Waterstar

Outside of its having a very brief unnecessary agenda-sermon at the end, this documentary is straight to the facts and these facts are backed up by very much accessible records, many of which are provided in it. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrFufnMNDg

*As an aside* Better know that Astor and Kerlog will always unite in the end.

output edit help I am looking for a less editorialized summary of Monteir Laboto's 1926 science fiction book "O Presidente Negro", but in the meantime, here is a portion of an article posted about it. On O Presidente Negro By Manuela Zoninsein | Posted Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at 1:54 PM ET | Posted Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at 1:54 PM ET O Presidente Negro Slate.com The Black President A 1926 Brazilian sci-fi novel predicts a U.S. election determined by race and gender. Monteiro Lobato is a household name in his native Brazil, best-known for "Sítio do Picapau Amarelo" ("Yellow Woodpecker's Ranch"), a series of children's books that has been adapted for television on several occasions. He was an active businessman and libertarian and is considered the founder of Brazil's publishing industry, but his 1926 science-fiction novel, O Presidente Negro (The Black President)—which foresaw technological, geopolitical, and environmental transformations—is attracting the most interest this year, since it anticipated a political landscape in which gender and race would determine the outcome of a U.S. presidential election. O Presidente Negro envisions the 2228 U.S. presidential election. In that race, the white male incumbent, President Kerlog, finds himself running against Evelyn Astor, a white feminist, and James Roy Wilde, the cultivated and brilliant leader of the Black Association, "a man who is more than just a single man ... what we call a leader of the masses." You may notice some similarities to the John McCain-Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama face-off; and so did Editora Globo, the publisher of O Presidente Negro, which reissued the novel during the Democratic primaries in a stroke of marketing genius. Prior to Obama's rise, O Presidente Negro was best-known as an odd sci-fi work, predicting the U.S. government's use of eugenics, a racist ideology that had attracted a following in Brazil at the time Lobato was writing (and, later, in Germany). As a result of this association, more often than not, bookstores hid the novel at the bottom of a stack of titles in the Brazilian-literature section. (Today's Brazil is increasingly concerned with civil rights, as indicated by recent experiments with affirmative action in education and government.) Of course, there are several differences between Lobato's story and the circumstances surrounding the 2008 election. In Lobato's fictional world, the United States prohibited the mixing of races—believing it would lead to "disintegration" or "denaturalization"—and thereby conserved white and black races in "a state of relative purity." Lobato also failed to predict the civil rights movement, which undid his predictions of an extreme version of "separate but equal." Unlike Roy, born in a supposed age of "pure races," Obama, born of a white mother and black father, witnessed America's social revolution. In the 2228 of the novel, the white women's party, the Sabinas (a reference to the Roman legend of the rape of the Sabine women), has apparently reached feminism's pinnacle: Women are no longer considered equal to men—they are simply different and entirely independent. Homo, the ruling white men's party, and the Sabinas each command 51 million voters. In previous elections, voters sided with their gender, with no regard to race. But with the creation of the Black Association, black men and women unite to create the largest political party, giving Roy 54 million supporters. Kerlog is forced to broker an alliance with Roy: black votes in exchange for easing the "Código da Raça" ("Race Code"), which set limits on the growth of the black population through selective breeding and genetic manipulation. To Kerlog's frustration, when the time comes to cast ballots, citizens loyally vote with their identity group, and the black man wins the presidency. In response, Kerlog threatens race war. He persuades Astor to protect the interests of the white race and encourages an alliance. Lobato, at his most sexist, writes that Astor accepts this proposal on the grounds that man "is woman's husband for thousands of reasons ... long live man!" With hardly a second thought, she shepherds the 51 million female voters to the cause of the Homo Party. Kerlog demonstrates to a despairing Roy that his race will never assume control, and on the morning Roy is set to assume the presidency, he is found dead in his office. (Lobato hints at murder.) Kerlog calls for a re-election and emerges victorious. White leaders then mastermind the end of the black race in America, using a senseless and tragic sterilization technique, and Roy's dream of serving as the first black man in the nation's most powerful post is left by the wayside.

Oh the site did it automatically! How cool is dat!?

Same crime and same style of hoodies, but different reactions when the skin colors of the "perpetrators" change... Watch. (Oh and notice the crime of "Being Asleep in Hoodies While Being Black") Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRLu_9h-2ks Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSkeIdFdifY&feature=relmfu Please feel free to tech up the links. :-D

You know, it is kind of crazy how anyone can listen to a tape and hear the "victim" say that he is FOLLOWING the person that he feels THREATENED by. What scared person FOLLOWS the person who he feels THREATENED by? How can a person FOLLOW someone that was not CONFRONTING/ATTACKING him, shoot this person, and justify it all by SELF DEFENSE? I see your point, though, Boitumelo. The nature of what you are asking and what I am asking are very similar in rationale. The skin changes and so does the situation... In other news, how is everyone enjoying the new postracial society? :-)

My bro Troy hooks it up for we so-not-techies :-) Thank you much. Writergirl, I am on vacation and you know what? That just might be something that I watch during my break. It's wonderful and packs so much in so little time. Very effective.

