing Assistance (but can be applied for at the same time if applying for FEMA Housing Assistance). ONA however falls under the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) of FEMA. Per Section 408 of the Stafford Act, the ONA maximums are $37,900 for housing assistance and $37,900 for other needs assistance. So, $75,800 overall, but you get $700 up front.
The White House has begun the process of disaster relief, but it is important to remember that the Federal government must work with the State Government regarding disaster relief such as in relation to laws such as Posse Comitatus (federal troops can’t police states in theory), the Stafford Act, etc.
Regarding the conspiracy theory that the fires are due to “Chinese Space Lasers”, even though I have no way of verifying that, nor do I really want to encourage the conspiracy because of its jingoistic/xenophobic undertones, back in February 2023, mainstream outlets such as Newsweek, Popular Mechanics, etc., did address the space laser situation. So, I understand why people may believe this, even though I am not sure if it’s believable or not.
Brodsky (2023) stated that the Chinese pollution-monitoring satellite Daqi-1 probably produced the lights spotted over Hawaii on January 28, according to a NASA scientist.
In other words, a sort of optical illusion in the atmosphere.
Yet, back on track, according to CBS News (2023) by way of CNN, residents did receive some text messages about winds and fires, including a National Weather Service fire warning, but per some residents there was not a major alert akin to an Amber Alert and most importantly there were no sirens. Hawaii residents have long been accustomed to the monthly tests of the outdoor siren warning system (CBS News, 2023).
While Maui’s warning sirens were not activated, emergency communications with residents were largely limited to mobile phones and broadcasters at a time when most power and cell service was already cut (CBS News, 2023).
Most Americans can relate to the feeling. We often get Tornado, Flood, or other Emergency warnings, but often it is hard to gauge the severity of the matter.
Relating to Hawaii, the National Weather Service operates the National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers ensuring there is free and not-for-profit tracking of tsunamis which can be caused by earthquakes. The PTWC dates to 1946 when 165 U.S. citizens were killed by tsunamis in Alaska and Hawaii.
However, this Tsunami system seems different than the siren warning system involved in the Maui Fire Disaster.
After looking into the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (n.d.), the actual siren system under question seems to be the Hawaiʻi All Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning System managed by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) which is the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world.
This Warning System is one part of the larger Hawaiʻi Statewide Alert and Warning System (SAWS) which includes FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) which used both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) to alert the public.
So, who made or worked on the All-Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning System?
I searched terms such as “Contract”, “Award”, “Supplier”, and “OEM” (Official Equipment Manufacturer), in relation to the All-Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning System, which we should shorten to AHSOWS, and found an official government website by the State of Hawaii that reveals procurement data of state awards to suppliers. This website is called HANDS, i.e., Hawaii Awards & Notices Data System.
I noticed a few contracts awarded to Federal Signal Corporation by the State of Hawaii for its Defense Department. The Federal Signal Corporation is based in Oakbrook, Illinois, founded in 1901, and specializes in emergency vehicle equipment, warning sirens and public safety systems. They are listed on Nasdaq under NYSE: FSS.
From June 2022 through November 2022, I noticed a few procurements (buys) relating to sirens such as 110w Solar Panels and affiliated equipment for the State’s Emergency Warning Siren System which was awarded to Federal Signal Corporation via a Sole Source procurement (i.e., they were the only supplier solicited, i.e., not procured via a competitive bid) issued under Purchase Order Number G22A0157 in a dollar amount of $60,974.27.
Federal Signal Corporation also received a sole soured award Purchase Order under PO # G2218071 in the amount of $58,366.47 for Satellite Activation and Services (Isat Data Pro System Service) for Emergency Siren Communications. According to the posting, “SAT Data Pro System Service ‐ satellite to provide communication with the State’s Emergency Warning Siren System. The SAT service is a backup communication to the Siren system should the Cellular network fail. Service period from July 01, 2022 – June 30, 2023 DAGS Job No 16‐14‐7242. Federal Signal Sole Source # 21‐001‐SK. Approved Dec 11, 2020. CHANGE ORDER 1 Approved”
Also, under PO G2218061, in amount of $ 40,722.50, via a sole source procurement, Federal Signal Corporation was awarded an annual renewal for their Commander One Subscription Services which per the posting states, “Annual Renewal of Commander 1 Subscription for service period: 7/1/22 to 6/30/23 Includes: 1. Mobile apps & Web access 2. 20 SEATS 3. 5 Organization 4. 512 devices supported, 5. 24/7 after hours suppor 6. SmartMsg updates and 5,000 text and email notifications/month Approved for Sole Source pursuant to HRS 26‐6, 103D‐306, HAR 3‐122‐143 on 12/11/2020 Ref No. 21‐001‐SK, Federal Signal Sole Source Contract DAGS Job # 16‐14‐7242, CHANGE ORDER 1 Approved 3/8/2022.”
Further, PO 22807001, Federal Signal Corporation was awarded a contract for emergency siren equipment due to environmental reasons and vandalism.
Using a different search term I discovered that Federal Signal Corporation was awarded a $9 Million dollar award by the State of Hawaii for the HI-EMA, under PO 16-14-7242, issued by Daniel Jandoc, which in an Indefinite Quantity type of contract. FSC was to furnish Outdoor Warning Sirens for Public Safety (Sirens). This PO had a Period of Performance of 1/1/2021 to 12/31/2022.
The Period of Performance was 7/1/2022 to 6/30/2023 for the Satellite Activation and Services Contract and 6/14/2023 – 6/30/2023 for the Annual Renewal of Commander 1 Service.
Is it possible that the Period of Performance for certain subscriptions expired and that the State of Hawaii was trying to re-issue a new award or exercise an option, but due to lapse in time from June 2023 to early August 2023, there were lags or drops in coverage between the satellites, cell phones, controllers, towers, etc.? It would be nice to know the actual business and contracting behind the emergency system, i.e., was there pre-planning or were procurement offices reactionary once they realized funding was about to dry up or a new contracting vehicle was lingering in some sort of approval phase.
In other words, Federal Signal Corporation as the prime contractor has a complex system in place to support Hawaii (a combination of Software as a Service -SaaS- mixed with Hardware that integrates with other equipment), but while they were waiting for the state to issue funding for a new award or exercise a contract option, that lap in coverage, possibly mixed with vandalism, weather, etc., disrupted parts of the overall Emergency System, and once the fires started, their high temperatures fried the actual hardware.
II. The Federal Response
According to the White House.gov (2023) in an official press release it was stated that Mr. Maona N. Ngwira of FEMA has been appointed to coordinate Federal recovery operations in the affected areas. Further, President Joe Biden, likely by evoking the Stafford Emergency Act, authorized federal funding available to affected individuals in Maui County including assistance on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide which includes grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.
Per, the White House.gov (2023) article, residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated areas can begin applying for assistance at www.DisasterAssistance.gov, by calling 800-621-FEMA (3362), or by using the FEMA App.
According to Claims Journal (2023), Two firms have released early estimates of losses and damage from the devastating wildfires across Hawaii’s Maui Island and the historic town of Lahaina. Catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Company issued new estimates showing the insured property losses from the Lahaina Fire in Hawaii to be around $3.2 billion. AccuWeather on Monday increased its estimate of the total damage and economic loss to $14 to $16 billion (Claims Journal, 2023). That update followed AccuWeather’s preliminary estimate last week of total damage and economic loss of $8-10 billion, and the latest AccuWeather loss estimate would equate to about 15% of the state of Hawaii’s gross domestic product and would exceed the GDP of Maui (Claims Journal, 2023). The Lahaina fire burned approximately 2,170 acres and devastated the town of Lahaina on Maui, according to KCC (Claims Journal, 2023).
According to Jim Garamone (2023) of DOD News of the US Department of Defense, Combined Joint Task Force 50, under the command of Army Brig. Gen. Stephen F. Logan, has mustered almost 700 DOD personnel and 140 Coast Guardsmen that are part of the coordinated response to the Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people and destroyed the city of Lahaina last week, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder. This includes FEMA asking for space at the US Army’s Schofield Barracks for billeting (i.e., rooms for troops and personnel, etc.). The Joint Task Force includes the US Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, Homeland Security, FEMA, and the National Guard. The Task Force is flying two Boeing CH-47 Chinooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook) with fire suppression buckets capable of 189,000 gallons of water, and the Navy also has two Sikorsky (a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin) SH-60 Seahawks and three Boeing CMV-22 Ospreys on standby to support incoming requests.
More specifically this CJTF 50 is comprised of 402nd Field Support Brigade (responsible for assisting in Quartermaster duties, Sustainment Support, etc. in the Pacific Region) under Colonel Courtney Sugai and Lt. Colonel Timothy Page. Also, there is the 249th Engineer Battalion which is a power generation battalion that answers to the US Amry Corps of Engineers and serves more in a Reservist Capacity. The 249th Engineer Battalion Company is comprised of four companies, but specifically Company A is based at Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks and answers to Lt. Colonel Langston J. Turner. Lastly, the US Air Force and Navy have also established Liaison Officers, i.e., Points of Contract, to help their respected branch coordinate in the CJTF effort. Further, there is the Third Marine Littoral (i.e., nearshore) Battalion under Colonel John G. Lehane of the US Marine Corps providing General Dynamics MQ-9 Reaper Drones for aerial surveillance, Boeing MV-22 Osprey, and a Lockheed Martin KC-130J Super Hercules.
III. We have money for Ukraine, Hawaii, the Border, Crime Prevention, etc.
Sofi Stadium cost $5.5 Billion.
Lionel Messi at FC Barcelona had a $675 Million contract….to himself… but Christiano Rinaldo at Al Nassr has a $536 Million contract.
So that’s $1.2 billion of pledged (not necessarily paid) money on just two athletes.
So, why not hate on sports and not a country trying to maintain independence from Russia, when Russia invaded Ukraine?
[See video, Shut up about NATO expansion]
[See Video: The Dumbest Arguments About Russia’s War on Ukraine]
Regarding the 2008/9 Bailouts of US Auto Industry with giants like Ford and GM, “In all, the federal government extended nearly $81 billion to bail out the auto industry in a rescue effort that began under Bush’s watch and ended in December 2014, well into Obama’s second term.” (Source: Andrew Glass, Politico, 12/19/2018, Bush Bailouts US Automakers, Dec. 19, 2008).
Further, the New York Post (2021) by way of the Associated Press, released an article, titled: Costs of the Afghanistan War, in lives and dollars, which referenced a meta-study by Harvard University’s Kennedy School and Brown University’s Costs of War project. These studies estimated the amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020 was $2 trillion but with interest will be $6.5 trillion by 2050.
According to Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow (2023) of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), since the war began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research institute (end quote). Much of the aid has gone toward providing weapons systems, training, and intelligence that Ukrainian commanders need to defend against Russia, which has one of the world’s most powerful militaries (Master and Merrow, 2023). Yet, according to the US Embassy to Ukraine (2015) Vice President Joe Biden announced today in Kyiv, Ukraine, that, pending consultation with Congress, the White House plans to commit approximately $190 million in new assistance to support Ukraine’s ambitious reform agenda.
Note this was when Biden was Vice President, speaking for President Obama in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so this was only a policy promise and pledge. Yet, Donald Trump got into office and then threatened to pull funding away that Congress was ready to approve if Ukraine didn’t give dirt on Joe Biden.
But, fast forward, according to Lawrence Richards (2022) of Fox News in an article, titled: US leads the rest of the world with $196 billion given to Ukraine amid war with Russia – Russia first invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the article’s headline states that use has given $196 Billion, but in the article, it states “$200 billion in promised or sent aid”. Emphasis on promised or pledged, not actually spent, yet it looks like the US has spent over 200 billion.
