The Disappearance of Strong Black Men

Shalam Israel, We are the original Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, out of 1 West 125th St. Harlem, NYC, since 1969. The HOME OF THE TRUTH! In the Spirit of the Most High, in the name of Christ under Commanding General Yahanna, we have dedicated and hazarded our lives to bringing the 12 Tribes of the nation of Israel back to the Father in spirit and truth. The people of Negro, and Indian descent, scattered throughout North, South, Central America and the West Indian Islands are the Lost 12 Tribes of Israel. Wherever we are; in the ghettos, the barrios, the reservations or shanty towns; on the web, and in our everyday lives we strive to wake up our people.

What's really going on with so called Black Culture in America today? Where the hell did all the soldiers go? There once was a time in this country when Black and Latino men were proud of who they were, where they came from, and were willing to put everything on the line to protect and uplift their people. Men who weren't afraid of media criticism, or being scrutinized for their views on social issues that were mainstream at the time. Men the likes of Jim Brown, and Muhammad Ali, world famous athletes, who stood against social injustice and spoke openly about the plights of Blacks and Latinos publicly; it seems were not bred into this current generation.

Ecclesiastes 7:7 - Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Any man with wisdom, can see that blacks, Latinos, and Native American Indians are and have been oppressed in America. This oppression will make any wise man mad. But a gift, or a bribe is what will stop that man from acting out against this oppression, or speaking about why he's mad.

In 2014, it seems like the only real wise men among the 12 tribe of Israel are the priest and prophets of the ISUPK. Recently a man by the name of Richard Sherman was ushered into the public spotlight following some statements he made after a pro football game. Even though this man graduated from Stanford with a 3.8 GPA, and has never had a criminal record, white reporters and sports writers were quick to call him a thug. Sherman responded to these character attacks, and made the statement that calling a black man a thug today, is the new way to say nigger.

Though he defended himself, and his character well, Sherman was sure not to say anything too controversial or out of line. Being a black man, from the drug riddled, gang banging, violent streets of Compton, California; Richard Sherman can use his status as a All-pro NFL player to speak about someone attacking his character, but nothing gets said about the violence, crime, and evil that engulfs the neighborhood he grew up in? It isn't just Sherman though, because the 0's on the check are the bottom line for minority athletes today, nothing about the real world they come from, and we live in is a topic up for discussion.

Proverbs 3:31 - Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Since slavery, Blacks, Latinos, and Native Indians have been jealous of the so called white man. We've wanted his money, his glory, and his woman; so time and again we've tried to live like them, dress like them, party like them, and invited them to be apart of everything we're apart of. This goes against what the Most High commanded us to do.

Nowadays, black athletes and entertainers have publicist, agents, and public relations teams, which is partly why they are more likely to make a fashion statement, than a social one. Trying to fit into, and be accepted by the larger white demographic of fans, advertisers, and marketers, many blacks in the public light have adopted and joined themselves to white culture. While their bank accounts, and contract guarantees have increased; the platform that these athletes have to speak up for the real issues that concern our people goes to waste. Instead, the public platform that black athlete and entertainers stand on today, is being used to promote something far more heinous and sinister.

1 Corinthians 6:9 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

It is a sin, and a death penalty offense, for a man to be feminine in any way according to the laws of the Most High in the Bible. Homosexuals, cross-dressers, whores, exhibitionist, swingers, and all manner of sexual deviants will not make it into the Kingdom of Heaven.

The platform black athletes and entertainers stand on today is pushing accepting homosexuality, the emasculation of men, and male femininity. While rappers praise openly homosexual clothing designers like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Tom Ford, and Micheal Kors; athletes like Dwayne Wade are hailed as being fashion forward for wearing their clothes. Now if the man making the clothes is an open homosexual, what do you think his clothes for men will make you look like?

Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

It is an abomination for a man to wear feminine clothes and for a woman to wear masculine manly looking attire.

Now, if the designer garbs that black athletes and entertainers dawned last year made you shake your head, what you see this year might make you smack your mother. A couple weeks ago, a fashion show in London rolled out this year's major designers plans for the 2014 spring, summer, and fall; and things are about to get very sickening.

Skirts, one shoulder blouses, 3/4 shirts that expose the lower stomach, neck strap dress tops with the back exposed, and 3" clog shoes are about to be considered men's wear. Not to mention the skin tight shirts, kilt suit bottoms, and Roman toga style dress suits; following the white man is going to have these professional business type Negroes dressing like Kerry Washington in Scandal. This is what happens when we allow ourselves to get sucked into the white man's culture.

Ecclesiastes 7:5 - It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

For some of us, the truth of what is being pushed on us socially, and the reality of what is happening to us culturally is too much to bear. Many refuse to hear the correction the the Most High gives through the men who follow after Christ in the ISUPK. Instead they rather listen to sweet songs and smooth words which keep them entangled in deception.

