1. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, THE TRAGEDY OF "THE NEW ORDER" POLITICS, RAW AMBITION, OPPORTUNIST."

The Commissioner of the Florida Department of Education, Mr. Frank T. Brogan following on the perceived "new conservative agenda" may be the personification of image, public relations packing, and ego, a magnificently terrible brew!!

With a Nixon plastic smile this is his real record. His agenda in Florida has by his activities been, 1) Re-directing public school funds to "Charter Schools" under the assumption that like private business competition for funds will create successful student performance, 2) Dissolving the hard won system of "tenure/security" for teachers under the assumption that uncertainty will create better instruction, 3) Downsizing the "official" numbers of staff on the departments visible career service roles by out sourcing/contracting/part timing staff thus creating an invisible work force. 4) Schools of Choice.
The election of Mr. Brogan in the fourth largest state school system in the nation was comparable to placing a president in Florida State University, whose' mission was to sell the buildings, contract out all the professors and classes, and conserving only the political position on university leader which would be the illusion of a solid education institution. This is the reality behind the deceiving public image created by slick mis-directed professional PR experts!! "GOD SAVE THE CHILDREN."
This whole mission has created unsuffering but letting loose the dogs of disparate treatment of women, minorities, etc. carried out by the before restrained "blue gin" called "good ole' boys." For example here are a few tragic outcomes, 1) over 93% of all racial discrimination cases filled in federal court against the Department of education between 1975 and 1997 was during the tenure of Mr. Brogan, 2) The amount of funds going to services from staff paid from state and federal sources has decreased by 10 to 20% due to the payment of indirect cost paid to contracting agencies and institutions where the staff are presently hired. 3) The director of The Division of Administration, Department of education was reported by sources to have been allowed to resign due to sexual mis-conduct( sexual harassment) and fraud (using or mis-using state property) 4) The Bureau Chief of Management Services has a GED and no college degree in a department that is supposed to advocate education as an objective to success. 5) Sources report that contracts are being let in amounts exceeding $100,000.00 as sole source contracts violation of state law by means that by-pass the state Cabinet/ State Board of Education and legislature.

All these things do not support a mission that concentrates on high education services to children and the resulting high performance!!

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2. ECONOMIC BRUTALITY AND THE "WHITE SHIRT AND TIE CODE/LINE OF SILENCE"

 The "White Shirt/Color and Tie Code/Line of Silence" is just as much alive in
the government bureaucracy as the "Blue Code/Line of Silence" is in law enforcement.
Further, The acts of "Economic Brutality" is just as much alive and devastating as
"Police Brutality" is in our law enforcement.!! To realize this reality you only have to
recall the CEOs' in the tobacco industry as they held to the "White Collar/shirt
Code/Line of Silence" testifying before Congress saying in the face of over whelming
evidence to the contrary, " Tobacco does not cause cancer." or Bayer Inc. which used
Jews for medical testing in WWII just as Black prisoners are used today, "We had no
knowledge of such practices." or Volkswagen which used Jews as slave workers
producing automobiles WWII saying, "We have no knowledge of such practices." Even
more important is the fact that generally white administrators of all parts of Government
and industry honor this code of silence just as do the police. They see but usually never
tell on a fellow administrator when acts of discrimination which inflict "Economic
Brutality" on Blacks and women occur.
 
This economic brutality is pathological and is seen regularly in the work places in
the USA. These acts are visible in the frequent suit we see called "Race and Sex
Discrimination." Every now and again we see some white male company executives
admitting that economic violence has been taking place Blacks and women of years.
These whites have jumped the "White Shirt and tie Code/Line of Silence" and told the
truth for which they are right readily punished by their fellow white colleagues by
terminating their right to automatic passage provided by the nature of the white skin
color and male sex.
 
The history making case filed by Blacks working for the Florida Department of
Education in 1991-97 seemed to have resulted in getting the approximately one dozen
whites who were the primary defendants committing acts of discrimination and testified
that there was no such thing as discrimination in the department, promotions and/or more
money. The litany of allegations against the Department and these defendants included;
Blacks being paid less than whites employees in the same position, never appointed as
"acting" for any position, all Blacks receiving "outstanding" evaluations and receiving
"merit" pay on the basis of these evaluations were evaluated by Black supervisors, The
department's personnel officer writing some more "nigger": applicants on the stack of
applications from Blacks, appointing whites male to positions before the advertisement
was closed and the interviews had been conducted, Blacks being given a below average
performance evaluation by white supervisors without cause, White's income increased as
much as 400 percent over their twenty to thirty year working life as compared to 200
percent for Blacks, Blacks were denied the benefit of in-service training, ridiculed ,
berated public before white co-workers, and denied critical information which would
have assisted in performing their duties, Blacks being denied upgrades because of race,
Blacks suffered retaliation from a white supervisors, Blacks being called "Jungle
Bunnies" and "you people", etc.  
 
If you look at the white administrators who work for The Florida Department of
Education, and who were the primary defendants in this classic history making case, and
who committed the acts of discrimination against Blacks in this suit, you can see that
they all appear to get promotions as a reward for their acts. ( 28 of the 33 Blacks perished
economically as their reward for this action )
 
1) The Superintendent of School in St. Lucie County was promoted to Director of
The Florida Division of Public schools. He lost the suit which concluded that he was
guilty as charged. He testified against Blacks in The Florida Department of Education
saying that although the Black employees were paid less than whites this was not due to
race discrimination of any kind. The state admitted that Blacks were paid less, promoted
less , and fired more often but all this was "race neutral."

2) The Program Administrator of Federal Title I Programs (1991- ) was promoted
to Policy Analyst after the trial.
 
3) The Director of Public Schools (1992- ) was given a contract and $90,000.00
per year and a position with Florida State University.
 
4) The Commissioner of the Florida Department of Education (1995-1999), was
elected Lt. Governor of Florida (1999- ).
 
5) The Director of Personnel, Florida Department of Education !991 _ ), was
alleged to be guilty of sexual harassment and stealing state computers was escorted off
the property, but given a position of Deputy Commissioner for The department of
Insurance at a salary of approximately $80,000.00 per year.
 
6) The Program Administrator of Student Financial Services (1991 - ), was
promoted to Deputy Secretary of Children and Family Services.
 
7) The Administrator of Financial Management and Services (1991 - ), who has
GED and no college degree was appointed to the position of bureau chief without
considering Blacks, who had doctorate. She was promoted to the position of associate
Division Director foe Financial Management.
 
All of these people are still working for the state in big positions.
 
Until there are penalties ( punishment/jail time ) for lying while
supporting the "White Collar/Shirt Code/Line of silence" and the "Blue
Code/line of silence" there will be no way of stopping the cause of
suffering. There should be a law!!!!!
 
Have you seen this where you work??

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3. JUVENILE JUSTICE IS THE FINAL SOLUTION 

Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) training session some where in Florida;

"Good morning, welcome to the (DJJ) training for Quality Assessment (QA). This is our Juvenile Justice Industry. How many here today operate a Private DJJ Company/Center funded by DJJ. Good, I see that there are nine out of ten providers here today who represent private business. This is the fastest growing industry in Florida today! Let me share with you a few facts about our industry as it is represented here in Florida.

