Wednesday, November 25, 2009
ADAM LAMBERT ATROCITY
Adam Lambert's performance on the 2009 American Music Awards program demonstrates the need to reinstate the draft.
Monday, November 23, 2009
I NEED INVESTORS TO FINANCE A CD PROJECT
I have a music publishing company that consists of over 1,200 self-penned original songs. I need an investor/investors to finance the recording of 12-song CD. If interested contact me at composer1@suddenlink.net
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Rules for Radicals: By Saul Alinsky - 1971
Rules for Radicals
By Saul Alinsky - 1971
Hillary Clinton's 1969 Political Science Thesis ("There is Only the Fight") refers to an earlier version of Alinsky’s training manual. "In 1946,” she wrote, "Alinsky's first book, Reveille for Radicals, was published."
See also Obama: Training an army of world servers
Soviet Education under Lenin Models U.S. Education for the New millennium
From Marx to Lenin, Gramsci & Alinsky
This article is very important. It is the playbook Obama is using to change, not just our country but, the world. Until Americans understand this they will continue to follow Obama like little puppies. Please send this to everyone you know.
Allen Ball
Conspiracies- Past & Present
Background information
"Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday." --Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky
Hillary, Obama and the Cult of Alinsky: "True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties....
"One Alinsky benefactor was Wall Street investment banker Eugene Meyer, who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. Meyer and his wife Agnes co-owned The Washington Post. They used their newspaper to promote Alinsky....Her series, called 'The Orderly Revolution', made Alinsky famous....
"Alinsky’s crowning achievement was his recruitment of a young high school student named Hillary Rodham. She met Alinsky through a radical church group. Hillary wrote an analysis of Alinsky’s methods for her senior thesis at Wellesley College. ...
"Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power.
"Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite.... Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer." [by Richard Poe, 11-27-07] See also Community Oriented Policing
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
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Prologue
"The Revolutionary force today has two targets, moral as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, 'Burn the system down!' They have no illusions about the system, but plenty of illusions about the way to change our world. It is to this point that I have written this book."
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1. The Purpose
In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace.... "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.' This means revolution." p.3
"Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing." p.6
"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism." p.10
"An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth -- truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations...." pp.10-11
Notes on Saul Alinsky and Neo-Marxism:
Alinsky's tactics were based, not on Stalin's revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci's transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes.
Like Alinsky, Mikhail Gorbachev followed Gramsci, not Lenin. In fact, Gramsci aroused Stalins's wrath by suggesting that Lenin's revolutionary plan wouldn't work in the West. Instead the primary assault would be on Biblical absolutes and Christian values, which must be crushed as a social force before the new face of Communism could rise and flourish. Malachi Martin gave us a progress report:
"By 1985, the influence of traditional Christian philosophy in the West was weak and negligible.... Gramsci's master strategy was now feasible. Humanly speaking, it was no longer too tall an order to strip large majorities of men and women in the West of those last vestiges that remained to them of Christianity's transcendent God."
2. Of Means and Ends [Forget moral or ethical considerations]
"The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." p.24
"The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be...." pp.25-26
"The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means...." p.29
"The seventh rule... is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics...." p.34
"The tenth rule... is you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.... It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in creating the circumstances at any given time... Who, and how many will support the action?... If weapons are needed, then are appropriated weapons available? Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly..." p.36
Notes: Apparently, Michelle Obama referred to these words during her Democratic National Convention speech:
"She said, 'Barack stood up that day,' talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, 'and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about 'The world as it is' and 'The world as it should be…' And, 'All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do – that we have an obligation to, fight for the world as it should be."
Do you wonder who -- or whose values -- should determine what "the world... should be?"
4. The Education of the Organizer
"To the organizer, imagination... is the dynamism that starts and sustains him in his whole life of action as an organizer. It ignites and feeds the force that drives him to organize for change....
"The organizer knows that the real action is in the reaction of the opposition. To realistically appraise and anticipate the probable reactions of the enemy, he must be able to identify with them, too, in his imagination, and foresee their reactions to his actions....
"The organizers searching with a free and open mind void of certainty, hating dogma, finds laughter not just a way to maintain his sanity but also a key to understanding life."pp.74-75
"...the organizer must be able to split himself into two parts -- one part in the arena of action where he polarizes the issue to 100 to nothing, and helps to lead his forces into conflict, while the other part knows that when the time comes for negotiations that it really is only a 10 percent difference." p.78
"...the organizer is constantly creating new out of the old. He knows that all new ideas arise from conflict; [See Dialectic Process] that every time man as had a new idea it has been a challenge to the sacred ideas of the past and the present and inevitably a conflict has raged." p.79
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5. Communication [Notice the emphasis on conflict, dialogue, relationships, etc. Team "service" is essential to building strong relationships through "common involvements"]
"And so the guided questioning goes on without anyone losing face or being left out of the decision-making. Every weakness of every proposed tactic is probed by questions.... Is this manipulation? Certainly...." p.88
"One of the factors that changes what you can and can't communicate is relationships. There are sensitive areas that one does not touch until there is a strong personal relationship based on common involvements. Otherwise the other party turns off and literally does not hear....
"Conversely, if you have a good relationship, he is very receptive.... For example, I have always believed that birth control and abortion are personal rights to be exercised by the individual. If, in my early days when I organized... neighborhood in Chicago, which was 95 per cent Roman Catholic, I had tried to communicate this, even through the experience of the residents, whose economic plight was aggravated by large families, that would have been the end of my relationship with the community. That instant I would have been stamped as an enemy of the church and all communication would have ceased.
"Some years later, after establishing solid relationships, I was free to talk about anything.... By then the argument was no longer limited to such questions as, 'How much longer do you think the Catholic Church can hang on to this archaic notion and still survive?' ...the subject and nature of the discussion would have been unthinkable without that solid relationship." pp.93-94
6. In the Beginning: The Process of Power [Notice the compromise needed to build the power base. Yet, since pragmatism has eroded all values, it's simply a matter of ends justifying means. It's not unlike churches that attract members through the world's entertainment -- then continue to soften or hide Truth in order to keep them happy and lure more. ]
"From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his 'tactics' are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals."
"Change comes from power, and power comes from organization." p.113
"The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new." p.116
"An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent... He must create a mechanism that can drain off the underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. Out of this mechanism, a new community organization arises....
"The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict." p.117
"Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a continuum.... Process is really purpose." p.122
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7. Tactics
"Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. ... Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves." p.126
Always remember the first rule of power tactics (pps.127-134):
1. "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."
2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.
3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time...."
8. "Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'...
"...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...'
"One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other." (pps.127-134)
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Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "Known as the 'father of modern American radicalism,' Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed strategies and tactics that take the enormous, unfocused emotional energy of grassroots groups and transform it into effective anti-government and anti-corporate activism. ... Some of these rules are ruthless, but they work."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes from an article by Phyllis Schalfly titled "Alinski's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era," posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277 (2-2-09)
"Alinsky's second chapter, called Of Means and Ends, craftily poses many difficult moral dilemmas, and his 'tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends' is: 'you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.' He doesn't ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He is much more devious; he teaches his followers that 'Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.'...
"The qualities Alinsky looked for in a good organizer were:
ego ("reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God"),
curiosity (raising "questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern"),
irreverence ("nothing is sacred"; the organizer "detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality"),
imagination ("the fuel for the force that keeps an organizer organizing"),
a sense of humor ("the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule"), and an organized personality with confidence in presenting the right reason for his actions only "as a moral rationalization after the right end has been achieved.'...
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer 'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.'"
By Saul Alinsky - 1971
Hillary Clinton's 1969 Political Science Thesis ("There is Only the Fight") refers to an earlier version of Alinsky’s training manual. "In 1946,” she wrote, "Alinsky's first book, Reveille for Radicals, was published."
See also Obama: Training an army of world servers
Soviet Education under Lenin Models U.S. Education for the New millennium
From Marx to Lenin, Gramsci & Alinsky
This article is very important. It is the playbook Obama is using to change, not just our country but, the world. Until Americans understand this they will continue to follow Obama like little puppies. Please send this to everyone you know.
