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Alicia Banks
Eloquent Fury

Rainbow Saboteurs

Racism is in vogue in America. From Propsition 209 to killer cops, the racial lines are becoming more visible and more vicious. So, it is no surprise that those who seek to escape such madness would do so by any means necessary. Some have chosen to use racial labels (via the cenus) as "white flags" on the battlefields of the racial wars that loom.

Tiger "I AM NOT BLACK" Woods has made racial denial chic. White supremacy is ancient and global. Those who embrace every genetic blood tie, expressly to dilute African blood, are white supremacists. Ever notice how Tiger NEVER says he is not Thai? Mixed race persons typically embrace the race of the parent who is NOT Black.

NO ONE is racially pure!!! We are ALL "multi-ethnic". So why has the alleged inaccuracy of racial labels suddenly become a new and urgent issue? Because new schemes require new tools. Those who embrace new labels are CO-CONSPIRATORS of racist neocons who fear a Black planet.

Affirmative action is MANDATORY for affirmative discrimination. Capitalism fashions a permanent underclass. Proposition 209 secures the permanency of that underclass. There is no better way to increase a pending white minority than to begin stealing numbers from the Black population.

Every human action is political. Everyone has the right to identify their race as they choose. But to allow neocons to tailor that choice into a political noose, to be used to further lynch Black America, is EVIL!!! The census dictates how federal funds will be spent. What is already unfairly distributed, racially, will become even more wrongly disbursed.

Tiger and his rainbow ilk are willing agents in a plot to whiten America's populace on paper. At a time when whites desperately seek to boost their tallies, new racial labels on the census are ideal tools. Such sinister numerical schemes are fatal for Black America, economically, socially, and politically.

This plot will lead to a multilevel, color coded caste system akin to that of South Africa. Racist mayors and congresspersons already enforce a covert apartheid upon Black citizens. New racial labels are being enthusiastically welcomed by such racist fascists.

There are many things that new labels will NEVER do. They will never make Tiger Woods safe at a KKK rally. They will never stop killer cops from bashing in brown multi-ethnic skulls during traffic stops. And, they will never slow the flow of the New World Order.

On plantations, "house niggers" embraced their special labels. Their white blood even won them favors from the masters they revered. Yet, they were STILL SLAVES. They were slaves whom masters respected least, because they betrayed their own. Even specially labeled persons are oppressed, STILL.

History repeats itself. Truth is eternal. A regal warrior and griot named Malcolm X stated: (1963, "Message To The Grass Roots", Malcolm X Speaks) "When you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong, what do you do? You integrate it with cream. You make it weak. But, if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot. It becomes cool. It used to be strong. It becomes weak. It used to wake you up. Now, it puts you to sleep..."

Those who seek to re-label races seek to weaken Black political power. They are using their multi-racial blood as a political sedative; a ploy to increase white supremacy. I advise them to wake up before we all lose this genocidal game of colors.

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