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Black Pro Life: Ministry Fighting to Save Unborn & Preborn Children
November 23rd, 2016By Barack Obama Mandela.
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Donald Trump And The End Of The Liberal Media
November 14th, 2016
By Barack Obama Mandela.
Throughout now President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign for president I analyzed the mainstream media’s coverage of the Trump campaign. From the Huffington Post to the New York Times to CNN these media outlets openly supported Hillary Rodham Clinton. Moreover, their polls wrongly prognosticated that Hillary Clinton would win the election. The leftist media was ABSOLUTELY wrong while FOX new was ABSOLUTELY correct.
In my opinion, the election of Donald J. Trump as US president signals the end of the liberal media in the United States of America.
It is clear from the election results that the liberal media grossly misread the mood of the American people. It is clear that political polls conducted by the liberal media were unfairly rigged and biased against President-elect Trump. Given the outcome of the election it is time for the leftist media to do a mea culpa.
What should the liberal media do now that Trump has been elected president?
First of all, the Huffington Post needs to hire more conservative and right-leaning contributors and editors in acknowledgement of the new American reality. If the HuffPost does not hire more conservatives as soon as possible it runs the risk of being perceived as a biased tool of the socio-political left. In addition, liberals and progressive should be fired and purged from the Huffington Post effective immediately.
Secondly, CNN and CNBC must hire more conservative commentators and anchors. The days of liberal Anderson Cooper are no more. The American public, which has chosen to move to the right, will not tolerate liberal outlets such as the New York Times. It’s time for the media to acknowledge this reality or risk irrelevance and extinction.
Finally, the time has come for introspection and humility on the part of the leftist media. Does the liberal media wish to continue as a biased tool of the progressive left? Are media such as the Huffington Post afraid of giving a “fair hearing” to right wing ideas which the American people have accepted?
The Huffington Post must become more like Fox News and the Drudge Report and the Heritage Foundation. If the liberal media does not embrace the right wing, then it will be regarded as unreliable propaganda of the extreme left.
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The End Of My African American Identity
November 14th, 2016By Barack Obama Mandela.
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The Future Of Jewish Leadership
October 30th, 2016
By Barack Obama Mandela.
As a member of the World Jewish Congress, I have often thought about the future of Jewish leadership. I also wonder what Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can learn from the history of Jewish leadership.
What does the phrase “Jewish leadership” mean? In summary, it means leadership by Jewish people. However, in a more profound sense, it means leadership according to Jewish values and in a distinctly Jewish manner.
Within the Jewish Bible there are many examples of leadership. In the book of Genesis we see the leadership styles of Adam (the first human being) and Noah.
In the case of Adam we see an example of misguided leadership that does not accept responsibility. Upon eating the forbidden fruit Adam blames Eve for the transgression. Then Eve herself also does not accept responsibility; she blames the serpent.
Neither Adam nor Eve is willing to stand up and say, “Yes, I take complete responsibility for eating the fruit, and I am sorry for doing so”. If they had taken responsibility, then perhaps God would have diminished their divinely-ordained punishment.
Noah, on the other hand, has a different style of leadership. When God commands him to build the ark, Noah follows God’s precise instructions for constructing the vessel. This is an example of leadership because Noah directs the building of the ark. In addition, Noah successfully convinces his immediate family to join him in the ark. He also spearheads organization to bring animals into the large ship.
In one way, Noah’s leadership is lacking in that he failed to convince his fellow human beings to change their wicked ways and join him inside the ark. Noah had a precise leadership rather than a convincing leadership style. Therefore, Noah’s leadership style is not ideal.
In the book of Exodus we are introduced to the strong and self-sacrificing leadership of Moses. Raised as a prince in the royal Egyptian family he has the opportunity to live a highly affluent lifestyle within the confines of a posh and elegant palace. However, Moses makes the self-sacrificial decision to personally identify with his Hebrew sisters and brothers. His identification with the Hebrews precedes his leadership of the Hebrews.
