May 3, 2010, 06:55 PM ET
By Libby Sander, THE CHRONICLE of Higher Education
The University of Virginia is reeling today from the news that a member of its top-ranked men's lacrosse team has been accused of murdering a player on the women's lacrosse team.
George Huguely, a senior, was arrested this morning and has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love, also a senior, authorities in Charlottesville said earlier today. Mr. Huguely is in custody.
Few details have emerged at this early stage, but here's what we do know: Police were called to Ms. Love's apartment around 2 a.m. for a possible alcohol overdose, and found Ms. Love, who was pronounced dead at the scene and had "suffered visible physical trauma," according to a police statement. Mr. Huguely was arrested a short time later.
The university's president, John T. Casteen III, said the death "moves us to deep anguish." In what is clearly a carefully crafted statement, he went on to say: "That she appears now to have been murdered by another student compounds this sense of loss."
Appears. What a difference one word makes. Earlier in the day, one of Mr. Casteen's colleagues, Leonard W. Sandridge, the university's chief operating officer, was markedly less guarded in his choice of words. "The shock and disappointment and concern is magnified by the fact that she was murdered by one of our own," he told the Roanoke Times.
It's a strong statement given that university officials usually walk on eggshells to avoid doing what we in the news business call "convicting someone in print." Maybe it was a misquote. Or maybe it was a candid comment from a man who was simply stunned—and had yet to be coached by lawyers on how (or how not) to talk to the press.
For the next few days, Virginia will be known as the site of a murder involving two photogenic athletes from a top lacrosse program. And officials will learn, quickly, how to grapple with the unwelcome scrutiny that only a shocking crime can bring.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Message from President Casteen, University of Virginia
Monday, May 3, 2010 (1:33 p.m.)
Earlier today, we released a statement about a Charlottesville Police investigation of an apparent homicide in which the victim is a University of Virginia student. A just-released update of an earlier Charlottesville Police statement about this investigation identifies the victim as Yeardley Love, a fourth-year student from Cockeysville, Maryland, and a Varsity lacrosse player. The updated Charlottesville Police Department statement appears just below this one along with advice to students from University Police Chief Michael Gibson. The Charlottesville Police statement also discloses that George Huguely, a fourth-year student from Chevy Chase, Maryland, and a Varsity men's lacrosse player, has been charged with First Degree Murder, and is in custody at the Charlottesville/Albemarle jail. We urge all students and faculty/staff to read both of the following statements with care.
Although we know nothing other than what appears in the Charlottesville Police Department's more recent statement, this death moves us to deep anguish for the loss of a student of uncommon talent and promise, and we express the University's and our own sympathy for Yeardley's family, team-mates, and friends. That she appears now to have been murdered by another student compounds this sense of loss by suggesting that Yeardley died without comfort or consolation from those closest to her. We mourn her death and feel anger on reading that the investigators believe that another student caused it. Like students who have contacted us in the last few minutes, we know no explanation of what appears now to have happened.
Police investigators and the courts will eventually determine what happened and make judgments on the basis of evidence submitted by the police and the Commonwealth's Attorney. Meantime, along with all in the University and family members and friends elsewhere, we grieve and ache for this loss. It is easy to imagine that professional counseling services may prove useful to any number of students as we try to assimilate this information. If you wish to meet with a counselor or one of the deans, call the office of the dean of students at 924-7133, and if you believe that a friend or acquaintance needs support and is not asking for it, call the same number, and explain what you have seen. Don't hesitate to call. Don't feel embarrassment about calling. Don't keep quiet about a grieving friend who seems to need assistance but to be unable to request it.
And let us all acknowledge that, however little we may not know now about Yeardley Love's death, we do know that she did not have or deserve to die--that she deserved the bright future she earned growing up, studying here, and developing her talents as a lacrosse player. She deserves to be remembered for her human goodness, her capacity for future greatness, and not for the terrible way in which her young life has ended.
John Casteen
A Statement from the Charlottesville Police Department
Monday, May 3, 2010 (1:33 p.m.)
University Student Found Deceased (Update)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA – Regarding the death of a University of Virginia student occurring at a 14th ST N.W. apartment, the victim has since been identified as 22 year old, Yeardley Love. Ms. Love was a fourth year University of Virginia Student from Cockeysville, Maryland who played on the Women’s Lacrosse Team.
Preliminary investigation by detectives revealed that Ms. Love is the victim of an apparent homicide. She suffered visible physical trauma, however the specific cause of death is undetermined pending an autopsy.
George Huguely, a senior at the University of Virginia from Chevy Chase MD who plays for the UVA Men’s lacrosse team, has been charged with First Degree Murder and is in custody at the Charlottesville/Albemarle jail.
According to witnesses, Huguely and Love had a past relationship.
Charlottesville Police are continuing to investigate the case and will provide more details as they become available.
Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to call Charlottesville Police Sergeant Mark Brake at 970-3970 or Crime Stoppers at 977-4000.
A Message from Mike Gibson, Chief of Police
Monday, May 3, 2010 (9:18 a.m.)
This email is to alert the community that the Charlottesville Police Department is conducting an investigation on the suspicious death of one of our students in a private residence in the 14th Street area. While very few details are available at this time we would encourage the community to visit the UVA Homepage for updated information.
While Charlottesville remains a relatively safe environment, crimes do occur in our community. The best defense is to be prepared and to take responsibility for your own safety and for that of your friends and fellow students. A few key reminders:
*Trust your instincts about a person or situation. If you feel uncomfortable, immediately report your concerns to police by calling 911.
*If you are on the Grounds and need help, pick up one of the blue-light telephones. You will be immediately connected to University Police. Be aware of your surroundings. Do not let a cell phone conversation or listening to music distract you when crossing the street or in any type of situation that calls for your full attention.
*Avoid isolated areas and walking alone at night. Use SafeRide (434-242-1122), walk with friends, or take a late-night weekend bus.
*Keep your doors and windows locked.
*Never allow strangers to follow you into a locked building and gain entry by “tailgating” you once you swipe the card reader in a residence hall. Also, never prop open card-reader doors.
*If you see any of the following, immediately call the police at 911: a prowler, someone peeping into a residence, an individual watching, photographing or filming an area, or any other suspicious behavior.
*Work with your neighbors and fellow community members to ensure a safe environment.
For additional safety tips from University Police, please see http://www.virginia.edu/uvapolice/prevention.html#Residence.