During the Grammy's last week, the producers arranged for a wedding which featured 34 couples, mostly gay, some straight, old, young and of different races to tie the knot while Rap Artist of the Year award winner Macklemore and Ryan Lewis performed their homosexual themed ballad titled "Same Love". Now hold up, a white duo, took home the Grammy for best rap song, AND best rap album, then preformed their hit song while Queen Latifah officiated a wedding in which homosexuals were married on national television?

But we're crazy when we say the white man is the devil, he's trying to destroy the black, Latino, and Native Indian man, and turn us away from the Most High?? Damn that. We better open our eyes and see what the hell is going on. If we don't turn to the truth of the Most High and Christ, then the white man will succeed in destroying us further than he did with physical slavery, drugs, and abortion. The final stage is making it so that there are no more men to raise up soldiers, to protect our woman and make more children.

America is becoming Sodom and Gomorrah more and more everyday. A land full of lude, vile, sexual deviants. The Most High destroyed that place with fire and brimstone raining down from out the sky. This is the fate which awaits this place. Don't die with the so called white man because your refused to take heed to the warning of the prophets. Shalam.

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Debate Talk 4u's Hot seat w/ Captain Katham Gabar

Welcome to the HOT SEAT where you the listening audience will call in with your questions and comments from beginning to end.  Special guest will be I.S.U.P.K Captain Katham Gabar.  Ask any question you like.  Keep it clean lol. No foul language.  You will call in and ask tough questions.  This is the 1st segment of THE HOT SEAT.  60 minutes of questions and comments.   #isupk debate #Israelite January 29th 7 pm.  The call in number is 646-716-7320 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/debatetalk4u/2014/01/30/the-hot-seat-w-captain-katham-gabar-isupk

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Monopolizing the Weed Game

Shalam Israel, We are the original Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, out of 1 West 125th St. Harlem, NYC, since 1969. The HOME OF THE TRUTH! In the Spirit of the Most High, in the name of Christ under Commanding General Yahanna, we have dedicated and hazarded our lives to bringing the 12 Tribes of the nation of Israel back to the Father in spirit and truth. The people of Negro, and Indian descent, scattered throughout North, South, Central America and the West Indian Islands are the Lost 12 Tribes of Israel. Wherever we are; in the ghettos, the barrios, the reservations or shanty towns; on the web, and in our everyday lives we strive to wake up our people.

Webster's Dictionary defines a Monopoly as -
1 : exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action
2 : exclusive possession or control
3 : a commodity controlled by one party
4 : one that has a monopoly

On January 1st, 2014 the selling of weed became legal in the state of Colorado. Setting the tone for State governments across the US, Colorado has effectively monopolized the sale and distribution of Marijuana in the region. 37 dispensaries opened it's doors on the first of the year; with lines wrapping around corners consumers couldn't wait to get a taste of the new government brand.

There's a new top dog in the weed game, who's cornering the market, and monopolizing all the sales. It is your local state government. Since about the 1960's when marijuana became a popular drug of choice among blacks, Latinos, and Native American Indians; low level street hustlers have made a living, growing, shipping, and selling weed on the underground market. It's time to say goodbye to the weed game.

Psalm 62:10 - Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

trying to live like the so called white man. The Most High warned us not to trust oppression and to not become nothing chasing money .Selling and using drugs is oppression for the children of Israel. We have been reduced to nothing by becoming drug dealers, gangsters, pimps, and whores. Just because something can make you rich, that doesn't mean you should do it.

For too long, blacks Latinos, and Native Indians have put their trust in the drug game. Many of us have died, gone to jail, and been destroyed because of the quick cash, easy woman, and materialistic things that hustling drugs can afford you. As a whole we've gained nothing in the destruction of our people through the distribution of drugs. After having made drug usage amongst our people the norm in our culture, the white man who started it all in the first place, is now coming to cut out the low level street hustlers to take all the profit for himself.

Over 5 million dollars were made in the first week of the legal weed business in Colorado. For the year the state is expected to rake in around $70 million in tax revenues, while the shop owners are expected to make over $600 million collectively. For all the recent talks about state budget deficits, and federal spending cuts at the state level, weed legalization and distribution could be new cash cow that the American economy has been needing.

Jeremiah 44:23 - Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the Lord , and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord , nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.

The prevalence of weed, crack, meth, pcp, and tobacco that is in the ghetto, barrio, and reservation today is an abomination in the sight of the Most High. We sin against the Most High when we burn incense to other gods. Everyone knows the smell tobacco and weed gives off, while maybe less are familiar with the smell of crack, heroin, pcp, and meth. The history of the herbs associated with these various substances can be traced back to religious origins.

