Written by Alberta Parish

Today, we live in a culture, which thrives on mass hysteria. It is this same mass hysteria, which creates political division and produces ideologies that foster a culture of fear as well as religious control. People fear losing their great wealth. People fear losing their advantage and power over others. People fear the unknown or the unexpected. People fear President Barack Obama because they fear change. They fear an America in which the wealthiest 1% of Americans who earn up to $1 million per year will not continue receiving tax breaks under the current tax laws. They fear an America in which everyone will be on equal footing in terms of paying their fair share of taxes. They fear rules and regulations, which prevent them from stealing from the American people. When someone comes along and threatens their way of doing shady business, they want to remove this individual from the equation. 

As President Barack Obama delivered his state of the Union speech on January 24, 2012, outlining all his completed reforms and standing tall as a powerful leader of the free world, I saw the faces in the audience. Some had contempt while others had praise for the President, including Warren Buffet’s secretary. Debra Bosanek sat quietly nodding in agreement to the President’s comments when referring to the tax cuts her boss receives, and that more taxes should be paid by the wealthiest Americans who earn up to $1 million per year.

Although Mr. Buffet’s secretary is paying a hefty amount of taxes, she and her husband were able to purchase a second home in Arizona, with a swimming pool and a professional PGA putting green, according to real estate documents. Most Americans can’t even purchase one home, let alone a second home. Most Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure. Most Americans are homeless today, because they’ve lost their homes due to foreclosure. Debra Bosanek should be the last person on national television nodding her head. I should be the one on national television, at the state of the Union, nodding my head!

Today, professional race baiters are busy spinning stories about President Obama’s state of the Union speech. They maintain their positions that President Obama wants a tyrannical utopia, which is a socialist regime in America. Many Christian conservatives have accused President Barack Obama of being the Antichrist himself, and they have manipulated others to believe their prophetic fairy tales of doom and destruction to befall America.

The race baiters create fear and panic where there is none. President Obama is not the guy people should fear.

On the other hand, religious fanatics like Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich we should fear.

A socialist regime is not the agenda the President was pushing Tuesday evening as he delivered his state of the Union speech. He reiterated perfectly during the speech what is going through the minds of many Americans, which are jobs and economic security. In my opinion, the reforms he laid out did not suggest a socialist agenda. However, if two religious fanatics end up as President and Vice President, religious tyranny will probably be the new agenda. Under religious tyranny, there will be no American Dream.

President Obama’s directness in addressing the agenda that dominates public discussion, which is economic stability, quickly grabbed the attention of his audience and even had members of Congress squirming in their seats.

President Obama said that the basic American promise is that if you worked hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a little away for retirement. “The defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise alive,” said President Obama. “No challenge is more urgent. No debate is more important. We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What’s at stake aren’t Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them.” President Obama continued, “Banks have made huge bets and bonuses with other people’s money. Regulators have looked the other way or didn’t have the authority to stop the bad behavior. It was wrong. It was irresponsible. And it plunged our economy into a crisis that put millions out of work, saddled us with more debt, and left innocent, hard-working Americans holding the bag.” President Obama continued, “In the last twenty-two months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005. American manufacturers are hiring again, creating jobs for the first time since the late 1990s. Together, we’ve agreed to cut the deficit by more than two trillion dollars. And we put in place new rules to hold Wall Street accountable so a crisis like this never happens again. The state of our Union is getting stronger. We’ve come too far to turn back now. As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place.”

Even though I made a video several months ago saying that President Obama will get a second term in office, I believe this speech confirms why I know he’ll be a two-term President.

Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, or Michele Bachmann in a televised national debate against President Barack Obama on his policies – foreign and domestic, and on the reforms he’s made since taking office in January of 2009 will make all of them look like inexperienced interns just getting started in the political field.

