The Trouble With Multiculturalism

by Lawrence K. Freeman

For most of 1993, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
(ADL) was under federal investigation for illegal spying against
Arab, African-American, and other political groups, including
the association connected with Lyndon LaRouche. The same
organization which bought a sweetheart deal to avoid prosecution
has also been destroying your children's minds, through the
ADL's ``A World of Difference'' program, which has been
operating throughout the country's public schools since 1985. 
The ADL has been promoting various racist-multiculturalist
programs, which, along with the current Outcome-Based Education
(OBE), have produced a generation of immoral, uneducated, and
dysfunctional youth. Unless we wish to allow our children--who
are our future--to be turned into slave labor for a post-
industrial new Dark Age, these programs must be stopped
immediately. To fully understand how dangerous and destructive
these programs are to the mental and moral development of our
children, we must carefully examine their underlying assumptions
about the individual and his or her relationship to the
development of the human race as a whole.

`A World of Difference'

Let us begin with quotes from the {Anti-Defamation League's `A
World of Difference' Training Program To Combat Prejudice and
Discrimination in the Classroom} and other publications. From {
{To Combat Prejudice....}:

``In 1985, the ADL created a campaign designed to educate both
children and adults by building on a simple concept: that
differences are what America is all about.... The ADL is
committed to providing materials and strategies that allow
`hands-on' opportunities to discuss and think about issues of
diversity.''

``METHODOLOGY-Self-Examination Exercise: to provide participants
the opportunity to define themselves based on their background,
ethnicity, or other cultural factors, and to discuss related
experiences.''

From the ADL's {Curriculum Guidelines for Multiethnic Education}:

``An ethnic group is a specific kind of cultural group which has
all of the following characteristics:

``a. Its origins preceded the creation of a nation-state or were
external to the nation state;

``c. It has an ancestral tradition and its members share a sense
of peoplehood and an interdependence of fate.''

``1. Ethnic diversity should be recognized and respected at the
individual, group, and societal levels....

``Ethnic diversity is a social reality all too frequently ignored
by educational institutions, yet it deserves open recognition.
Ethnic groups often have different world views, values,
traditions, and practices....

``School practices and programs must not emphasize the sins and
virtues of any groups, but should teach accurate, valid accounts
of our past and present from the perspectives of different
ethnic and racial groups....

``To gain more complete understanding of both our past and
present, students should look at events and situations from the
perspectives of Anglo-Americans and from the perspectives of
people who are Jewish American, Polish American, Philippino
American, and Puerto Rican American.  This approach to teaching
is more likely to make our students less ethnocentric and more
able to accept the fact that almost any event or situation can
be legitimately looked at from many perspectives. When using
this approach in the classroom, the teacher should avoid, as
much as possible, labeling any perspective as `right' or `wrong.
' Rather, the teacher should try to help students to understand
how each group may view a situation differently and why.''

The Individual and Natural Law

If the ADL's ``A World of Difference'' curriculum guidelines as
reported in part above sound acceptable to you, if you are not
totally offended and outraged by them, this is a sign that you
are suffering morally and mentally from the effects of the
counterculture paradigm shift that has infected our society over
the last 30 years. How can any thinking human being accept such
nonsense? Human beings are not fundamentally defined by their
ethnic backgrounds, peoplehood, or interdependence of fate. The
human race is not a ``zoological'' collection of different
animals, with different ``creature'' characteristics and needs.
History proves to us that, there are more and less advanced
societies as well as right and wrong forms of social behavior,
that do or do not lead to the durable survival of the human
species.  It is not up to one's perspective.  There is a criteria
to judge right from wrong and good from evil.

Natural Law, which is universal, demonstrates to us that each
individual life is sacred, because each human being is created
in the image of the Creator-{imago Dei}, endowed with the
``divine spark'' of reason.  This is what absolutely separates
the human species from the animal world, where there are
numerous species and subspecies distinctions. It is through the
powers of creative reason that man demonstrates his uniqueness
by transforming the mode of human existence, so as to be able to
sustain economically a qualitatively rising standard of living
for an expanding population. What distinguishes the human race
on the most profound level is the power to create new
``revolutionary ideas''--discoveries, which overturn the
previous axioms of thought. These ``revolutionary ideas'' allow
mankind as a whole to make nonlinear ``leaps'' in its physical-
economic power to increase its population density. The ability
for each individual to act in this uniquely human way exists as
an innate potential in every human being, because only men and
women are created in the image of the Creator-{imago Dei}.