First, Florida has approximately 1.3 million children in its schools today. This ranks fourth in the nation behind Texas, California and New York. There are approximately 105,000 juveniles between 10 and 17 years old served by Florida's "Juvenile Justice Industry" and it will increase by about 25 percent in the next five years. This amounts to about 25,000 more clients! Florida has transferred more than 5,000 juveniles to adult prisons. This is more than all 49 states combined. The budget for The Department of Juvenile Justice Program budget is approximately $500,000,000 dollars and it is expected that this will increase by $100,000,000 next year, that is if the republicans continue to control the legislature. With the dissolution of social services as HRS and the placing of these services in the DJJ the primary mission/emphasis/resources have been re-directed to apprehension incarceration and punishment for public safety. Education and Rehabilitation is number twelve and thirteen in the list of DJJ standards. This is our multi million dollar business. If the raw materials for our business, juvenile offenders began to decrease the threshold for offenses resulting in detention can be lowered to less serious infractions. Yes, Our business is sound and growing. Now when we go to review our centers we must avoid looking like a Gestapo, although we are that of a sort (as he stood with his right arm raised in a Nazi salute)" Is not this something the world has seen and heard before?

A yellow badge was issued by the Nazis to Jews for identification during the rise of the German Third Reich. For the greater number of inmates in the DJJ the innate badge of "color", Black serves this purpose and it is cheaper. Administration streaming was the skill of the infamous Herman Goring the Gestapo Officer who organized the bureaucracy to handle the Jews. Before this there were many offices that handled such things as social services, deportation, incarceration, and control. This made it a long and cumbersome process until Goring.

At first the Jewish children were taken away from their parents for re-education and indoctrination. The adults were taken to various detention center for other things, even social services. this evolved into a system and process of apprehension, and incarceration. There was a process of individual administration of death to Jews, single hangings and so forth. After this was done long enough to desensitize the public a larger number of Jews were put to death by firing squads. This was again was carried out long enough to desensitize the public. Then came the "Final Solution." The death camps were fitted with gas chambers for mass killing and the crematoria's were built. This was the death industry of the Nazi era.

Some Jews were even provided positions in this industry. The concentration of Jews in the Warsaw Ghettos came with the apportionment of a Jew to serve as the Mayor, straw boss. They were given privileges to keep the Nazis informed and keep the Jews in place. This is not to unlike the Juvenile Justice Industry here in Florida. Is there not a head Black in charge of this growing industry of putting and keeping moistly Black youths under lock and key?

Then here in Florida, USA there is the ingenious twist of the inclusion of "Private for-profit Companies" in this industry. Truly an American innovation to an old "Final Solution." In these times of high emotions in the aftermath of the Purduca, Kentucky and Jonesboro, Arkansas tragedies, maybe we should look to calmer heads. Do we really want to kill our children? Do we want the insanity of a "Final Solution?" We certainly cannot long endure under the heels of short sighted politically expedient solutions.

It is unfortunate to see that unwitting whites and Blacks who are looking for jobs who (bubbers, sambos, and Ms. Jane's) are becoming dupes of a squeaky clean, hygienic, social policy of a Final Solution to the problem Blacks and other perceived social out-casts. I too am looking at this good money and need the income provided by my consultant services.

The Florida electric chair, lovingly called, "Old Sparky" has desensitized the public enough to accept the smell of the burning flesh of crematoriums. Florida is recently putting a female to death. A white female at that. People are gathering outside to support and view what they can of the killing being held at Starke. Is not then a short walk to the killing of the "Final Solution"; the gas chambers may not be far behind.

This is very scary, but very true; and upon my word, I do know that truth will bring anger and punishment. In the worst case they shoot the messenger!!!

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4.  AMERICA AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS IS JUST A PLAYGROUND  (1997)

It seems to old Frank(ly) that the whole political spectrum of governments, as America may see it, is but a child's run on the playground. I will provide this model as developed by "Sandsspur Tarven and Research Institute," located in Winter Park, Florida, with a Frank(ly) twist.

In a playground run by liberal or moderate principals and teachers the children are supervised lightly, recognizing that some children will dominate others, but that no children should be abusively bullied or denied access to the playground and its activities. Sense the Black children are disadvantaged and a protected group they must be provided equality under special regulations in swings set-asides for their cut of equality.

Socialism is illustrated by heavy-handed teacher intervention. Children have equality but little freedom-choice to play according to their whims. These interventionist teachers might, for example, prevent children from swinging on their stomachs, or from twisting the swings to their limit and letting it unwind with dizzying speed. Interventionist teachers are fanatics about equality and they make sure that every child gets exactly equal amount of time on each playground item weather they want it or not. Of course the result is that Freedom is sacrificed for the sake of equality and, since the freedom essential to fun is crushed, fun dwindles for everyone. Some Conservative will in an attempt to show up the Socialist set aside a "Character Playground" to provide a competitive atmosphere for the public playgrounds, saying that this competition will provide children and parents with a "better quality" playground!! But if there are Black children there are special rules for protected class because without this they will (may) be placed on the twisting swings even in the middle of its dizzy spiral, and placed frequently on their stomachs in the swings all acts are providing them equality.

Just as destructive as the interventionist teacher system is the opposite extreme, promoted by conservatives: the lissez-faire teacher system Conservatives want the teachers to abandon the playground entirely so that the children can control everything. In such a circumstance, the biggest kids (representing wealthy big shots and the politicians who serve them) take over the playground for themselves by bulling and in intimidating everyone else. The result is a kind of "Lord or the Flies" scenario with playground bullies (tobacco executives and oil barons, greedy bond traders) getting away with murder since there is no teacher supervision whatsoever. There are no standards or guide lines for playground and equipment safety. There are minority bully sat-asides of playground equipment such as, yes, the monkey bars!! A bully takes the swings, one the see saws, another the slides, etc. The bullies take the children's lunch money as payment for the use of all equipment. The big kids who take over these things and all the fun things on the playground have a ball while the other kids get the shaft. The white bullies accuse the Blacks children of taking the swings and other fun things thus denying the white children of time on the Play things (Blacks are accused of taking jobs from whites in affirmative action) and the white children attack them leaving the bullies to sit on the spoils unmolested. In fact the bullies become admired by all for their ability to exploit the other children and all provide the bullies honor and respect!!

Frank(ly) Speaking, it seems that no matter what political playground scenario America may see, Blacks are inevitability assigned hell!!

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5. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATE

It was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.

Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.

The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.

The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.

Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."

This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.

Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.  

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6. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT BLIND

During the sixties I attended college with Clyde Foster, who later became the first mayor of a city in Alabama sense reconstruction. While in college we pledged Omega together. Clyde would always say to me, " The white man says you are his Nigger, and when you get bigger you will be my bigger nigger; and when you get a Ph.D. you will be my bigger ,Ph.D. nigger; you will never be too big to be my nigger."

At the time I took it as a brotherhood playful thing. But when I got fully grown and had my Ph.D. I found this to be essentially true. However, there was one more condition that a Black could achieve and still be just another nigger to white people. There was Mr. Walter McCoy, who is only one of two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the Great State of Florida. While working at the Department of Education He was treated with some great discrimination. So the saying must go, "You are my nigger; and when you get bigger, a Ph.D. or a Gold metal from the Olympics you will be my bigger, Ph.D., Gold metal winning nigger." That is truly the way brother McCoy was treated by the present Department of Education.

Mr. Walter McCoy, who is one of only two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the State of Florida filed a complaint of discrimination against the Florida Department of Education nin1994. Mr. McCoy was hired by the Betty Castor, Commissioner of Education to carry out some minority teacher recruiting and provide a role model for children. He has received many compliments for his work in this area.