Not one Republican presidential candidate has what it takes to match President Obama’s record. If any Republican candidate becomes President, I doubt if he or she completes at least 15% of his/her campaign promises. After all, Newt Gingrich couldn’t even be faithful to his first and second wives. Newt Gingrich asked his second wife to engage in an “open marriage”, according to Marianne Gingrich who gave an interview on ABC, accusing her former husband of having a lack of moral character. This is not the kind of man that I’d want as President of the United States.

Coming from a man who tried to get President Bill Clinton impeached for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Newt Gingrich can’t be taken seriously about anything that comes out of his mouth. He’s like an imposter, somebody pretending to be one thing but is not.

Conservative bloggers and Republican commentators often describe liberals as having an entitlement mentality, but the same can be said of Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum. I think most Americans have an entitlement mentality, because Americans have been conditioned through the many government programs available to them. In addition, the financiers on Wall Street have benefited from exploiting the markets and gambling with  taxpayer dollars, which they obviously felt entitled to do. Subsequently, the entitlement mentality on Wall Street resulted in a financial crisis on Wall Street in September of 2008. The near collapse of our nation’s financial institution resulted in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in which banks and other financial institutions were bailed out by the federal government. On the other hand, the average citizen losing his or her home due to foreclosure didn’t receive a bail out by the government. The bail out of financial institutions pissed off many Americans.

The end results of Wall Street’s entitlement mentality, which caused the financial meltdown of lending institutions who for many years had given mortgage loans to individuals they knew could not afford to pay back these loans, brought about the bankrupty of two of America’s leading mortgage lenders: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now, the housing industry is under the control of the federal government. Wall Street’s financial debacle in 2008 brought the banking and automobile industry under the control of the federal government. Medicare and Medicaid, which are two government programs, have long provided health care coverage for many Americans. However, under the current health care reform, there’s no need to continue Medicare and Medicaid because it is now mandatory for Americans to carry health care insurance or face monetary fines for not doing so. I feel like everyone should have access to adequate health care, but the one thing I don’t agree with is that it should be mandatory for everyone to carry health care coverage. What if I don’t want to carry a certain health care insurance coverage? What if I don’t want to carry individual health care insurance coverage period? I no longer have the option as a citizen to refuse health care insurance. This is scary to me. 

Who has the greatest entitlement mentality? A retiree receiving Social Security Retirement and food stamps, or the self-righteous CEO of a major corporation who outsourced American jobs overseas, using factory slave labor in order to make huge profits, which is how the late Steve Jobs became a billionaire. Factory slave labor was used to make Apple products such as the iPhone and iPad. Americans could’ve made these same products. The only difference is: Steve Jobs would’ve had to pay Americans a fair wage, provide benefits, and be less wealthy. However, this would’ve required that he not possess an entitlement mentality. 

America has become a society dependent upon entitlement programs. The same people who want to cut many entitlement programs are the same people with the greatest entitlement mentality.

By exploiting the poor and working-class citizen of this country, the Newt Gingriches of the world have risen to the top of the financial pyramid. Now, on the eve of the collapse of their pyramid, they want to change the agenda in Washington. Too late! President Obama has already beat you to the punch! The old way of doing things is over! We have a new chief in charge whom you will see a lot more during the next four years. So get ready!

Written by Alberta Parish

As national leaders, which included President Obama, Representative John Lewis, and Colin Powell stood facing the 30-foot statue of the late Civil Rights Leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday, October 16, 2011, the world still faces many racial and social barriers. Despite the achievements of King, Malcolm X and others, Africans around the world face brand new challenges. Instead of facing these challenges collectively, and working to solve the many issues that plague entire populations, Whites and Blacks in America are too busy spreading racial animosity toward one another. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived during a time when his life was constantly threatened, there were separate public restrooms for Whites and Blacks, African people couldn’t enter a white-owned restaurant, sit down at a table, and be served. Yet, he never advocated racial hatred and violence toward Whites. Would he have made it to the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. if he was just another Black racist?