Earlier today, we released a statement about a Charlottesville Police investigation of an apparent homicide in which the victim is a University of Virginia student. A just-released update of an earlier Charlottesville Police statement about this investigation identifies the victim as Yeardley Love, a fourth-year student from Cockeysville, Maryland, and a Varsity lacrosse player. The updated Charlottesville Police Department statement appears just below this one along with advice to students from University Police Chief Michael Gibson. The Charlottesville Police statement also discloses that George Huguely, a fourth-year student from Chevy Chase, Maryland, and a Varsity men's lacrosse player, has been charged with First Degree Murder, and is in custody at the Charlottesville/Albemarle jail. We urge all students and faculty/staff to read both of the following statements with care.
Although we know nothing other than what appears in the Charlottesville Police Department's more recent statement, this death moves us to deep anguish for the loss of a student of uncommon talent and promise, and we express the University's and our own sympathy for Yeardley's family, team-mates, and friends. That she appears now to have been murdered by another student compounds this sense of loss by suggesting that Yeardley died without comfort or consolation from those closest to her. We mourn her death and feel anger on reading that the investigators believe that another student caused it. Like students who have contacted us in the last few minutes, we know no explanation of what appears now to have happened.
Police investigators and the courts will eventually determine what happened and make judgments on the basis of evidence submitted by the police and the Commonwealth's Attorney. Meantime, along with all in the University and family members and friends elsewhere, we grieve and ache for this loss. It is easy to imagine that professional counseling services may prove useful to any number of students as we try to assimilate this information. If you wish to meet with a counselor or one of the deans, call the office of the dean of students at 924-7133, and if you believe that a friend or acquaintance needs support and is not asking for it, call the same number, and explain what you have seen. Don't hesitate to call. Don't feel embarrassment about calling. Don't keep quiet about a grieving friend who seems to need assistance but to be unable to request it.
And let us all acknowledge that, however little we may not know now about Yeardley Love's death, we do know that she did not have or deserve to die--that she deserved the bright future she earned growing up, studying here, and developing her talents as a lacrosse player. She deserves to be remembered for her human goodness, her capacity for future greatness, and not for the terrible way in which her young life has ended.
John Casteen
A Statement from the Charlottesville Police Department
Monday, May 3, 2010 (1:33 p.m.)
University Student Found Deceased (Update)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA – Regarding the death of a University of Virginia student occurring at a 14th ST N.W. apartment, the victim has since been identified as 22 year old, Yeardley Love. Ms. Love was a fourth year University of Virginia Student from Cockeysville, Maryland who played on the Women’s Lacrosse Team.
Preliminary investigation by detectives revealed that Ms. Love is the victim of an apparent homicide. She suffered visible physical trauma, however the specific cause of death is undetermined pending an autopsy.
George Huguely, a senior at the University of Virginia from Chevy Chase MD who plays for the UVA Men’s lacrosse team, has been charged with First Degree Murder and is in custody at the Charlottesville/Albemarle jail.
According to witnesses, Huguely and Love had a past relationship.
Charlottesville Police are continuing to investigate the case and will provide more details as they become available.
Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to call Charlottesville Police Sergeant Mark Brake at 970-3970 or Crime Stoppers at 977-4000.
A Message from Mike Gibson, Chief of Police
Monday, May 3, 2010 (9:18 a.m.)
This email is to alert the community that the Charlottesville Police Department is conducting an investigation on the suspicious death of one of our students in a private residence in the 14th Street area. While very few details are available at this time we would encourage the community to visit the UVA Homepage for updated information.
While Charlottesville remains a relatively safe environment, crimes do occur in our community. The best defense is to be prepared and to take responsibility for your own safety and for that of your friends and fellow students. A few key reminders:
*Trust your instincts about a person or situation. If you feel uncomfortable, immediately report your concerns to police by calling 911.
*If you are on the Grounds and need help, pick up one of the blue-light telephones. You will be immediately connected to University Police. Be aware of your surroundings. Do not let a cell phone conversation or listening to music distract you when crossing the street or in any type of situation that calls for your full attention.
*Avoid isolated areas and walking alone at night. Use SafeRide (434-242-1122), walk with friends, or take a late-night weekend bus.
*Keep your doors and windows locked.
*Never allow strangers to follow you into a locked building and gain entry by “tailgating” you once you swipe the card reader in a residence hall. Also, never prop open card-reader doors.
*If you see any of the following, immediately call the police at 911: a prowler, someone peeping into a residence, an individual watching, photographing or filming an area, or any other suspicious behavior.
*Work with your neighbors and fellow community members to ensure a safe environment.
For additional safety tips from University Police, please see http://www.virginia.edu/uvapolice/prevention.html#Residence.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Thomas Opposed for Supreme Court
BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
The National Black Political
Caucus, Archives
Pittsburgh PA.
The following article appeared in The Pittsburgh Press on August 20, 1991 titled Thomas opposed for Supreme Court
Thomas opposed for Supreme Court
The National Black Political Caucus, a Pittsburgh based group has announced it will oppose the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The Caucus has criticized Thomas' opposition to Affirmative Action and said his tenure as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission "was a total disaster."
It is our considered belief that when Judge Thomas was director of the EEOC he seriously undermined and severely weakened on the highest law enforcement agencies in the Country by repeatedly using voluntary compliance rather than enforcement," the Caucus, said in a statement.
Ronald B. Saunders is Chairman and Reginald D. Plato is President of the Caucus.
Officers of the National Black Political Caucus along with U. S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, ( D ) of Ohio met with Clarence Thomas, Chair of the EEOC and EEOC staff Attorney's on June 26, 1986 at the EEOC office in Washington D.C.
Senator Metzenbaum began the meeting by informing Mr. Thomas that he had received complaints from various members of the National Black Political Caucus in Steubenville Ohio and Warren Ohio. Senator Mezenbaum further stated that he had also received complaints from Pittsburgh PA, and throughout the U.S. for the lack of in-depth investigations of complaints filed with the EEOC. Metzenbaum said he was sick and tired, of the EEOC treating Charging Party's as though they were aliens in there own country with such legal jargon that the average Joe can't understand.
