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    JOINT MEDIA RELEASE

    GREAT TRUST, COUNCIL FOR AFRIKA INTERNATIONAL AND THE

    AFRIKA LIBERATION SOCIETY

    5TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANTI-SCIENTIFIC RACISM WATSON

    CAMPAIGN A CALL FOR HIEGHTENED ETHNIC, RACIAL EQUALITY

    AND HUMAN RIGHTS LITERACY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONDUCT

    ACROSS THE WORLD 30TH OCTOBER 2012

    On the 5th Anniversary of the Anti-Scientific Racism Watson Campaign, the GREAT

    Trust, Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society call for a 21st

    Century Renaissance of Ethnic, Racial and Human Rights Literacy, Consciousness

    and Conduct throughout society that respects the Divine Golden Rule of Creation

    the Equality of Humankind, Life and Rights for individual, group and collective

    peaceful co-existence. Regrettably and observably, the strides of the past though

    significant in journey travelled, have proven inadequate in eliminating the poison of

    human hatred and disrespect of the unique diversity of Creation, which is the source

    of some of the grotesque man-made human tragedies including costly wars in human

    lives. Hatred of human diversity is underpinned and driven by an illusionary,

    unscientific, twisted, schizophrenic mentality of self-grandeur that culminates in

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    baseless infectious superiority complex, which if not identified and dealt with in time,

    could lead to significant harm to self and others as witnessed in the Norway

    Massacres by Anders Breivik in 2011. It is critical to note the ensuing inferiority

    complex imposed by the perpetrator of superiority complexes creates a tolerant

    dynamic for which human hatred of diversity festers, brews, thrives ready to explode

    where the societal fault-lines can no longer contain its venom. Human hatred for

    otherness, ethnically, racially and otherwise is the root cause of most problems in the

    history of humankind which is reflected in contemporary society.

    Scientific, academic and cyber racism are ideological forms by forces for evil,

    characterised by human hatred, driven by delusionary and baseless superiority

    complex that determine policy and strategy decisions, structures and constructs by

    Global Leadership in contradiction of the Divine Rule of Creation All Human Are

    Created Equal with certain Inalienable Rights. The violation of this fundamental rule

    of Creation entails tremendous consequences with far reaching ramifications for all

    humankind and society, exacerbates human vulnerability and makes captives of even

    the perpetrators of delusionary superiority complexes. The history of the world

    demonstrates the imperativeness of a rapid resolution of this long-standing lack ofclarity and confused state of mind, the un-ambivalent, categorical, de-facto and

    unambiguous acknowledgement, restoration and virtual respect of the Inalienable

    Rights, Equality and Dignity of all Global Citizens, regardless of humanly-designed

    social standing to attain individual and collective peace and advance human

    civilisation. A situation where human beings are human-rights-ignorant and are the

    greatest violators of human rights is a potent recipe for continued human self-inflicted

    societal disasters.

    Scientific, incorporating academic racism is an aggressive, satanic, deceptive,

    manipulating, blood-letting/sucking, proposition and propaganda machinery that has

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    served imperialist forces of darkness well in oppressing and subjugating others by

    unleashing extreme hardship, genocide and holocausts, not the least underpinned

    colonialism and contemporary neo-colonialism in African and other former colonies.

    Specifically to the African experience, scientific racism was the cheer-leading barbaric

    idea that underpinned the foreign invasions into the African Continent and has

    oxygenated the roll-out of the Wider African Holocaust, on the wings of Afrophobia and

    Anti-Africanism in which extraordinarily terrible Crimes Against Humanity were

    inflicted against the African Peoples. Scientific racism contradicts the divine truth that

    All Human Are Created Equal with Inalienable Rights by deviously concocting thetwisted perspective that Africans are genetically less intelligent that Caucasians and

    polluted the human mind of supremacism versus inferiorism within the human race.

    In October 2007, Professor James Watson flew from New York, the United States into

    London, United Kingdom with an agenda to revive devilish scientific racism on the

    Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Contrary to the

    learned but unwise Professors racist remarks, all evidence point to the fact that

    variations in human intelligence have nothing to do with ethnicity but are ascribable

    to social and environmental factors and that there are more intelligence variationswithin rather than between racial groups. Fortunately and unfortunately, while the

    whole world looked on nonchalantly at an astonishing development, the pioneers of

    the GREAT Trust, the Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation

    Society took a stand to challenge this revival of immorality that has caused mass

    human suffering and mental enslavement of superiority and inferiority complexes. The

    pioneers mustered rare selflessness and uncommon courage, damning every

    perceivable risk and consequences, and took issue with the Nobel Laureate and

    Scientific Icon to provide his assertions with facts or recant and he did apologising

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    that he did not know why he made such ridiculous, harmful, baseless and highly

    offensive racial and Anti-African remarks.

