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I received this article from my man Q-moshyn (www.myspace.com/qmoshyn )

and it’s his response to the article “Damn the People” written by Makes Me Wanna Holla that I posted on Monday April 7^th. You can check it out here if you missed it http://wiseintelligent.blogspot. com/

Check it out and please add on!

Makes Me Wanna Holla (I couldn't determine your gender from this submission), you're just frustrated, but we all know deep down inside you don't really mean "damn the people." if so, why not join the KKK and take this message to the streets instead and say this out loud to some real black people? You remind me of what my godfather calls an 'Educated Fool.' you're the type to watch cnn and cspan and read The Times and all that, could tell somebody left and right and upside down about the presidential candidates, but are so disenchanted with the system that you won't show up on election day.

Now that you've wasted everybody's time with your rant and got it off your chest, do you feel better now??? I know I don't feel better, enlightened, or anything by what you've said other than getting exposed to some Lost Poets material that I hadn't gotten to hear before. Makes Me Wanna Holla, your only attempt at mentioning a solution is "Black folk need a mental revolution! We need change! We need to change our minds!" Well, to that I say "No s---, sherlock!" We can continue to spend a whole lot of time and energy complaining about all the problems we know already exist, and argue to a fault amongst ourselves about who is or isn't supposed to do something about it, or we can actually do something about it our own selves. I also find it peculiar that you don't identify the things you are doing to rectify all of the problems mentioned in this rant yet you criticize all of the readers this is supposed to galvanize. I can definitely say that for the majority of
black folk that I know, reverse psychology and ranted rhetoric, unless for entertainment purposes in a comedy sketch or a rap song, doesn't work. We need to be talked to, not talked at firstly, then we need to be shown how to get things done and not just talked down to.

So I'm speaking about finding a solution to the problems you speak of. Leadership...People say our black leaders have like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been failing us. And although I hear many who are inspired by Barack, I hear just as many looking at him with the same incredulous skepticism we looked at Michael Jackson with during his last trial. I say, why are we still waiting for the next MLK or Malcolm when we have recently shown that when we come together over a cause we can and will continue to uplift ourselves in huge ways when no one else will ie: the Million Man/Woman Marches, Hurricane Katrina relief, Jena6, just to name a few.

Complacency - yeah yeah a lot of black people may be lazy, toil in obscurity or whatever...how about offering something better to those who are willing to listen? ask any poor person in the hood and they'll more than likely will want better for themselves and their families. fact is most won't have access to those opportunities because of their lack of education and a sense of hopelessness. Alot of people in the hood aren't aware of the programs that are out there that can help them change their situations whether it be emotional, mental, financial, or chemical. sometimes they're so used to being hopeless that they don't recognize opportunity or have hope when it's right in front of their faces. so what is one who actually gives a crap supposed to do? stop trying to expose their people to more access to education, jobs, wealth-creating entities because they think less than 10% of them won't latch on? should doctors stop trying to heal people in the hood?
should teachers stop teaching in the hood? should financial advisors not come to the hood? should businesses only be in the suburbs? should preachers stop having churches or mosques or temples in the hood? are you saying that that less than 10% to which you spoke of isn't worth helping? are you saying that if you were to put that less than 10% on to opportunities that they wouldn't be able to "feel your frustration" and unlike you actually "act accordingly?" You don't give your people enough credit. You know how skilled we are. We're inventors, scholars and educators, doctors, lawyers, engineers, contractors, athletes, entertainers, preachers. We are creative, innovative and entrepreneurial leaders in a system that sets us up to be followers and workers. for real, you wrote this blog with rather colorful language. that's the best you can do in terms of how you're going to help shed light on a new attitude and new perspective? You don't have to believe
in the people if you don't want to...but i'm sure i speak for most of the readers with any sense who say if you don't believe in us, then shut the f--- up and let's listen to somebody who does.

You say yourself "When the whole world knows, as well as I do, we ain’t gon do shit about it! There are no more excuses, we live in an era where any information you want can be obtained at the touch of a button! We have many examples of successful cultures that exist in this society that we can fashion our own resurrection after!" Well if that's the case, and since you're ready to give up on your people (you are black right?), then you're just as bad as the people you're critiquing. i was always told that if you're not trying to fix the problem than you are part of the problem. You are a hypocrite in the worst way because you have all this information "at the touch of a button" as you say, have analyzed the problems and psycho-analyzed the people, yet have not provided ways to even attempt to change the minds of the people for whom you call for a revolution. To get back to my educated fool analogy, you're like an old man who hates the chronic cough
he's developed from lung cancer who keeps smoking cigarettes or a fat lady with diabetes who hates to look at herself in the mirror and can't bear the thought of going on dialysis or maybe getting a toes amputated yet keeps sneaking big macs and won't exercise.

