Believe it or not,
a Black woman has been alleging in the courts for years that she
not only wrote the story behind the Matrix screenplays, but also
the tale that inspired the Terminator franchise . . .
For seven, long years Sophia Stewart has been fighting in the courts
to prove that her story, "the Third Eye" was ripped off
by the producers of the Matrix and those who made the Terminator
films. Is she telling the truth? And why haven't we heard her story
before?
One reason you may not have heard of her case is that, if she wins,
it will rock Hollywood and the entertainment establishment and
the publishing industry to their foundations. It will also provide
an inspiring picture of Black intellectual potential. It will clearly
illustrate our abilities to create for, not just perform before,
the cameras like puppets.
Stewart claims that her story, "The Third Eye," told from
front to back was ripped off to tell the story of the Terminator
series. The same tale, told from back to front, she alleges, was
stolen to become the Matrix franchise. The two sagas are at the
heart of modern day Hollywood's spectacular financial success.
Stewart says that she was telling the story of the Second Coming
of Christ to a modern audience. Ms. Stewart, a veteran Hollywood
writer who hails from Utah, and looks very much like the lady cast
as the Oracle in the Matrix, said she was trying to reach the youth
of today who're being reared in a sterile, technological environment,
and expose them to the vibrant teachings of the Bible.
Ms. Stewart is said to have provided a list of similarities between
her story and the films in quesiton, as well as documented proof,
suported by the FBI and witnesses, that she sent it to the companies
being charged who then appropriated her ideas wholesale. Based
on everything that has been reported, so far, the other side has
not really mounted any substantive defense.
The latest delays in this epic, seven year case have been occasioned
by charges of conflicts of interest involving the judge and some
of Stewart's own defense team. One has to wonder if the vast power
and influence of Time Warner/AOL has not intimidated media outlets,
many of which are owned outright by the media giant. At any rate
the Black community, thanks to the net, is beginning to rally around
her, and give her a serious hearing. Check out her story for yourself
and let us know what you think. Her website is SophiaOracle.com
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A Lesson for the New
Millennium by Willie Lynch VI, building on my great-grandfather's
work, we can see how we can continue to reap profits from the Blacks
without the effort of physical slavery.
We will focus on the
current methods of containment that they use on themselves:
1. IGNORANCE
2. GREED
3. SELFISHNESS.
The IGNORANCE of blacks
is the primary weapon of containment. A great Man once said, “the
best way to hide something from a black is to put it in a book.”
This statement is so true. We currently live in an information age.
Blacks have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject
through the efforts of their fight for freedom and integration yet;
they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available
at Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. com, that would help
them reach economic equality (which should Have been their fight
all along). However, very few of them read consistently if at all.
As long as we continue to publish books for our benefit and keep
books, computers and the Internet out of their hands, we will never
see the masses of them rise above the slums and projects.
GREED is another powerful
weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have
had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent
9 billion dollars during Christmas and overall yearly have about
450 billion dollars in purchasing power. Any of us can use them
as our target market for any business venture. Being primarily a
consumer people they function totally by greed.
They continually want
more without any regard for saving or investing. They would rather
buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business or a community
development organization. Some will even neglect their children
to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, they still think that having a
Mercedes and a fancy apartment in the middle of the ghetto gives
them "status" or that they have achieved the American
dream. They are fools.
The vast majority of
their people are still in poverty. Living in slums, projects and
run-down homes. What have they achieved? Their greed holds them
back from making better communities for themselves. With the help
of BET and the rest of their black media, we will continue to see
huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. They, will continue to
congregate in their 'buppie" communities and slums trying to
show off to each other while we build solid communities with the
profits from our businesses.
Some would argue that this last method is the most powerful one
of the three. SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery,
is one of the major ways we can contain them in a slave status.
We all know that any group united under one vision can accomplish
anything.
The Bible shows that
even God acknowledged in the Tower of Babel story that a people
united can accomplish anything. With this said, we understand that
the most effective way to keep them contained is to create divisions
among blacks as a people. One of their own, Dubois said that there
was an innate division in their culture. A 'Talented Tenth' he called
it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their
culture that has achieved some form of success. However, that segment
missed the fullness of his work, they didn't read that the Talented
Tenth was then responsible to aid the Non-Talented Ninety Percent
in achieving a better life.
Instead, that segment
has created another class, a buppie class that looks down on their
people or aids them in a condescending manner. The selfishness of
the buppie class, and the "it's all about me" attitude
that is prevalent throughout their people, has caused them to isolate
both classes and fail to achieve solid communities, business or
economic empowerment.
They will never achieve
what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to work together
on any project or endeavor of substance. Their so-called help organizations,
with large budgets and some existing for almost a hundred or more
years, seem to only want to promote their names without making any
real change to the communities in which they live. They are content
to sit in conferences and conventions and talk about what they will
do and award the best speakers a plaque. Is their no end to their
selfishness?
They lack the essential
understanding that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE! They do not understand
that they are not better than each because of what they own. Most
are only one or two paychecks away from poverty. And their paychecks
are written by us in our offices and boardrooms.