Mr. Edward Mixon, the first African American elected to public office ( Councilman ) in the City of Steubenville Ohio, and an officer of the National Black Political Caucus, said the EEOC Office had his case for well over three years and had failed to contact him on the progress of the case. William Snyder, another officer of the National Black Political Caucus, from Wheeling West Virginia said over 21 people had come to him about the lack of progress on there cases, and when the EEOC did contact his constituents it was to tell them they found no cause to credit the allegations of their charges. Tim Holt, another officer of the Caucus in Detroit Michigan, said he had received many complaints from his people on the number of times that the EEOC found no cause for their charges.. Reginald D. Plato, President of the NBPC said that the Pittsburgh office was not living up to its statutory mandates by dismissing so many charges do to a lack of Jurisdiction.
Janis W. Henfield, Secretary of the National Black Political Caucus in Arlington Virginia, said the she knew that the EECO had a very high rate of no cause findings in race discrimination complaints, and she requested that Senator Mezenbaum and his colleagues on the Senate Labor & Government Committee begin to conduct hearings on lack of accountability in handling race discrimination charges in all the EEOC District Offices throughout the USA.
Ronald B. Saunders, Chairman of the National Black Political Caucus, said in case after case throughout the U.S. that the EEOC had substituted good law enforcement of its statue's with voluntary compliance which is basically a sham. Saunders said voluntary compliance does not get to root cause of the discrimination and that most individual charges have pattern implications which the EEOC avoids like the plague.
Alton Jones, of the National Black Political Caucus D. C. Office, said most charges at EEOC are dismissed for a lack of Jurisdiction, and he considered many of the charges to be valid, but people who file charges can't get anyone at EEOC to explain what is going on with their charges.
The EEOC staff attorney's listen very attentively and they requested information on specific cases and they informed all parties present that they would look into all of our concerns in an expeditious fashion.
Senator Metzenbaum informed Clarence Thomas, that the public perception of EEOC was very negative. Senator Metzenbaum said "Mr. Thomas you people at EEOC know you are not doing your jobs, and the little man and women in the street can't get any relief when they file charges because you talk to them in a language that is over there head."
Senator Metzenbaum further stated that either this agency is going to shape up and enforce the law or there will be changes made at this agency. The only thing that Clarence Thomas said was I thank everyone for their attendance, and that he would review all of our concerns with all his attorney's, and Regional Directors and report back to Senator Metzenbaum, and members of the National Black Political Caucus.
* The National Black Political Caucus did testify against Clarence Thomas at his Confirmation Hearing for the position of Justice on said U.S. Supreme Court.
The National Black Political
Caucus, Archives
Pittsburgh PA.
The following article appeared in The Pittsburgh Press on August 20, 1991 titled Thomas opposed for Supreme Court
Thomas opposed for Supreme Court
The National Black Political Caucus, a Pittsburgh based group has announced it will oppose the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The Caucus has criticized Thomas' opposition to Affirmative Action and said his tenure as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission "was a total disaster."
It is our considered belief that when Judge Thomas was director of the EEOC he seriously undermined and severely weakened on the highest law enforcement agencies in the Country by repeatedly using voluntary compliance rather than enforcement," the Caucus, said in a statement.
Ronald B. Saunders is Chairman and Reginald D. Plato is President of the Caucus.
Officers of the National Black Political Caucus along with U. S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, ( D ) of Ohio met with Clarence Thomas, Chair of the EEOC and EEOC staff Attorney's on June 26, 1986 at the EEOC office in Washington D.C.
Senator Metzenbaum began the meeting by informing Mr. Thomas that he had received complaints from various members of the National Black Political Caucus in Steubenville Ohio and Warren Ohio. Senator Mezenbaum further stated that he had also received complaints from Pittsburgh PA, and throughout the U.S. for the lack of in-depth investigations of complaints filed with the EEOC. Metzenbaum said he was sick and tired, of the EEOC treating Charging Party's as though they were aliens in there own country with such legal jargon that the average Joe can't understand.
Mr. Edward Mixon, the first African American elected to public office ( Councilman ) in the City of Steubenville Ohio, and an officer of the National Black Political Caucus, said the EEOC Office had his case for well over three years and had failed to contact him on the progress of the case. William Snyder, another officer of the National Black Political Caucus, from Wheeling West Virginia said over 21 people had come to him about the lack of progress on there cases, and when the EEOC did contact his constituents it was to tell them they found no cause to credit the allegations of their charges. Tim Holt, another officer of the Caucus in Detroit Michigan, said he had received many complaints from his people on the number of times that the EEOC found no cause for their charges.. Reginald D. Plato, President of the NBPC said that the Pittsburgh office was not living up to its statutory mandates by dismissing so many charges do to a lack of Jurisdiction.
Janis W. Henfield, Secretary of the National Black Political Caucus in Arlington Virginia, said the she knew that the EECO had a very high rate of no cause findings in race discrimination complaints, and she requested that Senator Mezenbaum and his colleagues on the Senate Labor & Government Committee begin to conduct hearings on lack of accountability in handling race discrimination charges in all the EEOC District Offices throughout the USA.
Ronald B. Saunders, Chairman of the National Black Political Caucus, said in case after case throughout the U.S. that the EEOC had substituted good law enforcement of its statue's with voluntary compliance which is basically a sham. Saunders said voluntary compliance does not get to root cause of the discrimination and that most individual charges have pattern implications which the EEOC avoids like the plague.
Alton Jones, of the National Black Political Caucus D. C. Office, said most charges at EEOC are dismissed for a lack of Jurisdiction, and he considered many of the charges to be valid, but people who file charges can't get anyone at EEOC to explain what is going on with their charges.
The EEOC staff attorney's listen very attentively and they requested information on specific cases and they informed all parties present that they would look into all of our concerns in an expeditious fashion.
Senator Metzenbaum informed Clarence Thomas, that the public perception of EEOC was very negative. Senator Metzenbaum said "Mr. Thomas you people at EEOC know you are not doing your jobs, and the little man and women in the street can't get any relief when they file charges because you talk to them in a language that is over there head."
Senator Metzenbaum further stated that either this agency is going to shape up and enforce the law or there will be changes made at this agency. The only thing that Clarence Thomas said was I thank everyone for their attendance, and that he would review all of our concerns with all his attorney's, and Regional Directors and report back to Senator Metzenbaum, and members of the National Black Political Caucus.
* The National Black Political Caucus did testify against Clarence Thomas at his Confirmation Hearing for the position of Justice on said U.S. Supreme Court.
Caucus Opposes Thomas
BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
National Black Political Caucus
Archives
Pittsburgh PA.
May 7, 2010
The following article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday, August 20, 1991 titled Caucus opposes Thomas.
