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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:07:50 -0700 (PDT)
Check this out... Taken from Toronto Star
South Africa's mad scientists:Doctor testifies he designed germs to kill blacks.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters-AP) - The former South African government tried to develop a bacteria that would kill or make infertile only black people, the scientist who set up the apartheid regime's secret poison factory said yesterday. Dr. Daan Goosen told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that a major thrust at the secret laboratory had been the infertility project.
"We realized we might not achieve 100 per cent sterilization," he said. "It was not thought to get rid of all the black people, just to curb the birth rate." The truth commission has been listening to evidence this week about the South African government's secret biological and chemical weapons program >during the apartheid era. Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu said the testimony was the most shocking he has heard as chairman of the commission, which has taken statements from hundreds of >witnesses since 1995. "Here are people of high intelligence, coldly and clinically in white laboratory coats, working on things they know were meant to be instruments of destroying people," Tutu said in an interview. The infertility project was set in motion by a message from an unknown source in Europe claiming to have a bacteria that could selectively kill "pigmented" people, Goosen testified.
The lead was never pursued when officials got wind that it might be a trap. However, the work already done on the project at the Roodeplaat Research Laboratories had made good progress. No attempts were ever made to harm blacks as a result of the project. He said the laboratory had also made poisons ranging from cigarettes laced with anthrax to beer, orange juice, whiskey and chocolates containing a range of toxins. One witness testified this week that a shirt infused with poison - one of the tools developed by scientists - was given to a black activist who then lent it to a friend. The friend wore the shirt and died. "The key was that a toxin should not be detectable, but if it was detectable it must not be traceable to clandestine application,"
Goosen said. He acknowledged that he had been wrong to work on the projects, but blamed the hysterical political mood of the time for his misjudgment. "It was a time of conflict. Communism was coming. It was total onslaught," he said. Any researcher who broke ranks faced possible assassination, scientist Schalk van Rensburg said Wednesday.
"We had been told in no uncertain terms, if you let the side down you are dead," van Rensburg said. Goosen, was fired in 1989 after a falling out with Wouter Basson, who headed the program. He said scientists often were asked to design toxins for use against specific targets.
"We were very concerned that it should be used against the enemy, legitimate targets," Goosen said, adding the name of imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela had been discussed.
"I personally had discussions with Basson that if you had to release him (Mandela) it would be good if he had a disease so that he would not long be a problem," he said. Van Rensburg described plans to poison Mandela, before he became president, with thallium, which can cause brain damage. The plan was never carried out.
It is my honor to give a word of empowering advice, before you read this article. As you read this alarming article, you read with the knowledge that YOU, have the POWER OF ONE, to totally counterattack this war on OUR Black Scholars.
My Brothers and Sisters, each of us are responsible to have our own library of African and African-American books and share what we know to everyone who wants the knowledge and enlightenment. Each of us are responsible to purchase the books of our powerful authors who are now doing our own research.
No longer can anyone who does not Love and Appreciate US, DEFINE US, RESEARCH FOR US, TELL US WHO WE ARE, WHERE WE CAME FROM, WHAT OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS and CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN AND CONTINUE TO BE, and LASTLY, HOW TO SPEND OUR $600 BILLION DOLLARS THAT WE CONTRIBUTE TO THIS ECONOMY!!!
As Elders in the community, through a RITES of PASSAGE PROGRAM, we pass on our special knowledge, enlightenment, enthusiasm and passion for our people to our children for the continuity of our community of the African Diaspora! Join this RITES movement. edgunter@bellatlantic.net
As others try to stop us, lie about us, disseminate false information about us through whatever means, YOU have the power to continue to move toward enlightenment!!! A +1 and a -1 = "0" Send our enemies LOVE +1+1+1+1+1+1 which neutralizes their -1. There is NO COMPETITION!!! We continue to LOVE OURSELVES and move forward.
