Larry says one reason why he has such little patience for the social justice warriors of today is because of the experiences of people who went through almost unimaginable hardships in the past. To illustrate this point, Larry not only talks about his father, but he brings up an interview from 1949 with former slave Fountain Hughes, whose grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Hughes gave the interview at the age of 101 years old.
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Next Generation of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Kwame Nkrumah (Baba) is fighting for Civil Rights today #BlackLivesMatter
My Fellow #Americans 330-MILLION, & Fellow #Africans 1200-MILLION, & Fellow
#Muslims 2500-MILLION:- PLEASE Review BBC_News. Because TODAY, Our #USA Powerful #Media HIDING_TRUTH of DrKing+MalcolmX+BABA @NAACP @Sifill_LDF @NinaTurner
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>>>The NIGERIAN_AMERICAN Drummer/BABA, of “MooreHouse”, set the BEAT for US Civil RIGHTS, as Dr King & MalcolmX, BOTH, Asked BABA<<<https://t.co/eEYQ3gp8e2https://twitter.com/arshad_usa/status/1301176865357520896?s=20 . …..Rgrds (www.UMMAABroadcasting.US ; US_Media Co,”UMMAA Broadcasting”; LLC in Missouri).Earlier the BBC reported in the The Nigerian drummer who set the beat for US civil rights
Three years before Rosa Parks’ bus boycott, Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji protested against racial segregation in the southern states of America. He was part of a generation of Africans who played an important role in the fight for racial justice in the US – and continue to do so, writes the BBC’s Aaron Akinyemi.“The leaders in the 50s and 60s provide me with a great deal of inspiration,” Nigerian-American activist Opal Tometi, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, told the BBC.When Martin Luther King Jr delivered his historic I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington 57 years ago, around 250,000 people attended the event, including prominent figures such James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.Among the guests was perhaps a slightly more unexpected figure – Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.Born in 1927 to a Yoruba family in Lagos state, Olatunji won a scholarship to study at Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1950.He became a pioneering drummer, releasing 17 studio albums, including his 1959 debut Drums of Passion, widely credited with helping to introduce the West to “world music”.
Despite Olatunji’s enduring musical legacy, which includes a Grammy nomination and compositions for Broadway and Hollywood, his civil rights advocacy is less well known.”He was committed to social activism throughout his life,” says Robert Atkinson, who collaborated with Olatunji on his autobiography The Beat of My Drum, which was published in 2005, two years after his death.”He really deserves to be remembered more for his role as a political activist in the US civil rights movement – before it was even a movement.”
Pride in African culture
As a Morehouse student, Olatunji encountered ignorance and stereotypes about Africa and strove to educate his fellow students about the continent’s music and cultural traditions.He started playing African music at university social gatherings and gave drumming demonstrations at both black and white churches across Atlanta.
image captionBabatunde Olatunji moved to the US in 1950 to study and married Ammiebelle Bush in 1957 “Baba sparked a deep sense of pride among African Americans by strongly promoting images of African culture, which in a subtle but significant way, helped set in motion the currents of the early civil rights movement,” Atkinson says.At a time of state-sanctioned racial segregation in the US, Olatunji quickly became acutely aware of racism, and began organising students to challenge so-called “Jim Crow” laws in the south.In 1952, three years before Rosa Parks helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, Olatunji staged his own protests on public buses in the south.On one occasion, he and a group of students boarded a racially segregated bus in Atlanta wearing traditional African clothes and were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted because they were not identified as African Americans, who had to sit at the back.
The next day, they boarded the same bus in their Western clothing and refused to sit in the back when ordered to do so by the bus driver. Olatunji and his friends continued to challenge segregation in this way despite the threat of prison.”We started the protest quietly,” he later recalled of the incident. “We were part and parcel of the struggle for freedom in the early 1950s.”
Meeting Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Olatunji’s widow, 89-year-old Iyafin Ammiebelle Olatunji, told the BBC that he was called in to “ease the tensions in various communities”, such as during the aftermath in 1965 of deadly riots in the predominately black neighbourhood of Watts in Los Angeles.”He saw himself as a pan-Africanist who always reached out to unify Africans and African Americans,” she said.
image captionBabatunde Olatunji attending an event in Harlem with Malcolm X to mark Nigeria’s independence from the UK on 1 October 1960 Olatunji became a president of the Morehouse student body, which led to him meeting many early civil rights leaders in the 1950s, including Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X.His involvement in the US civil rights movement was strongly inspired by the wave of anti-colonial resistance movements sweeping across Africa during the 1950s and 1960s – of which he was a part.In 1958, he travelled to Accra to attend the All African People’s Conference organised by Ghana’s independence leader Kwame Nkrumah.The conference brought together leading independence figures and delegates from 28 African countries and colonies to strategise their opposition to European colonialisation.