Smoking weed is evil, and Most High commanded Israel to burn incense of Frankincense and Myrrh because of its pleasant smell but not to smoke it. Frankincense and Myrrh come from herbs or tree sap which when burnt creates a smoke which gives off a distinct smell. Other herbs have distinct smells as well. But the white man has made a fortune causing us to sin against the Most High with his tobacco products, and now he's moving onto marijuana.

Isaiah 30:9 - That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord :

Since 1969 the men of the ISUPK have warned our people about the evils of selling and using drugs. But many of our people are rebellious and refuse to hear the law of the Most High.

Now that the white man is cutting out the middle man in the dope game, what are we going to do now? If we had been listening to the men of the Lord, the drug game long ago would have ceased to be relied upon by so many. Unfortunately, this government takeover of weed doesn't mean that hustling will stop in the ghetto. Actually, it is a sign that things could be looking to take a turn for the worse. What happens when there is no more money to be made with weed? Dealers either move on to dealing higher risk drugs like crack or heroin, or move into worse crimes.

 No one can be sure what the future holds, but one thing for sure is that the white man is going to get his money. With the state of Washington following Colorado's footsteps by opening weed shops later this year, it's only a matter of time before every state is legalizing weed. As with tobacco and alcohol there are sure to be endorsement deals, and commercial advertising, coming down the road.

Nothing good has ever come from smoking weed. Now that it exclusively belongs to the White man, things can only get worse. Blacks, Latinos, and Native Indians need to flee all forms of drug addiction, and turn back to the Most High. Through the spirit of the Most High and Christ, the men of the ISUPK will continue to stand on the truth, and fight to keep our people off of drugs. The era of drug dealing for our people has come to it's end.

Every Monday Night, check out the Live Radio Broadcast, with Commanding General Yahanna from 9-11pm, at www.ISUPK.com or listen in live on Skype @ 215-586-4851.

Enroll free in our live online classes, Tuesday through Friday from 7-9pm EST, on the website WWW.THEISUPK.COM or call in on the same Skype number. Don’t forget to pay your tithes and your freewill offerings.

Visit our online school store. Support the truth by purchasing audio CD’s with 1 hour long teachings, DVD’s with Video Footage from Street Speakings, along with official authentic Hebrew Israelite garments and accessories to represent your nationality.

Get down with this truth, get down with this body, let us come together, and build this nation up right for the Most High and Christ. We love you Israel, Shalam!!!

110 Million Customer Accounts Hacked in Target Debit Fiasco

Target: Hacking Hit Up To 110 Million Customers

 The data breach at Target was significantly broader than originally reported: The company said Friday that 70 million customers had information such as their name, address, phone number and e-mail address hacked in the breach.

Target said the personal data stolen could affect its past shoppers -- not just those who have visited the store recently.
The breach occurred in the weeks following Thanksgiving when as many as 40 million customers may have also had credit or debit card information stolen. A Target spokesperson said there may be overlap between the two groups, but they do not currently know the extent.
Target said it would try to reach customers for whom it has e-mail addresses to inform them of the breach. It cautioned that it would not ask customers to provide any personal information and warned customers not to respond to any e-mail claiming to be from Target.
"I know that it is frustrating for our guests to learn that this information was taken and we are truly sorry they are having to endure this," said Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel.
Customers will not be liable for the cost of any fraudulent charges. Target is also offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all customers who shopped in U.S. stores. Customers will have three months to enroll in the program.