In 1994, Mr. McCoy was one of a group of nine other Blacks who enter into a combined complaint of discrimination based on race against the Department of Education. McCoy held a Career Service position with the Florida Department of Education in 1992, however, he learned that his position had been "cut" from the budget later that year during a change in administration to that of Mr. Frank T. Brogan.

McCoy alleged that he was harassed, and retaliated against because of his race. He was assigned "menial" tasks which were not within he position description to humiliate him and force him to resign. He was never paid at the same rate of pay as his white counter parts. McCoy was finally released in 1995 under the claim that he was being down-sized, however, the very position which was claimed to be cut was refilled with a white employee.

In 1997 in an attempt to have the court drop his claim the Department filed a Summary Judgment saying that he was never an employee of the Department although the records show that in deposition the department testified that he was an employee and was released in the down-sizing. In addition, McCoy was not allowed to testify in the trial of three Blacks, who were a part of this combined complaint. The reason given is that his accomplishment as an Olympic Gold Metal Winner would un-dolly prejudice the jury. He was dismissed with testifying.

The complaints in this case included; 1. Being kicked in the behind by a white supervisor. 2. Being paid as much as $10,000.00 a year less than comparable white staff. 3. Being called "jungle bunnies" and other racial slurs including the "N" word. 4. All Blacks in the Bureau being placed in an all Black suite of the building. 5. Being "down-sized" while the position being "down-sized" was subsequently filled by a white person. 6. Dispread promotions. 6. more.

Sources say that the Olympic Committee has been contacted and is interested in representing McCoy in this litigation. In the mean time negations are being conducted between the department in Mr. McCoy of a out-of-court settlement.  

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7.  ECONOMIC AND PLANET WELFARE CAN BOTH BE ACHIEVED

We must all be aware at this time of the world wide interest in the prospect of global warming caused by the "hot house" gases labeled Carbon dioxide. As I recall in grade school we had a project in science to set up a "terrarium." this closed ecological system we placed animals and plants, Plants to generate oxygen through photosynthesis for the animals and animals to generate carbon dioxide for the plants. The temperature was critical and did in fact increase in relation to the amount of Carbon dioxide in this closed battle. A simple childish experiment but a simple one to record.

In the real world the carbon dioxide/hot house gases are produced by our consumption economy based on energy. This energy is the burning of fuels, fossil fuels in large qualities. In this Economy the more it grows the higher the energy consumption, that is if you are not conscious enough to consider that energy efficiency can be a part of economy-profit growth and increased standards of living. In America, the greatest economy in the present day world the amount of Carbon dioxide emitted has been reported as approximately 108 million tons per year. The U. S. has approximately 250 million people as compared to approximately one billion in China alone. If you calculate the amount of Carbon dioxide which would be emitted by Chain in relation to their population and if this countries standard of living equaled that of the U. S., this would mean that approximately four times as much hot house gases would be released in the atmosphere each year. This would amount to approximately 432 tons if carbon dioxide per year. When India and other third world countries reach the living standard of the U.S. you can probably add another 400 to 500 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

What is so scary are the pundits such as Kovac of CNN, William Buckley, and the syndicated columnist as George Will, who all "po po" the prediction of the consequences of a global warming. It seems that these so called "educated" "talking heads" have too much education in a too limited spectrum and too little of a general education.

I can just vision the after event of a global warming with George Will, Kovac, and Buckley all crouched in an under ground cave, clutching their money box while in the corner is a twenty foot virus mutant with a napkin under its mouth, looking at them hungrily. The three sit on their money boxes ready to fight this mutant product of a consumption economy which brought them to this sorry condition. In the moments between protecting their booty, they recall the off handed way they debated the destruction of the world above their new dark hole. Will recalls the interview where he so arrogantly debated that this was just another scare, and that "scientist" said that there would be another ice age, that chicken little said that the sky was falling, that the little boy cried wolf, and there was not a dimes worth of difference between these children's tails and scientists.

But scientist have allowed themselves to be pushed into a strange position of "media science" where the observations of good science is over shadowed by the proof of hypothesis in a public relation media salesmanship where truth is a condition of public belief not scientific fact.

Until there is a balance between the narrow vision of the "profit of business as usual" and a change in resource consumption and human standard of living there will be the specter of a wealth and color blind disaster!!

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8. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS THE LEAST PREFERRED CASE FOR LAWYERS  (1997)

There have been many recent articles about discrimination against protected groups in the work place. It is obvious that the whole process of obtaining regress for such occurrences is ineffective and cumbersome.

On Sunday October 26, 1997 an article in the Tallahassee Democrat described problems in the Florida Commission on Human Relations (FCHR). This is the first agency that you would use in filling a complaint for violations of your rights. in Equal Opportunity in Employment. The article recorded the fact that getting your complaint even recorded in this agency is a doubtful process. If this agency does not perform its duty the next step of filing with the Federal Equal Opportunity in Employment Commission if it is either delayed or denied. It is reported that over ninety percent of complaints coming to the FCHR are either dismissed out of hand or settled in favor of the agency. So the “obstacles” to justice for the harmed starts here in an agency where “facilitation” should start.

If by some miracle you get through this agency with your complaint still intact, the problem of finding a lawyer who will take your case starts. It had been my experience that very few lawyers will even consider taking a case in racial discrimination. It is found that lawyers have a definite preference in terms of case they will take on. First, they would rather take a case involving reverse discrimination, followed by sex discrimination and as a last resort racial discrimination cases.

Why do racial discrimination cases receive low priority? As I understand it, in the fraternity or sorority of “law people” -- a lawyer who takes racial discrimination cases becomes an outcast among his or her peers. Even Black lawyers run for the hills when asked to take cases in racial discrimination. If you are lucky and get a lawyer, then there is the problem of getting a dedicated lawyer. One who will treat you with some degree of “dignity.” The common experience is that in racial discrimination cases your own lawyer will treat you as if you work for them. You may go to see them and each time wonder if your lawyer will fire you today or if they will spend time enough to really understand your case.

If you get through these insidious blockades, then there is the problem of getting a jury of your true peers. In the existing atmosphere where discrimination is tired subject, it has been trivialized and accepted as a sustainable fact of American society. The records show that in the Northern U. S. Court District only one or two cases on racial discrimination have been found in favor of a black by a jury of their peers(?) in the last twenty years!!

Consider these facts.

If you prevail in court, the settlement of your relief is less than one third of the fees paid to the lawyers for the defense and the plaintiff!!

You will suffer the day-in and day-out retaliation on your job because of your complaint. Although your fellow “comrades in suffering” will get such benefits as raises, privileges, and promotions from your efforts, you will get retribution and retaliations from both black and white alike. Blacks will come to you and say that they have been “assigned to control and keep you quiet” because you speak out on discrimination!! But in the next breath they will whisper “I(we) are proud of you. We really have a problem. I wish I could fight like you. But I have a family and I cannot lose my job.” They will send you information under your door and in your mail, in secrecy.

Finally, you will find that even civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and Urban League will not want you, unless you win. Then they will want to share your time in the winner's circle!!. The Democratic and Republican party will not touch you.