Yet not all this money is “new money” being randomly created, but it was already spent on existing hardware or approved on existing budgets. Or it is pledged money that has not been approved yet.
Tom Norton (2023) of Newsweek, in his article, titled: Fact Check: Have U.S. Taxpayers Sent Over $200B to Ukraine? In the article Norton (2023) details how Republicans have repeatedly and misleadingly used the $200 Billion price tag. From Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Monica Crowley who stated, “”$200 billion+ of your hard-earned money has been disappeared into the corrupt money-pit of Ukraine.”, Andy Briggs, Keri Lake, Steve Bannon, and Fox News have all chirped this dollar amount.
Norton (2023) summarized as of April 2023, that Congress has only approved $113 billion for spending in Ukraine. Researchers tracking spending suggest that only around $77 billion has gone directly to Ukraine, a combination of financial, military and other forms of aid.
So let’s summarized…Fox News or at least prominent conservatives have dubiously stated the US has already spent $200 Billion, yet, per Norton (2023) back in April 2023, the US had spent $77 Billion out of $113 billion approved by Congress. Yet, to update this figure, in July 2023, Masters and Merrow (2023) stated that the US has sent $76.8 Billion, so that matches what Norton (2023) was saying on money actually spent, not promised, not pledged, not talked about, etc.
I do not blame people for being angry about Hawaii vs Ukraine situation regarding the perception and reality of responses and funding, but…Ukraine is not affecting Hawaii, no more Social Security or Medicare are affecting Hawaii. We are talking about different pools of money, bills, authorizations, etc. We have checks and balances, appropriation, and financing rules, etc., so to change rules we need Congress to change such rules. I get it. Why can’t we just command things into existence, but the thing is that we in the United States have rules based on checks and balances and tight appropriation laws (color of money rules, Misappropriation rules, etc.)
A lot of the Ukraine Lend Lease Money is money already for paid for assets via the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), and Foreign Military Financing (FMF). According to the CRFB, i.e., the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (2023), using PDA, the President can send military hardware out of the U.S. military’s own stockpiles directly to Ukraine (CRFB, 2023). Through USAI, the federal government contracts with the private sector to provide training, supplies, and other operational needs to the Ukrainian military and other allies (CRDB, 2023). Also, per CRFB (2023), the federal government uses FMF to backfill the stockpiles of NATO allies that have sent their own military hardware directly to Ukraine.
So, when you see this or that billion that is being spent on Ukraine a lot is basically a receipt and public disclosure of something already paid for, not more “pork barrel waste” adding onto our debt. The government did not just “print” with the “Federal Reserve” the money, but the money was also on the books, appropriated, and in many cases already spent on hardware that were sitting in stockpiles. Think of it all as receipts against existing appropriated budgets.
But I get the confusion. Defense funds come from NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) pot of money whereas FEMA funding under Homeland Security comes from the Homeland Security Bill (See HR 8257).
In other words, sending already paid for tanks wouldn’t help Hawaii in a freak act of God accident no one saw coming, so it’s a false equivalency to compare the two, though emotionally I get people’s frustrations. And Congress controls the “power of the purse”, so it is on them to attempt to reform laws, even the constitution, if need be, if they want to change how money is appropriated and spent.
Republicans in Congress, running for office, or anti Biden types talking about this are gaslighting. Congressional Republicans had no problem voting for the NDAA same as Democrats, so if people want more FEMA funding it’s on Congress to do the bills such as budget more for the Homeland Security Bill. The President only signs or vetoes the bills but has certain executive powers to tap into those already existing and approved pots of money, i.e., the PDA program.
According to John M. Donnelly of Rollcall.com (2022), “The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to pass the final defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023, clearing the sweeping measure for President Joe Biden’s signature. If Biden signs the NDAA into law, as he is expected to do, it would be the 62nd straight fiscal year that the defense policy measure has been enacted. The Senate’s final NDAA passage vote was 83-11, and 60 votes were required. The House passed the bicameral compromise on Dec. 8. When Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., noted that the bill is named after the committee’s top Republican, James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chamber resounded with applause. Reed said that Inhofe’s leadership of the committee, both in the majority and minority, had been “monumental.” Inhofe is retiring at the end of this year. With enactment of the bill, Washington will have authorized spending about $858 billion on defense programs in this fiscal year, mostly at the Pentagon. That is $45 billion, or 5 percent, more than Biden asked for in March.” (end quote).
Think about that. (A) Both parties voted for the NDAA (because it’s political suicide to not), (B) Congress added more money than what Biden had even asked for, meaning that Congress could have potentially shifted $45 Billion to the Homeland Security Bill or had planned on doing that, which theoretically could have pushed the Homeland Security Bill from $80 Billion to $125 Billion, (C) the bill was named for a Republican.
If you are angry at what is happening in Ukraine, then take it up with your legislators.
According to the Appropriations page owned by the US Senate’s website, The Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill includes a total of $82.068 billion, including $60.7 billion in net discretionary appropriations.
The below picture is from the US Congress.gov
According to the US Senate Armed Services Committee (2023) 857.9 billion was appropriated for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023. Out of this 857.9 billion most of the funds goes to the Department of Defense whereas some funding also goes to the Department of Energy considering the DOE overseas nuclear power, certain infrastructure such as electricity attached to our dams (whose construction is monitored by the US Army Corps of Engineers), etc. The bill does allow for up to 6 billion for General Transfer Authority for unforeseen high priority needs via “Reprogramming”. On an interesting note, this FY23 NDAA also authorizes funding to support a 4.6 percent pay raise for both military service-members and the DOD civilian workforce.
So, the NDAA got 857.9 billion, whereas the FY23 Homeland Security Funding Bill of $82.068 billion. So, the NDAA has over 10 times more funding. Yet, whose fault is this? It starts with Congress.
So, can we fund Ukraine to defend itself while protecting the border, funding cops and drug rehabs, investing in public housing and schools, etc? Yes.
The US has money to fund Ukraine and take care of most of its issues at home because our allies are gonna vouch for our debt anyways and buy our US treasuries, because that’s the brilliance of the scheme.
The EU, UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, etc., will vouch for our debt and even if the US dollar weakens, a weak US dollar can boost US exports since foreign currencies rise, i.e., they have more purchasing power.
They’ll vouch for our debt because they already have so many US investments that dumping our debt would crash them too and cause a Global Depression. I do not think most of the world wants the Chinese Yuan or Russian Ruble as their reserve currency. And, sorry to the Crypto currency bros, but there’s only so many bitcoins that will ever be made.
The US despite its flaws has a good relationship with most powerful albeit non-Super Power nations. Yet, people have a very conservative framing of how sovereign debt and taxes work as if national financing is the same as personal financing in your personal life, when they’re not the same. Also people forget there were tax cuts on the highest income earners/corporations starting with Bush, the Obama Era Bush tax cut extension, and the Trump cut.
According to the Emily Horton (2017) of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “In 2013 CBPP estimated that, when the associated interest costs are taken into account, the Bush tax cuts (including those that policymakers made permanent) would add $5.6 trillion to deficits from 2001 to 2018. This means that the Bush tax cuts will be responsible for roughly one-third of the federal debt owed by 2018.”
In theory if Bush didn’t do these cuts and if Americans accepted increases as opposed to reductions in taxes that $6.5 Trillion bill by 2050 with interests included according to Harvard and Brown University’s would have been hedged significantly by the $5.6 Trillion is projected loses in revenue.
So it’s not a matter of not having money for home improvement and Ukraine, when (A) our allies don’t care if we create money because we have the most lethal military as far as weapons that we use to protect them so they do not have to fight, i.e., the US economy is a Spartan mercenary operation at industrial scale, (B) the US has the safest banking system to store the world’s money and if they don’t store it here, they often store it in US dollars, and, (C) we can always reverse the 20 years of tax cuts because the rich are likely investing in this war anyways.
It’s a gaslight to make it seem as if we can’t afford both. Further even if we weren’t funding Ukraine to keep Russia away, our conservative minded, pro business politicians wouldn’t fund the things we want anyways like housing, etc. When has the government ever really invested in people? Bill Maher freaked out when people got COVID relief money.
So pretending like cheapskate frugal Republicans and phony progressive corporate Democrats will make us into a utopia is laughable.
Most people who are against the war are (A) Trump supporters just being Trump supporters, despite, ironically their blood-lust for war with “Communist” China, (B) hippies who have no realpolitik or concept of defense policy who believe peace exist in nature rather than something maintained by projecting force, (C) fake hippies who are actually conservatives who simply want the current Biden Administration to fail but not appearing to be conservative adjacent, e.g. The Hill owned by Nexstar Media, (D) Russian, Chinese, etc., psy-ops that want Russia to win even if they get concessions.
Brown University (2023) Cost of War by the Watson Institute – International and Public Affairs. Source: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures (Date Retrieved. 17 August 2023).
Federal Emergency Management Agency (18 August 2023) Hawaii (DR-4724-HI): Rumor Response and Frequently Asked Questions. Source: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4724/rumor-response (Date Retrieved 27 August 2023).
John M. Donnelly (15 December 2022) Senate sends fiscal 2023 NDAA to Biden’s desk – With enactment, Washington will have authorized about $858 billion on defense programs in this fiscal year. Source: https://rollcall.com/2022/12/15/senate-sends-fiscal-2023-ndaa-to-bidens-desk/ (Date Retrieved 27 August 2023).
Disclaimer: Antisemitism is wrong and counterproductive. This paper is intended to not spread hatred of any kind. This paper is also an extension of the ACSZ (Anglo-American, Continental, Zionist, Saud Network) that I have written about previously. This paper is also not intended to be a promotion of conspiracy theories but rather an analysis of them, juxtaposed against my more grounded theory about the ACZS Network. All I ask, particularly if you are American and into a lot of these conspiracies is to question them. We all are looking for truth but sometimes we scapegoat others instead of seeing how our own beliefs may be a part of the problem. Yet, we have all had regressive thoughts or opinions and it is never too late to grow or change no matter what anyone says.
Part 1
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed an independent journalist named Whitney Webb. According to Mint Press, “Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for MintPress News. She currently writes for her own outlet Unlimited Hangout and contributes to The Last American Vagabond and MintPress News.” [Source: https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/%5D. She has also contributed to documentaries such as Victoria’s Secret: Angles and Demons. per IMDB, see: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2819249/. According to YouTuber, Patrick Bet David she is now living in Columbia and when I googled searched her a Whitney Fuentes popped up, but that could be a coincidence, but it is possible she got married.
Disclaimer: I do not think she is a racist based on her interviews with comedian Tim Dillon where she did express a concern about Big Pharma’s relationship to often poorer nations in the Global South (and, jokingly, she has a Boondocks comic strip inspired tattoo). Yet, Whitney did at one time collaborate with an actual antisemite Adam Green of Know More News, so she is complicated because in one hand she has great research but due to her former ties, that good research could take on more nefarious means, even if that was not her original intention. Hence, I think she needs to be more vocal about how her research is not antisemitic. However, it would be more interesting to see more legitimate researchers challenge her ideas, not as a means of cancelling or destroying her, but rather to potentially anchor ideas by putting them up against the rigor of intensive peer review, etc.
I find it funny that per her theories that her books are on sale on Amazon led by Jeff Bezos. But, I get it, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism so you got to do what you got to do.
Yet, as RFK Jr., has said antisemitic things, I realized that Whitney Webb was interviewed by him. Whitney does have BitChute and Gab accounts, and ironically the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter was an active participant on Gab.
