One has to wonder if Israel remembers what happens to white supremacist states who accept genocide as a means to an end. ~ Malichi Daniels

Commentary: AIDS And The Assassination Of The African Image

This comment was posted in reaction to the Huffington Post article "Blacks, Gay And Straight, Have Biggest Struggle With HIV/AIDS".  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/feature-us-blacks-gay-_n_1693840.html?show_comment_id=173671267#comment_173671267

For twenty five years the American Medical Association, CDC and World Health Organization (UN) has been propagating that globally Africans are the cause of AIDS. That somehow we are genetically predisposed, or so much more over sexed than our European counterparts, that this "disease" runs rampant wherever we are. And for years western media and the medical establishment has ignored the curing of "HIV-AIDS" by Africans themselves.

 There is an almost endless list of HIV-AIDS cases that were reversed by independent and holistic health practitioners. The most famous being Alfred Bowman aka Dr. Sebi. There are also many others in America, Mexico and the African continent that have been curing themselves using alternative non-toxic methods. We will never hear about this from western corporate media. We will only be bombarded with the constant racist image and character defamation of African people. We will also never hear about the large amounts of benzene (petrochemical) found in African water supplies. How did it get there? Petroleum based products have been found to be destroyers of our natural immune system capabilities. The human body was never meant to come into contact with petroleum.

It should also be noted that the test that “confirms” HIV-AIDS has been found to give false positives. HIV-AIDS is a cash cow. It brings in billions of dollars a year to the global pharmaceutical conglomerate and medical industry. There is no search for a cure because medical doctors don’t cure disease. It is not within their mandate or reach. Modern health is purely a money making industry. Anyone who says otherwise is either extremely naïve or profits from people’s ignorance of this fact.

Just so that we are clear, I am not insinuating anything. I am stating it very clearly. HIV-AIDS and other immunodeficiency disorders are being used to systematically destroy the African and Asian global populations. I am also accusing The World Health Organization, CDC and American Medical Association of being complicit in this aim. This is simply a continuation of the 20th century eugenics movement that was started by the American Medical Association.

Lastly, African people must stop being so gullible and affable when it comes to “white people” in white coats. They are not god, although they would like you to think so. There is no incurable disease. That is unless it was designed to be incurable. And even then, there is always an undiscovered cure.

If you would like to know the truth about “western medicine” and it’s true relationship of exploitative experimentation on African, Indigenous and poor people, read “Medical Apartheid” by Harriet Washington M.D.

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/19/medical_apartheid_the_dark_history_of

Fear of a Bandana Republic

Malichi Daniels

My earliest years living in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville, Brooklyn colored many of the beliefs that I still hold until this day. The basic tenets of street and family life seemed to shift and blend with each passing narcotics flood and repression tactic. The creeds and manifestos inhaled by ghetto children like vapor are absorbed through osmosis. The first rule: no one man is above the crew. So it goes in any family or tribe. Urban warrior swagger and dark penetrating glares from beneath hooded jackets and fitted baseball caps were the armor of choice. Barricaded in the corners of America’s great metropolises we created culture from lack. We birthed expression from frustration, and made a nation from nothing. It is these things that have earned us the envy and enmity of the world.

There are innumerable code words that politicians and media pundits have attached to African and Native youth in order to create patsies for almost every white fear and societal woe. Despite incidents such as the one that occurred at Columbine High School, terms such as “youth violence” always translated as “non-white youth violence.” We are also told that we should empathize with the young white perpetrators of these acts because they were “misunderstood”. Suburban violence is painted with the broad stroked brush of tragedy, while urban violence is shaded with primal descriptives such as “wilding” and “rampaging”.

There are those who say that you are wholly responsible for your environment. These mouthpieces are usually in a position of affluence that makes shouting reactionary platitudes safer than concrete social analysis. The violence that takes place in the streets between crews is no doubt displaced. But what can never be overlooked is the African and Native’s attempt to reconstruct the familial in order to fortify what American colonialism and oppression has all but destroyed. The past 35 years has seen the American governments dismantling of the Italian Mafia through the RICO Act and COINTELPRO maneuvers. And although organized crime has claimed countless victims, historically the Italian Mafia served as the unofficial governing body of its community; meting out reward or punishment according to street codes or cultural standards of the time.  In east coast cities, workers of all races can recall the days of Mafia controlled unions.  My own mother is fond of saying, “at least the mob payed you on time.” My mother is not a social scientist by any means, but I would say that her assessment was pretty sharp in this case.

Destroying the majority of the mob’s infrastructure was a preliminary step in eliminating the competition. And more importantly, to further erode community sovereignty. The Harlem’s, China Town’s and Little Italy’s of America must be destroyed because self-determination is no longer allowed. There is to be no confusion about who you and your family should turn to in times of need. All thoughts of self-reliance and street level organizing-whether legal or otherwise, are to be crushed. As a result of this design, the community as we knew it has been largely dismantled.

The American government and intelligence community has always served as the supreme Godfather to organized crime. This being the case, there has always been a careful control of the tide of narcotics and disillusionment in African and Native communities. The drug surge can be most clearly observed whenever there’s a great demand for social and political transformation. Critics have often said that we infiltrated our own neighborhoods with ships and planeloads of cellophane-wrapped cocaine and heroin. In truth, even at their most organized heights in the 1980’s and early 90’s, the Caribbean and Colombian street tribes were just foot soldiers in a “Drug War” against America’s African and poor. This campaign has been the most protracted chemical war in the history of humanity.

In drawing these conclusions, we must also understand that the petty crimes that occur in our neighborhoods are the end result of unresolved contradictions of settler colonialism, white supremacy and capitalism. What we are now witnessing with NAFTA, The World Bank and IMF is the final consolidation of power and capital. In this final lockdown there can be no resistance by the masses on any level. What the street tribes represent is the last loosely organized armed resistance to final phase capitalism.

“Gangs” as they are termed, have always posed the greatest threat of becoming a true vanguard of the people.  A group with no real ties to bourgeois thought or trappings. A set with no interest in wage slavery or institutional validation. And an army with no allegiance to anyone but themselves and their beliefs. Given the right ideology and conditions, these gangs could become a true wrench in the machine.

Finally, the gentrification and “population redistribution” that we are witnessing in our neighborhoods is happening all over the world. Indeed, what is local will become global and vice versa. Those who are committing thefts and acts of violence against this new, more affluent population usually belong to some kind of street tribe. We should never allow these incidents to be written off by the media as mere criminal acts. Our job is to use our own political and street level study to illustrate what is taking place. Because what is taking place is as plain as the lines on a Grandmother’s face. The sons and daughters of Africans and Natives are still to this very day resisting the colonial settler and slave master.  

Harlem, NY 2006  

“Fear of a Bandana Republic” was published in The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members & Their Affiliates. Copyright © 2008 Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George

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