Dr. King wanted to turn the Civil Rights Movement into a Human Rights Movement by taking our human rights violations before the world court at the United Nations. But King never had the opportunity to complete that mission, and in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, was shot dead. He died at the age of 39. The real culprits behind King’s assassination has never been implicated, because it was the U.S. Government behind King’s assassination. In fact, the U.S. Government has been the real culprit behind most assassinations of powerful Black and White leaders who preach human rights and equality among all men, and who have threatened to bring the United States Government before the United Nations for its human rights violations. King not only marched alongside blacks, but he also marched with whites.  Black racism just like White racism is a disgrace to his legacy.

As much as I revere Dr. King for giving his life to defend the rights of all men, it is now up to those that are living today to continue where Dr. King and Malcolm X left off at. Racism within any group is a detriment to all of humanity. It has been the major cause of wars, genocides, and the economic crises that all nations currently face together. While the powerful elite continue to spread racial hatred through mass media and manipulate current events around the world, the real culprits behind the wars, revolutions, dictatorships and mass murders of entire populations go undetected. What is the difference between an American, European, African, or Asian racist? Hatred toward any persons based on his/her ethnicity is racism. Hate speech whether written or verbal toward any persons based on his/her ethnicity is racism. Many people do not know that Malcolm X, toward the end of his life, had a change of heart regarding his own racial animosity toward whites. Malcolm condemned the whites of his day, because of the many human rights violations occurring against Black folk. Malcolm constantly denounced human rights violations and he taught Blacks their true history. Early in his career, he did preach separatism from white society. But later in his life, Malcolm had a change of heart on many things.

Today, there are human rights violations occurring against Black Libyans, which, in a way, has been sanctioned by the U.S. Government. When President Obama declared war on Libya’s Colonel Qaddafi, it set off a chain of events that culminated in Black Libyans being slaughtered by Arabs. The media has termed these people as the rebel forces. But all I see is open genocide against Black Africans by an age-old enemy who also traded in African slaves for over 700 years. Ironically, history is repeating itself. Before Africans sold other Africans as slaves to the Europeans, they traded in African slaves with the Arabs. If the Black racist hate Europeans/Caucasians, they have to also hate Africans in the Motherland. How is Black racism going to solve the many issues that plague Africans around the world? How is racial hatred going to advance the interests of African peoples around the world? In the early 20th Century, you could pinpoint the enemy. Today, Whites and Blacks work together in a corrupt system, and you could easily be manipulated or ruined by a member of your own race. Having knowledge of African history and the genocide currently being committed against African peoples worldwide, racial hatred toward Europeans/Caucasians is not going to stop the mass genocide of Black Libyans or the spread of HIV in Africa. A march all the way to the steps of the State Capitol building in Washington, D.C., or boycotting Wal-Mart, Kroger, Kmart and Target, or perhaps, using your energy to come up with real solutions to basic problems that Black people face within our own communities would possibly bring about results. Hatred for non-Africans is not helping us to advance technologically and economically as African peoples around the globe. Unless we put our words to action like the late Dr. King and Malcolm X, what is the point of hatred? Unless you can put Black youth to work in their own communities, then what good is all the racial animosity? They’re robbing people, because they’re not employed anywhere. We are still going downtown begging other people for jobs!

The Rise of the Matriarch in 2012

Written by Alberta Parish

Before the rise of the patriarchy in Africa, the matriarchs controlled the ancient motherland. The Egyptian creation story talks about the god Amun (his female counterpart was Amaunet) having created children – both male and female created as equals. There is no historical record of creation which details the woman having been created from man or taken out of man. The mythical story of Adam and Eve – possibly invented by William Shakespeare – is only a plagiarized tale, a corruption of the original creation stories which detail both male and female having been created as equals. Under the matriarch rulers, women were equal to their male counterparts and had the divine right to rule. In ancient Kemet, the brother married his sister and they both shared the throne as co-rulers. In addition, the king was chosen not by his father but according to who his mother was. Yet, we live in a male-dominated culture that miseducates men to believe they are better and greater than women. The Bible reinforces that belief, and unfortunately, this is a predominantly Judeo-Christian culture, which fosters a patriarchal mindset. However, black women were not originally acclimated to a patriarchal society. Instinctively and internally, black women know that a patriarchal society is a corrupt and unnatural state of being. Therefore, most black women fight against this corrupt and unnatural system whether they fight against it advertently or inadvertently. Even when I was a Christian, I always felt indifferent to biblical verses which I knew fostered a culture of control over women. The Bible is full of racism, sexism and homophobic views, which clearly tells me that the book was not inspired by God but by men. Who is God? How do we not know that the original God was actually female and not male?

