
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!





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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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
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
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.
at 3:07 pm
I don’t give a damn about a Pilgrim or a “symbolic” turkey – I just like to eat! Whoo hoo!