Now Sanford Police claim that George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin was actually the victim.  There are now reports that the 17 year old rail skinny teenager, who weighed more than 100 pounds less than his killer, had somehow attacked Zimmerman, 28, thrown him to the ground, blooded his nose and smashed the back of his head on the ground.This information comes out one month after Martin’s killing. It was supposedly passed on by Sanford Police to State investigators. But nowhere does it definitively say that the information was gathered by Sanford Police from Zimmerman. As The New York Times reports it,  the Sanford Police said it was “consistent with the information provided to the state attorney’s office by the Police Department.”Was this information obtained by police at the scene or provided long after the incident to police by Zimmerman? In other words is it mis-information? Is it real evidence? There is reason for skepticism.

By some convenient coincidence the “information” is suddenly available at the same time that people who want to tarnish the dead boy’s reputation are disseminating information about his brief suspension from school at the time of his killing–that some traces of marijuana had been found in his belonging.

As if this in itself would then somehow justify his murder. Sign of desperation or the same pattern of racist stereotyping we have seen all along involving this case? Are the authorities in Sanford with the rest of us in the 21st century yet?

The Sanford Police are not credible. Why wasn’t Zimmerman interviewed at the scene of the shooting on the night of the shooting?

Why wasn’t DNA evidence captured from Zimmerman if indeed, as his defense now contends, he was the victim of an attack from Trayvon that left him bloodied?

Why was he allowed to return to his home with his weapon which was never seized for ballistic testing?

If indeed Zimmerman had been assaulted and wounded by Martin, why has the Sanford Police Department been secretive since the killing instead of quickly publicizing this fact on the night of the incident?

After all, the Police Department must have been concerned. It had not yet recovered from negative publicity following the near beating to death of a Black homeless man by the son of a police officer which had resulted in no charges and no arrests.

So why does it seem that the credible and fates of the Sanford Police as well as Zimmerman’s now seem so closely aligned?

Could it be that Zimmerman was actually coached by the police about what to say and he now has something on them?

The police may not be incompetent—they may actually be culpable and that possibility can’t be ruled out. How was it possible that they could not have known the identity of the dead boy for three days when his cell phone was available to them?

Had it not been for the power of Social Media, which has opened this case before the entire world, the police would still be mute. Now they should actually shut up and allow the FBI to take overall control, working with State authorities.

Zimmerman himself is not credible. He had racist animus towards his victim and referred to him as a “coon” though he didn’t even know the boy. It was enough for Zimmerman that Trayvon was Black to make him worthy of hatred, scorn, and evidently death.

Forget about the one Black friend who has been paraded before multiple television shows to claim that Zimmerman isn’t racist. Disgraced New York Police Officer Justine Wolpe, who sodomized Abner Louima with a plunger, had a Black girl friend.

Listen carefully to Zimmerman’s 911 call to the dispatcher. This is not the call of an individual who is concerned about or afraid of  a possible criminal in the neighborhood, otherwise he would not have pursued the boy when he was told to back off by the dispatcher.

This is a call from someone trying to pre-establish an alibi. Zimmerman used the standard 101 racist stereotypes about Black suspects while speaking to the dispatcher. He wanted the person on the other end of the line to visualize a dangerous, Black criminal in a hoodie, with his hands on his waist, and who was on drugs. Zimmerman wanted a witness; even though the dispatcher wasn’t there and couldn’t see, Zimmerman knew that his words –a White man describing a Black “criminal”– would suffice to conjure up the image of a criminal.

He was now inoculated from any negative consequences from the action he was prepared to then undertake– including the killing of Trayvon. It never occurred to Zimmerman that all the attributes he had described could actually be associated with someone who had not intentions to commit any crime that night. He figured that even if it turned out Trayvon was not a criminal, he could be excused since he possessed the attributes associated with a criminal in Zimmerman’s world;  Black man wearing hoodie with hands on waist.