    The pioneers took the view that the whole world is predicated on the devilish theory,

    construct and hierarchies of supremacism versus inferiorism which protects rights

    and privileges of a few or minority over the majority whose inalienable fundamental

    human rights are subjected to relentless assault and abuse day in day out. The

    scientific racist ideas, theories and doctrines are an extension of the same malignant

    supremacist mentality that drive the destruction of the rich civilisations of the AfricanPeoples and subjugated them from one foreign imposition to another cartel slave

    trades of the Trans-Sahara and Trans-Atlantic, colonialism, neo-colonialism, creating

    a trend where new forms of subjugating constructs emerge at the demise of the

    existing. Due to the selflessness and gallantry of African Patriots but at highest cost

    unimaginable, the conspiracy to exterminate Africans from the African Continent with

    foreign occupation from the North, South, East, West and Central Africa were halted

    midway with the decolonisation struggles. But scientific racism has continued to

    manufacture and fuel a different form of foreign domination based on Caucasian

    Supremacist thinking and has effectively foisted the instrument of Divide & Rule andDependency which both culminate in entrenching economic underdevelopment in

    Africa, which at the same time leaving Africa vulnerable to unethical haemorrhaging of

    illicit financial outflows to the Global North, in exchange of a pittance in International

    Development Assistance and cut-throat, slavish Global North foreign investment.

    The difference between Professor Watson and the reminder of the school of thought he

    represents is that he dared speak out, but leaving the iron curtain of Anti-Africanist

    and Afrophobic Conspiracy still intact indeed and action. In October 2007, in the face

    of the supremacist attempt by Professor Watson to revive scientific racism in the 21 st

    Century by his deeply bigoted Anti-African utterances, it is interesting to observe that

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    none of the then 53 African Heads of State, Governments and Commanders-in-Chief,

    nor their counterparts in the Caribbean, their huge repertoire of African diplomats

    abroad, Parliaments, Judiciary, Intelligence Apparatuses, the African Union and its

    Regional Institutions, the over 250 Universities on the African Continent, the African

    Caribbean and Pacific Organisation [ACP], the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Non-

    Aligned Movement, the United Nations and its Human Rights Council objectednot a

    word to challenge and repudiate this most unsavoury and hostile and falsity of all

    belief systems and doctrines that has shaped and underpinned strategies, policies and

    relationship of the rest of the world towards the African Continent and its Peoplessince the 7th Century to date! But thank goodness for the pioneers of the GREAT

    Trust, the Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society who stood

    out to beat back the howling dogs of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism from launching a

    contemporary revival, to unleash a new wave of onslaught of Crimes Against

    Humanity specifically upon All Persons of African Ancestry.

    The neo-colonialist status-quo in Africa is very much synergistic with the tenets of

    scientific racism, so long as the African Continent and its rich resources continue to

    first serve the strategic interests of foreign elements alongside those of AfricasMinority Ruling Elite while the Inalienable Rights of Majority Africans continue to be

    sabotaged, undermined and compromised. This is the other end of the complex

    dynamic of internalised inferiority, the contradiction of fear of the external oppressor

    while flexing muscles domestically, paradigm-bareness, entrenched dependency and

    aversion to lateral thinking, creativity and innovation. The pioneers of the GREAT

    Trust, Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society wish that

    contemporary Africans in Leadership rapidly embrace the need for a revolutionary

    awareness of African Equality of Inalienable Human Rights entitlements as the

    bottom-line of Creation and install a policy of persistent advocacy at every opportunity

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    in all negotiations for Majority Africans on this 5th Anniversary of the Anti-Scientific

    Racism Campaign.

    We wish that the current Africans in Leadership would see through the wool of

    Dependency and make a claim for the restoration of the entitlements of the Majority

    African Peoples so as to be remembered as the African Leaders who redeemed their

    people from the Wider African Holocaust. Thus far, the historical footnote for the first

    half-century of African Self-Rule is looking dispiriting and desperate, in the light that

    the colonialist status-quo has been strengthened rather than weakened, let aloneeradicated. Before long, time will be up and the legacy of Africas post -colonial

    leadership will be transparently subjected to microscopic examination. We shudder

    what the verdict will be, unless there is a comprehensive renaissance of Ethnic/Race

    Equality and Human Rights Consciousness to overcome internalised inferiority

    complex, fossilised by centuries of ruthlessly-enforced regimes of colonialist

    superiority complex and the baseless scientific racism of the school of thought of

    Professor Watson and his ilk.

    GREAT Trust, the Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society

    acknowledge the role of charity in the alleviating the hardships of Crime AgainstHumanity inflicted upon the Africans. However we caution and draw attention to their

    limitations in the sense that all charitable activity seem to tackle the consequences of

    oppressive Afrophobic and Anti-Africanist strategies, policies, programs and other

    interventions informed by supremacist and inferiority complexes, but not dealing with

    the fundamental causes of themselves. Whoever their promoters, mainstream

    charitable activity while life-saving for those in acute crises, is limited in their capacity

    to eliminate beyond amelioration, the adverse effects of scientifically-racist, Afrophobic

    and Anti-Africanist supremacist doctrines.

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    For maximum impacts, it is counselled that mainstream charitable activity including

    Corporate Social Responsibility are expanded to encapsulate targeted uprooting of the

    fundamentally-flawed worldview with which Africa and her Peoples are maltreated

    right from the UN Security Council, mainstream unfair trade and the refusal to atone

    for systemic Crimes Against Humanity perpetrated towards Africans in Africa and the

    Diaspora. In a sense, besides the necessary short-term crisis-interventionist succour

    they provide for severely vulnerable people, mainstream charitable endeavours, no

    matter how well-intended, remain superficial and to some degree feed the vicious cycle

    of the consequences of scientifically racist-inspired strategies and policies. Part of our5th Anniversary call is for active ethics-driven collaboration with philanthropists to

    conclusively tackle the fundamental underlying causes of the Wider African Holocaust,

    not the least scientific racism, to enable the materialisation of a new, enduring,

    verifiable foundation for the restoration of the Divine Inalienable Rights of Africans as

    Equal Human Beings, in tune with Creation for Justice, Fraternal Coexistence of

    Peoples and Global Peace..

    Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism as Distinct Forms of Racial Discrimination:

    Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism are a lethally-combined and criminally-orchestrated

    malignant, imperialist, extremist, Caucasian supremacist ideological doctrine that

    underpin and drive the bloody systemic murderous persecution, Crimes Against

    Humanity, economic exploitation and historico-cultural destruction, perpetrated

    against Africans and Persons of African Ancestry over several centuries that culminate

    in the Wider African Holocaust which has marred, blighted and claimed millions of

    lives, for which no apology or reparations have been rendered and justice not restored

    even in the 21st

    Century. Besides American Indians and the Australian Aborigines who

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    Theories, doctrines, ideologies such as natural selection, social Darwinism, eugenics,

    scientific and academic racism that underpin extremist, fascist, racial, supremacist

    constructs such as Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism of which Apartheid is a variation,

    are tools by forces of darkness to violate and undermine the divine standard of

    Inalienable Human Rights. The greatest danger in human society is the contradictory

    and paradoxical scenario in which human beings abuse human rights either by intent

    or through human rights illiteracy, inaction or misconduct! It is instructive that the

    genesis of most human-made problems in society is the abuse of the Inalienable

    Rights of humankind, which without any exceptions or shadow of doubt inflicts harshand brutal sufferings upon targets. Abuse of Inalienable Rights of humankind is thus

    intrinsically criminal in nature and must be consistently identified, categorized and

    condemned in no uncertain terms until its total elimination from society.

    The bottom-line is that no human being has got the right to undermine the Inalienable

    Human Rights of other human beings. Rather a characterisation and quality of human

    being-ness is the natural instinct to protect human rights, not to put it in jeopardy; a

    state of human rights-consciousness and automatic inclination to protect the

    Inalienable Rights of all, not put it at risk. About this there must be absolute clarity.The paradox is that this is not the case which indicates the amount of work still at

    stake in creating a human rights-conscious world, where human beings are at peace

    with human rights the resolution of fundamental contradiction within the human

    mind, society and conduct. As such, the cardinal responsibility of leadership in society

    is to protect the Inalienable Human Rights of human beings from abuse,

    manipulation, undermine or sabotage in any shape or form, failing which they become

    complicit.

    Given their divine essence, the abuse and violation of Inalienable Fundamental

    Human Rights which separates human beings from other species of Creation,

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    inevitably attracts divine comeuppance as a rule of thumb by the Law of Karma. It is

    critical to have clarity that the championing of race equality and human rights is

    primarily spiritual and secondarily physical, both divine and secular. The upholding of

    the Inalienable Rights of Humans in any century, time, space, generation, is a key

    indicator for the advancement, sophistication of civilisation or otherwise primitiveness

    in perpetuity. We submit the holistic insight that the abuse of human rights, contrary

    to orthodox thinking, does not only dehumanise the target-victim but also

    dehumanises the perpetrator, who is enslaved, often consumed by an ideology of

    unfounded, profound hatred. Almost inexplicably, except for its demonic character,abuse of race equality and human rights entails more effort, resources than respecting

    and protecting them! Ethnic/Race inequality and Human Rights abuses are needless,

    unproductive, misplaced and deflect attention from the many life challenges that

    confronts humankind such as diseases, natural disasters to which human intelligence

    or rationalism has yet to find panaceas. Against this backdrop, the phenomena,

    culture and habit of Inalienable Human Rights abuse is tragic, pathetic, un-smart, evil

    and a 21st Century Human Rights Consciousness Renaissance has become imperative,

    more so as it is contributory to the severest global economic recession!

    Criminological Undertones:

    Racial and Human Rights abuse through conventionalisation, codification and

    legislation have been criminalised, but at varying degrees subject to the Race Equality

    and Human Rights literacy, consciousness and conduct of the ruling elites. However,

    the cycle of exclusion of everything African i.e. the widespread nature of Anti-

    Africanism, have created a scenario where Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism are

    excluded from relevant national and regional regulatory and enforcement provisions;

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    entrenching ethnic/racial discrimination against Africans which is the most

    pronounced and nastiest of human discriminations with more room to fester and

    mutate into subtler proportions. The fundamental divine origins and essence of All

    Men Are Created Equal with Inalienable Rights makes its disregard by none other by

    human beings exceptional; human beings should be conscious and promoting of

    Human Equality of Rights and Opportunities and yet this is not the case. In reality,

    only a minority of human beings actively promote Human Equality and the Equality of

    Rights which is a critical contradiction.

    While this may be ascribed to intergenerational denigration of the duty of care and

    significant disservice to humankind, to actually set out to manufacture doctrines to

    undermine this Golden Rule and Higher Truth of Creation such as Scientific and

    Academic Racism bear all the features of criminality. There is clear motive and

    evidence to harm through dehumanisation of the inalienable rights of others, intent

    and space of criminality. Scientific and Academic Racism that underpin the twin-evils

    of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism are responsible for Centuries of Crimes Against

    Humanity unleashed upon several generations of Africans with dire long-term adverse

    effects entailing significant loss of lives; are all criminal acts which must besufficiently reflected in statue and prosecuted. We have no doubt that purveyors,

    sponsors and promoters of Scientific and Academic Racism are not only demon-

    inspired but criminals intent on causing severe injury to the Inalienable Rights of All

    Persons of African Ancestry and must be dealt with as such. It must be emphasised

    that the classical extremist, supremacist tactic to explain away, equate and confuse

    Scientific and Academic Racism to and with Freedom of Speech and Expression is

    disingenuous and must also be discharged as criminal activity.