Proverbs 29:24  Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

John 10:1  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

1 Peter 4:15  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

Violence in Central African Republic Causes Mass Exodus

Nearly A Million Flee Violence in Central African Republic

As the violence in the Central African Republic reaches unprecedented levels, aid organizations say the number of internally displaced people edges toward a million, further hampering humanitarian relief efforts.
The nearly 935,000 displaced people are hiding in bushes and seeking refuge with host families, and churches and schools have been turned in to makeshift shelters. More than half the population of the capital city of Bangui has been displaced, and nearly 60% of them are displaced children, according to the latest report from UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency.
Since March, violence has gripped the Central African Republic, or CAR.
Aboubakar Daoud, 33, has spent the last 15 years of his life as a shopkeeper in the country. He says life was very good, his business was thriving and everyone was living in peace. But all of that is now just a memory.
"The situation is very precarious for Muslims and particularly for Chadians, even for those who got married with the Chadians," he said.
After the predominantly Muslim-backed Seleka militia and other rebel groups from the marginalized northeast seized Bangui, one of the Seleka leaders, Michel Djotodia, overthrew President Francois Bozize, who fled to Cameroon, creating a political power struggle.
Under Djotodia's interim presidency and transitional governance, Human Rights Watch has reported details of the Seleka's deliberate killing of civilians, including women, children and the elderly. The rights group also reported in recent weeks that violence and insecurity in the Central African Republic have taken on an alarming sectarian dimension.
Backlash set in when Djotodia officially disbanded the Seleka and, according to rights groups, thousands of Seleka rebels kept their arms and formed their own vigilante group known as the "ex-Seleka." That group has since been integrated into a new "national army."
Human Rights Watch says command and control of the ex-Seleka remain questionable as the group continues to commit abuses in the Central African Republic. All the while, the anti-balaka -- a predominantly Christian armed group created by then-President Bozize to fight banditry -- continues to attack Muslim civilians in response to ex-Seleka abuses.
Residents say the violence between the Muslim Seleka militias and the retaliating Christian groups has wreaked havoc in cities across the Central African Republic.
"For days and nights on end, the men in my town did not sleep so we could secure the area from anti-balaka. They would come anytime to attack Chadians in the area," Daoud said.
In December, 1,000 men were killed over a two-day period, according to Amnesty International.
As a protective response, France has sent 1,600 troops under a United Nations mandate into the
'Unprecedented levels of violence against children'
"I was born in CAR and started to do commerce with my parents at an early age. The good moments were in the past and have ended. We were living in peace as brothers and sisters," said businesswoman Djemila Abdoulaye, 39.
"The worst moment was when my 21-year-old son went out to look for some provisions, and he got shot on Christmas Eve," she said, holding back her tears. "At the same time, his uncle got shot trying to protect him. I have never seen them or their bodies again."
UNICEF, the United Nations children's aid agency, has verified the killings of at least 16 children, and injuries among 60, since the outbreak of communal violence in Bangui on December 5. The agency says at least two children were beheaded at the end of December, and one of them mutilated, further stating that attacks in the CAR against children have sunk to a "vicious new low."
"We are witnessing unprecedented levels of violence against children. More and more children are being recruited into armed groups, and they are also being directly targeted in atrocious revenge attacks," said Souleymane Diabate, a country representative for UNICEF.
"Targeted attacks against children are a violation of international humanitarian and human rights law and must stop immediately. Concrete action is needed now to prevent violence against children," Diabate said.
The Central African Republic, which is north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of the six African countries that border Chad.
The International Organization for Migrants, or IOM, estimates there could be tens of thousands of migrants in the CAR, with most originating from the neighboring region, including Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan. Also, Chadians are among the migrants in the CAR who are at the highest risk, the IOM says.

'Largest evacuation effort' since 2011
"This is the largest evacuation effort we have seen since the war in Libya in 2011," said Dr. Qasim Sufi, the IOM chief of mission who's in charge of receiving Chadians arriving from the CAR.
Air evacuations from the CAR to Chad are now entering the third week, and the IOM says the number of Chadian migrants evacuated is increasing by the day. Since late December, the IOM estimates, more than 17,000 Chadian migrants have been returned from the CAR by air and land.
"We have a very big caseload of evacuated migrants in a short period of time, which can overstretch our capacity to assist, and we need additional financial support," Sufi said.
The UNHCR estimates that this mission could cost $152.2 million.
"There are also hundreds of Nigerians waiting at the Nigeria Embassy in CAR to be rescued. Citizens are being taken from Bangui to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, where they can unite with their family," said Mohammed Sani Sidi, director general of the National Emergency Agency.
For weeks now, the Bangui International Airport has become a safe house for many people looking to flee the violence.
The government of Chad also has sent road convoys to help evacuate migrants who were not able to make it to the airport.
"The evacuations are nice, but the situation at the airport is not well-organized because there are too many Chadians who all want to get back to Chad," said Abdoulaye, the businesswoman.
The air evacuations alone, to date, have topped 8,500 people aboard 51 flights.
The first road convoy organized by the Chadian government to evacuate stranded Chadian migrants arrived at the Chadian border village of Sido this week to help evacuate about 1,800 women and children who were living in very desperate conditions. The IOM also estimates that 4,000 additional migrants have returned to Chad on their own through the Gore and Sido border crossing points.
"Many of the evacuees are in urgent need of basic humanitarian assistance, including food, water, medical attention," Sufi said. "Once returning to Chad, these migrants are really traumatized psychologically and need further help, time and assistance reacclimating to their new surroundings."
At least five migrants have died since the evacuations began Friday, according to Sufi.
As for Daoud, he looks across the border to find a new way of life.
"I think, it will be better to go to the village and be a farmer," he said.
Others, such as Abdoulaye, are leaving everything behind.
"I will only take my life back to Chad. I'm happy to still be alive," she said.

