Showing posts with label Protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protests. Show all posts

Monday, December 5, 2016

I NEED YOUR HELP AGAINST RACISM AND BIAS BY GOOGLE !!


If you are a person of Good Conscious and Justice I need your help and it would only take less than 10 minutes of your life. I need you to recognize the overt bias Google displays on the Internet. I need you to TYPE in Googles Images Search Engine "Sexy Black Moms" and then do the same search for "Sexy White Moms". I have to warn you in advance, the images are graphic and disturbing. This isn't a joke nor am I making an argument limiting Free Speech ... my issue is about "blatant bias and misrepresentation" by Google and using its "analytical programming" as an excuse. Several years ago I did this for Black Child vs White Child and African Child vs other Children of different Nationalities the results were similar. In that campaign I and millions contact Google on their Bias and Racism practices and they changed their search engine to reflect a BETTER REPRESENTATION of searches for Black Children. One would have hoped that these change would be unilateral but it wasn't. Regardless if the omission was by Google's corporate ignorance and ethical conscious or blatant neglect, this isn't new for Google and it seems to be ongoing. Now back 4 years later and we are asking people of good conscious to do this all over again.

So here is the 10 minutes of your time needed for this Campaign. Start with calling Google with a well thought out complaint at 866-246-6453 or 650-253-0000. You can also call 877-355-5787 and if you know peoples outside the US call 1 646-257-4500. Google has a formal Legal Removal Request form that should be filed by as many people as possible. A record MUST be made and on the backend, we will have others that will handle any legal pressures so that they understand that Bias, Prejudice and Racism is not going to be Normal in our lives. 

Go to the following link https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905... and then select: App Engine & Compute Engine. You can write in your complaint as well. Call and Write. For every 1 complaint it is equivalent to 10,000 people. A call and email from one person increases the accountability the Google MUST respect. 

1. Go to the Google Search Engine homepage Google.com
2. Go to the lower Right of the page and select "SETTINGS"
3. Select "Send Feedback"
4. Type (Copy and Paste if necessary) the following within the dialogue space the following:

"I am writing to you about the unethical, bias and Racist representation of Black Peoples within your Search Engine analytic software. This has been an ongoing issue with Google and you have not unilaterally addressed it to its proper resolution. In speaking with several of your Google Female Employees, when asked for them to do the search themselves, they too were offended by the lack of ethics Google has displayed on this subject. As per this site's request, I have attached the nature of my complain. As a customer/non-customer, there is no answer or response that can justify this blatant bias and racist act. I demand that this be addressed for both Black Woman and Black Men."

5. Attach a Screenshot of your Google search of SEXY BLACK MOMS
6. Follow up with a call to 650-253-0000 and ask to be directed to their Voice Feedback line and leave a detailed message of your anger over this.
 

Saturday, April 23, 2016

WHY MODERN MOVEMENTS DIE

Why do modern movements die? From a Western more Eurocentric perspective, fundamentally and on the Grassroots level, people see that in order to make the changes and move the general masses in an evolutionary, revolutionary "State of Being", it takes work. Not a monumental amount of Life Energy, but a shared amount of work such as a simple Phone Call, Attending a Meeting, Learning and Researching for 20 minutes, Showing up at an Information Rally, Voting, Passing out a Flyer or a Dozen, Taking a single interest on a single issue in a single community, Asking Questions and staying on top of it until there is an answer ..... these things are easy to do but they are also acts of consistency.

The general masses have no clue that if not for the Critical Masses ( i.e. the minimum size or amount of something required to start or maintain a venture), their illusion of stability and livelihood would cease or as some people would coin, "Our Way of Life". They can never answer the question of "How did you get to this point?" They know where they are, but not how they arrived. Those that falter equally don't see that where they stand, is currently being eroded on all four sides including the ceiling. Where once there was glass that could be shattered, now is replaced by stone and mortar. This is how those that get excited about "Change" and "Hope" get misdirected and misinformed because they aren't use to doing the WORK that comes with that Change, thus their loss of Hope and then subscribe to their addiction to Complacency; their flavor of choice.