as for me, I feel revolution starts first with education then economic education then socio-political education. How I participate in this form of revolution is by helping my younger family members, the kids in my church, or neighborhood kids with their homework or tutoring in subjects. Next I volunteer for Junior Achievement, a non profit that gets volunteers from the local business community to go into schools and after-school programs to lead educational games and activities for kids from K-12th grades about business, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, citizenship (the importance of voting and doing community service) and workforce readiness. Next, I'm at these same locations discussing Black history, drug awareness and prevention, gang prevention, promoting abstinence with these same kids throughout the state. I make positive hip hop music that can entertain as well as inspire people to pursue their dreams www. myspace. com/qmoshyn. my wife and i
have our own company and both our relationship and the company are doing rather well so far despite all of the things we go through. the important thing to note is that we don't disown each other, we work together, and work through things together. whether it's Camden, Trenton, Newark, Asbury Park or Montclair, West Windsor, or Voorhees our kids still suffer the most from the lack of a dialogue about the ills you spoke of and provision of timely outlets and healthy alternatives to those ills. I'm trying to galvanize a revolution, one kid a time, because that one kid's life i may change may be a kid's life i save from a lifetime of "toiling in obscurity until the eventuality of death." i've lost family to the streets, i've lost family to the system, hell, i've lost family in the system, so i have every reason to be frustrated with my people. but i will never give up on my people! That would be like spitting on the graves of our forefathers who shed
blood, sweat, and tears so that we could even have an opportunity vote, work, be, do, and say whatever we want. Shoot if it wasn't for some of your (are you black? excuse me) my people, you (if you are indeed black) wouldn't be able to read anything, let alone write your blog. I don't tell you what i do to pat myself of the back or brag as much as i'm pointing out that i'm on the front lines every day trying to make a difference and i'm directly aligned with many like-minded people, many of whom are black. I say it cause i'm very offended by what you said for myself and all of my friends and family in education, politics, entertainment, medicine, ministry, journalism, athletics, etc. who are trying to make it and inspire others to make it too. i say it to hopefully inspire somebody who reads this to do something to help a cause they care about. mine is education and the arts, but for others it may be health/medicine, public policy, the environment, teen
pregnancy, violence and conflict resolution...everybody has their own unique gifts and talents and values. the least one could do to spark revolution is to share those gifts with others, channel those talents towards their values to steer others on the right path. if a lot of people do even just a little bit, a whole lot can get done. it has to be done together though. idealistic? maybe. but it shouldn't and doesn't have to take drastic situations like rodney king or sean bell to bring us together to do something. we prove time and again that we can each bring something to the table in our own communities, because God knows we have and need more competent people with all types of talents on the front lines, in the board rooms, in the court rooms, in the operating rooms, and even in the city halls of neighborhoods and communities world-wide. I challenge you, Makes Me Wanna Holla, to count your blessings, your gifts and talents so as to not waste them as
you've done here. You seem to be very smart so i'm sure you understand 'to whom much is given, much is required.' well, a true mental revolution is going to require better from your gift of writing than this blog e-banging. stop preaching to the choir...although, i can't really even call what you were doing preaching. If you really want to contribute to a revolution, keep that type of blogging to yourself, get off your butt and get out into the community and help at least one of those people you're dissing try to spark the revolution!

I'll end on these note here. Ignorance and negativity births more ignorance and negativity which is evident from your frustration and revealed in the statistics you noted. You can't birth positive from negative, yet your outlook is very negative. Brother Wise Intelligent's tag for this blog says "The only rule we have is that all comments MUST be INTELLIGENT!" Well, you have broken the rules, and just like the people you have condemned, you, my friend need to be held accountable.

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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...Wise Intelligent wants to open up his own charter school!!!

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Wise Intelligent is one step closer to opening up his own charter school in Trenton, New Jersey! I hope you all can appreciate what an incredible opportunity this is. As you all know Wise has spent his entire adult life educating his community about themselves and the world around them. He is not only one of the illest MC’s to ever touch the microphone, he is a tireless active activist on the frontlines of the struggle to improve the quality of education for our youth today.
Check out this breakdown of the charter school proposal from the Trenton Times.
2 charter schools proposed in Trenton

Wise Intelligent trying to open new Charter School in Trenton, New Jersey

State launches rigorous approval process
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
BY LISA RICH

TRENTON -- Two new charter schools that would serve students in kindergarten through eighth grade are being proposed for the city, the state Department of Education said yesterday. The founders of both schools are city residents and, if their applications are approved, each school would accommodate about 600 students. The proposals for the Trenton Vista Academy and the Trenton Frontier Academy are among 25 applications for new charters submitted statewide, officials said. New Jersey Department of Education Commissioner Lucille Davy said the response makes it "clear that interest in charter schools re mains strong in New Jersey." The state will now begin determining which applications will be approved.

Charter schools are privately operated public schools; they are open to any student in the districts they serve and receive tax money based on enrollment. As it stands now, there are seven charter schools in Mercer County, including four that serve students from Trenton. Two new schools, Capital Preparatory High School and the Paul Robeson Charter School for the Humanities, are set to open in September. If approved, The Trenton Vista Academy would focus on in integrating students into communications-based careers and getting them more involved in city affairs, said founder Timothy "Wise" Grimes. "Aside from providing students a more hands-on experience, we want to expose them to careers in fields such as journalism, entertainment and photography," said Grimes, who also records and produces hip hop music.

"The youth will attend city meetings, understand how it works, and then interview the key players," he said. Eventually, the students would upload material to their own website and contribute to a print publication that goes along with the school's core curriculum, he said.

A lifelong city resident, Grimes owns a music company, Intelligent Music, that helps independent recording artists market and distribute their music. His brother-in-law, Wayne Dennis, is the vice principal at P.J. Hill Elementary, a Trenton public school, and is acting as an adviser during the charter school process.

