Volume 4 Issue 15…Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race… April 20, 2001

Note: The DISH is based on themes from T.H.I.N.C. (Teaching Humanity In New Consciousness): The Chrysalis of Evolution. According to the President's Initiative on Race, "The issues that this book brings to the forefront are important in our efforts to achieve the goals set forth by the President for the Initiative. This work will serve as a solid resource for us as we begin to examine these critical issues." For your copy of T.H.I.N.C., The DISH or to submit comments, contact ICIM, Inc. at (404) 244-6023. The DISH © 2001

by Yohannes Sharriff

"Stand by for a News Bulletin...

This is WICU-TV, and this is just in...

Recombant Bovine Hormone or

Bovine Somatotropin has been found to be a carcinogen.

Somewhere in Niggaville USA,

Sprite syrup mixes with carbonated water

While we obey our thirst for a commercial image....

Swimming in nonsense like bisexual antics for attention.

Another misguided Negro sits in Burger King swallowing a 90% chance that the Double Whopper with extra cheese she's eating was hormone-treated.

Somewhere another angry Mutha fucka smothers a three-months-old crying child, while his momma takes it in the back room from another somebody else's baby's daddy to supply her crack habit.

And what did you do today?

Somewhere spring is singing in technicolor

And I'm writing, screaming, crying and bleeding cause I know God can hear me!

Somewhere...

Like babies making their way into this dimension,

Senses flood the first time I taste my new life.

Vibrant like the feeling of squeezing banana through five-months-old fingers spinning...and learning the texture of life.

Like building blocks, each element labeled with letters and numbers. Wonder through the land and see the green feel it brings a healing

Change...in the wind and through the trees.

Wise and wicked ways are whispered

We weep like willows on satin pillows, while somewhere some Aborigine is beating the odds, back against the last tree of his rain forest home, screaming in his native tongue

For the love of God!

And, what did you do today?

Somewhere in Malaysia...the black market is squeezing lives

Squeezing triggers like Littleton, Colorado or Kosovo

Life squeezing for the battery operated Kodak color moments of conscience

Picture factories and sweatshops...stop the ill harvest like crops in fields filled with aliens of all ages and persuasions slaving away for slave wages illegally making a living.

Third World workers riot at a Nike warehouse, as secret weapons snipe radicals one by one.

Somewhere...

In Ethiopia a Nigerian is falling down a mineshaft grabbing, grasping, gasping for air choking on the earth collapsing all around him.

Somewhere... some body is outlined in chalk

Somewhere... somebody's momma walks in search of lost children, even though she sees them playing good Christian every Sunday at service

Everyday people treat the greatest gift like it's worthless. And what did you do today?

by John Burl Smith

About one billion years ago, there were many species developing and contributing to the final product that became known as Homo sapiens. At about fifty million years, that differentiation was down to three humanoid types: Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. Efforts to map the human genome assume a straight-line development course for humanoids. Such thinkers refuse to consider interbreeding like a hostile takeover, an evolutionary merger, which consumed the other two and made all that came after Homo sapiens subsidiaries. The straight-line approach to human development postulates a missing link creature. Moreover, it posits Homo sapiens evolved from Neanderthals. If true, since Homo sapiens originated in Africa and Neanderthals in Europe, this would mean whites populated Africa, if blacks evolved from whites.

The missing link creature is supposed to explain how black could come from white. In order for this convoluted theory to be plausible, blacks must be placed further up on the genome development chain than whites. In other words, blacks cannot be less intelligent than whites, if blacks came from whites. While it meets all physical requirements, this missing link creature is assumed to be far less mentally developed than Neanderthals. Theoretically, such a creature could have combined with Neanderthals to produce a dull-witted offspring to fit whites' stereotypes of blacks. This theory traces everything good in humanity today back to Neanderthals and permanently establishes blacks as less intelligent than whites.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this theory dominated political, educational, economic and religious teachings. It is the bedrock of white supremacy, lynching and eugenics. The missing link theory provided justification the subhuman designation of blacks and their enslavement. D. W. Griffin's "Birth of a Nation," released during the height of lynching in the 1900s, more than reinforced the subhuman image of blacks, it stamped an indelible impression in the viewers' minds. After four hundred years around whites, blacks are still animals, driven to rape white women.

White professionals say intelligence tests measure natural ability and nothing can be done to enhance nature. Justifying the deficit in scores as an inherent mental deficiency of blacks, they claim any effort to change this goes against nature and is a waste of resources. They say it is in the "genes."

