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I've just seen this very interesting article about slavery misconceptions. I know that in school, children used to be taught that the enslaved were docile and "happy on the plantation". But does this belief still persist today? Please post your thoughts in the comments section below.
I am delighted that Brother Tony Warner of London Black History Walks will be joining me as my guest on my Success Strategies podcast/online radio show on 4th March. Please join us for this show, as I am sure he will be dropping many, many fascinating Black history facts and telling us about his new book, Black History Walks in London Volume 1.
The recent death of the late British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, has caused many to reflect on the legacy of violence of the British Empire. The Empire, and the violence associated with it, continued into the reign of Elizabeth II. Millions of people in Africa, India and many other places were on the receiving end of this violence, and had their homes destroyed and their lives disrupted. Many lost their lands and their livestock, as the British settlers took them by force. And many lost their lives.
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One important question which arises at this time is, how much did the late monarch actually know about what went on? Churchill is quoted as saying, in the early 20th century, that it was a good thing the House of Commons don't know what they were doing [in Kenya]. "If they did, our East Africa programme would be under a cloud".
Kenyans had written to Parliament many times, but received no response. For more about this, see the documentary, Kenya, White Man's Country.
Check out this piece on Wangari Maathi, The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees. As a child growing up in Kenya, she saw the colonial settlers chop down trees in order to grow cash crops such as tea. Later on after colonisation effectively ended, she saw Kenyans do the same thing in order to survive.
At that time, girls were rarely educated, but Maathi's mother made sure she got an education.
I found this piece very inspiring, and I trust that you will, too.
Trees connect us to something elemental in nature, and to our own elemental nature.
Go here for Coronavirus Resources. Above is a
very interesting panel discussion about how we are being lied to by
the media and the government, this film has a very strong unity
message. We are being turned against each other – those who have
chosen to have the jab and those of us who have not. We need to show
unity within our community. Even though we have made different
choices, that is not a reason to fall out. We still need to have
unity.
Dr.
Christina Parks, a cellular and molecular biologist, says that a lot
of information is being censored. The science is not being
allowed to be shared.
Go here for my previous blog about her: What the Media Won’t Tell You. She is showing amazing courage, knowledge and understanding.
That video was taken down, as YouTube claimed that Dr Boyce Watkins
and Dr. Parks were disseminating false medical information. But when
Dr. Watkins explained to them that Dr. Parks is a cellular and
molecular biologist, they put the video back up.
Other
panellists include Maj Toure, Jay Morrison and Tee Khaaliq.
The
points made by the panel members are in bold below. The
non-emboldened comments are my own. I have not recorded every
comment here.
Point
1: Dr. Parks says the cancelling and the censoring tells us
everything. See below for Point 3: Media manipulation.
Point
2: Dr. Parks says the vaccine does NOT prevent transmission. You
can still have a high viral load and still be spreading it after
being vaccinated. You can still have the virus and have no symptoms
Point
3: Dr. Parks says natural immunity is much better than a vaccine
because it creates a response to the whole of the virus, so the
immune system recognises the virus when it mutates and creates more
variants. The immune system recognises this, whereas the vaccine
only recognises part of the virus [i.e.,
the spike protein]. The immune system gives a fuller, more
robust response than the vaccine does.
What
she does not mention in this video is that the way we get natural
immunity is to catch the virus, and the virus is killing people. So
this is a risky strategy. Not arguing with the factual information,
however.
Point
4: Media manipulation: anyone who speaks against the mainstream
narrative is censored. Isn’t censorship illegal in the U.S.?
Doesn’t the Constitution guarantee freedom of expression?
Apparently not.
Point
5: Tee Khaaliq says: This situation is creating unnecessary
division among Black people. There is a lot of shaming of other
African Americans who speak out against the jab (as we can no longer
use the v-word). See censorship above. We need to be bringing on
the dissenters and the dissenting views.
Point
6: Dr. Parks says: Black people produce twice as many antibodies as
white people in response to RNA viruses as well as certain jabs that
contain the RNA.
The
vaccine induces a hyper-inflammatory response. In Africa, as it is a
very sunny climate, the sun killed all the RNA viruses, so we did not
need the same type of defences as Europeans. We can take care of the
co-morbidity. A drug can control metabolic syndrome in Black people
and has been used as an anti-malarial for 70 years. Inflammation can
be caused by metabolic syndrome. This drug can control metabolic
syndrome. Obesity can be driven by inflammation. This biochemistry
needs to be addressed.
Michael
Jackson said it: They don’t really care about us.
This
drug would reduce the underlying predisposition to the inflammation
of Covid in our communities. Yet, we are being told it is unsafe.
But they have been giving it out in Africa for 70 years.
Dr.
Parks is banned from most media. She is dropping science, but most
people don’t get to hear it because she is being heavily censored.
This
was an absolutely fascinating discussion. Dr. Parks has given us a
lot of technical information. It might be a little hard to follow,
but this is information we need to address serious health issues in
our communities.
On the first Saturday of every month, we are here to answer your questions on the Success Strategies show.
Whether you are celebrating Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's or Kwanzaa, you will most likely be dealing with holiday stress.
This episode was so much fun to do! The Three Black Moms are sisters - literally, as they have the same parents. Their focus is on family and the warmth of their connection shines through.
Three Black Moms dish the dirt on how to find a balance between doing what needs to be done, and staying relaxed and calm. And what happens when children are in the mix?
As I have said previously, Harriet Tubman has always been an inspiration for me, from the time my mother first told me about her when I was a little girl.
The above film gives us a glimpse of how amazing and remarkable she was.
Mercy Makinde was married in Nigeria at 17 to a man older than her own
father. She eventually managed to escape from her abusive marriage. Mercy then founded her charity, The Amazing Amazon Initiative, which helps other women in similar situations to build new lives.
