This attitude that you describe is part of the new way of looking at 
history. I would sum it up like this:
"White Man, bad. Any Other Man, good."
D.F. Mills
Yorktown, VA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "qvarizona" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Official Opposition Events against Jamestown 2007, 
America's 400 Year Anniversary Celebration!


> Just curious.  How is it possible that of those protesting the celebration 
> of Jamestown can completely ignore what went on in this area  before the 
> Europeans arrived?   Are they unaware of Wahunsonacock and his conquests? 
> Have they not read of the raids conducted by the Monacans and Mannahoacs 
> on their enemies, the Powhatans?  Do they know about the Chesapeakes  who 
> lived at the entrance to the bay later named for them and were wiped 
> out --man, woman, child--  when they tried to resist being absorbed into 
> the Tsenacommach?
>
>
> Joanne Kartak
>
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>
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>
> Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I post this 
> item here, from H-Afro-Am, without any endorsement from me.  I
> just thought H-VA-Hist. should be aware of the opposition to the Jamestown
> 400th anniversary celebration.
>
> Harold S. Forsythe
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alkalimat, Abdul"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 8:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Official Opposition Events against Jamestown 2007, America's
> 400 Year Anniversary Celebration!
>
>
> From: Pan-African Roots [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Official Opposition Events against Jamestown 2007, America's 400 Year
> Anniversary Celebration
>
> "Shame on Jamestown's 400th"
>
> May 11, 2007: Norfolk/VA Beach Town Hall Meeting and Pre Demonstration
> Rally
>
> May 12, 2007: Jamestown Settlement Demonstration Features National
> Indigenous /Indian and Black/African Leaders
>
> For more information, or to confirm speakers/interviews, contact:
>
> Black Lawyers for Justice, call: (202) 397-4577 or email:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> New Black Panther Party, call: (202) 726-0029 or email:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Pan-African Roots, email:
> [log in to unmask]
>
> OFFICIAL OPPOSITION EVENTS
>
> Friday May 11th       5:00 PM-10:30 PM
>
> Event #1:  Town Hall Meeting and Pre Demonstration Rally
>
> Location: African American Special Event Center
>
> 544 Newtown Road Suite 116 (at Newport Shopping Center/On the border of
> Norfolk VA )
>
> Virginia Beach, Virginia
>
> Theme: "Shame on Jamestown: Advocates for the Victims expose the true
> history, and the Community Speaks Out!"
>
>
> Saturday May 12th        2:00 pm
>
>
> Event #2:   Opposition Rally and Demonstration
>
> Location: In front of the Jamestown Settlement Museum at the Jamestown
> Settlement Visitors Center!
>
> Theme:  "Shame on Jamestown:  The Indigenous/Indian and Black/African
> African Holocaust on Public Display"
>
> Compelling evidence of the crimes of Jamestown will be on public display
> during this powerful rally and demonstration.
>
> Why we are opposing Jamestown 2007
>
> On May 11th -13th 2007 the uglier side of the founding of Jamestown,
> Virginia by English settlers will be debated and exposed. On this
> weekend, millions of Americans, including Supreme Court Justice Sandra
> Day O'Conner and the leading Presidential Candidates are expected in
> Jamestown, Virginia to celebrate Americas Founding 400 years ago.
>
> President George W. Bush will also speak on this weekend.
>
> On May 11th-12th  Black Lawyers For Justice (BLFJ), The American Indian
> Movement (AIM Grand Governing Council), The New Black Panther Party For
> Self Defense (NBPP), Pan-African Roots, and the All African People
> Revolutionary Party (AAPRP-GC)  are co-sponsoring the Official
> Opposition Events to Jamestown 2007, America's 400 Year Anniversary.
>
> To White America, Jamestown's 400th Year Anniversary will be a great
> celebration of achievement and pride. However, to the Indigenous Red
> peoples or Indians, May 11-13th, 2007 in Jamestown commemorates the
> beginning of the European/ American Holocaust and tragic genocide
> perpetrated against many millions of indigenous/ Indian Nations and
> peoples.
