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When it came out in 1996 Ras Kass’ “Nature Of The Threat” (from his debut Soul On Ice) was one of the most controversial rap songs ever recorded. Offering an alternative view of world history detailing the evolution of racism he took to task many Western practices and traditions, especially holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. His soliloquy on Thanksgiving went as follows:

Now listen, when you celebrate “Thanksgiving”
What you are actually celebratin
Is the proclamation of the Pope of Rome
Who later, in league with Queen Isabella
Sent Cardinal Ximenos to Spain
To murder any blacks that resisted Christianity
These Moors, these black men and women
Were from Baghdad, Turkey
And today, you eat the turkey, for your “Thanksgiving” day
As the European Powers destroyed the Turkeys
Who were the forefathers of your mothers and fathers
Now fight the power, you bitch-ass niggaz!

(starts at 4:39)

Ras has recently put out some new music on his website www.raskass-central.com so I reached out to ask him how he felt about the song “Nature Of The Threat”  today and if he is adamantly opposed to having some turkey with the family on GP:

“The song was written really for myself and what I had taken from my outside reading and courses. I was going through my sister’s college textbooks, etc. I’ve had people tell me that their professors use the song in their class. It’s pretty much accurate. That song has a life of its own.

I don’t celebrate any holidays [except] birthdays and New Year’s. But I don’t come in like the Grinch and shit on things. I’m not a buzz kill, but me personally I don’t celebrate[holidays].

[On Thanksgiving day] I will be somewhere eating with my twins, it’s an excuse to do that. If I was in L.A. I’d be kicking it around the house. If it was up to me I’d be in the studio.”

So what do you think? Are you in the Thanksgiving conspiracy camp or do you think this is a whole lotta hoo-ha? (or maybe you don’t give a damn about a Pilgrim and just like to eat). Speak on it!

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  • fakebreakerMay. 13th, 2010
    at 1:53 pm

    As far as “Thanksgiving”, your telling me that the Proclamation of the Pope is fictional? Once again do your research. Moors from Baghdad and turkey threatened European Christians, why aren’t black or for that matter any other Christians mentioned under this threat. This is because this proclamation was meant to forcibly convert moors(blacks)of Spain or destroy them (these are recorded facts). I’m black and never learned of any of this in school or church(another attempt to hide the truth). Can you honestly say that it is bullsh-t for a black man to take in account the historical facts of the true meaning of Thanksgiving and discontinue the practice of this holiday? Answer me this, why have we always been taught that this holiday was brought on by the pilgrims and Natives(Real Americans), and the proclamation by the Pope is never mention in the Christian church in its true detail or at all? Is it an attempt to hide the truth or to cover up the horrible atrocities done in the name of the church? Before you comment on my people and our history do some soul searching and find out who you are first, because you obviously don’t know. Your words-”I’m “white” “—”My ancestors never owned slaves, but, in fact were forced to convert to Islam in Turkey”. People in Turkey will not tell you that they are white.

  • fakebreakerMay. 13th, 2010
    at 1:24 pm

    To bplan112. As far as taking credit for pyramid building and the culture that came from the region that you know as Egypt and northern Sudan, it no different then your people taking pride in their ancestors stealing America from the real Americans(Natives). You didn’t actually land on Plymouth Rock, but you still have the right to lay claim to this. Why? Because it’s your ancestral history. The people of Africa(Egypt is in Africa)are of color and I do not care where you live or where you were born, but if you are black than this is apart of your history.

  • fakebreakerMay. 13th, 2010
    at 1:12 pm

    This comment is for bplan112. First you mention that you are “white”, but you go on to comment that your ancestors are from Turkey. Come on man what is it, are you white or of Turkish decent? Second, this song merely scratches the surface. If you’ll research a little you’ll find that both Muslim and Christian/Hebrew faiths have conspired to cover up, lie about, and deny blacks of their true culture. I believe this is the true message of his song. Black were also forced to convert to Islam and were enslaved by Muslims, this happened before Europeans took Africans as slaves.

  • bplan112Dec. 27th, 2009
    at 2:04 pm

    “we built pyramids in the EAST Africa/Asia and here in the WEST also (google=Olmecs). ”

    With reference to the above…YOU DIDN’T BUILD S**T. Stop trying to take credit for stuff other people did. You are only ASSUMING you’re descendants of the people that did build the pyramids. By that same logic, ANYONE CAN ASSUME THAT. How do you know you’re not a descendant of a murdering, cannibalistic tribe?

    SoularFlarez, you’re f**kin moron. You preach about ignorance…look in the f**kin mirror.

  • bplan112Dec. 27th, 2009
    at 1:56 pm

    “Understand all whites must be perceived as potential predators”

    This dumb f**k is perpetuating the same kind of racism he is supposedly fighting against.