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    Dr Koku Adomdza, President of the GREAT Trust, the Council for Afrika International

    and the Afrika Liberation Society reflects on the 5 th Anniversary of the anti-Watson,

    Scientific/Academic Racism Campaign. We believe that the Spiritual reflects the

    Physical and vice versa; that All Humans Are Created Equal with Inalienable Rights is

    a divine imperative and that anything that runs contrary to this High Truth must be

    vigorously challenged. Our mandate is thus primarily divinely-inspired at the same

    time as physical, practical and material. This unprecedented issues-led Campaign

    accentuated from October 2007 has near, medium and long-term objectives within the

    scope of countering the fascist, extremist, supremacist, bigoted twin-evils ofAfrophobia and Anti-Africanism which are underpinned by Scientific and Academic

    Racism of the school of Professor Watson and others of their ilk. Not only that the

    learned, celebrated Father of DNA and Nobel Laureate for Science, but unwise

    Professor Watson, by his own recantation, had no scientific evidence to back his

    preposterous claims, that Africans were genetically less intelligent than Caucasians,

    contrary to evidence citing social and environmental factors to variations in

    intelligence, there were no spiritual or divine grounds for his claims, making it all the

    more disgraceful but instructive the pervasive and entrenched character of Afrophobia

    and anti-Africanism which culminate in the severe, ceaseless economic enslavement ofthe African Peoples on the African Continent and in the Diaspora even in the 21 st

    Century. This contradicts the backdrop of Africas pedigree resource richness, history

    and contribution to the global commonwealth. So alongside calling for a Global Race

    Equality and Human Rights Literacy, Consciousness and Conduct Renaissance, onthis 5th Anniversary of the Campaign for, we ask that the 54 African Leaders and

    those of the Caribbean, their large and extensive diplomatic infrastructure of several

    thousand officials and the African Union to be reconfigured to deal with this

    fundamental doctrine that has and continue to blight Africas prospects. There is too

    much focus on the consequences that fosters dependency, with almost neglect of

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    lost. That is why scientific racism / afrophobia and Anti-Africanism is dangerous,

    devilish and must be eradicated.

    Consider the kind of immorality that subjects Africans to ceaseless barbaric

    subjugation and exploitation for centuries in human, cultural and natural resources,

    siphon-off unaccountable vast quantities of high quality wealth to the Global North,

    inflict untold Crimes Against Humanity, monopolise civilizational advancement,

    dramatically propagate the big propaganda-lie that Africans sold Africans into cartel

    slavery [victim-blaming], then turn round to label them with condescendingnomenclature to fit into Global Norths supremacist complex third world,

    underdeveloped, developing? All without acknowledgement of crimes committed,

    apology or compensation???

    Our approach is not only creative and innovative but distinct in its uniqueness that

    predicates the physical on the Spiritual / Divine Essence of Inalienable Race Equality

    and Fundamental Human Rights. The idea, thought and practice that human beings

    can be discriminated, victimised and subjected to centuries of genocide and rights-

    terrorism for their phenotype is to say the least repulsive, repugnant, primitive and

    harmful to human civilisation. Most phenomena are assessed depending on theirimpacts, outcomes and consequences; so are all forms of extremism and supremacist

    doctrines, ideologies and constructs. Extremist Hitlerite Fascism that was driven by

    delusional demagogic Aryan Supremacist and Holocaust-cum-WWII-inflicting doctrine

    and ideology, were not contained but rightly, vigorously challenged head-on and

    defeated to prevent even more devastation and human suffering. The twin-evils of

    Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism, through mindless and criminally-purposed Scientific

    and Academic Racism a la Professor James Watson, are not dissimilar from Extremist

    Supremacist, Hitlerite Fascism in consequence, impact or outcomes, excepting that

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    the former are more enduring, larger in outcomes, adverse effects, conspiratorially

    covered-up and obfuscated under the general terminology of racism.

    This dynamic led to a general Policy of Containment from all authority and

    leadership quarters, ranging from academic, political, economic to the United Nations

    podiums. As the scandals of contemporary Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism in

    European and World Football [in the UK and Serbia] portray, the Policy of

    Containment, whilst helpful and cannot be discounted, has proven disturbingly

    inadequate. The imperative of Human Ethnic/Racial Equality is not only secular butprimarily divine and must be obliged accordingly as a higher truth, beyond the

    restrictions and shortcomings of limited human intelligence. There is no

    inconsequential manipulation of this divine truth and the Law of Karma cannot be

    forever escaped by perpetrators of abuse of Human Equality, Inalienability of Rights

    and Respect for the Unique Diversity of Creation. Pity the world, that significant

    swathes of people walk through the gift of life in darkness, blinded to the fulfilling

    benefits of enlightenment about Human Equality High Truth, in spite of all the

    opportunities available to them, locked in the bondage of ignorance, submitting to

    captivity by ethnic, racial and diversity hatred and never experience the empoweringfreedom of full Liberation from ethnic, racial bigotry.