This unequal treatment has become more than discrimination. It is a question of “Civil Liberties!!” The penalties for committing these violations of Civil Liberties need to be that the institution should pay the financial penalty and the individual(s) pay with jail time. In addition, the laws must be revised to make the financial compensation favor the harmed/plaintiff(s). Further, there must be a complete public disclosure of all disbursed funds to the lawyers and plaintiffs. Presently, it is easy for lawyers for both sides to reach a “no loss” arrangement. This makes it questionable that a plaintiff’s lawyer will be totally dedicated to winning a case.

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9. THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM IS BIG BUSINESS!!!  (1996)

On September 23, 1994 I was driving back to Tallahassee, Florida on I-75. There was four trucks with over sized loads holding up the normal 65 MPH flow of traffic. These loads were large gray concrete four celled modules with sliding steel doors, in which there was a small closable metal window. After trying for some time to get around this convey I finally got to the front truck. There was the most alarming sign in this lead vehicle which said, " CELL MFGR'S LTD(Limited), THE FLORIDA SOLUTION, Leesburg , Florida, POD#4." What I was seeing was the manufacture of modular prison cells. This was Florida's solution to the mass production of jails to solve the problems of American society.

On September 26, 1994 on TV, a Black man, Mr. Harry Singletary, Secretary of Corrections, in The Great State of Florida was giving an enthusiastic report on the ahead-of-schedule production of Jail Cells. He said in essence, " Florida is doing a fantastic job in getting ready to quickly incarcerate large numbers of prisoners (people) by using pre-manufactured modular jail cells. We are ahead of schedule. We therefore, need to accelerate the hiring of more officers and guards to take care of these inmates. The legislature must more ahead of schedule and allocate us funds for personal for the Criminal Justice Industry." Or something to that effect.

The possibilities and prospects of fostering this idea and creating the massive industry of building modular prison cells at a rate many time faster than on-the-site construction is staggering. That means that the U. S. has found the answer to getting not only the dangerous criminals of the streets, but this creates the opportunity and means to expand incarceration to other minor offenders and inconveniences; jay walkers, litters, those who do not know political incorrectness, Chinks, Japs, Niggers, Jews!!! Well - maybe not Jews.

The inertia of this industry fueled by the manufacturers, the officers, the guards, the administrators the suppliers of goods and services will be so massive that only a catastrophe event could turn it around. Let us look at England.

England the cradle of capitalism and the genesis of the manifestation of the society of the many very , very poor, the few very, very rich, the breeding of petty thieves, the alienated , the poor houses, and yes, the process of sending the excess/surplus population to " uncivilized' territories of Hawaii, Australia, South America, North America, South Africa ... the penal colonies as Devil island!! But sense there are no more far off uninhibited places to send those outside the economic and social structure of our America, we must find an in house solution , to our societies problems jails, jails and more jails, or the final solution ... death camps. Blacks will be fighting for the positions of employment created in formation of the instruments of the final solution. They will be "Team Players!!!"

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10.  TOBACCO THE EVIL EMPIRE/INDUSTRY (August 22, 1997)

 Would you believe that evil industry/empire, Tobacco has been allowed to continue to produce it's proven and admitted agent of death? This is the most incredible example of how trivial our social/economic system has become when the lives of citizens can be bargained against the ;lost of capital($) to an industry!!

 This bargaining with the Tobacco industry by balancing the lives of citizens is the same as bargaining with the Nazi's industry of concentration camps which were killing Jews by the millions and saying that if you cut down on the number of Jews you kill over the years you can continue to carry on the industry of death.

 The Tobacco industry is being allowed to continue to produce their product of death if they just pay something for their past killings and cut back on the 400,000 people per year they are presently kill from tobacco related problems.

 Over the last 50 years at the rate of 400,000 deaths per year Tobacco has killed approximately 20,000,000 people in the U. S. alone!! This is a true holocaust greater than Germany committed against the Jews and the holocaust against the blacks during slavery combined. Don't you think that a world wide tribunal should be held to bring these death merchants to justice? They are no more than international criminals.

 If this "deal" to change their action in America is not sad enough, the Tobacco industry is fighting to maintain their unrestricted activities in China and all other nations outside the U. S.

 Any deal that leaves Tobacco in business is intellectually incomprehensible and morally indefensible !!

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11. THE ANATOMY OF UNEQUAL TREATMENT  (1995)

One of the greatest deterrents to racial and sexual justice (which is directly related to the success of institutions in the U. S.) is the "business as usual" practiced by the white, male, good ole boys, who by their accepted omnipotence see things in the nature of their "eminent domain" and "manifest destiny;" These good ole boys sit smiling, double talking, lying, condescending, patronizing, sneaking, and playing overly innocent on things of equality which effect the lives of people; They are continuing to do business as usual out of the sunshine, on the golf courses, in the bars, at closed board meetings Task Forces, Transition Teams etc. They either provide only lip service to the laws against discrimination as long as they do not have to pay (money) in any way for their heavy handed, matter of fact conduct of the public's business. At times they just ignore Blacks and women as if they did not exist!! They plan their conduct using the works of Adolph Hitler, Ross Lumbaugh, Eddy Amein, Bull Conner, the GIANTS of literature on social architecture. This load stone around the life's neck of society is the main reason that America's institutional initiatives in equality always fail.

Although recently we have seen the few successes of such challenges to injustice in the Black FBI Agents Vs Denny's Restaurant case, the Davis Vs Proctor Pontiac case, the Black Employees Vs Shoney's Restaurant case, etc. where the violator of civil rights were made to pay. I can say from experience that the real reason that even Public Education Institutions are in trouble is because of the accepted negative way in which race, sex, and differentism is treated by the powerful to relegate the objective of educating to a place of failure.

In The Great State of Florida the Institution of Education is a basitum of sexual and racial injustice. The State Education system must be dragged kicking and screaming to the bar of justice. They have never been seriously challenged to wipe out preoccupation with power to satisfy EGO, power for the sake of power, and for a sake of racial discrimination; Making them pay for these evil activities will be the only cure. If the state has to pay it will get rid of the good ole boy of the fiftyish ages or so for they are by their nature destroying the institution and more importantly costing money by their actions. Instead of working for good education they are day in and day out working on their own positions of power and the exercise of keeping women and Blacks in their place. They use the knowish tricks to rig the system; use the weak and Tomish Blacks as overseers to hold down any "Smart Niggers." Further some women who are trying to get ahead feel they must emulate the good ole boys in order to demonstrate their equal prowess. They pit emotions against emotions, instead of reason against reason, or fact against fact.

How can this cycle be broken. There must be a consistent, intense, intelligent process of filling complaints against agencies on every case of harmful illegal discrimination and harassment. The relief for such activities must be payment in money for damages. If an agency or firm wishes to discriminate they must be prepared to pay for such privileges.

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12.  FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SUED FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY  (OCTOBER 1,1997)

After over twenty years of problems in discrimination in The Florida State of Education in 1994 thirteen Blacks Dr. Rufus Ellis, Ms Vessie Felton-Joseph, Mr. William Pittman, Jr., Ms. Debra Crowell, Ms. Rosezetta Bobo, Ms. Shirley Webester, Ms. Linda Dukes, Mr. Norman McMillian, Ms. Valderine Grant, Dr. Baxter Wright, Mr. Walter McCoy, Ms. Margaret Jones and Dr. James A. Scruggs filed the history making first compliant against this department with the United States District Court Northern District of Florida Tallahassee Division. This discrimination was alleged to be systemic, continuous, and on-going. Further, records show that between 1978 and 1996 approximately 95% of all discrimination suits filled against the Department of Education were during the tenure of Commissioner of Education, Mr. Frank T. Borgan.