In ancient Africa, the matriarchs were worshipped as divine deities. It was African female deities that permeated ancient Greek and Roman religious beliefs. Black women have more power than what they think. Because black women have been conditioned by this patriarchal society to believe they are less than the man, many women have willingly given up their power and have accepted a lesser role in society when we were meant to be on equal footing with our male counterparts. It is not natural for our male counterparts to be in control of everything. When Africa became a patriarchy society, that was the beginning of the end of balance in rulership between both male and female. Subsequently, the nations became weak and vulnerable to attack from outside forces. The beginning of the patriarchy in Africa happened at a time when the kingdom in Egypt became weak. The pharaoh had invited the Greeks to come into Egypt and fight alongside the Egyptians against an enemy nation. However, the Greeks later conquered Egypt and subjugated the entire culture, including its religious system.

The ways that our male counterparts have kept women under their thumb continues to plague our way of life.  There is no way Christianity can be a religion that promotes equality among men and women, because Christianity’s holy books promote violence and aggression toward women and children.  The Book of Genesis detailing how the nations on earth came from the seed of Shem, Ham, and Japheth is a prime example of male chauvinism at its best. If you are an adult in 2012 who still believe that all nations on earth came from Shem, Ham and Japheth, then you are a brainwashed fool. Scientific evidence has proven that all human DNA can be traced back to a black woman. If it were not for black women carrying the seed in our womb, there would be no human life on this planet. Science dictates that the black woman is God and is the giver of life on this planet. Therefore, women cannot remain second-class citizens forever. The biblical God cannot be the giver of life on this planet. God cannot be a man from Galilee called Jesus who is a non-historical figure, a Roman invention based on the Egyptian savior-god Heru or Horus. Religion is the reason the patriarchy continue to exist. Get rid of religion, and the patriarchy will self-destruct.

Written by Alberta Parish

When I come across the typical religious person, I wish I could just knock some sense into his or her head so this individual can then realize that his version of God is no more than a mythical anomaly, a figment of his or her imagination gone wild. The fictional God is like the imaginary friend that a child sincerely believes with all of his heart is real. The only problem with the imaginary friend is he’s always been invisible. Therefore, blind faith is the only thing the child has to rely upon for his friend’s existence. There are too many religious people in the world, which is one reason the world has gone to hell. I often wonder were it not for religion, would the world be a safer place? Would there be strife and warfare between the Muslim, Jew and Christian? Would there be a need for peace talks in the Middle East? Would homophobia exist? Would there be an Anti-Homosexual Bill outlawing same-sex relationships in Uganda? What all religious fanatics fail to realize is same-sex marriage was legal throughout the Roman Empire before the rise of Christianity. Same-sex marriage was later outlawed after Christianity was legalized as Rome’s state religion in the 4th Century. The religious doctrines designed to control the uneducated masses two thousand years ago should be null and void in the minds of today’s so-called educated generation. After all, we have a wealth of knowledge and history available at our very finger tips.

The reason I think many people hold on to their religious fairy tales even after they’ve been exposed to knowledge that their faith in a mythical being is a waste of time and energy is they need something to make themselves feel better about their small existence on this planet. When one faces the fact that we just may be alone in the universe, this forces the individual to contend with his or her minimal existence. Let’s face it: everybody can’t have the fabulous life of a rock star or Hollywood starlet. Many people are doomed to live an ordinary and small life. The people who control and shape the religious attitudes of entire generations know that God does not exist. Of course they have to sell us the belief system in order to keep their Matrix of religious control afloat.