    One of the many striking enigmas of Racial Extremist Supremacist Bigoted forms of

    Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism is how those who hate Africans and all things African

    and are impervious to the Inalienable Fundamental Human Rights of Africans, cannot

    resist the temptation of grabbing a greedy share, whatever it takes, of the rich natural

    resource endowments of the African Continent African diamond, gold, iron,

    manganese, oil, timber, coffee, labour, land, wildlife, trade, money of which Trillions

    are illicitly smuggled to foreign lands throughout the centuries; demonstrating not

    only the hypocrisy and criminal intent but also the obscenity and inherently unethical

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    contradiction that underpin them. Consider the history of the Lome Convention [Togo,

    1975], through Cotonou Agreement [Benin, 2000] to the current proposed Economic

    Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the 79 ACP Countries

    [Georgetown Agreement, 1975] which entail comparatively few advantages and several

    disadvantages for African, Caribbean and Pacific Group Countries [48 African, 16

    Caribbean and 15 Pacific], that would hold their economies ransom to European

    Economies, deepen dependency and stifle any real attempts at rapidly developing the

    industrial capacities of the ACP for accelerated economic growth to be able to fairly

    compete on the global market with finished products. Nigeria has been bold enough toreject such raw deal and it is for the collective leadership of the ACP, which is a huge

    trading partner of Europe, to demonstrate candour and strong moral antennae to

    vigorously advocate the economic interests of their Peoples! It is unbelievable that the

    European Union, signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ICERD with

    its own Convention on Human Rights be proposing such deal to the ACP knowing fully

    well the net economic rights deficits to the already impoverished Peoples of the ACP

    region. The trajectory of this trade relationship suggests the interplay of superiority

    and inferiority complex, which in unsavoury and unethical.

    Consider further that within the constrained, twisted scope of supremacist

    Afrophobic and anti-African global economic disorder - which has been in tatters since

    2008 outset of the severest recession [from Athens the home of modern democracy to

    Washington, the citadel of the worlds largest economy]- not even the financially

    richest African entrepreneurs are able to create wealth without depending on Global

    Norths factors of production be it machinery, technology or finance capital, which

    they must apply hard for relative negligible margins and so must enrich the Global

    North even more than comes to them! Not even Africas Ruling Elite, escapes the

    ravages of scientific racism / Afrophobia. That is how entrenched it is.

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    Look around the world, there is hardly any hotspot of violence and avoidable human

    suffering that is not founded upon misguided ethnic, racial hatred, bigotry, equality or

    fundamental human rights illiteracy. For sustainable Peace, Stability, Freedom and

    Liberty, the world needs to urgently transcend the policy of containment to one of

    Zero-Tolerance of ethnic, racial bigotry, human rights and diversity illiteracy, through

    the deployment of a raft of contemporarily-appropriate and phenomenon-specific tools

    to eradicate the twin-evils of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism as specific forms of

    fascism exhibited towards All Persons of African Ancestry and the strategic interests of

    the African Continent, alongside other forms of human and ethnic bigotry. It must beemphasised for clarity, information, education and at the beginning of the

    Ethnic/Race Equality and Human Rights Literacy Renaissance that needs to take

    place that the twin-evils of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism underlie and underpin

    predominant worldviews that permeate all facets of life of the African Continents and

    its Peoples at home and in the Diaspora, with hardly any exceptions, that produces

    institutional discrimination, wholesale marginalisation, disenfranchisement and

    economic disempowerment right to the UN, the IMF and World Bank with

    concentration of power within the Global North countries.

    For instance, until the UN leadership demonstrates highest degree of Race Equality

    Literacy, Consciousness and Conduct by granting Africa Permanent Seats with Veto

    Rights on its Security Council, it stands guilty of institutional racism, Afrophobia and

    Anti-Africanism and a bad signal to extremist fascist tendencies and groups, as much

    it violates the spirit and letter of the UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human

    Rights and International Convention for the Eradication of All Forms of Racial

    Discrimination [ICERD]. This UN recalcitrance and intransigence is not isolated and

    commonly resonates with the bigoted refusal of imperialist countries to unreservedly

    apologise and make amends for Crimes Against Humanity committed against

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    generations of Africans under duress throughout the Wider African Holocaust. This

    obscene narrative is driven by the unfounded and baseless self-arrogated delusional

    Caucasian Supremacist Complex fuelled by devilish doctrine of Scientific and

    Academic Racism which have no place in a genuinely peaceful, civilised human

    civilisation. For those of us who have been at the receiving end of ethnic/racial

    discrimination, there is no doubt that to be subjected to and experience Ethnic/Racial

    Supremacism such as Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism, is not different from the

    overwhelming unpleasant experience of any form of terrorism in the way it shakes the

    very foundation of ones existence, creation and origin over which we have no control.

    From the perspectives of extreme Human Rights Abuse, Afrophobia and Anti-

    Africanism are fascist tendencies, doctrines and ideologies that have internationally

    dictated and influenced the African Lived-Experience ever since the first foreign

    invasion of the territorial integrity of the African Continent to the 21st Century.

    Professor James Watson and his likes are fascists and extremists who hide under

    various titles, positions and guises to perpetrate unpardonable race equality and

    human rights atrocities against All Persons of African Ancestry and sabotage the

    interests of the African Continent. Afrophobia, Anti-Africanism through Scientific,Academic, Institutional and Global Racism are devilish, bold-sucking, mass-suffering-

    unleashing tools in the weaponry of forces of darkness who leave no stone unturned in

    stifling the African Liberation Dream, to lend a semblance of validation to their false

    contorted perception of supremacism. Hitlerite Fascism was confronted and routed

    out, so must the world stand up to the total defeat of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism.

