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  Date / Time: 4/28/2009 5:53 AM UTC

  Rudolph Lewis on Conv.of Africa Wed. April 29, 2009 from 8 AM to 9AM:US Torture
  

  Rudolph Lewis on Conv.of Africa Wed. April 29, 2009 from 8 AM to 9AM:US Torture

  Wednesday April 29, 2009 from 8 AM to 9AM Pacific Time –11AM to12 Noon

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  Hello Conversations of Africa listeners,

   

  Rudolph Lewis wrote this piece on Torture seeking clarity on what had been done to people captured by US Military under George Bush predecessor of President Obama. Obama is closing the Torture Center at Quantanamo—in Cuba but what about the Torture and/or alleged torture of the San Francisco 8 and Angola 3?

   

  Yet some even in the main establishment media and even some politicians have called for investigations and charges to be filed! Well Rudolph Lewis, Editor of Chicken Bones On Line Magazine and I will discuss this call for clarity! I will ask if a South African style Truth Commission covering domestic and international allegations and admitted US torture is away of achieving clarity. Meanwhile read this well written well-documented piece Rudolph Lewis wrote and call in to Conversations of Africa to be apart of our discussion. We will also discuss Obama’s first 100 days and the flu outbreak too! Please follow the link to the article The White Masters of the World by W E B Du Bois the late great African-American Scholar that Lewis has republished on Chicken Bones his great on line magazine!

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd

   

   

  The White Masters of the World
   

  Herbert (A Culture Soaked in Blood), Rich (The Banality of Bush White House Evil), and Krugman (Reclaiming America’s Soul) make good points in their editorials. But their points are too limited for the comfort of a black or colored perspective. In responding to Krugman’s point of recovery or “reclaiming” one sister reminded me of Oscar Grant of Oakland face down and handcuffed, shot in the back by a policeman. Herbert, of course, gets closer to the point than Rich and Krugman. But he only hints at the truth of Western reality with respect to the colored peoples of the world, including those of the Middle East (Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan).

   

  I have recently republished Du Bois’ The White Masters of the World from his The World and Africa (1965) that will, I think, help us get a clearer perspective on what is the source of the Bush Administration’s focus on torture and the recent controversy on how best to approach it. Some want to ignore it. Some want trials. I want clarity.

   

  In the excerpt below Du Bois provides a historical background. I also recommend John Maxwell’s Half  a Century of Lies --Rudy

  The White Masters of the World —In some parts of the world, notably in the Southern states of America, the argument went further than this: frank slavery of black folk was a better economic system than factory exploitation of whites. It was the natural arrangement of industry. It ought to be extended, certainly where colored people were in the majority. For a half a century before 1861 the bolder minds of the South dreamed of a slave empire embracing the American tropics and extending eventually around the world. While their thought did not go to a final appraisement of white laboring classes, they certainly had in mind that these classes must rise or fall; must be forced into the class of employers with political power, or, like the poor whites of the South, be pushed down beside or even below the working slaves.

  This philosophy had sympathizers in Europe. Without doubt, a large majority of influential public opinion in England, and possibly in both France and Germany, favored the South at the outbreak of the Civil War and sternly set its face against allowing any maudlin sympathy with “darkies,” half monkeys and half men, in the stern fight for the extension of European domination of the world. Widespread insensibility to cruelty and suffering spread in the white world, and to guard against too much emotional sympathy with the distressed, every effort was made to keep women and children and the more sensitive men deceived as to what was going on, not only in the slums of white countries, but also all over Asia, Africa, and the islands of the sea. Elaborate writing, disguised as interpretation, and the testimony of so-called “experts,” made it impossible for charming people in Europe to realize what their comforts and luxuries cost in sweat, blood, death, and despair, not only in the remoter parts of the world, but even on their own doorsteps.

  http://www.nathanielturner.com/whitemastersoftheworld.htm

   

  Rudolph Lewis, Editor

  Chicken Bones: A Journal

  www.nathanielturner.com

   

  Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd information

   

   

   Ukali

  Call in as participate in analyzing Internet based and other African/Black News from around the world. http://www.conversations-of-africa.yomn.net/ Live time call in number: Area Code 347-215-7831--8AM Pacific Time 9AM Eastern  time! Sincerely, Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd Black Liberation Facilitator of Conversations of Africa http://www.lovinmgblackwomen.com/ Check me out at www.lovingblackwomen.com or at my You Tube channel: Ukalitheafrican at this link. http://www.youtube.com/ukalitheafrican You can also check me out at Blackplanet.com at this link: http://www.blackplanet.com/Ukal2003/ .We are proud to be apart of the Afrikan Sistahs Media Network entering our second year on Blog talk radio. Also I have 2 Books Loving Black Women 2006 and Journey To The Motherland From San Francisco To Benin City (2002) available for purchase at http://www.amazon.com/ and http://www.lovingblackwomen.com/ ! Proud to be apart of the African Sistahs Media Network http://asmnetwork.org/ Black Liberation Facilitator of Conversations of Africa http://www.lovinmgblackwomen.com/ Check me out at www.lovingblackwomen.com or at my You Tube channel: Ukalitheafrican at this link. http://www.youtube.com/ukalitheafrican You can also check me out at Blackplanet.com at this link: http://www.blackplanet.com/Ukal2003/ .We are proud to be apart of the Afrikan Sistahs Media Network entering our second year on Blog talk radio. Also I have 2 Books Loving Black Women 2006 and Journey To The Motherland From San Francisco to Benin City!

   

   

   

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