According to Caroline Linton (2018) of CBS News, “Bowers, who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue last week, regularly used Gab to post anti-Semitic content. He frequently railed against the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), a Jewish nonprofit that aids refugees. On the morning of the shooting, he posted “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.””
But, as stated, I will talk about her further later.
In the meantime, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., got into some hot water for his statements about how COVID-19 was engineered to attack white and black people while sparing Jewish and Chinese people. A totally unhinged take by an aspiring Presidential candidate, yet instead of this being a disqualifier it oddly has created a nexus of support amongst the vast spectrum of American and even non-American conspiracy theorists both left and right wing.
Conspiracy theory culture has always been around. From the Kennedy Assassination to the Warren and Church Commissions, to origin the of Aids, etc. But, in the current millennium the rise of conspiracy culture is a formula of 1) the public mistrust of government under the Bush Cheney regime due to the Iraq War which created many wounded and jaded veterans (2) the economic tensions from the 2008 Wall Street Crash unleashing far right and far left thought, while both have a history with Conspiracy such as the Left’s distrust of COININTELPRO, Red Squads, FBI or police murders of activists, etc. But on the Right Wing you had a John Birch Society paleo-conservatism which pushed New World Order, anti UN, white genocide and arms confiscation beliefs. Around the time Barack Obama’s election, the Right Wing notably on the coattails of the libertarian Tea Party movement unleashed a partially coded radicalized attack on Obama because he potentially represented change not only as the first President of partial black African descent but also open to progressive policies.
Also, Alex Jones InfoWars was popular and this caught the eye later of Roger Stone who absorbed this Conspiracy base into what would be MAGA.
This vast spectrum hovering over, near or within the conspiracy space encompasses New Age ideas, anti-vaccination culture, a distrusts of government institutions such as the CIA or FBI, False Flags operations the Gulf of Tonkin incident where oddly Jim Morrisson’s dad was the commander at the time), “Feds” i.e., government snitches and infiltrators, MKUltra studies (such as over-talked about analysis of Operation Climax), Operation Paperclip scholars, libertarians, utopian socialists, Burning Man and Ayahuasca psychonauts (“mind travelers”), thoughts on the upcoming or currently occurring Fourth Industrial Revolution, Transhumanism, the Rothschilds (which is interesting because no really talks about non Jewish dynastic families such as the Fugger Family), suspicion around Bohemian Grove, the Bilderberg Group, The Gates Foundation, Open Societies Foundation, Aspen Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Davos, and the World Economic Forum, but…
More nefariously the are believers in everything from Qanon, fluoride-in-the-water making us less intelligent theorists, the Illuminati (where you get bonus points for knowing the name of Adam Weishaupt), Area 51 and UFOs (popularized by Ancient Aliens on the History Channel, a channel owned by A&E Networks, which has been accused of casual racism, and in reality has actual ties to the Defense Information School via its contributor Jonathan Young), Lizard people, Adrenochrome drinking and Interferon collecting elites (where Interferon was talked about by comedian Dick Gregory when he was campaigning to bring attention to the Atlanta Child Murders, yet Dick previously with researcher Robert J. Gordon appeared on Geraldo’s Goodnight America to air the previously unaired Zapruder Film), the Nephilim (i.e., the demonic half children of angels and humans), Dan Brown books such as The DaVinci Code relating to the Knights Templar protecting Jesus sacred bloodline (where Knights Templar aesthetics have been appropriated by the Alt-Right movement of Dues Vult, typically Catholic or Traditionalist Christian in scope, which has overlap with the antisemitic groups called the Groypers and Goyim Defense League that includes white supremacists Nick Fuentes), Antediluvian (Pre-Flood) advanced society myths, Theosophy, the Occult, Neoplatonism, Pan-spermia ideas (that humans were implanted on Earth by extraterrestrial creatures or forces), etc.
By the way if you notice, most of these concepts have been talked about on Joe Rogan at some point or another.
On top of this conspiracy there is also religious fervor and militancy such as Christian doomsday ideology or the belief in the Rapture popularized by the Left Behind books by Tim LaHaye.
The American conscious that is deeply rooted in apocalyptic Protestant Puritanism and Calvinist individualism seems highly susceptible to conspiracy theories because of the concepts of End Times, but also the proselytizing nature of Christianity often gives people a sense or “mission” in evangelizing, i.e., colonizing others. However, all religions are susceptible to conspiracy.
But as far as American Christianity goes and even more importantly than religion outright, the capitalist core of American life has pushed society into postmodernism or into some variant thereof, where postmodernism could loosely be defined as when systems reach an apex and start recycling culture or culture devolves as the quest for generating profits continues while ideas, i.e., culture reach a zenith, thus high art merges with low art, morality becomes subjective, the overload of information makes it hard for individuals to come to consensus of objective truths, anachronisms are re-created to give the appearance of something new, etc.
The system also becomes so advanced that it is hard to distinguish fake from real. [Note: look into the works of Jean Baudrillard]. The best way to really understand post-modernity is to read literature (not Jordan Peterson), such as the works of Don DeLillo, Brett Easton Ellis, Philip K. Dick, and Thomas Pynchon, all of whom I have read at various degrees.
Sure, we have free speech to talk about conspiracies, and many of these concepts (Operation Paperclip, MKUltra, the Kennedy assassinations, etc.) deserve legitimate research, yet how more fringe and fantastical topics are talked about is often used to simply cast doubt about the stability of reality and the congruity of history, therefore encouraging certain people with mental illness and/or preconceived hatreds to double down on their biases and possibly use violence (information as a catalyst for schizophrenia)
But what defines a conspiracy theory as opposed to research? I suppose a conspiracy theory is when you make an allegation but already have the conclusion pre-set and fill in holes of your thesis, often with unsubstantiated claims, to argue for that thesis being correct, while also layering your thesis and conclusion with your personal biases, often bypassing personal accountability (e.g., with the intent to scapegoat another).
Yet, back to RFK, Jr.
Not only did RFK Jr. make a statement that appeals to antisemitism, but also overlaps with the growing paranoia of Chinese influence as it appears the West is prepping for war or conflict with China either over the South China Sea itself, Taiwan, the theft of American trade secrets, the fear of a declining American Empire, and allegations of Chinese investors buying up large swaths of American land allegedly near US military installations (related to the Chinese spy balloon case), etc.
It seems RFK Jr’s goal is to farm the conspiracy vote
To be frank, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones InfoWar, “moderate” candidate, because deep down underneath his claims are antisemitic beliefs. Yet, he like many has an accurate criticism of US foreign policy disasters. Essentially RFK Jr., is what happens when the “elites” are so out touch, yet, RFK ironically may be establishment overall but is simply catering towards a nexus between Left Wing Anti-War Doves meets Right Wing isolationists, even though he may not actually believe in scaling back American hegemony or empire.
RFK is the Obama Effect, i.e., he promises a sense of hope but really will keep things the same, and I must confess, that I am not a big optimist when it comes to implementing radical change and I do personally believe in “Peace thru strength”.
But, who isn’t a bit of a conspiracy theorist?
RFK Jr., has Baby Boomer Qanon appeal considering his father and uncle were unfortunately assassinated and factions of Qanon believed John F. Kennedy, Jr., would re-appear. Certain conspiracy theorists also blame, of course, Hillary Clinton for JFK Jr.’s death to advance her own career. RFK’s centrist policies appeals to old guard Center Left Democrats and Center Right Republicans, where everyday people in this spectrum might called themselves “moderates” or “Independents”, because his ideas do not seem as “radical” as Progressives or Leftists (e.g., Progressives wanting…universal healthcare, taxing corporations, diverting police funds from weaponry towards mental health or drug rehabilitation, etc.).
But, when it comes to RFK, Jr., sadly because of the deaths in his family, i.e., the alleged Kennedy Curse, Robert seems…paranoid. On the Joe Rogan podcast he has claimed that he will be assassinated which is sure the fear of any public official, but RFK seems to have a type of trauma around it. He’s scared basically. Traumatized. His father was assassinated by a pro-Palestinian man allegedly because of RFJ Sr.’s willingness to arm Israel with fighter jets which would’ve been use on Palestinians.
That’s more of my concern. A paranoid President who won’t be able to function for living in constant fear that he has conditioned himself to live in. This could lead to irrational behaviors (such as what we may be witnessing with figures such as Jordan Peterson) or he may fall into a sense of ennui, clinical depression, etc.
And, I think to myself how RFK, Jr. would run a country if he were so paranoid, even though we are tempted to feel sorry for him because of his losses. RFK Jr. also went on The Hill (owned by Nexstar Media. See my post about Kim Iversen) to speak out against the CIA and his belief that they were involved in his uncle’s death.
It seems his foreign policy is conciliatory towards Russia adopting the anti-west framing of war in Ukraine, where this anti-war framing gaslights “the Left” for supporting Ukraine from Russia. This concept of the Left now “not being the same as they used to be” is unfair because I personally think and feel that the certain liberals or Leftist (certainly not all, notably the Marxist camp who see the war as imperialist) support the war because the alternative is Putin spreading an almost medieval Aleksandr Dugin inspired Orthodox nationalism closer to Central and Western Europe. This would pose a risk to liberal democracies/Republics. [Note: feel free to investigate Aleksandr Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory and the book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy by Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Nuclear-Orthodoxy-Religion-Politics/dp/1503608050]
Part 2
First off, I don’t believe criticizing the state of Israel is antisemitic, because protecting Israel from analysis or criticism feeds into antisemitic rhetoric such as Israel having special status, protection, or privileges, especially with the perception of Jewish people in certain positions of power, but also the crisis relating to the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank.
However, I do acknowledge that antisemitic conspiracy theories are probably they worst they have been in my lifetime, and it has become more and more popular. I was born in the late 1980s, so by the early 90s, even as a child I was aware of antisemitism especially because of the Oklahoma City Bombing (where there are even theories in spaces online that it was an inside job) but also the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting that occurred in 1999.
However with the internet, things have gotten out of hand, especially with (1) the shadowy life and death of Jeffrey Epstein but also Ghislane Maxwell and her controversial father, Robert Maxwell, who is buried currently in Israel, (2) accusations about billionaire investor George Soros and his Open Society Foundation which has given charity to organizations across the globe, (3) the silencing of academics or critics relating to the State of Israel, which even includes accusations that the Left Wing, not only Right Wing figures, are antisemitic because of their criticism of lobby groups such as the ADL, (4) the NXIVM Scandal which included Claire and Sara Bronfman, who are of Jewish descent, but their father, Edgard Bronfman, Sr., the founder of the Seagram fortune, was the former leader of the World Jewish Congress, (5) the crimes of Hollywood executives such as Harvey Weinstein, which was another blow to Hollywood’s perception because of allegations of child abuse, (6) the slow incorporation of the Anti-Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) laws into state legislatures where businesses could potentially lose money if they are unwilling to sell to Israel, such as lose of government contracts, etc.
Relating, to Epstein it is my belief that Epstein was of course a criminal mover and pusher within the circles of power, but whomever he was working for decided to expose him because by doing so it would drive the American pubic crazy because they won’t trust anything, and this feeds into the strategy of those who have bad intentions for the US. Or, they exposed Epstein because they knew it would help drive a Right Wing backlash because the intention is to get a Right Wing president in power to will continue to support the corporate-military complexes behind the scenes, yet while on stage being a “hero actor” who will go after the “Deep State” he or she ironically works for. In other words, all of this anti authoritarian conspiracy minded voters will vote for a “American First” patriotic type character who will actually be the despotic leader needed to bring forth A) “singularity”, but B) also prep for war with powers such as China. Qanon, Epstein, the state version of Russia Gate (though, I do believe there were Russian cells in the USA), etc., as far as stories goes, gives the public a sort of anesthetizing game to play. We are all sleuths on the hunt for answers, yet this was intended, to keep us distracted, and/or to convince us to give away our freedoms to supposed saviors who “sill slay our dragons”.