Caucus Opposes Thomas
The nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court is being opposed by the National Black Political Caucus. Ronald B. Saunders, Caucus chairman, said the organization decided to oppose Thomas, who is Black, because the nominee is inexperienced, inept and incompetent.
National Black Political Caucus
Archives
Pittsburgh PA.
May 7, 2010
The following article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday, August 20, 1991 titled Caucus opposes Thomas.
Caucus Opposes Thomas
The nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court is being opposed by the National Black Political Caucus. Ronald B. Saunders, Caucus chairman, said the organization decided to oppose Thomas, who is Black, because the nominee is inexperienced, inept and incompetent.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Specter's Loyalties Lie With The President Ronald Wilson Reagan )
BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
Archives, of The National Black
Political Caucus
May 5, 2010
Pittsburgh PA.
The following editorial appeared in the New Pittsburgh Courier on June 4, 1986 titled Specter's Loyalties Lie With The President.
Specter's Loyalties Lie With The President
In regard to the Senate's confirmation of William Rehnquist, we find the actions of John Heinz and, specifically, Arlen Specter to be inconceivable and politically traitorous. In June, officers of the National Black Political Caucus met with Mr. Specter in his Washington, D. C. office and urged him to vote against Mr. Rehnquist for the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
However, Mr. Specter put his own self-serving interests above the common good for Blacks, women, Jews, other racial minorities, person born between 1917 and 1921 ( notch babies ) and fair-minded, rational intelligent whites- solely because this is an election year and Mr. Specter realizes the fact that he will need more white Democratic crossover votes, plus he needs to sustain an appreciable number of white Republican voters to ensure his return to the United States Senate.
Thus voting against Mr. Rehnquist would only be a political liability; however, we intend to turn Mr. Specter's vote for Mr. Rehnquist into a political handicap of equally grave proportions. Mr. Specter has shown the entire Black community in Pennsylvania, among others, where his loyalties lie-with the President, Ronald Reagan, and the maintenance of the status quo.
How can a Jew in good conscience vote for a man such as Mr. Rehnquist, who owns property in Vermont, that still has a restrictive covenant against the sale of said property to any member of the Hebrew race ? In so doing, Mr. Specter, voted to confirm a man whose house he cannot move into in the State of Vermont.
We find Mr. Specter's actions to be reprehensible and intolerable, and to those Black Democrats for Specter as well as the Black Republicans for Specter who continue to support him even now, we say you have betrayed your race for your own self-serving political interests.
Many of you Negroes would sell your mother, for a dry bone or crumb from a two- faced white politician. We in the Black community in Pennsylvania will expose you and your colleagues when necessary.
Moreover, the Blacks who work for Mr. Specter and on his behalf, and those who would vote for him out of pure ignorance, are to be reminded that in South Africa, those Blacks would be called collaborators, informers, traitors or modern day house servants. We should be aware of what happens to those kinds of Negroes in the final analysis.
The confirmation vote of Mr. Rehnquist to the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, involves a lifetime appointment with the impact to be felt for decades, which is far more important than the vote to extend the 1965 Voting Rights Act or any existing or pending civil rights legislation.
Mr. Rehnquist values are deeply rooted in 18th-century America, and he is an arch-enemy of the Black community USA having proved from early adulthood to his famous dissenting vote in the Bob Jones University case that he is our nemesis.
Arlen Specter voted in favor of our enemy, so what does that reveal him to be ? We strongly urge all intelligent Blacks, women, Jews, Labor-Union members, farmers, miners, and fair-minded, rational intelligent whites to reject Mr. Specter's swishy-washy, vacillating politics of expediency on Election Day.
JANIS W. HENFIELD
Secretary, Arlington Va.
RONALD B. SAUNDERS
Chairman, Pittsburgh Pa.
The National Black Political Caucus
Blogger Black Buzz says Senator Arlen Specter has voted for all of the present sitting right wing extremist, activist, ideologue Justices on the Supreme Court. They are as follows : Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and uncle Clarence Thomas. Furthermore Specter's nasty insulting, demeaning, degrading treatment of Anita Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearing in the matter of Judge Uncle Thomas, showed his true colors. Specter's treatment of Anita Hill during Thomas's Confirmation Hearing for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, was the most cruel, and despicable behavior toward a Black woman, on the floor of the U.S. Senate in the modern day era. A vote for turncoat Specter in this year's Pennsylvania Primary, means that you are in favor of his votes of support for all those throwback-type of Civil War Reconstruction Justices on the United States Supreme Court.
Also note that Rehnquist as a law clerk for Justice Jackson, wrote that Plessy vs. Ferguson, was the right decision. Then the sly as a snake Rehnquist, attempted to double talk his away from those comments by attributing them to a dead man Justice Jackson.
I am very proud to say that I have never voted for the Arlen Specter, and I urge all Pennsylvanians to vote against Specter. I would vote for Donald Duck & Mickey Mouse, before I would vote for Arlen Specter.
Hey Arlen, which way is the wind blowing today ?
Maybe President Obama promised Senator Specter, a new underground bunker down in the Greenbrier Resort, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia .
* "The Two Parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentleman's agreement of non-recognition, no matter how we vote.
May God write us down as Asses, if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or Democratic Parties. "
W.E. Dubois ( 1868-1963 )
Are we not still Asses ? Yes We Can ! Change You Can Believe In !
Archives, of The National Black
Political Caucus
May 5, 2010
Pittsburgh PA.
The following editorial appeared in the New Pittsburgh Courier on June 4, 1986 titled Specter's Loyalties Lie With The President.
Specter's Loyalties Lie With The President
In regard to the Senate's confirmation of William Rehnquist, we find the actions of John Heinz and, specifically, Arlen Specter to be inconceivable and politically traitorous. In June, officers of the National Black Political Caucus met with Mr. Specter in his Washington, D. C. office and urged him to vote against Mr. Rehnquist for the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
However, Mr. Specter put his own self-serving interests above the common good for Blacks, women, Jews, other racial minorities, person born between 1917 and 1921 ( notch babies ) and fair-minded, rational intelligent whites- solely because this is an election year and Mr. Specter realizes the fact that he will need more white Democratic crossover votes, plus he needs to sustain an appreciable number of white Republican voters to ensure his return to the United States Senate.
Thus voting against Mr. Rehnquist would only be a political liability; however, we intend to turn Mr. Specter's vote for Mr. Rehnquist into a political handicap of equally grave proportions. Mr. Specter has shown the entire Black community in Pennsylvania, among others, where his loyalties lie-with the President, Ronald Reagan, and the maintenance of the status quo.