The human genome project does not address fallacies of the straight-line theory nor does it disavow the idea that Homo sapiens evolved from Neanderthals. Quite the contrary, like "The Birth of a Nation," the human genome project is designed to reinforce the superiority of whites. This project will not explain how whites who are descendants of dull witted Neanderthals became the intellectual giants and blacks direct descendants of Homo sapiens became the dummies. If everyone is Homo sapiens, how is it that intelligence can be so clearly divided by skin color? John 2001

News You Use

The April 12, 2001 Washington Post front-page story, written by Eric Pianin, is a wake-up call for meat- eaters. In a few short sentences, Pianin brings home what so many others have warned about over the past decade, i.e., the dangers eating animal and animal by- products, such as milk, pose for humans. Below are several quotes from the Washington Post article. For the complete story, see www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7743-2001Apr11.html.

Like the tobacco industry, according to Pianin, 'The chemical, beef and poultry industries are waging an intense campaign to delay further an Environmental Protection Agency study showing that consumption of animal fat and dairy products containing traces of dioxin can cause cancer in humans."

"EPA scientists and officials say they are confident of the report's findings, which they began circulating last June, and are urging EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to issue it in final form this summer. But, the study, more than a decade in the works, has drawn such intense opposition from industry groups and congressional Republicans that it could be held up for several years."

"By any measure, the economic stakes in the dioxin controversy are high: The EPA's issuance of a final report could result in federal and state regulations costly to chemical manufacturers. It also could provide more adverse publicity for the beef industry at a time of heightened consumer concern about the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe."

Manifest destiny wiped out the buffalo; Indian massacres cleared the land for westward expansion. Today, native Americans hang on the brink of extinction. Greenwood and Rosewood are two mass lynchings to put and keep blacks in their place of subservience.

In the 1800s, blacks faced widespread hostility. Economic concerns reinforced anti-black sentiments. Businessmen tried to appease Southern suppliers. White wage earners feared freedom and equal opportunity would mean competition for jobs. In Connecticut, Prudence Crandall admitted black girls to her private school. White citizens had her arrested and threw filth into her well, forcing her to close the school. A white mob burned the Philadelphia abolitionists' building. In Boston, a white mob seized William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator, and threatened to hang him. A mob lynched Elijah Lovejoy in Alton, Ill (1837).

Bloody riots continued to occur after the Civil War (1865) and during Reconstruction. When federal troops were pulled out of the South, signaling the end of Reconstruction, the lynching of blacks went unchecked. In 1908, a bloody riot broke out in Springfield, Illinois.

Some 400,000 blacks fought in WWI. After the war, they faced unchecked hostility. To intimidate them back into their former subservience, Southerners resorted to Ku Klux Klan terrorism and lynchings, which increased from 31 in 1917 to more than 70 in 1919. Beginning in July 1919, riots broke out in 26 towns and cities, mainly in the North. Hundreds were killed or wounded and millions of dollars in property destroyed. The worst riot began on a Chicago beach. After 13 days of pillaging and burning in the Negro district, 23 blacks and 15 whites were dead, 500 were injured and 1,000 families, mostly Negroes, were left homeless.

(American History: A Survey 4^th Edition)

On Friday, April 13^th, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reported Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America was awarded the 2001 RFK Book Award. The award is presented annually to the work that best reflects Robert Kennedy's social concerns, such as poverty and the struggle for justice and racial equality. According to the AJC, the book is "a soul-curdling look at America's darkest side." In 2000, James Allen, the book's author, lent the photographs to Emory University. Months after the university asked the community how and where it should display the photographs, Emory has not announced dates for public exhibition.

These pictures show lynching as a family affair, where the victims' bodies were photographed and body parts were harvested for souvenirs. Without Sanctuary is a bit of history not found in American school books, which is why whites can pretend slavery and segregation were "not that bad, so get over it!" Without this history, they can continue to say, "no apology necessary and no to reparations" for the holocaust against black Americans." Or, they make ignorant statements like "my forefathers did not own slaves," when all whites benefitted from white racism.

Blah on Emory's procrastination! What does it say about the state of race relations in Atlanta when its most liberal institution is a hotbed of racist activity? At Emory, the Confederate flag symbolizes heritage and Robert E. Lee, the traitor, is hero to its most prestigious fraternal organization. Emory is the last place this exhibit will receive an appropriate forum. Blah on them!

Disgruntled wants to know: At the funeral of Timothy Thomas, the 19 years-old unarmed black man killed by police, Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken apologized to Thomas' mother. Is Luken's 'sorry' anything like the apology Dubya gave the Chinese?