The birth of each new child created in the image of God proceeds
from the institution of the family, consisting of a husband,
wife, and children. With the proper love provided by the family,
the child has the potential to develop and mature into a morally
responsible member of society.  This of course is greatly aided
by a classical public school curriculum dedicated to developing
the cognitive powers of the growing child's mind.

The sovereign nation-state is absolutely necessary for the
development and protection of a society based on the sacredness
of the individual and family. A nation-state must be committed
to nurturing the potential of each and every citizen and to
maximizing the contributions of every individual for the well
being of the society. Thus, Natural Law, through the nation-
state, affords the individual the potential for a true identity,
not as a member of one of several so-called races or cultures
each with its own special ethnic-fate, but as a sovereign
personality who finds his true self-interest and identity in the
full historic span of the evolution of modern man. In this way
the sovereign individual participates in the past, present, and
future of the human race in its unified existence.

Since there is only {one} Creator, and we are all as human beings
created in His image, there is only one human culture and one
human race. To propose that there is more than one universal
human culture would be to suggest that there is more than one
Creator. Thus, multiculturalism in effect proposes a Pantheon of
Gods, a pagan belief structure, opposed to the fundamental
tenents of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Mutliculturalism
represents in effect a twisted ideology, that denies Natural
Law, and attempts to construct a false history of the human race
based on a so-called ethnic perspective. In effect
multicultralism bestializes the notion of mankind by creating a
``human zoo'' of ethnic subspecies, thus attempting to blur the
absolute distinction between the human race and the animal
world.

Who Is Causing Racism?

It is the ADL's ``A World of Difference'' and multiculturalism
programs, with all of their many ``ethnic centrisms,'' which are
promoting racism throughout the United States. It is no
coincidence that the ADL is shipping its ``A World of
Difference'' to Germany to help spread anti-Semitism in the
midst of the rise of ADL-sponsored neo-Nazi hate groups.  These
programs attack the very essence of human existence--creative
thought--by brainwashing young children into believing that they
are all different from each other because of their different
backgrounds, languages, and skin colors. Accentuating these so-
called differences at an early age and continuing to do so
through (over-priced) college courses, denies our youth their
proper human identity. They become almost hopelessly brainwashed
into believing that there is more than one human race, with more
than one universal-moral-scientific criterion to measure its
progress. They come to believe that there are language-cultural
lineages which have historically developed along different
pathways. But the human race is singularly an indivisible whole,
both biologically and in the inherent potential for each and
every individual to contribute to the whole of humanity through
his creative powers of reason.@s1

Friedrich Schiller, the great poet, playwright, and historian of
the early eighteenth century, rigorously and beautifully
captures the progress of the human race as a continuous single
unity, in his essay ``Universal History.'' Schiller writes:

``All preceding ages, without knowing it or aiming at it, have
striven to bring about our human century. Ours are the treasures
which diligence and genius, reason, and experience, have finally
brought home in the long age of the world.... A noble desire
must glow in us to also make contributions out of {our means} to
this bequest of truth, morality, and freedom which we received
from the world past, and which we must surrender once more,
richly enlarged, to the world to come, and in this eternal chain
which winds itself through all human generations, to make firm
our ephemeral existence.''

As Schiller correctly emphasizes, it is through our individual
contributions to the whole--the one human race, and not to any
lesser division or alleged race--that we locate our deepest
sense of human identity. If our schools and colleges do not
educate from this fundamental understanding of Natural Law, then
our children are being deliberately lied to, which will not only
undermine their ability to learn at an early and impressionable
age, but will lead to increased irrationalism and racism as they
get older.

Bernal's Anti-Black Athena

The leading edge of multiculturalist studies today is
Afrocentrism. Martin Bernal, the well-known Afrocentric scholar,
begins his book, {Black Athena,} with the false premise that
modern history has been a battle between what he calls the
European or Aryan Greek model versus the Ancient Asiatic,
portraying Greek culture as a mere extension of Egyptian and
Semitic influences, which makes no unique contributions of its
own. Bernal, like other Afrocentrist scholars, does not hide his
dislike for Plato and attempts to portray Plato's ideas as an
appendage of the Egyptian priests' caste system.