Yet, even though I do not think a good-faith criticism (such as on humanitarian grounds) of Israel is antisemitic, and even with me acknowledging that antisemitism is worst that it has ever been, I do also suspect that, unfortunately, some Jewish people pull their “antisemitic card” as a means of silencing any criticism of Israel (such as Bari Weiss). For example, as previously stated, the Pro-Palestinian movement being labeled inherently as antisemitic. This silencing of criticism seems to create cognitive dissonance,
So, to keep track, (1) I acknowledge that good faith arguments against Israel are not antisemitic, (2) there is a disturbing trend of normalizing antisemitism these days, (3) some Zionist organizations or operators calling everything antisemitic that may not meet their interests, but there is a fourth concept I want to touch. That is… Actual antisemites pretending to be good-faith humanitarian critics of Israel.
This is where Whitney Webb comes in. Even though it seems she falls into the first category, she has been associated with those of the fourth, so there is a level of ambiguity around her intentions. In other words, is Whitney Webb an antisemite hiding under investigative journalists but gaining fame by exploiting our paranoid society where people are looking for logical answers that connect the dots?
Whitney Webb has been platformed by YouTube podcasters such as Patrick Bet-David with this PBD and Valuetainment podcasts. Bet-David is just another figure in the ecosystem of the right-wing leaning spaces of YouTube where most content creators are directly linked or separated by a few degrees of separation. For example, there has been collaboration of some degree or another between the Manosphere space such as the Fresh and Fit Podcast (who has featured figures such as Sneako and Nick Fuentes who are both antisemites), Rollo Tomassi (who had links to Stefan Molyneux), Andrew Tates, and Pearl “Just Pearly Things” Davis (who platformed Nazi Nick Fuentes and wrong about why we can’t talk about the Jews?) with the Comedian space with creators such as Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon, Graham Elwood, Joe Rogan (who frequently platformed controversial figures ranging from Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes of the Proud Boys, Jordan Peterson, Stefan Molyneaux, the Weinstein Brothers, Sam Harris with his penchant for the Bell Curve, etc.), Whitney Cummings, etc., with the New Age space with figures such as Russell Brand who represents conspiracy spiritualism, i.e., con-spirituality (which overlapped with the anti-vax and all organic food movement, etc.), but with that of the “Bro space”, i.e., the mostly college age, Barstool Sports following, Wall Street Bets redditor, and pro-capitalist camp that includes the PBD Podcasts stated previously, Jake Tran, the Nelk Boys, the Impaulsive Podcast with Logan Paul and Mike Maijak, various cypto and how to be a dividend king training sites, the Alternative Politics space such as The Greyzone, Glenn Greenwald, Katie Halper, Matt Tiabbi, etc., but also of course the Conspiracy Space which was held down by Alex Jones with his InfoWars stream, Jay Dyer (who has talked extensively about Transhumanism, Smart Cities, , to some extend Shuan Attwood, etc.
Figures from these spaces often overlap and collaborate because of the incentive that YouTube’s algorithm gives to content creators who drive massive amounts of traffic, thus enabling more eyeballs to see more advertisements. In other words, successful people from more sensational spaces are likely to drive content, and this volume equates to more wealth for the creators. As a result, you will see the same faces recycling through the various spaces. You can type in any variation and a video will pop up, e.g., PBD with Andrew Schulz, Fresh and Fit with PBD, Alex Jones with Andrew Schulz, Joe Rogan with Alex Jones, the Nelk Boys (who “interviewed” Trump but never asked the hard questions) with Pearl Davis, etc., and something will pop up.
Part 3
Yet, interestingly…Whitney Webb has appeared on the Tim Dillon Podcast (episode 196, 207, 226, 246, and 355) in the Comedian space. In episode 226 around 1:46:55, Whitney talks about Edward Bernays who was a relative of Sigmund Frued and the father of modern marketing. This sounds innocuous but to an antisemite it is another way of saying Jews are manipulating people through media. We also have PBD Podcast in Bro Space (episode 198 and 270), Glenn Beck on an episode titled: How Elites will create a new class of slaves (episode 162) and RFK in the Conspiracy Space make on March 15, 2022, in the Alternative Politics sphere. Also, she was interviewed by Russell Brand of the New Age Space where he has the full interview on Rumble which is often called Right Wing.
Yet, I remember Whitney Webb from something more nefarious.
A podcast called Know More News by Adam Green who is an antisemite whose platform (which was banned from YouTube before setting up shop on Far-Right server BitChute) used to collaborate with Whitney Webb, multiple times. Adam Green (middle name likely Richard) is from the San Diego area and went to Cal State East Bay in Hayward, CA near San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland where he played basketball according to me hearing that in one of his podcasts. He attended Cal State E.B. from 2009 to 2012, earning a degree in Business Administration and worked while in college as a Rental Agent for Monarch Truck Company in Union City, CA for just over a year. According to Cal State E.B. website, an Adam Greene (spelled differently, likely a typo) in 2009 to 2010 was listed as being from San Marcos, CA, which is in San Diego where it seems Adam resided while making Known More News [See: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-green-09843635 and https://eastbaypioneers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/adam-greene/2343%5D. He had a short stint at ViaSat, which he said he hated, before moving into podcasting where he started exploring topics such Israel, Chabad, etc., but notably what he considers to be Jewish Supremacy. He admitted he was a big Alex Jones fan before he realized in his opinion that Alex Jones was working for a “Zionist Deep State”.
It is hard for me to believe that Whitney did not know about his and those of his frequent collaborator’s beliefs.
I admit that I use to watch it when it was on YouTube because at first, because I thought it was very good information that criticized Trump’s relationship with Israel, how the military complex and Silicon Valley are investing in Israel (Silicon Wadi), understanding crackdowns on the BDS movement, etc. Yet, as time went on Adam Green stated showing his true paranoid “white genocide” theories and then I stopped watching. I even got into argument with him in the discussion session of one of his videos because he was pushing that idea that protestors against police brutality were controlled by George Soros, i.e., in other words washing over the atrocity of police brutality and twisting the conversation to appeal to white fears about being “taken over” or “overrun”, etc.
Adam Green’s core thesis is that Jews via organizations such as the ADL, WJC, Chabad Lubavitch, etc., wants to take over the world because Jews are a supremacist group who based on the idea of Chosen-ness and that they believe other non-Jewish groups (Goyim) have lesser souls since they are not kosher.
He also believes that the Jews will kill or breed white people out of existence such as pushing this idea of the Kaligri Plan by opening borders (which is something pushed by Patrick Bet David when ranting about Soros and the Open Society Foundation on the Flagrant Podcast with Andrew Schulz – even tough Schulz is not antisemitic.)
But this idea of white genocide was also pushed on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News, which overlaps with the white supremacist allegations of high numbers of white farmer murders in ANC (African National Congress) controlled South Africa for example. He also talked about the “Dancing Israelis” case which is when allegedly a group of Israelis under the cover of a cleaning service where dancing in celebration as the Twin Towers fell because 9/11 was an inside job partially coordinated by Israel and Netanyahu to drag the US into the disastrous Middle East wars which benefited Israel by the US taking out its enemies. These Israelis were investigated by the FBI before deportation.
Adam Green collaborated with people such as Vincent James (i.e., the Red Elephant), Ryan Dawson, Matthew North, Christopher Jon Bjerknes (he has own site at cjbbooks.com), RedIceTV with avowed racist Lana Lokteff, etc., meaning Whitney by proxy was in this circle. Adam Green’s works has also been shared on Stormfront and the Renegade Tribune, the latter being a publication that pushes white genocide theories.
For example in the below video, Adam Green praises Henrik and Lana of RedIce TV. See below:
Christopher Jon Bjerknes was very close with Adam Green, and Christopher to my knowledge has the belief that Christianity was a made-up religion intended to overthrow the Roman Empire because of the Jewish grudge with Rome for occupying the Holy Land. He also believes that Jews use Kabbalistic practices to subvert the West. Yet, per a YouTube video that Mr. Bjerknes uploaded titled: Adam Green of Know More News Plagarizes the Work of Christopher Jon Bjerknes where Mr. Bjerknes accuses Mr. Green of taking his ideas. When it comes to Ryan Dawson, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) wrote a report calling out his allegations that Israel was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Yet, when I got to Mr. Bjerknes website, I see a plethora of seemingly unhinged material that all feeds back into this overall coded antisemitic thesis, with even some videos about RFK, Jr., himself.
According to Green and Bjerknes (well, presumably more from Bjerkens due to his allegations of plagiarism from Green)., the Jewish goal notably thru the Talmudic Chabad, the Sabbatean Franks (followers of Sabbatai Levi and later Jacob Frank. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankism), and the Kabbalah movement, is to build the Third Temple which is required for the Jewish messiah (the Mashiach) to come (in theory). Israel must remove all non-Jews, destroy Al Aqsa Mosque (Dome on the Rock), build Solomons Temple, and take over the world notably exacting revenge on Europeans (understood in this theory to be the descendants of Esau, the hunter, and Brother to Jacob, a scion of Israel).
The US government notably “Kosher Conservatives” and Democrats per this theory are assisting in accelerating Israel’s consolidation of power by taking an indifferent view to the treatment of the Palestinians.
Bjerknes is under the impression that RFK is actually a pawn of Israel (where I am assuming that he believes RFK Jr.’s antisemitism is a tactic to harvest votes from the ever-growing number of Antisemitic believing conspiracy theorists) According to Malachi Haim Hacohen as published on the Cambridge University Press, presumably from Chapter 3 – Ishmael, and Christian Europe: Medieval Edom from his book, titled: Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire it was stated:
To medieval European Jews, Esau and Edom meant Christian and Christendom, and Jacob & Esau evoked the messianic vision of Christendom’s downfall. “Christian Esau” became an enduring Jewish topos. Spanish (Sephardi) Jews thought of the Jewish Diaspora as living “under Edom and Ishmael” – Ishmael was deemed the Arabs’ ancestor – and interpreted the vision of the Four Empires in the Book of Daniel as presaging liberation from Christian and Muslim rule alike. Historically, the Christian–Jewish confrontation was traumatic in ways the Jewish encounter with Islam never was. While the Holy Roman Empire inherited the Roman imperial title, the Crusades shifted the target of Jewish hatred from the Empire to the Church, as the Pope appeared “the king of kings.” With late medieval persecutions, the kabbalistic Zohar literature signaled a shift from triumphal historical eschatology to cosmological tiqun (healing). Jacob & Esau became cosmogonic forces, and the “Kings of Edom” represented a cosmogonic disaster. As Christians became increasingly familiar with rabbinic literature, they polemicized against the Jewish concept of Edom, but late medieval Christian biblical commentary reflected Jewish views of Edom. Medieval Jewish European history appears as a confrontation of intersecting Jewish and Christian cultures, and the Jews left their imprint on Europe even as they were expelled.
In other words, Bjerken’s either believes that either Europeans are in biblical struggle with the Jews or he’s not religious but he’s taking the medieval Jewish view of Europeans as proof of their vendetta with Christian Europeans (while possibly neglecting the fact that medieval Jews were frequent persecuted by Europeans, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, York Massacre, Rhineland Massacres, etc.). This Esau Edomite notion is someone common in conspiracy culture, yet, the irony is that the location Edom is essentially modern-day southern Jordan or parts of Northwest Saudi Arabia, and Europeans had existed way before the events depicted in the Bible.