After many pretrial hearings and many summary judgment which resulted in some of the plaintiffs being dropped from the case because of such things as missing deadlines for filling their complaints, the first of (which included three of the plaintiffs,) six trials was held the week of September 22-26, 1997 in Tallahassee, Florida.

In September, 1994 Dr. Baxter Wright, a Black male was given a below average performance evaluation by a white female supervisor and subsequently released. Prior to this Dr. Wright had never received a below average performance evaluation in the many years he worked with the Department.

In the late 1970's the minutes of the Equal opportunity Employment Committee recorded that a Black janitor reported that on the desk of the Department's personnel officer was two stacks of applications, one saying qualified applicants the other saying some more "nigger" applicants!!

In December 1993, a Black male employee in the Graphic Arts Section, who was an outstanding employee of the Department of Education ( as rated by the Commissioner of education) was a victim of "Affirmative Action" when he was kicked in the buttocks by a white female supervisor. He was forced to leave the Department because of this racist act.

The allegations by the plaintiffs in the first trial included:

In 1991, a Mr. Pittman, a Black male applied for a position of "Liaison" between the State and The Federal Government. He received a letter thanking him for applying but the position had been filled by someone else. In 1995 while checking the "Personnel Action Forms," (which are forms that record the applicants for the position) he found that his name was never included in the applicant pool and therefore, he was never a part of the competition for the position. However, his name was placed on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office of "candidates considered" to demonstrate on paper that "Equal Opportunity in Employment" was followed. Further Mr. Pittman was paid as much as $10,000.00 per year less than whites employees in the same position for as many as 20 years. He was never appointed as "acting" for any position as were his white counter parts.

In 1977, a survey of employees in the Bureau of Compensatory Education, Department of Education found that all Blacks receiving "outstanding" evaluations and receiving "merit" pay on the basis of these evaluations were evaluated by Black supervisors. Further, a suit against the department in 1979 resulted in getting all black employees off annual contracts and onto "Career Service" in the department. However, the part addressing pay and promotion equity was never carried out.

Dr. Ellis alleged that a white female supervisor denied him Department benefits of training, ridiculed him, berated him in public and with his co-workers, and withheld critical information which would have assisted him in performing his duties. The tool of Performance Evaluation was used as an "Affirmative Action" to place Dr. Ellis on probation and promote the process of firing him. Ms. Felton-Joseph, who managed a statewide program for Homeless Children, alleged that she was; 1) denied an upgrades because of race while white persons have been provided upgrades without cause, 2) involuntarily moved to a location within the DOE where the majority of other blacks in the Bureau were located, 3) suffered retaliation from a whites supervisor by such things as getting low performance evaluations, 4) denied additionally personnel who were already funded and necessary to conduct the state's "Homeless Program," when funds were available denied a secretary which was funded to work for the states' "Homeless Program," and 5) denied reimbursement for approved travel associated with the duties of the program. Dr. Scruggs alleged; 1) that he was denied an interview for the Position of Administrator of The Office of Science Improvement where Mr. Jack Leppert, a white male was hired (who did not meet the minimum qualification and had no education or background in any field of science) although he was more qualified than other applicants, 2) The second time the position was advertised the Department took "Affirmative Action(s)" by bringing in Mr. Thomas Baird, another white male who was assigned the position of "Acting Administrator", to get the experience in the program and subsequently hire him permanently, again without providing Scruggs an interview. This Office hired only one Black, a secretary although this grant from the National Science Foundation required the written assurance that Blacks and minorities would be hired as a condition for receiving the funds!! 3) Scruggs alleged that he suffered retaliation from department employees both Black and white, who were told that he had to be controlled because of his out spoken activities about the treatment of Blacks in the Department. There were many times when terms such as "Jungle Bunnies" and "you people" were used to describe Blacks in his staff. 4) In 1988, it was found that in the process of filling a position of Director of The Prevention Center, "Affirmative Action" was taken when a white male applicant was interviewed and immediately placed on the interview committee to complete the interviews of the other applicants. This white male was given the position before the interviews were completed and allowed to participate as an official member of the interview team to finish the interviewing of the other applicants. The report to the "Equal Employment Opportunity Agency" recorded the distribution of candidates considered but never suggested that the out come of the selection was decided before the interviewing of candidates was completed. In 1988, it was found that the Department of Education was found to be taking "Affirmative Action" by placing the names of Blacks on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Agency to satisfy the ethnic distribution of who were applicants considered, as though Blacks had applied and were interviewed for positions. This was the way in which the "Affirmative Action" process was conducted, but only on paper. The relief for this violation of Department Rules and Procedures was that "the Department would train the staff to be better at filling positions." 5) In 1978, "Affirmative Actions" were taken to fill a position of Administrator , Adult and Community Education by appointing a white male to the position before the advertisement was closed and the interviews had been conducted. The name of this white male was printed in the new Department phone book before the interviews demonstrating that the decision was made in "Affirmative Action" haste.

The States defense was essentially that all these things did occur; However, the whole thing was color natural. All these things did happen but at no time was color taken into account when decisions were made or actions were taken.

In closing Attorney for the plaintiffs, Steve Andrews, " The Department wants you to believe that these are Oprah-watching, cheese ball-eating, unemployment-grubbing people who are not worthy of a judgment in this case... If you say to someone in America today, 'This black person has an attitude (as the department's attorneys were saying) I submit to you that it sends a message... people who complain about their treatment as black people have a bad attitude, but those who don't have the right attitude. "The attorney for the state, Harry Chills said, "None of the things they're talking about were based on skin color. There is a legitimate reason for everything they're complaining about... Scruggs simply finished second to a white applicant for the science education job, and Pittman's salary gap was due to differing duties and responsibilities..." Chiles further stated that although no black has ever been appointed as to a Acting" position by the Department of Education it had nothing to do with race.

After a jury of six whites and two Blacks heard all these complaints and the rebuttal from both sides and after about five hours of deliberation, a verdict which found against the plaintiffs was brought to the court.

The plaintiffs were so stunned after receiving the verdict that comments were few.

Dr. Scruggs said that he was trying to understand this great justice system in America. It mat be the best in the world but sometime it is difficult to get it to work. He said further that although the state tried to make it seem that Doug Jamerson and Altha Manning, who were both Black state leaders had something to do with our problems this there is no truth in this. It was a Black white problem.

Mr. Pittman and Ms. Joseph had no comments.

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13. WEALTH/CAPITAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN GOVERNMENTS  (September 26, 1997)

It is evident today that "capital/money/wealth" is truly power. It is more powerful than governments and as exampled in the Tobacco we see that power/wealth corrupts. Historically power has passed from Kings-Queens-monarchs- and somewhere during the industrial revolution it passed to money. In addition, constructs as "anti monopoly" laws are poorly enforced allowing the concentration of vast wealth and control of resources to the hands of a very, very few.

On April 4, 1997 a NBC news cast was reporting essentially that, " In Iraq power was passed from "capital" to the producers of food-farmers and other producers. It continued to observe, "This transfer of power has turned the system Up-side-down!!" But hold it, this powerful observation is true with one important change! This transfer of power has not turned the system up-side-down. It has turned things right-side-up. It is one of those rare occasions where a good thing happens and the world or part of the world turns right-side-up.

