Black or White-in Struggle United!

"We know only one race, we recognize only one enemy-the exploiting class." A-I-Z, X, 26 (4July 1931), In Scottsboro, Alabama, nine black men between the ages of 13 and 20 were picked up on 25 March 1931 and accused of raping two young white women. On 13 and 14 June 1931, on International Workers' Aid Day in Germany, hundreds of thousands demonstrated against American racial "justice." (The last surviving "Scottsboro boy" was given a full pardon in 1976.) This issue of A-I-Z was a special combined issue on racial injustice. Heartfield used the same montage for a poster in 1961.

" John Heartfield is one of the most important European artists. He works in a field that he created himself, the field of photomontage. Through this new form of art he exercises social criticism. Steadfastly on the side of the working class, he unmasked the forces of the Weimar Republic driving toward war; driven into exile he fought against Hitler. The works of this great artist, which mainly appeared in the workers' press, are regarded as classics by many, including the author of these lines." —Bertolt Brecht

Images & Text are from the Book: John Heartfield - Photomontages of the Nazi Period (c) '77 Universe Books - New York

Was this the first time, that a graphic image of the raised fist, was used as a symbol of protest against racial injustice?

"Big Sugar, Minus ZPG and Black History" ( Essay/Lecture in progress 1st "Draft):

We have an image mediated in our minds of the black slave working the cotton fields, but cotton was only set up to launder opium money. The Black Holocaust - Ten million black men, women and children were taken into slavery to work the sugar cane fields in the Americas. One third died in transit, packed like sardines in the bottoms of ships. Today this slavery still exists in many parts of the world.

We are indoctrinated to believe that the slavery was abolished. The salve owner would have to feed and cloth the slave and take care of his health and there were some laws against abuse but the freed slave was given nothing and had to find work as a wage slave on the assembly lines of Fordism. The money ran out as blue collar workers were replaced by steel collar workers (robots).

What advertisers call "sugar" is a drug synthesized from sugar cane and sugar beet. The real name of this chemical is called Sucrose. One third of the people addicted to sucrose are genetically prone to become addicts. Most of the addictions are related to sucrose addiction i.e.: sucrose is used to get people addicted to nicotine , caffeine alcohol etc. In the "hood" kids had to find "self employment" selling drugs or participating in the sidelines like prostitution. It is a statistical fact that recidivism in prisons goes down by 30-40% if inmates are taken off anti-nutrients like sucrose. In the United Sates today there are three million in prison (the sadistic is official but who knows what the real number is) most of them are Chicano and black...kids that grew up in the "hood" where real food was replaced by junk food. In prisons they work for 12 cents and hour. If this is not slavery ...what is?

Sucrose is a drug ...One of the multitude in the arsenals of the dis-ease establishment drug monopolies. They make people sick with drugs and then give them more to deal with the pain. These peep have been farming humanity for centuries in this way. Now lets do the math. If you are in the business of making profits from human misery then the equation would read something like this: "the greater the numbers, the greater the misery, the greater the misery, the greater the profits" If you have six slaves then it is a cost burden to you to keep them healthy, clothed and fed. If you make them "free" to be wage slaves than that relieves you of the burden, but if you cause them to multiply and become addicts then they will eat your junk food and use your junk drugs and if they snort 600$ a day up the nose of your crystalline white powders then your profits soar.

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