It was also attended by influential African Americans such as Claude Barnett, founder of the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press, and Alphaeus Hunton, then secretary of the Council of African Affairs.Professor Louis Chude-Sokei, director of African-American studies at Boston University, says there was an intellectual and social exchange between Africans and African Americans, some of whom were inspired by newly independent African states such as Ghana and Nigeria.”Given that shared context of race and racial struggle, by the time we get to the civil rights movement, it’s not strange that African Americans and Africans are interacting culturally around issues of freedom and liberation,” he told the BBC.
Colonisation and segregation
In 1957, Martin Luther King Jr was invited to Ghana’s first independence day celebrations, and met Nkrumah. The meeting had a profound effect on King, who drew inspiration from Ghana’s anti-colonial struggle.”Ghana has something to say to us,” King said in his first sermon upon returning to the US from Ghana. “It says to us… that the oppressor never voluntarily gives freedom to the oppressed. You have to work for it.”
image captionBabatunde Olatunji was close to both Martin Luther King (L) and Malcolm X (R) – the pair pictured here at their only meeting in 1964 In the 1962 American Negro Leadership Conference, King drew a more direct comparison between colonialism in Africa and American segregation, saying the two were “nearly synonymous… because their common end is economic exploitation, political domination, and the debasing of human personality”.Meanwhile, King’s counterpart Malcolm X embraced the anti-colonial uprising of the Mau Mau movement in Kenya, and believed that adopting some of its tactics could help eradicate the Ku Klux Klan in the US.
image captionHis daughters says Olatunji, who influenced many jazz musicians, had an amazing work ethic He also met several African leaders to discuss the African-American civil rights struggle and received support in particular from Tanzania’s founding President Julius Nyerere. In 1964, Nyerere helped Malcolm X convince African leaders to pass a resolution at the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit urging the US to eliminate racial discrimination.Malcolm X also interacted with Africans in the US, where he met Olatunji, who drummed at civil rights rallies at his request.”He had a close relationship with both Martin Luther King and Malcom X,” Atkinson says.”Baba was a bridge between the two approaches of the time: King’s was non-violent and Malcolm’s not so much sometimes.”
Intensity and passion
Olatunji gave several performances for the NAACP and King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1960, he appeared on the civil rights jazz album We Insist! alongside playwright Oscar Brown Jr and Max Roach.
“The intensity of my father’s performances, during which he exuberated his passion for his art, his message, and his fans always amazed me,” one of his four children, Folasade, told the BBC.”He had an excellent work ethic which he instilled in his children and the people around him,” she said.His eldest daughter Modupe added: “His work ethic was still evident until the end of his life.”Their father died in 2003 one day before his 76th birthday. His legacy of music and activism continues to inspire successive generations, particularly contemporary Africans in America who draw on his example of bridging the continent with its diaspora.”We have picked up the baton from a previous generation and we’re continuing to run the race that they started,” says Ms Tometi of BLM.Olatunji’s biographer adds: “This is a perfect time for people to know about Baba. These demonstrations for justice are such a new and greater uprising of what he was part of 60 years ago.”
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Conversation: MUSLIMS-POPULATION: 2500-MILLION(2.5 BILLION) World-wide
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Ummaa Broadcasting – YouTube www.youtube.com › channel › about … 1910 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN – 38104 Emails: Ummaa@UmmaaBroadcasting.US, Ummaa@UmmaaBroadcasting.OrgFrom: Arshad Khan
Date: Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:36 PM
Subject: 5-Mr.POPES, UMMAA Broadcasting & PASTOR …etcWebMaster of UMMAA Broadcasting, LLC in Missouri: Pls ASAP issue BELOW email/complete, worldwide..Regards
Salams Mr…(Islamic Scholar, based middle-east):
Ref our telecoms, please review ALL below..Later, we shall discuss.