Matthew 24:15-17

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁵ When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
¹⁶ Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
¹⁷ Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Sunday Service Snatch Man

Fedora-Wearing Thief Targeting Churches in Texas

Denton police say a fedora-sporting thief is stealing from local churches -- even during service hours.
Police have released video surveillance footage and photographs of a man in at least five church thefts across the Metroplex.
“It's a sacred place," officer Ryan Grelle said. "It just shouldn't be touched, and that makes it a little bit more outrageous that he's doing this."
Investigators said the thefts usually occur when the churches are most populated: Sunday mornings and afternoons. The thefts during the week have occurred during basketball games or other activities.
The man has broken into Immaculate Conception Church's parish office twice and stolen cash.
"It irritates me," Monsignor Charles King said. “I'd say he needs to get a life."
Denton police said they have connected the man to thefts in Denton, Mansfield, Farmers Branch and Midlothian. Investigators are also looking into a similar case in Southlake.
In every incident, the man is wearing one very distinguishing article of headgear.
“The big thing is, he's wearing a fedora hat each time, anywhere from a brown fedora to a straw-type fedora,” Grelle said.
Police said the man is a Hispanic male who appears to have a tattoo or some other type of dark mark on his right forearm.
King said he can’t help but wonder if it’s someone his parish has helped before.
“I have a hard time believing this man is in need of financial assistance,” he said.
The church provides financial assistance through a variety of programs and has even opened the doors of its sanctuary to the homeless, allowing people to sleep on the pews during some tough winter nights.
"He's taking from folks who aren't any better off than he is,” King said.


2 Corinthians 11:8  I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.

2 Held On Trial in Starving Death of Pennsylvania Toddler

2 held for trial in Pa. tot’s starvation death

Carmen Ramirez, 27 and Carlos Rivera, 30

PHILADELPHIA — A judge has ordered a Philadelphia man and woman to stand trial in the starvation of their disabled toddler, saying the girl looked like a victim of a Nazi concentration camp when she died.
Carlos Rivera, 30, is charged with first-degree murder and Carmen Ramirez, 27, is charged with third-degree murder in the death of 3-year-old Nathalyz Rivera, who weighed just over 11 pounds when she died in September.
Municipal Court Judge James DeLeon said at a preliminary hearing Wednesday that the girl looked “like an Auschwitz child.” He ordered her parents held for trial on all counts after hearing testimony from doctors, homicide detectives and a city social worker.
Officials said Nathalyz was born blind and unable to talk or walk. Associate Medical Examiner Andrew Rosen, who ruled the death homicide by starvation, said her lack of nutrition and medical care was “glaring.”
“You can almost count every rib individually,” Rosen testified.
Defense attorneys unsuccessfully sought a reduction or dismissal of the charges.
Ramirez cried as a detective read a statement to police in which investigators said she told them that she and her new boyfriend had been at a casino for hours when Rivera called her around midnight.
“He told me, ‘Nathalyz is not breathing,’ and ‘What do you want me to do?’” she said, according to the statement read in court. “I said, ‘Take her to the hospital.’ He told me he did not want to because the police would lock him up on the spot.”
Rivera kept his head in his hands as a statement was read in which police said he told investigators that he never fed the children breakfast or lunch and usually left Nathalyz and her siblings alone in the house while he sought casual work.


Lamentations 4:4  The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

2 Esdras 15:57  Thy children shall die of hunger and thou shalt fall through the sword thy cities shall be broken down and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field

Nebraska Child Protective Services Confiscate Baby "Thug" After Swearing Video

Swearing toddler in 'thug' video taken into protective custody

(CNN) -- A Nebraska toddler who repeated a slew of profanities in an online video has been taken into child protective custody, Omaha police said Wednesday.
While authorities found nothing criminal in the video, officials from the Omaha police's Child Victim Unit and the Nebraska Child Protective Services took the infant and three other children into custody on Wednesday, the police department said on its Facebook page.
The joint investigation found safety concerns, the statement said.
CNN learned of development through Twitter.

In the video, the diapered child is bombarded with obscenities and racial slurs by the adults around him.
The African-American toddler knocks down a chair and gives nearly as good as he gets, responding to some of the comments with an upraised middle finger and telling one of the adults at one point, "Shut up, bitch." The adults laugh and prompt him to repeat other crudities.
Just another day on the Internet -- until the police union in Omaha, Nebraska, posted the clip on its website to highlight what it called the "cycle of violence and thuggery" the community faces.

