SLAVERY WASN'T A BLACK THING-2 UPDATE!!

There are at least 2 reproductions of America's first slave owner in the 1650s. Anthony Johnson is referred to as an Angolan.

There's another picture,purportedly of the same man. IMO,the dress is too modern to be of the 1600s. Anyway there are deeper matters to be looked into.

New info has come to light. Whether or not either is an accurate reproduction of America's first known slave holder there are certain inconsistencies in the official history wherein he's referred to as an ex Angolan slave.The trouble is according to the same accepted sources, during the 1600s Angola's slaves were overwhelmingly destined for Brazil,the Caribbean,Europe and S.E Latin America. The implications are as unbelievable to a history student as they are obvious to the real researcher.
It is increasingly likely he was one of the losing Black Catholic survivors of the 30 years war that embroiled the whole of Europe in the mid 1600s. (Yes,there were European blacks from as far back as the Neolithic era even beyond circa 40,000 bc settled as far as the Caucus mountains in S.Russia. Nowadays they're referred to as slaves and/or freedmen but they always existed and were part and parcel of Europe.) This war from 1620-1650 began in modern day Germany,the Holy Roman Empire between adherents of the new Protestant faith and followers of traditional Catholicism,many of whom were among the original black Europeans.
Returning to Anthony,his son later owned eleven Irish slaves. By 1700 there were 6000 white and 2000 black slaves.The transatlantic crossing was even worse than that of black slaves. Here's an excerpt from a German immigrant diary in the 1750s.

Children from one to seven years rarely survive the voyage; and many a time parents are compelled to see their children miserably suffer and die from hunger, thirst, and sickness, and then to see them cast into the water. I witnessed such misery in no less than thirty-two children in our ship, all of whom were thrown into the sea. The parents grieve all the more since their children find no resting place in the earth, but are devoured by the monsters of the sea. It is a notable fact that children who have not yet had the measles or smallpox generally get them on board the ship, and mostly die of them.

 http://www.saveyourheritage.com/slavery.htm
Early slave holding patterns continued and by the civil war blacks were actually larger slave owners per capita than whites.According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.
The census also determined that there were fewer than 400,000 individuals who owned slaves . Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves). In fact Duke University professor professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.
Despite decades of Hollywood Mandingo/Roots type propaganda both black and white masters shared the same conditions with their charges; be it in house, helping planting in the field or workshop carpentry & ironmongery ,and owned between 1 and 5 slaves. The few individuals who owned 50 or more slaves were confined to the top one percent, and have been defined as slave magnates.
Of this small subset there was a significant number of blacks including 6 in Louisiana ,the largest of them the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation. who possessed over 150. The non racial pattern of slave owning was part of a socioeconomic system that allowed blacks upward mobility in slave owning America-it was such a successful system 65,000 blacks volunteered and  fought for Confederate forces.

 "When you eliminate the black Confederate soldier, you've eliminated the history of the South." quoted from General Robert E. Lee, in 1864. 

n late August 1868, General Nathan Bedford Forrest gave an interview to a reporter. Forrest said of the black men who served with him:


...these boys stayed with me...and better Confederates did not live. Black Confederate Nim Wilkes once said:

I was in every battle General Forrest fought after leaving Columbia...I was mustered out at Gainesville (Alabama,May 1865)

http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/confederaterebels/forgotten.html

   

 The Caribbean had many numbers of Irish slaves. Jamaica was typical. "Surplus poor," and hated Catholics were considered "inside out niggers" and 80% didn't survive their first year on the cane fields since they were anyway undervalued compared to their black counterparts.In Trinidad Fr Anthony De Verteuil (Seven Slaves and Slavery: Trinidad 1777-1838) estimated  that at least 60 per cent of the owners were coloured, and concluded "with certainty" that at least half to two-thirds of the slave-owners in Trinidad were coloured and that they owned about 20 per cent of the slaves.
Dear Reader,things are never as black and white as the guardians of history would have us believe.

http://karanjazplace.blogspot.com/2012/10/slavery-wasnt-black-thing.html

EX-CIA DIRECTOR WILLIAM COLBY'S SON,CARL COLBY AND BOB MARLEY'S CANCER DEATH

Bob Marley died in 1981 of cancer that started in an unusual  place-in his toe. The world's almanac of truth,bka wikipedia informs us "In July 1977, Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a football wound on his right hallux (big toe). Marley refused amputation, citing worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafari belief that the body must be "whole".....The cancer then spread to Marley's brain, lungs, liver, and stomach. After playing two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of his fall 1980 Uprising Tour, he collapsed while jogging in NYC's Central Park.....While flying home from Germany to Jamaica for his final days, Marley became ill, and landed in Miami for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11, 1981 at the age of 36."
If only that were the whole truth but things are rarely if ever so simple. Let's look at Bob's political background  and examine some truths. At independence in 1962 Jamaica like nearly all the other newly independent colonies was little more than a Caribbean island labour dormitory for Britain. Entire Kingston neighbourhoods emigrated to fill low wage jobs in the British transport ,construction& health sectors.

Like all ex colonies the nation was destined to stumble along the path of preordained fiscal conservatism,a low wage primary product exporter like most of the 3rd world,in this case bauxite til the early 70s when the PNP under Michael Manley won power. His party had 2 main goals:
 -reducing the rigid class structures
-gaining the support of both the traditional Christian community and the long neglected  Rastafarian community.
The electorate responded positively and the PNP won with nearly 60% of the vote as even Manley's critics conceded that his popular wide ranging social reforms were the  clincher,though his plans to increase the contribution of bauxite to the economy identified him to the Global Powers That Be as a trouble maker.  He helped develop the International Bauxite Association to prevent price gouging and improve returns by processing the bauxite and exporting alumina. He became an active participant in developing world issues speaking out on apartheid and the importance of the Non Aligned Movement as a Cold War counterweight.