    I will generalize now to prove my point:

    Last I checked “blacks” commit atrocities against all types of people. (Just look at Africa, I will provide actual videos if you’d like). Learn to take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Stop blaming everything on “white” people, cause you know what…

    I’m “white” and haven’t done s**t wrong to anyone. My ancestors never owned slaves, but, in fact were forced to convert to Islam in Turkey. My great aunt was tortured to death by the Turkish military because of this. But you won’t see me blame ALL OF ISLAM OR ALL OF TURKEY. That’s because I’m not f**kin b***h who blames entire groups of people most of whom have done nothing wrong.

    GET A REAL EDUCATION INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO IGNORANT RAPPERS.

  • bplan112Dec. 26th, 2009
    at 2:11 am

    The ignorance and hypocrisy of this song is hilarious. He’s fighting stereotypes by using generalizations. Good job you fake-ass intellectual. I can’t stand these rappers who think they have knowledge cause they read a f**kin book. What’s even better is other jerk-offs listen to this and think he’s “spittin knowledge”. Here’s a newsflash for all f**kwads: “blacks” have not been the only people screwed over in the past. “whites” have been screwed over in the past as well. S**t, they’ve even been slaves and had their cultures exploited too. Dumb bastard actually says people de-evolved when they left africa. Tell that to the savage tribes in africa that have been untouched by “white” people.

    PEOPLE can be bad, PEOPLE can be good. Any more of a specific generalization (black, white, spanish, etc.) and you’re flat out incorrect.

    “we da oldest people on this earth and are a GLOBAL people. “…what kind of f**king retard are you? Who the f**k is we? Wtf are you talking about? Go back to school. By your own logic…If you’re the oldest people then technically EVERYONE (yes, even white people) CAN TRACE THEIR ANCESTORS TO THE SAME F**KING CONTINENT WHICH MEANS WE’RE ALL THE OLDEST PEOPLE ON THE EARTH. F**kin moron.

  • PhlyghtNov. 27th, 2009
    at 9:05 pm

    All to be expected…

    There are a good number of people, who profess to this initiative of overstanding the underlying knowledge, but somehow, our culture is none the better for it: knowledge with no goal and plan. It’s like the underground railroad of intellectual awakening is stocked with an abundance of cargo, while lacking both an engine and an engineer, and is thus going nowhere. No wonder not too many are convinced to get onboard.

    I WILL say that it would really help if these ventures of written enlightenment were grammatically correct and using proper english; if we don’t accomplish that, credibility is lost. Also, the USMC hymm went first to Montezuma, and then to Tripoli (also helps the song to rhyme properly), but the events are chronologically backwards.

    Ok. So, what’s the goal and plan to go w/ all of this unearthed info? Maybe it’s the same as it’s always been, Pinky; try to take over the world…

  • SoularFlarezNov. 27th, 2009
    at 12:47 pm

    November 25th 1491

    BEFORE 1492 = Moors
    AFTER 1492 = Negros

    notice how Italians dont like us?

    notice how spanish speaking people call us ‘Moorenos’?

    even how spanish always uses ‘AL’ or ‘EL’ in their words, just like Hebrew and Arabic does???

    ‘EL’ was a name for the Creator back in the day. Canaanites, Phonecians, Carthgenians etc…. we’ve went by MANY names over time, diferent langauges and different locations.

    the whole world knows about us. we just dont know about ourselves.

    and alot of our ‘leaders’ are Uncle Tom traitors who know wassup but either too scared cuz they took their little oaths to stay quiet, or they dont wanna ruin their lil pimp game and need that money for their 501 C-3 tax-free corporation….

    Ausar/Osiris, Hiram Abiff, Lazarus etc… even ‘negro’ (Latin “NeCro”= dead)…… all talken about ‘black’ people who are sleeping(mentally), got amneshia etc….

    we built pyramids in the EAST Africa/Asia and here in the WEST also (google=Olmecs).

    we da oldest people on this earth and are a GLOBAL people.

    their schools not going to tell you this cuz they need you to be a good obeient ‘employee’(fancy word for servant) to build up THEIR s**t. funny how a 9-to-5 ‘job’ and the name ‘JOB’ (like the old testament prophet) is the same word huh?

    we dont need physical chains when the mental chains work much better, plus on top of that economic chains.