"I told him that of course I would support him, so long as it doesn't interfere with my work," Dennis said. "I don't think it will be a conflict."

Few details were available yesterday on the proposed Trenton Frontier Academy. Documents filed by the state list the founder as city resident Donnie Walker, whose application for a different charter school was denied last year by the state. He could not be reached for comment yesterday. Both proposed schools face a more rigorous approval process than past charters.

The state changed its guidelines after the Mercer Arts Charter School in Trenton opened in September 2007 and was forced to close four months later amid an inadequate academic program and projected deficit of $2.5 million. Its founders admitted they rushed to open the doors.

Now, the state will require that all approved charter school founders must plan for a year before opening their doors to students. The new procedure is sup posed to give founders more time to prepare, while cutting back on the number of failed applications, according to state officials. Under law, public school districts must pay charter schools 90 percent of the per-student cost for every child who attends from their community.

Other funding can come from state aid. Davy said next year, the state expects to dole out $247.9 million to the 62 charter schools in New Jersey that likely will open in September. There are currently 56 charter schools in operation. The Paul Robeson Charter School will be the last in Mercer County to open within the same year of being approved.

Contact Lisa Rich at lrich@njti mes.com or (609) 989-5692

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What’s Good Family…

Before I kick this off I/we would like to thank everybody and everyone out there who has hit us up with there thoughts, opinions, and comments about everything over and under the sun! When we started the INTELLIGENTNEWZNET we were hoping to create an atmosphere where we could exchange ideas, develop strategies, and continue to build a progressive and proactive network of active activists…

Now with all that being said the INTELLIGENTNEWZNET is going to start publishing (with your permission of course) some of the many emails that we receive on a daily bases. We want to clearly state that the INTELLIGENTNEWZNET will NEVER change or alter any piece of your work to fit or align up with our point of view, so whatever you say you have to be able to back it up if you get any feedback…

This email was sent to us about a week ago by a Brother named “Makes Me Wanna Holla”, and he is straight sick and tired of being sick and tried! Check it out and let us know what you think…You can leave all your feedback, challenges, and counter points of view about this essay at our myspace site or The INTELLIGENTNEWZNET blog site…

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Now let’s get it in…

What’s up my people my name is Makes Me Wanna Holla. Thank you for giving me a moment of your time…I’ll be brief, but I have to get this off my chest.

Damn the people! Surprisingly, that was my reply to my afrocentric compatriot, with whom I was having another one of those discussions, about another one of those problems, that has been ever dogging black people since the day we landed on “Plymouth Rock!” Was that me….shit, a week ago I was a young Malcom, staunchly defending my peoples rights…as a human being….to be respected as human beings! My weary soul had been deflated just from me hearing the words! Damn the people! Damn the people?! Damn the people? Hell yeah, damn the people, I said and I meant every word of it. In fact, I feel so much better saying it, no yelling it at the top of my fucking lungs! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

The truth shall set you free, and the truth is, the masses of my people and people as a whole are so fuckin’ complacent, it’s sickening! Most people are just content to carry on with their daily rituals, toiling in obscurity, until the eventuality of death! I mean don’t get me wrong, it’s all well and good, if that’s all you desire in life but……WAAAAAAKKKKKKKEEEEEE UP PEOPLE! Black people are in worse condition today, then we were in after chattel slavery was abolished! Just check the statistics www.runet.edu/~junnever/bw.htm . The fact is most of ya’ll won’t , even after I’ve provided the link, and then when faced with the reality of such a dire situation, will do little or nothing to change this detrimental behavior. The irony here is, I actually took the time out to write this blog, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that less than ten percent of the people who read it, will actually feel my frustration, research the information provided and act accordingly. Damn the people!

Are you ready for a revolution? Shiiiiiiiiitttt as the great Senator Clay Davis, from the HBO hit series The Wire, would say. Most people are afraid of the very word revolution. How could The Last Poets (http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/338880.html be so prophetic? In the late 60’s no less….when revolution was apart of the pop culture, especially African American culture! In fact, revolution is one of the most constant things in American history! In fact, if not for the industrial revolution, and ensuing Civil War, www.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia761567354/civilwar.html we would still be in a system of chattel slavery! Revolution, simply put, is change! Black folk need a mental revolution! We need change! We need to change our minds!

We are over 400 years crazy! Mentally retarded and in need of help! No need to be ashamed, because it is only when the doctor knows what disease you have that he can begin to treat the illness. We are in no uncertain terms, as Martin Lawrence would say, “ cccrrraaazzzzyyyy, deranged!” We have experienced , as a people, a major psychotic episode---400 years of slavery! We are in need of serious group counseling….and we need to demand that America picks up the tab! Shit, after all we’ve done for this country, this should be a mere pittance! We should no longer allow people to dismiss our pain as if it was nothing! Look at us….look at how we act! You can see we’re crazy…..down right nuts! Would they dismiss the mental scars of a rape victim, kidnapped and kept shackled in the basement for 400 years? Allow them to go out to work all day and night, and not benefit from such work, then have generations of their offspring subjected to the same inhumane treatment! You Damn Right We Crazy!!! Who wouldn’t be?!