Moses is known in the Hebrew language as—Moshe Rabbeinu (Our Rabbi)—is also a visionary leader. After the revelation for God Almighty, Moses is led by a vision of confronting the powerful Pharaoh to demand the liberation of his enslaved community. This is an example of visionary leadership. In our contemporary modern world it is important to have visionary and forward-looking leadership.
In many ways, Moses wears a threefold crown of leadership: He serves as priest, prophet, and king. When he mediates between God and the Hebrew nation, he is acting in the role of a priest (although not a Cohen). When he describes the future Land of Israel, he is acting in the role of prophet. When he judges and leads the people, he assumes the role of king. Modernly, Jewish leaders must assume mantles of leadership equivalent to the scriptural roles of priest, prophet, and king.
The example of Moses demonstrates that a leader can also play the role of manager. On some occasions Moses manages the Hebrews such as when they complain in the wilderness. On the other hand, he acts as a serene leader when his provides the Hebrews with a nation-creating set of Torah laws.
Just as Moses led the Hebrews in the past, Jewish leaders must also lead in this manner in our times? These are the keys to success for our Jewish leaders. Moses’s leadership serves as an example for the Jewish leaders of our era
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I Don’t Want To Be Myself, I Want To Be Lebron James
October 16th, 2016
By Barack Obama Mandela.
I am an African American attorney, and I am a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law–the oldest law school in California. I am also a military veteran and recipient of the National Defense Service Medal.
Despite these real-life successes, I find that I am dissatisfied with myself. I want to become someone else. I want to be LeBron James.
*Although I am a California attorney, I do not have millions of fans and supporters like LeBron.
*Although I have a Doctor of Law degree, I am not a worldwide celebrity like LeBron.
*Although I am a member of the State Bar of California, I cannot score 40 points and dunk a basketball in an NBA game like LeBron.
*I am only 5 feet 10 inches tall; whereas LeBron is 6 feet 8 inches tall. He’s taller.
*I weigh only about 160 pounds; whereas LeBron weighs 265 pounds. He’s bigger.
The bottom line is that I am not a “stud”. I am not a “buck”. I am not a “bull” I cannot intimidate opponents with raw physical power and athleticism like LeBron. LeBron is considered a physical beast and a Tour De Force of masculinity and manliness.
Yet, as an attorney at law, am I considered a “powerful man” like LeBron?
A black man with a law degree is not as respected as LeBron James. LeBron isconsidered the chosen one. Whereas I am considered a “corney sell-out to theghetto and hood.
I do not hate LeBron James. I am, however, jealous of LeBron. More than anything I want to be LeBron James.
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Socio-Cultural String Theory: A New Social “Theory of Everything”
August 30th, 2016
By Barack Obama Mandela.
For some years now, the world of physics has been abuzz with a focus on what is called “The Theory of Everything”. This quest for a unification theory has deep historical roots. This essay launches the creation and application of a new social scientific unification into a theory of everything.
Hundreds of years ago, Isaac Newton proved that the same force that causes an apple to fall from a tree is the same force that holds the moon in orbit around the earth. Newton therefore achieved an elegant unification of the terrestrial with the celestial. He erroneously believed that gravity acted instantaneously across any distance. However, Newton’s important equations helped human beings land on the moon.
The successor to Newton was a worker in the Swiss patent office named Albert Einstein. Early in the 1900s, Einstein proved that the velocity of light is a cosmic speed limit and that nothing in the universe can exceed it. An example of the speed of light would the fact it takes approximately eight minutes for sunlight to travel to the earth.
As we are living in three dimensions of space and one dimension of time in a space-time fabric, Einstein indicated that space can be curved or warped or stretched by large objects such as planets and stars.
Einstein stated that if, for example, the sun were to suddenly disappear, there would be ripples of gravity traveling the same speed as the speed of light. In other words, gravity is warped and curved in the fabric of space. Einstein called this new theory of gravity: General Relativity.
Einstein then sought to unify his general relativity theory with James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism. However, Einstein found that electromagnetism is a much stronger force than the force of gravity.
In the late 1920s, the successor to Einstein emerged as a young Danish scientist, Neils Bohr, who developed the theory of quantum mechanics. Whereas Einstein focused primarily theories of the very large, quantum mechanics focused on the very small atomic and subatomic world.