Allen Ball
Conspiracies- Past & Present
Background information
"Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday." --Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky
Hillary, Obama and the Cult of Alinsky: "True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties....
"One Alinsky benefactor was Wall Street investment banker Eugene Meyer, who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. Meyer and his wife Agnes co-owned The Washington Post. They used their newspaper to promote Alinsky....Her series, called 'The Orderly Revolution', made Alinsky famous....
"Alinsky’s crowning achievement was his recruitment of a young high school student named Hillary Rodham. She met Alinsky through a radical church group. Hillary wrote an analysis of Alinsky’s methods for her senior thesis at Wellesley College. ...
"Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power.
"Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite.... Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer." [by Richard Poe, 11-27-07] See also Community Oriented Policing
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prologue
"The Revolutionary force today has two targets, moral as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, 'Burn the system down!' They have no illusions about the system, but plenty of illusions about the way to change our world. It is to this point that I have written this book."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. The Purpose
In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace.... "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.' This means revolution." p.3
"Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing." p.6
"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism." p.10
"An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth -- truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations...." pp.10-11
Notes on Saul Alinsky and Neo-Marxism:
Alinsky's tactics were based, not on Stalin's revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci's transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes.
Like Alinsky, Mikhail Gorbachev followed Gramsci, not Lenin. In fact, Gramsci aroused Stalins's wrath by suggesting that Lenin's revolutionary plan wouldn't work in the West. Instead the primary assault would be on Biblical absolutes and Christian values, which must be crushed as a social force before the new face of Communism could rise and flourish. Malachi Martin gave us a progress report:
"By 1985, the influence of traditional Christian philosophy in the West was weak and negligible.... Gramsci's master strategy was now feasible. Humanly speaking, it was no longer too tall an order to strip large majorities of men and women in the West of those last vestiges that remained to them of Christianity's transcendent God."
2. Of Means and Ends [Forget moral or ethical considerations]
"The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." p.24
"The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be...." pp.25-26
"The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means...." p.29
"The seventh rule... is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics...." p.34
"The tenth rule... is you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.... It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in creating the circumstances at any given time... Who, and how many will support the action?... If weapons are needed, then are appropriated weapons available? Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly..." p.36
Notes: Apparently, Michelle Obama referred to these words during her Democratic National Convention speech:
"She said, 'Barack stood up that day,' talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, 'and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about 'The world as it is' and 'The world as it should be…' And, 'All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do – that we have an obligation to, fight for the world as it should be."
Do you wonder who -- or whose values -- should determine what "the world... should be?"
4. The Education of the Organizer
"To the organizer, imagination... is the dynamism that starts and sustains him in his whole life of action as an organizer. It ignites and feeds the force that drives him to organize for change....
"The organizer knows that the real action is in the reaction of the opposition. To realistically appraise and anticipate the probable reactions of the enemy, he must be able to identify with them, too, in his imagination, and foresee their reactions to his actions....
"The organizers searching with a free and open mind void of certainty, hating dogma, finds laughter not just a way to maintain his sanity but also a key to understanding life."pp.74-75
"...the organizer must be able to split himself into two parts -- one part in the arena of action where he polarizes the issue to 100 to nothing, and helps to lead his forces into conflict, while the other part knows that when the time comes for negotiations that it really is only a 10 percent difference." p.78
"...the organizer is constantly creating new out of the old. He knows that all new ideas arise from conflict; [See Dialectic Process] that every time man as had a new idea it has been a challenge to the sacred ideas of the past and the present and inevitably a conflict has raged." p.79
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5. Communication [Notice the emphasis on conflict, dialogue, relationships, etc. Team "service" is essential to building strong relationships through "common involvements"]
"And so the guided questioning goes on without anyone losing face or being left out of the decision-making. Every weakness of every proposed tactic is probed by questions.... Is this manipulation? Certainly...." p.88
"One of the factors that changes what you can and can't communicate is relationships. There are sensitive areas that one does not touch until there is a strong personal relationship based on common involvements. Otherwise the other party turns off and literally does not hear....
"Conversely, if you have a good relationship, he is very receptive.... For example, I have always believed that birth control and abortion are personal rights to be exercised by the individual. If, in my early days when I organized... neighborhood in Chicago, which was 95 per cent Roman Catholic, I had tried to communicate this, even through the experience of the residents, whose economic plight was aggravated by large families, that would have been the end of my relationship with the community. That instant I would have been stamped as an enemy of the church and all communication would have ceased.
"Some years later, after establishing solid relationships, I was free to talk about anything.... By then the argument was no longer limited to such questions as, 'How much longer do you think the Catholic Church can hang on to this archaic notion and still survive?' ...the subject and nature of the discussion would have been unthinkable without that solid relationship." pp.93-94
6. In the Beginning: The Process of Power [Notice the compromise needed to build the power base. Yet, since pragmatism has eroded all values, it's simply a matter of ends justifying means. It's not unlike churches that attract members through the world's entertainment -- then continue to soften or hide Truth in order to keep them happy and lure more. ]
"From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his 'tactics' are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals."
"Change comes from power, and power comes from organization." p.113
"The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new." p.116
"An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent... He must create a mechanism that can drain off the underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. Out of this mechanism, a new community organization arises....
"The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict." p.117
"Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why. But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a continuum.... Process is really purpose." p.122
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7. Tactics
"Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. ... Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves." p.126
Always remember the first rule of power tactics (pps.127-134):
1. "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."
2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.
3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."
6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time...."
8. "Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign."
11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'...
"...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...'
"One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other." (pps.127-134)
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Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "Known as the 'father of modern American radicalism,' Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed strategies and tactics that take the enormous, unfocused emotional energy of grassroots groups and transform it into effective anti-government and anti-corporate activism. ... Some of these rules are ruthless, but they work."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes from an article by Phyllis Schalfly titled "Alinski's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era," posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277 (2-2-09)
"Alinsky's second chapter, called Of Means and Ends, craftily poses many difficult moral dilemmas, and his 'tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends' is: 'you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.' He doesn't ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He is much more devious; he teaches his followers that 'Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.'...
"The qualities Alinsky looked for in a good organizer were:
ego ("reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God"),
curiosity (raising "questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern"),
irreverence ("nothing is sacred"; the organizer "detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality"),
imagination ("the fuel for the force that keeps an organizer organizing"),
a sense of humor ("the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule"), and an organized personality with confidence in presenting the right reason for his actions only "as a moral rationalization after the right end has been achieved.'...
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer 'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.'"
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Catholics Funding ACORN?
What would Jesus do?
BeaufortObserver
November 22, 2009
Come Sunday morning, Catholics across the country will be asked to donate to the CCHD, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Millions of devout Catholics, believing they are doing good, will stuff contribution envelopes with cash and checks to aid the poor.
Recently, however, some of the groups who receive funds from the CCHD have come under scrutiny. Last spring, Catholics were shocked to learn that ACORN had received some $7.1 million dollars from the CCHP in the last ten years; in 2008, the radical group claimed $1.13 million. Funding for ACORN was suspended when, according to Richard Viguerie , Bishops in charge of the Campaign had a problem "with ACORN's poor 'accounting' practices, rather than with the goals and tactics of a group that blurs the distinction between a radical political organization and a Mafia-style racket."
A large number of the organizations receiving funds from the CCHD this year are followers of Saul Alinsky, who, himself an atheist, dedicated his book "A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" to "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."
Alinsky was the father of all community organizers. His legacy, the Industrial Areas Foundation funds small local groups that operate within or through local churches, calling themselves non-partisan but pursuing a leftist agenda such as abortion rights, gay marriage or outright Marxism.
There are at least three such groups affiliated with the IAF in North Carolina-
CHANGE- Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment operating out of the Green St. Methodist Church in Winston Salem.
Durham CAN
- Durham Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods.
- H.E.L.P. Helping Empower Local People, operating out of the Holy Covenant United Church of Christ in Charlotte. Interestingly, HELP is listed on the church's website as a ministry.
This year, the CCHD awarded $35,000 to Triangle CAN, a partner of Durham CAN and Justice United, two more groups that squat under the Alinsky/IAF umbrella.