Relating to Matthew North, I had actually stumbled upon his work when I was trying to find good faith criticisms of Joe Rogan around maybe 2018, because Joe Rogan seemed to have been purposely platforming Right Wing (i.e., Intellectual Dark Web figures). It seemed the Rogan was using his podcast as a sort of propaganda platform. I stumbled upon Matthew North’s video titled: Joe Rogan Exposed: CIA ELON MUSK, MAPS, ESALEN, MKULTRA-Neuralink BRAVE NEW WORLD IDW.
This video inspired me to write my blog post on Joe Rogan, however, I refute Matthew North’s antisemitic allegations and expanded upon it to develop my inclusive ACZS Network idea to include Jews, Saudi Sunni Muslims, and predominately white Protestant and Catholics of the US, UK, and Continental Europe. My ACZS idea was also inspired by some notes I had picked up from Jay Dyer in his analysis of the Anglo-American (Atlanticist) networks inspired by his reviews of Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigly, The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brezinski, etc. Yet, like North, I refuted Dyer’s seemingly Pro-Russian stance, because Dyer like most Western conspiracy theorists or independent journalists often keep the lens on America and not other powers such as the Kremlin. For instance, Dyer I have never heard calling out the Kremlin for assassinations of dissents. Also, Dyer has a very Christian based viewpoint, so he refutes the claims of scientific method, etc. He actually considers science to be an occultic ideology based on neoplatonic ideas. So, despite many good sources and readings by Dyer, I really want nothing to much to do with him.
For example, we rarely hear about the French the General Directorate for External Security, the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS), the Italian External Intelligence and Security Agency (AISE), etc. It seems convenient to solely talk about the CIA which could ironically be an expression of American Exceptionalism, i.e., the USA is the center of the universe, and by focusing purely on the CIA, we not only give the USA all the blame but we ignore the possible crimes or undemocratic interventions by other superpowers. Hence, focusing on the CIA could be considered a type of anti-American propaganda feeding into our enemy’s plans, i.e., reducing American soft power, trying to accelerate the dumping of US currency as the reserve banking note of the world, etc.
Below is the video by Matthew North. I repeat, I ignore and disagree with any of his antisemitic remarks, because to me the world is not ran by “Jews” but rather by factions of various groups representing various interest who work in tandem. Note: I do not know Matthew North personally. https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-north-466666181. But, supposedly he committed suicide? If true, regardless of his beliefs, that is unfortunate, yet, Matt despite being smart, did seem a little paranoid, but I have no idea.
Relating to Ryan Dawson, according to the ADL (2010) in their publication, titled: Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later, published on August 30, 2011, stated, “Two videos in particular, Missing Links: The Definitive Truth About 9/11, produced by Mike Delaney, and War by Deception, by Ryan Dawson, make virulently anti-Semitic claims about the 9/11 attacks. The two films, both over two hours long, have been viewed by tens of thousands of people despite their length. In “War by Deception,” made originally in 2008 and updated in 2011, Dawson presents the “standard” anti-Semitic conspiratorial view of the 9/11 attacks as a false flag operation carried out by Israel. He lays out one conspiracy theory after another that blame Jews and the Mossad for the 9/11 attacks and for the subsequent war in Iraq. Dawson, who runs an anti neo-conservative forum, paints the Israeli government and Jewish members of the Bush Administration as part of an evil cabal that wanted to control the world. In his narration, Dawson asks “Who is compounding the lies? Who is continuing the narrative? Who has the power to cover it up?” His answer is that the “source of lies” about the 9/11 attacks is “Israeli intelligence and the Zionist cabal.” Like other figures who promote anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories, Dawson’s views about Israel’s alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks are linked to his view of Israel as a “brutal apartheid regime.”” (End quote by ADL, 2011)
Adam Green’s ideas were rehashing of the old ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) idea.
This ZOG conspiracy theory is the same conspiracy theory that led to the Poway Synagogue Shooting perpetrated by John Timothy Earnest on April 29, 2019, and the Tree of Life Pittsburg Synagogue Shooting done on October 27, 2018, by Robert Bowers.
It was complicated. I watched his podcast almost as if I was gathering intel about the topics he was talking about, but also keeping tabs on him in general particularly as he “let the mask off”. In other words, I discovered legitimate concerns about Zionism and its relationship to Trump, Russia, etc., yet, I also become more aware of the threat of white supremacy especially online. My goal is to separate legitimate concerns about Israel, even though I do not hate Israel (it has a right to exist), from conspiracy theories that catered solely toward white racism and victimhood.
Part 4
Whitney Webb has gotten popular with her thesis about how Israel is using entrapment methods to take over or corrupt the US government. Yet, I know that she did not come up with this herself. There was already an existing underground online community researching for non-racist and racist means the relationship of the Zionist lobby to the US government.
The general theory, at least relating to modern America is the Jewish Mob, Zionists, etc., infiltrated the US government via the neoconservative movement particularly that of the McCarthy Era with figures not limited to Roy Cohn, who would later go on to be Donald Trump’s mentor. The idea is that there was always a Zionist plot to take over American to protect Israel and they did this by using sexual entrapment, which is something later that Epstein and the Maxwells were accused of doing himself. There was overlap between the CIA, Mossad, etc.. This all feeds into the upcoming “technological singularity” of a controlled state of smart cities, pre-crime initiatives, mass surveillance, digital money, etc.
The question to me is, is there any truth to any of this?
My answer is yes, there is, but the thing about conspiracy theorist notable relating to the topics I am writing about is that they point ALL THE BLAME of Jews as a means of diverting from the truth that people who are not Jewish have as much if not more power and influence.
It is a silly statement to say that Jews run the world because if they did then why would Israel not have already “taken over” the Middle East according to the conspiracy theory called the “Greater Israel Project”? Why would so many Jews be victims of antisemitic attacks if they ruled all the levers of power?
This is why I developed my separate non-antisemitic concept of the “ACZS” network, i.e., the Anglo-American, Continental, Zionist, and Saud Network as a better and more logical way of describing the power base that runs the Western world. This network is synonymous with a collective of rivals that are often friendly with each other but also compete, i.e., “frenemies”. This network includes mostly white Americans and British elites that are mostly Protestants (for example Ivy League Schools and exclusive prep school leagues such as the Eight Schools Association, that produced many politicians, business leaders, and intel officers, were predominantly founded by Protestant denominations. Note, we’ve only had one Catholic President who was assassinated while all others have been Protestant). Traditionally of the older East Coast Blue Blood stock but later incorporated Wild West industrialists in Big Oil and those of the Pacific Coast in California, i.e., the Cowboy faction.
This network also includes the Continental which is a nickname to represent Europeans who are presented by both Protestant interests notably of Germanic nations but also heavily Catholic interests, and both of these factions are often expressed by European nobility – both high and low (i.e., the ones you rarely hear about but still hold title and land) who have shifted their old power into new means of making money such as private equity via tax-havens such as Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Vatican City, etc. They collaborate via old knightly orders, i.e., the Knights of Malta, the Teutonic Knights, etc., which are essentially the old-world equivalent of social clubs and have direct ties to the Papacy. Europe is the base of NATO and therefore was involved with Operation Gladio that has been discussed by many scholars and online amateur content creators.
Then we have the Zionists who are mostly Jewish outright, yet because of Evangelical Christianity in both the United States and England (i.e., British Israelism. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Israelism), there are many non-ethnic Jewish people who support Israel largely because of religion, e.g., the evangelical belief in the Second Coming of Christ, Armageddon, etc. Since Jews have a history of migrating, there is a strong “international” network of collaboration but strongly in the UK and the USA where there was less antisemitism as compared to Continental Europe, e.g., pogroms, the Rhineland Massacres, etc. This group from Israel directly or from Jews abroad (who get citizenship for being Jewish) collaborate, etc., but this group in the United States does have influence over both political parties, yet often sides more so with Right Wing politics ironically because of the militaristic and religious elements that play into Israel’s defense of itself. Then we have the Saudi Royal Family who overseas one of the world largest proven oil reserves. The Saud’s are synonymous with OPEC and a leader amongst the other OPEC nations.
This ACSZ Network includes affiliates such as the Japanese representing the Far Right East traditionally, though South Korea, etc., has gained more prominence as things have heated up against China.
But there are other syndicates such as the Sino-Russian Syndicate who serves as the biggest hedge to the ACSZ and the Sino-Russian’s often reach out to Iran, considering the US has not mended its relationship with Iran (pronounced e-Ran). But the Jews have the ability to move between the Western ACSZ and the Russians in their own syndicate because historically many Ashkenazi Jews descend from Russia and the former Pale Settlement (Belarus, parts of Ukraine and Russia, etc.). This is why in my opinion the MAGA movement of Trump was interesting because figures such as Jared Kushner, who is of the Chabad sect, was attempting to almost unite Russia with the USA where both superpowers could protect Israel (note: Russian is the second most spoken language in Israel). MAGA tried to subvert standard US foreign policy by inviting Russia into the ACSZ Network, yet, it is my belief that Russia wasn’t fully trusted by the Western intelligence community because of Russia’s constant antagonizing of Western strategy, assassinations of journalists (which may allude to more violence amongst actual intel agents), arms dealing to US enemies, obstruction in international bodies such as the United Nations, etc.
Part 5
In conclusion, I do not know what to make of Whitney Webb. She reminds me a little bit of Millennial as opposed to older Gen Xer with Annie Jacobsen, who wrote the book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA [See: https://www.amazon.com/Pentagons-Brain-Uncensored-Americas-Top-Secret/dp/0316371661]. Yet, she also seems
I am not sure if she antisemitic. I do not consider myself to be even though I was interested in many of the same topics as she is. However, I did not at one point collaborate with a known antisemite, Adam Green, and I also do not have content on sites such as Gab, Rumble, and BitChute which are known for having Far Right, Neo Nazi, and conspiracy-based content.
To me, I find it wise of Whitney to get ahead of this and continue, hopefully, to differentiate between her research and antisemitism. Her history mixed with her current interviewing with RFK, Jr., makes Whitney a bit ambiguous, despite the vast wealth of knowledge she has shared in non-racist spaces such as on the Tim Dillion podcast.
There are so many bot accounts discrediting Black Lives Matters on social media platforms such as Instragram, Twitter (now X), etc. Bots aside, it is a popular talking point to muckrake against Black Lives Matters and you’ve seen this in the Right-Wing eco-system of Charlie Kirk, Candance Owens especially, Tim Poole, Gavin McInnes, etc.
With BLM Global Network having been exposed for money issues such as with Patrisse Cullors buying a 6 Million dollar home, using funds for a birthday party (which she supposedly paid back), and hiring her family members for a near 1 million dollar security contract, this gave the Right Wing the ammunition they needed to further perpetuate anti-black sentiments such as black people aren’t capable, that we are “race baiters”, that we blame all our problems on white people yet seems to want white people’s money, etc.
Anti-blackness runs deep across the globe and its not just the West. Perception does matter, which is why I was disappointed that BLM didn’t do an aggressive PR campaign to own the situation, get a head of it, and create a pathway forward.
Rather, the leaders faded away such as Cullors posting “crystal mommy” Instagram posts or Alicia Garza going off to start other non-profit projects. The attacks of the Right Wing, the money scandal, and other issues such as social media and the news showcasing situations of black citizens attacking Asian Americans, the system got what it wanted…letting “black people” get hopeful, just to pull the rug from up under our feet, so we end up embarrassed after appearing as “mouthy” “angry”, etc.