    Colombus said in his own diary that when he arrived here he found ”wooly haired Mohammadans”…and they cant deport us, so they build jails.

    remember during Katrina they called us ‘refugees’ ???

    what do the Marines sing? “from the shores of Tripoli(African) to the halls of Montezuma(America)”.

    s**t is funny as hell to me….. so many of us following the europeans, when behind closed doors they are following OUR ancestors. of course they wont say this in the open, cuz if WE knew what it really was and started to wake up then things wouldnt be the way they are these days.

    i mean damn even look at Obama…. 2008 to “2012″ ???

    look at the ‘coat of arms’ (sheild) of Pope Benedict…it has a brothers face on it looking like royalty rocking a red crown (Fez?).

    you know how it goes…. dumb erybody down, keep most of the people ignorant as hell and distracted with silly azz bullsh*t……but f**k it, we are who are forefathers were.

    peace hotep 5alaam shalom alaafia/ashe

  • LifeiswutumakitNov. 27th, 2009
    at 8:38 am

    Let freedom ring with a buckshot, but not just yet
    First we need to truly understand the nature of the threat
    And a pale man walks in the threshold of darkness
    Roughly 20,000 years ago the first humans evolved
    With the phenotypical trait, genetic recessive
    Blue eyes, blonde hair and white skin
    Albinism apparently was a sin to the original man, Africans
    So the mutants traveled North of the equator
    Called Europeans later, the first race haters
    So here’s the Devil’s alpha to the beta
    Cause history’s best qualified to teach one
    Quoting German philosopher Schopenhauer
    “Every white man is a faded or a bleached one”
    Migration created further mutation
    Genetic drifts, evolution through recombination
    Adaptation to the climate
    As the Caucus Mountain man reverted to that of a primate
    Savage Neanderthals, until the late Paleolithic age
    That’s when the Black Grimaldi man came
    With the symbol of the dragon, fire and art
    Check cave paintings in France and Spain to the Venus of Willendorf
    Around 2000 B.C. Southern Russians migrate in small units
    Those who travel West populated Europe
    Those who went East settled in Iran, known as Aryans
    1500 B.C. some crossed the Khyber Pass into India and
    Created Hinduism, the first caste system, the origins of racism
    A white dot on the forehead meant elite
    The black dot – defeat; untrustable, untouchables
    They wrote the holy Vedas in Sanskrit
    That’s the language that created Greek, German, Latin and English
    Now the Minoans around 2000 B.C.
    Starts on the island of Crete, in the Agean Sea
    The Greek culture begins Western Civilization
    But “Western Civilization” means “White Domination”
    Myceneans learned from Kemet, called Egypt in Greek
    It existed since at least 3000 B.C.
    Creatin geometry and astronomy
    This knowledge influenced Plato, Socrates and Hippocrates
    Cause Imhotep, the real real father of medicine
    Was worshiped in Greece and Rome in the form of a Black African
    The word Africa comes from the Greek “Aphrike”
    Meaning “without cold”; the word philosophy means “love of knowledge”
    Stole from first man, Greek power expands
    The first Greek fraternities band
    The word gymnasium is Greek for “naked”
    This was the place where adolescent boys were educated, and molested
    This was accepted because Greek culture was homosexual
    For example, Sappho trained girls on the island of Lesbos
    Hence, the word lesbian (Ay let these dumb motherf**kers know)
    December 25th, the birth of Saturn
    A homosexual god, now check the historical pattern
    December 25, now thought the birth of Christ
    Was Saturnalia, when men got drunk,
    F**ked each other then beat their wife
    Fact is, it was still practiced, til they called it Christmas
    So put a gerbil on your Christmas list
    The Hellenistic Era, Alexander the Great
    Conquers all the way to India leavin four successor states
    By the Fifth century B.C., R.O.M.E.
    Succeeds to be the conqueror of Egypt and Greece
    But had the threat of the Black Phoenicians in Sicily
    The Punic Wars began 264 B.C.
    The Black general Hannibal and Carthaginian Peace
    In 146 B.C. Carthage fell after a six-month siege
    Rome sold every citizen to slavery
    The first genocide of history
    And more bisexuality in sight; Julius Caesar was known as
    “every woman’s husband and every man’s wife” (BEOTCH!)
    Spartacus Revolt, a slave rebellion that lost
    Where 6,000 slaves was nailed on a cross
    Cross? Aw, s**t! Jesus Christ! Time for some-act-right
    Christians get your facts right
    Cause Christ was not his name
    That’s Greek for “One who is anointed”
    Yahshua Ben Yosef was his name, do Christians know this?
    So who do you praise, do you know his name?
    Or do you do this in vain?
    Accepting the religion they gave slaves to behave
    Peep the description of historian Josephus
    “Short, dark, with an underdeveloped beard was Jesus”
    He had the Romans fearing revolution
    The solution was to take him to court and falsely accuse him
    After being murdered by Pilate how can it be
    These same white Romans established Christianity
    Constantine would later see the cross in a dream
    In his vision, it read “En Hawk Signo Wonka”:
    “In this sign we conquer” – Manifest Destiny
    In 325 he convened the Nicean Creed
    And separated god into three
    Decided Jesus was born on December 25th
    And raised then on the third day is a myth
    Plus to deceive us
    Commissioned Michelangelo to paint white pictures of Jesus
    He used his aunt, uncle, and nephew
    Subconsciously that affects you
    It makes you put white people closer to God
    (Yo, ‘The Man’ got game like a motherf**ker!)
    True indeed, f**k it, Jihad
    In the eight century Muslims conquered
    Spain, Portugal and France and controlled it for 700 years
    They never mention this in history class
    Cause o’fays are threatened when you get the real lesson
    Moors from Baghdad, Turkey threatened European Christians
    Meaning, the white way of life; hence the Crusades for Christ
    On November 25th, 1491
    Santiago defeats the last Muslim stronghold, Grenada
    King Ferdinand gave thanks to God for victory
    And the Pope of Rome and declared this date to forever be
    A day of “Thanksgiving” for all European Christians