Literally, we move in an opposite direction from our adversaries!!! I describe this process in my book, Superlearning 2000 published by Milligan Books of Los Angeles. Place all those who want to harm you in a PINK LOVE BUBBLE. Breathe deeply and visualize yourself in a Pink Love Bubble from the Loving Light of GOD, then breath out and FEEL the Love for yourself first. Then Breath in and visualize your adversary in whatever form it comes in (person, video, movies, documents...) in the PINK Love Bubble, and as you breathe out see it float away!! Say the affirmation< "This upset has no meaning to me, I let go and rise above that upset to a time and place where it has no power over ME!!I AM FREE!! BREATHE TWICE!! to seal this act!! The Time is the PRESENT MOMENT, the Place is in the LOVING LIGHT OF GOD! We are safe and free to move into enlightenment.
Peace and Blessings,
Elder Emily-Diane, Chairwoman Rites of Passage Youth Empowerment Foundation
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:42:17 -0800
From: shelley v corbin
Hotep (Peace) Brothers and Sisters:
Have you heard about the movement to prevent African-centered historical information from reaching our people - particularly brothers and sisters on the college campuses? An article called "African American Racism in the Academic Community" can be found at: http://about.ferris.edu/htmls/OTHERSRV/ISAR/archives/AFAM.htm.
Barry Mehler, who wrote the article, is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism (ISAR). ISAR staff have worked with Congress and the Justice Department. They maintain an on-line archive to promote research on "academic racism." They monitor "campus racism" and are supposed to be a resource center for legislators, journalists and civil rights groups. Guess who he's monitoring?
Mehler's main objective seems to be to rid the college campuses of our African-centered scholars and speakers. He has worked to have African-centered materials banned.
He's part of Clinton's Initiative on Race. (www.whitehouse.gov/initiatives/OneAmerica/Practices/pp_19980812.5500.html)
Hi everyone, this is a copy of my column unedited. Thank you all for reading
and passing it along to other sisters. God Bless-- Anfra
YOU ARE MY SISTER
Sunday, October 4, 1998
MAYBE GOD'S TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING
Are you trying to find happiness, joy and peace in your life? You thought you'd find it when you got that promotion on your job. You put in all the long hours and went that extra mile, gave 110% and finally after being passed up over and over again you get it. Striving for that promotion was your idea of happiness and success and would finally validate you as a person. What you find out oh to soon is that you're still empty, working even longer hours and giving more that 110% just to prove you deserved the promotion. MAYBE GOD'S TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!
Maybe you feel a need to lose weight, dye your hair or get a make over in order to be happy. You constantly shop and buy the latest designer clothes, dine at the finest restaurants, but when you come home, hang up your new wardrobe and look in the mirror you're still empty. You're still searching and not satisfied with the new and improved look. MAYBE GOD'S TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!
The relationship you're in gives you physical satisfaction and pleasure and keeps the loneliness away, but deep down inside you know you're living a lie. You're involved with the wrong man and just don't know how to let go. He keeps telling you that he loves and needs you, but your heart is empty and your spirit's weak. You're always trying to justify your relationship with him. MAYBE GOD'S TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!
In order to find happiness, joy, and peace the first thing to do is GIVE UP! Yes, surrender your will to God totally. Accept who you are and where you are and be happy. Happiness is not a pursuit, a constant need to change, grow, elevate or consume. Happiness is a "state', a consciousness and awareness of the presence of God in your life. Joy and peace are sister and brother to happiness, love is the mother and God is the father. God loves to give you happiness, joy and peace! Until we learn to first honor and obey our Father, we'll forever be in constant pursuit of happiness and endlessly feeling empty and unsatisfied with our lives.
Maybe God's trying to tell you, "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things will be added unto you." Maybe God's trying to tell you, "He who finds a good woman has found a good thing," or maybe just maybe God's trying to tell you, "Charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." MAYBE GOD'S TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING SISTERS! Think about it!!!
THANK YOU
I would like to take time to thank the hundreds of sisters out there who are forwarding this email on to your families and friends on-line. Thank you for all of your responses, comments, greetings and words of encouragement.
Sisters around the world, from Korea to the Virgin Islands have responded to this column. And because of that You Are My Sister is now being turn into a book. A how to guide on spirituality and self-empowerment. Please keep sending your responses I look forward to reading them all.
God Bless and remember You Are My Sister.
Anfra
Author & Inspirational Speaker
1. I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow, isn't looking good either.
2. I love deadlines,especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
3. Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?
4. I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
5. Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
6. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
7. Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
8. Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
9. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again.
10. I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
11. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, "Where the heck is the ceiling?!"