The social consciousness of genuine Rastafarianism,found much in common with PDP policies and the 2 were in a mutually beneficial relationship for much of the Manley years-indeed it is said,with a large element of truth, that he mainstreamed Rastafaris. Soon the two,were inextricably linked
At this point the World agent of the Anglo PTB,the CIA began supplying guns and cash to their proxy,Edward Seaga of the JLP. Death squads turned the once sleepy island into a near Sri Lanka. Tourism plummeted and unemployment rose as visitors and investors like wise avoided Jamaica.

Manley’s relationship with Bob Marley also gained him support and admiration with many Jamaicans. Manley politics and Marley’s music were undeniably integrated during the rule of the PNP, with Manley and Marley even living as neighbors on Hope Road. During the first four years of the Manley regime, Marley gave many free performances as the request of the PNP — two of the most significant being the "Smile Jamaica Concert" in 1976 and the "One Love Peace Concert" in 1978. Just prior to the Smile Jamaica Concert, Marley, his wife Rita, and his manager Don Taylor, were shot by gunmen at Bob’s home on Hope Road. Many believe that this shooting was carried out by Jamaica Labour Party supporters although no concrete evidence has ever been brought forth to support this belief.  The One Love Peace Concert was marked by Marley bringing Manley and Seaga, the JLP’s leader, onstage with him and joining their hands in a sign of peace. Manley and Marley certainly had a growing impact on one another.


Just before the 1976 concert after the attempted murders an incident that many believe was actually the cancer poisoning occurred. Security after the shooting was considerably tightened with machete wielding Rastas screening all callers.A documentary 'film crew' was allowed access to shoot. One,who was remembered by reliable witnesses not to be a cameraman insisting on presenting a pair of cowboy boots to Bob Marley.This is what happened next according to everyone on the scene:“He put his foot in and said, ‘Ow!’ A friend got in there… he said, ‘let’s [get] in the boot, and he pulled a length of copper wire out – it was embedded in the boot.”

The same witness swears when Bob broke the same toe playing soccer and it never healed a thorough scan showed it was cancerous and had metastized throughout the body. He ignored doctors orders and went on touring and recording. Bob seemed to know his time was up and accepted it. His best work was done in this period. In 1980 he had cancer of the brain lung and liver. He attempted a last ditch holistic treataent with an eccentric German Dr.Josef Issels,who greeted him on arrival thusly:  “I hear that you’re one of the most dangerous black men in the world.” 
Marley suffered  a strange regimen of exercise, vaccines [some illegal], ozone injections, vitamins and trace minerals and what some called torture. Long needles were plunged through Marley’s stomach through to the spine. The patient-victim was told that this was part of his “treatment.” The torture continued until Marley foundered on the threshold of death.
His mother suffered the sight of just one such 'treatment,'that makes one wonder how Marley must have suffered. One time I went with Nesta to the clinic, and we settled down in a treatment room. Issels came in and announced to Nesta, ‘I’m going to give you a needle.’” Dr. Issels “plunged the needle straight into Nesta’s navel right down to the syringe. [Marley] grunted and winced. He could only lie there helplessly, writhing on the table, trying his best to hide his pain. ‘Jesus Christ,’ I heard myself mumbling.” Issels yanked out the needle and strolled casually out of the room. Marley was left groaning with pain. “
When he died on May 11 1981 he weighed an astonishingly skeletal 82 pounds. While Jamaicans,Caribbeans and the wider World wept the agents of the Lords of Misrule,the CIA shed no tears. A cultural icon who had helped stymie their neocolonial plans had died;and so had his sociopolitical commentaries of upliftment.
(Dear Reader,bear in mind the wave of cancer that afflicted every 'controversial' Latin American president recently. Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Hugo Chavez, and recently Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina were given this diagnosis,almost simultaneously;a near statistical impossibility.)

It was later learned the name of the 'kind' hearted cameraman was Carl Colby,son of serving CIA chief William Colby. Colby jr,himself somehow popped up in the OJ case. As neighbour of murdered Nicole Simpson's he and his wife testified OJ frequently threatened her. This pretrial testimony was instrumental in the filing of murder charges.

After the shooting death of Peter Tosh in 1987,true reggae was all but dead-it stumbled on for a while but  morphed into pure commercialism-by the 90s a dancehall version appeared. 'Artistes' singing about sex,prostitutes,dope,gangsters and killing all interspersed with self praise. Below is an example of one of its derivatives called 'daggering.' It simulates sex on stage and is the lead cause of broken penises in the Caribbean;in fact that's why the Jamaican government banned it.
Babylon has won.

This is an extreme example of skin bleaching. Yes,among today's best known inheritors of what was once reggae is an enthusiastic self hater as this before and after photo of Jamaican dance hall artiste,Vybz Kartel. In the heyday of Reggae,Rastas wouldn't have tolerated sight nor sound of such pathological idiocy.

This passapassa is now what the genre has become. A once deliberately socially conscious music form has degenerated to displays of soft porn outtakes of idle ignorant juvenile minds. 

Now,at least his music lives on;the message is definitely forgotten.