The
passing of Nelson Mandela is another milestone of history such as was
experienced by many Americans in the early 1960s when the World War Two
generals and Presidents passed on. There is so much a trend toward historical
revisionism that I decided to write a comment about the former African National
Congress revolutionary leaders and former President of South Africa Nelson
Mandela.
The
true apartheid concern of Americans today is really economic segregation. A
metric of economic segregation within a nation is about the sole objective
criteria to recognize who is being put down. Corporatists and communists
internationally as well as fascists are happy to play the race card and elect
any sort of tax-cuts-for-the-rich politician the media can be blowhards for as
a shill for control. South African history was not like that however. Mandela
was a real revolutionary who grew up in the historical evolution of South Africa .
Why
did South Africa develop apartheid and why
did it take so long to end? Apartheid or racial separation was an historical
process rather than a designed or theoretical political system. Bantu were
early settlers of South Africa and Portuguese and later
Dutch settlers arrived about the same time as the Zulu fighting as tribes for
control of the region. Racial tribalism was the way of the world back then and
only slowly would racial integration without war on a battlefield evolve.
The
American civil war was largely fought to keep democracy intact for the first
truly democratic society of modern times. Ending southern slavery was a
necessity for keeping the old regime of global elites from dividing and
conquering the U.S.A. one piece at a time. The
world was ruled by royals and elites in the 19th century with Britain supporting the cause of
the southern Confederacy as a successor subversion follow-up to burning the
capital at Washington D.C. like an Al Qaeda attack
during the war of 1812. Apartheid was not slavery-it initially was a way of
keeping the savage foes at bay beyond the forts.
Before
electronics and C.S.I. law and order enforcement was bad. Murder was too
common. An excavation at a non-battle site in the Middle East from the late Neolithic
found that the majority of men had died from head wounds. Into modern time
law-enforcement was fairly ineffective except with punitive measures such as
burning a village to eliminate an insurgency. Social frontiers were established
with military rather than police power and unfortunately that included South Africa .
One
might have thought that after the troubles of the Nazis and Japanese
imperialists ended with the Second World War that the time for South Africa ’s apartheid to end had
arrived. After all the effort to use military conquest for colonial purposes
had halted long before, a year or two, and Gandhi had returned to India from
service as a police sergeant in South Africa to reprove settlements with Muslims on issues of Jammu and Kashmiri
independence. Instead what happened what wrenched the works was development of
a cold war with proxy wars and Cuban soldiers running amuck across Africa . Dumped weapons
stimulated revolutionary wars. A profusion of Kalashnikov rifles and explosives
created liberation movements. Doctor Che Guevara gained his moment in the
left-wing constellation before perishing in a South America jungle firefight. And
then Nelson Mandela had to sit out 27 years in a prison cell. America has two or three million
souls in prison cells, some innocent. When some innocent guy is released after
20 or 30 years usually he seems peaceful. I suppose most of the anger has been
burned out of him long before because of the futility of emotion-within-self
that does no good at all. Emotion is somewhat rational.
It
because obvious during the late years of the cold war that apartheid was a propaganda
victory in progress for the Red Block. Apartheid needed to end along with the
cold war and unsurprisingly it died a natural death in 1994. Nelson Mandela’s
main contribution historically was in stabilizing the post-Apartheid South
African government. He did that a little better than President George W. Bush
stabilized post-Saddam Hussein Iraq . We are skeptical that
President Obama will stabilize Afghanistan after 2014 very well.
In
the late 60’s and early 70s one could watch Bob Rule, Lenny Wilkins, Spencer
Haywood, Walter Hazzard and other African-ancestry basketball stars playing for
the Seattle Supersonics. They were not underprivileged nor segregated souls,
and so viewing from afar the troubles of South Africa amidst the world of wars,
Carlos the Jackal killers and egregious pollution such as at Minimata Japan one might wonder why
people could not assure full employment, a good environment and national
security for themselves.
In
the U.S.A. labor unions that had
high black membership along with most others have withered away along with low
unemployment. A variety of ways of creating permanent economic segregation for
citizens of the United States have developed and Americans with dual Mexican
citizenship are being cultivated as a way to let globalists remote control the
U.S. democracy and reduce it to a servile corporatist plaything. The media is
corporate owned or influenced and agitates to organize corporatist values. Well, we have poetry at least for consolation.
Freedom to Choose Jesus
Mapungubwe, Maghreb , Pate, ha nahar, Ibn Tumart
impulse drives contend for
the love of God
Pastor of the mysterious river of time
He put forces of heaven in
esse
majestically made life ist
words of Jesus shine as the
sun
Perfect High Priest and final sacrifice
atoning for the fallen
nature of man
saving those whom believe to
eternal life
Jesus, tempted at its pinnacle
anon said not a stone of it
would be left standing
Herod’s temple gone with
fire and wind
transformed to a desolate
temple mount
City of Peace stumbling block
dome or reconstructed temple
would it be the platform for the anti-christ
with broadcast team to deify it in audience
share?
Chumalungma, Yenesei , Yukon , Mare Ibrium
vain babblings and
oppositions of science
ambling walkabouts, geo
researches, time flows
Isaac and Ishmael forked at
Beer-sheba
humanity must choose at the cross.
From
the Sphere at the Edge of a Dream
©1993GIBSON
For this sphere’s lost soul’s Jesus walked
then into Jerusalem
time talks like irreversible
physics
to this being Jesus was
into the being-for-others of
social reality
Deliverer to the In-itself
Redeemer unto eternal life
that cosmos of one/none
before the event horizon
three-in-one and every
mortal’s dreams
to this being Jesus was
into the being-for-others of
social organization
deliverer to the In-itself
For the people of this sphere Jesus talked
then to Jerusalem and crucifixion
overcoming the demons of
hell to rise
on the third day
The Creator for many is a faith
transcending the temporal
ekstasis
thermodynamics of past,
present, future
with mercy, wisdom,
salvation and eternity.
Frozen
Corner Stones
©1977GIBSON
Grey marble block, granite
flaked with white
snow lights in brittle
branches
twigs snapped, the immense
Christmas eve courthouse
of Burleigh County
freezes alone this night-
its woodwork banisters for
moonbeams
and ghosts of cosmic panes
The jail is set for tours on
weekdays
against the very minus wind
chill factor
it’s neon sign stolen in the
Earth’s frigid breath
Christmas eve and the
cornerstones be, with inscription
are as everything time has,
or will never remember
of this night and the morrow
the cornerstones are visions
of molecules fading
into an eternal star field
from the inside, in a blank
space
to the outer surface of
their appearances.
http://csrl.org/gs/ Ralp Nader's book on corporatism