Also in line to receive funds from the CCHD are such groups as the Chicago Workers Collaborative –
"A world free of exploitation--socialism --is not only possible but worth fighting for. The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves--the vast majority of the population--are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society. Socialism can't be brought about from above, but has to be won by workers themselves."
The Women's Community Revitalization Project was scheduled to receive $30,000 from the CCHP but, as of this week, it, too, is under review.. According to " For the Record - The Truth about CCHD Funding , CCHD and The Diocese of Philadelphia are reviewing this organization.
Not to worry though because, this year, they received funding from Women's Way's Community Women's Fund . "WOMEN'S WAY prefers to fund organizations that engage in both advocacy and direct services in order to address immediate needs while working to make systemic change."
"Women's Way's is not interested in funding:
- Organizations that consider themselves to be pro-life
- Organizations and projects that do not support a woman's full range of reproductive choices
-Organizations and projects promoting abstinence-only sex education
-Organizations and projects opposing same sex relationships or marriage."
The WCRP plays both side of the coin; having previously received funds from hard-working, good-hearted Catholics - the majority of which strongly oppose abortion - it also solicits for funds from groups that fully support "a woman's full range of reproductive choices."
After all, money is money, no matter which side of the political fence it comes from.
'Social justice.' 'Social development.' 'Community organizing.' Lobbying politicians who support the very things that devout Catholics –as well as Protestants and Jews - abhor. Abortion on demand. Gay marriage. A far-left agenda completely at odds with the religious beliefs of the majority of Americans today.
Marx. Lenin. Trotsky. Not a Jesus to be found.
What's wrong with this picture? How can it be that churches, temples and even mosques are entertaining the very people who state openly that their goal is power - power gained through manipulating the poor?
Thousands of churches operate or support soup kitchens and shelters for the homeless in their community. In those settings, almost always a prayer is offered before a meal and, in some cases, a Bible reading and perhaps even an opportunity to worship. We consider that to be charity to one's fellow man as our Lord showed us in Matthew 25 –
"Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me."
However, nowhere in God's Word do we find a commandment to use God's ten per cent to lobby Congress to pass a National Health Care Plan that allows abortion on demand. No Old Testament prophet, no New Testament disciple, not even Christ, himself, commanded us to allow the Church – the building and the people- to be used for advancing a far-left political agenda.
One of young Jesus' first acts was to throw the money changers out of the Temple. Sadly, they found their way back in.
Catholics Funding ACORN?
What would Jesus do?
BeaufortObserver
November 22, 2009
Come Sunday morning, Catholics across the country will be asked to donate to the CCHD, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Millions of devout Catholics, believing they are doing good, will stuff contribution envelopes with cash and checks to aid the poor.
Recently, however, some of the groups who receive funds from the CCHD have come under scrutiny. Last spring, Catholics were shocked to learn that ACORN had received some $7.1 million dollars from the CCHP in the last ten years; in 2008, the radical group claimed $1.13 million. Funding for ACORN was suspended when, according to Richard Viguerie , Bishops in charge of the Campaign had a problem "with ACORN's poor 'accounting' practices, rather than with the goals and tactics of a group that blurs the distinction between a radical political organization and a Mafia-style racket."
A large number of the organizations receiving funds from the CCHD this year are followers of Saul Alinsky, who, himself an atheist, dedicated his book "A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals" to "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."
Alinsky was the father of all community organizers. His legacy, the Industrial Areas Foundation funds small local groups that operate within or through local churches, calling themselves non-partisan but pursuing a leftist agenda such as abortion rights, gay marriage or outright Marxism.
There are at least three such groups affiliated with the IAF in North Carolina-
CHANGE- Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment operating out of the Green St. Methodist Church in Winston Salem.
Durham CAN
- Durham Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods.
- H.E.L.P. Helping Empower Local People, operating out of the Holy Covenant United Church of Christ in Charlotte. Interestingly, HELP is listed on the church's website as a ministry.
This year, the CCHD awarded $35,000 to Triangle CAN, a partner of Durham CAN and Justice United, two more groups that squat under the Alinsky/IAF umbrella.
Also in line to receive funds from the CCHD are such groups as the Chicago Workers Collaborative –
"A world free of exploitation--socialism --is not only possible but worth fighting for. The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves--the vast majority of the population--are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society. Socialism can't be brought about from above, but has to be won by workers themselves."
The Women's Community Revitalization Project was scheduled to receive $30,000 from the CCHP but, as of this week, it, too, is under review.. According to " For the Record - The Truth about CCHD Funding , CCHD and The Diocese of Philadelphia are reviewing this organization.
Not to worry though because, this year, they received funding from Women's Way's Community Women's Fund . "WOMEN'S WAY prefers to fund organizations that engage in both advocacy and direct services in order to address immediate needs while working to make systemic change."
"Women's Way's is not interested in funding:
- Organizations that consider themselves to be pro-life
- Organizations and projects that do not support a woman's full range of reproductive choices
-Organizations and projects promoting abstinence-only sex education
-Organizations and projects opposing same sex relationships or marriage."
The WCRP plays both side of the coin; having previously received funds from hard-working, good-hearted Catholics - the majority of which strongly oppose abortion - it also solicits for funds from groups that fully support "a woman's full range of reproductive choices."
After all, money is money, no matter which side of the political fence it comes from.
'Social justice.' 'Social development.' 'Community organizing.' Lobbying politicians who support the very things that devout Catholics –as well as Protestants and Jews - abhor. Abortion on demand. Gay marriage. A far-left agenda completely at odds with the religious beliefs of the majority of Americans today.
Marx. Lenin. Trotsky. Not a Jesus to be found.
What's wrong with this picture? How can it be that churches, temples and even mosques are entertaining the very people who state openly that their goal is power - power gained through manipulating the poor?
Thousands of churches operate or support soup kitchens and shelters for the homeless in their community. In those settings, almost always a prayer is offered before a meal and, in some cases, a Bible reading and perhaps even an opportunity to worship. We consider that to be charity to one's fellow man as our Lord showed us in Matthew 25 –
"Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me."
However, nowhere in God's Word do we find a commandment to use God's ten per cent to lobby Congress to pass a National Health Care Plan that allows abortion on demand. No Old Testament prophet, no New Testament disciple, not even Christ, himself, commanded us to allow the Church – the building and the people- to be used for advancing a far-left political agenda.
One of young Jesus' first acts was to throw the money changers out of the Temple. Sadly, they found their way back in.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
WHO BELIEVES IN JESUS CHRIST?: VOLUME ONE
You’d be surprised to know the names of movie stars, sport celebrities, and scientists, who call themselves Christians. It has been falsely reported that Albert Einstein and most of our Founding Fathers were atheists. I have compiled my first volume of quotes by some of them to dispel any doubt of their Christian faith.
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Albert Einstein’s mental prowess made him an icon for the disciplines of Science. As a Jew, Einstein had distinct views on Jesus, the New Testament, and the Church. Below is a clip of an interview from the Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929: “
“To what extent are you influenced by Christianity?
As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
Have you read Emil Ludwig’s book on Jesus?
Emil Ludwig’s Jesus is shallow. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot [a witty remark].
You accept the historical existence of Jesus?
Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”
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In a letter to the Episcopal Bishop Edward R. Wells in 1945, Einstein wrote concerning the behavior of the Christian Church during the Holocaust.
“Being a lover of freedom… I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. Only the church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly” ~Baltimore Evening Sun, April 13, 1979.
*****
"I want to know God's thoughts,..... the rest are details.." --Albert Einstein
"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." --Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein
The Jews tried to keep Christ contained within their law, while the Greeks sought to turn Him into a philosophy; the Romans made of Him an empire; the Europeans reduced Him to a culture, and we Americans have made a business of Him. --Unknown
I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. –Napoleon
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
--John Knox
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, he shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of school, he spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, he set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. –Philip Schaff
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history. --H.G. Wells
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.