A witness has already said Sanford Police did not seem interested in that witness’ information when it appeared not to match the narrative preferred by the police and Zimmerman.

As for the so called bloody nose and the head wound who is to say these wounds, if they do exist, could not have been manufactured after the fact by Zimmerman with assistance from certain quarters?

If Zimmerman is engaged in a cover up, Sanford Police are also involved. If Police are engaged in a coverup,  Zimmerman too is playing his part.

Any person who may have also witnessed the incident or who may have information not yet publicized can contact this newspaper at (212) 481-7745 or milton@blackstarnews.com

“Speaking Truth To Empower.”

The United Nations ‘s Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

March 25^th 2012 is the day designated by the United Nations for Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.  Radio interviews from Ghanaians, Jamaicans, and Brazilians will be broadcast by U.N. Radio.

These interviews can be accessed and downloaded by going to Transatlantic Slave Trade Remembrance

http://bit.ly/yWhcMn.

One can only speculate as to why the descendants of the Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in North America were not interviewed.  Could it be that the UN tore down the Human Rights components that would have assisted Afrodescendants to achieve our Human Rights and lead to our attaining Recognition and put Afrodescendants on the road to Reparations?

2012 SAVIOUR’S DAY ITINERARY

Saturday, February 18, 2012 at Muhammad’s Mosque

Jr. Saviour’s Day Banquet 7:00 – 11:00 p.m

Monday, February 20, 2012 at Muhammad’s Mosque

F.O.I. Call-Out 8:00 – 10:00 p.m

Thursday, February 23, 2012 at Muhammad’s Mosque

G.C.C. Call-Out 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Friday, February 24, 2012 at Muhammad’s Mosque

Presentation: Exodus Plans B & C 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
MGT Exhibition 8:00 – 8:20 p.m
State of the Nation Address 8:20 – 9:30 p.m.
Bean Pie Contest 9:30 – 10:15 p.m.
Meet and Greet 10:15 – 11:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Muhammad’s Mosque
Decorate cars 8:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Motorcade 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Family Fun Day 12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Pristine Chapel
Queen’s Coronation, Doors Open 6:30 p.m.
Queen’s Coronation Ceremony 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Coronation Ball Banquet 8:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Sunday, February 26, 2012 at Muhammad’s Mosque
Saviour’s Day Address, Doors Open 1:00 p.m.
Saviour’s Day Address 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Honorable Silis Muhammad: “Ephiphany – This Is Your Life”

In the name of MASTER FARD MUHAMMAD, Almighty Allah, to Whom all holy praises are forever due. In loving memory of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the last and greatest

Messenger of Allah, peace forever be upon Him. And, in the name of their Spiritual Son, the

Honorable Silis Muhammad, Who is the manifestation of Allah, Truth, in our midst.

