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Historians say Cleopatra probably looked more like this computer generated model (l.), than bombshell Angelina Jolie who is slated to play her in an upcoming film.

Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but her “perfect” looks have some critics complaining she’s all wrong for her latest role.

Earlier this month producer Scott Rudin got the Internet buzzing with his announcement that he was developing a Cleopatra biopic “for and with Jolie” based on Stacy Schiff’s book “Cleopatra: A Life.”

Schiff raved about the choice, telling USA Today, “Physically, she’s the perfect look.”

But some members of the African American community beg to differ — they are outraged by the casting decision and say Jolie is “too white” to play the Egyptian Queen.

“I don’t care how full Angelina Jolie’s lips are, how many African children she adopts, or how bronzed her skin will become for the film,” Shirea Carroll wrote in an editorial for Essence.com.

“I firmly believe this role should have gone to a Black woman…What’s next? A biopic on Sojourner Truth played by Betty White?”

This isn’t the first time Jolie has found herself at the center of a debate about race in Hollywood.

In 2007, she sparked serious controversy when she wore tinted make-up to play the role of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s wife Marian, who is partly of African descent. Pearl herself took to the press to defend Jolie, telling Time Magazine, “It is not about the color of your skin. It is about who you are.”

While experts can’t say with certainty what Cleopatra looked like, physically speaking, Jolie is probably not the most historically accurate choice. For starters, she’s probably too tall, beautiful and skinny, according to what historians now know.

“Sadly for those who seek the secret of her personal allure, the more we study Cleopatra’s surviving images, the less certain we may be of her [allegedly gorgeous] looks,” Susan Walker, a senior curator at the British Museum, told the British Sunday Times.

In fact, according to ABC News, Egyptologists insist that the legendary temptress, known for having used her beauty to seduce Roman Emperor Julius Caesar and general Mark Anthony, was actually “short, fat and plain.”

Despite the controversy, Jolie is still at least one fan’s ideal choice to play the Queen.

Michael Pietsch, publisher of Little, Brown (which will put out Schiff’s book this November) told UsMagazine.com, “Angelina Jolie radiates grace and power, exactly the qualities of the most intriguing ruler who ever lived.”

Another White Actress to Play Cleopatra?

Monday, June 14, 2010 | 3:00 PM

by Shirea L. Carroll

Just when we thought there weren’t enough leading roles for Black women in Hollywood, they create one and give it to a White woman.

Film producer Scott Rudin has purchased the film rights to upcoming biography ‘Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra: A Life,’ and has confirmed that the movie “is being developed for and with [Angelina] Jolie.” Jolie, a Hollywood A-lister, will do her best in bringing the story of the famed Egyptian queen to life, and it appears no one doubts she can do it… including Pulitzer prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, who penned the biography, “Cleopatra: A Life,” a book that won’t be on shelves until the fall.

Schiff already heavily endorses Jolie, stating, “I think she’d be perfect for it and I can see a possible Oscar in her future. Physically, she’s got the perfect look.”

Gasp, the nerve! “She’s got the perfect look?” Honestly, I don’t care how full Angelina Jolie’s lips are, how many African children she adopts, or how bronzed her skin will become for the film, I firmly believe this role should have gone to a Black woman. I mean, isn’t it enough that 47 years ago, dame Elizabeth Taylor was cast to portray Cleopatra in one of the most expensive films ever made? That Elizabeth Taylor was actually the third White woman to be tapped for the Cleopatra role — following Vivien Leigh and Claudette Colbert — just makes this all the more comical.

Were Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry and Thandie Newton unavailable for auditions that day? Why does Hollywood think it’s even slightly plausible to cast White women in roles that would be more sensible to cast a Black actress for? Especially when that role is an African queen.

It happened just two years ago, in 2007′s thriller “Stuck,” directed by Stuart Gordon, based on the true story of a Chante Mallard. The story tells a tale of a woman who hits a homeless man with her car and results with him trapped in her car’s windshield. Instead of getting the man help, Mallard (played by actress Mena Suvari) opts to let him die slowly in her garage.

The interesting thing is Mallard is a Black woman, and Suvari, who was cast to play the role, is — surprise, surprise — a White woman. Adding insult to injury, instead of just casting a Black woman to play the role, the film gave Suvari a more “ethnic look” for the role, by adding stereotypical cornrows to her hair. Hollywood, are you serious?