    .. Now listen, when you celebrate “Thanksgiving”
    What you are actually celebratin
    Is the proclamation of the Pope of Rome
    Who later, in league with Queen Isabella
    Sent Cardinal Ximenos to Spain
    To murder any blacks that resisted Christianity
    These Moors, these black men and women
    Were from Baghdad, Turkey
    And today, you eat the turkey, for your “Thanksgiving” day
    As the European Powers destroyed the Turkeys
    Who were the forefathers of your mothers and fathers
    Now fight the power, you b***h-ass niggaz!

    Now around this time, Whites started callings us Negroes
    That’s Spanish for black object meaning we’re not really people
    But property, and the triangle trade begins – they seize us
    Queen Elizabeth sends the first slaves on a ship named Jesus
    Stealin land from the indigenous natives
    Gave them alcohol to keep the Red Man intoxicated
    Whites claim they had to civilize these pagan animals
    But up until 1848 there’s doc**ented cases
    Of whites bein the savage cannibals, eatin Indians
    In 1992, it’s Jeffery Dahmer
    They slaughtered a whole race with guns
    Drugs, priests and nuns
    1763, the first demonic tactic of biological warfare
    As tokens of peace, Sir Jeffery Amherst
    Passed out clothin and blankets to the Indian community
    Infested with small pox, knowin they had no immunity
    Today it’s AIDS, you best believe it’s man made
    Cause ain’t a damn thing changed.. let me explain
    Now since people of color are genetically dominant
    And Caucasoids are genetically recessive
    And Whites expect to be predominant, meaning survive as a race then
    They simply must, take precautions
    That’s why they’re worried about their future now
    ’cause by 2050, almost all the Earth’s population
    Will be brown, then black, so understandin that, whites counterreact
    (I’m sayin.. man.. them fools
    ain’t nothin but a teaspoon of milk in the world color majority)
    So they created a system
    To force blacks into an unnatural position
    That re-enforces the position of natural inferiority
    In addition, created guns and developed the ethnocentric view
    That God justifies every f**kin thing they do
    Condition people to perceive whites’ culture as civilized
    And every other culture considered primitive – not true!
    Racism is the system of racial subjugation against nonwhites
    In every areas of human relation
    Entertainment, education, labor, politics
    Law, religion, sex, war and economics
    See blacks were 3/5ths of a man with tax purposes intended
    You think you’re Afro-American?
    You’re a 14th amendment and a good nigga
    Jews don’t salute the f**kin swastika
    But niggaz pledge allegiance to the flag that accosted ya
    They never teach about the break of islands like Jamaica
    But before slaves came here whites would take a
    Pregnant women, hang her from a tree by her toes
    Slice her stomach with a knife
    And let the unborn baby fall to the flo’
    And stop an unborn child in front of all the slaves
    To inbreed fear, so they’d be scared and behave
    And not rebel more
    Understand all whites must be perceived as potential predators
    I paraphrase historian Ishakamusa Barashango
    “Understand that regardless of the lofty ideas ingraved on paper
    in such doc**ents as the Constitution or Declaration
    the basic nature.. of the European American white man
    remains virtually unchanged”.. so check
    This is the nature of the threat

  • tamareansunNov. 26th, 2009
    at 3:40 pm

    Well what Ras Kass is stating is the FACTS.Is unfortunate that must of us dont know this history because as it is said,if you want to hide something for a n****r just put it on a book.(wow)We as people of color know everyone’s history but our own and feel sorry for everyone Holocaust but our own.Dont misunderstand my word but lets have a holiday for what Hitler did to the Jews.The Jews by right will be in and uproar.But us as a people dont careall we want to do is eat and not give a f**k.”And you wonder why no one respect us as a people golbally.

  • ohsokoolNov. 26th, 2009
    at 3:07 pm

    I don’t give a damn about a Pilgrim or a “symbolic” turkey – I just like to eat! Whoo hoo!

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