-- Historian Kenneth Scott Latourette
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this world except the naked power of His Divine manhood. While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a Cross between two thieves. His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth while He was dying—and that was His coat. When He was dead He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Such was His human life—He rises from the dead. Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today He is the Centerpiece of the human race and the Leader of the column of progress. I am within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that One Solitary Life. --James C. Hefley
Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ's 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity. –Unknown
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden."
--Augustine
Buddha never claimed to be God. Moses never claimed to be Jehovah. Mohammed never claimed to be Allah. Yet Jesus Christ claimed to be the true and living God. Buddha simply said, "I am a teacher in search of the truth." Jesus said, "I am the Truth." Confucius said, "I never claimed to be holy." Jesus said, "Who convicts me of sin?" Mohammed said, "Unless God throws his cloak of mercy over me, I have no hope." Jesus said, "Unless you believe in me, you will die in your sins." --Unknown
Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread." He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light." He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door." He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd." He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." --J. Sidlow Baxter
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. –Blaise Pascal
As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. --Albert Einstein
An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.
--Geza Vermes
Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived. --Ernest Renan
There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun. --Charles Edward Jefferson
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
--C.S. Lewis
Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him. --Sholem Asch
Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand. --S.D. Gordon
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. --Joseph Parker
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth – in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. --Karl Barth
It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples—unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that! --Wilbur Smith
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus. --Pinchas Lapide, Orthodox Jewish scholar, Germany (born 1922)
Because Christianity’s influence is so pervasive throughout much of the world, it is easy to forget how radical its beliefs once were. Jesus’ resurrection forever changed Christians’ view of death. Rodney Stark, sociologist at the University of Washington, points out that when a major plague hit the ancient Roman Empire, Christians had surprisingly high survival rates. Why? Most Roman citizens would banish any plague-stricken person from their household. But because Christians had no fear of death, they nursed their sick instead of throwing them out on the streets. Therefore, many Christians survived the plague. --“2000 Years of Jesus” by Kenneth L. Woodward, NEWSWEEK, March 29, 1999, p. 55.
Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: "a virgin's womb and an empty tomb". Jesus entered our world through a door marked, "No Entrance" and left through a door marked "No Exit." --Peter Larson
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.
--Henry Morris
If I might comprehend Jesus Christ, I could not believe on Him. He would be no greater than myself. Such is my consciousness of sin and inability that I must have a superhuman Saviour. --Daniel Webster
Even Christ pleased not Himself. He was utterly consumed in the zeal of His Father’s house. As man He ever moved for God. As God He ever moved for man.
--Geoffrey T. Bull
There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve. --Howard Hendricks
The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!
--Clement of Alexandria
How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being, He only did those things which pleased the Father. In everything, He stayed true, heartbeat to heartbeat, with the Father's desires. Jesus lived for God alone; God was enough for Him. Thus, even in its simplicity and moment-to-moment faithfulness, Christ's life was an unending fragrance, a perfect offering of incomparable love to God. --Francis Frangipane
Jesus Christ: The meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth – Anonymous
You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that.
--T. Austin Sparks
It is as if God the Father is saying to us: "Since I have told you everything in My Word, Who is My Son, I have no other words that can at present say anything or reveal anything to you beyond this. Fix your eyes on Him alone, for in Him I have told you all, revealed all, and in Him you will find more than you desire or ask. If you fix your eyes on Him, you will find everything, for He is My whole word and My reply, He is My whole vision and My whole revelation. --Anthony M. Coniaris
Whenever the method of worship becomes more important than the Person of worship, we have already prostituted our worship. There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ. --Judson Cornwall
The message of Christ is not Christianity. The message of Christ is Christ.
--Gary Amirault
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. --John Henry Newman
God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son. --Watchman Nee
Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian. --T. Austin-Sparks
I have one passion. It is He, only He. --Count Zinzendorf
Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.
--Samuel Adams
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God governs in the affairs of men... If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground unseen by him, is it probable an empire could arise without his aid? I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building not better than the builders of Babel. --Benjamin Franklin
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Albert Einstein’s mental prowess made him an icon for the disciplines of Science. As a Jew, Einstein had distinct views on Jesus, the New Testament, and the Church. Below is a clip of an interview from the Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929: “
“To what extent are you influenced by Christianity?
As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
Have you read Emil Ludwig’s book on Jesus?
Emil Ludwig’s Jesus is shallow. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot [a witty remark].
You accept the historical existence of Jesus?
Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”
*****
In a letter to the Episcopal Bishop Edward R. Wells in 1945, Einstein wrote concerning the behavior of the Christian Church during the Holocaust.
“Being a lover of freedom… I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. Only the church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly” ~Baltimore Evening Sun, April 13, 1979.
*****
"I want to know God's thoughts,..... the rest are details.." --Albert Einstein
"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." --Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein
The Jews tried to keep Christ contained within their law, while the Greeks sought to turn Him into a philosophy; the Romans made of Him an empire; the Europeans reduced Him to a culture, and we Americans have made a business of Him. --Unknown
I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. –Napoleon
No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
--John Knox
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, he shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of school, he spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, he set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. –Philip Schaff
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history. --H.G. Wells
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.
-- Historian Kenneth Scott Latourette
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a peasant woman. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this world except the naked power of His Divine manhood. While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a Cross between two thieves. His executioners gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth while He was dying—and that was His coat. When He was dead He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Such was His human life—He rises from the dead. Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today He is the Centerpiece of the human race and the Leader of the column of progress. I am within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that One Solitary Life. --James C. Hefley
Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ's 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the greatest philosophers of all antiquity. –Unknown
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden."
--Augustine
Buddha never claimed to be God. Moses never claimed to be Jehovah. Mohammed never claimed to be Allah. Yet Jesus Christ claimed to be the true and living God. Buddha simply said, "I am a teacher in search of the truth." Jesus said, "I am the Truth." Confucius said, "I never claimed to be holy." Jesus said, "Who convicts me of sin?" Mohammed said, "Unless God throws his cloak of mercy over me, I have no hope." Jesus said, "Unless you believe in me, you will die in your sins." --Unknown
Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread." He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light." He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door." He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd." He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." --J. Sidlow Baxter
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. –Blaise Pascal
As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. --Albert Einstein
An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.
--Geza Vermes
Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived. --Ernest Renan
There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun. --Charles Edward Jefferson
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
--C.S. Lewis
Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him. --Sholem Asch
Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand. --S.D. Gordon
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. --Joseph Parker
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth – in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. --Karl Barth
It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples—unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that! --Wilbur Smith
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus. --Pinchas Lapide, Orthodox Jewish scholar, Germany (born 1922)
Because Christianity’s influence is so pervasive throughout much of the world, it is easy to forget how radical its beliefs once were. Jesus’ resurrection forever changed Christians’ view of death. Rodney Stark, sociologist at the University of Washington, points out that when a major plague hit the ancient Roman Empire, Christians had surprisingly high survival rates. Why? Most Roman citizens would banish any plague-stricken person from their household. But because Christians had no fear of death, they nursed their sick instead of throwing them out on the streets. Therefore, many Christians survived the plague. --“2000 Years of Jesus” by Kenneth L. Woodward, NEWSWEEK, March 29, 1999, p. 55.
Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: "a virgin's womb and an empty tomb". Jesus entered our world through a door marked, "No Entrance" and left through a door marked "No Exit." --Peter Larson
The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.
--Henry Morris
If I might comprehend Jesus Christ, I could not believe on Him. He would be no greater than myself. Such is my consciousness of sin and inability that I must have a superhuman Saviour. --Daniel Webster
Even Christ pleased not Himself. He was utterly consumed in the zeal of His Father’s house. As man He ever moved for God. As God He ever moved for man.
--Geoffrey T. Bull
There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve. --Howard Hendricks
The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!
--Clement of Alexandria
How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being, He only did those things which pleased the Father. In everything, He stayed true, heartbeat to heartbeat, with the Father's desires. Jesus lived for God alone; God was enough for Him. Thus, even in its simplicity and moment-to-moment faithfulness, Christ's life was an unending fragrance, a perfect offering of incomparable love to God. --Francis Frangipane
Jesus Christ: The meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth – Anonymous
You cannot go outside of A and Z in the realm of literature; likewise Christ Jesus is First and Last of God's new creation, and all that is in between; you cannot get outside of that.
