Hi everyone my name is Khummit Hatshepsitu, Special K- don’t let the name fool you I was
born and raised right here in North Philadelphia. Were you glued to the
television last night looking at the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and
Congressman Ryan? It was great I just wanted Vice President Biden and President
Obama to answer the constant and consistent statement both Ryan and Romney kept
saying there are 23 million people out of work with “if your special interests
friends stop exporting jobs out of the country maybe there would be 23 million
jobs that would be filled.” I am writing this little piece because there have
been a lot of people telling me they really don’t know if they are going to vote
or even if they really want to vote.
I am 62 years young and I
remember when my family moved to North Philly near 29th and Lehigh Aves. There
were still Jewish people living there at the time and it was very beautiful. At
that time we lived on a tree lined street with a water plug in the middle of the
block which served a few purposes. If there was a fire the firemen could use
the water plug to put out the fire. During the summer the children could cool
off under the water plug on the real hot days. More importantly there were
plenty of jobs, we lived not far from what was called “Garment Square”. Botany
500 was on the west side corner of Broad and Lehigh Ave. They made men’s suits
and clothes for the country.
Right across the street on the east side was
Stetson they made hats not only for the country but the world. There were
factories all up and down Broad Street to Alleghany Ave. and from 24th and
Alleghany all the way to Kensington where clothes were made. We made skirts,
blouses, sweaters, in fact Arnold Palmer Sweaters were made right here in
Philadelphia in one of those factories where they did piece work.
Philadelphia is where there were a lot of firsts we made shoes, boots, tailor
made shirts and shoes. The point I want to make is that the reason there are no
jobs in this country is the result of a compound effect. Thanks to Mr. Darren
Harvey I learned a lot about the compound effect. After President John F.
Kennedy was murdered and Lyndon B. Johnson (a closet Republican) took office the
jobs began to leave our fair city in a very slow, imperceptible way. They moved
the entire textile industry to North Carolina. We used to hear all the time
that if you want a good job you had to go down South. After that move to North
Carolina they moved the jobs to China. See not only did Nixon devalue the
dollar he also opened the door to our manufacturing companies leaving our
country and starting over in China for the cheap labor. I want to digress for
a moment to say I came from a family that believed in being servants by helping
your neighbors and your community. They also supported the unions. My parents
worked for Byberry State Hospital my dad was a cook and my mother was a nurse.
They helped 1199C by getting signatures of the people who worked there while the
union people were in the basement. My parents risked their lives, livelihoods,
homes and family like so many others for the unions. See at that time the
unions really fought for their members we had a lot of Jimmy Hoffa’s out there.
But after a while union officials began sleeping with management, afraid when
the management threatened that they were going to take their jobs overseas, they
buckled under to management. And they still took their jobs overseas back then
just like they are doing now.
President Woodrow Wilson said in 1913,
“That the manufacturers and capitalists run this country.” They have made the
United States government the arm to do what they want to do such as but not
limited to starting wars, using the media to tell their side of the story, so
they can export terrorism around the world. They are America’s “INTERESTS” who
tell us what economic policies the government should employ. These policies are
not in the best interests of Americans. President Wilson said “America is a
foster child of Special Interests.” Who and what are these Special Interests?
Coca Cola, Pepsi, Mrs. Fields Cookies, Target, Walmart, Exxon/Mobile, BP Oil,
Chevron, Micro Soft, Apple, Hershey and all the other companies who took their
businesses, jobs and money out of this country.
See the
Compound Effect is an operating system that has effectively destroyed the moral
fiber of our country, it has take damn near all your money. Again we have to
go back in time so the people in Paul Ryan’s age group can understand how we
really got here. In 1971 Nixon took us off the gold standard what that means is
up until Nixon our money was backed by gold, but when Nixon devalued our dollar
it was backed by air. If he had left it alone we would have been able to pay
off our debt. Everything Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are talking about was
already tried and done with the same results over and over again.
Alexander Hamilton said the same thing he was a proponent for big
business. Andrew Mellon became the Treasurer and said the same trickle down
effect, he made deep cuts for the rich and ten years later the result was the
crash of 1929. When Reagan and the Elder Bush were in office, jobs were still
leaving but not with the speed of the younger Bush. It wasn’t until now in 2012
when it’s affecting the Middle Class
that we are hearing it’s a
problem. The jobs are not coming back the reason all of the businesses are
literally running to China, India, Latin,
Central and South America and now
Afrika is because in China there are 325 Chinese consumers to 1 American
consumer who want their products and services. I don’t know about you but I am
sick and tired of their shit and as far as I am concerned they can come back and
get the rest of their shit and keep it moving. Romney who is running for
President has outsourced jobs to other countries.
