We Charge Zimmer-cide !!!!

In 1951, William Patterson released, We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People.  In his petition, he tried to present the plight of African Americans to the United Nations. Now,  in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, a Miami Hip Hop artist is saying.  "We Charge Zimmer-cide.

 

According to,  Yasin  360WiseGuy "Zimmer-cide " is "the killing of  Black children with impunity  under the pretense of fear , then blaming the Black community for the action"

 

Although, many people are using Black on Black violence in Chicago to justify the murder of Trayvon Martin, in his controversial song  Zimmer-cide (4 Those That Hate Us) , the artist blames white racism for the pathologies facing Black America.

 

The rapper is urging his fellow artist to take a stand against "Zimmer-cide."

 

"Today it was Trayvon, tomorrow it could be you or your child,"  says Yasin.

 

For more information contact: 360wiseguy@gmail.com   or call (954) 830-6426

 

Written by Yasin 360WiseGuy

Music by : Soundzhurtz Productions

Research courtesy of Militant Minded Mess-Age Music

 

 

Feds Watchin'

Feds Watchin’:

How They Tune In When We Get Turnt

 Up Ima be fresh as hell if the feds watchin’

                                        Feds Watchin’  2 Chainz



Many people across the country are upset over the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin. And rightly so. The trial was a miscarriage of so called justice if I’ve ever seen one. However, the fact that we can’t sleep on. is that for the past two weeks the whole ‘hood has been on trial.

  From the day that the George Zimmerman trial began, most of the focus of the media was not on the death of an innocent 17 year old Black kid, but on how Black folks in Sanford, Florida and ‘hoods across America were gonna react if Zimmerman was found not guilty. While people in this country claimed to be on a nightly “verdict watch,” in reality, they were on a 24/7 “riot watch.” What is interesting is that the tactics the Feds used to monitor black rage in Sanford were the same ones that they have, historically, used over and over again when they think that there is the possibility of “urban unrest.”


The preemptive strike against the hood has gone on for decades. One of the strategies that they used in preparation for the Zimmerman verdict was to call together “local leaders” (preachers/community organizers) in order to get their followers to remain calm after the verdict was announced. They have used this tactic before. During the pre-LA Rebellion in 1992, the Po Po instituted a program called “Operation Cool Response” where they reached out to the same group of folks to keep the streets from gettin’ rowdy. So, since one of the current catch phrases in Hip Hop is “turnt up” maybe they call this ”Operation Turnt Down?”

Also, according to media sources such as USA Today, the Sanford Police Department set up snitching operations called “rumor control hot lines” to keep tabs on the streets. So, if you heard your next door neighbor blastin’ F*** the Police by NWA verdict night, it was your civic duty as a law abiding citizen to call the snitch hot line and drop a dime. This tactic has also been used before..

According to Dr. Patricia Turner in her book. “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” rumor control networks go as far back as World War II as “an effort to prevent potentially adverse hearsay of all sorts from gaining credibility.”

The media has, also, long played a role in snitching on the hood. I’m sure that many freedom fighters during the Black Power Movement were confused as to how statements they made to a mild mannered news person wound up in their court case file. According to Samuel Yette in his classic work, “The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America” , in 1969, the Justice Department subpoenaed the “unpublished notes of reporters from Newsweek, the New York Times, CBS and Time Life” who had interviewed members of the Black Panther Party.

I also found it strange that the pre -verdict police predictions of no violent protests in major cities across America was followed by a post verdict CNN map pinpointing protests across the country that they claimed to be nonviolent. So the question becomes, how did they know? There had to be some level of surveillance both pre and post Zimmerman verdict.

What is most ironic is that barely a month ago, white America was all up in arms by the “Prism” revelation by Edward Snowden that accused the government of using social media and cell phone data to spy on American citizens. If there had been an announcement that a Tea Party or a National Rifle Association protest had been monitored because of unsubstantiated threats of violence, you can best believe that there would have been hell to pay. But since many people in power think that Black people are only interested in rap music and reality shows, there was no such outcry.


African Americans did not really need an Edward Snowden to tell us that we're being watched, as researchers such as the late Steve Cokely ,warned us about the intelligence community 20 years ago. We have a long history of being under the microscope via the military or the Feds that goes back to the Marcus Garvey Era of the early 20th century.

And more information is being revealed everyday. One of the most interesting things that came out of the trial coverage was Fox News’ revelation that the US Justice Department’s Community Relations Service, took an active role in the Trayvon Martin rallies, last year. The agency was set up in 1964 and, supposedly, serves as a “peacemaker for community conflicts over race.” But the same question must be posed that was asked of FBI agents during the Civil Rights Movement, “are you protecting us or are you watching us?”