The Omaha Police Officers Association came under fire from the city's police chief, the ACLU and at least one community leader. They say the move needlessly antagonizes the city's minority communities, who make up about a quarter of Omaha's 409,000 residents.
Sgt. John Wells, the union's president, said the video was "disturbing" and "offensive."
"The focus here isn't on any particular ethnic group. The focus here is on the troubling behavior towards this child," Wells said. "This behavior is going to potentially lead this child down a path that is completely unhealthy."
On the website where the video is hosted, the union said the clip came from "a local thug's public Facebook page."
"We here at OmahaPOA.com viewed the video and we knew that despite the fact that it is sickening, heartbreaking footage, we have an obligation to share it to continue to educate the law abiding public about the terrible cycle of violence and thuggery that some young innocent children find themselves helplessly trapped in," the police union wrote in a post accompanying the video.
"Now while we didn't see anything in this video that is blatantly 'illegal,' we sure did see a lot that is flat out immoral and completely unhealthy for this little child from a healthy upbringing standpoint," it added.
Wells said one of the adults mentions a local street gang in the video.
"That is why when we talk about the culture, the criminal culture, that this is to try to break the cycle and deal with the culture of violence and the culture of gang activity," he said.
But in a city where police officers' treatment of minorities led to lawsuits, criminal charges against two officers and the firings and reassignments of several others in the past year, critics say the video is poking at raw wounds. Willie Hamilton, president of the community activist group Black Men United, said the union "crossed a line by doing this."
"For them to take a video out of context -- a 2-year-old who doesn't have the brain capacity to know what's going on -- and to say that this child, because two adults acted inappropriately, is going to end up in a life of crime is totally inappropriate," Hamilton said.
And the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska, which filed an excessive-force suit against the Omaha Police Department on behalf of an African-American family on Monday, said the union's use of "racially charged language" was "very disconcerting."
Police Chief Todd Schmaderer tried to distance his agency from the controversy in a statement issued Tuesday, saying that the union's website and Facebook page are separate from those of the Omaha Police Department and that he has little authority over the public statements of union members.
"With that background and understanding, I want to make it explicit and clear that the views expressed on the OPOA Facebook page do not necessarily reflect the official stance of the Omaha Police Department," Schmaderer said. "I strongly disagree with any postings that may cause a divide in our community or an obstacle to police community relations."
Wells said union members have turned the video over to the department's child victim unit, which will work with child-welfare agencies to investigate the circumstances. He said the organization "didn't think we'd get this big of a reaction."
"Hopefully, the impact is, it gives law-abiding citizens what law enforcement deals with on a daily basis, and it sort of throws back the blinders that these type of problems are going on," he said. "And we can have a very frank and open discussion on how to tackle these issues and come up with solutions."

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Mother of toddler in 'thug' video says her son is smart, does not curse

(CNN) -- The mother of an Omaha toddler is defending her son after he unleashed a slew of obscenities in an online video that has gone viral.
In the video, the diapered boy is taunted and cursed at by adults, who coax him into using crude words.
The African-American toddler knocks down a chair and responds to some of the comments with a middle-finger salute.
"Shut up, bitch," he says in one of the responses.
The adults chuckle, prompting him to unleash more obscenities at them.
Despite the video, he's not an anomaly, according to his mother.
"He had a clean diaper, the house was clean and like they said, kids curse, every kid does it," the mother told CNN affiliate KETV in an exclusive interview. CNN does not identify juveniles in such stories. The mother is 16.
"He's a smart little boy. All that cussing that he did, he doesn't do that," she said. "Somebody told him to do that. My son doesn't do that. I don't allow it."
She said a friend of her brother filmed the video while she was in another room.
"He was wrong for doing that ... posting the video up and getting us into this situation," she said. "Everybody that thinks I'm a bad mother, I'm not. I'm a good mother to my son. I teach him a lot. He's very smart."
The police union in Omaha, Nebraska, posted the clip on its website to highlight what it called the "cycle of violence and thuggery" the community faces.
The Omaha Police Officers' Association is under fire from the city's police chief, the ACLU and at least one community leader. They say the move needlessly antagonizes minority communities, which make up about a quarter of Omaha's 409,000 residents.
Sgt. John Wells, the union's president, said the video was "disturbing" and "offensive."
"The focus here isn't on any particular ethnic group. The focus here is on the troubling behavior toward this child," Wells said. "This behavior is going to potentially lead this child down a path that is completely unhealthy."
On the website where the video is posted, the union said the clip came from "a local thug's public Facebook page."
"We here at OmahaPOA.com viewed the video and we knew that despite the fact that it is sickening, heartbreaking footage, we have an obligation to share it to continue to educate the law abiding public about the terrible cycle of violence and thuggery that some young innocent children find themselves helplessly trapped in," the police union wrote in a post accompanying the video.
"Now while we didn't see anything in this video that is blatantly 'illegal,' we sure did see a lot that is flat out immoral and completely unhealthy for this little child from a healthy upbringing standpoint," it added.
Wells said one of the adults mentions a local street gang in the video.
"That is why when we talk about the culture, the criminal culture, that this is to try to break the cycle and deal with the culture of violence and the culture of gang activity," he said.
Willie Hamilton, president of the community activist group Black Men United, said the union crossed a line.
"For them to take a video out of context -- a 2-year-old who doesn't have the brain capacity to know what's going on -- and to say that this child, because two adults acted inappropriately, is going to end up in a life of crime is totally inappropriate," Hamilton said.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska, which filed an excessive force suit against the Omaha Police Department on behalf of an African-American family Monday, said the union's use of "racially charged language" was "very disconcerting."
"Officers should be working to build a culture where anyone feels comfortable calling law enforcement," ACLU of Nebraska Executive Director Becki Brenner said in a prepared statement. "The manner in which the Officers Association has discussed this incident has done nothing but further erode community trust and reinforce the need for independent oversight, trainings, and other reforms."
Police Chief Todd Schmaderer tried to distance his agency from the controversy Tuesday, saying that the union's website and Facebook page are separate from those of the Omaha Police Department. He said he has little authority over the public statements of union members.
"With that background and understanding, I want to make it explicit and clear that the views expressed on the OPOA Facebook page do not necessarily reflect the official stance of the Omaha Police Department," Schmaderer said. "I strongly disagree with any postings that may cause a divide in our community or an obstacle to police community relations."
Wells said union members have turned the video over to the department's child victim unit.
The child and his mother are in protective custody for safety reasons. Court records obtained by the affiliate show the toddler was among five injured in October when shots were fired at a home.
The boy and his mother have been relocated by the state in the past over gang activity fears, according to the affiliate.