Capital is truly the tyrant of the present day world. Governments are the shadow of wealth/capital. Wealth rules government. Observe how money bought elections in America in 1997. It is amazing that the world is essentially convinced that without "capital" nothing can be started or finished; and when a group of people, especially a third world country makes a try at self determination ignoring "capital" they are declared as out casts, communist, socialist, heretics, evil empires, up-side-down and overt activities are instituted to bring them into line. When in fact capital(ism) as practiced today is based on human greed, avarice, malice, doing as little as possible while gaining the highest returns. What is good for General Motors is good form the nation Further, with the courts and administrations more then any other time in our history refusing to enforce anti trust laws more and more capital is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. These mergers are making more powerful wealth with less accountability to national good. As England said when taking control of South Africa which was controlled by the ZULU, "we must destroy their social, economic, religious, and military institutions; and replace them with our institutions of capital and religion. They will loose even their ability to feed themselves without our guidance." Look at Zaire for a good example of how good this works.

You might wonder why are there so many militia groups, the Texas Republic Separatists, the farmers mistrust of government, etc. There is a very simple answer. It is the fact of the tyrannical nature of "capital(s)" power as it influences government. It is without conscience or moral imperative. Wealth acting though the federal government is squeezing the many little people into submission or a fight. First, the government which is visible and easily identifiable and acting at the will of capital for increasing profit by for closing on small farms or allowing mergers of companies which clearly produces a monopoly. Government, therefore, is seen as the problem and thus becomes the object of attack by those who are trying to become part of the property/capital society. Capital is, 1) convincing the public that big government, which should keep business accountable, is a supreme violation of the civil rights of people and of course capital. 2) capital is needs only the controls of that natural phenomenon called "market forces/supply and demand." But today it is not accompanied with fair competition that keeps act ities fair, moral, and in line with human needs.

Yes, Iraq may not be the most acceptable nation to use as an example of a right-side-up system of power and capital because of the baggage Saddum Hassan has brought. But if free world capital had not been withdrawn from this economy, I assure you that the western perceived norm of capital being all powerful and really right-side-up would not have this contrast anywhere. But as for us poor but educated (not enlightened) Americans citizens, wealth is all powerful; and if in our brief life times we wish to make it( as they say in the vernacular) we must worship at this alter even if we know in our hearts that it is a false and iniquitous god.

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14. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS EASY TO SEE BUT HARD TO PROVE IN OUR COURTS  (September 14, 1997)

Recently the coverage of a racial discrimination trial reported by the Tallahassee Democrat made it very clear that, first, there has been a desensitization of the public feelings on racial discrimination, and secondly, Blacks have been forced to compete with sexual harassment and reverse discrimination for the most despaired treatment.

In this Henry VS the Tallahassee Police Department it seems that Henry, who is a Black officer alleged that he had been discriminated against because of race. In the Tallahassee Democrat the testimony of witnesses for the plaintiff and the defendant were reported. It was remarkable to notice that the testimony of the Black witnesses were reported more briefly than that of the white witnesses for the Police Department. In fact it would seem from the reports that the Black witnesses were always painted with a suspicious blemishing brush. Their character was challenged and the fact that they may have had some "events of discrimination in their lives that made them bias against the Police Department." Further, the court ruled not to allow some documents which were reported to contain such racially negative language as "nigger" and "poach monkeys" into evidence because they would prejudice the jury. This may be peculiar seeing as how this is a case of alleged discrimination based on race. The six member jury consisted of five whites and one Black. On August 26, 1997 it was reported that the jury was dead locked and there was a mistrial. The paper did not say exactly who on the jury was the hold out(s) but it did report that the "lone" hold out was described by the chairman of the jury as a person who had not seen the same trail as the other five. Maybe this hold out was the lone Black juror? Oh my gosh an interview with this juror on TV reviled that he was the Black juror!!

In any case this is a superior example of how desensitized whites have become on the subject of racial discrimination. This is particularly important to those who may seek "justice" in the counts. They must look for the fair and just from among their peers jurors), the fair and just in judges of the court, the fair, just and interested in their attorneys. These qualities are left to be wondered about when we see daily how attorneys for both plaintiff and defendant spend much effort trying to choose a jury of bias peers and in the case of racial discrimination a jury of white only where ever possible. A case of racial discrimination and/or mistreatment must be bazaar, cruel, heinous, and extraordinary for this cover of desensitization to be breached.

For example, the case in New York City where a Black male Haitian was arrested, dragged into the toilet and sodomized with the handle of a toilet plunger. Even in this extreme treatment of a Black there seems to be no clear cut cry of "no never in America" from the white community. In fact there is the continual stream of rationalization coming from officials. Some say that this Haitian man was attacking the policeman with his "but" and they had to subdue him by subduing his attacking body part!!

In the words of that giant in literature, Rodney King, Can't we all just learn to live together???

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15. REMANUFACTURING NEW GINGRICH  (September 9, 1997)

It was a real miracle to see the notorious and invincible Newt Gingrich go from "king of the Hill "to "road kill!!" Newt developed a case of political halitosis and was out of juicy fruit gum. Now the engagement in his resurrection is frightening. It is because it just may work.

Recently, we have seen the orchestrated conflict between Newt and the far, far right fringe of the Republican Party. This group is saying that Newt is not carrying their banner as high as they feel he should carry it. Then there was the staged conflict between a member of the party who was said to have been trying to unseat Newt as Speaker of the House. This made for media coverage where there had been none. Newt is even loosing weight in order to remake/change his image!! These activities are to many an indication that Newt may not be so far out in left field. But this author is more than a little suspicious that the right wing attack is staged only to push Newt more to the middle and acceptable political ground by not having him move but making the far right look even further out. I hope, no I know that the public will not be so easily fooled.

The powerful media and a good public relation team has proven that it can hood wink the public easily so many times and again make an admired person out of a hypocrite! Like a snake in wolf's clothing, Newt is waiting to strike again. But we must be aware of the tale about the lady who found the beautiful snake which was in the road run over by passing automobiles. This snake was close to road kill, not to unalike Gingrich. The lady took this snake home and nursed it back to health. But as soon as it was well the lady found the snake to be cute, pressed it close to her loving breast and the snake viciously bit her. As she was slipping into unconsciousness she looked at the snake in some great surprise as the snake said, "you knew I was a snake when you took me home." Newt will surely bite again as soon as he is well. He has a contract on America.

Let us not forget and by the way, when Newt's fine for ethics violations was paid by "Bob" Dole it was just another ploy/attempt to make Newt legitimate by association. Great move!!

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16.  DISCRIMINATION IN THE FLORIDA OF EDUCATION

After over twenty years of problems in discrimination in The Florida State of
Education in 1994 thirteen Blacks Dr. Rufus Ellis, Ms Vessie Felton-Joseph, Mr. William
Pittman, Jr., Ms. Debra Crowell, Ms. Rosezetta Bobo, Ms. Shirley Webester, Ms. Linda
Dukes, Mr. Norman McMillian, Ms. Valderine Grant, Dr. Baxter Wright, Mr. Walter
McCoy, Ms. Margaret Jones and Dr. James A. Scruggs filed the history making first
compliant against this department with the United States District Court Northern District
of Florida Tallahassee Division. This discrimination was alleged to be systemic,
continuous, and on-going. Further, records show that between 1978 and 1996
approximately 95% of all discrimination suits filled against the Department of Education
were during the tenure of Commissioner of  Education, Mr. Frank T. Brogan. 
After many pre-trial hearings and many summary judgments which resulted in
some of the plaintiffs being dropped from the case because of such things as missing
deadlines for filling their complaints, the first of (which included three of the plaintiffs,)
six trials was held the week of September 22-26, 1997 in Tallahassee, Florida.
 