ISNA(Islamic Society of North America, in US & Canada) started approx 50yrs back, as Working-Class Muslim-students REAL-Organization(was called MSA: Muslim Students Association in USA/Canada)..BUT Sadly TODAY, ISNA has evolved into a Super-Rich BUSINESS(CONTROLLED by Filthy-RICH Muslims) & Dangerously, some of these RICH-Muslims are AGAINST The HUMAN-RIGHTS of MUSLIMS...THESE RICH-Muslims OBJECTIVE is, to KEEP MUSLIMS in USA/Canada & World-wide, as Perpetual-SLAVES of POWERFUL GOVTS/Dictators…Therefore, ALL Worldwide DICTATORS & Our US/Canada GOVTS, ofcourse SUPPORT(Politically-FINANCIALLY) ALL These RICH-MUSLIMS here.
THESE Few RICH-MUSLIMS in our USA, do NOT give DAMN, while Hundreds-of-Millions of MUSLIMS are RAPED-Butchered-TORTURED-Murdered, world-wide, in{Hindutva-India, Commy-CHINA, Budhist-Myanmar, RUSSIA, AFRICA, SriLANKA, THAILAND, Chechniya, Dagestan, Uzbekistan, KOSOVO, SERBIA,etc} & NOW FRANCE starting MUSLIM-SLAVERY there…while EU & UN & OIC, ALL DEAD…
PS: 2500-MILLION MUSLIMS worldwide(Hindutva INDIA 400-MILLION; Commy-CHINA about 200-MILLION, etc.The Few RICH-Muslims, also Command-CONTROL the Majority of MOSQUES in Our-USA, therefore These RICH-MUSLIMS also CONTROL ALL the IMAMS, in USA/Canada…These RICH-Muslims & Their Controlled-IMAMS, DO NOT ALLOW any-Discussion in MOSQUES, about the 24/7 GENOCIDES of World-wide MUSLIMS, & do NOT ALLOW DISCUSSION in MOSQUES, about the CURRENT Most-Serious Economic/Democratic/Real-LIFE PROBLEMS, of AMERICAN/Canadian MUSLIMS.
Please review below, Our Media-Challenge to the 5-Mr.POPES, & check HISTORICAL-Perspectives that we detailed.
Please reply & directly-Embed your responses, in-front of our below items.
Rgrds; Journalist Arshad A Khan(twitter @Arshad_USA );
member/Reporters-sans-Frontiers;google: “UMMAA Broadcasting” LLC
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TN-37128; & Mail to HOUSTON(10122 Adobe Drive, HOUSTON, TX-77095; USA.
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Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:47 PM
Subject: 5-Mr.POPES, UMMAA Broadcasting & PASTOR …etcTo: Mr. Basharat Saleem (please fwd to ISNA Board)
Executive Director/ISNA
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to Pastor, National, Colorado, Muslim, moustafa, irving_muslims, Muslim, Muslim, Muslims, president, Yasin, pr, info, Houstom, GLOBALMUSLIM@googlegroups.com, >>>>Dear Mr/Pastor Thomas Mathai: Replying to your email/below.
Decades back, we asked ALL your 5 Mr.POPES(smart BUSINESS-MEN), few, simple Questions, in SIMPLE ENGLISH:-
A) The “HOLY-INJEEL”(its ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: ARAMIAC) was REVEALED to OUR Holy-PROPHET ” Hazrat EISSAH-Alehas-SALAM….WHY the 5 Mr.POPES NOT TELLING TRUTH, & WHYThe 5 Mr.POPES CHANGED NAME of ALMIGHTY GOD’s PROPHET, & of THE HOLY BOOK Revealed, as Holy INJEEL, Revealed in ARAMIAC…?
B) CAN Any of the 5 MR.POPES, PROVE with EVIDENCE(NOT King-JAMES STORIES, written in-ENGLISH, ONLY FEW HUNDRED Years BACK, & written-PUBLISHED in ENGLAND), that Our HOLY PROPHET ” Hazrat EISSAH-Alehas-SALAM”, STATED ever, that HIS NAME is JESUS CHRIST…?…& That Our HOLY PROPHET STATED ever, that HOLY INJEEL’s Name should be CHANGED to an ENGLISH NAME “BIBLE”…?
2) The 5 Mr.POPES, can immediately Resolve this(above -A & B), by TRUTHFULLY-SHOWING to the WORLD, the ORIGINAL HOLY INJEEL(in its ORIGINAL Language “ARAMIAC”), which is Preserved/KEPT by ALL These FIVE(5) Mr.POPES.