It is exactly what the Right Wing wanted, and BLM’s anonymity allowed them to use BLM as a means of recruiting arngry white males to Far Right causes, which includes people such as the Buffalo Mass Shooter. Sure, these weren’t BLMs intent but it was a result.
But, I think there’s still hope for BLM but it will take work. PR, scholarships, auditing reports by legit third parties such as Ernst Young, conference calls, grants, an aggressive media campaign, etc. Or, the new non-profits that Garza created need to be absorbed into BLM.
But, regardless…
What about BLEXIT? What are they doing to help the black community, especially since they have more access to billionaire money as opposed to Left Wing organizations who have to scrap for small dollar donations? Candance Owens according to the Daily Beast (2022) article by Kelly Weill, titled: Blexit’s Finances Are Slumping – but Its Paycheck to Candance Owens Keeps Coming, stated that Owens received $230,000 in 2022.
I repeat, BLEXIT has way more access to fundraising and capital potential but it doesn’t seem like there is a coordinated effort to help the black community, but rathe piece-milling grants here and there. For example, Turning Point USA with Owen’s ally Charlie Kirk has received money from billionaires. “Turning Point USA is funded by numerous right-of-center foundations and big Republican donors.
According to InfluenceWatch, TPUSA received $275,000 from the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation, the Rauner Family Foundation (run by former Illinois Governor Bruce Raunder (R)) gave $150,000, the Folgia Family Foundation gave $210,000, and the Marcus Foundation gave $72,500. TPUSA has also received smaller donations from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation, the Huizenga Foundation, the Mike Miller Foundation, Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Wing Thinking, the Einhorn Family Foundation, Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation (run by the in-laws of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos), the Gianforte Family Foundation (run by Montana Governor Greg Gianforte (R)), the Thomas Patrick Morrison Foundation, and the Family Taxpayer’s Foundation.” This doesn’t include the various sponsors such as the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, the Reason Foundation, the Foundation for Economic Education, PragerU, the Job Creators Network, the Leadership Institute, and the Generation Opportunity Institute. [Source: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/turning-point-usa/%5D
These people and organizations have enough money to buy entire neighborhoods, pay for people’s private schooling or college, but the goal of BLEXIT isn’t help but rather pushing anti-black liberation politics to support the capitalist system as is, which means supporting the 1%, as is.
TPUSA has ties to Lynde and Harry Bradley are related to the Allen Bradley company which is now Rockwell Automation. Harry Lynde Bradley was one of the founders of the John Birch Society which are the group that paved the way for far-right, New World Order, anti-UN conspiracy theorists such as Alex Jones with InfoWars. The John Birch Society had an early member, Revilo P. Oliver, who left the JBS because he felt it was “too Jewish” and went to help found Neo Nazi organizations alongside William Luther Price (the author of The Turner Diaries).
1) Participatory Budgeting where citizens vote on what percentage they want their taxes going, everyone’s submissions are averaged out, but then legislators do the same thing. Both are averaged and used as a baseline for Budgeting.
2) Merge the census with tax returns to cut costs if not by law, then by executive order
3) Review federal acquisition procedures to ensure procurement practices are optimal
4) Deleted
5) Better publicize what the federal government does in fun commercials such as what’s going on in science, agriculture, historic preservation, national parks, environmental efforts like the restoring animals on the Endagered Species List, Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
6) Instill a spirit of customer service amongst public (civil) servants so the general public improves their perception of government
7) The possibility of using Enterprise Resource Planning system tools like SAP in government agencies to better coordinate finance (as to comply with rules such as the bona fide need rule, Misappropriation Act, colors-of-money), procurement offices, auditors, senior leadership, etc. One government, one language as far as ERP, SaaS (Software as a Service), Asset Management Tools, freight carrier guides with 3PLs (third party logistics).
8) Establish a Loving Day based on the Loving Supreme Court case to celebrate multiracial families where celebrities of biracial or multiracial heritage talk about their lives such as Derek Jeter, Pete Wentz, Patrick Mahomes, Mariah Carey, Halle Barry, Blake Griffin, Zach LaVine, The Rock, Meghan Markle, Cameron Champ, etc. See article: https://andscape.com/features/black-pga-golfer-cameron-champ-is-going-places-his-grandfather-wasnt-allowed
10) Encourage telework and refurbish commercial space into residential space
11) Deflate the College Cost Bubble by using the Department of Labor to challenge hiring criteria of businesses where many require expensive advanced degrees when jobs might require less costly education, i.e., increasing the value of a high school diploma again, etc.; requiring schools getting federal assistance or whom have had past substantial federal assistance on financial brink to consolidate to cut costs
12) Allow negotiation of Medicare drug costs
13) Establish a federal corporation that invests in prescription drug stocks because by doing so this agency can better negotiate by buying or selling shares
14) Medicare Now! Let people use thru Medicare earlier before retirement
15) Lay the ground work for single-payer Healthcare by flipping the FICA formula so out of the 7.65% where 6.20% goes to Social Security and the rest, 1.45%, towards Medicare/Medicaid (where your employes matches your contribution), you flip it but you do it slowly so those who paid into Social Security and are near retirement can get their full benefits (unless they opt for more Medicare). Raise the overall 7.65% to 8-10%.
16) E.U. style data protection for US consumers
17) Also require digital currencies be backed by some sort of convertible asset like gold or silver
18) Issue a Defense Production Act edict to gold miners to mine more gold and silver to continue increasing our vault reserves
19) Not to Exceed Age Limits for Justices such as 70 or 80 as opposed to term limits so we don’t get activist judges who constantly flip on laws as one judge takes over from the other, etc. Yet, we don’t get judges who are always in the hospital once very old
20) A Total Energy Policy that includes both green and fossil fuels including converting nuclear weapons into energy fuel for reactors, while handing over fuselages to the aerospace industry such as to send satellites into in orbit
21) Full Legalization of Cannabis and help with military recruitment by disallowing the asking about prior or post service (in the case of re-entry) Marijuana usage.
23) The possible establishment of a US Space Force Academy in a place like Cape Canaveral or Daytona Beach (near Embry Riddle Aeronautical University), Houston, Hunstville AL, Prescott AZ, or Santa Barbara CA near Vanderberg AFB (even if it has to still fall under the guidance of the USAFA and Air Education Training Command). Even if the school has to start off as a two-year school for junior and seniors who do their first two years at the USAFA. An academy size comparable to smaller academies such as US Coast Guard Academy or US Merchant Marine Academy. Sports will be in the small NAIA or NCAA III. Name facilities after famous astronauts or space pioneers.
24) (My personal favorite) Operation Gerbil or Gerbil Maze with NASA and companies like Blue Origin, SpaceX, Astra, etc. Replace nodes on the International Space Station with new sections but send the old ones to the Moon so we have materials to establish a small research facility. Scrap junk missions to land materials on the moon such as wiring, aluminum, etc.
26) Re-establish mental asylums with funds and grants to states via DHHS to help with the mentally ill homeless population.
27) Separate mental asylums, drug rehab, and jail where in many cases these are merge to cut costs especially as jails become more privatized
28) Fund clean needle exchanges and promote one-time use needles.
29) Urge cities that have lax policies on homeless peoples to encourage these people to clean their areas, aka, you can stay here if you clean the streets. This can be done by coordinating with nonprofit organizations, local police, etc.
30) Urge ISP service providers to require ALL adult sites have Two Factor Authentication to prevent minors from accessing pornography but protect pornography as free speech between consenting adults. Sites that don’t apply this such as those incorporate overseas can be blocked. I support the right to watch adult entertainment, but it is too accessible.
31) Reform federal sugar subsidies
32) Transition After Training (TAT) for Transgender service people where recruits after basic training, completing trade school and upon reaching a rank that permits off base living or single quarters will have the ability to transition.
33) Department of Justice mandate to protect Trans people if jailed be it local, state, or federal such as solitary confinement or protective custody to prevent them being abused or harassed
34) Artic Defense Pact as an extension of NATO, NORAD, and AFNORTH with Canada, US, Denmark, UK, Japan and Nordic countries to exercise and coordinate defense of the arctic especially as climate change opens waterways
36) Expand the early commissioning program at Junior Military Colleges but also schools like Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
37) Expand the payout for Enlisted College Loan Repayment Plans in the military
38) Expand the Segal Education Award for the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Teach America
39) House arrests for petty crimes as opposed to jailing
40) Policies to end racial segregation in jails such as isolating violent criminals from inmates capable of rehab. Segregate based on crimes committed and character (not race) instead of bunching all types of criminals together.
41) STD testing for all inmates before entry, while incarcerated, and before exit
42) Encourage the expansion of open stock market exchanges on Eastern Time to close on West Coast or Central (Chicago) Time so trading hours are extended a little bit
43) Include Mexico’s top universities into the Association of American Universities with the US and Canada to promote goodwill
44) Use Border Wall funding as leverage for increased gun control (not confiscation)
45) Return parts of federal land to Native Tribes and Native Hawaiians
46) Fly the flags of Native Tribes on federal property and deed back parts of federal lands to Native American tribes
47) Investigate Highway of Tears Native femicides with Canada
48) As Reparations Package: Free or very cheap HBCUs; free genetic testing to find African ancestry, and 0% federally insured fixed rate mortgages (Freedman Loans) as a reparations package for black Americans similar to the GI Bill and VA Home Loan
49) Require truck drivers submit DNA swabs since many unsolved crimes were submitted by truckers. Also, pilots such as those who use smaller off the radar air strips.
50) Authorize a “hacker hunter unit” with law enforcement and clandestine operation authority within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA)
51) Have (RPCs) remote processing centers where the US can have courts and processing centers for refugees in foreign nations similar to forward-operating bases (FOBs), thus reducing the need to migrate all the way to the United States when judges can do virtual court sessions, but you have onsite translators, law enforcement officials to run background checks, etc.
52) Cash Preservation Act to ensure that large businesses are still required to do a certain percentage of businesses with paper cash currency
53) Link all successful experiments at attempting to cure HIVAIDs to race for a cure, spanning stem cells, medications, nanotechnology, gene therapy, etc.
Terrence Howard, Kanye, B.o.B, Tyga, DeSean Jackson, Will Smith…something is going on.
I appreciate Umar standing up for black people but I disagree with him on things.
He’s another talker in a sea of people doing the same, chasing that easy money from the “algorithm”
I wonder how many women Dr. Umar Johnson sleeps with after his seminars while touring the country considering a lot of the applause in his crowds seems to come from black (maybe single, maybe not) women. Seriously. He’s selling a product that many want, and I figure many women might want the honor of saying they’re the muse to the “honorable” Dr. or “Chief” or “Emir” Umar Johnson.
For such a judgemental person he’s out of shape and should cut back on the deep fried lemon pepper wings.
Considering his misogyny and bigotry, like the “reject modernity, embrace traditionalism” “black people were better under segregation” of thinkers like Kevin Samuels, with the late Mr. Samuels having been associated with podcasts like the Fresh and Fit Podcasts (which leads to Rollo Tomassi, Andrew Tate, Stefan Molyneux, Lauren Southern, The Young Americans, etc.), I wouldn’t be surprised if Johnson, with his version of Pan-Africanism, is a proponent of polygamy, considering many men are doing whatever they can these days to “get their balls” back, even though I’d argue they were never taken/they’re embarrassing themselves/saying things they might not be able to take back one day. But, who knows? That’s just speculation my part…
I guess according to Umar… people who love each other and have children across “racial lines” have to get…divorced? Split time with their kids? Feel shame?
Fuck you.
Umar chirps about staying in your race and that black men should only date black women but this puts all the blame on men as if black women don’t set the criteria. Marrying someone simply for their race and no other characteristic is stupid to me but it works for some.