Although the powers that be would like to downplay the outrage in the hood over the Zimmerman acquittal it must be noted that they invested a lot of time. money and resources to keep the hood in check.

The tactics that were used against the Black community during the recent Zimmerman trial seem to have been taken right out of the Richard Nixon playbook on “Law and Order” and anyone one who cannot see that is either blind or stupid.

Like Dead Prez once said:

Can You relate/We’re livin’ in a police state.


TRUTH Minista Paul Scott can be reached at info@nowarningshotsfired.com or call (919) 308-4233. Follow on Twitter @truthminista 
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Rapper Says Racism Ain't Dead in America (What U Mean Paula Deen?)

Hip Hop has been alot of things; "gangsta" "pimped out" and even " jiggy." But the one thing that it hasn't been in a long time is "angry." At least not angry about the social and political conditions facing African Americans. But that is about to change.

Frustrated by the new racism facing Black people in a supposedly, "post racial America," Atlanta based Hip Hop artist Sean Barnes has just released a blistering track called "Racism Ain't Dead (What U Mean Paula Dean?). The song captures the real frustrations of 'hood residents who are outraged over recent incidents of racism from the Paula Dean controversy to the George Zimmerman/ Trayvon Martin murder trial.

"Anybody who thinks racism is dead or "accidental" needs to be pimp slapped back into reality, " says Barnes.

Although the subject matter is harsh, the rapper says that he is just reflecting the mood of the everyday people in the streets and what they talk about in barbershops and at bus stops.

"Don't blame me, I'm just the messenger, says Barnes. "And the message is, like activist Fannie Lou Hamer said back in the 60 's, we are 'sick and tired of being sick and tired!"

For more information contact godsaidso@gmail.com (678) 678-3525

New Rap Music Makes Black Kids Militant

For years rap music has been accused of many things, from "dumbing down" Black youth to containing subliminal messages that are rumored to make kids violent.

However, there is a new stye of rap that is said to make Black youth "militant." Hip Hop activist and journalist, "TRUTH Minista" Paul Scott has gathered a group artists together to create a new style of Hip Hop called "Militant Minded Mess-Age Music. "

 According to Scott, the music contains both overt and subliminal messages that will cause Black youth to become "militant minded."

He says that in a time when Black youth are murdered by the likes of George Zimmerman and African Americans are "dissed" by the likes of Paula Deen, it is time for Hip Hop to "Fight the Power," a phrase borrowed from a song by the rap group Public Enemy in the late 80's.

The music mixes hard pounding beats with everything from speeches from Black Power Movement leaders like Malcolm X to African war drums. And just like the old plantation songs, that covertly gave instructions to runaway slaves and insurrectionists, there will be messages only audible to black ears. "

Don't be suprised if your child falls to sleep with his headphones on singing gangsta rap and wakes up quoting H. Rap Brown," says Scott.


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The Politics of Protest

The Politics of Protest:

Rap, Race and Riots

 

                 TRUTH Minista Paul Scott

 

 

 

Only in Cali where we riot/ not rally

 

                          California Love-Dr Dre and 2Pac

 

 

                                        

Recently, in Memphis, the shooting of  African American teenager, Thomas Martin King Jr, by George Earl Koontz,  a white, off duty security guard at the Loraine Hotel, sparked waves of protests. King was shot while returning from the grocery store with a small bag of Marvin's Mini Marshmallows, which Koontz thought was crack. Days later, civil rights leaders held voter registration and fish fry rallies calling for the prosecution of Koontz and people across the country sent used marshmallow bags to the Memphis Police Department, in protest. Thirty days later, the murder is a distant memory and Koontz has still not been charged with murder. However, the local civil rights organization has new office furniture and the stock of Marvin's Marshmallows has risen 100%. Sadly, the King family is without a son or Justice...

 

 

 

Although it is said that "April showers bring May flowers," this month also seems to rain revolution. Forty-four years ago, America went up in flames following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (April 4, 1968) . Twenty years ago, LA was almost burned to the ground following the acquittal of the four police officers who, unmercifully, beat Rodney King (April 29, 1992). And 11 years ago a rebellion broke out in Cincinnati  following the murder of Timothy Thomas at the hands of a cop (April 9, 2001) . Fast forward to April, 2012 and people across the country are protesting the murder of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a self-proclaimed neighborhood watch captain.

 

Anybody else see a pattern here?