Isaiah 3:12  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 32:6  For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Franklin McCain of 'Greensboro Four' dies

Franklin McCain


Franklin E. McCain Sr., a civil rights leader who was involved in the Woolworth's sit-in in 1960, has died.

McCain died Thursday night at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. McCain's son Frank said he died of respiratory complications.

He attended North Carolina A&T State University and was one of four freshmen on February 1, 1960, to start sitting at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's. The group has often been referred to as the "Greensboro Four."
McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond returned the following days with other protesters growing to at least 1,000 by the fifth day. Within weeks, sit-ins launched in more than 50 cities in nine states. The Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro was desegregated within six months.
The Woolworth's building is now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.


Luke 16:15  And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Ecclesiastes 10:5  There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

Isaiah 9:16  For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Dennis Rodman Lashes Out To Defend North Korean Basketball Game

Angry Rodman Defends N. Korea Basketball Game

 

BEIJING — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman lashed out Tuesday at suggestions that he is playing a patsy to dictator Kim Jong Un by putting on an exhibition game in one of the world's most brutal dictatorships.
"You know, you've got 10 guys here, 10 guys here, they've left their families, they've left their damn families, to help this country, as in a sports venture. That's 10 guys, all these guys here, do anyone understand that?" he told CNN's Chris Cuomo in an interview.
When asked about whether he would raise the issue of American missionary Kenneth Bae, who has been detained in North Korea since May, Rodman again became agitated.
"Kenneth Bae did one thing ... If you understand what Kenneth Bae did. Do you understand what he did in this country? No, no, no, you tell me, you tell me. Why is he held captive here in this country, why? ... I would love to speak on this."

Rodman led 12 U.S. players to Pyongyang on Monday in what he described as an attempt to use basketball to build a bridge between the West and his "friend," North Korean President Kim Jong Un.
The flamboyant former Chicago Bulls forward has struck up an unlikely friendship with the reportedly basketball-loving leader, who had his powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek executed last month and continues to jail whole families for criticizing his dictatorship.
Rodman said he will play an exhibition game Wednesday to mark the birthday of Kim, the third generation of the Kim dynasty that has ruled North Korea since the 1950s. His roster includes former NBA stars Vin Baker, Kenny Anderson, Doug Christie, Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, Charles D. Smith and Cliff Robinson, and some players who were never in the NBA.
On Tuesday, Rodman and his team were keeping busy. The players went to a practice session Tuesday with their North Korean opponents. En route, Rodman showed off a locally designed bottle of vodka bearing an illustration of Rodman and North Korea's young dictator. The pair bonded over a liquor-fueled banquet last February.
On Monday, after the team arrived from Beijing, Rodman was treated to an evening banquet and speeches with the North Korean ministry of Sport.
Michael Spavor, a Canadian co-organizer of Rodman's trip, released photos showing the U.S. and Korean players bonding with linked arms in a huddle during practice Tuesday.
The Korean players suffer a distinct height disadvantage, though Rodman had to look up at one of their players, Ri Myung Hun, who stands at 7-foot-8. Ri 's NBA dreams in the 1990s were thwarted by the tense relations between the USA and North Korea.
Rodman insisted Tuesday that his trip can "open the door" to the isolated nation. When asked by reporters in Beijing on Monday about whether he had anything to say about Kim's repressive rule, Rodman said it was not his concern.
"(It's) not my job" to talk human rights, he said. "This game is for his birthday, and hopefully this opens the doors and we can actually talk about certain things and we can do certain things. But I'm not going to sit there and go 'hey, guy, you're doing the wrong thing.'