As-Salaam-Alaikum

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — The U.S. Secret Service is looking into a controversial column by an Atlanta Jewish newspaper publisher that mulled the assassination of an American president. Andrew Adler, owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, wrote a January 13 column about the threat of Iran to Israel. He posed three options for the Jewish state to counter the Iranian regime. One of them called for a “hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence.” “Give the go-ahead for U.S. based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.” U.S. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie told CNN Saturday, “We are aware of it. We are taking the appropriate investigative steps.” Adler could not be reached for comment, but the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a wire service for Jewish newspapers in North America, quoted Adler on Friday as saying “I very much regret it. I wish I hadn’t made reference to it at all.” Adler — who said he’s gotten a lot of flak for the column — said he would issue an apology in the next edition of the weekly newspaper, the JTA reported. The column, titled “What would you do?” doesn’t mention President Barack Obama’s name, but U.S. Jewish groups that strongly denounced the column read the words as a reference to Obama himself. The column also refers to the administration’s “never ending ‘Alice in Wonderland’ belief that diplomacy is the answer,” an apparent dig at the Obama White House’s foreign policy efforts at dialogue with such countries as Iran. “The suggestion by anyone, in this case a Jewish newspaper publisher, that Israel should consider assassinating President Obama is shocking beyond belief,” said Dov Wilker, director of the American Jewish Committee in Atlanta. “While we acknowledge Mr. Adler’s apology, we are flabbergasted that he could ever say such a thing in the first place. How could he even conceive of such a twisted idea?” said Wilker. “Mr. Adler surely owes immediate apologies to President Obama, as well as to the State of Israel and his readership, the Atlanta Jewish community.” The White House declined to comment Saturday on the column. Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said Adler’s “lack of judgment as a publisher, editor and columnist raises serious questions as to whether he’s fit to run a newspaper.” “There is absolutely no excuse, no justification, no rationalization for this kind of rhetoric. It doesn’t even belong in fiction. These are irresponsible and extremist words. It is outrageous and beyond the pale. An apology cannot possibly repair the damage. “Irresponsible rhetoric metastasizes into more dangerous rhetoric. The ideas expressed in Mr. Adler’s column reflect some of the extremist rhetoric that unfortunately exists — even in some segments of our community — that maliciously labels President Obama as an ‘enemy of the Jewish people,’” Foxman said. Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper called the remarks “irresponsible and reprehensible” and said they “must be publicly condemned by Jewish leaders across the ideological and political spectrum.” “We take small comfort from the apology — what a shanda!” Cooper said, using the Yiddish word for something shameful or scandalous. JTA also quoted Opher Aviran, the Israeli consul-general in Atlanta as saying he was “appalled at this deranged and morally repugnant assertion. We condemn such calls in the strongest possible terms.” The Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly focused on the Atlanta Jewish community, was founded in 1925 as the Southern Israelite.

 NAACP APPEALS TO U.N. TO PROTECT BLACK VOTING RIGHTS

In a desperate effort to salvage the hard won voting rights of Blacks and other minorities the NAACP is appealing to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations to stop the United States from abolishing those rights.

The largest civil rights group in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted effort to disenfranchise black and Latino voters ahead of next year’s presidential election.

The organization will this week present evidence to the UN high commissioner on human rights of what it contends is a conscious attempt to “block the vote” on the part of state legislatures across the US. Next March the NAACP will send a delegation of legal experts to Geneva to enlist the support of the UN human rights council.

The NAACP contends that the America in the throes of a consciously conceived and orchestrated move to strip black and other ethnic minority groups of the right to vote. William Barber, a member of the association’s national board, said it was the “most vicious, co-ordinated and sinister attack to narrow participation in our democracy since the early 20th century”.

In its report, Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America, the NAACP explores the voter suppression measures taking place particularly in southern and western states.

North Carolina task force recommends $50,000 for sterilization victims

 CNN

(CNN) – Living people who were forcibly sterilized as part of a decades-long eugenics program in North Carolina should receive a one-time payment of $50,000, a state task force recommended on Tuesday.

North Carolina sterilized an estimated 7,600 people between 1929 and 1974, many of them against their will. The state apologized for the sterilizations in 2002, and Gov. Bev Perdue created the compensation task force last year. Many states once had eugenics programs, and seven have apologized, but North Carolina is the first to consider paying victims.

The five-member task force – including a doctor, lawyer, historian, retired judge and retired journalist – met for 10 months and has a February 1 deadline to send a report, including recommendations for compensation, to the governor.

The payments will need to be approved by North Carolina’s legislature, and nobody is saying yet where money for victims would come from – some estimates put the number of living victims at 1,500. Task force spokeswoman Jill Lucas said Perdue will include the recommended payment in the budget she submits to the state legislature, which will take it up this spring. There is a three-year statute of limitations, so victims need to come forward soon.

The task force also recommends more aggressive outreach to identify victims, mental health services for living victims, the continuation and expansion of the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, which operates the task force, as well as the creation of permanent and traveling exhibits to educate the public about the state’s defunct eugenics program. The task force noted the need to ensure that the $50,000 payment won’t result in victims losing eligibility for other benefits they might already be receiving.