These five(5) Mr.POPES(who for 2000 YEARS, been FIGHTING among-themselves, for POWER & MONEY), are:
1) COPTICS Mr.POPE, based in CAIRO/EGYPT
2) GREEK Mr.POPE, based in ATHENS/GREECE
3) RUSSIAN Orthodox MR.POPE, based in MOSCOW
4) ITALIAN Mr.POPE, based in VATICAN-ROME
5) EASTERN ORTHODOX Mr.POPE, based somewhere in SERBIA(Old YUGOSLAVIA).PS: These 5 MR.POPES, ALWAYS DEMAND Their FOLLOWERS, to ACCEPT the MR.POPE’s ORDERS, as The Final-ORDER from ALMIGHTY-GOD….Ofcourse, ALL DICTATORS, HISTORICALLY, have DEMANDED the SAME…TODAY, CHINA’s DICTATOR Mr XI, is DOING the SAME….
Also, Chinese-COMMY-DICTATOR/MR Xi, COMMITTING GENOCIDE-HOLOCAUST, of 200-MILLION MUSLIMS inside CHINA…& HINDUTVA-DICTATOR MODI-Rss-Bjp, Committing GENOCIDE of 400-MILLION MUSLIMS inside india…& Myanmar/Burma Dictator/MsAung-Su-Ki(she Supported/protected GENERALS) did MUSLIMS Genocide..etc
Dear Mr. MATHAI, Come down to EARTH…JUST Show ABOVE to your CHURCH-BOSS(whoever has been MILKING $$ from YOU, for ages)….
ALMIGHTY GOD, Revealed the HOLY INJEEL(in ARAMIAC) & SENT HOLY PROPHET “EISSAH-ALEHAS-SALAM” for HUMANITY, BUT These 5 Mr.POPES, have MADE a LUCRATIVE BUSINESS, with SONGS/Dances/incense/Show-Biz-DRESSES/JINGLES/etc/etc, & ONLY for THEIR PERSONAL-Orgs/DICTATORSHIPS/ PROPERTIES/Benefits…
NOTE-1: Our Holy PROPHET “EISSAH-ALEHAS-SALAM”, WAS Brutally-TORTURED(By JEWS) & The HOLY PROPHET was Just about to DIE, when ALMIGHTY GOD SAVED The HOLY PROPHET’s LIFE, by LIFTING him to The HEAVENS….
WE(“UMMAA Broadcasting” US-Company) shall DEBATE LIVE, with ALL 5 MR.POPES, in Wash-DC Press-Club, to DISCUSS OUR Press-Release(This email). Ask 5 Mr.POPES, to AGREE, to DEBATE LIVE.
Note-2: ALL NON-MUSLIMS(& ALL their CORPORATIONS) world-wide(including YOURSELF), BEG & CRAWL, to get Business/$$, from MUSLIM-Majority COUNTRIES,. & BEG TO LIVE-WORK THERE.
Rgrds; Journalist Arshad A Khan(twitter @Arshad_USA );
member/Reporters-sans-Frontiers; google: “UMMAA Broadcasting” LLC
{American Media Co: US-Govt Approved Trade-Mark, No: 6,143,794}
( www.UmmaaBroadcasting.US ; www.UmmaaBroadcasting.ORG ) ;
(since 2007: Media-member/Rolla Chamber of Commerce, Missouri-65401)
MEMPHIS : PMP-120, 1910 Madison Ave, Memphis; TN-38104; &
NASHVILLE : PO Box-428; The UPS-Store; 2441-Q, Old Fort Parkway, Murfreesboro,
TN-37128; & Mail to HOUSTON(10122 Adobe Drive, HOUSTON, TX-77095; USA.On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 8:56 PM Pastor Thomas Mathai <salvation1944> wrote to UMMAABroadcasting@gmail.com:
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 9:05 AM JJ <j.jamshaid> wrote to UMMAABroadcasting@gmail.com:
If such a population is unproductive & total Religion Crazy, high numbers of such a people means NOTHING.Who Cares? Muslims are most unproductive & useless, due to their Progress & Economy killing Arab Religion, so their high numbers mean nothing. Jobless joining the more jobless.