    For us this is a divine calling which will benefit not only Africans or All Peoples of

    African Ancestry, but would begin a process of liberating racial fascists from their

    captivity of the false doctrine of supremacism, a better human civilisation and more

    peaceful world.

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    We discern fascist enslavement from two extremes Self-Inflicted Racial Fascist

    Enslavement of Caucasian Supremacists on one hand, which violently enforces a

    suppressive regime of Inferiority Complex upon Africans / Persons of African Ancestry

    through political, economic/financial, cultural, military, scientific, industrial,

    technological, religious and social imperialism. Devilish Afrophobia and Anti-

    Africanism driven by Scientific, Academic, Institutional and Global Racism inflict

    tremendous suffering that manifests in the Wider African Holocaust and must be

    eliminated with the fierce urgency of time, consciousness, effort, leadership,

    heightened Ethnic/Race Equality and Human Rights Literacy and Renaissance forPeaceful Coexistence in the 21st Century. Five years ago in October 2007, on the

    bicentenary anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, Professor James

    Watson attempted to step-up a new phase of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism. He was

    defeated by Forces for Good and paradoxically led to the active launching of the then

    latent GREAT Trust, the Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation

    Society to begin the process of eliminating the twin-fascist-evils through a basket of

    Creative, Innovative, 21st Century fit-for-purpose Approaches, Schools of Thought,

    Models and Paradigms. Similar to how evil apartheid was defeated, we look to the

    support and collaboration of a Global Conscience for Good to succeed. Forces for Goodalways prevail over Forces for Evil. In this we are confident, no matter how difficult it

    gets or long it takes. It is a worthy, noble cause, to selflessly pursue. Our goal is to

    holistic liberation of both perpetrator and victims of Extremist Supremacist Race

    Equality and Human Rights Terrorism for a more harmonious world and human

    civilisation.

    Unjustified Atrocities and Tainted Civilisation:

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    Some of the fundamental questions that question the fundamental claims and

    atrocious practices of Racial Supremacism include the following:

    What kind of civilisation would submit itself relentlessly subserviently to the rule of

    human hatred, ignorance of the diversity of Creation and against the Golden Rule of

    CreationAll Humans Are Created Equal with Inalienable Rights?

    What kind of civilisation would concoct wicked and morally unjustifiable doctrines and

    ideology of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism, the application of which murderously kill

    hundreds of millions over centuries?

    What type of civilisation subjects and unleashes centuries of genocide, characterised

    by grotesque Crimes Against Humanity that culminates in the bloodiest, costliest,

    chilliest of Holocausts?

    What type of civilisation invents subjugating constructs of imperialism, colonialism,

    apartheid and neo-colonialism that inflicts enduring hardship, drudgery, penury

    alongside unequalled intolerable financial and non-financial capital flight out of Africa

    to the Global North for generations unchecked?

    What type of civilisation adopts a scorched-earth tactics and sets out to destroy the

    cultural edifices of pedigree Afrika the scientifically proven cradle of human

    civilisation and origin of humankind - the African Continent, from coast to coast,

    North-South-East-West and Central, sparing only the ancient African Egyptian

    Pyramids, imposes their own foreign ways of life and declares Africa primitive?

    What kind of civilisation abuses the generosity and bon hommie of Indigenous

    Africans then so ravenously exploits the second largest and most richly resource-

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    endowed Continent on Planet Earth through Armed Invasions, only to blame the

    indigenous Africans of complicity in their own enslavement?

    What kind of civilisation would unrepentantly refuse to acknowledge, apologise and

    atone for centuries of pain, hardship and atrocities committed against Indigenous

    Africans with far-reaching ramifications?

    What kind of civilisation with such murderous track record, institute a dependency

    regime, that thrives on their monopoly of the accumulated wealth, scientific,

    technological, medical, engineering and industrial advancement during the tenure of

    imposed centuries of domination over the African Continent, and utilising the profits

    and advantages for continued suppression and exploitation?

    What kind of civilisation and leadership would create an unethical, ruthless global

    economy system in which the Majority global Citizens are impoverished and their

    Fundamental Human Rights severely compromised?

    And of course, what kind of post-colonial African Leadership would tolerate neo-

    colonialism and Dependency that continues to prolong the Wider African Holocaust,

    punctuated by the African Economic Conundrum and unchecked annual US$1.06

    trillion illicit capital flight from Africa to the Global North and disenfranchisement of

    the 1.3 billion Africans from the highest strategic decision-making body of the United

    NationsPermanent Membership of the UN Security Council, for as long as their own

    limited comforts are guaranteed?