12. My Reality Check, bounced.
13. On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.
14. I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier.
15. You're slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.
16. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, 'cuz, like, you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
17. Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
>>> A Friend....
>>> (A)ccepts you as you are
>>> (B)elieves in "you"
>>> (c)alls you just to say "HI"
>>> (D)oesn't give up on you
>>> (E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
>>> (F)orgives your mistakes
>>> (G)ives unconditionally
>>> (H)elps you
>>> (I)nvites you over
>>> (J)ust "be" with you
>>> (K)eeps you close at heart
>>> (L)oves you for who you are
>>> (M)akes a difference in your life
>>> (N)ever judges
>>> (O)ffers support
>>> (P)icks you up
>>> (Q)uiets your fears
>>> (r)aises your spirits
>>> (S)ays nice things about you
>>> (T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
>>> (U)nderstands you
>>> (V)alues you
>>> (W)alks beside you
>>> (X)-plains things you don't understand
>>> (Y)ells when you won't listen and..
>>> (Z)aps you back to reality
>>>
A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need a lift,
A friend is someone we treasure for our friendship is a gift
A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the world we live in a better and happier place.
1. Just call me milk. I'll do your body good.
2. Your body's name must be visa. 'Cause it's everywhere I want to be.
3. Can I buy you a drink, or do you just want the money?
4. I may not be Fred Flintstone, but I bet I can make your Bed Rock.
5. I may not be the best looking guy here, but I'm the only one talking to you.
6. My love for you is like the energizer bunny. It keeps going and going.
7. Yo Baby, you be my Dairy Queen, I'll be your Burger King. You treat me right, and I'll do it your way... right away.
8. I'd like to screw your brains out, but it appears that someone beat me to it.
9. If you were a new hamburger at McDonald's, you would be McGorgeous.
10. Is that Windex? Because I can see myself in your pants.
11. I wish you were a Pony Carousel outside Walmart, so I could ride you all day long for a quarter.
12. Wanna Play House? You be the screen door and I'll slam you all night long.
13. Guy: "Would you like to dance?"
Girl: "I don't care for this song and surely wouldn't dance with you.,"
Guy: "I'm sorry, you must have misunderstood me. I said you look fat in those pants."
14. Excuse me, do you have your phone number. I seem to have lost mine.
15. I'm new in town. Could I have directions to your house?
16. If your left leg was Thanksgiving and your right leg Christmas, could I visit you between the Holidays?
17. I love every bone in your body - especially mine.
18. You might not be the best looking girl here, but beauty is only light switch away.
19. Hi, I'm a necrophiliac. How good are you at playing dead?
20. I can't find my puppy. Can you help me find him? I think he went into this cheap motel room.
21. The fact that I'm missing my teeth just means that there's more room for your tongue.
22. Guy: "Haven't I seen you someplace before?"
Girl: "Yes, that's why I don't go there anymore."
Below is a list of Black owned bed & breakfast inns and resorts in the United States.
Akwaaba Mansion Brooklyn, New York (718) 455-5958.
Apache Canyon Ranch Canoncito, New Mexico (800) 808-8310.
Blue Rose Anacortes, Washington (888) 293-5175.
Cape Babs Cottage 23 Blueberrylane East Falmouth (Cape Cod), MA 02536 (888) 811-2280.
Bonnevue Manor 33 Beaty Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6K3B3 (800)-ONTARIO
Cottonwood Hot Springs Spa and Motel, Cottonwood, Alabama 1800-526-SPAS 600 Hot Springs Rd. 36320
Henderson House Columbus, Ohio (614) 258-3463.
Hillside Inn East Stroudsburg, PA (717)223-8238 PR 6,Box 6000
Kings Lodge P.O. Box 492 Otisville, New York 10963 (914) 386-2106.
Lagniappe Guest House New Orleans, LA (800) 317-2120.
La Maison al' Avenue Jackson 1740 Jackson Avenue New Orleans, LA 70113 (504) 522-1785
La Tienda InnSanta Fe, New Mexico (800) 889-7611.