Now, Jolie is set to play Cleopatra, who isn’t as technically perfect as some would claim if you study the Queen of the Nile’s distinguished history. First and foremost, the role should be given to a younger actress — think Jurnee Smollett — considering Cleopatra began her reign as Queen of Egypt at the tender age of 18 and ended her own life at the age of 39.

Secondly, while historically there is no concrete confirmation that Cleopatra was of a darker complexion, there is more evidence than not that she was Black, and not entirely of Macedonian Greek ancestry, as Shakespeare, leagues of painters and now Hollywood would have us believe. And, ultimately, while Cleopatra’s heritage remains under speculation, it remains that she was in fact an African queen. Jolie — not so perfect.

What’s next? A biopic on Sojourner Truth played by Betty White?

Pan African News Wire: Fatwa of Cairo gathering on looted artefacts

By Tajudeen Sowol
Nigerian Guardian

COLLECTIVE attempt made last month – perhaps for the first time – by countries demanding for restitution of disputed cultural objects is though laudable. However, it is an uphill task and capable of rattling existing conventions on the issue.

The two-day conference tagged International Cooperation for the Protection and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage and held in Cairo, Egypt came eight years after keepers of these artefacts gathered under the name, Bizot Group and declared a concept of universal museum. The ownership of such works, Bizot argued in France, should not be confined to geographical boundaries.

During the Cairo event organized by the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), the Secretary General of the host, Dr. Zahi Hawass urged participants to brace up for a near impossible mission. He said: “We need to co-operate, we need a unification between our countries. Every country is fighting alone; every country suffered alone, especially Egypt”.

As he declared that, “we will battle together,” he also sounded a note of warning that “maybe we will not succeed in a lifetime, but we have to open the subject.”

Sources said about 25 countries were represented at the event. Some of these countries are Nigeria, Greece, Bolivia, Italy, China, India, Peru, Libya, Syria and Mexico.

Even though it is not yet known if there was another declaration of the Bizot Group after the Inaugural gathering, the last meeting in Chicago, last year, showed that the group is growing in numerical strength. From 20 members in 2002 – currently under the leadership of its chairman, British Museum President, Neil MecGregor – about 60, sources said, attended the Chicago event.

With a clique such as Bizot, made up of directors of some of the strongest museums of the world, it’s just a matter of time before International Council of Museums (ICOM) is rendered irrelevant. Named after its founder Irene Bizot – former head of Reunion des Musees Nationaux, France’s – the group had stated: “Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums: We should, however, recognize that objects acquired in earlier times must be viewed in the light of different sensitivities and values, reflective of that earlier era. The objects and monumental works that were installed decades and even centuries ago in museums throughout Europe and America were acquired under conditions that are not comparable with current ones.”

However, Hawass and his new group hinged the hope of success of their mission on possible review of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on cultural and religious objects.

Even though the documents, comprehensively prevents and protects illegal movements of cultural and other related objects, it has no retroactive value; not binding on issues that are pre-ratification of the convention. It therefore, covertly, protects the Bizot Group and other keepers of these disputed objects.

In fact Bizot concurred with UNESCO when it emphasised: “Over time, objects so acquired-whether by purchase, gift, or partage have become part of the museums that have cared for them, and by extension part of the heritage of the nations which house them. Today, we are especially sensitive to the subject of a work’s original context, but we should not lose sight of the fact that museums too provide a valid and valuable context for objects that were long ago displaced from their original source.”

This position was taken when Greece demanded for the Parthenon Marble, currently housed in British Museum.

In Cairo, each participant country, sources explained, presented a wish list of artefacts for restitution. For Nigeria, works on this list are: Benin bronzes, including the ivory hip mask of Queen-Mother Idia, currently in the British Museum, U.K., Ethnology Museum, Berlin, Germany and other Western museums. The country also added the famous Ife head, Ori Olokun (even though its current keepers are not known).

Aside the UNESCO, a world governing body such as ICOM is also indifferent to retrospective issues on illegal acquisition by members. In fact, the body builds its ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums, 2006 on existing international conventions; an apparent silence on objects illegally acquired before ratifications of these coventions.

