The ManicaPost
Nilene Foxworth
And whenever the mad racist scientist gets a chance to steal and utilise the positive and powerful attributes of our cells for secret research, that is what they do; as in the case of the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer from Clover, Virginia, USA. Her cells are the first “immortal” cells ever grown in culture, creating millions of metric tons.
Her cells are still living today (more than 60 years after her death). This African-American woman’s immortal cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine, uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects. Her immortal cells helped lead to important advances like in-vitro fertilisation, cloning, gene-mapping, bought and sold by the billions. Her body was buried in an unmarked grave, and her family was never told anything about her immortal cells still living in laboratories worldwide. Neither were they paid a cent for their mother’s contribution to the medical advances mentioned above.
I often wonder what else they are still doing with her living cells. Thanks to researcher Rebecca Skloot. We now know HeLa.
The rapid spread of Ebola virus in West Africa is indeed heartening, and also very questionable. The first week of August, CNN reported that an American doctor had contracted the Ebola virus, and was given a blood transfusion from an eight-year-old boy who had the virus and his immune system fought off the virus. He no longer has it in his system.
They seemed happy that the transfusion would allow Dr Kent Brantly to make his trip back to the United States for further treatment. However, when the doctor arrived back in the United States there was lots of media coverage—including CNN, but until this day (18th August 2014) there has been no mention of the eight-year-old Liberian boy who gave the transfusion to the doctor. It is dreadful that as of 23 August 2014, more than 1 400 have perished in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. It is a blessing that China has come to the aid of the Ebola victims with several tons of medical supplies, plus three medical specialists.
Dr Gupta did a CNN special on Ebola on the 16th of August, and still no mention of the transfusion from the eight-year-old boy, but he mentioned small details like: no approved medication (ZMAPP) and the Ebola movie creating more fear in people.
A photo was shown of the two American doctors with the virus and in the female doctor’s photo was a little black child about eight years old. I thought surely there would be some mention of the child’s transfusion on the special.
Nothing was shown or said! One can only wonder if this is also going to be another 60-yearold medical secret, like the secret of the immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks. Unfortunately, very sinister things have been happening to people of colour worldwide.
I can never forget an Associated Press (AP) article clipped from a Colorado newspaper in June of 1987 titled: Soviet Agency Says CIA Has Weapon To Kill Blacks.
Even when racist Caucasians are angry with themselves, they vent their rage on blacks. Not because we were God’s first people on this planet earth, according to archaeologists, but they vent rage because we carry all the shades of the soil in our veins (melanin), making us stronger, speedier, and etcetera.
That is why the top official of NBA can be insulting to our multi-million-dollar players, and not only did melanin people build the ancient and mystic pyramids around this world, we can claim with patent numbers, how we greatly helped the industrialised world. In my article of November 27 2005 Sunday Mail titled: “WE HAVE BRIGHTENED THE WORLD” are a few black inventions, from the refrigerator to the elevator plus more than 256 documented inventions. There is a resource centre for such information: The Black Inventions Museum, PO Box 76122, Los Angeles, California 90076.
We were a spiral and spiritual people, who lived in harmony with the universe. Many people live a lifetime and know nothing of the spiritual world; yet others are blessed with the mystic reality of the powerful existence of what is often called “the unknown”.
We have always believed in a Creator of all things — before the coming of Christianity and Islam. It was our nature to love and respect the power that causes galaxies to spiral, and planets and atoms to spin. Most people of colour live in conical and circular homes; like huts, the igloo, and tepee — keeping in harmony with the universe and all living things.
Caucasians came with square homes and that became our model —now called the proper home. Almost everything they brought us was square and/or adverse to God’s creation, including their weapons and adverse social behaviour.
The indigenous people of every country where Caucasians have settled are tearfully oppressed, including the United States and Canada.
African-American descendants are still battling for equal rights and reparations, as racist police continue killing unarmed young African-American men, including teenagers like the latest victim Michael Brown killed on August 9, 2014 — shot six times with no weapon and his hands up. Nothing has changed in so-called democratic America. They simply gave African-Americans a few black faces with white hearts.
Regarding deadly viruses, there are a lot of questions that need to be asked and answered like: (1) If the first Ebola case was noticed in 1976 (almost 40 years ago) why has there been no cure nor medication yet the rich political elite spend billions going to the moon and on numerous wars? (2) How could Caucasian scientists predict the large number of blacks who would die with Aids in Southern Africa, when the first Aids cases were 12 white homosexual men in New York? (3) An African doctor recently interviewed on CCTV (Africa Live) asked the question: “Why did the American specialist give the only available medication to the two American doctors (white), and a Spanish doctor, but not the African doctor who died?”
I felt so relieved toward the end of the interview when he said: “AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS NEED TO DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH?” Yes, decades of medical secrets to destroy our people and/or control population must be unveiled.
Nilene O. A. Foxworth is an African-American writer now resident in Mutare.