Muslim Population by Country 2021 – World Population Review worldpopulationreview.com › country-rankings › musli…There are approximately 1.9 billion Muslims globally, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world behind Christianity. The Islam population is mainly split …
#UMMAABroadcasting position, at Above LIES{published by “google/wikipedia/internet/Pew/WashDC-NGO/United-Nations/World-Bank/etc”}
(because, ISLAM is Largest RELIGON in world: “ALL” Other Beliefs-RELIGON:Catholic, COPTIC, Russian-Orthodox, Mennonites, Greek-OrthoDox, Baptist, MORMONS, Jehovahs-witness, JEWS, Lutheren, ALawites, Church-of-ENGLAND, Budhists, AGHA-KHANIs, Ahmadi-QADIANIS, PARSIS, Brahman-HINDUS(11% in INDIA), DAALITS(15% in INDIA) Communists(Worship-HUMANS), etc,, are “EACH”, LESS than “MUSLIMS population” worldwide.Courtesy: Wikipedia
>>>>Fellow AMERICANS(330-Million) & Fellow MUSLIMS(2500-MILLION = 2.5 BILLION Muslims world-wide, below FACTS, TODAY:-
1) AFRICA: Population approx 1.5-BILLION, has about 70% MUSLIMS(ONE BILLION MUSLIMS in AFRICA).2) Terrorist RSS-Hindutva Controlled HindusTan/india, has about 400-MILLION MUSLIMS(Calculate from 1947-Onwards…per ALL in 1947(NEHRU, Gandhi, United Nations, UK, USA, CommonWealth, etc), MUSLIMS population inside INDIA was SAME, as in PAKISTAN then(1947: West-PAK & East-PAK/Now BANGLADESH)…TODAY, MUSLIMS in PAK+BanglaDesh, about 430-MILLION....indian-MUSLIMS have 2-4 children, whereas indian-Hindus have mostly 2 children..
3) Commy-CHINA: atleast 18% MUSLIMS= about 200-MILLION MUSLIMS…internet SHOWS JEWS & HINDUS in Commy-CHINA about 14-MILLION Each & MUSLIMS about 30-MILLION(This a JOKE, because Jews & Hindus inside CHINA are PEA-NUTS, as Compared to MUSLIMS…in 627-AD, FIRST MOSQUE Built inside CHINA @ GUANGDON…About 35,000 MOSQUES TODAY, ALLOVER CHINA.
4) INDONESHIA: Approx 290-MILLION MUSLIMS
5) RUSSIA: About 18% MUSLIMS
6) TURKEY + IRAN + AFGHANISTAN + MALAYSIA + Middle-East + EU + UK + USA + CANADA + SOUTH-America + JAPAN + MYANMAR + SriLANKA + PHILLIPINES + THAILAND + AUSTRALIA+ NewZEALAND, + (Every COUNTRY on EARTH has MUSLIMS), have COMBINED, Atleast = 300-MILLION MUSLIMS
Rgrds; Journalist Arshad A Khan(twitter @Arshad_USA );
member/Reporters-sans-Frontiers; google: “UMMAA Broadcasting”;{American Media Co: US-Govt Approved Trade-Mark, No: 6,143,794} ( www.UmmaaBroadcasting.US ; www.UmmaaBroadcasting.ORG ) ;(since 2007: Media-member/Rolla Chamber of Commerce, Missouri-65401)MEMPHIS : PMP-120, 1910 Madison Ave, Memphis; TN-38104; & NASHVILLE : PO Box-428; The UPS-Store; 2441-Q, Old Fort Parkway, Murfreesboro,TN-37128; & Mail to HOUSTON(10122 Adobe Drive, HOUSTON, TX-77095; USA.Email addresses of the concerned friends and participants in discussion had been removed so as to avoid spam. In case you want to express your opinion on the subject, our comments section is always open.
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Hindutva can’t tolerate a hindu meeting with any Muslim? Amitabh Bachan criticized over meeting Anil Mussarat’s family.
In a recent hindutva conservative thrashing, the bollywood legend Amitabh Bachan was criticized for meeting a Pakistan born British businessman, Anil Mussarat and his family. An RSS activist blamed without any evidence that Mussrat brothers have close connection with Pak Army, ISI or Prime Minister Imran Khan. Musarrat, on the other hand has connections and family relations with several bollywood stars for many decades.
It is important to see that the conservative hindutva RSS terrorists have no tolerance for any hindu meeting with any person with a Muslim name, even in 21st century, despite being involved in genocide of millions of Muslims in the Hindutva Republic in 8 decades.
Earlier, Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan exposed hindutva in the pre-recorded speech for General Debate, 75th Session at United Nations.