The true merit to being complacent or in giving up is that the loss isn't instant, its a slow burning death into obscurity and to them, those that are still in it become the envied and or the enemy to their decision to ignore the World around them. The Progressives or Critical Masses become the enemy and the Complacent, the victim. Especially for young people. If you ask many to just put away the Cameras and Selfie sticks and Video for their Social Media apps while being Activist and just "focus", they would see early that moving in a Progressive direction is a lifestyle and not a Fad, which is what Established Political Candidates and Politicians sell to the general masses. They all seem to have somewhere in their past, done something progressive once, but now they too have given into "the bliss".



Monday, January 5, 2015

THE BEST OF 2014




A Look Back at 2014, The Year of Soul Searching

A montage of photography during 2014, "A Year of Soul Searching". I thank all of my supporters and mentors for your personal energy, advice and attention over the months. Your support has allowed me to grow, influence and bring a sense of peace and happiness to others.

Monday, August 25, 2014

NO HEART

















You can’t feel me!
My anger’s too strong.
My stare too long,
And conviction undoes all wrong.
I got ANGRY BLACK MAN Syndrome.
At least that’s what you call it.
My ability to take you out of your comfort zone
Taking your breath
Your spirit
Shaken from the top of your monkey tree and down to the ground.
Shaka strong.
And you blinked.
By fear you noticed that you read the wrong book
About me.
I took the system and words and turned it back upon its maker.
Tsunami style
I tore all up into your foundation and left you nothing.
Not even thought.
And in your bid to call for help
Military forces stood, building walls to protect your assumed innocence.
And I laugh because I took your heart.
Way before you even knew you had one.

No Heart is the sole property of Shazza Nakim, all Rights Reserved and is published with written permission by the artist. (c) Copyright 2014

Saturday, August 23, 2014

From Yusef Hawkins to Eric Garner 25 Years Time Locked

"Well protesting is sort of like, "Please, please, please, don't do that." But they'll do it anyway. But they just ignore you. So, protest is submissive." - Paul Watson, Environmentalist Activist


I think what Paul Watson stated has more merit today, now, than than ever before. The  problem is, people, especial Black folk, aren't ready to transition from "activism" to "interventionism". The difference between "activism" and "interventionism" is  one "talks" and the the other "does". Not by just showing up and raising voices and holding hand up in the air in a surrendering manner but transitioning from being just active to aggression; "the act of "hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront". Now this might sound anti-American or even what people like to label as a "race riot" but lets be honest, with all the "extra" police, helicopters, patrol boats, secret service and traditional enforcement of the Law that surrounded the "peace march", that is what the Government is most fearful of. The Powers-That-Be know that Black folk have gone from walking hand-in-hand or with tools to being chained, to laying on their backs, to crawling, to standing up, to fighting, to dancing, to walking with hands raised to laying in graves in raising numbers. They know by definition that it is coming to this. The Fight for the Right to exist. The recent law passed called Program 1033 or the official name, AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD PROTECTION PROGRAM ACT OF 2013 (https://beta.congress.gov/.../house-bill/1033/summary/98705 ) as well as the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 1959) was designed to be a Pro-Action policy to prevent Interventionism in American People. You can't act against something if the road to action has been cut from the start. These laws cut off all paths via military action and resources. They also have rules for suspending the Constitution. The very fiber of justice in America. 

Its been 25 yrs since since the murder of Yusef Hawkins in Staten Island. The same place Eric Garner was placed in an illegal chokehold and also murdered. Al Sharpton's rally in the same place 25yrs to the day of the murder of Yusef Hawkins and he is back where he started with Eric Garner and the best you can offer in a fiery speech to those attending is that this time the people didn't get watermelon and chicken thrown at them? That is an activist "mentality" ... a philosophy of "Gradualism". If Black folk continue at this pace, 25ys from now the people of Staten Island will be serving wine and cheese, water with lemon and an ice cube for those who don't drink.