Religion is for the weak and easily controllable. It is for this same reason that religious people are easily the most dangerous people on the planet, because they can be manipulated into carrying out so-called religious prophecies and feel justified by their imaginary friend who sits among the clouds. Their holy books condone genocide, rape, and terror against those that are deemed as the ungodly. Entire nations have been slaughtered in the name of Allah, Yahweh and Jesus, all of whom have origins in ancient mythology. What is the history and mythology behind YHWH, Jesus and Allah? YHWH is said to have been one of the seventy sons of El, a Canaanite god. Jesus comes from Hesus, a Druid pagan deity. Christ derives from the Greek name Christos, a mythical figure worshipped throughout the ancient world thousands of years before the Christ of the Four Gospels. Allah was one of many deities in the pre-Islamic Arabic pantheon before Muhammad made Allah Islam’s supreme being.

As an atheist, I see religion more clearly now than ever before as the enemy to mankind, and is the very reason why there is racism, genocide, war and human inequality. God was created to maintain the balance between rich and poor, between the elite and the mob. God was never created to come to the aid of the poor or to be the savior of humanity. He is the ultimate imaginary friend, and like all imaginary friends they soon disappear from the life of the child.

Written by Alberta Parish

When I first read the story about Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson who agrees with Newt Gingrich’s statement about poor Black kids having no work ethic, and says that he would take all Black people back to the South and put them on the plantation so they would understand the ethic of work, I was taken aback. Right-wing conservative and Christian minister, Reverend Peterson is exactly the kind of man who should never hold any positions of power, not in government or religion. Does he not understand that Black leaders in time’s past have fought against human rights violations (institutionalized slavery)? The plantation represents a system in which Blacks had no legal rights, were the property of another man, and were viewed as less than a human being.

To me, Rev. Peterson is another religious fanatic. He reminds me of those churchmen who burned people at the stake for not having certain religious and moral views. Peterson’s entire worldview is between the pages of the Bible, which teaches racism and sexism. He believes in the master/slave relationship. After all, the Bible teaches that slaves ought to obey their masters in the flesh. Abolitionist and Union soldier Harriet Tubman, Minister Nat Turner, and many other Africans as well as White abolitionists fought to end human rights violations in the form of chattel slavery. But Peterson wants to return Blacks to the plantation…where many of his ancestors lived miserable lives working from sun up to sun down for zero wages. It is one thing to teach social justice and equality among all men, but it’s another to divide men and subjugate one group of people for the benefit of another. Institutionalized slavery in America was for the benefit of another.

Quite frankly, I think the motivation behind Rev. Peterson’s remarks was so that he could garner a little attention for himself, because now people are interested in knowing who Mr. Jesse Lee Peterson is. People who’ve never heard of Mr. Peterson is now visiting his websites and listening to his weekly radio broadcast. The negative attention following Peterson’s controversial statements is also building up his church membership. Therefore, more money is being generated.

Reverend Peterson represents the latest brainwashed Christian in a long list of brainwashed Christians who believe that it is normal to be a slave, because his holy books condone slavery.

Even though we live in a free society called the United States of America, you’re only as free as the money you have in your checking account. If you don’t have a lot of money, you don’t have a lot of freedom. Therefore, poor Blacks don’t have to return to the South and work on a physical plantation. Poor Blacks already live and work on the state plantation where there is less opportunity for poor Black children who live in neighborhoods where there are more non-Black-owned businesses than Black-owned businesses, and where there are more under-performing public school systems in which poor children are forced to endure. The state plantation that poor people live and work on often does not produce millionaires and billionaires, but instead it produces government slaves who, in turn, produces religious slaves like Good Ol’ Reverend Peterson. The government slave often copes with his mundane existence through religion.

