China Denounces USA Treatment of Blacks

China Denounces America’s Treatment of Afro-Descendants
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China Denounces America’s Treatment of Afro-descendants (African Americans)

By Editor Raushana Karriem

In a scathing report issued by China’s Information Office of the State Council, China condemned America’s treatment of its Afro-descendants and other minorities and cited America’s numerous human rights violations against its minorities.



“The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 on April 8, 2011. As in previous years, the reports are full of distortions and accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation and seldom mentioned it. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 is prepared to urge the United States to face up to its own human rights issues, “ states the report.

The report cites that Afro-descendants make up 50% of the homeless in Los Angeles, California and have a 32% unemployment rate nationwide.

According to a report of the Working Group of Experts on people of African descent to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in August 2010, unemployment was a very serious issue for the Afro-descendant community in the United States, with levels of unemployment being, proportionately, four times higher among this population than in the white community. Reference was made to a case where the New York City Fire Department was found to have discriminated against people of African descent who had applied for employment as firemen. Of the 11,000 firemen employed by the New York City Fire Department, only about 300 were of African descent, despite their being about 27 percent of the population of New York (UN document A/HRC/15/18). Nearly one-sixth of black residents in the city were unemployed in the third quarter of 2010. About 140,000 of the city’s 384,000 unemployed residents, or 36 percent, were black (The New York Times, Oct 28, 2010).

Poverty proportion for minorities is also high in the United States. The US Census Bureau announced in Sept, 2010 that the poverty proportion of the black was 25.8 percent in 2009, and those of Hispanic origin and Asian were 25.3 percent and 12.5 percent respectively, much higher than that of the non-Hispanic white at 9.4 percent. The median household income for the black, Hispanic origin and non-Hispanic white were $32,584, $38,039 and $54,461 respectively (The USA Today, September 17, 2010). A survey released by the America Association of Retired Persons on February 23, 2010 found that over the previous 12 months, a third (33 percent) of African-Americans age 45+ had problems paying rent or mortgage, 44 percent had problems paying for essential items, such as food and utilities, almost one in four (23 percent) lost their employer-sponsored health insurance, more than three in 10 (31 percent) had cut back on their medications, and a quarter (26 percent) prematurely withdrew funds from their retirement nest eggs to pay for living expenses. Even in the tough employment environment, 12 percent of African-Americans age 65+ returned to the workforce from retirement, while nearly 20 percent of African-Americans age 45 to 64 increased the number of hours worked and 12 percent took a second job (The Los Angeles Times, Feb 23, 2010). In 2009, there were more than 30,000 black children living in poverty in the nation’s capital, almost 7,000 more than two years before. Among black children in the city, childhood poverty shot up to 43 percent, from 36 percent in 2008. In contrast, the poverty rate for Hispanic children was 13 percent, and the rate for white children was 3 percent (The Washington Post, Sept 29, 2010).

The USA Today on Oct 14, 2010 reported that African-American boys who were suspended at double and triple the rates of their white male peers. At the Christina School District in Delaware, 71 percent of black male students were suspended in a recent school year, compared to 22 percent of their white male counterparts. African-American students without disabilities were more than three times as likely to be expelled as their white peers. African-American students with disabilities were over twice as likely to be expelled or suspended as their white counterparts (USA Today, March 8, 2010).

The health care for African-American people is worrisome. Studies showed that nearly a third of ethnic minority families in the United States did not have health insurance. Life expectancy was lower and infant mortality higher than average (BBC, the social and economic position of minorities). Mortality of African-American children was two to three times higher than that of their white counterparts. African-American children represented 71 percent of all pediatric HIV/AIDS cases. African-American women and men were 17 times and 7 times, respectively, more likely to contract HIV/AIDS than white people, and twice more likely to develop cancer.

Racial discrimination is evident in the law enforcement and judicial systems. The New York Times reported on May 13, 2010, that in 2009, African-Americans and Latinos were 9 times more likely to be stopped by the police to receive stop-and-frisk searches than white people. Overall, 41 percent of the prison population was estimated to be African-American. The rate of African-Americans serving a life sentence was more than 10 times higher than that of whites. Males of African descent who dropped out of school had a 66 percent chance of ending up in jail or being processed by the criminal justice system (UN document A/HRC/15/18). A report said 85 percent of the people stopped in New York to receive stop-and-frisk searches over the past six years had been black or Latino (The Washington Post, November 4, 2010). According to a report of the Law School of the Michigan State University, among the 159 death row inmates in North Carolina, 86 were black, 61 were white and 12 were from other ethnic groups. During the trial process of the 159 capital cases, the number of black members taken out from the jury by prosecutors more than doubled that of non-black members. According to statistics from the Chicago Police Department, the proportion of black people being the criminals and the victims of all murder cases is the highest, reaching 76.3 and 77.6 percent respectively .