You see , this, for me is therapy! This is a counseling session. I’m crazy, but not crazy enough to believe in the people! Nope, not anymore!! You see , my people have that Stockholm syndrome, like Patti Hearst. We are so fucked up that we’ve actually begun to identify with our original captors. In fact, we believe that we are indeed equal to our original captors and have joined forces with them to keep ourselves in this wonderful captivity! I’ve grown weary of all the meaningless arguments over the conditions of African Americans. The health and well being of Black folk, the demoralization of NIGGAS, BLOODS AND CRIPS, or whatever the fuck we should happen to be calling ourselves at this time! When the whole world knows, as well as I do, we ain’t gon do shit about it! There are no more excuses, we live in an era where any information you want can be obtained at the touch of a button! We have many examples of successful cultures that exist in this society that we can fashion our own resurrection after! And still I say, “Damn the people! Ya’ll can go back to sleep now, my session is almost over. I’ll try to keep the yellin’ down!”

Makes Me Wanna Holla!

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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...INTELLIGENT FOLLOW-UP TO Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s 9/11 Sermon

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INTELLIGENT FOLLOW-UP TO Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s 9/11 Sermon

Last week we sent out a bulletin breaking down our thoughts about the thoughts, opinion, and sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and all of the controversy that followed… (If you missed it you can check it out here… INTELLIGENTNEWZNET )

We appreciate all the feedback and comments that you’ve sent us; all of your points of view were very well thought out and INTELLIGENT!!! A lot of you were very skeptical of the media’s portrayal of Rev. Wright’s 9/11 sermon and asked if we had the whole and complete sermon in its entirety, so you could judge for yourself the views the Reverend expressed.

Click the link below to hear Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s whole sermon in context…

Listen to Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9/11 sermon (The complete version)

After you listen to it…Get back @ us and let us know what you think…

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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...The Truth: An Un-American Idea

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The Truth: An Un-American Idea

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah…Chapter 7 verse 26-28…King James Version

After listening to, watching, and reading transcripts of Chicago's now infamous Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons, as well as other people's comments about those sermons, the inescapable reality of our situation hit me like a crane falling from a New York City skyscraper! That reality was that, to tell THE TRUTH is as “UN-AMERICAN” an act as bombing the World Trade Center. The truth in our day has been deemed an "enemy-combatant" an "enemy of the state" a "threat to national security" and a hater of the "freedom's" and "liberties" on which “democracy” was founded.

It’s time for us to be honest. WHAT PART OF WHAT REV. WRIGHT SAID WAS NOT THE TRUTH? He said…

“…the Government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a 3 strike law and then wants us to sing God Bless America…NO…NO…NO…Not God Bless America, but God Damn America! For killing innocent people, God Damn America for treating her citizens as less than human…”

Now am I missing something because America (CIA) DID bring drugs into the country! They DID flood poor neighborhoods with these drugs, and used the money to finance covert wars on foreign soil and subsequently built a prison industrial complex that incarcerates unsuspecting ghetto children while making themselves billions of dollars in the process! All of this might be an inconvenient truth, but it is the truth nevertheless!!! [See, Iran Contra; Dark Alliance by Gary Webb; ask John Kerry or visit Freeway Rick Ross at Prison]. The reverend continued by stating that 9/11 could have been the result of America's tyrannical and oppressive foreign policy. He referred to this as the proverbial "chicken's coming home to roost". He said…

“…We (America) bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki…and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye…We (America) have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done over seas are now being brought back right over into our own front yards…”

I’m not trying to be sarcastic but I really thought in 2008 that all of this was elementary and basic common knowledge. While watching an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, I heard Barney Frank say that “it was wrong for Rev. Wright to suggest that America had brought 9/11 on itself”. Now I can understand why some people might think that it’s wrong to bring up these very uncomfortable things because it’s very painful to confront the potential reality of why such a horrific event could have happened, but in my opinion it’s vital for us to start dealing with the core and real reasons why people around the world have so many issues with America. If you can accept the fact that Saddam Hussein was executed because his “chickens’ of subjugation, oppression, and state sponsored terrorism throughout Iraq and the neighboring regions had finally came home to roost, it shouldn’t be considered Un-American for Rev. Wright or anybody else to start looking at America under the same type of microscope to try and figure out just what the hell is going on around here. How many American's really understand the depth of this countries influence in foreign lands - for better or for worse? How many American's know that "Al-Qaeda" is an American CIA invention? This group was armed, trained, and named by the CIA in the early 1980's, and used to help destabilize the then Soviet Union. Guess what, it worked! America’s so-called “Cold War” or “War on Communism” created the world we are wrestling with today, i.e., the “war on terror” the ‘war on drugs”, etc.

· The Cold War was responsible for fueling the illegal drug trafficking in America beginning when drugs from Laos were shipped to America in the 1950’s – 60’s and profits from sales financed the arming of allies fighting against Ho Chi Min. Also, the flooding of African-American communities with tons of cocaine from South America with proceeds going to finance the contra’s whose task it was to destabilize the Sandinistas of Nicaragua.

· The Cold War was responsible for arming, training and financing such terrorists groups as Al-Qaeda, as well as the Taliban government of Afghanistan. Believe it or not Saddam Hussein was also a CIA “Cold War” creation.

· The Cold War was responsible for arming opposing African rebels in the Congo, thus, giving rise to the current “civil-unrest” in African countries like Sierra Leone.