The Complaints were generally as follows:
 
Blacks were paid as much as $10,000.00 per year less than whites 
Blacks given "outstanding" evaluations and receiving "merit" pay on the basis of
these evaluations were only those evaluated by Black supervisors
Department's personnel office had two stacks of applications, one saying qualified
applicants the other saying some more "nigger" applicants!!
Black were on employees off annual contracts and had to sue to get "Career Service".

In December 1993, a Black male employee was kicked in the buttocks by a white
female supervisor. He was forced to leave the Department because of this racist
act.  Whites income increased as much as 400 percent over their twenty to thirty year
working life as compared to 200 percent for Blacks or half as much for Blacks as
compared to whites. Blacks were denied an upgrades because of race while white persons have been provided upgrades without cause.  A white with a GED and no college degree was appointed to the position of bureau chief without considering Blacks, who had doctorates. Blacks were involuntarily moved to a location within the DOE where the majority of other blacks in the Bureau were located, Blacks suffered retaliation from a white supervisors by such things as getting low
Performance evaluations.  Only white being appointed to "acting" to vacant positions and in each case they were given the position after the official application process, to the exclusion of
Blacks.

Blacks suffered retaliation from department employees both Black and white, who
were told that he had to be "controlled" because of their out spoken activities about
the treatment of Blacks in the Department. There were many times when terms such as "Jungle Bunnies" and "you people" were used to describe Blacks in his staff. Names of Blacks being placed on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Agency to satisfy the ethnic distribution when they never applied nor interviewed for the position."

In preparation for the appearance before the court we were provided a pretrial
orientation. There were some surprising revelations to us as Blacks. First we came to
understand or we were informed that there probably not be but a few Black jurors if any.
Therefore, for the most part we would have a mainly white jury as a jury of our peers(?).
This meant that we would have to observe a profile that whites would understand and
accept in Blacks. This profile was to me vary familiar and repulsive. We were instructed
not to say things that would raise the passions in the "genteel (Gentle)" nature of these
southern men and ladies. We had to conciliate this jury of our peers(?)!! We were to
conduct ourselves as "proper little colored boys and girls." We did all of this and were
died. No, we did not die and the only reason we did not was because we were not there
accused of a crime that brought with tit the death penalty. We had to be humble and
lovable, and looking for mercy not justice. Like “Shoe Shine Boy” character in the
“Underdog cartoon” we would have to be humble and lovable and never, never go near
a phone booth and become the super dog called “Underdog!!!!” Further, we were told
not to use the word “discrimination’ because whites had come to hate this word. The
word racists and affirmative action was also off limits. We were to always say that we
were treated unfairly and disparately. Which was true but the fact is that on the complaint
form it was asked in no uncertain terms “do you feel that you were treated differently
because of race, sex, age or handicap?"

The States defense was essentially that all these things did occur; However, the
whole thing was color natural. All these things did happen but at no time was color taken
into account when decisions were made or actions were taken. In addition, we were
complainers, had an "attitude," and were lying about our dispread treatment.

To prove that Dr. Scruggs had an "attitude" and a questionable character the
defense brought in a book he had written in which he had recorded the case history of
this suit and use some highly  descriptive words in describing the actors, but which had
not yet even been issued for sale! Scruggs remembered that a young white girl had called
me at home and said that she was working on a paper at FSU and needed some new
material on race relations and problems. Scruggs told her that he had written a
dissertation and two books an the subject and that he had two other books that were not
yet issued for sale because of he was waiting for clearance on issues on using some
peoples names. She came by his home and convinced him to provide her the two books
which were on sale and one book, "GENERATIONS and NUMBERS" which was not
yet on sale. This young lady turned out to be a Law Clerk working for the states, defense
attorneys! The court rule that this was improper to get these books in this manor and that
they could not be introduced as evidence, However, excerpts from the books were
allowed. 

In closing Attorney for the plaintiffs, Steve Andrews, " The Department wants
you to believe that these are Oprah-watching, cheese ball-eating, unemployment-
grubbing people who are not worthy of a judgment in this case... If you say to someone
in America today, 'This black person has an attitude (as the department's attorneys
were saying) I submit to you that it sends a message... people who complain about their
treatment as black people have a bad attitude, but those who don't have the right
attitude."

The attorney for the state, Harry Chiles said, "None of the things they're talking
about were based on skin color. There is a legitimate reason for everything they're
complaining about... Scruggs simply finished second to a white applicant for the
science education job, and Pittman's salary gap was due to differing duties and
responsibilities..." Chiles further stated that although no black has ever been appointed as
to an "Acting" position by the Department of Education it had nothing to do with race.

After a jury of six whites and two Blacks heard all these complaints and the
rebuttal from both sides and after about five hours of deliberation, a verdict which found
against the plaintiffs was brought to the court. However, before the verdicts the jury was
hung on Pittman and Scruggs. They came to the judge on this point and were told to go
back and reach a unanimous agreement. They did.

The plaintiffs were so stunned after receiving the verdict that comments were
few. We knew that this was not just a loss for the three of us. It was a loss for protected
groups in . This had become a Civil Liberties, Human and Civil Rights for protected
groups .

Dr. Scruggs said that he was trying to understand this great justice system in
America. It may be the best in the world but sometime it is difficult to get it to work. He
said further that although the state tried to make it seem that Doug Jamerson and Altha
Manning, who were both Black state leaders had something to do with our problems. 
There was no truth in this. It was really a Black-white problem. The only avenue left was
a retrial and/or an appeal.

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17.  THE THIRD WORLD WAR; THE ECONOMIC WAR 

It is obvious that the Third World War is going on at this very time. War is the
state of conflict of power and resources between international contenders. Sense this war
has not been accompanied without  a true declaration of war it's description needs a explanation
beyond the scope of this article. Now do not take this as a simpleminded scare. What is
so ridiculous about this war is that there are so many people who know of this war and
has always been both military and economic conflict. The most significant change made
by ww II was a shift to war as an economic entity. Embargo and economic sanctions are
traffic bullets to the head of a nation. Even our so called Black intellectuals know but are
not interrupting this state of war to others They are, I suspect scared to death of this
information and will not as a matter of conscience perform their duty to explain it to
others.
 
This war is being fought between the big international corporations and other
governments. For example, Bill Gates has more wealth than the country of Ghana. The
merger of Mobil Oil and Exxon will create a wealth/control of energy comparable to all
the big business in the thirties. These corporations can by the movement of their
resources topple governments. Well you may say, "In wars there is dying, suffering, and
exchange of territory." Well the answer to this is that there is dying some with bullets and
most time in starvation.
 
Take the starvation in the third world. There are more starvation in these
countries from the withholding of resources/money then in most wars combined.
President Bush made the formal declaration of economic war with the announcement of
"The New World Economic Order." Approximately 30 million people per year die from
economic sanctions which produce starvation and physical plagues. One child dies every
2.3 seconds. Compared to WW I where 34 million died (1914-18) and WW II (1939-45)
where 44 million Allies were killed and 11 million Axis died. This war is clean. It is like
living next to one of the concentration camps in Germany. We know that the dying is
going own but it does not interrupt our personal lives. At least not yet.
 