--T. Austin Sparks
It is as if God the Father is saying to us: "Since I have told you everything in My Word, Who is My Son, I have no other words that can at present say anything or reveal anything to you beyond this. Fix your eyes on Him alone, for in Him I have told you all, revealed all, and in Him you will find more than you desire or ask. If you fix your eyes on Him, you will find everything, for He is My whole word and My reply, He is My whole vision and My whole revelation. --Anthony M. Coniaris
Whenever the method of worship becomes more important than the Person of worship, we have already prostituted our worship. There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ. --Judson Cornwall
The message of Christ is not Christianity. The message of Christ is Christ.
--Gary Amirault
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. --John Henry Newman
God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son. --Watchman Nee
Christianity is not a doctrine, not truth as truth, but the knowledge of a Person; it is knowing the Lord Jesus. You cannot be educated into being a Christian. --T. Austin-Sparks
I have one passion. It is He, only He. --Count Zinzendorf
Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.
--Samuel Adams
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth--that God governs in the affairs of men... If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground unseen by him, is it probable an empire could arise without his aid? I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building not better than the builders of Babel. --Benjamin Franklin
Monday, November 16, 2009
BallPoint: Charles Richard Drew, MD
BallPoint
By Allen Ball
Charles Richard Drew, MD
If we take care of education, race will take care of itself-- Charles R. Drew
I first heard of Charles R. Drew in an episode of the popular TV show M.A.S.H. Because North Carolina was mentioned in the program, in a negative way, I researched the life of Dr. Drew, discovering that the writers of the show wittingly, or unwittingly, were perpetuating a myth about a "whites only" hospital in North Carolina.
Charles Richard Drew was born June 3, 1904, in his grandmother's house in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Stevens Elementary School and entered Paul Laurence Dunbar High, the best black college-preparatory school in the country, quickly becoming a four-letter man--a star in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Drew captained a high school cadet corps and twice received the James E. Walker medal as the school's best all-around athlete.
In the early 1900s, medicines we now take for granted were unavailable. After World War I a global epidemic of influenza took 20 million lives. Two years later, Charlie watched his sister, Elsie, die of another disease, tuberculosis. Though only fifteen, he imagined himself becoming a doctor.
Often neglectful in his schoolwork, his parents insisted that he study harder and he did, especially his favorite subjects -- biology and math. His effort paid off because, at graduation, in 1922, he was awarded a partial scholarship to, predominantly white, Amherst College in Massachusetts.
From the beginning, Drew focused more on sports than on academics. Incredibly fast, and breaking records as a sprinter and hurdle-jumper, he became the only freshman to win a major letter. His agility on the football field made him a celebrity.
Normally, Amherst students elected a man with Drew's ability to be captain of the football team. But two other talented black athletes had already been passed over. Now, so was Charles. After student protests, he was voted captain of the track team and later acknowledged as Amherst's most valuable player, receiving the Thomas W. Ashley Trophy.
Despite the honors, his experience with the track team was indelibly ensconced in Drew's mind. After a competition with Brown University, the Amherst team planned to have dinner at the Narragansett Hotel, but the hotel manager refused to serve "colored boys." The track coach suggested that the four black team members dine on Brown's campus instead. The road home that night was "long and silent."
Even with his scholarship and part-time jobs, Charles had accumulated debts. Medical school would have to wait until he paid bills and saved enough to pay his way. Thus, for the next two years, he taught biology and chemistry and coached at Morgan College, a small black college in Baltimore, Maryland.
Later, to his surprise, Howard University rejected his application to medical school because he lacked two credits in English. Instead, they offered him a job as assistant football coach.
Angry and hurt -- they had not even suggested that he make up the work -- Drew declined the job. He told his brother Joe: "Someday I'll come back and run this place."
Weeks later, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, unlike other schools, did not ask what race he belonged to and accepted him into their five-year medical program.
In 1933, Drew graduated with degrees of doctor of medicine and master of surgery. He also won the Williams Prize, given to the best senior in the class. He then interned at the Montreal General and Royal Victoria hospitals, where he honed his surgical skills and continued to research the preservation of blood.
Toward the end of his residency he applied to teach pathology at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. It's clinic was connected to Howard Medical School. This time Howard accepted him willingly. His starting salary was $150 a month, slightly more than he had earned as a paperboy.
Drew returned to Washington, D.C., in 1937, just before America emerged from the Great Depression. Across the sea, the German dictator Adolf Hitler was arming his country for war.
In the mid-1930s, a second world war loomed in Europe. Dr. Drew realized that blood would be crucial for treating the wounded. So, along with all his responsibilities, he continued to research the storage of blood.
Studying with Dr. John Scudder, he worked on the chemistry of blood and its use in transfusions. His vast knowledge of blood experiments, done in the Soviet Union and at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, became invaluable to Scudder's project.
At this time, most blood was transfused from one live body to another. Whole blood was spoiled quickly even when refrigerated. Scudder and Drew were determined to find a safe way to preserve blood.
Charles Drew, accustomed to working long hours, began his days early and ended near midnight. He began to study plasma, the yellowish liquid in blood, because it contained hundreds of elements necessary to life. One was fibrinogen, a protein that caused blood to clot.
Mid-year, Drew decided to work toward a doctorate of science. No black doctor had ever earned this degree.
His original research led to an invitation to speak at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. On the way to the conference, Charles stopped in Atlanta, Georgia, to visit with his college buddy, Mercer Cook. At a candlelit dinner, Mercer introduced him to Minnie Lenore Robbins, an attractive teacher who taught home economics at Spelman College. Nearly thirty-five years old, Drew quickly fell in love.
Returning north from Alabama, three nights later, Drew stopped again in Atlanta. Hiring a cab, in the chilling night, he hurried to Lenore's dormitory and knocked loudly on her door until he woke her up and proposed to her. On September 23, 1939, the couple were married and moved into a modest apartment near Drew's laboratory.
Just prior to Charles's and Lenore's marriage, New York's Presbyterian Hospital started a blood bank program. Dr. Drew supervised the clinical testing. Exactly a year after the blood bank opened, Lenore gave birth to their first child, "Bebe" Roberta. Her nickname stood for blood bank.
In the fall, German bombs blitzed Great Britain night and day. Cities crumbled as thousands died and thousands more were wounded. On September 1, 1940, Drew received a cable from John Beattie, his teacher-friend from McGill. Now a director at England's Royal College of Surgeons. Beattie asked:
COULD YOU SECURE FIVE THOUSAND AMPULES
DRIED PLASMA FOR TRANSFUSION WORK IMME-
DIATELY AND FOLLOW THIS BY EQUAL QUANTI-
TY IN THREE OR FOUR WEEKS.
That quantity of plasma, Drew believed, did not exist in the world, however; he was determined not to let his friend down.
Howard University granted Dr. Drew a leave and within weeks he returned to New York City as medical supervisor of the "Blood for Britain" program.
He brought blood donors together at one location, recruiting them through radio announcements, billboards, newspapers, and subway posters. During the first five months of the program, 14,566 people up to give blood. After Drew's small well-trained staff tested and sterilized the blood at Columbia's Presbyterian Hospital, it was sent to England.
When the British began to fill their own needs, Drew's program ended; he now shifted his concern to finding a way to mass-produce plasma. He and his staff solved the problem by drying plasma. It could then be turned back into liquid plasma by mixing it with water. Dried plasma could now be shipped in safe packages to wherever it was needed.
In 1941, the U.S. War Department created a policy of blood segregation, which the American Red Cross accepted. The Army ordered the collection of Caucasian blood only. Black soldiers did, however, sometimes give blood for each other within black units. Drew asked that the order be rescinded, but his request was denied.
Respected as he was for his work with plasma, even he did not qualify as a donor. Feeling that this rule insulted his people, he called a press conference. Speaking as a scientist, he told reporters, "The blood of individual human beings may differ by grouping, but there is absolutely no scientific basis for any difference according to race."
In April 1941, Drew resigned from his post with the Red Cross. That same month he received his surgeon's certificate from the American Board of Surgery.
