Farrakhan Was Right About Black Organizations

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Civil Rights Institute apologizes over Angela Davis
Updated 2:59 PM; Posted 2:29 PM

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has issued an apology for its handling of the withdrawal of an award for Angela Davis. (Jake May)

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By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute today issued an apology for its handling of the withdrawal of its top award for controversial activist Angela Davis.

“Each member of the Board of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute deeply regrets the impact that the handling of the Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award has had on Dr. Angela Davis, the City of Birmingham, and many others who have been impacted by our handling of the award,” the board said in a public statement. “We are sorry.”

The apology comes after Birmingham Mayor Randal Woodfin chastised the board last week.

“We acknowledge that the culmination of our decisions and actions has caused division in the community and compromised the good name of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on the world stage,” the statement from the board said. "Regardless of the outcome of our vote, many have rightfully questioned our selection process, which we vow to improve. In hindsight, more time, conversation and consideration of diverse viewpoints should have informed our decision to rescind our nomination, and we were silent for too long afterward. Again, we accept responsibility and are sorry.

“There are many lessons we already are learning from this situation. In the coming weeks, we will take steps to learn even more. We ask you to still maintain your support of the Institute as we attempt to regain your trust and learn from this experience. Thank you.”

For full coverage of the Angela Davis controversy, click here.

Hell no. They need to be shut down and boycotted. As well as renamed as The Birmingham Jewish Civil Rights Institute.

 

[Pirius Black]

They overplayed their hand. This kind of manipulation only works when you can't see the strings.

 

[KingJudah2]

Jews causing problems of course

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I remember years ago, I pointed out the fact that a white man started the NAACP, to some people, and they didn't believe me and damn near flipped out.

 

[Everythingg]

minister Farrakhan and the noi has never made a serious effort to work with other organizations unless they did things the noi way.

And whats wrong with that?

 

[Everythingg]

What kills me is they have a Holocaust education center in Alabama. Literally, one of the top three slave states.

No Slavery education center - but the Holocaust? Gtfooh.

I'm disgusted.

They use mlk for everything.

We know enough about our slavery. We should be creating a "what was going on befor slavery" education center so we can raise the self esteem of the so called "black" community...

 

[get these nets]

We know enough about our slavery. We should be creating a "what was going on befor slavery" education center so we can raise the self esteem of the so called "black" community...

No, we don't know enough about slavery. Otherwise there wouldn't have been people trying to find meaning/insight in Kanye's foolish "slavery was a choice" comment.
It's exactly because of our ignorance of the topic that"slavery was a choice" & "we were already here / moors" notions get ANY traction.

 

[jackson35]

And whats wrong with that?

what wrong with not practicing what you preach?

 

[CoryMack]

No, we don't know enough about slavery. Otherwise there wouldn't have been people trying to find meaning/insight in Kanye's foolish "slavery was a choice" comment.
It's exactly because of our ignorance of the topic that"slavery was a choice" & "we were already here / moors" notions get ANY traction.

I see what the Brother was saying and I’ve advocated as much. I’m also more interested in beginning to teach about what we were doing pre-slavery, specifically what mistakes we made that contributed to our becoming slaves. There’s not enough discussion about that in my opinion.

 

[CoryMack]

what wrong with not practicing what you preach?

Because to join a strong militant Black Nationalist org with a weak organization only hurts the org that was strong. The weak are never strengthened, but just the opposite happens with the milquetoast org weakening the strong one.

No it’s better to be the strong and make all others bend the knee and get in line with your program.

 

[get these nets]

I see what the Brother was saying and I’ve advocated as much. I’m also more interested in beginning to teach about what we were doing pre-slavery, specifically what mistakes we made that contributed to our becoming slaves. There’s not enough discussion about that in my opinion.

I could buy that,and what the earlier dude said.
OP was saying that in a state so critical to the plantation system, AL, that a Slavery education center would make more sense than a holocaust center. Events happened in Europe, not America and mean nothing to non jews.


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Well, we specifically were prisoners of war, or under the domination of more powerful groups which is how our ancestors became enslaved. When the demand became higher and there weren't enough POWs, chiefs/merchants gave the greenlight for slave raids. When that wasn't enough, Euros manipulated situations/tensions between groups to increase the amount.