Bernal asserts that Egyptian religion, dominated by the
Isis/Horace/Osirus pagan mythology, in its collapse became the
source for Hermeticism, neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism. He
alleges that the fifteenth-century Golden Renaissance draws its
image of man ``as the measure of all things'' from the first
two, displaying his contempt for the accomplishments of the
great Italian Renaissance, which elevated mankind from its
bestial existence during the Dark Ages to the image of man as {
imago Dei.}@2 Displaying his own pagan, anti-Christian
prejudice, Bernal asserts--incorrectly--that the fifteenth-
century Renaissance was concerned with oriental mystery and
pagan antiquity, and ``looked behind Christianity to Rome,
behind Rome to Greece and behind Greece to Egypt.''

Whether Bernal knows it or not, he has ended up ``in bed'' with
the most ardent racists, by his tracing speculative freemasonry
back to what he says are its Egyptian roots. He claims the
freemasons, following the Rosicrucians, were the dominant
intellectual force in the eighteenth century, which based itself
on the Egyptian priesthood. Bernal lays bare his thesis in the
conclusion of his first volume of {Black Athena}:

``I went on to show [that] at the beginning of the eighteenth
century the threat of Egyptian philosophy to Christianity became
acute. The Freemasons, who made much use of the image of Egyptian
wisdom, were at the centre of the Enlightenment in its attack on
Christian order. And it was in opposition to this eighteenth
century notion of `reason' on the part of the Egyptophiles that
the Greek ideal of sentiment and artistic perfection was
developed. Further, the development of Europeancentrism and
racism, with the colonial expansion over the same period, led to
the fallacy that only people who lived in temperate climates--
that is, Europeans--could really think. Thus the ancient
Egyptians, who--though their color was uncertain--lived in
Africa, lost their position as philosophers.''

But, who were and still are the racists created by the British
oligarchy? Who has fostered the most vicious and deadly forms of
racism here in the United States? It is no other than the Egypt-
rooted freemasons that Mr. Bernal so profusely worships. It is
thoroughly documented that not only are the Scottish Rite
Freemasons, out-and-out Satan worshippers opposed to all three
monotheistic religions and who reject the perfection of man in
the search for truth. But it was the freemasons who {created the
Ku Klux Klan.} In the United States, it was the racist KKK which
killed and persecuted without cause untold numbers of African-
Americans. It was the Ku Klux Klan and its sister Jewish Lodge--
the B'nai B'rith--which later joined the ADL, both spawned by
the Scottish Rite Freemasons, who were active arms of the
insurrection against President Lincoln and the Union, led by
Confederate General and KKK founder Albert Pike.@s3

How ironic it is for one of the leading Afrocentrists to praise
the Freemasons, precisely because he claims their heritage can
be traced back to Egypt, Africa, when that is the very
organization responsible for the most unbridled practices of
racism against Afro-Americans in this country. Also consider,
that it is the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, another
offspring of freemasonry, which is promoting the ``A World of
Difference'' course, along with various racist multiculturalist
programs. It is time to honestly acknowledge that it is
freemasonry with its degraded, bestial view of man that is
behind the destructive and deliberate miseducation of our youth.
The real crime is that parents allow their children to be
brainwashed in this racist ideology, instead of insisting that
their minds be developed in accordance with moral-scientific
laws of the universe, that are reflected in the successful
development of the human race as a whole.

Egypt's Priests: The Original Freemasons?

A similar, although not identical theme to that of Bernal is
popularized in {The Stolen Legacy} by George James. James states
that modern Masonic lodges are directly copied from the Egyptian
temples and likewise that Egyptian Mystery System (EMS), known
only to the inner circle of Egyptian priests, is the root of
freemasonry.  According to James, the object of the EMS was
``the deification of man,'' as the precursor to Christianity.
James believes that the Egyptian Grand Lodge existed some 5,000
years ago on the banks of the Nile and is the mother of all of
today's masonic lodges.

The Egyptian priests used magic formulas and instructions,
numerical and geometrical symbolism, hypnosis, and prophecy to
control the population.  This so-called secret knowledge of the
EMS was never written down and therefore cannot be studied or
scrutinized in any intelligent way.  According to James, this
``secret knowledge'' of the EMS was communicated only verbally
to the followers of the priesthood, and was the source of what
was later taught by the Greeks. James accuses the Greeks of
stealing and plagiarizing from the Egyptian priests, since,
according to James, ``the Greeks showed no creative powers and
were unable to improve upon the knowledge they had received from
the Egyptians.''