    This World Definitely A Better Place Without Bigoted Ethnic Fascism,

    Supremacist Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism:

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    Africa has a pedigree as the scientifically-proven origin of humankind, cradle of

    human civilisation, the second largest Continent on Planet Earth and arguably the

    most richly natural resource endowed of the 5 Continents. Moreover, the African

    Continent and her people have been subjected to a catalogue of the most despicable,

    horrendous, sustained, entrenched, barbaric, bloodiest forms of Supremacist Racial

    Discriminatory Terrorism in the forms of Afrophobia and anti-Africanism for which

    many have been murdered and continue to die or live lives of drudgery generation

    after generation. The astonishing reality is that there is absolutely no justification for

    these mindless murderous attacks on Africans or any form of bigotry for that matter,which are completely without provocation by Africans or Persons of African Ancestry,

    but that these criminally-intended Race Equality and Human Rights assaults have

    gone largely unprosecuted and unpunished. Over the centuries rivers of blood has

    been spilled, several lives blighted, generations scarred and the cost keep rising since

    the trend abates not.

    The hate-and-evil-driven extremist and supremacist phenomena of Afrophobia and

    Anti-Africanism characterised by mass suffering has contributed to reducing Africa to

    a bulwark of dependency, amidst a pool of rich natural resource endowment. Asechoed elsewhere, ethnic/racial bigotry, supremacist extremism underscore almost all

    human-made problems in the world and the world is a better place without it. GREAT

    Trust, the Council for Afrika International and the Afrika Liberation Society envisages

    a world without the extremist twin-evils of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism, a world in

    which the Inalienable Race Equality and Fundamental Human Rights of Africans and

    All Persons of African Ancestry are manifest, a world in which all forms of

    Ethnic/Racial Supremacism are non-existent and intolerable and a world of high Race

    Equality and Human Rights Literacy, Consciousness and Conduct in which every

    human being is a Race Equality and Human Rights advocate.

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    Forces of darkness who back the confused malignant extremist supremacist ideology

    of Afrophobia and Anti-Africanism through Scientific / Academic Racism usually

    resort to pulling the wool of freedom of speech and expression, academic freedom,

    political-correctness and thought-police bashing as well as victimhood-roasting. All

    these upon careful examination fly in the face of sinking-sand foundation.

    Ethnic/Racial Discrimination and human rights abuses violate the Inalienable Divine

    Rights of human beings which is constitutionally protected and criminalised under

    most penal codes. There is clear difference between violation of human rights and

    freedom of speech / expression, academic freedom. Similarly, human rights respectingpersons have nothing to be afraid of political-correctness or thought-policing, any

    more than the law-abiding citizen the private detective. Furthermore, blaming the

    victims for the consequences of crime by the criminal can be ascribed to the twisted

    and sickening mentality of the rapist blaming the raped for the abuse of the former. Is

    it any wonder that the forces of darkness will always bark at the approach of light?

    In Remembrance / Lest We Forget:

    Remembering and Saluting the Unknown Victims-

    On the fifth anniversary of the anti-Scientific and Academic Racism Campaign, we

    remember and pay tribute to the hundreds and millions of unknown victims of Race

    Equality and Human Rights Terrorism. Their sacrifices would not be in vain.

    Remembering and Saluting the Unknown Pioneering Conscientious Objectors and

    Resisters of Afrophobia, Anti-Africanism and the Wider African Holocaust-

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    Similarly, we remember and pay tribute to the pioneers that demonstrated

    unparalleled courage in resisting and taking a clear stand against the scourge of

    Afrophobic and Anti-African Terrorism throughout generations from the cartel slave

    raiders, plantation owners, destroyers of African Civilisation, imperialist colonisers,

    apartheid, exploiters of Africas rich natural resources, accessories /facilitators of

    illicit record capital flight out of Africa. We appreciate your candour, selflessness and

    your sacrifices will not be in waste.

    Remembering and Saluting the Known Pioneering Conscientious Objectors andResisters of Afrophobia and the Wider African Holocaust-

    Finally, but never the least, we remember and salute the valour, selfless sacrifices of

    known Advocates of Ethnic & African Equality and Restoration of Inalienable

    Fundamental Human Rights. We remember the Kings and Queens of ancient African

    Kingdoms of Zulu, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Egypt etcetera. We remember equality,

    freedom and justice icons like Chief Ndanbaningi Sithole, Rosa Parkes, Sojourner

    Truth, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah, Amilcar

    Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X Little, Rev Jesse

    Jackson, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr, Thomas Sankara, Steve Biko, Chris Hane.We salute Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu for their selfless and incorruptible

    contributions against the apartheid form of Ethnic Parochialism, Afrophobia and Anti-

    Africanism. We acknowledge David Lammy MP, Keith Vaz MP, Ken Livingstone

    former Mayor of London, Professor Stephen Rose and progressive figures of the

    scientific community who spoke out against scientific racism. We further acknowledge

    members of the international anti-apartheid, anti-slavery movement and

    contemporary activists like George Clooney and his father for championing the

    equality and human rights of vulnerable Indigenous Africans in the Darfur Region to

    the degree of civil arrests. We acknowledge those philanthropists who support the

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    movement for Ethnic, Racial, African Equality and the eradication of Afrophobia and

    Anti-Africanism in all their shades and guises. We solidarise with the international

    Forces for Good that support ending the immoral, grotesque, evil and horrible idea of

    scientific, academic, institutional racist discrimination, the crumbling and tumbling of

    the edifices including walls of silence by forces for evil.

    5th Anti-Scientific Racism Campaign Anniversary Prayer of Hope, Repentance

    and Restoration

    Let Father God Arise, and His Enemies Be Scattered,

    Father God, we submit this prayer to your highest throne in due Humility, Reverence

    and Respect for your Divine Love and Kindness,

    Father God, we thank you that this campaign has reached its 5 th milestone and for

    strengthening and guiding us through the minefield of human hatred propelled by the

    forces of darkness, the devil and his demons,

    Father God, we thank you for the precious, irreplaceable and priceless DIVINE gift of

    LIFE and to cherish and live those of other and ours according to your PURPOSE and

    WILLEquality, Justice, Peace, Liberty, Freedom, Love and Prosperity.