In conclusion, The People’s Republic of China demands that America stop using, their cry of Human Rights Violations against other sovereign nations in order to declare war on them to steal their resources when America flagrantly violates the Human Rights of Afro-descendants and other minorities within its own country.

--from Muhammad Speaks

Marvin X at Yoshi's San Francisco Part II

2 - A Day in the Life - Marvin X and Discussion

1 - A Day in the Life - Marvin X and Discussion

One Day in the Life, Marvin X's docudrama of his addiction and recovery from Crack, the longest running African American play in Northern California history, 1996-2002. Ishmael Reed says, "It's the most powerful drama I've seen." It was shown throughout the Bay Area to thousands and thousands of addicts in recovery and the general community, produced by Marvin X's Recovery Theatre. The play was performed nationwide.

One of the venues was Sista's Place in Brooklyn, New York. One evening following the performance was a discussion entitled Drugs, Art and Revolution. Panelists included Omawale Clay, Sam Anderson, Sonia Sanchez, Amina Baraka, Amiri Baraka and Elombe Brath. 5/27/97

On Manning's Reinvention of Malcolm X

Look at the back cover of the book, its "endorsers" and you can predict! AB

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Though long awaiting this work and having had brief exchanges with Manning on
this subject over the past 35 years, the coming out of this book caught me so
deep into banjos that I didnt realize it was out until a DC journalist
Facebooked me about the rejected _Root_ review.

Several things impress me, or rather unimpress me, about the debate on it. The
first is that little of the debate in the linked pages and other things searches
on it bring up are about Malcolm X and his role in African American liberation,
although many purport to do so. Most seem to dance about one non-political
aspect of the life of Malcolm X in a period when he led a completely different
life and identity, a period when Malcolm wrote he had a mentality that he
considered a degenerate reflection of the oppression of Black folk. None of the
commentary focuses on Malcolm as a political person in a way that for better or
worse Manning no doubt centered.

What seems required is for folk to seriously read this book and forget the minor
and personal controversy and think about how the book faithfully or unfaithfully
serves the truth of Malcolm X. An abundance of books in which Malcolm expresses
his ideas clearly, particularly in the last years of his life are available for
reference and reflection. New evidence based explanations of the realities of
the last years of his life are also available in Taylor Branch's work and in the
release of his FBI files.

Manning is not the first to criticize Haley's role in "The Autobiography of
Malcolm X." What he says is just the tip of the iceberg. That book is accepted
as gospel by many people, but during his last months Malcolm made quite clear
to people around him that he wanted to change the direction of the whole project
and disagreed with Haley, particularly about how the Nation of Islam was
treated. Initially, he had felt that he needed to make no or few criticisms of
the Nation, but to set his own way, even though he knew even before he left the
Nation that his differences were irreconcilable and that the Nation's leadership
was organizing his murder. However, he came to realize that this was a mistake
and that for his own protection both physically and politically, he needed to
expose the corruption, political conservatism, and moral depravity that
characterized the Nation. Manning's assertion that Malcolm wanted that book
to be much more political in the sense that he became much more political and
radical matches what Malcolm was telling people about it in the period just
before his murder. This stuff is documented--as opposed to my memory of
talking to various people in NY about this in the late 1960s--in George
Breitman's book on Malcolm X, Evolution of a Revolutionary. It can also be seen
in the set of speeches and interviews from Malcolm's last year exposing the
Nation and its crimes and corruption available from Pathfinder.

Returning to our debate and not trying to enter it, let me beg for a seriousness
about it. It is also necessary to provide Malcolm and history with the
respect due a real fallable person who is the product, not of divine
revelation, but our gritty human life. Malcolm has become a saint, now distant
enough in actual memory of most folk for people to demand anything but
perfection and to see his life as anything but hagiography

One respect is owed Cornel West. He has written clearly about how his reformist
political perspective and the revolutionary ideas of Malcolm X are in conflict
and why he believes Malcolm was wrong. Few people attempt to do that,
disrespecting Malcolm and in turn disrespecting themselves. Instead,
discussion of Malcolm X even by scholars often ends up folk trying to prove
that Malcolm believed and stood for whatever the scholar believes.