While it is impossible to know precisely what this Egyptian
Mystery System actually espoused, it is nonetheless perfectly
clear that modern freemasonry is built on the same foundation of
secrecy and mysticism. This has led to modern-day freemasonry, a
Satanic belief structure, which rejects the idea that each
sovereign human being is born with the potential to know and
participate in the past, present, and future of mankind's
existence, because each person is created in the image of God.

So, James, like Bernal, finds himself supporting the Scottish
Rite Freemasons, the ``mother'' of the Ku Klux Klan and the
B'nai B'rith, who have been the strongest promoters of
institutional racism in the U.S.A. since the early 1800s.

Why the Greeks Are Maligned

James, like many other Afrocentrists, accuses the Greeks of
stealing everything they know from the Egyptians, through the
invasion by Alexander the Great and Aristotle's securing the
Egyptian secret knowledge by plundering the royal library at
Alexandria. It is unclear that Aristotle was ever in Alexandria,
and it is even less clear that Aristotle knew how to read and
translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The core of the fraud by Bernal, James et al., is their refusal
to accept the scientific contributions of Plato and Socrates to
the advancement of knowledge. Beyond any advancement in any
particular branch of knowledge by Plato's Academy, it was the
Platonic-Socratic (not Aristotelian) method of {hypothesis} ,
which was the greatest breakthrough for civilization up till
that point. There is no denial by Plato, that leading Greek
scholars learned a great deal from the Egyptians, as is the
natural and proper course of the development of ideas among
thinking people. But the hysterical denial of unique
contributions by leading Greeks, standing on the shoulders of
the Egyptians, is an attempt to rewrite history and prevent
students from learning the real history of ideas.

The core of the Afrocentrist assertion that Greeks merely stole
knowledge from the Egyptians is an artificial concoction to
prove Egypt, Africa is the fundamental source of knowledge and
not the so-called European Caucasians. This bit of fakery is
used by James to try to establish that Africans and blacks are
superior to Europeans and whites since Egypt was populated by
``dark-skinned'' African people. While it is true that there
were ``dark-skinned'' Egyptians, that is not to stay that all
``dark-skinned'' people have the Negroid features associated
with African Americans today or with the Nubian population of
Kush located to the south of Egypt.

However, any information concerning what might have actually
happened historically is irrelevant to the central point that
James wishes to make for the sake of his Afrocentrist ideology.
For James, this is a ``black versus white, Europe versus Africa''
division, and for him it is paramount that the so-called black
African race is on top. He discusses the issue as follows in the
final chapter of {Stolen Legacy}:

``Now that it has been shown that philosophy, and the arts and
sciences were bequeathed to civilization by the people of North
Africa and not by the people of Greece; the pendulum of pride
and honor is due to shift from the people of Greece to the people
of the African continent who are the rightful heirs of such
praise and honor.

``This is going to mean a tremendous change in world opinion and
attitude, for all people and races who accept the new philosophy
of African redemption.... [T]he truth that the Greeks were not
the authors of Greek philosophy; but the people of North Africa;
would change their opinion from one of disrespect for Black
people throughout the world and treat them accordingly.

``It is going to mean a most important change in the mentality
of the Black people: a change from an inferiority complex, to
the realization and consciousness of their equality with all
other great peoples of the world, who have built great
civilizations. With this change in the mentality of Black and
White people, great changes are also expected in their
respective attitudes towards each other, and in society as a
whole.''

The Inalienable Rights of Mankind

The paragraph cited above demonstrates James's complete failure
to understand that the inalienable rights of all human beings
are guaranteed and derived from Natural Law, not skin color. We
do not achieve respect or importance by tracing our biological
blood lines or physical characteristics back thousands of years
to an alleged noble or superior race.  That is {racism,} pure
and simple. Instead, we should understand that all human beings
are created equal in their potential to develop their own power
of creative reason. It is a crime against all of humanity, to
deny any individual his inalienable rights.  Until society
accords every individual these fundamental rights, along with
the dignity he deserves precisely because he is a member of the
human race, our fight for true freedom must continue.