I suggest the uninformed American citizen grab him/herself a copy of Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Tree Leaves Press, New York 2005). It was during this same “Cold War” period that Robert McFarlane and Oliver North asked the Saudis for $1 million a month to help finance their own international terror campaigns. The two, North and McFarlane, also tapped the Apartheid South African government for $1 million a month for the same covert terror. Then we wonder why the Reagan/Bush administration did nothing about the genocide in South Africa that was at its peak during this time?

You see, after the Boland Agreement that stopped funding for the “war on communism” the Reagan/Bush administration took two initiatives that all but destroyed America’s “black” community and changed U.S. foreign policy forever. According to Mamdani, these were 1) they turned to the drug trade for an illicit source of funds; 2) they turned to the religious right to implement those foreign policy objectives that Congress had ruled against, thus beginning a trend towards privatizing war.” Rev. Wright was, in effect, RIGHT!

Remember Malcolm X made the “chicken’s coming home to roost” analogy famous amongst us. Malcolm used the proverb immediately following the assassination of JFK. Brother Malcolm was referring to the fact that America had just assassinated Patrice Lumumba and had been involved in the assassination of many other foreign leaders, so maybe the JFK assassination was an example of “reaping what you sew”, one of those good ole “Judeo-Christian” principles on which America was built. Today we know that the same American “Judeo Christian” machine that assassinated Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Lauren Kabila, Martin Luther King and Brother Malcolm, was the same machine responsible for splattering JFK’s cerebrum all over his wife in front of the entire Judeo-Christian world.

Bottom line, Rev. Wright is a pastor whose only crime was telling the TRUTH! He had no cache of arms stockpiled in the basement of his church, he had no “weapons of mass destruction” and his church hasn’t and doesn’t receive any western-union transfers from Osama Bin Laden. The good Judeo-Christian Rev. Wright simply told the truth, now he’s an “anti-American villain”, who supports the “terrorist” and the “axis of evil”, [ooohhh…scary], when both these infamous boogie monsters have “Made in America” sewed in their underwear!

But, even in the seriousness of this public “denunciation” and disowning/disagreeing with the good Reverend’s “anti-American-rhetoric”, I did find some humor in all of this. That laugh came from my own hood while watching black reverend’s from my area play such an agile and rhythmic game of hop-scotch trying their damnedest not to say what they really felt, something like “Yes…God Damn America!” It was like that part in the Bible wherein Jesus told the disciple Peter that he would deny him thrice before the cock crow (John 13:38). Peter wanted to be down and represent with, and for, the denounced, rejected and crucified Jesus, but at the same time he did not want the rejection, denouncing and public crucifixion that came with telling the truth in the ROMAN EMPIRE!

These are Christian pastors who, by all accounts and testaments are supposed to do “what would Jesus do”. Jesus said that “the Truth shall set you free”. America was supposedly founded on a Judeo-Christian morality which holds certain “truths” to be self-evident! However, when Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Fred Hampton Sr., Gary Webb, and many others were moved to expound on certain evident truths, they were all denounced, disowned, messages reduced to rhetoric and assassinated! When certain MC’s of Hip Hop’s “Golden Era” (Public Enemy, KRS ONE, X-Clan, Poor Righteous Teachers, Brand Nubians, Ice Cube, Paris, Kam, Sista Souljah, etc.) were moved to high-light certain truths that they held to be self-evident, the entire movement was officially “un-officially” banned from the public domain; denounced, disowned, message reduced to worthless rhetoric and all but assassinated?

So, if the countries so-called Christian leaders (white, black, etc.) want to maintain their positions of no-POWER in the current set-up, they must take the position of the high priest Caiaphas of Jesus’ day. For it was the high priest Caiaphas who said that if this man is allowed to continue with his sayings and works, the Romans will come and take all of our positions in the high places and destroy what’s left of Jewish autonomy (John 11:41-53)! Needless to say, in order to keep their positions in the high places, they sold Jesus out even though they knew he was telling THE TRUTH!

It is a sad day in the world when men are threatened to denounce, disown, and disassociate themselves with the truth. If men were not afraid to speak truth to power America would not have invaded Iraq on the premise of an out-right LIE! If someone in congress or the presidents cabinet would have been brave enough to publicly tell the truth about Saddam’s “WMD’s”, over 4000 American soldiers and 120,000 Iraqi citizens would not be dead. It was George Orwell that said “in a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. It was the Apostle Paul that said “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? (Gal. 4:16)

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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...The Professor Griff Fund Raiser was a complete success!!!

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First things first…I want to thank everybody for coming out to the Professor Griff fund raiser last night! The event was a complete success and Griff wanted me to pass this message along…

“Words can’t express how much I appreciate all the love and support you have given me and my family at this very difficult time. You have all made it possible for me to regain my balance and start the process of moving forward and getting back out there on the front line of the struggle to uplift and educate our community. Thank you once again for everything...”

Major…Major Shout out to my man Jay of Center Stage Promotions for really putting in the front line work that made everything possible. Big Up to Club Tritone for hosting the event for FREE! Total Respect to all the acts that came thru and ripped that stage down to the f*uckin ground…

One Love to…

DJ Akshun, Richard Raw, Side Effect, Cymarshall Law, Charlie K, B.O.E. (Board of Education), Burke

Big Up to Jeff "Stress" Davis sending me some of the pics he took last night…

Come check out Intelligent Muzik’s Conquering Lion…RAHZII HI-POWA

RAHZII’S DEBUT ALBUM IS COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!