Months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Drew learned that plasma had helped save the lives of thousands of servicemen and civilians.
After returning to Howard University, Drew began to receive many awards -- from Tuskegee, the E.S. Jones award (1943), an honorary degree from Virginia State (1945), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Spingarn Medal, in 1944. This prestigious medal is given to a black American who contributes the most to humankind. In 1944 Charles also became chief-of-staff at Freedmen's Hospital.
He joined the American-Soviet Committee on Science (1943) and became a fellow of the International Surgeons (1946). He also served on many boards, among them, the National Society of Crippled Children and a local chapter of the American Cancer Society. But Dr. Drew never became a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) because the Washington, D.C., chapter was segregated.
As Freedmen's chief surgeon, Drew represented the hospital at a number of medical conferences, including the annual free clinic at the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, which he had been attending since 1939. Shortly before the 1950 Tuskegee clinic took place, Drew decided to drive to Alabama rather than fly so he could travel with three other physicians -- Samuel Bullock, John Ford, and Walter Johnson -- and save some money.
The four men agreed to take turns driving Bullock's black Buick Roadmaster. They left Washington, D.C., on April Fool's Day -- a Saturday -- shortly after 2:00 A.M. Bullock was the first driver. Drew, who had spent most of the previous day and night on the operating room at Freedmen's and attending a Howard University student council meeting, volunteered for the second shift. He settled into the back seat and slept until it was time for him to drive.
Drew took his turn behind the wheel in the early morning hours, shortly after they reached Richmond, Virginia. He was driving the Roadmaster along North Carolina State Route 49 when, at close to 8:00 A.M., a few miles north of Haw River, the car began to veer off the road.
Charles had momentarily fallen asleep at the wheel. Bullock yelled out, "Hey, Charlie!" waking Drew, who immediately tried to regain control of the car. But it went off the road instead and continued its course into a field, where it turned over three times before landing right-side up.
When the car came to a stop, Johnson got out of the back seat and helped free Bullock, who was wedged against the dashboard. Like Johnson, he seemed to be all right. The only injury he had sustained was a cut hand. Ford had been thrown from the car, but he appeared to be in relatively good shape, too, suffering only a broken left arm.
Dr. Drew, however, had caught his fight foot under the brake pedal, so, instead of being thrown from the car, he had been trapped in such a way that the vehicle had rolled over him. When the others reached him, he was just barely alive. His left leg was nearly severed, and his body was in shock.
An ambulance arrived. The attendants put Drew inside and took him to the Alamance General Hospital, an old facility in the nearby town of Burlington. Three white doctors attempted to revive him. Their efforts included giving Drew a blood transfusion, but nothing they could do was of much help. Two of his veins that return blood to the right atrium of the heart had been badly damaged in the accident, causing him to hemorrhage internally.
About an hour and a half after he first received medical attention, Charles Drew died. He was 45 years old.
Schools and hospitals have been named after him. His portrait hands in the American Red Cross's national headquarters in Washington, D.C. Another portrait of Drew can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery and yet another in the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland. Unveiled in 1976, it marked the first time that a portrait of a black American was included in the institute's gallery of distinguished scientists.
That same year, the Charles R. Drew Commemorative Medal was established to honor exceptional achievements in the advancement of the medical education of black Americans and other minorities.
Another tribute came in 1981, when the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp in honor of Drew's contribution to science.
Shortly after his funeral, a rumor began to spread that a whites-only hospital had refused to admit Charles because he was black. According to this story, America's pioneer in blood preservation subsequently bled to death.
Bullock, Ford, and Johnson -- the three black doctors who were at the hospital with Drew -- all stepped forward to dispute the rumor. "A conscientious effort was made to revive Dr. Drew," Johnson and the others claimed.
Nevertheless, the story of Drew bleeding to death was picked up by such periodicals as Time magazine and the New York Times, which was still reporting -- more than 30 years after the auto accident -- that "the segregated hospital to which he was taken had no plasma that might have saved his life."
The rumor was further perpetuated in the television comedy, M.A.S.H. In the popular TV series of the 1980s, Dr. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce, played by Alan Alda, makes reference to Dr. Drew in one episode. A wounded American soldier in Korea, after being told he would have to undergo a blood transfusion, expressed concern to Pierce in the following dialogue.
Soldier: Make sure I get the right color blood, hey doc.
Pierce: (later) Ever hear of Dr. Charles Drew, Soldier?
Soldier: Who's that?
Pierce: Dr. Drew invented the process for separating
blood so that it could be stored.
B.J. Armstrong: Plasma.
Pierce: He died last April after a car accident in North Carolina.
Armstrong: He bled to death. The hospital wouldn't let him in.
Pierce: It was for whites only.
It is not known exactly when or where the myth surrounding the circumstances of Drew's death began. However, the rumor helped him emerge as a symbol to all black Americans whose civil rights have been restricted because of their skin color. Even today the myth adds fuel to the burning issue of equal opportunity.
A marker erected at the site of Drew's fatal accident in North Carolina features a bronze plaque that lists his many accomplishments. At the unveiling of the marker, in 1986, were his brother, Joseph; his daughter, Charlene, and his wife, Lenore.
By Allen Ball
Charles Richard Drew, MD
If we take care of education, race will take care of itself-- Charles R. Drew
I first heard of Charles R. Drew in an episode of the popular TV show M.A.S.H. Because North Carolina was mentioned in the program, in a negative way, I researched the life of Dr. Drew, discovering that the writers of the show wittingly, or unwittingly, were perpetuating a myth about a "whites only" hospital in North Carolina.
Charles Richard Drew was born June 3, 1904, in his grandmother's house in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Stevens Elementary School and entered Paul Laurence Dunbar High, the best black college-preparatory school in the country, quickly becoming a four-letter man--a star in football, basketball, baseball, and track. Drew captained a high school cadet corps and twice received the James E. Walker medal as the school's best all-around athlete.
In the early 1900s, medicines we now take for granted were unavailable. After World War I a global epidemic of influenza took 20 million lives. Two years later, Charlie watched his sister, Elsie, die of another disease, tuberculosis. Though only fifteen, he imagined himself becoming a doctor.
Often neglectful in his schoolwork, his parents insisted that he study harder and he did, especially his favorite subjects -- biology and math. His effort paid off because, at graduation, in 1922, he was awarded a partial scholarship to, predominantly white, Amherst College in Massachusetts.
From the beginning, Drew focused more on sports than on academics. Incredibly fast, and breaking records as a sprinter and hurdle-jumper, he became the only freshman to win a major letter. His agility on the football field made him a celebrity.
Normally, Amherst students elected a man with Drew's ability to be captain of the football team. But two other talented black athletes had already been passed over. Now, so was Charles. After student protests, he was voted captain of the track team and later acknowledged as Amherst's most valuable player, receiving the Thomas W. Ashley Trophy.
Despite the honors, his experience with the track team was indelibly ensconced in Drew's mind. After a competition with Brown University, the Amherst team planned to have dinner at the Narragansett Hotel, but the hotel manager refused to serve "colored boys." The track coach suggested that the four black team members dine on Brown's campus instead. The road home that night was "long and silent."
Even with his scholarship and part-time jobs, Charles had accumulated debts. Medical school would have to wait until he paid bills and saved enough to pay his way. Thus, for the next two years, he taught biology and chemistry and coached at Morgan College, a small black college in Baltimore, Maryland.
Later, to his surprise, Howard University rejected his application to medical school because he lacked two credits in English. Instead, they offered him a job as assistant football coach.
Angry and hurt -- they had not even suggested that he make up the work -- Drew declined the job. He told his brother Joe: "Someday I'll come back and run this place."
Weeks later, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, unlike other schools, did not ask what race he belonged to and accepted him into their five-year medical program.
In 1933, Drew graduated with degrees of doctor of medicine and master of surgery. He also won the Williams Prize, given to the best senior in the class. He then interned at the Montreal General and Royal Victoria hospitals, where he honed his surgical skills and continued to research the preservation of blood.
Toward the end of his residency he applied to teach pathology at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. It's clinic was connected to Howard Medical School. This time Howard accepted him willingly. His starting salary was $150 a month, slightly more than he had earned as a paperboy.
