Second Short Quiz

[johnkarls]

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1. Virtually-unanimously proclaimed the best boxer of all time and arguably the most influential African-American of all time (at least internationally), who changed his name from Cassius Clay in 1964 at the age of 22 after becoming the World Heavyweight Champion -- what was his new name and why did he change to it?

2. The NBA’s all-time leading scorer and virtually-unanimously proclaimed as the best basketball player (college or pro) of all time, Lew Alcindor (who continued to be called “Lewis” by his legendary college coach John Wooden until the latter’s demise in 2010) changed his name in 1971, two years after graduating from UCLA and three years after boycotting the 1968 Olympics over America’s treatment of African-Americans (the same year that African-Americans Tommie Smith and Johnny Carlos famously gave their Black Power Salutes from an Olympic Victory Stand) -- what was his new name and why did he change to it?

3. Who essentially preached 2,000 years ago “From Each According To Her/His Ability, To Each According To Her/His Need”?

4. Who, nearly 1900 years later, in establishing a movement based on “From Each According To Her/His Ability, To Each According To Her/His Need” called the religion founded by the earlier preacher of this principle “The Opiate Of The Masses”?

5. Why did Karl Marx call Christianity “The Opiate Of The Masses”?

6. Was there quite a bit written in the national news media during the Vietnam War [from President Kennedy’s 11/2/1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem only 20 days before Kennedy’s own assassination (“if you break it, you own it”) until America’s final withdrawal on 4/30/1975] about White America’s fear that African-Americans in general would convert to Islam and/or revolt against the Vietnamese War?

[NB: This question is NOT meant to imply that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s conversion to Islam in 1971 was related to the Vietnam War, though he has said in many interviews that he was profoundly influenced by Muhammad Ali whose opposition to the Vietnam War (for which he was stripped of his World Heavyweight Title and banned from boxing 1967-1971 while his criminal conviction for refusing to be inducted under the military draft worked its way to the U.S. Supreme Court) was central to his worldwide image/popularity.]

7. If Karl Marx is right that “Christianity Is The Opiate Of The Masses” and long-time (1963-2008) Harvard Political Science Prof. Samuel Huntington (who was also the co-founder and long-time co-editor of Foreign Policy Magazine which he sold to the Washington Post upon his retirement) is right that Islam has “bloody borders” or, in other words, is an aggressive rather than passive religion, then why didn’t African-Americans by and large follow the example of Muhammad Ali in converting to Islam?

8. Has The Establishment (as defined in Q&A-3 thru Q&A-6 of the First Short Quiz) effectively conned America’s Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste into believing that the non-violence of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is more effective than the Militant Islam of Muhammad Ali’s “Nation of Islam” would have been?

9. Has The Establishment effectively conned America’s Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste into believing that its most important political cause should be “police brutality” since pitting the Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste against the police costs virtually nothing when compared to the cost of providing an effective education for our inner-city children in order to finally mainstream our Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste?

10. Has The Establishment effectively conned (among other Americans) Blue Collar Workers whose jobs have been exported into believing that their most important political cause is obtaining guns under the Second Amendment in order (in addition to hunting) to protect themselves from members of the Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste, since causing such division is a lot cheaper than halting the exportation of American jobs?

11. In response to the success of two current Presidential Candidates in championing the cause of blue-collar workers whose jobs have been exported and/or who are being forced to compete for jobs with illegal aliens, is The Establishment beginning to make the argument that using American workers will mean higher prices?

12. Isn’t this the same argument that was made by Slave Owners before the American Civil War?

13. Isn’t The Establishment even more despicable than the Ante-Bellum Slave Owners because the lower prices that America currently enjoys are not only based on “slave wages” of third-world workers and “slave wages” of illegal aliens, but also America IS NOT EVEN PAYING THE SLAVES THEIR WAGES because we are buying their products ON CREDIT?

14. Is The Establishment likely to show any allegiance to the U.S. (vs. taking their “Moveable Feast” elsewhere) once they have bankrupted America?

15. In the meantime, is The Establishment trying to con Americans into believing that the only way to deal with the exportation of their jobs is to chop their Social Security, Medicare, etc., etc.???

[In this regard, please recall the discussion of “Tax-Paid Cost” in Q&A-15 through Q&A-18 of the First Short Quiz.]

16. And when all else fails, does The Establishment seem to delight in distracting Americans from the destruction of their economy with social issues such as abortion?

17. Are either of the two current Presidential Candidates referenced in Q-11 likely to be The Messiah described in Q&A-13 of the First Short Quiz?

18. So (referring back to Q&A-11 of the First Short Quiz) why are the members of the American News Media busy “telling each other that America does NOT have the same problem that Europe has in being unable to assimilate minorities”???

19. Isn’t the sad reality that, unlike the European Union’s challenges in assimilating its 2% Muslim population, America has refused to lift a finger for well more than half a century to assimilate its Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste which constitutes 30% of the U.S. population???

20. And rather than permit incurring the expense of providing an effective education for our inner-city children which is the only way to mainstream the Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste, The Establishment has conned African-Americans for well more than half a century to stick with “The Opiate Of The Masses” (aka Christianity) instead of converting in large numbers to Militant Islam???

21. So that The Establishment can continue to concentrate on its War on Workers and its War on The Permanent “Untouchable” Under-Caste???

22. And isn’t The Establishment “laughing all the way to the bank” as it views our focus book “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right” as nothing more than a good way to distract some Americans, similar to the distractions available by “stirring the pot” with social issues such as abortion, by getting the followers of The Left-Hand Puppet of the Establishment worked up over what The Right-Hand Puppet of the Establishment is doing???