How can a Jew in good conscience vote for a man such as Mr. Rehnquist, who owns property in Vermont, that still has a restrictive covenant against the sale of said property to any member of the Hebrew race ? In so doing, Mr. Specter, voted to confirm a man whose house he cannot move into in the State of Vermont.
We find Mr. Specter's actions to be reprehensible and intolerable, and to those Black Democrats for Specter as well as the Black Republicans for Specter who continue to support him even now, we say you have betrayed your race for your own self-serving political interests.
Many of you Negroes would sell your mother, for a dry bone or crumb from a two- faced white politician. We in the Black community in Pennsylvania will expose you and your colleagues when necessary.
Moreover, the Blacks who work for Mr. Specter and on his behalf, and those who would vote for him out of pure ignorance, are to be reminded that in South Africa, those Blacks would be called collaborators, informers, traitors or modern day house servants. We should be aware of what happens to those kinds of Negroes in the final analysis.
The confirmation vote of Mr. Rehnquist to the position of Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, involves a lifetime appointment with the impact to be felt for decades, which is far more important than the vote to extend the 1965 Voting Rights Act or any existing or pending civil rights legislation.
Mr. Rehnquist values are deeply rooted in 18th-century America, and he is an arch-enemy of the Black community USA having proved from early adulthood to his famous dissenting vote in the Bob Jones University case that he is our nemesis.
Arlen Specter voted in favor of our enemy, so what does that reveal him to be ? We strongly urge all intelligent Blacks, women, Jews, Labor-Union members, farmers, miners, and fair-minded, rational intelligent whites to reject Mr. Specter's swishy-washy, vacillating politics of expediency on Election Day.
JANIS W. HENFIELD
Secretary, Arlington Va.
RONALD B. SAUNDERS
Chairman, Pittsburgh Pa.
The National Black Political Caucus
Blogger Black Buzz says Senator Arlen Specter has voted for all of the present sitting right wing extremist, activist, ideologue Justices on the Supreme Court. They are as follows : Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and uncle Clarence Thomas. Furthermore Specter's nasty insulting, demeaning, degrading treatment of Anita Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearing in the matter of Judge Uncle Thomas, showed his true colors. Specter's treatment of Anita Hill during Thomas's Confirmation Hearing for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, was the most cruel, and despicable behavior toward a Black woman, on the floor of the U.S. Senate in the modern day era. A vote for turncoat Specter in this year's Pennsylvania Primary, means that you are in favor of his votes of support for all those throwback-type of Civil War Reconstruction Justices on the United States Supreme Court.
Also note that Rehnquist as a law clerk for Justice Jackson, wrote that Plessy vs. Ferguson, was the right decision. Then the sly as a snake Rehnquist, attempted to double talk his away from those comments by attributing them to a dead man Justice Jackson.
I am very proud to say that I have never voted for the Arlen Specter, and I urge all Pennsylvanians to vote against Specter. I would vote for Donald Duck & Mickey Mouse, before I would vote for Arlen Specter.
Hey Arlen, which way is the wind blowing today ?
Maybe President Obama promised Senator Specter, a new underground bunker down in the Greenbrier Resort, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia .
* "The Two Parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentleman's agreement of non-recognition, no matter how we vote.
May God write us down as Asses, if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or Democratic Parties. "
W.E. Dubois ( 1868-1963 )
Are we not still Asses ? Yes We Can ! Change You Can Believe In !
Monday, May 3, 2010
President Obama Has Been In Office For 14 Months And He Hasn't Said One Word About The Black Young People Being Shot & Killed In The City Of Chicago
BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
Chicago, Illinois
May 3, 2010
( BBNS )
Chicago, Illinois....President Obama has been in office for the last fourteen months, but he can't find the time to speak out against the internal violence that has plagued the City of Chicago particularly on the South side.
Obama hasn't spoken one word about the Black young people who are being shot, and killed on the mean streets of Chicago.
All African Americans should have a problem with Obama's failure to speak out vociferously against this horrific violence in Chicago. More imporantly if you are African American, and you don't have a problem with Obama's silence on this senseless violence then you really have a problem.
Barack Obama's silence is just another form of opppression.
The Obama's lived on the South side of Chicago in the Hyde Park community, which is less than a mile from Englewood where many of the heinous killings and shootings have occurred.
The streets of Chicago are far more dangerous than the streets in Kabul, and Baghdad.
Obama is the same President that can find the meaningless time to appear buffoonish at the White House Correspondents Dinner with his dry tired humor, but he can't take five minutes to speak out against the on-going violence in his home city.
Chicago, Illinois
May 3, 2010
( BBNS )
Chicago, Illinois....President Obama has been in office for the last fourteen months, but he can't find the time to speak out against the internal violence that has plagued the City of Chicago particularly on the South side.
Obama hasn't spoken one word about the Black young people who are being shot, and killed on the mean streets of Chicago.
All African Americans should have a problem with Obama's failure to speak out vociferously against this horrific violence in Chicago. More imporantly if you are African American, and you don't have a problem with Obama's silence on this senseless violence then you really have a problem.
Barack Obama's silence is just another form of opppression.
The Obama's lived on the South side of Chicago in the Hyde Park community, which is less than a mile from Englewood where many of the heinous killings and shootings have occurred.
The streets of Chicago are far more dangerous than the streets in Kabul, and Baghdad.
Obama is the same President that can find the meaningless time to appear buffoonish at the White House Correspondents Dinner with his dry tired humor, but he can't take five minutes to speak out against the on-going violence in his home city.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Distinguished Guest, Ronald B. Saunders Visits Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts.
BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
Pittsburgh, PA.
Archives of The National Black
Political Caucus
May 1, 2010
( BBNS )
The following letter was received by Ronald B. Saunders, Chairman of the National Black Political Caucus from Vera Lee Byrd, Assistant Dean of Student Life/ Minority and International Student Affairs, Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts on February 11, 1987
To: Distinguished Guests
From: Vera Lee Byrd
Assistant Dean of Student Life/
Minority and International Student Affairs
Re: Dinner with Ronald B. Saunders
On Behalf of E.B.O.N. I. ( Emerson's Black Organization with Natural Interests and the Office of Minority Affairs, you are cordially invited to have dinner with Ronald B. Saunders, Chairman of the National Black Political Caucus. Mr. Saunders will speak to the Emerson Community on Monday, February 23,1987 at 7 p.m. in the student Union, room 24.
