Reclaiming Our Minds
The most potent
and beneficial thing one human being can do for another is be supportive of
them, encourage them to develop their personal talents, gifts, aptitudes,
persuade them to think for themselves and do what is in their best interests. To
say Africans in AmeriKKKa are the victims of constant coercion, intimidation,
bamboozlement and terror is an understatement. Everywhere we turn there is an
unceasing barrage of Eurocentric white supremacist propaganda targeting
non-Europeans on general and Africans in particular. Most of this propaganda is
channeled through the corporate owned mass media which we purchase, watch and
internalize. One way to reassert our self-determination, our humanity and
resistance to the newest wave of AmeriKKKan racist, fascism and international
imperialism is by turning off the media, or at least become more discerning and
picky about what we allow into our homes and lives. The news is anything but
objective! It reflects the view point of the ruling elites, what they want the
masses to believe about the world. For example the media still tells us
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a lone gun man named Lee Harvey
Oswald who fired a single bullet. Since 9-11 we’ve been spoon fed the nonsense
that a millionaire Saudi Arabian, an AmeriKKKan hating Muslim fanatic living in
a cave in Afghanistan masterminded 9-11? Stop
falling for the okie-doke!
In an essay entitled Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything by Tim O’Shea recapped the history of how manufactured reality, PR, and advertising have been used to deceive and manipulate the masses into doing the bidding of the ruling elites. He shares how the opinion shaping and reality structuring media apparatus manipulates us. "As the science of mass control evolved PR firms developed further guidelines for effective copy.
Here
are some of the gems:
1
demonize the attacked party by labeling and name calling
2
Speak in glittering generalities using emotionally
positive words
3
When covering something up, don’t use plain English,
stall for time, distract
4
get endorsements from celebrities, churches, sports
figures, street people, anyone who has no expertise in the subject at hand
5
The plain folks ruse: us billionaires are just like you
6
When minimizing outrage, don’t say anything memorable
7
When minimizing outrage, point out the benefits of what
just happened
8
When minimizing outrage, avoid moral issues.
Keep this list. Start watching for these techniques. Start by paying attention to the television and newspapers.” -Tim O’Shea
O’Shea points out that most of what we think is news is actually cunningly disguised PR, biased and one sided material written on behalf of the PR firm’s clients formatted to look like news. When it comes to dealing with African people the same techniques are used. So called “experts” are trotted out spouting and parroting racist and denigrating ideas about blacks that have been formulated in their white supremacist think tanks, universities and propaganda mills. That is why whenever we assert our humanity, raise issues germane to our struggle for liberation or attempt to embark upon a course of action in our best interests we are attacked on all fronts using many of the techniques O’Shea mentions above.
Take for example,
the Afrocentric movement. Dr. Molefi Kete Asante and others proposed and
encouraged us to see ourselves as dynamic movers and shakers in the development
of humanity and world history rather than the marginalized status white
supremacist Eurocentric society has consigned us. Immediately their positions
were attacked by whites because to allow Africans to define ourselves as central
figures in human development threatens the mental hegemony and power
relationships Europeans hold over us. Our African scholars/warriors were
immediately demonized, branded as pseudo-intellectuals and reverse racists?!
This is nothing new they did the same thing to David Walker, Ida B. Wells,
Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad. We are in an all out war for the
minds, souls and bodies of not only African people everywhere but for the whole
planet! Each one of us is a potential warrior. That is why our enemies are so
hell bent on totally destroying us. We have to resist and fight back We have to
galvanize our forces, develop our own tactics and weapons of psychological
warfare to prepare our people to survive, thrive and win. We can best protect
ourselves by limiting the amount of media we allow into our homes, by developing
our own liberation oriented media, by teaching our community the power of media
and images, how to use media to tell our story, project life affirming values
and wage effective counter measures against materialistic, Eurocentric, white
supremacist propaganda.
Junious
Ricardo Stanton produce and host a Internet
radio program titled The Digital
Underground which airs live on Sundays from 12 pm- 2 pm eastern standard time on www.NewBlackCity.com
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