While Hawass’s group is after an outright return of the objects to their countries of origin, someone has what could be described as interim measures. During the lecture section of Peju Layiwola’s art exhibition Benin 1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question, the guest speaker, Prof. Folarin Shyllon, preferred a bilateral benefit of these objects. In his paper, Towards a Strategy for Curbing Illicit Trafficking and the Return of Cultural Property – which dwelled on the richness of Nigeria’s antiquities as well as past and recent developments by other African countries on restitution issue – he made some recommendations.

Shyllon stated: “Nigeria should commence bilateral negotiations with the governments of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany.” This he explained, should involve discussion for the “establishment of a branch of the British Museum in Nigeria so that the Benin Bronzes can be viewed on Nigerian soil.” Similarly, Germany should be engaged to have a branch of their museum in Nigeria, Shyllon said.

And just in case the gathering in Egypt could lead to something positive in future, preparation of individual countries would determine the level of success or even failure. Some countries, according to information from that event, are not actually prepared for restitution. Nigeria appeared to be one of such countries. The Director General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Mallam Yusuf Abdallah, who represented Nigeria at the conference said the gathering urged members to take adequate inventory of artefacts stolen from each country and where they are located. On his return, Abdallah lamented that in the case of Nigeria, it was difficult to know the number of objects taken out of the country. More importantly, keepers of most lost works of Nigerian origin are also unknown.

Also when it comes to protecting the objects back home, either from illegal excavation or acquisition from museums, the NCMM keeps coming under criticism for not doing enough. Before the Egypt event, Abdallah argued that, “not a single loss has been recorded from the national collections of the NCMM in the last ten years.” Noting that, indeed there are “unauthorized excavations and movement of ancient works of arts at various discreet and private locations within the country,” the NCMM, he explained, finds it “very difficult to ascertain because these objects don’t pass through the commission’s legitimate official channels.” And as those involved in illicit excavating appear to be evading several security measures, including NCMM, awareness, he assured, is ongoing, particularly at the borders and overseas.

In the last one year, Egypt’s, SCA, under the leadership of Hawass has recorded quite some success in return of its stolen artifacts. It is hoped that, as the initiator of this historic gathering, Egypt will bring her recent success bear on this laudable attempt.
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The ongoing destruction of African holy places has been going on long before today.Our conquerors knew and know well that if they could successfully control our concept of deity and have us worship them they would be more successful at controlling us and and turning us against one another. To get more info on this watch the movie Sankofa by Haile Gerima. He expertly shows how religion facilitates post traumatic slave syndrome (PTSS) in some of us Africans.

This article refers to an Egyptian Temple from the time of Ramses the great that was found inside an Egyptian mosque something I saw myself at Luxor while in Egypt months before this article came out. This article is further evidence of how ancient the idea of usurping of African Holy Places is (for Europeans the idea is even older),  though these colonizers and religions have spent billions in religious and media propaganda to convince Africans that our religions are pagan and evil etc. Obviously they (Europeans and Arabs) know more about the power of our religions than we do which is why they do so.

That is why they use Nile Valley African symbolism on their money and in the media etc. And make replicas of our pyramids in Memphis (Memphis is the Greek rendition of an Egyptian city called Men Nefer the temple that was dedicated to one of Egypt’s oldest Neteru the one named Ptah), Tennessee and Las Vegas. That is also why they stole the Tekhenu (obelisk) of Thutmose III and took it to Central Park where it is withering away under the weather beaten New york City lights. This also why Arab sio called “Egyptologists” today try to lay claim to our symbolism, ancient culture and religion and even try to connect tit to their 1,500 year old religion. Arab scholars know Nile Valley High Culture is one of the oldest religions in the world and that to attach Islam to it would further valid Islam in the eyes of the historically ignorant but religiously persuaded. While we foolishly abandon our ways of life and culture to follow them and theirs. by Khalif ‘Ras’ Williams

By Steven Stanek in Cairo, Egypt
for National Geographic News

Picture of Ramesside column found inside of Egyptian mosque

September 27, 2007

Parts of a temple dating to the reign of pharaoh Ramses II have been discovered inside a mosque in Luxor, Egypt, officials report (see map).

Experts restoring the historic mosque uncovered sections of columns, capitals, and elaborately inscribed reliefs from one of the ancient temple’s
courtyards built around 1250 B.C.