Reality dictates that the Black church has a role to play in the downfall of the Black community, because for hundreds of years it has taught the Black community to depend on an imaginary friend who sits among the clouds, and wait for his blessings. To any oppressed population, the hope of blessings in the form of finances sound like good news. However, the Black community has been bamboozled for years by these pimps in the pulpit that teach false hope and imaginary blessings, and not self-reliance and financial freedom. It’s not that Black people don’t understand the ethic of work, we just don’t understand the lack of a decent and fair wage for our honest day’s labor. After a certain amount of years spent working a job, you expect a shot at the American Dream. After all, they told us if you work hard enough, you can achieve anything. Now, Black people are realizing that was bullshit. In the face of Americans losing pensions and other retirement benefits due to an ailing economy, people are realizing the American Dream is not so easily obtainable anymore. People are tired and fed up with their mundane routines: all work, no play, no pay increase for two or three years. I think poor Blacks are the hardest working people in America. Most are working up to 60 hours a week just to make ends meet. Of course Rev. Peterson doesn’t realize that poor Blacks are not his problem. Religion is his problem and everybody else’s.

Written by Alberta Parish

Popular terms like “entitlement mentality”, “socialism”, and “un-American” have permeated our nation’s airwaves. Whenever you turn on your radio or watch your favorite news channel, career race baiters consistently spew terms that are suggestive of not only racial animosity but classism. The dividing line between rich and poor will remain a permanent factor as long as humans exist. The invisible lines drawn in the sand, which divides everyone by social, economic, and religious or non-religious identities will ultimately lead to our ruin.

From the beginning of human history – whenever it began – humans have always possessed the entitlement mentality. Being an avid reader of ancient history, I truly believe that the ancients felt entitled to life, liberty, and happiness. They felt entitled to a fair and decent wage for their honest day’s labor. They felt entitled to a free society, and worked endlessly to maintain a civilization in which tyranny would not take root or prevail in their world.

What the ancients knew that us modern humans many times turn a blind eye to is if one seeks to suppress and oppress one segment of the population through force, cruelty and inequality, one risk jeopardizing the entire population. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., however, didn’t turn a blind eye to the inequality happening in his day. In his own words, he said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The same inequalities facing American Blacks in the 1960′s were the same inequalities facing many populations in Asia, Africa, and South America. By the time the Civil Rights Movement came to a halt in the late 1960′s, it was no longer an Afro-American issue or Black issue, it was a human rights issue.

Today, I live in a free society called the United States of America. I also live in a globalized society. Through mass media and social media, I am connected to many countries around the world. I see worldwide devastation as it unfolds before my laptop and television screens. I also see beauty in the world, the magnificence of humanity, and how much greater we could become were it not for religion, racism, social injustice, devastating poverty, genocidal programs, and the threat of global tyranny. Within every free society, there always exist the threat to basic human rights and freedom. Therefore, men have always engaged in open revolution and warfare to either obtain, keep or regain their basic human rights, and to ensure that their offspring live out their days as free men and women. The threat to freedom has always come from the government and the “Church” having too much power and control over the masses.

Political and religious race baiters consistently claim the United States is headed for socialism and tyranny, because there are too many people with an entitlement mentality. Well, wasn’t this the plan by the government all along – to foster a culture of entitlement by providing hundreds of government programs? These various programs provide assistance to college students, pregnant mothers, abandoned infants, Americans with disabilities, and so forth. Yet, when the average person hears of someone with an entitlement mentality, their mind quickly conjures up the image of the African-American welfare mother with three or more kids whose daddy is in prison. However, over 90% of all American citizens receive some type of entitlement benefit, because many have received unemployment insurance benefits during their lifetime. Most older Americans receive Social Security Retirement and Survivors benefits. Many retired military veterans are receiving entitlement benefits. Recent cuts in pay/benefits to U.S. military service men and women have put a lot of strain on families who may need government assistance in addition to their paychecks.

Entitlement programs persist because there are far more people living in poverty, who live longer lives in poverty, or they live just above poverty level. With the advancement in medicine, people often live longer. As a result of people living longer and more babies being born by the minute around the world, more food and other natural resources are needed to sustain a world population of over six billion people. With the rise in food pricing and overall inflation along with the massive growth of the human population, governments around the world just simply cannot take care of everybody.

