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KINGS: The True Story of Chicago's Policy Kings and Numbers Racketeers (If you haven't read 'KINGS', you haven't read OurStory)

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The Hidden History of Policy

KINGS chronicles the rise and fall of The Policy Era, the obscured period in American history between Reconstruction and the modern Civil Rights era. It is the story of how Policy became the 'State Lottery'.
Policy was the single biggest Black owned and operated business enterprise in the world, generating upwards of two hundred million dollars annually during the Depression, and controlled by a national brotherhood of African American men called Policy Kings. These men bankrolled the Negro Baseball League, banks, insurance companies, the career of boxing great Joe Louis, and untold medical and professional practices. They were also responsible for converting the Black vote from Republican to Democrat.
The history of Policy, (the numbers), is a hidden history of Black America, a history our parents never told us, a history we were never taught in school. If you ask most older Black people (60+) about "policy", they will very likely regale you with stories of a time in U.S. history that may sound like a fairy-tale. Ask Quincy Jones, who is making a movie about the Policy Kings. The purpose of this group is to bring awareness of "The Policy Era" and to allow us to learn and share our family histories which our parents parents were terrorized and shamed from sharing with us. We challenge you to ask your Elders about "policy"; you'll be amazed at what you will learn. Then come back and become a new age Policy King or Queen.

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Started by Harold Lee Rush. Last reply by CRhyme Syndicate Feb 29, 2008.

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Comment by Harold Lee Rush on March 6, 2010 at 7:26pm

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Comment by diallo sekou on May 15, 2009 at 2:37am
"Look, brother, it’s simple, " the Akhuani begins. A robin swoops from its perch upon a low branch of a dry and brittle tree. Landing, quickly, it tugs at a worm trying to retreat to safety beneath the still moist ground. The worm tries valiantly to escape, but is ripped from the earth and devoured.

" We’re at war with the Aryans--because they are genocidal maniacs and must be fought simply for survival's sake--that should be obvious.

We’re at war with the Vikings and their berserker Varangian guard because they see us the same way the Aryans do--as their natural victims.

We’re at war with the Noble Scion of Gleaming Neoptolemus because they see themselves as sons of Achilles , sons of Alexander and they see us as Trojans and Persians--people they are destined to loot and pillage.

We’re at war with the Mafioso because they think they’re still the Romans and we’re still the Carthaginians. We’re at war with the apartheid-Arabs because they see blacks as their slaves and they still occupy our lands.

We’re at war with the apartheid-Hindus because they still oppress our Black Dravidian brethren. We’re at war with the Chou and other white skinned racist Asians who oppress the descendants of the Khmers, Malays, Montangnards, Shang ,Xia, the ‘Negritos’ --the millions of original, indigenous blacks of Asia.

We’re at war with the apartheid-Hispanics who still operate the color caste system like the apartheid-Hindus and apartheid-Arabs still do -- black on the bottom, brown in the middle and light on the top.

We’re at war with any group that seeks to suppress us, enslave us, exploit us, steal from us, rob us, rape us, erase us and white wash our history.

We’re at war with them not by choice of our own, but simply because for each one of them I just mentioned , the bulls' eye of their targets are always black.

We are at war not because I said it, but because they do it . They wage an unspoken war on the blacks. They all have done so, for so long they don’t have to say, “We declare war”.

War was declared thousands of years ago when their cultures first developed and came in contact with ours--it was their agenda then and still is now. We have been fools not to have seen it and responded intelligently. Thus generation after generation of blacks fall for the same ‘okey doke’ from these people.

This is the main reason they say blacks are stupid. It's right in front of our face but we fail to peep it.

The Europeans have been at war against us since at least 1200 BC. That's 3200 years of war --beginning with the Greek war against the city state of Troy--The Greek and later, Roman war against the black extended family of what was once a black Mediterranean. That war between Africa and Europe for control of the Mediterranean basin lasted 1000 years. It began with the Trojan war and ended with the Roman annihilation of Carthage.

By the Greek's own oral tradition --and hidden in plain sight--Memnon the Ethiopian Prince was slain by Achilles while fighting on the side of the Trojans.

Memnon's father was King Priam's brother. This made Memnon the nephew of Priam King of Troy ,and also nephew to Hecuba the Queen of Troy, Priam's wife. This of course made Memnon the Ethiopian prince, first cousin to Hector , Paris and Cassandra-- the royal family of Troy. Why didn’t the Brad Pitt movie about ‘Troy’ tell you any of this ?

When the son of Achilles first slew the aged King Priam and then threw Astanayx, the young infant son of the slain Prince Hector, from the walls of Troy to the child's death, he explained to Andromache , the child’s mother and Hector’s widow, ' The boy might one day become a king of Troy. And We want no more kings of Troy'.'

That’s what today we don’t understand. That’s what the very Temples of Gubal that I gave 30 years of my life to help build seem to have forgotten.

You and the Temples are making a big mistake--you are making the same mistake our ancestors repeatedly made over the centuries in dealing with these people --A TRUCE IS NOT THE SAME AS PEACE--they might temporarily grant truce when it suits them , but you can never expect total peace.

Ask the American Indians about that tactic.

But just like Indians, we always think hostilities are permanently ended each time they simply stop snarling and foaming at the mouth and start smiling at us while they rest and regroup for the next go-round.

In this world, wherever you are , if you are black and have anything of value --whether it be your land, the minerals under your feet, your technology, your medicines, your labor, your music, your culture, the bones and tombs and writings of your ancestors-- even your sexuality-- you will be sought out, hunted down, and robbed.

And this is why over ,and over, again, and again--our history is one episode of being robbed and enslaved after another.

Because we fail to learn from the global experience of blacks at the hands of non-blacks--We end up repeatedly robbed at sword point , spear point, gun point, cannon point, laser guided missile point, ball point pen point --But we still don't get the point.

Our peoples' historical motto could be, 'Billions for hair grease, but not one penny for our mutual defense.' "

"Brother, you're preaching to the choir, " Nyata protests mildly.

His own objective studies of the thousands of years of history of black people described one event after another of invasion robbery and mass murder of blacks at the hands of Asians and Caucasians

". But what are we to do ?" Nyata asks. "The people as always, are either shortsighted, blind , or too willing to forgive and forget as soon as other people pretend they like us.

Just because the lion tires and gives up chasing the zebra today does not mean the zebra is safe tomorrow. Zebra is never safe as long as lion is programmed by lion culture from the time lion is a cub, to hunt and kill zebra."

"The people fail to learn their own story," the Akhuani resumes after some thought , while the wind carries a puff of dust past the two men.

"They forget their own history --their own past struggles ,thus they have nothing of value to learn from . Nothing to tell them who they are , where they have been and where they must go in order to thwart the plans of their enemies."

"True , brother true", replied Nyata. " As long as zebra fails to teach himself according to his own best interests, as long as lion teaches zebra how to be zebra , zebra will always end up as lion's dinner. "

"What happened to the black people of ancient Sumer? For history records that they were indeed black ," The Akhuani asks Nyata the opening question of the Black Catechism .

"They lost their history and thus ceased to exist, " answers Nyata sadly.

"Both mentally and physically", the Akhuani adds softly as the drone of a remote controlled aircraft echoes in the distance.


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