The previously concealed architectural elements reveal well-preserved hieroglyphics and unique scenes depicting the powerful pharaoh.

The discovery is likely to touch a nerve among religious leaders, because the newly exposed reliefs contain representations of humans and animals, which are forbidden inside mosques, the experts said.

The mosque was erected as a shrine to Muslim saint Abul Haggag in the 13th century A.D. on the site of an earlier Christian church, which was itself built
on top of the ancient temple, the archaeologists explained.

The discovery was made during repair work on the mosque after a fire damaged part of the structure in June.

“To do this project of restoration, [workers] had to reclean and reopen
many things, and this is when the scenes were found, and they are
really unique,” said Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme
Council of Antiquities.

(Hawass is also a National Geographic
Society explorer-in-residence. National Geographic News is a division
of the National Geographic Society.)

Encryptions and Glyphs

Christians, and later Muslims, frequently built their shrines on top of ancient
Egyptian holy sites, said W. Raymond Johnson, an Egyptologist at the
Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago who has seen the newly
exposed temple sections.

Builders of both faiths usually erased or defaced ancient artwork in the temples, he said, but the newfound reliefs remain virtually untouched.

“We are very lucky that these have been so well preserved,” Johnson said.

Rather than destroying the reliefs, the mosques builders carefully hid them
away with a protective layer of straw-reinforced plaster, shielding
them from the elements.

“We didn’t know we would find the reliefs and the inscriptions in such good condition,” said Mansour Boraik, general supervisor of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Luxor.

by Bouneith Inejnema Naba

like their Roman Xtian predecessors it is modern day Xtians and Muslims including some of African descent that are destroying the traditional African Worship places and spaces on the continent in the name of “spreading the gospel”. Why can’t they let people worship their own deity the way they see fit? I took this photo in Egypt @ Luxor Temple it shows a Xtian Roman archway disrespectfully carved into a most holy section of the temple. Xtians and Muslims alike all over the continent are known to commandeer the most sacred parts of our temples to build their mosques and churches sometimes building them right inside of Egyptian structures. They call us pagans but they make sure they follow our traditions closely enough to usurp the sacredness of our holy spaces.

Gaining control over a society or people can be achieved in many ways. The most aggressive and obvious way to dominate a society is by force, and one look at world events is all it takes to recognize that this practice continues to thrive. Other tactics used by those who wish to control the world are more subtle and thus more powerful and include imperialism through entertainment, education, religion, and psychological beguilement.

European socieites are very adept at both the forceful and subtle tactics of imperialism. Missions are sent to non-European societies to evangelize the heathens who have not succumbed to religious pressure, and projects to educate village children are on the rise. American music is piped through radio airwaves, and Hollywood movies are featured at local theaters. Indigenous youth are convinced that America, Germany, France, and other European countries are the best places on Earth and that the modern culture is superior to their own; children are being torn from the arms and protection of their parents psychologically and morally.

Naturally, news of imperialistic events is kept from our ears. The mainstream media dare not disobey the powers-that-be and thus only tell stories of American heroism, aid, and interests. Actions of imperialism happen daily, insulting the culture and intelligence of wise men, women, and children across the globe.

US Propaganda via Ivory Coast Radio

April 14, 2005 marked the inauguration of a community radio station in Tiassale, Ivory Coast, a town of 60,000 residents. The name of the radio station, Tiassale Rural Local Radio, is ironic as the station is funded by foreign governments and is thus working to serve foreign interests rather than the traditional cultural and spiritual interests of the area. While the funders and directors of the radio station call it a community station, the project is nothing but a badly-hidden project of imperialism.

The project was funded by the United Nations, who furnished $15,000 towards the station. The Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Abidjan provided computers, microphones, loudspeakers, books, cassettes, tables, and paintings of US culture. The mayor of Tissale provided the building from which the radio broadcasts.

The goal of the radio station is supposedly to allow broadcasters to reach listeners in remote parts of the country (spreading imperialism deeper into Africa) and to wage campaigns on issues of importance to the governments involved in the station. Issues such as civic education (obedience), peace and stability (passivity), democracy (political propaganda), HIV/AIDS (promotion of Western medicine), environmental protection and free press (as approved by governments), and grassroots participation (governmental control over information) will be treated on air. A US spokesperson claimed that the USA was happy to be a partner in the station to help promote a free-flow of information between the grassroots population and opinion leaders.