    Father God, we pray that you protect targets and all vulnerable people from this evil

    scourge of the earth of human bigotry that underpin so much sufferings amongst

    humans, for the respect of the diversity of Creation,

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    Father God, we pray that you enable victims on both sides of the isle, both perpetrator

    and sufferer victims to overcome their complexes and unleash a new wave of global

    ethnic, racial equality awareness across all the five continents of the Earth,

    Father God, we pray for the restoration of your divine principle with which you created

    All Human Beings Equal with Certain Inalienable Rights, the repentance and defeat of

    evil, extremist ideologies, doctrines such as scientific racism and its ilk.

    Father God we thank you for Answered Prayers and Blessed Assurance for Victory of

    Good over Evil.

    Father God, we thank you for Peace and Understanding Amongst All Humans through

    heightened Consciousness of the Divinity of the Equality of Persons, Rights and

    Inalienable Fundamental Human Rights. Amen.

    KokuAdomdzaDr Koku Adomdza FRSA, MIOD, DPMSA

    President, GREAT Group Partnership of the GREAT Trust, the Council for Afrika International & the

    Afrika Liberation Society

    Notes to Editors

    Background

    Dr Watson told the Sunday Times in October 2007 that Western policies towards

    African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as

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    clever as their white counterparts when "testing" suggested the contrary. He claimed

    genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within

    a decade.

    Dr Watson told that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because

    "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours

    whereas all the testing says not really". He said there was a natural desire that all

    human beings should be equal but "people who have to deal with black employees find

    this not true".

    His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There

    is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically

    separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to

    reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be

    enough to make it so."

    Watson says that he has opened a DNA research lab in Harlem, but cant get anything

    done because theres no one to recruit.

    After being challenged, the Nobel Prize Winner watered down his remarks by stating

    that he is a lifelong Democrat and secular humanist and has no desire to discriminate

    against blacks. There are many people of colour who are very talented, said Watson,

    but dont promote them when they havent succeeded at the lower level.

    The furore echoed the controversy created in the 1990s by The Bell Curve, a book co-

    authored by the American political scientist Charles Murray, which suggested

    differences in IQ were genetic and discussed the implications of a racial divide in

    intelligence. The work was heavily criticised across the world, in particular by leading

    scientists who described it as a work of "scientific racism".

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    The October 2007 Anti-Scientific Racism Campaign

    14 October 2007

    The Sunday Times Magazine publishes an interview with Dr James Watson. He says

    he is 'inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa' because 'all our social policies

    are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the

    testing says not really'.

    His hope is that everyone is equal but says that 'people who have to deal with black

    employees find this is not true'.

    17 October 2007

    The front page of the Independent runs a story on Watson's theory with the headline

    'Africans are less intelligent than Westerners says DNA pioneer'. It creates a furore.

    Anti-Scientific Racism Campaign Begins led by Pioneers of the GREAT Trust, the

    Council for Afrika International & the Afrika Liberation Society

    18 October 2007

    The Science Museum cancels Watson's talk planned for 19 October. In a statement,

    the museum says 'James Watson's recent comments have gone beyond the point of

    acceptable debate'.

    At a launch for his book at the Royal Society in London, Watson withdraws the words

    attributed to him: 'To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that

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    Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise

    unreservedly.'

    19 October 2007

    Prof Watson seeks to justify his theory that there is a genetic basis behind differences

    in IQ in an interview with the Independent.

    20 October 2007

    Prof Watson is forced to return to New York after his employers at Cold Spring Harbor

    Laboratory, Long Island, suspend him from his duties because of his apparent views.

    25 October 2007

    Prof Watson resigns from his role As Chancellor and Board Member of Cold Spring

    Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, New York

    Professor James Dewey Watson

    Brief Profile

    Born in Chicago, Illinois, on 6 April 1928, Watson was a precocious child who gained a

    place at Chicago University aged just 15. He graduated with a zoology degree in 1947.

    In October 1951 he arrived at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, to carry out

    genetics research and met Francis Crick. They struck up a friendship that became one

    of the most famous partnerships in science and led them, in 1953, to the discovery

    that DNA, from which human genes are made, has a double helix structure.

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    In 1962, the pair - with Maurice Wilkins, of King's College London - were awarded the

    Nobel Prize for Medicine for this work. Six years later Watson published his racy

    account of the DNA story in The Double Helix. Dropped by its original publisher amid

    objections by Crick, Wilkins and others, its opening sentence was: 'I have never seen

    Francis Crick in a modest mood.' It became a bestseller and the basis of the 1987 TV

    film Life Story, in which Jeff Goldblum played Watson and Tim Pigott-Smith Crick.

    In 1988 Watson was made head of the US Human Genome Project, America's arm of

    the international programme for sequencing human DNA. Four years later he resignedover US plans to try to take out patents on gene sequences discovered by US

    scientists, saying 'the human genome belongs to the world's people'.

    He was retired on 25th October 2012 as Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,

    Long Island after his scientifically-racist remarks that Africans were less intelligent

    than Caucasians.

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