TEI Enlightener – July 8th, 2003 Broadcast Transmission President Bush and His African Political Safari The most ironic thing we have seen in awhile was the sight of American President George W. Bush with his wife along with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade – with his Caucasian wife walking through the streets of Senegal – an African nation. President Bush's words were very eloquent, however they are empty words that represent nothing more than lip service to place a positive humanitarian spin on what amounts to a politically choreographed safari on the African continent. The real Bush is against what many refer to as Affirmative Action, he refuses to meet with the key leaders within the Black community who wield influence and have plans for economic development for the African continent. The real Bush has no plans to counter the double-digit unemployment that plagues the Black community. The Africans appeared not to be fooled and no one else should be fooled either. According to the New York Times, the motorcade that carried Bush "passed hundreds of Senegalese people, most of whom "showed little emotion." Of course we all know that the speech in which Bush allegedly "denounced" slavery, would not have had any invited guests who would have protested Bush and his appearance or attempted to raise any real issues that plague the millions suffering on the African continent. Keep in mind however, it is not up to George W. Bush to solve the problem of the Africans on the African continent. It is the responsibility of the descendants of its ancestors all across the globe. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Race and Sports and Genetics – No Double Standard The manager of the Chicago Cubs professional baseball team Dusty Baker said something that everyone knows is correct. It is a well-established fact that there are biological differences that exist in different races of people. All men are created equal however all men are not created equally. Some are made to excel others. Apparently we at the TEI clearly see the world through more of a racial prism than many others, however, we fail to see why there was so much controversy generated over what was said. There are many – mostly in the media – who claim that a double standard exists citing the comments of Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder as an example. They maintain that if Dusty Baker was a white man, he would be fired immediately as was Jimmy “The Greek” for comments seen by many as similar. You may or may not recall that Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder made comments regarding the powerful bodies of Black people while making note of the differences in the muscular structure of Blacks and whites. He was summarily fired and branded as a racist, not by Blacks, but by Liberal whites. It is the position of the TEI that that Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder should not have been fired for simply stating an opinion, whether you agree with him or not. Jimmy "The Greek" was a sports better and sports analyst who rose to an influential level in the sports world. Dusty Baker is the manager of a baseball team. These individuals are far removed from those who influence policy and shape the minds of society. People of the world do not look to these people to form their attitudes on race. They base their racial attitudes on their experiences and what they are taught. It is an overreaction by the media and should be kept in proper context. With all that being said, Baker's comments were right on the money and we are extremely glad that he did not backpedal, back track or recant stating that he was misquoted and taken out of context. In fact, today when asked about his previous comments, he again stood his ground and then added some livelier statements almost certain to be considered controversial. Surely this will incense those who are calling for his dismissal. At last, someone who says what he means and means what he says. He spoke truth. He isn’t the first and won’t be the last to be persecuted for speaking truth. Only those who are intellectually lazy fail to seek truth. Only those who are intellectually dishonest ignore truth when it is presented to them, even if it indicts them or chips away at the foundation of what they previously held as truth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alleged White Supremacist Goes on a Shooting Rampage In Mississippi, a Caucasian Lockheed Martin Worker with White-Supremacist view murders several Black workers. Co-workers stated that it was widely known that he held animosity against Blacks and had made previous threats. This time, apparently he carried them out. More to follow as more facts come forth. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We will have more to say on all of the above-mentioned topics within the next few days and explore all of these topics in detail during the next few broadcasts. Continue to follow the news and look beneath the surface of what is presented as truth. These are just primers. As a service to you, here are the words of American President George W. Bush – presented for you to form your own opinions. Sincere, insincere, misguided, right on point? Let us know. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bush: Voice of Hope and Conscience Will Not Be Silenced GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (CNN) --President Bush visited an infamous former slave-trading outpost Tuesday on an island off the West African nation of Senegal, the first stop on his five-nation tour of Africa. The following is a transcript of Bush's remarks during a ceremony on Goree Island: BUSH: Mr. President and Madam first lady, distinguished guests, and residents of Goree Island, citizens of Senegal, I'm honored to begin my visit to Africa in your beautiful country. For hundreds of years on this island, peoples of different continents met in fear and cruelty. Today, we gather in respect and friendship, mindful of past wrongs and dedicated to the advance of human liberty. At this place, liberty and life were stolen and sold. Human beings were delivered and sorted and weighed and branded with the marks of commercial enterprises and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return. One of the largest migrations of history was also one of the greatest crimes of history. Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea. Some refused to eat, preferring death to any future their captors might prefer for them. Some who were sick were thrown over the side. Some rose up in violent rebellion, delivering the closest thing to justice on a slave ship. Many acts of defiance and bravery are recorded. Countless others we will never know. Those who lived to see land again were displayed, examined and sold at auctions across nations in the Western Hemisphere. They entered society indifferent to their anguish and made prosperous by their unpaid labor. There was a time in my country's history where one in every seven human beings was the property of another. In law, they were regarded only as articles of commerce, having no right to travel or to marry or to own possessions. Because families were often separated, many were denied even the comfort of suffering together. For 250 years the captives endured an assault on their culture and their dignity. The spirit of Africans in America did not break. Yet the spirit of their captors was corrupted. Small men took on the powers and airs of tyrants and masters. Years of unpunished brutality and bullying and rape produced a dullness and hardness of conscience. Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice. A republic founded on equality for all became a prison for millions. And yet in the words of the African proverb, no fist is big enough to hide the sky. All of the generations oppressed under the laws of man could not crush the hope of freedom and defeat the purposes of God. In America, enslaved Africans learned the story of the exodus from Egypt and set their own hearts on a promised land of freedom. Enslaved Africans discovered a suffering savior and found he was more like themselves than their masters. Enslaved Africans heard the ringing promises of the Declaration of Independence and asked the self-evident question, " Then why not me?" In the era of America's founding, a man named Olaudah Equiano was taken in bondage to the New World. He witnessed all of slavery's cruelties, the ruthless and the petty. He also saw beyond the slave-holding piety of a time to a higher standard of humanity. "God tells us," wrote Equiano, "that the oppressor and the oppressed are both in his hands. And if these are not the poor, the broken-hearted, the blind, the captive, the bruised which our Savior speaks of, who are they?" Down through the years, African-Americans have upheld the ideals of America by exposing laws and habits contradicting those ideals. The rights of African-Americans were not the gift of those in authority. Those rights were granted by the author of life and regained by the persistence and courage of African-Americans themselves. Among those Americans was Phillis Wheatley, who was dragged from her home here in West Africa in 1761 at the age of 7. In my country she became a poet and the first noted black author in our nation's history. Phillis Wheatley said, "In every human breast God has implanted a principle which we call love of freedom. It is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance." That deliverance was demanded by escaped slaves named Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, educators named Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DeBois and ministers of the Gospel named Leon Sullivan and Martin Luther King Jr. At every turn, the struggle for equality was resisted by many of the powerful. And some have said we should not judge their failures by the standards of a later time, yet in every time there were men and women who clearly saw this sin and called it by name. We can fairly judge the past by the standards of President John Adams, who called slavery "an evil of colossal magnitude." We can discern eternal standards in the deeds of William Wilberforce and John Quincy Adams and Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abraham Lincoln. These men and women, black and white, burned with a zeal for freedom and they left behind a different and better nation. Their moral vision caused Americans to examine our hearts, to correct our Constitution and to teach our children the dignity and equality of every person of every race. By a plan known over to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America free. My nation's journey toward justice has not been easy and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with segregation, and many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all. In the struggle of the centuries, America learned that freedom is not the possession of one race. We know with equal certainty that freedom is not the possession of one nation. This belief in the natural rights of man, this conviction that justice should reach wherever the sun passes, leads America into the world. With the power and resources given to us, the United States seeks to bring peace where there is conflict, hope where there's suffering, and liberty where there's tyranny. And these commitments bring me and other distinguished leaders of my government across the Atlantic to Africa. African peoples are now writing your own story of liberty. Africans have overcome the arrogance of colonial powers, overcome the cruelty of apartheid, and made it clear that dictatorship is not the future of any nation on this continent. In the process, Africa has produced heroes of liberation, leaders like Mandela, Senghor, Nkrumah, Kenyatta, Selassie and Sadat. And many visionary African leaders, such asmy friend, have grasped the power of economic and political freedom to lift whole nations and put forth bold plans for Africa's development. Because Africans and Americans share a belief in the values of liberty and dignity, we must share in the labor of advancing those values. In a time of growing commerce across the globe, we will ensure that the nations of Africa are full partners in the trade and prosperity of the world. Against the waste and violence of civil war, we will stand together for peace. Against the merciless terrorists who threaten every nation, we will wage an unrelenting campaign of justice. Confronted with desperate hunger, we will answer with human compassion and the tools of human technology. In the face of spreading disease, we will join with you in turning the tides against AIDS in Africa. We know that these challenges can be overcome because history moves in the direction of justice. The evils of slavery were accepted and unchanged for centuries, yet eventually the human heart would not abide them. There is a voice of conscience and hope in every man and woman that will not be silenced, what Martin Luther King called a certain kind of fire that no water could put out. That flame could not be extinguished at the Birmingham (Alabama) jail. It could not be stamped out at Robben Island (South Africa) prison. It was seen in the darkness here at Goree Island, where no chain could bind the soul. This untamed fire of justice continues to burn in the affairs of man, and it lights the way before us. May God bless you all. Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/08/bush.slavery.transcript ------------------------------------------------- © Copyright 2003 by The Truth Establishment Institute This broadcast or parts of it may be redistributed, copied, reproduced or posted on the web for non-commercial use only, provided that the Truth Establishment Institute is cited as the source of information. ------------------------------------------------- The Truth Establishment Institute (TEI) P.O. 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