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Title: Black Conspiracist Whackjobs
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Published: Apr 3, 2009
Author: Amazon.com
Post Date: 2009-04-03 08:33:52 by Turtle
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From Publishers Weekly In an intriguing exploration of black folklore, Turner examines contemporary legends--like Ku Klux Klan ownership of a now defunct clothing firm--common in the black community. The author, who teaches African-American and African Studies at UC Davis, finds the roots of folk notions about racial difference in the contact between European explorers and black Africans, and in white attempts to control black bodies from slavery days through 20th-century riots. She offers close analysis of several persistent conspiracy rumors: black belief that white-owned firms directed at black customers, e.g., Church's Fried Chicken, are run by the KKK; that sneaker-maker Reebok is owned by South Africa; that AIDS and crack are part of a white plot to suppress blacks. Turner insightfully observes that "products or places having strong symbolic potency for African-Americans"--some soul food is an example--can inspire folk speculation. She argues that most rumors are based on "readings or misreadings" of real oppression of blacks, and that combatting such rumors requires first addressing racial intolerance and inequality. However, Turner downplays the responsibility of the black community to support accurate reporting and education efforts. Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews Fried chicken will make you sterile; the FBI killed Martin Luther King, Jr.; the ``powers that be'' facilitated the crack epidemic, the AIDS epidemic, and the murders of black children in Atlanta: Here, folklore scholar Turner (African-American and African Studies/UC Davis) offers an illuminating examination of why rumors like these persist in the African-American community. Turner explores why these rumors, and not others, took root in black culture across the US; how they got started; and what they represent to even well-educated, well-informed African-Americans. Like ancient myths warning about the powers of nature, she says, rumors that the Ku Klux Klan owns a popular fried-chicken chain and has inserted an ingredient that will sterilize black men remind African-Americans that they live in a white society still hostile to blacks. The author traces the idea that whites are bent on physically destroying blacks back to Africa and the slave trade, during which many Africans believed they were being transported across the ocean in order to be eaten. The brutality of slave life, then of white supremacist oppression, and, today, of incidents like the Rodney King beating stir those early fears, handed down in family stories and fanned by rumor. Why domestic fried chicken and not some vague international conspiracy? Because, says Turner, an individual can take action against danger by boycotting a fried- chicken chain, but a nebulous conspiracy is beyond personal control. The author tracks down and dismisses many rumors dealing with corporations--the KKK does not appear to own fried-chicken chains, fruit-drink manufacturers, or sneaker companies--but she finds CIA and FBI intrigues more difficult to refute. An epilogue introduces the most recent rumors in the black community, including that the contraceptive Norplant is being used as a tool of genocide. Highly repetitious in detail and argument--but, still, an intriguing and thorough analysis. (Five b&w illustrations--not seen) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


Poster Comment:

No one takes blacks seriously because so many are stupid.

This is about a book called "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," about black urban legends.

They're a joke, of course. But then, all conspiracists are.

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#1. To: Turtle (#0)

They're a joke, of course. But then, all conspiracists are.

If there is no such thing as conspiracy, why is it illegal to engage in a conspiracy?

CONSPIRACY - 18 U.S.C. 371 makes it a separate Federal crime or offense for anyone to conspire or agree with someone else to do something which, if actually carried out, would amount to another Federal crime or offense. So, under this law, a 'conspiracy' is an agreement or a kind of 'partnership' in criminal purposes in which each member becomes the agent or partner of every other member.

...

www.lectlaw.com/def/c103.htm

Even the tards in .gov know there are conspiracies.

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PSUSA  posted on  2009-04-03   9:29:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: PSUSA (#1) (Edited)

If there is no such thing as conspiracy, why is it illegal to engage in a conspiracy?

So you can be charged with conspiracy to incite hatred.

It's a quintessentially 'American' legal angle. Most countries have nothing like it.

A nation based on race has to keep other races out. A government dedicated to a proposition has to keep ideas out.
The 'inner Jew': Tyler Durden with a yarmulka.

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2009-04-03   10:48:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#2)

True. But conspiracies do exist. 9/11 by it's very nature was a conspiracy. WHere we differ is in who was responsible.

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PSUSA  posted on  2009-04-03   12:49:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: PSUSA (#3)

WHere we differ is in who was responsible.

Exactly. (Personally I just don't care much about the answer to that particular question.)

A nation based on race has to keep other races out. A government dedicated to a proposition has to keep ideas out.
The 'inner Jew': Tyler Durden with a yarmulka.

Prefrontal Vortex  posted on  2009-04-03   14:20:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#4) (Edited)

Exactly. (Personally I just don't care much about the answer to that particular question.)

What?? You dont care that Germanic Death Cult Luciferian (? snicker...) Bohemia Grove Illuminati Faceless Elite MIC CIA MI5 MI6 Everything-but-the-Mossad Cabal was responsible?

You must be some kind of sheeple! /sarcasm/

You really should listen to Alex more. He'll enlighten you by distracting you...

ps, That "luciferian" nonsense is really silly. "Lucifer" is a latin word that snuck itself into the KJV Hebrew old testament. It's used only 1 time in the translations. Some confuse it with "Satan". It's not.

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PSUSA  posted on  2009-04-03   14:38:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: PSUSA (#5)

"Lucifer" is a latin word that snuck itself into the KJV Hebrew old testament. It's used only 1 time in the translations. Some confuse it with "Satan". It's not.

You are correct. Lucifer, as used in Isaiah 14:12, has no reference to Satan at all. It is, in fact, used as a symbol for the King of Babylon and the eventual down fall of his kingdom. How it was ever misdirected to mean Satan is beyond understanding.

RO

ReallyOrnery  posted on  2009-04-04   1:27:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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