We have to
do a reality check and look at what has happened since the Federal reserve hit
the scene how many crashes have we had? Just look at what happened in 2008 at
the height of the housing crisis, the fed gave Libya $125 million dollars,
France and Germany also got paid. Senator Bernie found out about this through
the freedom of information act. Not one penny was given to a United States
business or family. In 2010, 9 trillion dollars went missing, during the
hearings the answers were not forth coming from the people who are supposed to
audit the feds activities. There was another article asking where did the $40
million dollars go? The Fed has to go to. In July of 2005, did you know the
People’s Bank of China took control of the Fed? Did you know that in an
interview on CNN in September of the 2005, it came out that George W. Bush had
borrowed money everyday of the year from China, Japan, Britain, Korea and Saudi
Arabia? Clinton gave out this information in the interview. Can you imagine
the interests that built up from the time he got into office until he left?
This was a time for everyone to come together to pull our country out of this
hole.
Instead Ryan and his racists cohorts
were so angry that we had the audacity to put a Black man in the white house
they made it their personal mission to make America and Americans suffer.
Anytime anything came up to make things better for our country they voted
against it. No matter what Obama put on the table they voted it against us as
Americans. Right here in Philadelphia, 10 teenagers from West Philadelphia High
School made a Super Hybrid Car that did not run off of gas. They used biodiesel
fuel. That car could have revolutionized the automobile industry, it could have
put America back on the map because everyone in the world would want to buy our
cars. Some rich Texan I was told bought the patent so Americans would still be
held hostage to the damn oil industry. Can I get some help in telling them to
come and get their shit and get out of our country. I am talking about the
oilmen from Texas because they are here in Pennsylvania contaminating our water
system. We have a real live Erin Brockavich situation with people dying, hair
falling out, the horses hair is falling out the people are sick and the EPA a
government agency is doing absolutely nothing except bringing them water. They
tried to tell the people in Dimock, Pa. that the contaminated dark brown damn
near black water was safe to drink. This is what putting 86 toxic chemicals into
the earth for fracking will do, KILL the land and soil.
Monsanto,
another one of America’s special interests, can someone please explain to me how
did a company who specializes in germ, biological and chemical warfare become in
charge of our food supply?
How is Monsanto even allowed to come near our soil
with his chemical warfare agents Round up which contained 2,4D and 2,4,5T the
same compounds used in Agent Orange until 1985 or 87? Why are pharmaceutical
companies allowed to sterilize our daughters and sons under the guise of
preventing HPV when everyone knows hpv comes from men not 9 year old little
girls? And please explain to me why is a extremely toxic roach pesticide
(sodium borate which was banned by the medical industry) in the hpv and flu
shots that are given to children?
And why is the sterilizing chemical
polysorbate 80 which is not to be taken intravenously doing in the hpv and flu
vaccines?`
I am bringing these tid bits up because the white house needs
to be cleaned out. We all voted for President Barack Obama for REAL CHANGE and
he did do some things. Our President said when he took office “I cannot do this
by myself.” We yes America we left him alone, we cannot make that same mistake
again. We cannot get caught up in the smoke and mirrors of a fake boogie man,
Syria which is a Christian country, Iran who does not have nuclear weapons. I
guess only the only white country in the region can have over 150 nukes in their
arsenal.
We Afrikan Americans have lost the power to vote, yet our sons and
daughters go to fight for other people to have a right to vote. As mothers and
wives and girlfriends we have to worry about our men coming home because the new
jim crow law say you can kill a Black and Latino man legally and be home for
dinner. Yet, we have to hear about someone in another country killing his
people. I’m sorry, let me get this right it is okay to legally kill Black
people here but these same Black people who can’t vote or have the right to life
are supposed to fight for other people to have democracy when we don’t have it
here.
We voted for an Obama Administration instead we have a
Bush/Clinton Administration. We want what we voted for the first time and to
get the change we voted for we are going to have to be committed to
building.
Using the operating system the Compound Effect to get our country
back on track beginning with getting that Supercar built ASAP. As Americans
we have to take little steps like having a real genuine discussion on RACE. We
have to stop supporting companies and businesses that are not here on American
soil, we can make our own clothes. There is a seamstress in every neighborhood,
there are guys in the hoods all over this country that know how to make
computers, chips and mother boards. We can get back to work we just have to get
rid of the parasites who have sucked the blood out of our country and our 401k’s
and pensions. The next time they take your money you better stalk them until
you get every penny back. When we do go to vote we have to commit to save our
futures with education not prisons. Four manufacturing companies have relocated
to China, that means there is room for us to pool our resources to build our own
manufacturing companies throughout the country.
If you are like
me and want a car that does not need gas, then lets commit to building that
sustainable car and nothing and no one is going to get in our way. We are
fighting Americans we can get out of this debt we just have to Flip The Script
Because Its Time.