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INTELLIGENTNEWZNET...THE GLOBE HOLDERZ VIDEO

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Check out this clip for The Globe Holderz from my Blessed be the Poor? album

This video was put together by my man Capone from Detroit. You can get at him thru his youtube page…

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"Wise Intelligent will at Club Tritone on 1508 South Street in Philadelphia, PA







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On Sunday March 16^th (9:00 pm) at Club Tritone on 1508 South Street in Philadelphia, PA, Wise Intelligent of Intelligent Muzik and Center Stage Promotions will host a benefit show for Professor Griff and his Family. For those of you who are not aware on February 10^th while Griff was in New York giving a lecture his home and studio were consumed in a devastating fire. Griff and his family are physically fine, but they lost about 90 % of everything. Griff lost an expansive library collection of over 3000 books, CD's, DVD's, lecture transcripts, furniture, clothing, instruments, studio equipment and countless international valuables/artifacts collected during the course of a twenty-year professional entertainment career.

Intelligent Muzik and Center Stage Promotions are putting on this benefit show to help our Brother financially recover during this trying time. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! We need to have this club jam PACKED with fans, family, and friends of our Brother Professor Griff. This is the time for us to make are rhetoric a reality!

Venue – TRITONE

Performers – Wise Intelligent of the Legendary Poor Righteous Teachers, DJ Akshun, Richard Raw, Side Effect, Cymarshall Law, Charlie K, B.O.E. (Board of Education), Burke

Venue Address- 1508 South Street Philadelphia, Pa 19146

Doors open- 9pm

Cost- $10

Come on out and show your love and support for your Brother. Professor Griff has spent his entire life on the front lines of the struggle to educate and uplift our community and it’s time for us to give something back.

If you can’t make it out to this show in Philly please send all donations (checks/money orders may be made payable to: Kavon Shah)

Kavon Shah

P.O. Box 11902

Atlanta, Georgia 30355

Attn: Professor Griff

678 557-2919

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Intelligent Muzik proudly presents the next offering from Wise Intelligent's critically acclaimed 2^nd solo album, "Wise Intelligent Iz...The Talented Timothy Taylor!"

“This Iz Luv” is the kind song that our so-called “leaders” and radio/TV personalities said did NOT exist in Hip Hop. This song was NOT created and inspired by Valentines Day! “This Iz Luv” was written and produced to pay tribute to the type of Black Love that lays at the very foundation of our lives.

The track was produced by Masada and Wise Intelligent of HavKnotz Productions and features the soulful vocals of the exquisite Tye Austin.

The shear beauty and elegance of “This Iz Luv” will have you reflecting and thinking about the kind of love and relationships that we all desire and need to survive in this cold world. This song represents our honest, deep, intense, and passionate feelings of love, friendship, and commitment to the women in our lives and the women in our communities…

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History is a clock that people use to tell their political time of day. It is a compass that they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It also tells them where they are, and what they are. Most importantly, an understanding of history tells a people where they still must go, and what they still must be.

Dr. John Henrik Clarke (from his 1987 essay Why Africana History?)

Ok ladies and gentlemen its “BLACK HISTORY” month, how appropriate for my first blog of the New Year. I initially began writing something “inspirational” you know some journalistic libations for the noble ancestors upon whose shoulders we as a people, nation and individuals now stand. But sadly, that train of thought was derailed by a BBC article that came via the mighty Mundah and the Real News Network. The article entitled “Canada Afrocentric School Sparks Debate” served as a confirmation of my position that “We [black folk] just don’t get it?”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7217212.stm

The first paragraph of the article gets right to the point and focus of the article saying that “A decision to create the first Afrocentric, or black-focused school funded by taxpayers in Canada's biggest city has sparked a heated debate.”

Why should, or how could an African Centered school “spark heated debate” in a society of the “western world” where grandiose ideals like “diversity”, “inclusion”, “tolerance”, “pluralism”, “multi-cultural” and “melting-pot” roll off the tongues of western world citizens like stanzas from a Shakespearian play? I mean the current public school system (which is also funded by taxpayers money) is extremely Eurocentric or white-focused even when 90% of the children in attendance are non-white? So the first question that comes to my mind is that if it’s okay to use “taxpayers” money to fund a Eurocentric public school curriculum, then why should it “spark heated debate” to create an Afrocentric one in an African Centered School?

I believe I can say without too much rebuttal that the over whelming majority of Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Native citizens of Canada and America pay taxes with the same pleasant irritation as European or White American/Canadians do, and I’m quite sure that they have earned and deserve the right to have an educational system that is reflective of their ethnic and cultural contributions to the nation in which they live. Why does the idea of an all-inclusive or should I say more simply an honest and balanced view of history create such negative feedback and adult angst?

I believe that if you're teaching history
Deal with straight up facts no mystery
Teach the student what needs to be taught
Cause Black and White kids both take shorts
When one doesn't know about the other ones' culture
Ignorance swoops down like a vulture…

KRS ONE… “You Must Learn”

So now that the “can of worms” has been opened, we can see that the western worlds non-white citizens have been paying taxes to help fund the current predominantly Eurocentric or white-focused schools throughout the entire western world to their own detriment. The article goes on to say that the “scheme” yes, the “scheme” (read plot) was approved at a packed meeting of the Toronto District School Board.