Disgruntled says: While young black men die in a justice system that gives cops a license to shoot first and ask questions later, some 'educated' blacks and colored immigrants, like that preacher from St. Kitts, talk shit sounding like Booker T. Washington blaming blacks and telling us we need to change the way we think about it.

Disgruntled feels: Lynched! A riot erupts, after a white policeman kills another young black man. On TV, a cop sprays some chemical into a sister's face for speaking about the injustice of new millennium lynching.

Comments from the Bat Cave

The Dark Knight-Batman/White Ninja/Zorro turned eight on April 16^th. When told what eight means in the grand scheme of things, the Dark One/Ninja/Zorro exclaimed, "I am still seven!"

DISHing It Up Hot!

At The DISH, our mission is to say something useful about the human condition an issue at a time. Sometimes, honoring deadlines, we make mistakes. The DISH is produced weekly with abysmally limited resources. As writer/editor/publisher/proofreader, etc., I take full credit for last week's blunders and bloopers.

With some serious issues that had to be resolved, in addition to being depressed in America and all, one can get bumped off their game; that is what happened last week. So, please forgive the grammatical errors. In general, we do a better job catching these kinds of blunders. We are very sorry, but the word is Aussie, not Auzzie. And, yes, we used the pronoun 'they' when the correct one was 'their.' More or less egregious we left out an 'a' in one sentence. Please forgive our errors.

My mother said, sometimes it is just best to say you are sorry and get on with it. You will feel better for having expressed regret for hurting another. She also said do unto others as you would have them do unto you. A Christian, mother reeked the Ten Commandments.

My mother was a peaceful person. She did not condone slavery; she wanted to apologize for the wrong, unlike most white Americans that believe no apology is necessary. Had more people shared mother's kind heart and philosophy, racial hatred would not exist at all.

When asked about giving China an apology, none should be surprised mother was all for it. After all, if China was caught off the coast of America engaged in high tech surveillance and the U.S. scrambled jets to intercept their spy plane and one of our jets ended up in the ocean with a pilot dead, no apology would satisfy Americans. They would take prisoners from the crippled spy plane, if it landed on U.S. soil, and extract untold concessions from the Chinese for their audacity, while thoroughly examining the state of their technology. It is sheer arrogance to expect others to treat us better than we treat them. According to mother, America should not expect the Chinese to blink. Her advice would be, "give the damn apology and mean it!"

Alas, George W. Bush lacks mother's compassion and commonsense! Instead he is Flick, the kid in the movie A Christmas Story. Caught in a triple dog dare, his warm tongue is stuck to a cold flagpole. Trying to save face, Flick lies about his pain. Like Flick, Bush backtracks on his 'very very sorry' apology to the Chinese. He is now saying, "it was not an apology." Instead of ridiculing this lie, mainstream media are pretending Bush pulled off a diplomatic coup de grace when the fact of the matter is, Bush's forked tongue is suck up the diplomatic backside of Jiang, since America did not get its plane. Mother would say, "serves you right."

Last week, US Attorney General John Ashcroft approved the televised broadcast of Timothy McVeigh's execution for survivors and family of the victims of the Oklahoma bombing. Televising state executions is a giant step backwards for a civil society.

Lynchings and massacres are footnotes throughout American history. Much like the booms and busts of its business cycle, periodically, race riots rend the facade of civility, tranquility and democratic equality. Last week, it happened in Cincinnati, Ohio again, after a white policeman shot and killed another unharmed black man. Broadcast over television, the riot scenes were reminiscent of the David versus Goliath battles being waged between rock-throwing Palestinian schoolboys and heavily armed, missile-launching Israeli soldiers

Killing people, whether by the United States, Texas or an individual, like Timothy McVeigh, should be discouraged in a 'civil' society. Only flaming hypocrites, many calling themselves Christians, try to justify capital punishment when killing is killing. Morally, state murder cannot be condoned or made better than other killings. Capital punishment is an evil, which ends human life. Under capital punishment, we the people are murderers.

A moral society - a civil one - does not engage in what it says is unacceptable social behavior. Under our laws, taking human life (murder) is criminal behavior. Because killing is wrong - evil - socially unacceptable, the state sends a sinister, a decidedly hypocritical, message when it televises state killings, indeed when the state kills, period. Capital punishment is on a par with lynching. It is morally reprehensible. What will we tell our children about this 'enlightened' period in American history when someone finds and publishes the videos of state lynchings? To face our children without shame, America must do better than think like John Ashcroft.

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