There’s plenty of black men for black women and if a woman can’t find a partner that’s more of a sign of her than men. There’s always a willing man more than a willing woman in my opinion. Black women are also allowed to date outside their race and this doesn’t offend me. I remember growing up and there was no love thrown my way and I can admit that. I also grew up traveling as a military brat where environments are very diverse and non-segregated.
Honestly all the anti-whitey talk is a turn off. It’s a turn off to air this supposed dirty laundry. Hate is a turn off. Ignorance is a turn off.
I admit, I’m dating a white woman but black women are beautful but my lady isn’t black. Cool. She makes me feel supported, free, and she doesn’t think she knows better when I speak about race. I can be a nerd. I don’t have to worry about appearances. I can listen to whatever music I want. She simply listens. She shows me affection and there’s no real power struggles. I support her.
No one supported me so why turn my hand away from someone I care for just because of a fat and fat mouthed bigot rapping off black stats and woke talking points I already know about?
I use to live in “Hotlanta” and went to high school there but it wasn’t my style 100%. Bougie. Fast. Heartless. Fake it to you make it. Avarice. Leased cars. Shootings. Strip clubs. Hook up culture. Some of the most spoiled black children I’ve ever seen living in mansions but making fun of poor kids or bullying white kids. Granted there was plenty of old Dixie hate around. I know the S.W.A.T, Ben Hill, Greenbrier, Fort Mac, Old National, Riverdale, the West End near Morehouse and Spelman, just as much as I know the burbs where I grew up where my school was 50% black. Church on Sunday, wings for lunch with extra bleu cheese or Publix chicken with “fixins” on the side. To be honest I miss old days of black culture before rap, before “woke”, but I’m not hating. I grew up with two parents, one from the hood of Miami near Liberty City by way of kinfolk from Alabama near Selma (my grandmother grew up near Coretta Scott King), and my other parent is from the backwoods country of Georgia.
Yet, Umar Johnson has no right to tell a black person who lives the black experience, which is an experience of many experiences, from poor to bourgeoisie, rural to urban, Northern to southern, East to West, native born American or new African immigrant, part black, extrovert, or introvert, straight or gay, tall, or short, “proper sounding” or ebonics, that they aren’t black because they don’t meet his criteria.
When will black people ever stop this? Time and time again…This purity testing? Blackness could be this all-encompassing and loving movement, happy to spread sacred wisdom of the Motherland to influence all mankind, but instead it comes off as hate against hate.
And, who care’s if he’s “eloquent” or “funny”. Hitler was eloquent. Idi Amin was eloquent. Mao was eloquent. Grand Wizard’s can be eloquent or funny.
Dr. Umar who is essentially in the Intellectual Dark Web, like quacks such as Jordan Peterson, Stefan Molyneux, Eric Weinstein, etc. He’s not building anything. He’s not engineering anything. He’s not coding for anything. He’s just another…talker. A paid, viral, algorithm chasing talker with some papermill doctorate, in our postmodern hellscape of self-help gurus with fascist underpinnings hidden under Joseph Campbell Jungian analysis or whatever.
I find it offensive that Umar as one American guy thinks he can single handedly define what Pan-Africanism is. His Pan-Africanism seems like a black man’s wet dream of Hitler grandeur with his Pan-Aryan ideas or some George Orwell 1984 dystopia. Pan-Africanism, Umar aside, despite the noble intentions and the many contributions of self-ascribed Pan-Africanist is inserting a black framework into larger discussion, seems like a form of reverse colonialism where predominately American voices are dictating the narrative, despite America, compared to black countries abroad, is privileged. Yes, systems do oppress black people, but one black American has more opportunity than many black Africans abroad.
I understand the need for we as black people to regain a sense of our roots, but often Pan-Africanism seems like erasure, oddly. It attempts to merge all black aesthetics into one on the grounds of unity, but incidentally might erase the unique nuances that makes the black experience so unique. Further it might not even include things which some might not consider “black enough”. It also might insert toxic elements from the America’s into the family oriented, rural, and pastoral cultures of many African groups. It’s not that Pan Africanism is bad, but how it has come to be, seems slightly problematic but questioning it in certain circles is grounds for something akin to “excommunication”.
And, by the way if you’re some white liberal reading this. Respectfully, all love to you, thank you for being allies to black people in time of need, but on this matter… white liberals have a tendency of listening to the loudest black voice in the room because they’re constantly searching for the blackest “diamond” in the rough.
Pan-Africanism in one way could be considered a bridgehead for the United State’s growing interests in Africa to hedge countries like China, and the US State Department (and intel community) could use “Pan-Africanists” to insert US ideas into Africa.
Adding insult to injury as Umar goes around threatening the existences of interracial couples who are already receive hatred from certain parties, he also DID NOT go to a Historically (emphasis on historically) Black College and University (as if it matters or makes you less black if you don’t go to one). Sorry, is Obama not black enough for going to an Ivy League college, a place where black people were denied for most of American history? Why are we shaming black dance teams at “white colleges” when this could be a showcase of black culture, etc.? Black people act like white folk don’t have (or, didn’t invent) remote controls. It’s not hard for others to watch Grambling vs Southern or the Celebration Bowl.
Umar went to Millersville University and got an advanced degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where osteopathic medicine is heavily criticized by traditional medicine, but it’s not that Umar cares, or many of his follower’s care, considering we live in a world of Zodiac followers and hand-readers, because he simply needed a Dr. in front of his name to give himself more credence. Good on him for achieving it, but simply because you’re a “doctor” doesn’t mean your prescription to the world’s problems are entirely accurate.
He’s even been caught lying talking about his ancestry to Frederick Douglass according to The Root (2017) article by Michael Harriot, titled: We Fact-Checked Umar Johnson’s Hotep Tantrum with Roland Martin Because Someone Had To. That should have cancelled him, but his hotep followers don’t care, his black female followers obsessed with black men with white women don’t care, no different than Trump supporters not caring for his multiple lies.
The further irony of Umar is that he’s some type of Muslim, but for whatever odd reason, black Americans never question the fact that Islam played a huge role and still does play on in the enslavement of black people. Muslims, whom I have no problem with, but relating to the history of slavery in Africa, weren’t permitted to enslave fellow Muslims, so being in Northern Africa and the Sahel, Muslims made raids into Sub-Saharan Africa or traded for slaves for goods with black African tribes or kingdoms. Tribes who didn’t want to be enslaved and wanted to make money from the gold trade routes converted to Islam as a business decision. These gold trade routes helped Timbuktu flourish, but the wealth of gold trading Muslim African Kingdoms likely tipped off the Europeans who had contact with Islam (for better or worsts).
After the Reconquista of Spain and Portugal over the Moors, the Portuguese simply sailed to areas that Muslims were familiar with, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began in the Age of Discovery, especially after Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand sent Christopher Columbus to what would be the new world.
If certain black people are so committed to “de-colonization”, then why not go further, and return to nature-worship which is more indigenous than any Abrahamic religion? However, our ancestors in the USA fought with Christianity inspiring us, so why throw away what our ancestors fought with simply because we want “consciousness”? Why can’t you be a Christian or a cultural one at least (identifies as one, but not a hardcore follower) like most Americans and be equally as intrigued with African culture? Are we better than our ancestors because they were more oppressed than us, but they didn’t “fight hard enough” according to or modern standards? I dunno…
I would argue the existence of black people is miserable because not only are you oppressed by systems out of your control that inherently criminalized or stereotype you, but you’re also policed, haggled, and harassed by your own black people where everyone walks around purity testing the authenticity of the other instead of owning their own lives. You’re a target of white supremacists and get the ire of black nationalists.
Yet, maybe I can’t be mad at Umar because black people are human and most humans care about what other’s think and try to fit in as to not bring negative attention to themselves.
II. Want to Hear a Conspiracy?
Anyways,
Want to hear a “conspiracy theory”?
Ok. Here we go…
White supremacists love black separatism.
Oh, wait, that’s not a conspiracy.
It’s as if the Founding Fathers who supported slavery but knew that the freedom of black people was inevitable, knew that one day, particularly with black people being treated so poorly, would segregate themselves, because they would hate white people, which was their plan all along.
There’s something odd going on to me, but it seems we as a people have accepted the contemporary discourse of self-determination and tribalism as a needed tenant for a more just world, yet, to me, I suspect that this tribalism, particularly in the United States, where white and black are more similar than we given credit for, is and has been pre-planned or is the expression of past segregated/nationalistic ideas still echoing into the present (for example, even the hippies of days past were still racially regressive compared today’s standards but their views or analyses on race, gender, etc., largely remains unchanged to this day).
The Great Replacement Theory” or “Kalegri Plan” is something spouted by conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, and Nazis (and, Fox News) alike, but I would argue that the future is the “Great Re-Segregation”.
The Great Re-Segregation is the innocuous herding of groups into defined spaces (maybe, even “smart cities” with “themes” and within meta-verse spaces, i.e., no different than racially segregated neighborhoods) in a globalized world where groups are essentially herded like animals (without thinking of it as such), where our data is collected (genetic information included), surveillance is everywhere, and the mass media is used to stir up unrest in the public, yet, since levers of power will be largely influenced by Westernized European inspired ideas, policy, etc., but also the growing influence of the homogeneous Chinese.
A society ruled by a technocratic elite (i.e., like things already are), indifferent to progressivism or conservatism, who operate with a pragmatic and “syncretic” viewpoint and manages the species, like a Darwinist exhibition. Sure, we will still have overlap between the groups, because we as a species have always had overlap, because sharing genetics helps “keep gene pools” humble (not inner-bred), which helps the overall longevity of the species (i.e., genetic vigor), but most people will be herded (socially groomed) to segregate and the political right and political left are both responsible.
Countries are essentially “centers” overseeing commodified groups where all nations answer upward to institutions and systems effectively ran by a small group of people, i.e., a pyramid scheme. When consumer bases start to slow down in how fast they replicate while also demanding more rights as they climb the economic ladder, economic down-turns are manufactured, new bodies from around the globe are shifted into industrial ones, and process of segregation in one hand and assimilation in another takes course.
However, I don’t want you to lose faith in all institutions, and institutions in many ways are highly effective at mitigating risks and subsidizing costs to help the public; however, there’s players within these systems that seem to have an agenda, or maybe these leaders are simply operating subconsciously the way the system was designed to, i.e., an empiricist, scientific, sterile mindset of mitigating groups, creating grand narratives, managing the scarcity of resources, etc.
III. Trauma, Conspiracy Theory, etc., etc.
But on black people.
Terrance Howard is flying around the world telling people that he has disproved gravity. Kanye “Ye” West is having a psychotic episode for our sick entertainment as he is handled by white nationalists and antisemites using him as a “pet to prove that they aren’t has “unstable” as Ye. Rapper, B.o.B., attempted crowdfunding to raise money to help prove the Earth is flat. NFL Wide receiver, DeSean Jackson was called out for saying antisemitic things. Rappers such as Tyga often talks about “Jewish money”, etc., the irony is that there’s likely Jewish management working on his albums (with rappers also somehow allowed to say terms like “white bitches”). Will Smith, likely feeling emasculated by social media and his wife (or, life partner, what have you, whom had a relationship with Tupac – who holds a messianic status amongst certain black people), calling his manhood and even blackness into question, assaulted another black man on stage, in front of the whole world, at the world’s most prestigious acting award (even if the event has fallen off in popularity in recent years as far as ratings). Kyrie Irving did share a post of a “Black Hebrew Israelite” adjacent documentary (not to be confused with black people who practice Orthodox or Reformed Judaism) that has antisemitic tropes.
