SOME PEOPLE ARE BLACK. GET OVER IT.

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On 23 March 2013, I was told by a member of staff at Southborough Library that I was searching for Internet Porn on a library PC, despite their being a) no evidence; b) the fact that Library staff are not psychic; &, c) are not known to me personally. Thus, they could not know my intentions.

On 3 April 2013, I received a letter from yourselves claiming I had accessed Websites (at Southborough Library) that were blocked - with no explanation as to how I could access such Sites (A bit like claiming I had passed through a locked door without a key.)

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On 4 June 2013, I received another letter from yourselves claiming I had - as above - somehow violated your Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). (I was told I could print a copy of this document from the pre-screen that appears before every customer Internet session at any library.)

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On 6 June 2013, I was told at Tunbridge Wells Library that I had been blocked from using the Library PCs as a result of the content of the letter referred to in the previous paragraph - even though this letter does not make any such statement. (This staff member had not actually read the letter and/or did not understand its content.)

On 8 June 2013, I could not make a booking on a Tunbridge Wells Library PC, despite receiving no written notification that I could not do so. A member of staff had to make the booking for me; after conferring with their manager.

On 2 July 2013, I was told at Tonbridge Library that I was no longer allowed to use their PCs. I was again shown your letter of 4 June 2013, as if this was proof, which it was not. This staff member had not actually read the letter and/or did not understand its content. (I was allowed to use their PCs after they realised their mistake.)

All of the above shows Library Staff all-too-eager to make negative assumptions about Black people - without evidence - and to believe that bullying, ridicule and bringing their personal problems into work represents good Customer Service.

This also allows me to do the same with about White people - but with evidence. The Library Service:

1. Is Institutional Racist - as defined in the UK government Report into the Murder of Stephen Lawrence (The definition given by William Macpherson within the report looking into the death of Stephen Lawrence was “the collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin”.);
2. employs staff with no understanding of civil law or civility;
3. employs staff who are ignorant, incompetent, unprofessional and illiterate;
4. seeks to punish customers before obtaining evidence against them putting rumour, belief and prejudice before evidence or proof;
5. White people believe other Whites before they will believe a Black no matter the evidence merely making a negative claim is enough for it to be believed by them;
6. staff tacitly accept the management will back them in any dispute with a customer - so are free to discriminate at will;
7. utilises poor or non-existent internal procedures and poor or non-existent internal communication;
8. possesses no understanding of the rules of evidence; leading to a desire to believe the worst in others without the need for evidence, lawful excuse or provocation; ie, arrogance;
9. clearly implies a White belief that public services are only for Whites and that Blacks are only to be granted access by special permission (of Whites);
10. has a legally-unenforceable AUP, since it does not address the legal issue of Intentionality.

The problem for Whites in all interactions with Blacks is that if they are subjectively-based, Whites can easily be accused of White supremacy while it is correspondingly difficult for Whites to claim Black supremacy.

Whites are not going to protect non-Whites from the predations of their own White supremacy so non-Whites have to.

White supremacy is like paedophilia - incurable. Therefore, I can only repeat my threat contained in my letter of 8 June 2013 that I can see no other alternative than legal action (for Harassment & Discrimination) should the above violation of my Common Law rights occur again.

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Black Jacobins (1938)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	Book

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A fantastic and superbly-written book about the only successful slave revolt in history that shows just what Blacks can do given the right circumstances and leadership.

This book that gets right to the heart of why Whites approved of African slavery for 500 years. Without the guilt and shame of a typical White historian this is an eidetic view of the challenges posed by White supremacy - then and now; exposing the real reasons for the abolition of racial slavery: Free trade is more profitable than mercantilism since one can then sell to the highest bidder and not just ones own government. As well as the fact the British government’s jealousy of the French making more money than they at the traffic in human misery that the possession of India meant the British need no longer indulge in.

Humanitarianism is absent from this account since a humanitarian country would obviously never have become involved in racial slavery in the first place. The book then comes to the obvious conclusion that White history books simply lie about the ethical role of Whites in the emancipation of African slaves.

What makes this book so readable is the precision with which the writer effectively skewers White politics as quintessentially White supremacist with humor, wit and irony.

The mixture of fear and envy Whites have for the exotic is stressed here through their repeated claim that anything foreign is inferior while being embraced to fund the English (17th century) and French (18th century) revolutions. A supreme irony of history is that both these bids for freedom and statements of the inalienable rights of Man were made possible by a bourgeoisie made rich from African slavery. The moral contradictions of White culture today stem from such institutions as the writer here makes many links between the past and the present.

