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05-06-04, 03:13 PM
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Weekly Column for African Voice, 4 June 2004
FOR MAYOR OF LONDON
VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE BUT KEN LIVINGSTONE
by Lester Lewis
June 10th could be a big day in London. Black electors will have a decisive say in which candidate is elected to be Mayor of London and which candidates are elected to serve as members of the Greater London Assembly.
Black electors can and should bring to an end, the political career of Ken Livingstone. In his first term as Mayor, Livingstone has heaped a series of insults against Blacks in London. Consequently, no Black elector should vote for Ken Livingstone. Niether should he be awarded second preference votes.
Not only has Livingstone's reign seen a heap of insults against Blacks, Livingstone engenders and encourages corruption within the Black community for his own political ends. Working through Lee Jasper, his Principal Adviser on Race and policing, it has been one insult after another. From Black History Month (BHM) to Education to the Nottinghill Carnival, Livingstone is involved in a sustained attack on Black people's culture.
For example, the Mayor and the Greater London Authority has no statutory powers for education. Yet, Livingstone has intervened in education through Lee Jasper to engender financial gain for Lee Jasper, his side-kick Simon Wolley, the Jewish Organisation the 1990 trust and its offshoot Operation Black vote.
They joined with Diane Abbot, the member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in sabotaging a plan to get All Black Schools in London. The demand for All Black Schools was demonstrated in The Black Child Report (1997) when 40 per cent of Black children said that they want to be educated in All Black Schools that would put an end to the mis-education of Black children in London's schools. Let me show you how.
In 1998, the Hackney Black Education project sought a meeting with David Blunket, then Secretary of state for Education and Science. The purpose was to demand that at least three primary schools and one secondary school, be handed over to Blacks to be run as All Black Schools.
A group of Black Churches and community organisations had joind together in an attempt to do something positive to put an end to the mis-education of Black children in Hackney's schools.
Pastor Florence Adesanya, Apostle Omediyi and Pastor Frank Brown joined Black activists in pushing this project. In fact, it was Apostle Omediyi of Christ Apostolic Church in Kingsland Road in Shoreditch who insisted that the demand be made at that time.
Diane Abbot was approached to lend weight to this demand. She invited the group to a meeting at the House of Commons. Another person she invited was Dr. Clinton Valley, who at that time, was the Head teacher at the John Lough borough school in Tottenham.
At the meeting, it was decided to go for wider mobilisation within the community. To this end, it was also agreed to hold a one day conference under the theme AN ALL BLACK SCHOOL FOR HACKNEY. Diane Abbot was to use her Parliamentary office to help to facilitate thiat event.
But lo and behold, Diane Abbot sabotaged the Project. First, she said that she wanted control. Then she organised an education conference for the promotion of Diane Abbot. The churches and the community groups were not informed. They only learned about the conference second hand.
It turned out to be a national conference with very few participants from Hackney. It did not focus on Hackney as the group had planned. The words "ALL BLACK SCHOOL" were not mentioned. With the election of Ken Livingstone as mayor of London, his office extended facilities for Diane Abbot to organise another three education conferences for the promotion of Diane Abbot.
Trouble came in 2002 when over 1200 professional conference attendees demanded the setting up of a london wide organisation of Black school governors, parents, teachers and school students. Not that that would have changed anything but the subsequent corruption was shocking.
Now enters Mayor Ken Livingstone with his corrupt flunkey, the Zionist Lee Jasper. The Mayor's office offered funds to set up this London wide organisation. The process in the mayor's office was under the control of Lee Jasper. They issued a tender for a contract to set up the group. Bidders were given less than 24 hours to submit their tenders. Only a vigorous protest and lobbying by Professor Gus John stopped the deceit and corruption within the tendering process.
The 1990 Trust, a Jewish organisation set up by Lee Jasper with finances from the Board of Deputies of British Jews tendered for the contract. So did Operation Black Vote, an offshoot of the 1990 Trust. Professor Gus John was so angry, he proverbially "hit the roof."
He went on to the Community Radio Station Galaxy 102.5 FM anmd 99.5 FM and denounced Diane Abbot, Lee Jasper and Ken Livingstone. He wrote a book detailing the outcome of the conference and the bidding process. I can not give you the title of the book as I am writing this 29,000 feet above the mighty Atlantic ocean, on my way to address an Africa Liberation Day rally in Washington DC. What is clear from this episode is that when you get a cabal of Diane Abbot, Ken Livingstone, Lee Jasper and Simon Woolley, then what ever they do will not be to the benefit of the Black community.
Livingstone then insulted and attempted to humiliate Blacks when he banned professor Tony Martin from speaking at a Black History Month (BHM) conference he had Jasper organise last October. Professor Martin is the world's foremost scholar on the life and work of the Honourable Marcus Garvey, having written 8 books on his subject. He is the Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College in the USA.
This is the college where the White American establishment send their daughters to finishing school. Senator Hilary Clinton, wiufe of former President Bill Clinton is a Wellesley graduate. Martin put the book entitled "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews on the reading list for his students. This brought down the wrath of the Jews upon his head.
Whereas previously, it was said that anyone hated Jews were described as anti-semitic. Now, we have the opposite. If the Jews hate you, they describe you as anti-semitic. So they branded Professor Tony Martin as anti-semitic and initiated a vitriolic hate campaign against him.
So what was the problem? The SECRET RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLACKS AND JEWS documents the Jewish involvement in all aspects of the forced enslavement of Africans. They weere slave traders, slave owners and were enriched by the genocidal slave labour of Africans. All this is documented in Jewish records but they do not want Blacks to talk about it.