Socialism won’t be the demise of America as career race baiters have manipulated people to believe. Entitlement programs are not at the root cause of America’s financial crisis either. It is greed on Wall Street that brought about the 2008 financial crisis in which stocks fell more than 700 points, forcing the nation’s two largest mortgage lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This one event set off a chain of events in which the U.S. Government now control much of the automobile industry as well as the health care industry. The super-rich and powerful on Wall Street felt entitled to gamble with taxpayer dollars, and, as a result, the U.S. Government now control all of the mortgage industry. One reason why the super-rich remain at the top of the pyramid is because they have an entitlement mentality in which they feel entitled to everybody’s money as well as natural resources around the world that can produce great wealth for them. The super-rich and powerful will do whatever it takes to maintain the balance between rich and poor, controlling entire populations, especially in places that are rich in mineral resources. When they can no longer control and maintain populations, they reduce them.

Throughout history, certain groups of humans who, in order to ensure their own survival, have annihilated other human groups for their resources. Entire populations have been destroyed through genocide, warfare, famine, and manufactured diseases. For its great food supply and other resources, Africa came under military attack from foreign nations during the 15th and 16th Century. It was Pope Martin V who authorized the first crusade against Africa in 1418, and in 1441 authorized the Portuguese trade in African slaves. Today, Africa is still controlled by outside nations for its resources.

A few months ago, I was accused of having an entitlement mentality. Erick Erickson, a talk show host and conservative blogger in Atlanta had accused me of having an entitlement mentality. Yet, I’ve held a job for the past 19 years. I’ve also published three books, and I’m a contributing writer for the Buffalo Bullet, which is an online news column. The Buffalo Bullet’s editor-in-chief is Chris Stevenson. Perhaps, if Mr. Erickson had bothered to do his homework before making public statements about me over the airwaves, he would’ve realized that I’m not your average welfare recipient, high school dropout, and unwed mother raising three or more kids alone. I’ve never received public assistance of any kind. However, if I should ever need public assistance, as a taxpaying citizen of this country who has paid taxes every year since I’ve held a job, then public assistance I’ll get.

Race baiters love to use certain terminology to describe liberals, liberal policies, and President Obama whom they see as un-American. In their minds, President Obama is not even an American citizen. When the story first came out about Mr. Obama’s birth certificate being a forgery, that was fictionalized media at its best. The media is the Matrix. A perception of truth is reality in the Matrix. Therefore, you cannot believe what you see and hear on CNN, FOX, HLN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, and WSB.

It seems to me that the people who truly possess an entitlement mentality are the super-rich and powerful, which most often comprise Americans who have set up huge firms and corporations in foreign countries in order to exploit entire populations for their economic wealth and resources. American and European colonialism account for the most of the world’s exploitation of natural resources, which is how America and Europe became the most prosperous places on earth. If Third World countries require America’s financial assistance, it is often because the governments in those countries have been so destabilized by American and European military interference to the point in which the population do not possess the resources nor the skill set to provide basic human necessities and services.

The next time the Newt Gingriches of the world open their mouths to defame Occupy protesters as liberals with an entitlement mentality, they need to also put themselves in the entitlement mentality bracket. The Newt Gingriches of the world are where they are today, because they felt entitled to wealth and power. Therefore, they did what they had to do to obtain their desired goals, even if they came at the expense of the poor and working class citizen of this country. After all, this nation currently faces an economic crisis as a direct result of the greed on Wall Street.

October 19, 2011

Written by Alberta Parish

After wasting most of my life believing in biblical mythical characters, I’m now an atheist and proud to be. I have no regrets about discontinuing my spiritual enslavement, especially since I know Christianity is based on lies and deception. Every time I tell people why I no longer believe in the biblical concept of God, I often get an unfavorable response and then that response often leads to an argument or the abrupt end of the conversation.