Quantum mechanics revealed that the quantum world is chaotic and uncertain. Whereas Einstein focused on finding predictable solutions (“God does not play dice.”), these new scientists discovered a highly probabilistic quantum world.
They also discovered that gravity and electromagnetism were not the only forces; rather there exist two additional forces: strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. It was strong nuclear force that was unleashed with the detonation of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico.
In a real sense, the scientific theory of everything seeks to unify all of four fundamental forces in the universe into a super force and a single set of unified and elegant equations.
The successor to Neils Bohr is scientist Ed Witten who developed M-Theory (“M” meaning “membrane”) positing the existence of eleven dimensions; although our human brains are developed to sense only three dimensions of space and one dimension of time.
According to string theory, strings exist on a larger membrane with our universe existing on one membrane (or “brane” for short) within a much larger entity known as “the bulk”.
Collectively, this quest to unify the laws of the universe is known as “The Theory of Everything”. I hereby launch the creation of the “Socio-Cultural Theory of Everything” which must be vigorously applied to social sciences in order to achieve social scientific unification.
In my new socio-cultural theory of everything, each human being is represented by a “string” which vibrates on larger human civilizations known as “membranes” or “branes” for short. Entire cultures are represented by “collections of strings” vibrating together on a single membrane. By reducing human beings to strings, we are able to analyze the variation of humanity as vibrations of strings.
This new string theory explains major human conflict in terms of collisions of two or more membranes. For example, war and armed conflicts are explained as the collision of these membranes. This socio-cultural theory should be known as theObama/Mandela-Bohr-Witten-Einstein-Maxwell-Newton Socio-Cultural “M” Theory.
Thus far socio-anthro-culturo-econo-historico-theories have been described with increasingly fragmented theories. The existence of contradictory sociological theories has now been replaced by this one unified theory. This new social string and “M” theory has unified sociology, anthropology, history, economics, political science, and psychology.
By collapsing Actor-network theory into sociological string and sociological “M” theory, the academic world has now achieved a sociological theory of everything.
Complex theories of human individuals will be reified into “strings”; complex social networks and human cultures will be reified into “collections of strings”; complex human civilizational theories will be reified into “membranes” or “branes”; complex theories of the multiverse will be reified into “the bulk”.
Imagined a pastry chef slicing a large loaf of wheat bread. In a sense, human beings are trapped on a single loaf of bread. The other slices of the loaf represent different universes within the vast multiverse. This is analogous to the relationship of “social scientific strings” to “social scientific membranes” to the “social scientific bulk”.
With my theory of everything sociologists, psychologists, economists, anthropologists, and historians are now able to clearly explain complex relational ties within complex and large networks utilizing sociological string theory.
With this revolutionary social scientific string theory, the academic world and intellectuals can now focus on refining my theory of everything to explain the inner and outer working of humankind.
My theory creates a novel “sociology of translation” in which this central networking forum based on the social scientific theory of everything is created where consensus can be built to fortify and build the network.
Just as post-modern physicists seek to unify the observable universe into a series of elegant equations, our understanding of humanity can be reduced to one socio-cultural string theory and one socio-cultural “M” theory: a Theory of Everything.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a Black Man
August 15th, 2016By Barack Obama Mandela.
I believe that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is figuratively a black man.
I am the same age as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In addition, Trudeau and I have similar educational achievements. Yet he is the most powerful man in his country, and I am an impoverished person who struggles to survive.
What is the difference between Prime Minister Trudeau and myself? Well, obviously Trudeau is a white man who is son of a former prime minister; while, I am a black man who is the son of a welfare recipient single mother.
The United States Department of Education must do more to invest in young African American students. Local school districts across America must institute an African American Empowerment Initiative (AAEI) to empower black students to achieve success.
President Barack Obama is on the right path with his My Brother’s Keeper Initiative which is administered by the White House. The goal of President Obama’s meaningful effort is to improve scholastic achievement among young people of color.