Intelligent people realize that this project is nothing but an imperialistic arm of the USA and UN that is aimed to train the minds of the locals into being Westernized.

Christians Destroy Shrines to Cleanse Land

Christians in Mbaise, a community in Imo State of Nigeria, destroyed over 100 traditional shrines in the name of God in early May, 2005. The event was organized by the United Congress of Mbaise Christians and occured during a three-day weekend Restoration Crusade.

Over 66 denominations and Christian groups made up the over 1.5 million people taking part in this spiritual destruction. The United Congress of Mbaise Christian group is a movement that is intended to use pure Christian values, ethics and dynamic relationship with the God’s power to achieve the total emancipation of the Mbaise nation spiritually, economically, and politically.? Thus, Christian values encompass destroying spiritual temples and monuments, disrespecting other people, and violence towards deities so that the Christian agenda can be met.

Shrines were destroyed in Umuhuokwuato, Mbuto, Lorjni, Uvuru, and Lagwa, Evangelist Umar Ukpai, one of those who ministered during this crusade, said. It will not end there, it’s a continuous thing. Weve taken the bold step. It’s going to be well in Mbaise land. According to Ukpai, traditional shrines have been a barrier to the development of the land and a thorn in the side of those who wish for the land to be destined to Jesus. Ukpai also claimed that the destiny of Mbaise people will soon be changed for the better now that the shrines have been destroyed. It’s going to be well with Mbaise land, he said. It is certain that the lives of the locals will be changed after this deliberate destruction of spiritual monuments, although a change for the better is unlikely, as the locals now must re-establish the presence of the Gods in their communities. Restoring prosperity to Mbaise land will never come with Christianity or Islam, but with the return of purely traditional spiriutality and culture.

Christians Insult Temple

In an place known throughout the area for traditional healing and spirituality, a Christian bishop challenged healers in their temple. Bishop Eria Luzinda, accompanied by fellow sheep in the flock of Jesus, disrespected the temples by conducting Christian prayers of nonsense to counter the excessive activities of traditional healers in the area.

Luzinda claims that the land on which traditional healers and priests are practicing belong to the church. (Interestingly, the Christian church is the newcomer in the area, while the traditional healers and temples have owned the land since before the White man even knew that Uganda existed!) The police-escorted Christian prayers on the land was an attempt to drive out those who were promoting traditional healing and evil acts. After the insult and while the Christians were satisfied that their prayers had harmed the healers, traditional priests kept their patience and wisdom and merely continued singing traditional healing songs, as they knew that the Christian prayers were ineffective and useless.

Events such as these happen every day around the world. The aggression of Christian and Muslim believers and foreign governments continues to rise, and they think that the world is theirs for the taking. While traditional healers, priests, and initiates stand strong in their culture and spirituality, others who have not benefited from true education are more easily swayed and convinced to succumb to the religious and government propaganda. This means that the entire world is in danger, and the religions and governments will stop at nothing to achieve their agenda. We must wake up.

This article take us on a journey through the final stages of organized destruction of indigenous Nile Valley Temples by Romans and eventually the Arabs. This is a part of what we must learn to overstand how to reclaim our minds and our futures.

Stemming The Assimilation of Alien Ideologies & Culture by Junious Ricardo Stanton

This is a picture of a collapsed pyramid in Sakkara I took while in Egypt 2007.

“The closing of the Egyptian temples by the order of Emperor Justinian in the fifth century (AD)
anticipated and symbolized the “2000 seasons” of the attempt to destroy African civilization. In the name of “the only true religion” or “higher civilization” or “progress” century after century has witnessed the dismantling, deforming and defaming of African institutions, a necessary precondition for the more perfect exploitation of African peoples and resources. This perennial onslaught has been waged not only by foreign invaders but also by African converts to alien cultures. This attack has been intense and unremitting, both on the African continent and among those Africans of the diaspora who were dragged into the Western Hemisphere.

