President Obama And Media Leadership: A Teaching Moment

The Grand Rapids Times
8-7-9
By Lawrence N. "Larry" Redd

The arrest of a citizen by a Cambridge, Maine police officer, James Crowley, became major news when too many people not present began to take sides in the matter.
News reports via telecommunication media carried the story about Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ arrest to millions of people around the world.
America’s own national news media solicited and then widely disseminated President Obama’s assessment that the police “acted stupidly” in arresting Dr. Gates, a handicapped Harvard University scholar, in his own home; after his identity had been established.
The President’s remarks sparked a national uproar.
The negative reaction to Mr. Obama, largely from entrenched conservative forces, made the President of the United States later modify his own comments.
It was not the first time that President Obama, an African American, had been publicly subjugated. Arizona State University did it in May 2009. It happened again on his African trips.
In each event mainstream media leadership was unprepared, stumbled, ignored or missed golden “teaching moments.”
Now, Dr. Gates, also an African American, and President Obama comprise a unique confluence. They can teach the nation a great lesson if American media leadership is open to change.
Some standardized media language, generally accepted by the public, was developed historically by conservatives.
Other language terms often aid powerful forces that are aligned to subjugate African Americans, including President Barack Obama.
A case in point was made manifest by media coverage of President Obama’s July 2009 trip to Ghana. CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper reportedly said it was the President’s first trip to Africa.
Mr. Obama’s first visit to Africa as President of the United States was made a month earlier to Egypt; June 2009. What accounts for CNN’s error? More than two centuries ago, a now nearly invisible code, “white supremacy,” was formalized by some academic scholars; led by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. The code was widely adopted among universities, business practices, conservative politicians, and used to separate Egypt from Africa.
Over a period of time Egypt has been psychologically relocated to a mythical post WWII creation called “The Middle East.” Ghana and selected other African nations have been labeled “sub-Sahara Africa.”
The terms “Middle East” and “Sub-Sahara Africa” function successfully, singularly or in tandem, to help officially eliminate any black connection to Egypt or Egypt to Africa.
Recognition of the black connection to Egypt would destroy the fundamental basis of “white supremacy” because Egypt’s ancient culture is the basis for Western Civilization; especially black mastery of science, mathematics and astronomy.
When media, political and academic institutions support the concept of Ghana being President Obama’s first trip to Africa they are protecting the code of “white supremacy;” not dismantling it. In public schools some standardized multiple choice tests require that children select the Middle East, not Africa, as the correct location of Egypt.
On July 8, 2009, Anderson Cooper’s blog site was ostensibly shut down in response to messages that reminded the anchor of President Obama’s first trip to Egypt, Africa.
President Obama’s blackancestry is directly linked to ancient Egypt and represents to date the most powerful philosophical challenge of black subjugation by the “white supremacy” code.
Obama is related to Africa’s “Mountain of the Moon” people, the Luo Tribe, a black Nile River population that significantly contributed to the development of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.
In other words, Obama’s black ancestors were the first to master science and “code” astronomy; movement of the stars, moon and earth around the sun. Coming full circle, “a sun” of ancient Egypt returned to the great Nile Valley as head of the most powerful nation on the planet; itself a descendant of Egypt.
Following true tradition, Obama has helped redirect America’s focus on world leadership to ancient Egypt’s foundation, the mastery of new cutting edge science, green energy, one of the main tenants of his Presidential Administration.
Media leadership missed a teachable moment.
The state of Arizona is home to America’s leading academic organizations that are dedicated to the study of astronomy: NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) and AURA (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy).
Among American colleges and universities, the most powerful set of telescopes are located in Arizona; Kitt Peak National Observatory and The Large Binocular Telescope; ten times more powerful than Hubble. So, it is interesting to note which institution of higher education attempted to publicly subjugate a direct descendant of ancient Egypt.
The conservative academic leadership at Arizona State University, a leading astronomy school, refused to award Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, an honorary Doctoral Degree after he spoke at its May 2009 Commencement.
That underhanded gesture signaled the embrace of the “white supremacy” code and rejection of even a notion that black people first mastered astronomy and used the discipline to build Egypt; located in Africa.
Those who control American media must discover for themselves the core of “white supremacy” and eschew it for the good of U.S. world leadership. Otherwise, Blumenbach’s racial inferiority membership will continue their subjugation “hit parade,” even against President Obama.
Euphemisms aside, Henry Fonda’s southern white character in “Roots” called it; “out niggering each other.” However, the new reconstruction choices remain the same; new quest or old legacy.
The arrest of Dr. Gates by police officer Crowley has placed “on the table” for America, a mystery that is wrapped in a conundrum. That is, multiplying “1/2” of the arrest story (Dr.
Gates) by the other “1/2” of the arrest story (officer Crowley) leads into an infinite set of fractional numbers to which there is no answer.
When “The Sun of Ancient Egypt” wisely modified his statement about “police stupidity” he sealed off entry to that endless pit.
His declaration for a national “teachable moment” signifies his understanding of the stars; not a debate over their English, Greek or African name pronunciations.
It is a good thing that the election of Barack Obama to the Office of President of the United States of America, the actions police officer James Crowley, and the African scholarship of Dr. Louis Henry Gates are now aligned in history; as if they are the sun, moon and earth.
For in a rapidly changing world, a “dark eclipse” represents a great teaching moment about the core of “white supremacy,” especially for American media leadership.