As the president, himself, said on the White House website, “That’s what ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ is all about. Helping more of our young people stay on track. Providing the support they need to think more broadly about their future. Building on what works-when it works, in those critical life-changing moments.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper
Not only am I the same age as Prime Minister Trudeau, I am also from the same generation as prime minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rutte Prime Minister Rutte has a degree in history from Leiden University, while I have a Doctor of Law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Yet Rutte is entrusted with the prime minister’s portfolio, while I am frequently stopped by police because I happen to be a black man in America. Instead of being treated as an attorney who graduated from California’s oldest law school, I am treated like a burglary and homicide suspect.
No one asks me where I earned my bachelors and law degree, instead I am questioned as to whether or not I am a possible gang member or crack dealer.
When I see young leaders such as Prime Ministers Trudeau and Rutte, I am proud that my generation is rising to leadership positions. (Florida Senator Marco Rubio is also happens to be my age)
With the help of pro-black educational initiatives, black people like me can become just as successful as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X dreamed about a future America that would unlock the potential of African American men and women. Hopefully, our country will create more African American political leaders, computer scientists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians.
I call upon the United States of America to declare an “African American State of Emergency” and utilize FEMA funds to rehabilitate African American communities and empower African American young people. We risk losing generations of red blooded Americans.
During his campaign for Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau invoked the memory of his own late father, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, “My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.”
The time has come for the United States to successfully heal the wounds of slavery, discrimination, and ghettoization. In doing so, we can transform Justin Trudeau into a successful black man.
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Is Donald Trump The Leader of American Christians?
July 9th, 2016By Barack Obama Mandela.
This past Easter, at least 65 Christians in Lahore, Pakistan were killed by a militant suicide bomber. A faction of the Taliban that has declared allegiance to the Islamic State claimed responsibility.
Since this deadly suicide attack occurred specifically on Easter–the occasion celebrated as the day of Jesus’ resurrection–this attack appears to be sending a threatening message to Christians around the world. If Easter is not safe, then no Christian holiday is safe. This can be interpreted not only an attack on Pakistani Christians, rather, it is an attack on all believers in Jesus of Nazareth.
Coincidentally presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has recently called for a halt to Muslim immigration to the United States. Moreover, Trump has spoken forcefully about apparent attacks on Christians by radical Muslims and Islamic militants.
There are Youtube videos in which thousands of people cheer Trump at his political rallies when he speaks about an alleged extremist Muslim conspiracy against world Christianity. Recently, Trump reiterated his proposal to ban Muslim immigration to the United States.
Horrific attacks like the suicide bombing in Lahore may only strengthen Trump’s political capital and enliven his supporters.
One matter is clear from these deadly attacks—the Christian world is in need of an American champion. There must be one strong Christian leader who can concretize, articulate, and mobilize the Christian world’s front viz a viz radical Islam.
In Europe, there are some outspoken leaders such as France’s Jean-Marie LePen and his daughter, National Front leader Marine LePen, Nigel Farage in the United Kingdom, and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
However, the United States is the world’s sole superpower and there must be an American leader of Christianity’s response to the threat of radical Islam.
Donald Trump has taken a firm stand against the threat of radical Islam. However, only time will tell whether Trump will emerge as the champion of world Christianity.
The recent terrorist attack in Pakistan transformed the day of resurrection into a day of death and suffering. When will the Christian world fight back and who will lead the effort?
To quote the famous hymn, “Onward Christian Soldiers”:
“Onward Christian soldiers
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before”
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Arianna Huffington for Vice President of the United States
May 25th, 2016
by Barack Obama Mandela.
The world media is transfixed on the tightly contested battle for the Democratic nomination for president between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. At this point, Clinton has the upper hand; however, Sanders has not conceded and remains committed to the contest.
Whether Clinton or Sanders emerges victorious, an important question will be: Who should be the vice presidential nominee?
The choice of a vice president can make or break a campaign. When then Senator Barack Obama chose Joe Biden as his vice president, he quieted criticism of his own lack of governmental experience. Conversely, when President George H.W. Bush kept highly criticized Dan Quayle as his vice president this hurt Bush in his unsuccessful campaign against Bill Clinton.
An effective vice president must have the following characteristics: loyalty to the president, team player, humility, record of success, and strong character. Arianna Huffington possesses all of these favorable characteristics.