From kindergarten to the western university taxpaying non-white students are bombarded with overtly racist ideas, myths, falsities, omissions and all sorts of gross misinformation that comprise the legendary lying lore that western “mis-education” is fashioned of. This is why Noam Chomsky said that “education is a system of imposed ignorance”. I mean truth be told Pythagoras had no original patent to the concept of a “theorem.” The square root of the hypotenuse was used in Egypt some two-thousand years before Pythagoras was a drop of semen. Columbus “discovered” nothing. There were people in the “New World” when he got here. The journals of these same Spanish explorers confirm that West Africans had long been making the trip to the “New World” before Columbus was a drop of semen. The Egyptians were black! Hippocrates was NOT the “father of medicine”, and the Civil War was NOT fought to “free” the “slaves” because the North thought enslaving human beings was wrong! Now should non-white taxpayers continue to support and fund the perpetuation of the Eurocentic legendary lying lore?

Considering the above, we must honestly ask and answer the question of what’s wrong with a public school in the west wherein the curriculum aim to use "the sources, knowledge and experiences of peoples of African descent as an integral feature of the teaching and learning environment”?

With a drop out rate among young black males as high as 40%, it is obvious that the current system is not working for a very high percentage of young black people. Why then is the people’s attempt to implement a solution that has been proven to work (as evidenced by privately funded CIBI schools in the U.S.) met with such visceral public resistance from the custodians of the legendary lying lore?

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"

Malcolm X

Take the statement from Anthony Hutchinson for example, an economist and former university professor who the article says “has been involved in a number of youth outreach and employment programs.” The article quotes Mr. Hutchinson saying "This belief that if we teach kids about their social and cultural identity they're going to perform a lot better is just stupid." Now how can teaching people the history of themselves (good and bad) be “stupid”?

The above quote is disturbing and interesting because the same individual previously states in the same article that he “blames the school system for marginalizing students.” To marginalize someone means to make them feel unimportant and unnecessary. To lay blame for this marginalizing of black students at the foot of the school system you must know that the school is responsible for making black youth feel like they are nothing. How does the school marginalize black youth? It tells them they had no history before slavery at the hands of Euro-Americans. It teaches them that their culture is “primitive” or “third world”. It severs Egypt (and recently Ethiopia) from Africa and made them and their marvelous accomplishments apart of a fictional land mass called “the middle” or “near” east. The current Euro-centric or white-focused system teaches the black child that slavery was a blessing and forever repudiates the black world as being of no value!

The only way to reverse the lying lore of the Euro-centric or white-focused system is to establish a system that deals with the truth concerning the people that have been oppressed and exploited to no end. This must been done even if it means the establishment of a counter Euro-centric or white-focused, African-centered or black-focused school. When does Africa get to tell its side of the story? When does the Native American get to tell his story? When do ALL non-white people get to tell their story? Why have we accepted the exploiters version of the story (his-story) as the only story? I don’t see any of these custodians of the legendary lying lore pointing out the undeniable fact that the current school systems of the west are Euro-centric and white-focused in their curriculum.

"what you're calling Negro history, and

African history is the missing pages of world history."

Arthur Schomburg speaking to Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Next the professor states that an African centered school is "counter-intuitive and counter-productive” arguing further that “You’re going to take public money from the public school system to channel towards a special interest imperative. This is a slippery slope that we do not want to go down." If you really want to start talking about what has been “Counter-productive” we can deal directly with the current Euro-centric system to the tune of a 40% black male drop out rate? This is not a matter of “taking public money from the public school system” it’s a matter of scraping the singularly Euro-centric and white-focused public school curriculum and replacing it with one that reflects and includes a more honest and complete historical perspectives of all of its students. Furthermore, is the current public school agenda not a “special interest imperative?” Are not black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American/Canadian students a “special interest” of the current system? I guess not. That being said, the reality of the built-in failure mechanism for black and other non-white youth in the western world public school system is crystal clear.

But how about the statement from the city's influential newspaper, The Toronto Star, who said that the idea of an African-centered school “smacked of segregation, which is contrary to the values of the school system and Canadian society as a whole". If 90% of the student body in the poorest schools are predominantly black, but 90% of the student body in the wealthiest schools are predominantly white…YOU ARE ALREADY SEGREGATED!!! What kind of a pathological flight from reality must one be suffering from not to see this?

Furthermore, how is it segregation when children of ANY RACE, ethnicity or cultural background can attend? No one has said white kids can not attend the African-centered or black focused schools. Segregation was predicated on the idea that blacks could not attend the same schools as their white counterparts. This is not the case with the African-centered school. My son attended the Afrikan Peoples Action School (APAS) in Trenton, NJ for his entire elementary school experience. In such an institution ALL CHILDREN are welcome, but in this dynamic it is pointed out that George Washington cut down the cherry tree and crossed the Delaware but it is also conveyed that he was a slave-trader that owned over 300 slaves, reportedly raped black women and sold a Blackman for a jar of molasses. This is the TRUTH! This is real and complete EDUCATION, and not legendary, lying lore!

There can be no greater tragedy than to forget one's origin and finish despised and hated by the people among whom one grew up. To have that happen would be the sort of thing to make me rise up from my grave.