>
> To White America it will be a time of great joy and remembrance, but for
> Blacks/Africans in America, this day is contradicted by the shameful
> reality that Jamestown marks the commemoration of The European
> Transatlantic Slave Trade which imposed upon many millions of innocent
> Africans the tragedy of inhuman chattel slavery and the beginning of the
> Maafa (Great Suffering), in the United States of America.
>
> Organizers of the Jamestown 2007 project have whitewashed the project
> and have attempted to rewrite history in a blatant attempt to sanitize
> the crimes committed at Jamestown which resulted in America being
> originated on the corrupt foundation of racism, population removal, mass
> murder, slavery and a litany of crimes against divine law and humanity.
>
>
> Make no mistake about it, our Friday May 11th Rally in Norfolk/VA Beach
> and Saturday May 12th Demonstration in front of the Jamestown Visitors
> Center is designed to crash this illegitimate party and pursue the
> overdue case for Reparations and Justice for the victims of slavery,
> mass murder and genocide.  Furthermore the ill affects of what happened
> at Jamestown still fester in the Community today.  These Opposition
> Events are designed to give the contemporary Indigenous and
> "African-American" public an opportunity to have input on the
> alternative view of the Jamestown 2007 Celebration.
>
> A noted lineup of lawyers, scholars, activists, political figures and
> artists will give First Amendment privileges  new meaning as they fully
> exercise their right to  debate the significance of the May 11th-13th
> Events at the doorstep of the Jamestown Visitors Center (Saturday May
> 12th) during the height of the Celebration.  Organizers are determined
> to affirm their well earned right to Free Assembly at this specific
> location and are legally accepting nothing less.
>
>
>
> Speakers at Both Events Include:
>
> Wabun-inini Nindiz-nikaz (Vernon Bellecourt): Principal Spokesman for
> the American Indian Movement (A.I.M) Grand Governing Counci, and a
> leader in actions ranging from the 1972 occupation of the Bureau of
> Indian Affairs in Washington to the 1992 Redskin Super bowl
> demonstrations. He is Co-founder and first Executive Director of the
> Denver AIM Chapter. His involvement at Wounded Knee in 1973 led to a
> Federal indictment. He is a special representative of the International
> Indian Treaty Council and helped organize the first Treaty Conference in
> 1974. He was jailed for throwing his blood on the Guatemalan Embassy to
> protest the killing of 100,000 Indians. He was elected to a 4-year term
> in his White Earth tribal government and developed a model program for
> the spiritual education of Indian prisoners. Vernon is President of the
> National Coalition on Racism in Sports & Media and recipient of the City
> of Phoenix, Martin Luther King Human Rights Award.
>
> Attorney Malik Shabazz, Esq.:  Event host, President of Black Lawyers
> For Justice (BLFJ), which he founded in 1996 and National Chairman of
> the New Black Panther Party. Shabazz is a seasoned veteran of the Black
> movement since his days as a popular student activist at Howard
> University and Howard University School of law. Shabazz is one of the
> most consistent organizers, dynamic lecturers and debators in the
> Nation. On the legal front, Attorney Shabazz has had extensive civil
> litigation experience as a victim's rights lawyer and has been
> successful in a number of high profile cases, including the historic
> 1998-1999 legal victories over the Guiliani Administration who tried to
> prevent the Million Youth March from taking place in Harlem New York.
> From the Million Man March, leadership over the New Black Panther Party,
> co-convening Minister Louis Farrakhan's Millions More Movement and
> fighting police brutality nationwide Attorney Malik Shabazz is clearly a
> rising force on the legal and political scene. For more information, or
> to confirm speakers/interviews, contact Black Lawyers for Justice at
> (202) 397-4577 or [log in to unmask]  and/or contact New Black
> Panther Party at (202) 726-0029 or [log in to unmask]
>
> Bob Brown: Co-Director of Pan-African Roots and Organizer for the All
> African Peoples Revolutionary Party (GC).  Bob is a veteran organizer
> and his political contributions and achievements are known world wide.