Dinner has been scheduled for 5 : p.m. in the SAGA classroom, located in the Fensgate Residential Unit on Campus. Your attendance at the dinner with Ronald B. Saunders will be an added attraction in welcoming Mr. Saunders to Emerson College.
Please R.S. V. P. by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18, 1987 by calling me at the Cultural Center ( ext. 8689 ) or the Dean of Students Office (ext. 8640 ).
Cordially
Vera Lee Byrd
Assistant Director of Student Life/
Minority and International Student Affairs
cc : Ron Ludman, Dean of Students
Gail A. DiSabatino, Assistant Dean of Students
Libby Jackson, E. B. O. N. I. Chair
Black History Month File
Mr. Saunders lecture at Emerson College on February 23, 1987 was titled Africa Is The Cradle Of Civilization, And The Origins Of Man.
Here are some of the highlights of Mr. Saunders lecture held at Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts.
This lecture started with Mr. Saunders describing the African/Edenic roots of civilization to the Archaic Period in Kemet (Egypt ) 3100- 2664 B.C. to the late Period in Kemet ( Egypt ) in 1075- 332 B.C.
Mr. Saunders stated in his lecture that Kemet is the Ancient name for Egypt = meaning Black people who came from the rich Black land now commonly called Egypt. Saunders said Kemet is a derivative of the word Khem (Cham or Ham ),which means "burnt" or Black. Saunders further stated that Ham was one of Noah's three sons and a direct Ancestor of the Egyptians, who had Ebony, and Jet Black complexions.
Saunders informed the audience of Ham's descendants taken from Genesis ( 10 : 2 -5 ) and they are as follows :
a. Cush- Ethiopia
b. Mizraim- Egypt
c. Phut-Africa
d. Canaan ( Canaanites of Palestine )
e.Nimrod- Babylon and Assyria
f. Sidon ( Phoenicia )
g. Heth (Hittites
h. Jebus ( the Jebusites, the occupants of Jerusalem prior to David's reign )
i. Pilistim (the Philistines )
j. Sin ( possible founder of the Asian peoples of China, Japan, the original people of India, etc ).
According to Mr. Saunders more nations and people are descended from Ham than his other two brothers who are Shem, and Japheth. Mr Saunders said white Christian Theologians, white Historians, and people who claim to be Jewish (scholars) have been spreading this non-sense that Japheth and Shem were entirely of a different race or color than Ham, which is just pure racist garbage. Saunders further said that all three of the brothers, Ham, Japtheth and Shem came from the same biological parents who were Noah and his wife Emzara. Saunders also said it would be biologically and genetically impossible to have three distinct separate races from the same biological parents, but Euro-centric white Christian Biblical so-called scholars, along with folks who say they are Jews have been telling these racist lies for thousands of years. All three of the brothers were Coal Black just like their African/Edenic parents, Noah and Emzara. Saunders said the family of Noah was believed to be the only human beings to inhabit the earth after the great flood.
Mr. Saunders said the "Holy Bible both old and new is one of our biggest source of Black History and Multi- Culturalism in the world ". Saunders said it takes a whole lot of study, and research to unravel the myths, lies, distortions, of white supremacist scholarship of the white Christian Church, and bias white Rabbinical scholars and white historians.
Saunders said the old testament Bible repeatedly refers to Egypt as the land of Ham ( Psalm 105. 23, 27... 106: 22
Thus according to the Bible the ancient Egyptians were descended from Ham through Mizraim. The name Mizraim is the original name given to Egypt in the Hebrew Bible. The name "Egypt itself actually comes from the Greeks who gave the land the name (i.e. "Aegytos " from the Greek.
Before the Greeks arrived in said land of Egypt the land was referred to as Kemet. Saunders said the Greeks were the first heathen nation on the continent of Europe to obtain civilization in which all of the rest of Europe remained in a gross barbaric stage of development for thousands of years.
Saunders said the early Egyptians built a powerful African civilization that endured for almost 3,000 years, and many of their achievements were world firsts in architecture, physics, engineering, mathematics, medicine, religion, art. music, science, all originated in ancient Egypt.
The Egyptian Pyramids are still the greatest structures ever built by anyone past and present. Saunders informed all present that scientist today recognize that Egypt's social structure and culture evolved from patterns that appear in various forms in other African cultures.
Saunders said some historians believe that the Nubian's to the south of Kemet had a more advanced civilization than their Kemetians brothers in Kemet ( Egypt ).
At a time when the ancestors of most modern people were living primitively, the Black Egyptians maintained a grand civilization. In fact Mr. Saunders stated that the Europeans were the last people in the world to obtain any semblance of an organized civilization. The Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Nubian's, the Kushites, and other type A, B, C, group people left a glorious heritage for Africa and the world."
Mr. Saunders further stated that virtually all Egyptologists and anthropologist agree that the Ancient Egyptians came through the line of Mizraim, who was one of Ham's sons as previously stated.
Egyptians belonged to same ethnic sub-grouping usually referred to as Hamites,' as the Somali, Galla, Oromo, Beja, Afar ( Danakil ) - peoples of Northeast Africa. According to Saunders that would also include the Wolof of Senegal, and the Nubian's and other indigenous tribes.
Mr. Saunders informed the audience that the Ancient Egyptians had Black skin and very woolly hair texture and other typical Negroid features.
Mr. Saunders reminded the audience that today Egyptians speak Arabic, and are often thought of as Middle Eastern.
This is due to the heavy migration of Arabic people in the Seventh century A.D.. But Egypt's glorious past is part of Africa's heritage.
The Arab armies swept out of the Arabian peninsula in about A.D. 640, to conquer and hijack Egypt, and spread the new religion of Islam across Northern Africa. The Arab conquest proved the most durable of all. It endowed Egypt not only with a new religion but also a new language, Arabic . Saunders also said that when the Arabs invaded Egypt that many of the Black Egyptians were members of the Coptic Christian Church of Egypt and many spoke the Coptic language.
Saunders said the Arabization of the entire African continent may have been more harsh, sinister, and brutal than European Colonialism.
And that the Arabs were trafficking in Black African slavery long before the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, Danes, Germans, or French. Saunders said many of the Arabs still practice slavery against the Black indigenous tribes such as in Mauritania, Mali, Sudan, and elsewhere on the continent.