This is why Arianna Huffington should be the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
From her own political campaign in California to her creation of the Huffington Post, she has demonstrated her ability to bring about success with her broad experience in government, journalism, new media, social networking, and finance. Moreover, Huffington has a degree from one of the finest universities, Cambridge.
Hopefully, either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders will choose Arianna Huffington as the vice presidential nominee. This would be a choice of success and victory.
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The Virgin Mary: A New Role Model for African American Women
April 23rd, 2016By Barack Obama Mandela.
From Michelle Obama to Beyonce Knowles to Oprah Winfrey, there are numerous strong and influential African American female role models. It is amazing that beautiful and strong black women are helping to shape the core culture of the United States.
Beyonce alluded to this phenomenon in her video “Drunk in Love” in which she cavorts on a beach with bleach blond hair while holding a large trophy. Her symbolic message was clear: the black female has replaced the blond haired blue eyed white female as America’s premier sex symbol.
Over the past twenty-five years, perhaps no African American woman has garnered more success than Oprah Winfrey. From the Oprah Winfrey Show to the OWN network, Winfrey has built her company Harpo into a billion-dollar enterprise. Young African American girls can look up to Oprah as an example of the American Dream in a black female embodiment.
America is far from the days when black women were unfairly stereotyped as “loud and angry”. Instead, the United States now as an elegant African American first lady who is routinely voted as one of the world’s most admired women.
However, something very important is needed for the prominent cultural icons of African American women: chastity.
In rap and hip hop videos, scantily clad black women are shown shaking their buttocks and gyrating uncontrollably for the pleasure of “gangsterized” men. These images denigrate black womanhood and lower these women to the base level of wild animals.
A more positive and productive path for African American women is the path of the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary in Harlem, New York. This primarily black female order of Roman Catholic nuns promotes chastity, faith and devotion to God, and daily prayer.
These African American nuns present a more pure and positive image of black women. They embrace the chastity of the Virgin Mary, rather than the booty shaking of video vixens.
A prominent black religious leader has famously said that “the most dangerous place to be African American is in the womb”.
This controversial observation is a wake-up call to African American women to the issue of abortion, teenage pregnancy, prostitution, out of wedlock relationships, and single-parent households.
It is clear that African American women need a new and wholesome role model: the Virgin Mary. According to the Catholic Church, Mary was born without original sin due to the Immaculate Conception. Furthermore, Mary remained a sinless virgin for her entire life.
This is the type of role model that young black girls need in our culture in which “b*tches and hoes” are promoted by the corrupt dominant culture.
African American women can follow in the footsteps of the Virgin Mary who innocently stated to an angel during the Annunciation in the Gospel of Luke, let it be with me according to your word.”
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Contract with Black America: A New Historic Document for African Americans
April 22nd, 2016By Barack Obama Mandela.
Preamble
We the people of the United States, in order to bring African Americans into a more perfect union, establish justice and opportunity for black Americans, insure tranquility in African American families and communities, promote the general welfare of black Americans, and secure the blessings of liberty of all African Americans and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Contract with Black America.
Corpus of Contract
As loyal and patriotic citizens of the United States, African Americans have formed a vital part of America since our nation was founded. Fighting in all major wars and military conflicts and building the nation during periods of involuntary servitude, African Americans through their blood, sweat, and tears have helped to build the United States into the world’s foremost democracy.
The providence of history necessitates the creation and establishment of the Contract with Black America to set out a concrete agreement between the United States and its African American citizenry.
First, we, the African American people, do hereby promise to remain loyal and patriotic citizens to the United States.
Second, we, the African American people, do hereby promise to protect the national and global security of the United States and preserve America’s national security interests.
Third, we, the African American people, expect to participate fully and completely in the American dream of freedom, prosperity, property ownership, educational opportunity, and personal fulfillment.
Conclusion
The African American communities of the United States seek to include this contract with the founding documents of our republic in order to demonstrate that African America is part and participle of the United States. As a single body, African America hopes to improve our quality of life and economic opportunity in the United States of America.
I call upon the Congressional Black Congress to adopt this document.
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