Thank you for posting that, Troy! Yes, tragic indeed. The continuation of it all is mass incarceration.

"Economics cannot be separated from politics."- Ernesto Che Guevara

Documentary about peonage www.pbs.org Peonage: Slavery by Another Name: "Chronicles how slavery continued in the South well into the 20th century while the rest of the country ignored it. Laurence Fishburne narrates."

That is so beautiful/necessary. I will definitely spread the word.

Just out of curiosity. Did she also interview the Caucasian mother (Susan Smith) in South Carolina who put the car (with her kids in it) in the water, drowned the kids and said that a black man stole her car and kidnapped her kids? Just wondering.

LOL Bro, it ain't neva too early or too late to be real.

The documentary "Classified X" by Melvin Van Peebles is a classic. Movie images sustain racism. Over and over again, Hollywood made blacks the objects of derision or fear: African-Americans were illiterate primitives, rustic fools, fumbling servants, or simply outside society. Young blacks began to surrender to these self-images, while whites accepted them comfortably. Using images from classic American films as chilling reference, Van Peebles explains with wit and anger why popular culture is still a matter of black and white. - Laurence Kardish

haha@ Wikipedia- information Bible. Oh trust me. I know what you mean re: your search, because I googled in search of the same and that is precisely how I came up with Kam and Kam only. I was so happy to see it, though. I would so love for you to see it even if it's something that you see a year from now. This has potential to be a real teaching moment, a sign if you will indicating that we need to actually take the time to think for ourselves in spite of media/popular opinion... In addition, I saw how Kam was basically blasted for expressing his objectivity. Professional reputations were used to minimize the importance of his analysis. No, that is an understatement; professional reputations were used to make it seem as though the film's very real exploitative tendencies and false notes were all in Kam's mind. They were used much in the same way that statistics in the film were used to distract and authenticate something that is, no matter what professional reputations are behind it, less than authentic. Others need to see it so that they can see for themselves what Kam was talking about and help others learn to recognize and understand media's/society's trickery.

Oh thank you, Bro. :-) So much wisdom is leaving this world. I can only hope those wise ones who have left in the phyical will continue to guide us from the other side.

Oh Troy and Writergirl, you must see this for yourselves. I can almost guarantee you that it will be extremely hard to sit through it, but just try so that you can come back and tell me about how so many pieces of the "documentary" just didn't fit together. Troy, let me tell you. That is how I even found out about the brother (Kam Williams), through trying to find something about this film written by someone, anyone on this earth who just did not believe da hype. I seemed to be the only one who thought that the documentary was false/falsified. Even the person who showed the film seemed highly offended by my questioning the film's authenticity said that she had a high sense of professional integrity and would not have shown it had it not been real. Well... The reality is that professional integrity and critical thinking skills are not synonymous. There's that same information abundance-good sense deficit we were just talking about. lol I'll just give a few things that really stood out to me about the film (though there are MANY). The very first thing that stood out to me is that the little boy, Richard Keyser has what sounds like a British-influenced accent...However, in the film, neither of his "parents" had anything even remotely close to that accent. Now I can see a parent having that accent yet not the child, but when the child has it yet not the parent, hmm... What stood out more than anything, however, was that here are young black boys who are already alienated enough in America. There is a severe shortage of positive black (especially male) guidance in their environment... They are taken wayyyy to Kenya to, in the MIDST of the abundance of Kenya's blackness, be saved by a white headmaster, a white principal, white teachers, white counselors and such. Except for in passing, you don't really see the kids interacting with Kenyans and the most black faces that you see at one time is either for church on Sunday or during a dance. You know, I looked into the makers of the "documentary" and found that they are also the makers of the "documentary" 'Jesus Camp'. Oh my goodness. By the time I finished watching it, I figured that between The Boys of Baraka and Jesus Camp, if I kept looking, I would probably see that their first documentary was "The Blair Witch Project". Credibility shot...AND buried. At any rate, we live in an age in which the flashing of some statistics across the screen is the viewer's cue to suspend all objectivity. That, coupled with prestigious awards, public opinion , and "updates", just shuts down any type of questioning. As an afterthought, there are 'updates' for the kids of "Jesus Camp" as well. *Somebody send me to La La Land... I hear they' got better sense over there!) *

Indeed, indeed, Bro! Perhaps those of us here who feel this way can pool our thoughts and talents together... We could write the book that we wish to see. Cynique! We did, didn't we? Everything is everything, I'm so glad to be back around. This forum is one of the only ones on the net that I actually like. Love it, actually. :-)

Have you seen this "documentary"? I am curious as to whether I am the only one in this world, besides Kam Williams, who questions the authenticity of this highly exploitative "documentary".

That is so very wonderful. (Hi, Troy! Long time.)

Cynique has a corner now?? :-D Can't say I never saw that coming. How have you been, Cynique? It's been a long time. Congratulations on your corne!. Your fresh thinking style is needed more than ever in this Information-yet-no-critical-thinking-skills-Age