That the abolition of the slave trade and of slavery itself never simultaneously abolished the various European empires and the White racism that drove them on is a telling legacy that remains with us to this very day.

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Ancient Egyptians for Dummies

(2007)

RATING:	40%
FORMAT:	Book

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Apart from not explaining where the culture and civilization of ancient Egypt came from in Africa; that is, what pre-existing people it resembled, this book fails to get much beyond the White Western historical perspective of its author.

Ancient Egypt is presented as an African miracle; almost spontaneously sprouting as the world’s alleged first civilization. Western Egyptologists have a problem placing ancient Egypt firmly within the context of what came before despite the existence of similar civilizations further south that predated it. One can only suspect the racism of White Egyptologists unwilling to admit any Black undertaking to be worthwhile.

Worse than this, the book is written to interest modern Western readers in the practices of an ancient culture by comparing and contrasting them with us. This leads us to assume that anything the ancient Egyptians did that we find strange today is objectively strange; while anything they did that we find acceptable is objectively rational. These cultural assumptions are never mentioned in the book’s Foolish Assumptions section; representing a cultural chauvinism that tells us more about ourselves than it does about them, despite this book not being called Modern Westerners for Dummies. (Indeed, no such book exists precisely because no author can be found to interrogate their own prejudices sufficiently to justify its existence.)

Black Egyptologists tend to understand a Black culture better than White ones since some aspects of ancient and modern are identical and can be better explained to a modern audience from that cultural perspective. The White author here is quite incapable of removing herself from her own observations about people she simultaneously claims have strange practices and yet are just like us! Whatever happened to objective history, erudition and true learning is tacitly expressed in this volume that never rises above the level of an undergraduate thesis.

If you are a dummy this book tell you much about yourself that you already knew, if not, then steer clear. To accurately study a foreign culture one has to go at least a little bit native, but this author is fascinated by ancient Egypt yet lacks the empathy, compassion and respect to ever truly understand it.

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Blacksnake

(1973)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	DVD

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[Slaves]

From Russ Meyer’s period of making more serious films in a more serious way in widescreen (eg, Seven Minutes); before returning to make humorous films about serious subjects.

The black slave-trade theme is well handled and the melodramatic performing style successfully brings out the racist emotions of the White characters and the righteous anger of the Blacks.

Anushka HEMPEL makes a surprisingly-sexy racist.

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When the Levees Broke (2006)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Despite the inordinate length of this documentary, there is not a second of padding here. Moreover, and unusually, the director's commentary is actually worth listening to.

A documentary about the disaster of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans in 2005 exacerbated by the disastrously slow and unprioritized response of the various federal agencies - with the notable exception of the US Coast Guard. Looting took place not only for the usual materialist reasons but because food, water and medical aid was not forthcoming from the federal government. Looting that even the police took part in as often as they were trying to stop it.

This entire documentary is a searing indictment of the attitude of White America toward Blacks & poor Whites - whose lives count for less than affluent or wealthy Whites. Blacks trying to escape the carnage into White areas were forced at gunpoint to return. It becomes obvious that many White witnesses are desperately trying to conceal their racism behind the shooting of looters; while the Black witnesses are not so surprised at the White response of not taking the storm as seriously as the situation demanded. Here, the White fear of Blacks manifests itself in trying to police the survivors rather than actually help them; using the National Guard as an occupying force rather than a relieving one.

How such a thing could happen in a rich country like the United States beggars the imagination but, when one considers that that wealth was built on the suffering of Blacks, perhaps that is not so surprising. When help finally came, its resemblance to a slave auction is palpable along with the claim that Blacks were "Refugees" (rather than "Evacuees") as if they had suddenly become stateless in their own land. Along with the odd belief that Black lives were improved by a kind of act-of-god slum-clearance program called Katrina. The sense here is that Blacks were deliberately allowed to drown by Whites because of an inadequate levee protection system and that dispersing Evacuees to other states was really a way of getting rid of Blacks from New Orleans. The lack post-Katrina compensation only made things worse - the Federal Emergency Management System (FEMA) is more of a disaster than the storm ever was. The bald-faced lies of the US president regarding Whites' conventionalized fear of Blacks are summed-up best by Sean Penn: 'This was America; this was today; and, this was a Third-World scene'. A national embarrassment and a national disgrace where Blacks are viewed as literally picayune by Whites who claim Blacks are natural-born looters, trespassers and that their predicament is their own fault, anyway. The difference between the BBC & CNN reporting was that the former focused on victims; the latter, on the physical destruction.

What impresses most is the desire of so many New Orleanais to rebuild what has been taken away from them both by the storm and the federal government. As well as the largely unshakeable humor of the residents.

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