One of the greatest crimes committed especially against young
African Americans is that they have been robbed of their real
identity.  They have been deprived of the right to be respected
as important and essential members of the human race and have
their minds valued for the potential contributions they can make
to society.  This is criminal. But manipulating history to
promote one's so-called race against another is dangerous,
wrong, and racist. Furthermore, it will undermine one's ability
to locate one's {true} identity as a unique creative human being,
a {microcosm} in the service of the totality of the progressive
development of the human race, the {macrocosm}. If we are
committed to reversing the wrongs done, then let us give people
their real identity, not a phony British-created
multiculturalist one.

People living in Africa, as well as African-Americans, have the
same {inalienable rights} to the most advanced levels of
economic and cultural existence--regardless of one's country,
skin color, language, and historical lineage.

Lyndon LaRouche in a conversation from prison last year makes
the point regarding the right for Africans to have economic
development:

``The idea of trying to get a separate culture, I think is the
problem. What is needed, is you have people in Africa, as we
see, who have a need and a right for certain things for their
own sovereign states; and they should have the right to the
access to these things for their sovereign states, such as
development of infrastructure, without which there will be
nothing but misery throughout Africa. Without railroads, without
power plants, without improvement of navigable rivers, canals,
and roads, there is no possibility for Africa.  Without schools,
which teach the transmission of true knowledge throughout
history, so that the child in each case has a grasp of the
knowledge of all mankind, the child is inadequately developed.
They are crippled. They cannot cope with the world around them..
..

``The question is of justice for and dignity for the individual
African, which requires institutions of family and self
government, which can assure that kind of protection, that
development.''

Afrocentrism Invades Baltimore

The Baltimore city school system has taken the lead in forcing
through an Afrocentric curriculum, supervised by a paid
consultant, Dr.  Molefi Kete Asante of Temple University. The
Baltimore city schools advertise their new program in a brochure
entitled ``Multicultural Education'' whose stated goal ``is to
develop and maintain a curriculum that is multicultural where
the content, culture and contributions of all ethnicities are
valued {without hierarchy}''(emphasis added).

In discussions with members of the Maryland state task force on
multicultural education, Dr. Asante has asserted that ``the
African-American child should be made to feel ownership of the
information.... Afrocentricity really means ... connecting the
child to the content.'' Echoing the OBE ``I can't learn unless I
feel good'' mentality that is taking over the nation's public
schools, Dr. Asante demands for the African-American child the
equivalent of what he calls the European ``white self-esteem
curriculum.''

Asante claims that a child cannot learn, if the material taught
is not part of his particular background or experience. This
leads to a dangerous line of thought, which was highlighted by a
Baltimore County assistant superintendent of schools who
absurdly stated, ``We know for a fact that so much of history
has been distorted that it is very difficult to determine what
is true. Our responsibility is to present it all and let the
children sort it out.'' This brings us back again to the
incompetent notion that there is more than one standard of truth
from which to judge the evolutionary development of the human
race and teachers should not try to teach a single truth, but
leave it up to the children themselves to decide.  So knowledge,
and learning, which should be primarily concerned with
stimulating the child's cognitive powers are now being replaced
by relativism, ethnic information, and mere facts from which the
child chooses, depending on which is most ``relevant'' to his
background and makes him ``feel good'' about it.

The history of human civilization proves conclusively, that all
leaps forward in mankind's existence, measured by increases in
actual and potential population density, were preceded by a
Renaissance of new and profound ideas.@s4 It was as a result of
man's increased scientific understanding of the lawfulness of
the universe, which flowed from the Italian Renaissance of the
fifteenth century, that our planet experienced its greatest
increase in population density. Yes, this Renaissance took place
in Europe, but only by standing on the shoulders of previous
periods of similar intellectual fervor, such as the Islamic
Renaissance of 700-1000 AD.  Only the most irrational,
brainwashed victims of multiculturalism would insist that this
is an exclusively European accomplishment, when in fact its
benefits have radiated across the globe over the last 500 years.
The scientific breakthroughs of the Golden Renaissance do not
belong to any one group of people, but are the property of every
human being, because they belong to the {one} human species. It
is oligarchical-racist institutions such as the World Wide Fund
for Nature, the United Nations, et al., which have sought to
prevent all countries from sharing in the benefits of new
technological advances.