Drew returned to Washington, D.C., in 1937, just before America emerged from the Great Depression. Across the sea, the German dictator Adolf Hitler was arming his country for war.
In the mid-1930s, a second world war loomed in Europe. Dr. Drew realized that blood would be crucial for treating the wounded. So, along with all his responsibilities, he continued to research the storage of blood.
Studying with Dr. John Scudder, he worked on the chemistry of blood and its use in transfusions. His vast knowledge of blood experiments, done in the Soviet Union and at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, became invaluable to Scudder's project.
At this time, most blood was transfused from one live body to another. Whole blood was spoiled quickly even when refrigerated. Scudder and Drew were determined to find a safe way to preserve blood.
Charles Drew, accustomed to working long hours, began his days early and ended near midnight. He began to study plasma, the yellowish liquid in blood, because it contained hundreds of elements necessary to life. One was fibrinogen, a protein that caused blood to clot.
Mid-year, Drew decided to work toward a doctorate of science. No black doctor had ever earned this degree.
His original research led to an invitation to speak at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. On the way to the conference, Charles stopped in Atlanta, Georgia, to visit with his college buddy, Mercer Cook. At a candlelit dinner, Mercer introduced him to Minnie Lenore Robbins, an attractive teacher who taught home economics at Spelman College. Nearly thirty-five years old, Drew quickly fell in love.
Returning north from Alabama, three nights later, Drew stopped again in Atlanta. Hiring a cab, in the chilling night, he hurried to Lenore's dormitory and knocked loudly on her door until he woke her up and proposed to her. On September 23, 1939, the couple were married and moved into a modest apartment near Drew's laboratory.
Just prior to Charles's and Lenore's marriage, New York's Presbyterian Hospital started a blood bank program. Dr. Drew supervised the clinical testing. Exactly a year after the blood bank opened, Lenore gave birth to their first child, "Bebe" Roberta. Her nickname stood for blood bank.
In the fall, German bombs blitzed Great Britain night and day. Cities crumbled as thousands died and thousands more were wounded. On September 1, 1940, Drew received a cable from John Beattie, his teacher-friend from McGill. Now a director at England's Royal College of Surgeons. Beattie asked:
COULD YOU SECURE FIVE THOUSAND AMPULES
DRIED PLASMA FOR TRANSFUSION WORK IMME-
DIATELY AND FOLLOW THIS BY EQUAL QUANTI-
TY IN THREE OR FOUR WEEKS.
That quantity of plasma, Drew believed, did not exist in the world, however; he was determined not to let his friend down.
Howard University granted Dr. Drew a leave and within weeks he returned to New York City as medical supervisor of the "Blood for Britain" program.
He brought blood donors together at one location, recruiting them through radio announcements, billboards, newspapers, and subway posters. During the first five months of the program, 14,566 people up to give blood. After Drew's small well-trained staff tested and sterilized the blood at Columbia's Presbyterian Hospital, it was sent to England.
When the British began to fill their own needs, Drew's program ended; he now shifted his concern to finding a way to mass-produce plasma. He and his staff solved the problem by drying plasma. It could then be turned back into liquid plasma by mixing it with water. Dried plasma could now be shipped in safe packages to wherever it was needed.
In 1941, the U.S. War Department created a policy of blood segregation, which the American Red Cross accepted. The Army ordered the collection of Caucasian blood only. Black soldiers did, however, sometimes give blood for each other within black units. Drew asked that the order be rescinded, but his request was denied.
Respected as he was for his work with plasma, even he did not qualify as a donor. Feeling that this rule insulted his people, he called a press conference. Speaking as a scientist, he told reporters, "The blood of individual human beings may differ by grouping, but there is absolutely no scientific basis for any difference according to race."
In April 1941, Drew resigned from his post with the Red Cross. That same month he received his surgeon's certificate from the American Board of Surgery.
Months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Drew learned that plasma had helped save the lives of thousands of servicemen and civilians.
After returning to Howard University, Drew began to receive many awards -- from Tuskegee, the E.S. Jones award (1943), an honorary degree from Virginia State (1945), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Spingarn Medal, in 1944. This prestigious medal is given to a black American who contributes the most to humankind. In 1944 Charles also became chief-of-staff at Freedmen's Hospital.
He joined the American-Soviet Committee on Science (1943) and became a fellow of the International Surgeons (1946). He also served on many boards, among them, the National Society of Crippled Children and a local chapter of the American Cancer Society. But Dr. Drew never became a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) because the Washington, D.C., chapter was segregated.
As Freedmen's chief surgeon, Drew represented the hospital at a number of medical conferences, including the annual free clinic at the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama, which he had been attending since 1939. Shortly before the 1950 Tuskegee clinic took place, Drew decided to drive to Alabama rather than fly so he could travel with three other physicians -- Samuel Bullock, John Ford, and Walter Johnson -- and save some money.
The four men agreed to take turns driving Bullock's black Buick Roadmaster. They left Washington, D.C., on April Fool's Day -- a Saturday -- shortly after 2:00 A.M. Bullock was the first driver. Drew, who had spent most of the previous day and night on the operating room at Freedmen's and attending a Howard University student council meeting, volunteered for the second shift. He settled into the back seat and slept until it was time for him to drive.
Drew took his turn behind the wheel in the early morning hours, shortly after they reached Richmond, Virginia. He was driving the Roadmaster along North Carolina State Route 49 when, at close to 8:00 A.M., a few miles north of Haw River, the car began to veer off the road.
Charles had momentarily fallen asleep at the wheel. Bullock yelled out, "Hey, Charlie!" waking Drew, who immediately tried to regain control of the car. But it went off the road instead and continued its course into a field, where it turned over three times before landing right-side up.
When the car came to a stop, Johnson got out of the back seat and helped free Bullock, who was wedged against the dashboard. Like Johnson, he seemed to be all right. The only injury he had sustained was a cut hand. Ford had been thrown from the car, but he appeared to be in relatively good shape, too, suffering only a broken left arm.
Dr. Drew, however, had caught his fight foot under the brake pedal, so, instead of being thrown from the car, he had been trapped in such a way that the vehicle had rolled over him. When the others reached him, he was just barely alive. His left leg was nearly severed, and his body was in shock.
An ambulance arrived. The attendants put Drew inside and took him to the Alamance General Hospital, an old facility in the nearby town of Burlington. Three white doctors attempted to revive him. Their efforts included giving Drew a blood transfusion, but nothing they could do was of much help. Two of his veins that return blood to the right atrium of the heart had been badly damaged in the accident, causing him to hemorrhage internally.
About an hour and a half after he first received medical attention, Charles Drew died. He was 45 years old.
Schools and hospitals have been named after him. His portrait hands in the American Red Cross's national headquarters in Washington, D.C. Another portrait of Drew can be seen in the National Portrait Gallery and yet another in the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland. Unveiled in 1976, it marked the first time that a portrait of a black American was included in the institute's gallery of distinguished scientists.
That same year, the Charles R. Drew Commemorative Medal was established to honor exceptional achievements in the advancement of the medical education of black Americans and other minorities.
Another tribute came in 1981, when the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp in honor of Drew's contribution to science.
Shortly after his funeral, a rumor began to spread that a whites-only hospital had refused to admit Charles because he was black. According to this story, America's pioneer in blood preservation subsequently bled to death.
Bullock, Ford, and Johnson -- the three black doctors who were at the hospital with Drew -- all stepped forward to dispute the rumor. "A conscientious effort was made to revive Dr. Drew," Johnson and the others claimed.
Nevertheless, the story of Drew bleeding to death was picked up by such periodicals as Time magazine and the New York Times, which was still reporting -- more than 30 years after the auto accident -- that "the segregated hospital to which he was taken had no plasma that might have saved his life."
The rumor was further perpetuated in the television comedy, M.A.S.H. In the popular TV series of the 1980s, Dr. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce, played by Alan Alda, makes reference to Dr. Drew in one episode. A wounded American soldier in Korea, after being told he would have to undergo a blood transfusion, expressed concern to Pierce in the following dialogue.