There does need to be more discussion and study about the topic.The mistake people make, which often derails discussions here is to point finger at Africans today on some "y'all sold US" line.
Today in our representative democracy, with free press, we are not aware..nor do we have the power to stop/control hundreds of things that POTUS, Senate and Big Business does. 300 years ago, West Africans in coastal nation states had no control over the decisions of chiefs and merchants . "y'all sold us" is super flimsy stance not rooted in reality. It's as misguided as middle eastern terror.ists who target American civilians for actions taken by our military the past 100 years at the direction of the potus.

 

[Everythingg]

what wrong with not practicing what you preach?

When did he preach that black people should unite regardless of differences in ideology?

 

[Secure Da Bag]

When did he preach that black people should unite regardless of differences in ideology?

A few times actually.

 

[Everythingg]

No, we don't know enough about slavery. Otherwise there wouldn't have been people trying to find meaning/insight in Kanye's foolish "slavery was a choice" comment.
It's exactly because of our ignorance of the topic that"slavery was a choice" & "we were already here / moors" notions get ANY traction.

Black history in school starts at slavery. Movie after movie is made about slavery. Where are the teachings or movies about what we were doing before slavery?

And Kanye was talking about mental slavery but most of y’all don’t care about context. If anyone wants to move past slavery y’all get mad yet white people never talk about them being slaves (Slavs). We have to be constantly reminded about slavery while they get to pretend it never happened with them.. They’re trying to program blacks people with a slave mentality. And there’s no ignorance in saying there was black people in America before slavery or that there were black moors. Those are just facts

 

[CoryMack]

I could buy that,and what the earlier dude said.
OP was saying that in a state so critical to the plantation system, AL, that a Slavery education center would make more sense than a holocaust center. Events happened in Europe, not America and mean nothing to non jews.


==
Well, we specifically were prisoners of war, or under the domination of more powerful groups which is how our ancestors became enslaved. When the demand became higher and there weren't enough POWs, chiefs/merchants gave the greenlight for slave raids. When that wasn't enough, Euros manipulated situations/tensions between groups to increase the amount.

There does need to be more discussion and study about the topic.The mistake people make, which often derails discussions here is to point finger at Africans today on some "y'all sold US" line.
Today in our representative democracy, with free press, we are not aware..nor do we have the power to stop/control hundreds of things that POTUS, Senate and Big Business does. 300 years ago, West Africans in coastal nation states had no control over the decisions of chiefs and merchants . "y'all sold us" is super flimsy stance not rooted in reality. It's as misguided as middle eastern terror.ists who target American civilians for actions taken by our military the past 100 years at the direction of the potus.

again i have to disagree here. i haven't studied extensively into the role different tribes had in capturing and selling us to the europeans, but i have done some reading. i'm generally aware of the political situation of that time and the pressure some tribes were under. ironically, i was in half price books just yesterday thumbing thru a book on slavery. it was a compilation of writings, from white ship captains to african kings/chiefs and even the enslaved. I don't remember the name of the book but it included an excerpt from Olaudah Equiano, a captured slave, and John Newton who was a captain. It also included a couple of excerpts from kings of tribes who participated and colluded with the white man.

so "ya'll sold us" is rooted in reality, though i will grant that it's an extreme case of simplifying a complex situation.when caesar conquered gaul the allobroges were one of the prominent tribes at that time and they allied with the romans for most of that war, which eventually saw a million of them displaced, another million killed, and a third million sold into chattel slavery. rome then controlled gaul for the next 400 years en route to conquering the known world, so the selling out isn't something exclusive to Blacks, and to tell the truth it's not an area where I'd spend alotta time. most every if not every race of people has been enslaved at some point in their history, but no people can be completely overrun and conquered without some sellout segment of that people helping the enemy. the point i would stress when it comes to slavery is that chattel slavery was a white invention and has always been the white man's way, whether he was enslaving his fellow greeks, romans, gauls, or africans. i would stress that unchangeable aspect of his nature.

but as far as our people go, i'd like to go back further than that. you see, i believe we need to analyze what happened in northern africa in antiquity and study the different factors that led to us losing Egypt and eventually northern africa. what were our internal weaknesses - see what i'm saying? because we're always going to have to deal with outside forces, but our internal weaknesses are what gave the arabs and white folks the opening they needed. and gaining that critical foothold in northern africa basically gave the arabs and europeans an open road to the rest of the continent.