Yes, we will continue
to contain them as long as we keep them from reading, let them buy
anything they want, and keep them thinking that they are really
"helping" their communities by paying dues to some organization.
By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember,
they don't read!
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(Here is the full text
of what Bill Cosby said at his speech before the NAACP’s Awards
Dinner commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s
1954 decision banning segregation. . .)
Ladies and gentlemen, I really have to ask you to seriously consider
what you’ve heard, and now this is the end of the evening
so to speak. I heard a prize fight manager say to his fellow who
was losing badly, “David, listen to me. It’s not what’s
he’s doing to you. It’s what you’re not doing.
(laughter).
Ladies and gentlemen, these people set, they opened the doors,
they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our
cities and public schools we have fifty percent drop out. In our
own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person
embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. (clapping) No longer is
a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being
the father of the unmarried child (clapping)
Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic
people are holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood
that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. (clapping)
In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn
shade was an eye (laughing). And before your mother got off the
bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had
gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and
where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.
I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing
there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? (clapping)
Where were you when he was twelve? (clapping) Where were you when
he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol?
(clapping) And where is his father, and why don’t you know
where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to
this boy?
The church is only open on Sunday. And you can’t keep asking
Jesus to ask doing things for you (clapping). You can’t keep
asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you (clapping and
laughing). God was there when they won all those cases. 50 in a
row. That’s where God was because these people were doing
something. And God said, “I’m going to find a way.”
I wasn’t there when God said it… I’m making this
up (laughter). But it sounds like what God would do (laughter).
We cannot blame white people. White people (clapping) .. white
people don’t live over there. They close up the shop early. The Korean
ones still don’t know us as well…they stay open 24 hours
(laughter).
I’m looking and I see a man named Kenneth Clark. He and his
wife Mamie…Kenneth’s still alive. I have to apologize
to him for these people because Kenneth said it straight. He said
you have to strengthen yourselves…and we’ve got to have
that black doll. And everybody said it. Julian Bond said it. Dick
Gregory said it. All these lawyers said it. And you wouldn’t
know that anybody had done a damned thing.
50 percent drop out rate, I’m telling you, and people in jail,
and women having children by five, six different men. Under what
excuse, I want somebody to love me, and as soon as you have it,
you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother
in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing
about love or respect of any one of the three of them (clapping).
All this child knows is “gimme, gimme, gimme.” These
people want to buy the friendship of a child….and the child
couldn’t care less. Those of us sitting out here who have
gone on to some college or whatever we’ve done, we still fear
our parents (clapping and laughter). And these people are not parenting.
They’re buying things for the kid. $500 sneakers, for what?
They won’t buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics. (clapping)
A\Kenneth Clark, somewhere in his home in upstate New York…just
looking ahead. Thank God, he doesn’t know what’s going
on, thank God. But these people, the ones up here in the balcony
fought so hard. Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political
criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People
getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake!
Then we all run out and are outraged, “The cops shouldn’t
have shot him” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake
in his hand? (laughter and clapping). I wanted a piece of pound
cake just as bad as anybody else (laughter) And I looked at it and
I had no money. And something called parenting said if get caught
with it you’re going to embarrass your mother. Not you’re
going to get your butt kicked. No. You’re going to embarrass
your mother. You’re going to embarrass your family.
If knock that girl up, you’re going to have to run away because
it’s going to be too embarrassing for your family. In the
old days, a girl getting pregnant had to go down South, and then
her mother would go down to get her. But the mother had the baby.
I said the mother had the baby. The girl didn’t have a baby.
The mother had the baby in two weeks. (laughter) We are not parenting.
Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people, they are showing you
what’s wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. –isn’t
that a sign of something going on wrong? (laughter)
Are you not paying attention, people with their hat on backwards,
pants down around the crack. Isn’t that a sign of something,
or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up (laughter and
clapping ). Isn’t it a sign of something when she’s
got her dress all the way up to the crack…and got all kinds
of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa
did this come from? (laughter). We are not Africans. Those people
are not Africans, they don’t know a damned thing about Africa.
With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and
all of them are in jail. (When we give these kinds names to our
children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning
of those names. What’s the point of giving them strong names
if there is not parenting and values backing it up).
Brown Versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s
problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back (clapping).
We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to
go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. (laughter)
It’s standing on the corner. It can’t speak English.
It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk
the way these people talk. “Why you ain’t where you
is go, ra,” I don’t know who these people are. And I
blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk (laughter). Then I
heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk
a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched
to English. Everybody knows it’s important to speak English
except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with “why
you ain’t…” You can’t be a doctor with that
kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has
that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that
they’re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they’re
not, they’re just hanging out in the same place, five or six
generations sitting in the projects when you’re just supposed
to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.
Now look, I’m telling you. It’s not what they’re
doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing. 50 percent drop
out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These
people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English
being spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry.