It's not the right thing to do, he's my friend first. ... I love him," Rodman said.
Fellow player Smith said the players were invited by North Korea to take part in a "cultural exchange" with other Americans and to "put smiles on people's faces."
"We've been doing these games for 3½ years," he said. "Outside of what people know of Dennis, you don't know Dennis. He's got a great heart, his passion is about children and families, that's why we are here.
"We are here because it's about doing great will around the world," Smith said.
Rodman became agitated with the questioning.
"One day, one day, this door is going to open because these 10 guys here, all of us, Christie, Vin, Dennis, Charles ... I mean everybody here, if we could open the door just a little bit for people to come here and do one thing."
On Monday he defended North Korea's regime.
"Not every country in the world is that bad, especially North Korea," he said. "People say so many negative things about North Korea. And I want people in the world to see it's not that bad."
Rights groups such as Amnesty International and Christian Solidarity Worldwide have criticized Rodman for visiting a country that has overseen the starvation of millions of its people and keeps as many as 200,000 people imprisoned for political crimes that include criticizing Kim's policies.
According to Human Rights Watch, Kim's government does not allow organized political opposition, free media or religious freedom. Arbitrary arrest, detention, lack of due process, and torture and state-approved rape "remain serious and pervasive problems." North Korea "enslaves" hundreds of thousands of citizens in prison camps, including children. The government periodically publicly executes citizens for stealing state property, hoarding food, and other "anti-socialist" crimes.
The U.N. says the Kim family directs food aid to military and government officials, and that an estimated 2 million people have died from famine due to the government's policies
Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International U.K., has said Rodman or any public figure who meets with Kim has a responsibility to raise the country's "appalling" human rights record.

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Rodman teammate Charles Smith: North Korea didn't pay us

(CNN) -- Charles Smith insisted Sunday that the former NBA players who went to North Korea for a basketball diplomacy trip, led by Dennis Rodman, weren't paid by the repressive regime.
"Absolutely not. I think I am astute enough to understand the dynamics, especially collecting monetary dollars from North Korea. No, we did not get paid from North Korea at all," he told CNN in a lengthy exclusive interview on "New Day Sunday."
Smith, who retired from the NBA in 1997 after nine seasons, said an Irish online betting company and a documentary film crew paid expenses for the ex-players turned hoops ambassadors.
Last month the Irish company, Paddy Power, said it had removed its name from Rodman's project after the execution of Kim's uncle and top aide, Jang Song Thaek. But it said it would honor its "contractual commitments" to the team.
Speaking by satellite from Beijing, Smith said it wasn't about the money. He saw it as an opportunity to go to a reclusive country and exchange cultural information with other athletes and citizens. But he didn't see it as a birthday present for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"That's the date that was set. I didn't know it was his birthday," he said in the half-hour interview. "And it didn't matter to me once I found out that it was his birthday."
Smith said he felt for Rodman, who asked for his help organizing the trip and who really seemed to want to pull off a big event.
"I saw the pressure mount. I saw him change, and it was very difficult keeping him and everyone together (once controversy began over traveling to North Korea)," he said.
Rodman arrived at Beijing airport on a flight from Pyongyang on Monday morning, the last of the team's players to leave North Korea.
The players' trip also met with criticism because North Korea still holds Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen who was arrested in November 2012, convicted last spring by Pyonyang of "hostile acts" intended to topple the government, and sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp. Some questioned whether the players would advocate for his release, but they didn't -- at least not publicly.
"We didn't go there for that. We went there to do what we normally do, and that's to be cross-cultural ambassadors and use the game of basketball as a bridge for exchange," he said.
Smith said the difference between this trip and other sports exchanges was that the players weren't sent as representatives of the United States.
"We're athletes doing it ourselves," he said.

Smith said he has no regrets about going. He said he was able to meet some North Korean citizens and even came across one man who winced, (wince, winced, . To shrink or start involuntarily, as in pain or distress; flinch. n. A shrinking or startled movement or gesture), before shaking the hand of the first African-American he had ever met. Smith said the man told him they didn't have a very good view of African-Americans. The man rubbed his hand as if the color would come off, Smith said.

"Then the next day after we talked for a while, he came up to me and said he was sorry," Smith said.
The former NBA player, who now travels frequently as a basketball ambassador, said he didn't go to any areas where people are hungry.
Smith also swapped sports stories with North Korea's sports minister and basketball players from the national team. He thinks that will be a positive outcome from the trip.
"We accomplished a relationship on the sports side in North Korea," he said. "Where it goes from there, I do not know at this point in time. But we established a relationship. They've asked us to come back. Whether we go back or not, I'm not sure. I don't know. But there was a relationship established between a group of individuals in two different countries that don't communicate."

Ezekiel 16:33  They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

Ezekiel 16:36  Thus saith the Lord God; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Ezekiel 16:37  Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.