Even deciding how to make up for the eugenics program is no easy task. Historians and experts on compensation say there are no comparable examples to model monetary reparations after. This is a far different situation than better-known reparations debates, such as slavery, for which no compensation has been awarded, or the Nazi Holocaust, which is tied to individual awards allotted after an extensive documentation process. The closest example, experts say, is the 1988 decision by the U.S. Senate to pay $20,000 to Japanese-Americans who were held in internment camps during World War II. Surviving victims were paid the flat fee for the suffering caused by displacement.

Steven Selden, a University of Maryland professor and author of the book “Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America,” said the national eugenics movement was about altering the gene pool and eliminating people who spoke, looked, or behaved differently. What set North Carolina apart was how recently it occurred: Most states stopped after World War II, but North Carolina continued sterilizing people into the 1970s.

Selden said $50,000 is a substantial amount that carries symbolic significance. But, he believes paying any amount can be part of an ethical slippery slope that allows a price to be assigned to something that’s priceless. It’s a bad idea, he said, because paying victims can start to seem like an easy way out.

“The question is, do we diminish the importance of it (by paying victims)?” he said. “I think those demanding reparations should think about it. Giving a dollar amount could be of just value, but there are other things that should be considered as well.”

He would like to know more about the educational exhibits the task force recommends and suggests the state put money toward a curriculum for teaching the history and biology of eugenics. North Carolina could be a bellwether for other states, especially those that had eugenics programs of their own. Education better ensures it won’t happen again, he said.

“By making it an education issue and putting money into schools, it takes it long past the people who were harmed,” Selden said. “It’s a win and a lose for North Carolina. They can lose by saying ‘We’re not going to pay anyone,’ but the win can be that they say ‘We are going to change how we educate about this issue and that will lead to a national conversation.’”

University of North Carolina School of Law Professor Alfred Brophy, author of the book “Reparations: Pro and Con,” said North Carolina’s eugenics program is an extraordinary circumstance of life-altering harm to individuals, which strengthens the case for reparations.

Brophy, who calls himself an advocate of reparations, said he’s pleasantly surprised by the task force recommendation for payment. However, it’s important for the public to first know the “human dimensions” of forced sterilizations, he said.  A legislative decision on the amount of money offered to victims shouldn’t be determined until more details about the forced sterilization cases are known, he said.

“Truth and reconciliation needs to come first,” Brophy said.

Meanwhile, the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation created by Perdue continues to search for victims of the state’s eugenics program. Charmaine Fuller Cooper, the executive director of the foundation, said it receives about 200 calls per month from possible victims or their family members. They’ve confirmed that 72 of those who contacted them were victims and are working to verify more reports.

There are few public details about who – if any – were targeted for sterilization and how they were coerced into it. Nationally, many eugenics programs focused on criminals and mentally ill people, but in North Carolina, it extended to healthy women and children, many of them poor and uneducated. Mothers were pushed or tricked into signing release forms for their young daughters to undergo the sterilization operation under threat of losing state-provided aid or custody.

Their stories and circumstances have only begun to emerge recently, sometimes in emotional public hearings, sometimes in phone calls to the victims foundation.

Elaine Riddick was just 14 when she got pregnant after being raped. After giving birth to her only child 43 years ago, Riddick was sterilized. Her illiterate grandmother was bullied into signing the consent forms for the procedure.

Naomi Schenck was 16 when she got married, and was on her way to motherhood by 17. She went to the hospital after a miscarriage and left after a hysterectomy she didn’t authorize. She never became a mother.

Men weren’t spared, either. Charles Holt was 19 and living in an institution for boys when he was sterilized, and wasn’t aware of what it meant until after the vasectomy.