I went to Best Buy last night, and encountered a woman who told me she’d been selling Christian literature for over thirty years. In fact, I had purchased one of her booklets a few years back and remember her very well. When I explained to her why I left Christianity, she debated me. Yet, I was able to get my points across to her. At some point, she said she had to go and drove off.

Most Christians cannot debate an atheist on logic and historical fact, because most of their worldview is within the pages of the Bible. They live, breathe and die by the lies that are contained within their Holy Books, often not questioning the many contradictions they come across. The entire Bible is a book of fairy tales as well as plagiarized stories from earlier sources. Many Christians love to highlight that so-called holy men inspired by God wrote the books of the Bible. However, because they have not researched the origin of the Bible and possibly have no understanding of history, many do not know that Moses is a nonhistorical figure. Therefore, the Mosaic writings contained in the Old Testament were written by forgers claiming to be Moses. All of the Mosaic writings contain either fairy tales or plagiarized tales like the Genesis creation story, which was plagiarized from the Egyptian creation story. The books of David and Solomon were also written by forgers, because David and Solomon are nonhistorical figures. The Hebrew dietary laws were plagiarized from the writings of the ancient Kemites (i.e. Black Egyptians). The Ten Commandments contained in the Old Testament are a plagiarization from the writings of the ancient Kemetic people. These writings are known as the 42 negative confessions, which closely parallels the words of the Ten Commandments supposedly given to Moses at Mount Sinai. The 42 confessions, which existed tens of thousands of years prior to the delivery of the Ten Commandments by Moses to the Hebrew children, were handed down to the ancient Kemites by a goddess they called Ma’at. She was the goddess of moral law, truth and order. I’m more inclined to believe she was a factual ruler or queen in Kemet and not a divine spiritual being, untouchable like the Judeo-Christian God.

Why I’m an atheist after twenty-three years of biblical indoctrination is a phenomenon in and of itself. People who’ve known me for years cannot understand my current position as an atheist. Everyone is not always accepting of knowledge. Therefore, whenever I come across ex-church members, I make the choice to not engage any of them in conversation over my current feelings about Christianity and the nonhistorical Jesus of Nazareth. I simply do not have the energy to debate Christians I know who are heavily indoctrinated in a belief system based on a central figure named Christ Jesus who never even existed historically as a human being on this planet. Hesus (Jesus) Krishna (Christos) is no more than a composite of earlier deities worshipped throughout the ancient world. The cult of Serapis, which took root in Egypt in the 3rd Century BCE on orders of Ptolemy because he wanted to unite the Greeks and the Egyptians, spawned today’s version of Christ worship. However, the concept of a god-man-Savior figure goes back to the worship of Heru (whom the Greeks called Horus), the firstborn son of Asar and Aset, which were the first children of Amen-Ra, the Egyptian creator-sun deity.

The evil that exist in the world is enough to make anyone question the existence of any divine being, especially one who has been sold to us as being omnipresent by our spiritual slave masters known as church clergymen. If the Judeo-Christian God is all knowing and all powerful, why are millions of children starving from hunger around the world? Why are there millions of children being sold into slavery around the world? Why are the innocents being destroyed around the world? Why does the Judeo-Christian God allow the earth to be destroyed daily through chemical biological agents and nuclear energy? There are too many unanswered questions regarding the Judeo-Christian belief system. All religious systems are bullshit, and are the greatest lies ever told in the history of the world. Either God doesn’t care about humanity and is a sadomasochist, or he simply doesn’t exist? The Jesus of the Gospels is a literary character in a fictional story, and yet, people flock to churches Sunday after Sunday hoping to feel something from this mythical character, or perhaps, hoping to hear from the invisible Judeo-Christian God whom they’ve placed all their hope and faith in. This was my life for years until I woke up to enlightenment. Now, I sleep better at night without fear, without guilt, and without the expectation that a mythical god will come save me. I have to save myself now.

Blog written by Alberta Parish