Saturday, December 18, 2004

Powell and Garvey

Is Colin Powell the illegitimate son of Adam Clayton Powell?
Colin Powell has remarked that he served as an acolyte in an Episcopalian Church while he was growing up. The African Orthodox Church was formed in Harlem by Marcus Garvey in 1921. In ritual the church was very similar to the Roman Catholic and Episcopalian Churches, with the important exception of the introduction of a black Madonna, Christ, and God.
The striking resemblance between Adam Clayton Powell, III and Colin Powell’s own son testifies to the possibility of such a bizarre occurrence.
Colin Powell was born on April 5th, 1937, apparently in Harlem, to immigrant parents from Jamaica. They moved quickly away after his birth and settled in a middle class neighborhood in the South Bronx in New York. At the time, the South Bronx was not what it is today. It was a nice place to live with comfortable dwellings. The fact that Mr. Powell points to this origin point as being reason to consider him tough is a joke because the neighborhood didn’t begin deteriorating until long after the Powell’s had packed up and gotten out.
William Powell his son is now sitting at the head of the FCC.
Adam Clayton Powell was a powerful and flamboyant congressman from New York. He played a mighty role in the Civil Rights movement to which we will always be grateful. His flamboyant lifestyle included women, fine clothes and money.
His son, Adam Clayton Powell III, a leading broadcast reporter, executive, author, and analyst has been appointed to play a leading role in the USC Annenberg Local Broadcast News Initiative.
His resemblance to William Powell is amazing.
This is not a case of ‘all of them look the same’. It takes only a moment and another to ask the question.
‘What’s going on here?’
In 1937, when Colin Powell was born, Adam Clayton Powell was approximately 29 years old. Colin Powell’s family quickly moved to Hunt’s Point. He was heavily influenced by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican who started the ‘Black Star’ shipping company which sent boat loads of American blacks in a ‘return to Africa’.
This was the height of the Great Depression and Adam Clayton Powell was busy in the city as he organized mass meetings, rent strikes and public campaigns that forced restaurants, retail stores, bus lines, utilities, telephone companies, Harlem Hospital and the 1939 World's Fair either to hire or to begin promoting black employees.
Adam Clayton Powell succeeded his father as pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1936.
From these bizarre origins – whether or not Powell is the illegitimate son of Adam Clayton Powell or he is just the child of Jamaican zealots intent on returning to Africa – his behavior in public life is clearly not in the long term best interest of the United States. His intent to use the American Army to quell or destroy Arabs conquest in Africa – though commendable on the surface – appears to originate from a deeper problem than meets the eye at first glance. The problem of aggression for profit.
The American Army used as a force to enable the ‘Return To Africa’ and the creation of the Pan-African ‘Black State’ that Marcus Garvey dreamed of.

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