For those people in Staten Island who stayed indoors they did so in fear. Fear that the clock is ticking for an age of Interventionism. That fear just might be justified. If the actions of injustice isn't addressed in the Illusion that America is in a Post-Racial era, the 60's will come back and it will far worst than the Middle East.





Wednesday, December 25, 2013

REVOLUTION



I’ve seen sparks flare and rocks fly
Crashing against brows that pulsate blood
feeding
Knowledge and pride
for a tribe.
my Home,
our family.
It’s a light,
like stars,
that dance
Smack
HARD
And wakes the senses
allowing you,
and everyone present know
that THIS is reality.
Be it live or recorded
you now stand at the front line of the Revolution.

I took a side and it is Hot, and Violent, Physical
Wonderful.
This will be the re-start of that circle in Mayan history
where everything repeats because as Man and Men
we keep forgetting the struggle
That life, liberty and the over pursuit of prosperity
eventually and ultimately
kills us.
Bible Qur'an Torah taught us,
this.
We have embraced humanity’s less exorcised
and re-swallowed pea-soup of bile and blades
served up on money green platters and platinum card dreams.
Swooned and swayed to diamond jingle bells
and shook bags of sugar ‘till it dropped like its Hot.
Cars like deadly caterpillars munching on black filled pipes,
sucking hard on the excremental breast milk of Mother Earth.
People followed and realized that the beat they heard was not of the heart
but of the cellular ringtones from bill collectors calling
cursing your ass out to pay your bills.
It was a beat that burped and belched that your stomach is tight and empty
It was a hollow treble that echoed from your foreclosed home
And the hammer knocking in your neighbor’s lawn
signs reading,
… AND YOU 2 GET THE FUQ OUT.

Here everyone in the land is looking to the sky for a Superman
while rocking back and forth counting beads and molesting crosses
with dirty fingers that once traced remotes that channeled every talk show created.
in this reality sits a people who
stopped singing Negro spirituals praising Jesus …
a long time ago,
and replaced him with Pink Floyd

The gospel:

“We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the class room
(yells) Hey, teachers! Leave those kids alone!”

Because the man got it right:
I and we were just another brick in the Wall.

Praying for simple solutions,
the devil in us turned GOD into DOG
And in return
got a nation that shit and pissed all over each other.
Funny thing about shit and piss,
it is the one true method that dogs communicate
and the World made sure we did not become pedigrees
living in our own American backyard.

Unlike thunder or like lightning, the rumble in the distance
is missing.
No more can we count on the people to carry pitch forks
German Sheppards and high pressure hoes,
or spit and slur words of hate.
This is a different time, a different place
This whole party goes beyond Race.
Mutts, junkyard and strays in our own diversity
where television sells us on the notion that Poor is Fashionable and Cheap is Cool
SPAM is caviar and Ramen noodles is part of the 4 basic food groups.
Holy Men dancing with baby boys and Women becoming famous for their anger and pain,
who could ever image a bunch of dirty kids from New Jersey’s shore
would be the welcoming ambassadors for a generation.
We look around
 and become rabbit when what little is left is thrown in the middle
of a hungry pack,
and we draw blood.
Ethnic blood
 in a frenzy, and we still can’t see that it is all Red.
Because in truth, we are dead inside.
Hollow.
A cesspool of mediocrity and mendacity.
Dank and dark even in our most enlighten moments.
Complacent like meat fried up to give the next generation heartburn and diabetes
We medicate on the idea that we are great only because we are American.
And if we turn down the music, just enough
we just might hear the scant chuckle of Shaitan
and the quite tears of GOD,
opposite ends,
opposite sides of Ying and Yang.
Like the center of the circle in history,
 this is now cause,
 this the catalyst
for
The Revolution.

Work is the sole property of Shazza Nakim and is published with written permission by the artist.
 (c) Copyright 2013