Saunders said that Egypt was invaded by the Hyksos, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Nubian's, Kushites, Cushites, Hittites, Romans, Assyrians, French, All kinds of Turks, Kurds, the nasty Brits, Others, and finally the Arabs. Saunders said all the invading armies raped the Egyptian women as the spoils of the conquering armies. Therefore to do DNA testing on the present inhabitants ( Arabs) of Egypt to establish a link with pre and post dynastic Black Egypt is totally flawed and dishonest. Today's Arabs living in Egypt invaded the land just as they did all over Africa including Nubia/ Sudan. Saunders said the oldest living modern day human beings are the San Bushmen of Southern & Eastern Africa, and if the Mitochondrial DNA testing was 100 percent correct every human being that is tested should have a Sub-Sahara geno trait in his or her DNA. That all modern day human beings presently living on the planet earth are descendants of the San Bushmen. Mr. Saunders said we are all Africans under the skin.
Mr. Saunders informed his captive audience that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was of mixed Egyptian, and Nubian Black African ancestry.
In closing Mr. Saunders stated that for the last five hundred years that Euro- centric/ Anglo- American White Supremacist Historians, Arabic- centric racists, Social Scientist, Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Clergy, Artisans, Media, Hollywood, DNA Hustlers, Educators, and Painters have attempted to rewrite the history of Ancient Egypt by portraying the Egyptians as white or shades of off white which is historically false and factually incorrect + academically dishonest. In closing Mr. Saunders said all students must be cognizant of the fact that white Christian Biblical Theologians, white historians, white Rabbinical scholars in concert with some Arabs have attempted to delegitimize the Black Africanistic characteristics and authenticity of Egypt's World Class Civilization from the Archaic Period to the Late Period 1 and Late Period 2, etc.
A extensive Question, and Answer period followed. One of the questions asked by a Emerson student from Liberia, was where did the name Africa come from ? Mr. Saunders said the current name of Africa is a misnomer. That the name of Africa was given to the continent by the Ancient Romans. Saunders said the name Africa is Latin in origin because the ancient Romans spoke the Latin language, which is a derivative of ancient Greek. Saunders said the oldest name for Africa is Akebu-Lan which means Mother of Mankind or Garden of Eden. Saunders further expalined that Akebu-Lan was used by the Moors, Nubian's, Numidians, Khart-Haddans ( Carthaginians ), and Kushites/Ethiopians. Saunders said other names refer to Africa are Kemet, Libya, Orregia, Corphye, Egypt, Ethiopia and or Sudan, Olympia, Hesperia, Oceania, and Ta-Merry, and land of Ham. Can you imagine that an African student from Liberia asking and Afro American as to where did the name of Africa come from. Is that an indictment of the present Educational system in Liberia and the U.S. or is it do to a thousand years of Euro centric false brain washing and indoctrination or both? Note that the local Media was present but, I do believe that the lecture was a little over their pay-grade.
* Note blogger Black Buzz has traveled to Morocco, Algeria, and Libya.
Pittsburgh, PA.
Archives of The National Black
Political Caucus
May 1, 2010
( BBNS )
The following letter was received by Ronald B. Saunders, Chairman of the National Black Political Caucus from Vera Lee Byrd, Assistant Dean of Student Life/ Minority and International Student Affairs, Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts on February 11, 1987
To: Distinguished Guests
From: Vera Lee Byrd
Assistant Dean of Student Life/
Minority and International Student Affairs
Re: Dinner with Ronald B. Saunders
On Behalf of E.B.O.N. I. ( Emerson's Black Organization with Natural Interests and the Office of Minority Affairs, you are cordially invited to have dinner with Ronald B. Saunders, Chairman of the National Black Political Caucus. Mr. Saunders will speak to the Emerson Community on Monday, February 23,1987 at 7 p.m. in the student Union, room 24.
Dinner has been scheduled for 5 : p.m. in the SAGA classroom, located in the Fensgate Residential Unit on Campus. Your attendance at the dinner with Ronald B. Saunders will be an added attraction in welcoming Mr. Saunders to Emerson College.
Please R.S. V. P. by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, February 18, 1987 by calling me at the Cultural Center ( ext. 8689 ) or the Dean of Students Office (ext. 8640 ).
Cordially
Vera Lee Byrd
Assistant Director of Student Life/
Minority and International Student Affairs
cc : Ron Ludman, Dean of Students
Gail A. DiSabatino, Assistant Dean of Students
Libby Jackson, E. B. O. N. I. Chair
Black History Month File
Mr. Saunders lecture at Emerson College on February 23, 1987 was titled Africa Is The Cradle Of Civilization, And The Origins Of Man.
Here are some of the highlights of Mr. Saunders lecture held at Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts.
This lecture started with Mr. Saunders describing the African/Edenic roots of civilization to the Archaic Period in Kemet (Egypt ) 3100- 2664 B.C. to the late Period in Kemet ( Egypt ) in 1075- 332 B.C.
Mr. Saunders stated in his lecture that Kemet is the Ancient name for Egypt = meaning Black people who came from the rich Black land now commonly called Egypt. Saunders said Kemet is a derivative of the word Khem (Cham or Ham ),which means "burnt" or Black. Saunders further stated that Ham was one of Noah's three sons and a direct Ancestor of the Egyptians, who had Ebony, and Jet Black complexions.
Saunders informed the audience of Ham's descendants taken from Genesis ( 10 : 2 -5 ) and they are as follows :
a. Cush- Ethiopia
b. Mizraim- Egypt
c. Phut-Africa
d. Canaan ( Canaanites of Palestine )
e.Nimrod- Babylon and Assyria
f. Sidon ( Phoenicia )
g. Heth (Hittites
h. Jebus ( the Jebusites, the occupants of Jerusalem prior to David's reign )
i. Pilistim (the Philistines )
j. Sin ( possible founder of the Asian peoples of China, Japan, the original people of India, etc ).
According to Mr. Saunders more nations and people are descended from Ham than his other two brothers who are Shem, and Japheth. Mr Saunders said white Christian Theologians, white Historians, and people who claim to be Jewish (scholars) have been spreading this non-sense that Japheth and Shem were entirely of a different race or color than Ham, which is just pure racist garbage. Saunders further said that all three of the brothers, Ham, Japtheth and Shem came from the same biological parents who were Noah and his wife Emzara. Saunders also said it would be biologically and genetically impossible to have three distinct separate races from the same biological parents, but Euro-centric white Christian Biblical so-called scholars, along with folks who say they are Jews have been telling these racist lies for thousands of years. All three of the brothers were Coal Black just like their African/Edenic parents, Noah and Emzara. Saunders said the family of Noah was believed to be the only human beings to inhabit the earth after the great flood.