All discoveries, whether they be in science, art, music, or
economics, that advance the frontiers of human knowledge and
lead to an increase in man's economic development belong to
everyone and should be taught to every child, and are relevant
to all people regardless of their particular backgrounds. There
is a rich history of accomplishments by African-Americans, dating
back to the War of Independence, covering every field of
knowledge and human activity, which is the property of all us
and every student has the right to know. Everyone should be
familiar with the accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B.
DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Banneker, Dr. Charles
Drew, Marian Anderson, Harriet Ross Tubman--to name but a few.
Any attempt to limit or restrict a child's knowledge to the
``relevance or experience'' of one's skin color is racist and
mind destructive.

Dr. Asante, in his book {The Afrocentric Idea}, asserts that
Afrocentricity ``means literally, placing African ideals at the
center of any analysis that involves African culture and
behavior.'' Dr. Asante sees his work as ``a radical critique of
Eurocentric ideology that masquerades as a universal view in the
fields of intercultural communication, rhetoric, philosophy,
linguistics, psychology, education, anthropology, and history.''
He praises the Frankfurt School which was created in the 1920s
by communists to carry out the destruction of Western Judaeo-
Christian civilization from within, in a way communism was
incapable of doing from the outside,@s5 but complains that
Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and others were
still carrying out their criticism within the ``Eurocentric
Family.'' Dr. Asante either intentionally, or by an
extraordinary degree of ignorance, praises the deconstructionist
Jacques Derrida, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and the already
mentioned leaders of the Frankfurt School as the best of what he
calls Eurocentric, white male culture, when in fact they
represent a degenerate anti-human collection of fascists and
communists deployed to destroy human civilization as we know it.

Dr. Asante deliberately omits from his critique of so-called
Eurocentric thought those revolutionary scientific discoveries
which have made possible great technological leaps forward for
our global population. In fact, Dr.  Asante despises science and
scientific thinking as products of Eurocentrism.  It is for this
reason he deliberately praises the anti-scientifc, anti-Western
schools of thought mentioned above. For him, Afrocentricity is
an escape into the world of feelings, emotions, magic, and myth-
making, which he projects (falsely) as the unique properties of
people from Africa. This degrading view of Africans, and by
implication African-Americans, is part of Dr.  Asante's claim
that Afrocentricity worships the mystical qualities of the
irrational-pagan Earth Mother known as Gaia or in Egyptian
mythology, Isis. He alludes to this in describing the
effectiveness of African-American speakers: ``Akin to the
suffering genre is the suckling genre, mainly (but not entirely)
identified with Mother-Earth, which relates everything to the
motif of caring. We care for the world not just for our own
children, and in our own myth the suckling mother is a
multimammarian who gives milk to all, equally.''

Afrocentricity Aids Oligarchism

Proponents of Afrocentricity like Dr. Asante, whether they are
completely conscious of their role or not, are directly aiding
those oligarchical elite families which are responsible for the
oppression of African-Americans. Some may object that this is an
unfair and outrageous claim by this writer, but it is the truth.
If an individual is deprived of the means to develop his powers
of creation in the image of God, he is threatened with the loss
of what is most precious for his human identity and the only
quality of his human existence which allows him to participate
with the past and future of civilization. Any ideology, myth, or
culture which undermines or degrades the nurturing of that
potential for creative thought is fundamentally an anti-human
culture.

When Dr. Asante and other Afrocentrists, deny this fundamental
quality and put forward a lesser view of what is the essence of
our humanity, they are aiding the enemy of those they espouse to
defend. This is precisely what Dr. Asante is doing when he
falsely counterposes the Afrocentric notion of man in a mystical-
collective harmony with the universe to the so-called logical-
positivist thinking of the West. What is lost, when one is
forced to choose between these two erroneous belief structures,
is the quality of creative thinking identified with the notion
of scientific hypothesis.

To see how degraded Dr. Asante's view of African-Americans is,
one should review the final pages of the concluding chapter of
his book {The Afrocentric Idea.} Dr. Asante stoops low, by
reaching into the realm of professional sports, to locate the
Afro-American's harmony with the universe. ``It is the direct
search for harmony that is at the base of African-American
spirituality. We seek it everywhere and all the time, and then
there are those moments when it bursts full blown into our souls
and we take wings and fly for awhile. The graceful basketball
player, who moves in tune to the rhythms of the game in just
such a way as to bring his body in harmony with the particular
moment of decision on the court, is in search of the experience.
The football player who eludes several other players in his
quest to make a touchdown ... one must do it in such a manner
that harmony is served.''