The comedian, Godfrey, and even the radio personality, Charlemagne the God, whom I would say have their heads on right for the most part, sometimes praise the Farrakhan’s of the Nation of Islam, which as a group espouses…Black Nazi rhetoric, even if they make certain good points analyzing power, how things work, etc. I found it interesting that everyone called out Ye for his obvious hatred, yet, there this veneration for figures like the Farrakhan’s which is often a way of proving “how down you are” in a culture were purity testing, i.e., sizing each other up seems prominent.
Black people have been taught that we cannot be racist, but only prejudiced, since we lack institutional power, yet, the irony of this idea is that A) it allows black people to not challenge our potentially bigoted ideas and to feel empowered within those beliefs because traditionally we lack power, and B) this notion seems like a form of infantilizing black people by saying our actions aren’t as comparable to that of our supposed “superiors”, and this can be problematic on multiple fronts such as empowering sociopaths who already lack the ability to take self-accountability, and yes, black people can be sociopaths as well.
Bullet point (B) in my opinion tends to be promoted more by non-black liberals or non-black Leftists, who struggle with how to help or listen for fear of offending. Building empowerment solely on the idea that we as black people don’t have power or haven’t had an impact on power systems, seems defeatists to me, i.e., a victim-based mentality, which sure has plenty of merit – considering black people were and are victims in many ways – but, this tendency also has elements of “erasure”, i.e., it erases the impacts black people have been able to insert on power systems.
We as black people always focus on depression as black people. Our movies are either hilarious comedies or the most depressing family or slavery stories. It’s one extreme to the next. It reminds me of the Greek mask where one half is smiling and the other is sad.
Many self-ascribed black nationalists don’t know every single black person who contributed something of prominence, and we often talk about social leaders and celebrities, as opposed to our engineers, scientists, doctors, etc., which interestingly is something that all groups do, further showing we’re no better or worse than anyone else.
Before I go on, I want to state that I want all humans to be inspired by blackness. I do not want black exclusivity, black segregation, black hierarchies, black gatekeeping, purity testing, etc. We are all humans and should find inspiration and commonality amongst each other because we all have different ways of seeing things, so it’s intelligent to learn and adapt to each other. The same way how when I was kid found a moral is tales like Robin Hood who fought the rich and the state for the benefit of the common man, I want a white kid feeling lonely in the boonies to be inspired by Shaka Zulu.
I’ll get to the point of my beliefs. I don’t like segregation. I was raised with a Christian inspired Abolitionism that seeks a future where are people judged by their actions solely and not for their race.
Even though I am by no way a good Christian, and many Christians would reject me as being a Christian because I’m not an extremist, I still place merit on the teachings on mercy, love, humility, etc., that Christianity teaches.
Interestingly, my political left leanings are in part inspired by Christian mercy.
I believe that racial segregation is social engineering derived from our colonial roots and is a way of dividing the public by manufacturing dialectical (diametrically opposed) tension, cultures., etc.
I find it “funny” that white nationalists support the rhetoric of black separatists, so…if logic is to persist, and black people or the political left say that the US is white supremacists (i.e., Amerikkka), then maybe black separatism was intended to be another force that keeps the races separate, so they can be “farmed” “herded” etc. I find it interesting that certain elements of Left-Wing thought, with its anti-colonial, post-colonial, and de-colonial framework calls for self-determinism, yet, white nationalists or other Right-Wing forces call for self-determination too.
I believe that those in power use both left-wing and right-wing because they have a pragmatic view of power, to maintain racial segregation, hierarchies, etc., but these people, seeing themselves as entitled to “evolve the species”, use tension to merge elements of bipolar opposites, so from the explosion of these opposite agents, you create a new paradigm, but the later repeat the cycle as new diametrically opposed binaries reveal themselves.
There’s a Darwinists and Enlightenment Period based mindset (which includes liberalism, Communism, fascism, and capitalism) that sees chaos and flux as essential in the process of evolution and these concepts are embedded into Western thought, didactic, etc. The common man, burdened by the grind of existence, where the system knows and manipulates our Maslow Hierarchy of Needs by creating scarcity (competition, unemployment, etc.), is more likely to find solace in their identity (the cheapest form of currency in my opinion), and not question how those identities are constructed to be binaries in a system of control for the benefit of a few.
For example, the Nation of Islam, which is listed as a hate group by the US State Department, Southern Poverty Law Center (who helped take down the KKK in the 1960s), and Anti-Defamation League, believes that black scientist named Yakub (insinuating Jacob from the Jewish tradition) created white people and other races with an unspecified birth-control method to be “diametrically opposed” to blackness, and to conquer black people.
Nation of Islam by the way was allegedly created by a man impersonating a black man, and he mysteriously disappeared, potentially stealing money from membership fees of poor blacks. Many poor black people fled up north, and the creator of the Nation of Islam, using the then popular trend of secret groups, like B’nai B’rith, the Klu Klux Klan, etc., focused on these new black migrants who became jaded by racism up north. Before the twentieth century, after the Civil War, the United States saw an increase in spiritualism, mesmerism (hypnosis), seances, etc., because there was a lot of death from the war and a changing of America as new immigrants came in. The N.O.I., is simply a byproduct of these events. Today, the Nation of Islam has ties to Scientology, which is further proof of the mind-control elements the N.O.I. seeks out.
Simply reading this I can pull so much. A) black people descended from slaves often make similarities to that of the ancient Jews in captivity since that was the only book that slaves were allowed to read (or, be read too), granted it was redacted by slave owners to justify slavery, B) because of Christianity being forced upon us – my people, as it was for most groups, including tribal Europeans in the Dark Ages, newly freed black people after slavery, notably those exposed to other ideas in Northern Cities, were searching for identity and some chose a religion that was perceived as polar opposite to Christian, rural, and Southern, yet still beholden to the credibility of Abrahamic faiths, and chose unorthodox Islam, and C) the figure of Yakub – a rip off of Jacob – is essentially the concept that not only chirps to anti-Jewish thought, but also the notion of the “Uncle Tom”, “sell-out”, “race traitor”, etc., meaning that the Nation of Islam inserted this character, as a “purity testing” trip-wire figure, as a means of taking the high ground to call any detractors or critics “enemies of the race”, which is a pretty low and lazy way of winning arguments.
There was also an aversion to the COVID-19 vaccines, despite black Americans in certain categories being at increased risk for contracting it due to high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, etc., but also black and Latin workers often work in businesses that were prone to outbreaks such as warehouses, meat packing facilities, restaurants, etc.
Sure, my last point about COVID-19 is more understandable, because to be frank, the virus was new, people had limited information, the virus did fundamentally change how we operate (such as tele-work, social distancing, etc.), and there is a general mistrust of institutions; however, for all the other previous points stated, there is a trend of black men, notably popular black celebrities, descending into what I consider to be postmodern solipsism, relativity, and conspiracy theory.
Further, as this phenomenon of black celebrities going mad is happening, which is not necessarily new, there are public figures willingly to use this distortion or confusion of what is real or what is not real to mix it with Pan-Africanism so these public leaders to ascend to prominent positions.
Umar Johnson, for example, is a Men’s Rights Activist, likely inspired by the late yet controversial Kevin Samuels (whom like Jesse Lee Peterson, tells the story that black people were better off segregated).
IV. Fascism hiding under Postmodernism
Misinformation affects all people regardless of demographic because as a society we are now living in a hyper-reality of late-stage, globalized capitalism – full of parody, pastiche, bad actors, i.e., trolls or agents of misinformation, and recycled pop culture – where the distinction between real and fake, or simulation and simulacra is hard to discern.
We live in a world where corporate power for example is so strong, innocuous, and entrenched and it pervades all aspects of life, including the commodification of race, culture, sexuality, orientation, ideology, religion, education, healthcare, and just about…everything. Even misinformation is commodified.
I say that postmodernism is the chameleon skin that shrouds the predatory animus of capitalism.
The disorienting “skin”, i.e., postmodern culture, is simply a way of capitalism to sustain itself by a) creating relativity so we don’t know what is real or fake, and b) recycling culture, often in anachronistic fashion, because most growth or markets have already been exhausted, and most production isn’t from labor value but is from financialization, i.e., using fiat money to speculate on assets to create artificial demand where those at the top benefit the most, and manipulate business cycles to their own benefit (knowing government’s, already being privatized, will insure their loses at taxpayer expense).
As a result, we live in a world where “Continental Philosophy” encompassing fields such as metaphysics and existentialism merges with “Analytical Philosophy” encompassing fields like linguistics, game theory, logic, etc. In other words, we have a lot of intensive research and data alongside endless subjective interpretations of said data thus leading to a “collective flux”, i.e., mass solipsism, resulting in statements such as “my truth”.
Even though this democratization of information can be inspiring and helpful (e.g., checking institutional power), it does lead to a “triumph of the will” of ideas, i.e., the strongest survives, hence we may be subject to constant and ever-growing ideological conflict as ideas battle each other with no sense of moderation or consensus in sight.
But as a fellow black man, I can understand why there’s this need for truth among black people, yet, it seems to be leading black men (not saying more so than anyone else) down conspiracy rabbit holes.
The truth is, of course, black people had our diverse and often differing indigenous identities stripped and were forcibly yet partially assimilated into Western Civilization, to be labor power, but also to serve as an aesthetic binary to whiteness, where blackness became the magnet for the vileness of white supremacy.
Black Americans were designed to arouse a sense of supremacy in white settlers, many who had nothing but the value of being white.
Black people historically were denied education, reading, the ability to speak up, and our own destinies. Yet, this doesn’t mean that black people lacked aptitude, but rather we were disbarred from understanding the civilization which fell upon us, and which also devalued us. There’s a tendency to think that we’re not getting the entire story, or, there’s a paranoia of some higher deeper and nefarious truth – which is true but can be untrue depending upon on how we seek those truths.
But, how far black people have come is a true miracle.
We must be willing to check our own theses.
Simply because we feel something doesn’t mean that it is true, and the also the simplest path towards a solution is often not the truth but its tempting to take the less arduous path. For example, antisemitism is often a gross simplification of the truth, because Jews don’t run the world, even though, of course, there are powerful players that are Jewish pulling the levers of power, but to time and time again blaming Jews is intellectually lazy and ironic. If Jews really ran the world, why would they not just bulldoze anyone in their way?
White nationalist for example, preach that they are superior one second, while claiming to be victims at the same time, and most of the bad ideas that are affecting everyone – white people included – were created by white people. Karl Marx, a Jew, or a BIPOC person didn’t steal your job, but Mitt Romney working in Leveraged Buyouts did.
The temptation to jump to antisemitism, is disingenuous, and an easy scapegoat, but black people do this too, i.e., we try to find a simple explanation without understanding all the nuances, conflicts, inner diversity of various groups, etc.
When you add all of this with the fact that black men are often the most criminalized, black people in general – traditionally speaking – are often seen as having “less quality” or “less refined tastes”, etc., there is an insatiable thirst for truth to rebuild or regain our “consciousness” “regalia” “honor”, but the trauma on black people, both present and past, both anecdotal and institutional, seems to corrupt the path towards truth. This corruption, which objectively is from a good place I would argue, seems to have some black people questioning everything, even basic principles such as Terrance Howard arguing against basic arithmetic (something all humans developed and understood on their own).
History is already a confusing and rigorous endeavor, but most people fall for conspiracy theories, where I defined conspiracy theories as theories where the conclusion is already predetermined, but the researcher with a specific or ideological bias uses facts that simply serve their point, instead of actively challenging their own thesis or idea. Conspiracy theories as opposed to let’s say investigative journalism often lacks rigorous peer review, panel presentations, debates, etc.
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