Fuller Cooper said monetary compensation could inspire more victims to come forward, but it could be years before the issue is settled. Many are waiting to find out if compensation will become a reality before stepping forward and disclosing part of their past they’ve shut out, she said.

Perdue issued a statement supporting the compensation proposal and said she looks forward to reviewing the full report from the task force. After doing so, she’ll make her final recommendations to state legislators, who will ultimately decide whether to pay people who were sterilized by the state.

Still, the compensation task force recommendations are a significant step forward, Fuller Cooper said, adding that every step is a step in the right direction. She said she’ll be relieved when the legislature takes up the issue.

“We have completed one phase of bringing justice closer to the victims,” she told CNN, “and we hope to build more support for the Task Force’s efforts as we move toward the final phase.”

Video provided by Al Mumin Media

In The Name Of Master Fard Muhammad

As-Salaam-Alaikum

Peace Be Unto You

End of theYear E-thon(Building Fundraiser)!

December 24, 8:00 am thru December 31, 11:59pm

The Lost-Found Nation Of Islam is humbly requesting your support.  Muhammad’s Mosque is conducting an End of the Year E-thon Building Fundraiser.

We are raising money to repair Headquarters Mosque. The mosque’s roof was damaged during a severe weather storm.  As a result of the roof damage, the main meeting room experienced damage, as well.  We must replace the carpet, ceiling tiles, and insulation and make other cosmetic repairs.  Repair costs have been estimated at $20,000.  Thus far, we have raised $5,200 dollars.  However, in order to meet a quick deadline, in preparation for our National Holiday, Saviour’s Day, on February 26, 2012, we need to raise the remaining funds for the repairs As Soon As Possible.  We are asking for your support to meet our fundraising goal of $20,000 by making a donation today.

The Honorable Silis Muhammad is planning to deliver his 2012 Saviour’s Day address at Headquarters Mosque on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at 2:00 p.m.  This Saviour’s Day address is a very special one for Mr. Muhammad and promises to be a momentous and historical event!  Please come out and share in Mr. Muhammad’s “Epiphany” and see the beautiful meeting room that your donation helped make happen!

Oh, yes!  And, please know: the Lost-Found Nation Of Islam is a non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status.  Your donations are tax deductible!  It’s an excellent opportunity to earn those tax deductions and meet your personal charity goal for the year.  You will receive a receipt for your tax-deductible donation via E-mail.

Thank you for your support!  And, may you be blessed in all that you do of good!

As-Salaam-Alaikum

As Charles Hugh Smith points out in, “The Company Store Debt and Serfdom, the “New World Order” is based on the European model of monarchs and serfs.

Monarchs were forever to be enriched by serfs, who were the workers.  The monarchs controlled every aspect of the serfs lives, i.e. food, clothing and shelter, which kept the serfs perpetually indebted to the monarchs.

Smith points out the modern version of this order as illustrated by modern day credit practices.   How many people find themselves today faced with negative home equity, negative auto loans, and mounting credit card debt ?

How much is that car worth now that you just drove off the lot? What about the things you bought on the no interest credit card, and were late one time and are now saddled with interest of 23%?  How much are the things worth now that you bought on that credit card?

What about the home you bought with no down payment? How much is it worth now? Can you sell it for what you bought it for?  Why won’t the banks write the loan down for the price it is actually worth now to help the homeowner?  No, the bank will foreclose and allow an investor to buy your home dirt cheap.

To make sure the populace is reduced to poverty, Smith says that the practice that tax increases, cuts to Social Security, 401Ks demise and pension decreases are slowly eroding any social safety nets.

Good paying jobs are shipped overseas.  College students with degrees cannot find jobs and are saddled with student loan debt, they cannot repay.

Labor unions are under attack.  City, state, and the federal government are letting workers go in droves.

Family owned farms are disappearing and are being replaced by big farm comglomerates.

The best way to foil their agenda is to get out and stay out of debt, says Smith.

That is a profound suggestion.