The campaigns waged by the colonial usurpers and slave masters against African people stand out as the most brutal wars of biological and cultural genocide ever conducted. This is the context in which we must understand the crisis of institution building among modern African peoples. The most critical African institution, the family, has been a special target in this unrelenting warfare. The African family is the foundation of African culture and its destruction is the most passionate objective of what is called “Western Civilization.”- Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers from Intellectual Warfare p 270-71.

The assault upon mother Africa, her human and natural resources and the attempt to utterly destroy any vestiges of African culture has been going on now for well over four thousand years. At first during antiquity, foreign invaders weren’t numerous enough to totally overrun the Nile Valley civilizations. They came as migrants, then as conquers who while they did rape and intermarry our African women weren’t able to make much of a phenotypical or cultural impact or seriously alter the African flavor of the Nile Valley civilizations.

The vicious Romans who invaded the land and attempted to obliterate the ancient temples of the Mystery Schools and pedagogical traditions weren’t able to make a dent racially. It wasn’t until zealous Arabs invaded and overran Kmt (Ancient Egypt) in 680 AD that the racial composition began to change from totally African to an admixture of Caucasian and African. In order to undermine the indigenous African culture the invaders attempted to destroy the spiritual, educational and social foundations wherever they went.

The Romans, Arabs and later Eurasian and European invaders knew that to totally subjugate the African people they had to attack, discredit, mock and ultimately destroy the African cultural base by destroying the institutions that were the glue that held African societies together. The closing, sacking and defacing of the temples by the Romans, the desecration and marring of the pyramids and tombs by the Arabs and Europeans was their thrust to crush African institutions, symbols and supplant them with their political and cultural hegemony. If we are to recover our sanity, regain any sense of our authentic African selves and our cultural and political cohesiveness so we can mount an effective counter thrust to neutralize the Eurasians’ programs of menticide, genocide and culturally induced self-destruction we have to build our own self-perpetuating, values and lifestyle shaping institutions.

It is one thing to theorize about black empowerment it is another to move consciously, deliberately and effectively towards self-empowerment and ultimately to the point we can effectively wage warfare against our enemies.

How do we empower ourselves? First by thinking for ourselves. Energy and action follow thought. We must reclaim our minds and control how we think, what we think about, what we think is possible and what we desire to bring into reality. During an era of universal oppressive conformity, thinking for one’s self becomes an insurrectionist act!

However not to assert our natural inclination to be free self-actualizing human beings during times like these, is an open invitation to annihilation. So once we think for ourselves and embrace our experiences meaning we stop trying to forget the rape, castration, torture and terrorism we have been subjected to at the hands of Arabs and Europeans and we come to the logical conclusion our enemies are not going to alter their behaviors we must decide how we want to live or die. Do we want to acquiesce to the psychologically destructive and genocidal programs of our enemies or do we want to fight? To fight we must pass our experiences, our knowledge, our visions, aspiration and goals on, we must re-enforce them, validate, promulgate and promote them. We can do that one on one and that can be effective.

However to reach a greater number of people we must begin to impact the larger community and our heirs by building social networks and institutions. We must fashion our own means to tell our story, using our own inner resources to create uncompromising African centered media, newspapers, electronic means such as amateur radios, Internet Web sites, films and videos. We must create our own schools and pedagogical methods to teach both adults and children they have a God given responsibility to resist the destruction AmeriKKKa has in store for them. We must formulate our own centers for spiritual rejuvenation that do not propagate imperialistic alien ideologies.

We have a monumental task ahead of us. We have to love ourselves enough to believe we are worthy of life and being fully functioning human beings. This way of thinking is a radically liberating cognitive process which will engender empowerment on our part. However we can expect a heightened genocidal response from our enemies. We have to think for ourselves, work for ourselves, build for ourselves but live for ourselves, our ancestors and our progeny. We have to formulate ways to strengthen our families. We have to champion ways that promote, honor and support black marriages based upon social stability rather than the fickleness of infatuation, physical attraction, looks and materialism. We have to lock on to like minded black folks who grasp the need for and who are willing to establish co-operation, group solidarity and cohesion and sustained accomplishment to ensure African survival, empowerment, and revitalization. The types of institutions we create will be determined by our history, our current realities and what we need to do to restore our sanity, our will to thrive and ensure our ability to save the race. Never forget, that our enemies have their ongoing agenda for our demise.

The struggle intensifies!