Dr. Asante also finds this special experience of harmony-
transcendence in the irrationalism of jazz. Jazz, he writes,
depends ``on the incessant collective drive of a people in
harmony with self, fellow earthlings, and nature.'' He quotes
from the famous jazz and concert musician Wynton Marsalis:
``Jazz is something Negroes {invented} and it said the most
profound things not only about us and the way we look at things,
but about what modern democratic life is really about. It is the
nobility of the race put into sound; it is the sensuousness of
romance in our dialect; it is the picture of people in all their
glory, which is what swinging is.'' This denigrating and bestial
view of African-Americans--that they can experience this special
Afrocentric harmony in the unexpected spontaneous ``switch up''
of movements in sports and in jazz--is far more insidious than
any ``Eurocentric, Caucasian male.''

Dr. Asante chooses to locate the qualities of harmony for African
Americans in their ``unique'' emotional feeling-states, and
their bodily movements, rather than in the power of their minds,
where true harmony with the universe is found. That is racism,
pure and simple. It is precisely the degraded image that the
oligarchy wants to project onto the black population.

The Fight Is Against Evil

Conspicuously absent from the rhetoric of the various
Afrocentrists and their related academic circles is the need to
destroy those evil forces who are responsible for the oppression
and exploitation of people of color everywhere on this globe.
Nowhere in any of the ADL's ``A World of Difference'' programs
are the racist British-based Scottish Rite Freemasons attacked.
Not one single word is raised against the International Monetary
Fund's genocidal policy which is murdering 100-200 million black
Africans. While Afrocentrist writers drone on and on in their
falsely composed attacks on so-called Eurocentrism, isn't odd
that they are pathetically afraid to say one word against the
evil financial establishment--the real murders and racists?
Their silence is deafening.

While American college campuses and now public schools are
inundated with this racism, Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, and other
nations are in engaged in a life-and-death battle against the
IMF and the monetarist-free trade fanatics for the survival of
their countries.

What about the genocidal programs being implemented right here
in U.S.  cities? Look at the hell holes of our urban centers,
where the majority of the African-American population lives.
Look at the infant mortality rates, the spread of AIDS, the
deluge of drug-abuse, the homicide rate, the number of people
living in poverty without enough food to eat. The brutality of
living conditions is rapidly approaching those of the Third
World. These cities are more like cages, where people treated
like animals in turn become more animalistic and more homicidal.
The only response from our elected officials, with the ghoulish
support of the population, is to demand capital punishment and a
speed-up of executions.

This is not an objective problem.  We have allowed our cities to
be looted and destroyed by a financial elite in their effort to
maintain a financial bubble of trillions of dollars of debt and
speculative derivatives. These monetarist bloodsuckers are
killing our citizens, which is beyond racism, at an accelerating
rate in the inner cities.  They are not Eurocentrist, they are
anti-human. Our factories have been shut down, our vital
infrastructure of roads, bridges, harbors, water processing, and
power plants has deteriorated, while the people's material
standard of living has been driven down, down, down. All of this
is under the orders of the controllers of the ``financial
markets,'' who demand that their debt bubble be maintained at
the expense of the living conditions of the population.

Could it be, that because the ADL and its multicultural curricula
are funded by monetarist-junk bond swindlers like Michael Milken,
that our real enemies are never mentioned?  Why aren't the
financial backers of these fraudulent multiculturalist-
Afrocentrist programs, who are responsible for the vicious
looting of our economic existence studied as the ``anti-human
species'' they represent and exposed for their crimes?

The hideous programs that are being implemented in our urban
centers today, flow from an acceptance of axioms of neo-
Malthusian population control, ushered in by the mid-1960s as
part of an entire counter-cultural paradigm shift. It might be
fashionable on campuses today to distort history and denounce
the so-called Eurocentrism in the name of Afrocentrism, but
racism and genocide will only end when the real enemy
responsible for these polices is taken on--in political combat--
by all people who are concerned about human life. Of course,
giving up this multiculutral-Afrocentric rhetoric and fighting
those very powerful institutions and individuals who are
responsible for the deplorable conditions and treatment of
African-Americans can be quite dangerous. But as the saying
goes, ``if you not willing to walk the walk,'' then one should
at least get out of the way of those of us who are serious in
fighting evil for the good of all people.