Soldier: Make sure I get the right color blood, hey doc.
Pierce: (later) Ever hear of Dr. Charles Drew, Soldier?
Soldier: Who's that?
Pierce: Dr. Drew invented the process for separating
blood so that it could be stored.
B.J. Armstrong: Plasma.
Pierce: He died last April after a car accident in North Carolina.
Armstrong: He bled to death. The hospital wouldn't let him in.
Pierce: It was for whites only.
It is not known exactly when or where the myth surrounding the circumstances of Drew's death began. However, the rumor helped him emerge as a symbol to all black Americans whose civil rights have been restricted because of their skin color. Even today the myth adds fuel to the burning issue of equal opportunity.
A marker erected at the site of Drew's fatal accident in North Carolina features a bronze plaque that lists his many accomplishments. At the unveiling of the marker, in 1986, were his brother, Joseph; his daughter, Charlene, and his wife, Lenore.
PEACEFUL MUSLIMS OUT FOR A WALK
----- Original Message -----
From: ALLEN BALL
To: ALLEN BALL
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: People wake up!
PEOPLE WAKE UP!
I got your peace-lovin' Muslims right here Obama.
Politicians like you, Obama, talk about the few Muslims who are terrorists. You remind us that most Muslims are peaceful. Well, it took only 19 sex-starved, imbecilic, Muslim terrorists to kill 3,000 people on 9/11 and bring down the Twin Towers. Thanks to you, Obama, and George W. Bush, America is filled with Muslim terrorists. They even have a Muslim terrorist training camp, that the government feels unnecessary do anything about or to talk about. By the way. Isn't it interesting how a huge wall was erected to protect baby Obama, at Ft. Hood, in 2 or 3 days, and we can't build a wall on the border over 4 years or more.
And what about the Saudi-backed schools where textbook content is controlled by Muslims. In them Allah is asserted to be the true God and Jesus is diminished. Is that what you want Obama? Is that what you want Pelosi? Reid? Republicans?
What about Obama worship in public schools where kids who don't know an M &M from a bird dropping sing anthems to Obama?
What about anti-capitalist propaganda in public schools?
What about pro-gay propaganda and textbooks in public schools?
Do you ever take your eyes off the Will & Grace show, or Christian-hater Bill Maher, of the Bill Maher show, long enough to register a complaint with a Senator or Congressman about the people who are destroying your country--your home?
What about tax evader Charles Rangel?
What about ACORN?
What about the blacks, in militant clothing, brandishing night sticks, on the steps of the building people walked up to go inside to vote for the next President of the United States?
Obama never says a thing about these people and these issues. Must be okay with him. Of course, he surely showed no reservation about condemning some white cops as rascists.
Are you really a Christian, Obama? You don't behave like one. You do behave like a Muslim, however. I'm just saying. In a television interview, you referred to Islam as "my Islamic faith". You stated that you'd visited all 57 states, on another occasion. Slip of the tongue? Their are 50 America states. Have you found a church yet "O"?
Look people. I know you've got your three jobs to go to. Or maybe you're rich and spend all your time at the country club downing martinis. Or you're one of the weak individuals of this nation always looking for a secular savior--like Obama. Or maybe you're one or the mesmerized youth of America, always wanting a hip, young, ultra-progressive as your president. [That's the problem with the invincible youth of America: they always reject the establishment, at least until they become part of it. They reject its music, its values, its morals, and then they jump for the first Hitler or Obama who promises "change".] I know you me-only, me-first college kids (who are going to save us all---yeah, right!!) are busy texting, twittering, binge-drinking, but you all--WE ALL--had better start staging more public demonstrations to let the politicians know that we are fed up. We need to call our Senators, etc. (if you can get through--I can't most of the time). You've got to put down what you're doing long enough to save your country.
Glenn Beck has highlighted what we've all known forever--almost all politicians are corrupt. Most are millionaires, billionaires, lawyers, and other such sewage and slime. Do you expect care and compassion from these "Madoffs". The mayor of New York just shelled out $100,000,000, of his billion-dollar stash, to pay for his re-election. Does that sound just and righteous to you? Do you think that short dude cares whether or not your final days on earth are spent in the back room of a hospital-owned dwelling--all aone with no pain medicine?
Well, dudes and dudettes who voted Obama and voted for "change". You got suckered in again, you numbskulls. If Obama and Pelosi and Reids' health care plan becomes law you'll get your change alright: You asked for it! You got it! CHANGE!!!
(1) If poor old grandma and grandpa, laid-off Uncle Bob, or unemployed Aunt Mary can't afford to buy Obama's health insurance, THEY WILL FACE A FINE OF UP TO $250,000 AND A JAIL SENTENCE OF UP TO FIVE YEARS!!!!!!!!!
(2) If Obama's cap and trade plan becomes law, he promised that your UTILITIY RATE WILL SKYROCKET!!!!!!!
(3) The "death panels" the liberal media chastised Sarah Palin for turned out to be REAL!!!!
You asked for it! You got it! CHANGE!!!
I'm sick and tired of Muslims who kill people; and I'm sick and tired of Muslims who don't stand up and condemn these killings, on television. I'm tired of wimpy, sissy-fied newspapers, politicians, and broadcasters too afraid to make a truthful, disparaging comment about Muslims. Bring your little Muslim terrorist attitude down south and us southern boys wil beat it outta ya.
Obama wants a civilian army as large and as well-funded as our current military. What for? Doen't that set off an alarm in someones brain? Why does this freakin' Muslim in sheep's clothing need a cilivian army. Well, if you don't know, study Mao Tse Tung. Discover how he took over the government of China with no army and no money.
Of course, the people who won't take the time to study Mao Tse Tung, world history, and won't take the time away from whatever useless thing they're doing are the ones who think Obama is God. They don't know the name of the Vice-President. They think "Pelosi" is something you order at an Italian restaurant. But God knows they know how to get on the internet and cuss out someone who actually knows what's going on in the world.
Educated blacks like Colin Powell see the real picture. [Powell has voiced his concern over some of Obama's ill-advised behavior and immature actions.] Uneducated blacks think O.J. Simpson is a saint; and they think no black man can do wrong, in light of the history of slavery.
Sane Americans, we must get rid of the current crop of criminal politicians and replace them with honest folk. Insane, Obama-lovin', Pelosi-lovin', anything-goes Americans, you go on being insane. There's no hope for you.
And don't forget: never say anything negative about Muslims, because they are peaceful, loving people. They will, however, behead you if you do say anything critical of Islam.
Why, for God's (Jesus) sake would Muslims want to relocate to America? I don't get it. They, like many Hispanics, don't want to assimilate into American culture, they want to take over America. Muslims are affecting elections already, in France. They have Europe cowering in fear, wetting its pants.
PEOPLE WAKE UP!
You've got a president who wrote, in his book, of seeking out radicals and socialists, while in college. He speaks disparagingly of whites. He is what he said he was, before he started running for president. He surrounded himself in the White House with these nutballs. They've felt alienated and ignored all their lives. Now they plan to change the world into what they believe it should be. They despise the rich; and they want to share the wealth attained by the rich who worked hard to get it. I know changes need to made in the business and political world: credit card interest and rules need to be made more fair and more customer-friendly...bank overdraft fees should be made to be reasonable, fair, and just. Investigations of politicians who've broken laws should not be decided nor controlled by politicians. Politicians should not have the ability to give themselves raises. Their retirement pensions should be restructured.
You, the people can make these changes, but you've got to be seriously involved in making the changes by creating and attending Tea Parties. You've got to--more importantly than anything else--vote politicians out of office--the ones who place their interest above yours and mine and the interest of America.
Does Obama Represent the Country or SEIU?
Some of Obama's union members beat the hell out of a black man attending a Tea Party.
Ever seen such an animated Obama?
Ever seen such an animated Obama?
Good Ol' Andy Stearn
Check out this video of Obama's guy Andy Stearn, who's been a visitor at the White 22 times, to visit his bro--Obama. Some of Stearn's union members beat the hell out of a black guy at a Tea Party. Keeping good company, eh--"O".
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