Recently in Ghana a big oil company owns through the government all the oil
resources in that county. They have such a firm control that the citizens recently tried to
get disparately needed fuel oil by taping into an oil line. This resulted in a rush to get this
oil by citizens and a disaster where many, many people died from burns. The military of
this country came in to protect the oil companies holding and repress the citizens of this
country.
 
The establishment of the American dollar as the standard medium of exchange
for goods and a bases of wealth has set the stage for the wealthy to control enormous
power both here in the U. S. and in other less wealthy and educated countries. The
antitrust laws which are passed specifically 1) deny big monopolies and 2) deny
companies the ability to gain such power as to pale the power of the peoples government.
Government is presently being undermined by the assault on the presidency and the
federal agencies which look at monopolies. Big business is using money laundering
through such foundations such as The Heritage and Rutherford to keep the president and
government busy.
 
For Paul Krugman in his book "THE ACCIDENTAL THEORIST" states in
part, " The U. S. government had prompted palindrome speculator George Soros to
undermine Asia's economies, because it wants to impose Western values on them. And
Mathatir,s ministers expanded on hi remarks with a rhetoric that was unusual for a
government with a long-term interest in maintaining the goodwill of international
investors: Currency fluctuations are caused by "hostile elements bent on. . .  unholy
actions" that constitute "villainous acts of sabotage" and "the height of international
criminality." This is important when you look at the extreme influence big business
which is making huge profits in international markets and direct profit from such
problems created in smaller less wealthy countries. Even more important than that when
America the most powerful nation in history truly becomes the shadow of big business
and acts on what is better for big business in stead of what is good for the citizens, war is
certainly for the good big business. Charles Lewis addressed the influence of business has
on government when he reported, ". . . the food industry from 1987 to 1996 fed more than
$41 million to members of congress to get influence . . . tobacco more than $30 million
to congress . . . drug companies more than $28 million to congress . . . airlines more than
$7.5 million . . . General Motors more than $182 million to congress . . . and this is but
the tip of the powerful influence bought by industry.
 
Krugman continues to write,  - Currency crises often provoke hysterical reactions
in government officials. One day your county's economy is humming along nicely, your
bonds are AAA, you have billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves socked away.
Then all of a sudden the reserves are depleted, nobody will buy your paper, and you can
only keep money in the country by raising interest rates to recession- inducing levels.
This is the dilemma of USSR, Japan, Korea, African countries all which have bought into
the monetary system of a U. S. established exchange. The Philippines is another such
causality of this Third World War.

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18.  CAN POLITICS STILL BUY BLACKS FOR VERY LITTLE 

I was reading in an article published by the Associated Press that The democratic and the republican parties are fast courting the Black in Florida. As I observed in subsequent article this year the Democratic party in it mis guided action of deposing legislator Willie Logan from the position of "Speaker Designee” of the party has created the opportunity for the Black to declare its self an “Independent Voter” group. This has indeed become the case.

Yes, Politics .... Politics .... politics .... Politics on my mind. Sort of like an old Negro blues song I used to know which went; whisky .... whisky .... whisky ,,,, whisky stays on my mind. It is intoxicating and corrupting.

In Florida, "Buddy" Mackay picked Danztler for a running mate, Bush picked Brogan for a running mate. The position of Commissioner of Education as of July 8, 1998 has no candidate Democratic or Republican. It is opportunity; Opportunity for a change in education for Florida's children ( this is the moral imperative of it ). or Opportunity of a political nature.

For the over all leadership which is at this time truly white and male, both parties have the opportunity to show diversity in a Black or/and a female. The Democrats have the opportunity of healing their loyal Black party members by running a Black, maybe even Willie Logan for Commissioner of Education. He was the start of all this trouble. He has name recognition, shows skill, and ability. Of course, he will be a choice between him, Willie and Representative Keith Arnold Democrat, Fort Myers and present candidate for Governor and has $500,000.00 to bring to the commissioner campaign. So Democrats are deliberating over the question, "are Black votes worth $500,000.00 or are the fish fries, barbecued pork, and church visits still good enough for Black voters.

The republicans have only 1.5 % of Black registered with their party. Will they choose a Black as J. C. Watts or a Clarence Thomas or some like Black. No they will choose another white male Mr. Gallagher, the former Insurance Commissioner. Good name recognition. But will it help to get the 17% of the Black votes they say they need to win for sure.

Democrats are in the position of trying to recover the most loyal democrats they had, Blacks. Have they concluded that, " Blacks have short memories and are easy to satisfy; therefore, you can insult Blacks early in an election year which will invigorate the 'Bubber' vote and near the end of the voting year provide Blacks gestures of "love" a fish fry, some barbecue pork, some cold water melon and a pat on the head??" If this were true and this made Blacks happy, it will play well for the "virtue" of democratic politicians, because in the words of Aristotle, " a political shows virtue went they make the citizens happy.. Although shallow and shorted this is the classic fulfillment of virtue, politics, and Platonic statesmanship. It as demonstrates that Black voters have been defined as immature, ignorant, and easily swayed by emotion instead of reason and analytical deductions.

The Republicans have concluded that they need or can right now get at least 17 percent of the Black votes. However, they have, in my estimation concluded that such right wing republican issuers as School Vouchers, Schools of Choice and anti affirmative action are the issuers Blacks have misunderstood and will gladly join republican ranks as soon as their great white father explains it in a way they can understand. This is a real mis understanding of the intelligence of the Black voter and will in the end make their goal a more difficult to realize.

Now there are two camps of Blacks who are jumping into this moving political water:

First, there those Blacks who will “give them anything they want” knowing that this will be the quickest way to their personal ambition of getting a piece of the pie. They deliberately take the easy premises in a problem or issue ( usually the false premises ) so they will be loved and in the end come to the false conclusion ( the false conclusion) to be loved by the master. These Black will be seen in the image of the notorious Uncle Clarence Thomas, presently a Black member of the U.. Supreme Court. I have personally seen the efforts of republicans as they try to convince Blacks that they do not really see the "virtue" in the dissolution of such things as affirmative action and the sabotage of the present public school system using School Vouchers and School of Choice. It is sad that the present state of such public institutions as education and the mission of affirmative action has left it so vulnerable to attack. But alas, it is true; Public Education and affirmative action has not worked because of the behavior and attitudes of the people who run these initiatives; therefore, "let’s not dissolve it" is hard to defend.

Secondly, there are those Blacks who after seeing avarice, ignorance, lying etc. will take the chance, be the hero and choose virtue, good, truth, ethics, and moral imperatives and in the face of the great back-pressure of prevailing public opinion and political threats even from their own kind who want to continue to rule at the feet of their master, take the right path. In my opinion we must admire the second group of people!!!

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19.  THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA IS INSTITUTIONALIZED THROUGH FOUNDATIONS 

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the right wing consisting, mainly of conservative Republicans have made a consecutive, dedicated, long-range effort to bring their agenda to a institutional reality. The conservative foundations have been a very large part of this effort.

For example, these conservative foundations have grown profusely in number and have over three billion dollars in their budgets for activities. They have given profusely to state and regional organizations that are actively promoting a conservative philosophy/propaganda, developing public positions, perce