Notes

1.   ``A Reply to Afrocentrism, There is Only One Human Race,''
by Lawrence Freeman, {The New Federalist}, Vol.  7, No. 15, May
3, 1993.

2.   ``Nicholas of Cusa And the Council of Florence,'' by Helga
Zepp-LaRouche, {Fidelio}, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1992.

3.   ``Why Albert Pike's Statue Must Fall,'' by Anton Chaitkin,
{Fidelio}, Vol. 2, No.1, Spring 1993.

``How Albert Pike Proved Himself a KKK Criminal,'' by Lyndon H.
LaRouche Jr., {Fidelio,} Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1993.

4.   ``Population Growth Is Caused By Renaissances,'' by Paul
Gallagher, {Fidelio}, Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 1993.

5.   ``The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and `Political
Correctness,'|'' by Michael J. Minnicino, {Fidelio,} Vol. 1, No.
1, Winter 1992.

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May 7 (EIRNS)--FOUNDATION OF LEADING ADVOCATE OF DRUG
DECRIMINALIZATION SPONSORING CHICAGO CONFERENCE ON PRIVATIZATION
OF PUBLIC SERVICES. Richard Dennis, a commodities speculator in
Chicago, as well as a trustee and longtime associate of the
Libertarian Party think tank, the Reason Foundation, will be
introducing a Chicago conference sponsored by the foundation on
the privatization of public services. Dennis is also the chief
funder of the Drug Policy Foundation, the most prominent pro-
decriminalization organization. Dennis's ``Drugpeace award'' was
given to pro-drug economist Milton Friedman in 1991. He is also
the author of a book ``Let's Legalize Drugs.'' The conference
deals with such topics as ``Performance-based budgeting,''
``Innovations in School Management: Making Schools Work,''
``Mining the Public Balance Sheet.'' Dennis is an advocate of the
idea of ``empowerment'' rather than subsidies as the means to
solve inner city problems.
     The Reason Foundation and its ``Privatization Center'' works
closely with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, based in
Midland Michigan. Right wing radical populist and pro
privatization Governor Richard Engler is a mouthpiece for the
policies of this Institute. The Reason Foundation has co-authored
numerous policy briefings with the Mackinac Center, including one
on the privatization of schools and school services, which
promotes the work of Education Alternatives, Inc. (EAI), the
Minneapolis-based company which runs schools for profit. Other
works co-written by the Mackinac Center and Reason Foundation
include ``Satellite Schools: The Private Provision of School
Infrastructure,'' ``Designing an Effective Bidding and Monitoring
System to Minimize Problems in Competitive Contracting,''
``Privatization and Public Employees: Guidelines for Fair
Treatment.''

May 7 (EIRNS)--DRUGS LEGALIZED IN COLOMBIA. Colombia's
Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional laws against drug
use in a ruling issued Thursday, according to the Associated
Press. The ruling by the Constitutional Court ( which in certain
respects is equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court) legalizes
possesion of cocaine and other drugs for personal use in
Colombia, the world's main supplier of cocaine and site of a drug
war that has killed thousands of people. President Cesar Gaviria
said the ruling was ``absurd.'' The decision, says AP, ``puts
Colombia on a collision course with Washington, which has accused
the Bogota government of coddling drug traffickers.'' But, chief
justice Carlos Arango said his court, ``does not interpret laws
based on the opinion of the United States or the former Soviet
Union.'' Supposedly, the production, trafficking and sale of
drugs remains illegal. Colombia's Attorney General Gustavo de
Greiff, an advocate of drug legalization, said he was not
entirely pleased with the decision because legalization should
not come piecemeal, country by country, but through an overall
international agreement, reported the {New York Times} today.
But, Kevin B. Zeese, vicepresident of the Drug Policy Foundation,
a pro drug legalization Washington-based lobby, said that the
decision proves that drug laws must be liberalized. ``The courts
are stepping in and saying, `this is not working. There's go to
be a better way',|'' he said, according to the Times. Colombia's
court ruling comes less than two weeks after Germany's Federal
Constitutional Court also legalized the importation and
possession of marijuana and hashish for personal use in Germany.

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