Oh God, they’re angry and they have pistols and they shoot
and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don’t
have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza? And
then run to the poor cousin’s house. They sit there and the
cousin says “what are you doing here?” “I just
killed somebody, man.” “What?” “I just killed
somebody, I’ve got to stay here.” “No, you don’t.”
“Well, give me some money, I’ll go…” “Where
are you going?” “North Carolina.” Everybody wanted
to go to North Carolina. But the police know where you’re
going because your cousin has a record.
Five or six different children, same woman, eight, ten different
husbands or whatever, pretty soon you’re going to have to
have DNA cards so you can tell who you’re making love to.
You don’t who this is. It might be your grandmother. (laughter)
I’m telling you, they’re young enough. Hey, you have
a baby when you’re twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has
a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you’re
twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those
numbers coming. I’m just predicting.
I’m saying Brown Vs. Board of Education. We’ve got
to hit the streets, ladies and gentlemen. I’m winding up,
now , no more applause. I’m saying, look at the Black Muslims.
There are Black Muslims standing on the street corners and they
say so forth and so on, and we’rere laughing at them because
they have bean pies and all that, but you don’t read “Black
Muslim gunned down while chastising drug dealer.” You
don’t
read that. They don’t shoot down Black Muslims. You understand
me. Muslims tell you to get out of the neighborhood. When you
want to clear your neighborhood out, first thing you do is go
get the Black Muslims, bean pies and all (laughter). And your
neighborhood is then clear. The police can’t do it.
I’m telling you Christians, what’s wrong with you? Why
can’t you hit the streets? Why can’t you clean it out
yourselves? It’s our time now, ladies and gentlemen. It is
our time (clapping). And I’ve got good news for you. It’s
not about money. It’s about you doing something ordinarily
that we do—get in somebody else’s business. It’s
time for you to not accept the language that these people are speaking,
which will take them nowhere. What the hell good is Brown V. Board
of Education if nobody wants it?
What is it with young girls getting after some girl who wants to
still remain a virgin. Who are these sick black people and where
did they come from and why haven’t they been parented to shut
up? To go up to girls and try to get a club where “you are
nobody..,” this is a sickness ladies and gentlemen and we
are not paying attention to these children. These are children.
They don’t know anything. They don’t have anything.
They’re homeless people. All they know how to do is beg. And
you give it to them, trying to win their friendship. And what are
they good for? And then they stand there in an orange suit and you
drop to your knees, “(crying sound) He didn’t do anything,
he didn’t do anything.” Yes, he did do it. And you need
to have an orange suit on too (laughter, clapping).
So, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the award (big
laughter) and giving me an opportunity to speak because, I mean,
this is the future, and all of these people who lined up and done..they’ve
got to be wondering what the hell happened. Brown V. Board of Education,
these people who marched and were hit in the face with rocks and
punched in the face to get an education and we got these knuckleheads
walking around who don’t want to learn English (clapping)
I know that you all know it. I just want to get you as angry that
you ought to be. When you walk around the neighborhood and you see
this stuff, that stuff’s not funny. These people are not funny
anymore. And that ‘s not brother. And that’s not my
sister. They’re faking and they’re dragging me way down
because the state, the city and all these people have to pick up
the tab on them because they don’t want to accept that they
have to study to get an education.
We have to begin to build in the neighborhood, have restaurants,
have cleaners, have pharmacies, have real estate, have medical
buildings instead of trying to rob them all. And so, ladies and
gentlemen, please, Dorothy Height, where ever she’s sitting, she didn’t
do all that stuff so that she could hear somebody say “I can’t
stand algebra, I can’t stand…and “what you is.”
It’s horrible.
Basketball players, multimillionaires can’t write a paragraph.
Football players, multimillionaires, can’t read. Yes. Multimillionaires.
Well, Brown V Board of Education, where are we today? It’s
there. They paved the way. What did we do with it. The white man,
he’s laughing, got to be laughing. 50 percent drop out, rest
of them in prison.
You got to tell me that if there was parenting, help me, if there
was parenting, he wouldn’t have picked up the Coca Cola bottle
and walked out with it to get shot in the back of the head. He wouldn’t
have. Not if he loved his parents. And not if they were parenting!
Not if the father would come home. Not if the boy hadn’t dropped
the sperm cell inside of the girl and the girl had said, “No,
you have to come back here and be the father of this child.”
Not ..“I don’t have to.”
Therefore, you have the pile up of these sweet beautiful things
born by nature raised by no one. Give them presents. You’re
raising pimps. That’s what a pimp is. A pimp will act nasty
to you so you have to go out and get them something. And then you
bring it back and maybe he or she hugs you. And that’s why
pimp is so famous. They’ve got a drink called the “Pimp-something.”
You all wonder what that’s about, don’t you? Well, you’re
probably going to let Jesus figure it out for you (laughter). Well,
I’ve got something to tell you about Jesus. When you go to
the church, look at the stained glass things of Jesus. Look at them.
Is Jesus smiling? Not in one picture. So, tell your friends. Let’s
try to do something. Let’s try to make Jesus smile. Let’s
start parenting. Thank you, thank you (clapping, cheers)
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