Mr. Saunders said the "Holy Bible both old and new is one of our biggest source of Black History and Multi- Culturalism in the world ". Saunders said it takes a whole lot of study, and research to unravel the myths, lies, distortions, of white supremacist scholarship of the white Christian Church, and bias white Rabbinical scholars and white historians.
Saunders said the old testament Bible repeatedly refers to Egypt as the land of Ham ( Psalm 105. 23, 27... 106: 22
Thus according to the Bible the ancient Egyptians were descended from Ham through Mizraim. The name Mizraim is the original name given to Egypt in the Hebrew Bible. The name "Egypt itself actually comes from the Greeks who gave the land the name (i.e. "Aegytos " from the Greek.
Before the Greeks arrived in said land of Egypt the land was referred to as Kemet. Saunders said the Greeks were the first heathen nation on the continent of Europe to obtain civilization in which all of the rest of Europe remained in a gross barbaric stage of development for thousands of years.
Saunders said the early Egyptians built a powerful African civilization that endured for almost 3,000 years, and many of their achievements were world firsts in architecture, physics, engineering, mathematics, medicine, religion, art. music, science, all originated in ancient Egypt.
The Egyptian Pyramids are still the greatest structures ever built by anyone past and present. Saunders informed all present that scientist today recognize that Egypt's social structure and culture evolved from patterns that appear in various forms in other African cultures.
Saunders said some historians believe that the Nubian's to the south of Kemet had a more advanced civilization than their Kemetians brothers in Kemet ( Egypt ).
At a time when the ancestors of most modern people were living primitively, the Black Egyptians maintained a grand civilization. In fact Mr. Saunders stated that the Europeans were the last people in the world to obtain any semblance of an organized civilization. The Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Nubian's, the Kushites, and other type A, B, C, group people left a glorious heritage for Africa and the world."
Mr. Saunders further stated that virtually all Egyptologists and anthropologist agree that the Ancient Egyptians came through the line of Mizraim, who was one of Ham's sons as previously stated.
Egyptians belonged to same ethnic sub-grouping usually referred to as Hamites,' as the Somali, Galla, Oromo, Beja, Afar ( Danakil ) - peoples of Northeast Africa. According to Saunders that would also include the Wolof of Senegal, and the Nubian's and other indigenous tribes.
Mr. Saunders informed the audience that the Ancient Egyptians had Black skin and very woolly hair texture and other typical Negroid features.
Mr. Saunders reminded the audience that today Egyptians speak Arabic, and are often thought of as Middle Eastern.
This is due to the heavy migration of Arabic people in the Seventh century A.D.. But Egypt's glorious past is part of Africa's heritage.
The Arab armies swept out of the Arabian peninsula in about A.D. 640, to conquer and hijack Egypt, and spread the new religion of Islam across Northern Africa. The Arab conquest proved the most durable of all. It endowed Egypt not only with a new religion but also a new language, Arabic . Saunders also said that when the Arabs invaded Egypt that many of the Black Egyptians were members of the Coptic Christian Church of Egypt and many spoke the Coptic language.
Saunders said the Arabization of the entire African continent may have been more harsh, sinister, and brutal than European Colonialism.
And that the Arabs were trafficking in Black African slavery long before the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, Danes, Germans, or French. Saunders said many of the Arabs still practice slavery against the Black indigenous tribes such as in Mauritania, Mali, Sudan, and elsewhere on the continent.
Saunders said that Egypt was invaded by the Hyksos, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Nubian's, Kushites, Cushites, Hittites, Romans, Assyrians, French, All kinds of Turks, Kurds, the nasty Brits, Others, and finally the Arabs. Saunders said all the invading armies raped the Egyptian women as the spoils of the conquering armies. Therefore to do DNA testing on the present inhabitants ( Arabs) of Egypt to establish a link with pre and post dynastic Black Egypt is totally flawed and dishonest. Today's Arabs living in Egypt invaded the land just as they did all over Africa including Nubia/ Sudan. Saunders said the oldest living modern day human beings are the San Bushmen of Southern & Eastern Africa, and if the Mitochondrial DNA testing was 100 percent correct every human being that is tested should have a Sub-Sahara geno trait in his or her DNA. That all modern day human beings presently living on the planet earth are descendants of the San Bushmen. Mr. Saunders said we are all Africans under the skin.
Mr. Saunders informed his captive audience that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was of mixed Egyptian, and Nubian Black African ancestry.
In closing Mr. Saunders stated that for the last five hundred years that Euro- centric/ Anglo- American White Supremacist Historians, Arabic- centric racists, Social Scientist, Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Clergy, Artisans, Media, Hollywood, DNA Hustlers, Educators, and Painters have attempted to rewrite the history of Ancient Egypt by portraying the Egyptians as white or shades of off white which is historically false and factually incorrect + academically dishonest. In closing Mr. Saunders said all students must be cognizant of the fact that white Christian Biblical Theologians, white historians, white Rabbinical scholars in concert with some Arabs have attempted to delegitimize the Black Africanistic characteristics and authenticity of Egypt's World Class Civilization from the Archaic Period to the Late Period 1 and Late Period 2, etc.
A extensive Question, and Answer period followed. One of the questions asked by a Emerson student from Liberia, was where did the name Africa come from ? Mr. Saunders said the current name of Africa is a misnomer. That the name of Africa was given to the continent by the Ancient Romans. Saunders said the name Africa is Latin in origin because the ancient Romans spoke the Latin language, which is a derivative of ancient Greek. Saunders said the oldest name for Africa is Akebu-Lan which means Mother of Mankind or Garden of Eden. Saunders further expalined that Akebu-Lan was used by the Moors, Nubian's, Numidians, Khart-Haddans ( Carthaginians ), and Kushites/Ethiopians. Saunders said other names refer to Africa are Kemet, Libya, Orregia, Corphye, Egypt, Ethiopia and or Sudan, Olympia, Hesperia, Oceania, and Ta-Merry, and land of Ham. Can you imagine that an African student from Liberia asking and Afro American as to where did the name of Africa come from. Is that an indictment of the present Educational system in Liberia and the U.S. or is it do to a thousand years of Euro centric false brain washing and indoctrination or both? Note that the local Media was present but, I do believe that the lecture was a little over their pay-grade.
* Note blogger Black Buzz has traveled to Morocco, Algeria, and Libya.
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