> He was the Director of the Midwest Office of the Student Non-Violent
> Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and co-founded the Illinois Chapter of the
> Black Panther Party.  Bob is an organizer in the Black Power and
> Pan-African Movements. He worked with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
> for 31 years, from 1967 to 1998, and was the national coordinator for
> logistics and operations and national field director for the 1995
> Million Man March and Stay-at-Home Campaign. Bob is currently
> co-plaintiff, with the City of Chicago, in a historic and
> precedent-setting $10 billion slavery era disclosure and false claims
> lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County. This lawsuit will rock the
> foundations of the political-economy of Chicago, the united snakes, and
> the world, and force the disclosure of records documenting more than 500
> years of Crimes against Humanity that were committed by European Nations
> and Royal Families, including the British Royal Family, against
> Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere, and Peoples of African
> descent in every corner of Africa and the African Diaspora. For more
> information, or to confirm speakers/interviews, contact Pan-African
> Roots at  [log in to unmask]
>
> Dr. Leonard Jeffries: Professor, African Studies City University New
> York (CUNY).  Professor Jeffries is the leading living historian on
> African and African American history. He is a founding director of the
> Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) and
> is a former president of the African Heritage Association (AHSA). His
> scholastic exploits have taken him to the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Brazil,
> Switzerland and throughout the Caribbean. Dr. Jeffries lectures around
> the nation and the world and can provide factual historical ammunition
> to any debate.
>
> Honorable Charles Barron: City Council (D) Brooklyn, New York.
> Councilman Charles Barron is the leading elected advocate for Blacks and
> oppressed peoples in New York and is gaining nationwide respect for his
> progressive stance on the issues of police brutality, poverty, education
> and reparations.   The outspoken and active leader is a former member of
> the New York Chapter of the Black Panther Party and was overwhelmingly
> re elected to his council seat in the last election.  Eying a run at
> Brooklyn Borough president in 2009, Barron is sure to be an
> uncompromising and consistent advocate for Blacks and the poor in the
> centers of power as well as in the streets.
>
> Attorney Chowke Lumumba: Chairman, New African Peoples Organization
> Attorney Lumumba has had a long and distinguished career as an
> accomplished defense attorney and a powerful political activist.  Chokwe
> served as acting President Provisional Government of the Republic of New
> Africa. He has established a stellar legal career as a legal advocate
> for the poor and powerless in the courtroom and established himself as
> an uncompromising and formidable force for social justice in the
> streets.  Attorney Lumumba has been instrumental in the formation and
> maintenance of a number of organizations dedicated to the liberation of
> New Afrikan people.  In 1978-79, he was a co-founder of the National
> Black Human Rights Coalition and the Detroit Black Human Rights
> Coalition.  He actively participated in the effort to build a National
> Human Rights Campaign.  On November 5, 1979, Lumumba and two other
> national leaders presented a statement charging the U.S. with human
> rights violations to the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Salim
> Ahmed Salim.
>
> Other speakers include:  Minister Hashim Nzinga, National Chief Of Staff
> New Black Panther Party. Minister Nzinga has a national voice and
> experience and also a leading anti police brutality activist in the
> Atlanta Area. Minister Bryan Muhammad, Millions More Movement-Nation Of
> Islam.  Minister Muhammad is a true disciple of the Millions More
> Movement and recently gained national attention for his efforts that
> freed 14 year old Shaquanda Cotton from an unjust 7 year  Paris, Texas
> juvenile prison sentence. Minister Yusef Muhammad, National
> Spokesman-New Black Panther Party.  Yusef Shabazz is currently a city
> council candidate in Savannah Georgia. Ashaeed Muhammad, Activist-
> Author.  Muhammad is the founder of Truth Establishment Institute (TEI)
> and the author of the revealing book "Synagogue of Satan". Imam Akbar
> Abdul Karim Bilal , Minister of Justice for the New Black Panther Party
> and Minister Najee Muhammad,
>
> ENTERTAINMENT BY:  UNO THE PROPHET AND NY OIL.  These two hot, hot
> revolutionary rappers/poets are guaranteed to light Jamestown on fire
> with cultural artistic presentations. Other rappers and poets are
> expected to be added to the in the coming days.
>
>
>
> THESE ARE HISTORIC EVENTS THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS!
>
>
>
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