I Rather than the plaster saint he has since been depicted as, people I have
met who knew Malcolm and interacted with him in the mid 1960s in New York,
Africa, and Europe remember him as an extremely humble, self critical person
with a sense of humor, and a longing to relax and enjoy himself when removed
from the spotlight, a person always open to learning from struggles going on
around the world, and fromt he hard school of real life, a person whose
responsibility and seriousness in big things came from a sense of obligation by
what he believed he had done wrong in the past, and a person with nostalgia and
some interest in reclaiming some of the joys he had left behind.

If whatever great school that produced his character made him such a person, let
us show his memory and ourselves the kindness to discuss him as that imperfect
human that he was, and not try to pound the sainthood that some seem to need
into him.

I hope that discussion takes place after thoroughly and critically reading his
book, after consulting Malcolm's own speeches and writings, and in a spirit of
science and objectivity, rather than of demonology or hero worship.

Why the Chauncey Bailey Project and the Black Chauncey Bailey Project

Martin Reynolds,
Editor, Oakland
Tribune















Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb suggested
the Chauncey Bailey Project and later the
Black Chauncey Bailey Project.

















Why the Chauncey Bailey Project and the Black Chauncey Bailey Project?
















Oakland Post writer Marvin X
holds award presented to the
Oakland Post by the Chauncey
Bailey Project. Marvin is organizer
of the Black Chauncey Bailey and editor
of the forthcoming anthology on Bailey.



photo Gene Hazzard







At lunch today, Oakland Tribune Editor Martin Reynolds asked Marvin X why the Black Chauncey Bailey Project? After all, the Chauncey Bailey Project is a consortium of journalists from many ethnic and gender groups. So why do you attack the Chauncey Bailey Project so vociferiously? You also attack the Oakland Police for conspiring to kill Chauncey Bailey, and yet you seem to excuse the Bakery boys for the cold blooded murder of Chauncey.



Marvin X replied that the entire matter was very emotional for him, after all, his friends are charged with murdering another friend, thus it is a case of being caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

And yet, as I sat in the courtroom looking at the defendents, it was clear to me these are children, similar to the children in the serious crimes unit at Alameda Country Juvenile Hall he visited recently; similar to the baby faced killers he addressed at New York's Riker's Island Juvenile Prison.


But the suspects were mentored by a member of the Oakland Police Department, so why wouldn't I also focus on the OPD's possible role in the assassination? There is no doubt Officer Longmire had a profound influence on the young men accused of murdering Chauncey, to the degree they believed they could get away with murder.

Editor Reynolds said he knows Officer Longmire, has met members of his family and thinks he is a fine gentleman. Marvin X wondered to himself whether it was possible the Chauncey Bailey Project was not pursuing the police connection because of its friendship with the OPD.


After all, it was Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb who called for the Chauncey Bailey Project after the funeral of his editor. But he said at a meeting with journalists forming the project, they resisted his notion of police involvement, especially OPD embedded writer Harry Harris. Paul Cobb suspects Harris is simply a plant in the CBP representing the OPD. It was at this point Paul distanced himself from the CBP. He is now calling for an accounting of all funds garnered by the CBP, i.e., advertising dollars, grants, fellowships, etc.


He found it ironic that he was presented with a plaque for contributing to the Chauncey Bailey Project. (Marvin X holds the plaque in the above photo by Gene Hazzard) For sure the CBP has been reluctant to pursue the role of police in the murder of Cobb's editor. Although Tribune Editor Renyolds said Chauncey was no Bob Woodward, Marvin X says Chauncey was indeed acting on information that the OPD was shaking down drug dealers, planting false evidence, money laundering and possible homicides under the color of law.

Mothers at Allen Temple Baptist Church called Chauncey to help them intervene with the OPD to stop shaking down their drug dealing children then releasing them, causing them to face the wrath of dope dealers who would not believe their children were relieved of their money, dope and jewelry, then let go.


Martin Reynolds assured Marvin X if presented evidence, the Oakland Tribune would aggressively pursue the lead, but he doesn't have the community contacts it takes to gather the necessary information. He faulted himself for not having a community writer similar to Chauncey Bailey.


Marvin told Martin he would be surprised at the things people tell him at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, the crossroads of Oakland. But he questioned the Tribune editor on why the CBP has been hesitant to go down the road to truth Chauncey was on.

Is it lack of evidence, community contacts or simple fear, and yet Chauncey gave his life because of his fearlessness in pursuit of truth. Herein may lie the real and only difference between the Chauncey Bailey Project and the Black Chauncey Bailey Project.
--Marvin X

4/20/11

Black Genesis, the book -interview by Fuzzy with Robert Bauval