They walked out of the United Nations world Conference Against Racism held in South Africa, and denies that Slavery was a crime against humanity. But slavery was a crime against humanity and the Jews owe us reparations. It is time for them to start paying.
It was the Zionist Labour MP Louise Ellman who called for Martin to be banned rom speaking at the BHM conference. She was supported by the Zionist Chronicles known as the Jewish Chronicle. Ellman has cast herself in the role of spokesman for Black people in Britain. She assumes that we are so dumb that we can not do anything for ourselves.
But she, as an operative of the criminal, racist, evil, wicked, pernicious, illegal Zionist Movement will speak for us. This caused outrage within the Black community in London, especially among Pan African activists. A coalition of these groups came together and invited Professor Martin to London. He spoke at two packed to capacity overflowing lectures in Nosth and South London last November. Those who wish to check on this can do so on the internet at http://www.blacksandjews.com.
What has happened with BHM is that the British government is trying to hijack BHM and use it against us. In this it is joined by English cultural institutions such as the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The finance comes from the National Lottery. Two years ago, the National lottery put up £500,000 for BHM. practically all the money went to those English cultural institutions.
As the Nigerian scientist Emeagwali states, "Black History Month has been lost, stolen or strayed" (see http://www.emeagwali.com). So we have to take back what rightly belongs to us.
The British government, the National Lottery and the English cultural institutions are trying to turn BHM into a multi-racial, multi-cultural event. So we see the the racist anti-African H indu religion with its caste system creeping into BHM. Remember the caste system is colour-coded. Blacks are the lowest caste and are designated the servants of all other castes. We are described as demons who can be slain at will by divine sanction.
That explains what is currently happening in Guyana. The Hindus who control the government claim that Guyana is a Hindu country. They set up a Death Squad called hew Phanom Squad under Home Affairs Minister ronald Gajraj which has killed over 400 Guyanese Africans over the past year. Yet, despite their anti-African racism and their caste system, they are slowly and seruptitiously creeping into BHM as a way of getting piblic funds.
This is why Black groups have decided tom take back BHM, to hold it in February every year to coincide with the rest of the African family in North, South and Central America; with the Caribbean, Ghana and South Africa. BHM is an African Cultural event. It is an African family event. It is up to us if we want to invite non-Africans into our family event. It is not up to others to determine who is inited and who takes part in our family affairs. So we have to take back what rightfullt belongs to us.
On the Notting Hill Carnival, Livingstone, through his hit man Lee Jasper, has issued more than one insult to Blacks. Through Jasper's machinations, a White English man was appointed head of the Nottinghill Carnival. The first thing he did was to describe the Carnival as uncivilised. But what does this uncivilised barbarianism know about Carnival. The Caribbean writer and calypsonian Hollis "Chalk Dust" Liverpool has shown in his boook that Carnival originated in Kemet, the Black Land now known as Egypt.
Jasper humiliated the Committee which runs the Carnival by witholding a report on the Review of the carnival that recommended that the Carnival be put in Hyde Park. This is part of a process of easing Blacks out of control of carnival but using the financial resources of the greater London Authority to give control to Ken Livingstone and his flunkey Lee Jaasper. This must be resisted. Carnival is a Street affair everyewhere and som should it remain. After all, the Nottinghill Carnival is the biggest Street festival in Europe. Blacks built it into what it is. Now the Whites want to take control. Ken Livingstone is using the Zionist Lee Jasper as the hmmer to achieve his ambitions to control carnival.
So should Ken Livingstoe be elected for a second term as Mayor of London, there is no doubt that he would seek to heap more insults on us and try to humiliate us for his power hungry ends. That is why I am recommending to the Black electors in London, DO NOT VOTE FOR KEN LIVINGSTONE to be mayor of London again. VOTE FOR ANY OTHER CANDIDATE BUT KEN LIVINGSTONE and do not give Ken Livingstone any second preference votes.
A defeat for Ken Livingstone will be a victory for the Black community in London. It will be a massive defeat for Prime Minister Tony Blair, the most discredited Prime Minister in British history. It will be a defeat for the Labour Party that just sees Blacks as voting fodder to get White people elected to Parliament and local councils. The Labour Party is refuses to select its Black members in winnable Parliamentary seats and does not select Blacks to stand as local Councillors in any significant quantity despite us being a high percentage of the population of London.
A defeat for Livingstone will also be a signal of Black peoples' displeasure and opposition to the invasion and occupation of Iraq by Britain and the USA. The violence used against the Iraqis, the abuse of prisoners at Abu Gharib prison, the sexual humiliation and sexual abuse of Iraqi women, are the same things they did to us when they used violence to forcibly enslave us against our will.
A defeat for the Labour Party at the London Mayoral and Greater London Authority elections could be the final nail in the cofin of Tony Blair. He lied to the British people about weapons of mss destruction in Iraq. The majority of British people regard him as a liar and do not trust him. The majority of British electors want him to resign. Black electors in London must use their electoral muscle to force Blair to resign. This is yet another reason to vote against Ken Livingstone. When Blair told lies to justify the NATO invasion of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Sun newspaper carried the headline "MIGHT IS RIGHT, Blair rallies Britain." "Might is right" is the opposite to our African culture that teaches us to "PRACTICE TRUTH, JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS." Proverbs in the Holy Bible tells us "He that tells lies shall perish." This is precisely what is happening to Blair and Bush with the massive tale of lies, half truths, misinformation and disinformation they have told in Iraq. Blair and Bush are perishing. This is the teaching of our African culture and we have a duty to main tain the high principles of of our culture.
Lester Lewis is the Chairman of Hackney Black Peoples Association. He is a former Labour Councillor in Hackney.
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