Paul Robeson, 1938

Next the article lauds the mother that lost her 15 year old son to gun violence when she said the following in opposition to the African-centered school "Martin Luther King and so many of our fathers fought to come together so black and white can be together, for us to sit in the front of the bus together. What we're doing is all segregating each other. We should be one…" Again this in NOT about segregating each other, it’s about creating a true and accurate historical educational system that ALL people can participate in and benefit from. Now let’s get to the reality of segregation in 2008. At what point will we realize that America and the west are as segregated as it’s ever been? When you get on the bus in your hood how many white people do you see sitting next to you (front or back)? When you gaze across the street, up and down your block how many white faces do you see? When you look around your classroom in your inner-city public school how many white faces do you see? Few and far in between I’m afraid.

Martin Luther King and our fathers who fought with him set out to accomplish a great work…changing the hearts, minds and attitudes of Americas white majority…unfortunately the only thing that changed were “paper-precepts” i.e., laws, while the hearts, minds and attitudes of the white majority remained exactly the same as they were when Martin Luther King lie bleeding from the neck on a Memphis motel balcony. In the late fourth quarter of the Civil Rights initiative Martin left us what was in my opinion, his most valuable lesson. This lesson came in the form of a premonition of sorts and was conveyed to his close friend, confidant and brother Harry Belafonte. The message was “Brother Harry…I believe we are integrating into a burning house…”

To the good people of Toronto Canada who have set out to accomplish a great work…changing the hearts, minds, and attitudes of black youth…in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, Kwame Nkrumah, and all the many…OPEN THAT SCHOOL…By Any Means Necessary!!! At least Black History will then be for an entire school year!

… “A final reason for the African centered curriculum is the nature of the population composition in the United States. This country is composed of a variety of ethnic and racial groups. As such the country should properly be conceived of as the United States of various ethnic, national and racial groups. The Eurocentric curriculum, more or less, serves the cultural interest of most European ethnic groups. It does not serve the cultural interest of most people of African descent. Since population patterns are such that most African Americans live in predominantly African American communities and attend predominantly African American schools, it is logical that they should be taught from an African perspective if they so choose…”

Jacob H. Curruthers…. Essay on African Centered Education

Just a little bit more of tax payer Public School history on my way out the door…

It was Georg Wilhelm Hegel who, in order to lend credence to his ignorant assumption that Africa “has no history”, proposed that Egypt be severed from the continent and made a part of a pseudo-geographic land mass called the “Near East.” Hegel knew that Egypt was a black African civilization and that the certain Africans were the Egyptians, but this fact did not support his racist supposition that Africa had no history, so he had to take Egypt out of Africa. But, Hegel did not stop there. To explain the great civilizations of Carthage, Tunis, Cyrenica, etc., Hegel proposed that “North Africa” be considered a part of Europe ascribing it the appellation “European Africa.” The falsities, ideas, and assumptions of the racist George Wilhelm Hegel, are the very same ideas that shaped and developed the American Educational System. This is not good for black people in general, let alone our children.

Although the German Hegel did not contribute directly to the American System of education himself, it was rather through his “Hegelian” students (as they were called) William Torrey Harris, Horace Mann and John Dewey that his ideas were laid at the foundation of American education. In The Origins of American Philosophy of Education, J.J. Chambliss states that William Torrey Harris was the "central figure in rationalism's influence on American philosophy of education" (Chambliss). In Public Schools and Moral Education, Neil G. McCluskey informs us that the "consensus among historians of education and students of social thought clearly indicates that Horace Mann, William Torrey Harris, and John Dewey can be considered the triumvirate whose thought has most affected the creation and development of the present philosophy of the American public school" (McCluskey).

Neil McClusky informs us that “the roots of Harris's work in the American educational system were firmly planted in Hegelian principles.” The following definition of “Hegelian” principles shows us how Hegel’s students believed that all power to control the individual should be held by the institution. “To the American Hegelians, education was an effective tool for developing the individual mind to promote "self-activity," or to cultivate the mind to a point at which every individual became entirely aware of his position as a subject in the complex interactions of reality. As Harris put it: "...education is the process through which the individual is led to attain his freedom" (Harris, Twentieth Annual Report). Although the ultimate goal of Hegelian education is freedom of the individual, "freedom" in the Hegelian context denotes a dependence on the influence of institutions. Institutions, as the embodiment of man's rational behavior and thought, are the ultimate tool of freedom.”

For more on the Hegelian school of thought: http://gyral.blackshell.com/hegel/hegedu.html

Book List

Boone, Richard G. ed. by William T. Harris. Education in the United States. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903.

Brackett, Anna C. "The Science of Education," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, December 1878.

Chambliss, J.J. The Origins of American Philosophy of Education. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960.

Harris, William Torrey. "The Education of the Family, and the Education of the School," Journal of the American Social Science Association. XV, February 1882.

Harris, William Torrey. "The Church, the State, and the School," North American Review. CXXXIII, September 1881.

Harris, William Torrey. Twentieth Annual Report to the Board of Directors of the Saint Louis Public Schools for the Year Ending August 1, 1894

Harris, "The History and Philosophy of Education," The Chautauquan III, October 1882.

McCluskey, Neil Gerard. Public Schools and Moral Education. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1958.

Schaub, ed., William Torrey Harris, 1835-1935. Unknown publisher, date.

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