Martha's Vineyard Resorts and Racquet Club, P.O. Box 255 Boston, MA 02130 800-874-4403
Mill Creek Farm P.O. Box 816 Buckingham, PA 18912 (800) 562-1776
Morehead Manor Bed & Breakfast 914 Vickers Avenue, Durham, NC 27701 email: moheadmanr@aol.com (919) 687-4366 or (888) 437-6333.
Nixon's Farm 2800 Rt. 32 West Friendship, MD 21794 (410) 442-2151A
Parker Gardens Bed & Breakfast East St. Louis, Ill (888) 298-3834.
Shearer Cottage P.O. Box 1063 Oakbluffs, MA 02557 (508) 693-2634
Somewhere Bed & Breakfast St. Louis, Missouri (800) 730-2PAM (726).
Twin Oaks on Martha's Vineyard Island P.O. Box 1767 Vineyard Haven, MA 800-696-8633.
The WeekenderHog Hammock Community , Sapelo Island, GA 31327 (912) 485-2277
The White House Berries Inn Route 8 Bridgewater, NY (315) 822-6558 (315) 822-6778
The Wise House945 Niskey Lake Circle Atlanta, GA 30331 (404) 691-9473
The Woods House 333 N. Main ST Ashland, OR 97520 (800) 435-8260
Dear GOD,
Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
-Norma
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Dear GOD,
Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't You just keep the ones You have now?
-Jane
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Dear GOD,
Who draws the lines around the countries?
-Nan
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Dear GOD,
I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay?
-Neil
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Dear GOD,
What does it mean You are a Jealous God? I thought You had everything.
-Jane
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Dear God,
Did you really mean "do unto others as they do unto you"? Because if you did, then I'm going to fix my brother!
-Darla
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Dear GOD,
Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.
-Joyce
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Dear GOD,
It rained for our whole vacation and is my father mad! He said some things about You that people are not supposed to say, but I hope You will not hurt him anyway.
-Your friend (but I am not going to tell you who I am).
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Dear GOD,
Why is Sunday school on Sunday? I thought it was supposed to be our day of rest.
-Tom L.
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Dear GOD,
Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before, You can look it up.
-Bruce
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Dear GOD,
My brother is a rat. You should give him a tail. Ha ha.
-Danny
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Dear GOD,
Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother.
-Larry
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Dear GOD,
I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big, but not with so much hair all over.
-Sam
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Dear GOD,
I think the stapler is one of your goodest inventions.
-Ruth M.
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Dear GOD,
I bet it is very hard for You to love all of everybody in the whole world.
There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.
-Nan
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Dear GOD,
If You watch me in church Sunday, I'll show You my new shoes.
-Mickey D.
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Dear GOD,
We read Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday school they said You did it. So I bet he stoled your idea.
-Sincerely, Donna
Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm missing the point, but last night I had an experience that left me disturbed. I watched the wonderful PBS documentary Africans In America which chronicles the horrors of slavery. I watched the show and I came away proud knowing that a lot of my forefathers and foremothers did not go out like punks. They fought they resisted and they showed some amazing resilience which allowed us as a people to survive. I watched the show and left me with a lot to think about. It was deep.
So afterwards I switched the channel to catch the Chris Rock Show. I think Chris is funny and I like the fact that he can get political. But last night I really wanted to peep out the show cause Jay-Z was on and he's only done one show here in Northern Cali. He unfortunately came out here during the height of the East/West Coast drama and folks was trying to heat up on him while he performed. So I wanted to see how the man with the number one album in the country would get down. So Jay-Z hits the stage to perform his hit single 'Hard Knock Life' which uses the chorus from the play 'Annie'. He's surrounded by about a dozen beautiful young brothers and sisters. I'm saying to myself this is cute.. Jay-Z has the kids singing the hook to the song..He does the song and I notice that Jay-Z is not using profanity.. So I start to give him props.. I expect the Chris Rock Show to get raunchy and raw.. I have no problem with that. But I was happy Jay-Z showed that respect and didn't do the unedited version of his song with all those little kids sitting on stage with him. I felt he was being responsible. Then it struck like a searing knife. My admiration quickly subsided and turned to anger when out of Jay-Z's mouth came the infamous 'N' word.. Over and over again he used word.. He paid tribute to his 'Nigga' Notorious BIG. He asked all his 'Niggas' to put their hands up.. He gave big shout outs to all his Niggas. He dropped the word several more tim
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