 

While people often get caught up in the emotionalism of tragic events, it is critical for us to study how they are, continuously, able to pull off these acts without causing a Revolutionary War.  

 

To remix that Jay Z line from 30 Something, " we respect the one who got shot/ they respect the shooter."

 

While heavy handed government suppression of "militants" is often seen as the ideal way of countering urban unrest, the most strategic methods are done more subtly.

 

The blueprint  on how to, tactfully,  handle racial disorder in America, the Kerner Commision Report,  was  released February 29, 1968, ironically, six weeks before the King assassination. The report dealt with various strategies on how to prevent urban unrest in America.

 

A generation later , Dr Brenda Wall in her book, The Rodney King Rebellion, stated that the day of the rebellion the judge in the trial of the LAPD officers gave police officials a two hour notice, "realizing the tension that the verdict might unleash." She also wrote that the LAPD also had a million dollar contingency plan for civil disturbance.

 

It's no wonder that the Trayvon Martin murder took so long to gain public attention. Somebody must have needed a head start.

 

According to Kalonji Jama Changa, founder/national coordinator of The FTP Movement and author of the book, How to Build a People’s Army, "The state has definitely adopted improved methods to keep the people in check. They have recruited more buffers between the people and the state to keep the flames low." Perhaps that's why we don't see "militant" rappers and "intelligent hoodlums"  addressing social issues like we did in the early 90's.

 

Back during the Rodney King Era we had Sister Souljah to speak for the 'hood now we only have Sista Soledad O'Brien.

 

Big difference.

 

Another tactic that has been used is turning public outrage into a business. Peter Dogget in his work, There's a Riot Going On, wrote about an October, 1968 meeting held by "advertising agencies and entertainment conglomerates," called, Selling the American Youth Market, where attendees learned how to capitalize off the Vietnam War/Civil Rights protests.

 

Following the LA Rebellion, you could hardly keep track of the videos, books and talk shows that tried to hip a horrified, middle class, white America to the plight of young "urban" males.

 

In a recent Associated Press article called "Trayvon, Inc," Curt Anderson reported how some people are using the tragedy to hawk t-shirts, bumper stickers, hoodies, posters, etc and are how "pass the hat rallies" are raking in thousands of dollars.

 

What must be remembered is that the periods of racial turmoil of '68, '92 and 2012, have something in common; they all happened during election years. And in an election year, everything is political. The Republicans need another "black boogey man" in order to push their " blame the victim/get tough on crime" agenda. And the Democrats desperately, need a quick way to energize a disenchanted Black base who are asking themselves " are we really better off now than we were four years ago?" Already, we have seen civil rights leaders and media celebrities try to turn the Trayvon tragedy into a glorified "register to vote rally."

 

The pimpin' of the people continues, which is easy when the masses don't know what to do when the racial emergency alarm goes off. Do you fill out a voter's registration form?  Buy a bag of Skittles?  Or do you find the nearest window and throw a brick through it?

 

A wise man once said that "voting is a Democracy's alternative to rioting in the streets." So it is always in the state's best interest to "keep hope alive" and preach the gospel of "Change." However, history seems to suggest that America won't budge until she smells smoke; as fire has served to be very motivational.

 

During the turbulent 60's, according to Herbert Hains in his book , Black Radicals and the Civil Rights Movement,  the Feds, corporations and philanthropic organizations shelled out major dollars in order to keep the peace.

 

Lou Cannon wrote in his book,  Official Negligence, that after the looting of businesses during the LA Rebellion  "RLA (Rebuild LA) promoted perhaps 500 million dollars of development in the riot area."

 

As of this writing, all of the singin' and marchin' for Justice for Trayvon hasn't gotten us anything but sore throats and calluses.

 

Apparently, sometimes  crime does pay.

 

How the powers- that- be can successfully contain public outrage in a post Occupy Wall Street Era of Twitter generated flash mob protests and when more young people are getting their news from YouTube and Facebook than CNN and MSNBC remains to be seen.

 

However, no matter how one chooses to express his sense of moral outrage,one thing is certain. This April you better get your umbrella.

 

Like Arrested Development once sang:

 

"It's raining revolution/ It's raining solutions."

 

 

 

This concludes Part 1 of the month long series ,  Rap, Race and Riots: Hip Hop 20 Years after the LA Rebellion.

 

TRUTH Minista Paul Scott's weekly column is "This Ain't Hip Hop," a column for intelligent Hip Hop headz. He can be reached at info@nowarningshotsfired.com . His website is NoWarningShotsFired.com  Follow on Twitter @truthminista