POSITIVELY BLACK
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Prisoner Abuse Dehumanizes Us All
“Clearly it has been the evil political genius of the West, since the beginnings
of European imperialism , to concentrate its efforts on the cultural and
therefore ideological destruction of the people it conquered. The instances of
European military control in which its victims continued to deny European
cultural superiority are not imperialist successes. Here Europeans have not been
able to truly impose and “expand” themselves. It is for this reason Vietnam is
the most bitter failure of European imperialism to date. And yet a people who
have been ideologically conquered rarely require the threat of arms to be kept
under control.” Marimba Ani Yurugu An African Centered Critique of European
Cultural Thought and Behavior p.428
Anyone who experienced the US Civil Rights Movement who saw representatives of
the status quo sic dogs and aim high pressure fire hoses on children, who saw
the effects of COINTELPRO on the African-American community’s struggle for
dignity and liberation, who has experienced the intellectual and psychological
warfare being waged against our people or who has gleaned a glimmer of the
atrocities AmeriKKKa has inflicted upon First World people is neither shocked
nor surprised by the photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. As gruesome
as these photos are they don’t tell half the story. The real shock is CBS aired
the pictures and did a story on the abuses. Human rights activists have been
decrying the treatment not only of Iraqi prisoners but also the Afghani
prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay since George W. Bush unleashed the dogs of war
upon the hapless citizens of those two countries. Anyone familiar with the
sordid history of the CIA or the School of The AmeriKKKas now called the Western
Hemispheric Institute for Security Co-Operation knows they are terrorist
trainers. The Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Co-Operation is run out
of camp Ft Benning Georgia. It has trained some of the most ruthless secret
police, dictators, reactionary defenders of global white supremacy and human
rights violators on the planet. Many of its graduates have gone on to brutalize,
maim and murder hundreds of thousands of people in Central and South America. If
the masses of AmeriKKKans were somehow miraculously raised out of their media
induced stupor and allowed to see what goes on around the world in the name of
American foreign policy, counter- insurgency, covert ops, “intervention”,
freedom and democracy they would vomit due to the inhumanity of it all. As gross
and disgusting as the photos of US soldiers denigrating, abusing and torturing
Iraqis are, they are just the tip of the iceberg. Europeans have a several
millennia tradition of rape, pillage, plunder and desecration; so what we are
seeing in Iraq and Afghanistan is merely a continuation of that legacy.
We know about the lynchings, beatings and mutilations our ancestors suffered at
the hands of these psychopaths. We are familiar with the atrocities Europeans
unleashed upon the indigenous inhabitants everywhere they set foot on planet
earth especially over the last five hundred years, so why do we feign shock at
pictures broadcast across the Internet and network television, when all of us
know some brother who served in Indo China who returned home traumatized by what
he was forced to do or what he saw over there. The sad reality is AmeriKKKa is
being programmed to accept government sponsored/sanctioned violence. The
predominate theme in AmeriKKKan pop culture is violence, so much so if we watch
television or motion pictures and there is no gratuitous violence and/or gory
special effects it will not sell or be popular!! We are being desensitized and
programmed to be anti life so we will gradually accept the Nazification of
AmeriKKKa, go along with the ruling elites’ fascist agenda and not resist or
rebel. These horrific images of abused Iraqis are cause for alarm. They are a
clarion call for African people to become the moral compass for AmeriKKKa, to
point the way to higher consciousness and morality. The way to oppose
dehumanization is not to attack it or vilify it. The way to oppose
dehumanization is to become fully human. The answers are not outside of
ourselves! The way to fully transcend despiritization is to become truly
spiritual, experiencing the oneness and spiritual unity of the universe. The way
to stop the brutalization of our fellow human beings is not by protesting, the
way to stop brutalization of human beings is to be fully human ourselves. When
we become fully human, we will realize we are spiritual beings having a human
experience; and we will not acquiesce to state sanctioned violence in any form.
Junious
Ricardo Stanton produce and host a Internet
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