About Me

Dr. J. (James) Alva Scruggs received a B. S. degree in Chemistry from Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, M. S. in Chemistry from Southern Connecticut State University, M. A./ Degree in Urban Studies from Occidental College, and a Doctorate in Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

A MOVEMENT OF AMERICA’S MIDDLE CLASS WHITE GIRLS AND BOYS WILL AGAIN REVOLT AND GIVE US BACK OUR GOOD AMERICA!!



The American Civil Rights Revolution during the sixties was as much or more a middle class white successful revolution as it was a MLK event! Why is this true? The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, swiftly spreading to other countries around the world.

Take an objective unbiased look at the events that brought the “Civil-Human Rights” movement to a successful end.  You must conclude that "The Flower Children/Hippies" of the Wood Stock Fields of Mud and Love energized the Anti Vietnam Peace-nics to action.  Yes indeed, a mud filled meeting of white girls and boys with the Jimmy Hendricks, The “Mammas and the Poppers”, the Beetles and Country Folk Singers Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Charlatans and others made the emotions of the Middle Class white citizens put away their money and wealth pursuits and look to the ethics and morals for the real human revolutions in America.  They listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as marijuana and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness. America could tolerate seeing Black girls and boys being beaten, bitten by attack dogs, and incarcerated. But when little white girls and boys were beaten, jailed and killed – it was the straw that broke the camel's back!
          
  If you look at America today, it is ready for another effort of America's white Middle Class girls and boys to bring this present crisis in moral and constitutional values to a halt! The condition of unemployment among the Middle Class and the graduates of our universities with no place to practice their skills and move into the good life have created the conditions for another cultural revolution. They are hungry and completely locked out of the good life! This group of fellow Americans is the real power in these United States of America.
           
It is sad but true; the Black Civil Rights Movement for a second time is secondary to the movement that will eventually bring the present American Charlatans and crop of “Criminal Capitalist” to their knees again! Blacks are but a sideshow of a sideshow.
President Obama does not seem to be able to challenge Republicans. It an't natural for a Black man to challange a white man! He is stuck in the reality of the song, “Big Boss/white man can’t you hear me when it call (your saw mill is burnig down)”-on it goes on to, “you an’t so big, you just tall that’s’ all!!”




Monday, November 29, 2010

One of my articles was just published in the Florida Courier

The Intellectual Death of America

Dr. J. Alva Scruggs
GUEST COLUMNIST

America has become the victim of media control that substitutes soundbites of the ambitious for facts that makes mankind a progressive, evolving species. Using facts and observations to fuel the human mind for making valid decisions and conclusions has been corrupted by mass media, which has made convenient soundbites the resources for human and national growth and advancement.
The schools of sociology, psychology, propaganda, and public relations have become America’s source of information. These four bodies of knowledge are powerful and subject to abuse in the hands of the greedy and evil. These four subjects provide the tools to control the beliefs and actions of individuals, and in turn control the masses.
Requires more work
This would not be so bad if the mass media were free of the corruption brought by those who wish to control rather than educate the population. The process of reason – using facts – is much more labor and time-intensive than taking actions and making conclusions from the human qualities of fear and emotion. Therefore, politicians and capitalists that use the public for greedy and exploitive reasons choose fear and emotions to reach their ends.
Unfortunately, this has an extremely negative effect on the intellectual level of citizens that use the media for their primary source of information. It is easier to make a decision from the phase, "If it don’t fit, then you must acquit," than to have the information that backs up the decision provided. It is easy for the pharmaceuticals and their PR people to use the fear and emotion of proposing that a healthcare bill creates "death panels for old people," than for the president to provide the details and facts of the bill to Americans.
It was easier for President Bush to use the fear of "weapons of mass destruction" to get Americans to invade Iraq than to try to explain any other reason for this preemptive strike on a sovereign nation!
‘Intellectual stupidity’
In the 2010 midterm election, the Republicans and their conservative supporters bundled together several existing conditions of Americans as they said, "unemployment, Obamacare, raising taxes, out-of-control federal spending. Do you need more of this from Democrats?’ The condition of unemployment was obvious to every one, but the reasons were not so clear and easy to determine. Therefore, in putting the easy subject in the same slogan with other more difficult things, the Democrats were voted out by Americans that did not vote in their best interest.
Alas, Americans are known to vote and otherwise support things that are not in their best interests. This is noted in the many articles that claim American society have become stuck at the intellectual level of stupidity.
Fallen behind
The real tragedy is that America has fallen behind other nations in historical leadership in education and production of ideas and goods. Politicians and exploiters have used fear and emotion and substituted the word "common sense" to make those who are not educationally achieved feel comfortable with their condition. Politicians regularly use a "common sense" stand as they say things that clearly have little foundation in fact.
We can no longer allow our so-called political leaders to deliberately use misinformation and lies to get citizens to vote on issues of paramount importance. These politicians are resetting the body of knowledge even in our higher education, and contaminating the history of events and information enough to make human progress impossible.
Dr. J. Alva Scruggs is a Tallahassee resident, author, and commentator. Contact him via http://franklyspeaking.info.
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Friday, November 26, 2010

BLACK BOYS IN US CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM!!!


BLACK BOYS TRAPPED BY LAW AND SCREWED IN LOCK DOWN!!


Over forty readers responded to the article entitled, “BLACK MALES VICTIMS OF VICTIMLESS CRIMES AND BAD JUSTICE; TRAPPED AND SCREWED!!! (Scruggs, Westside Gazette, August 13, 2005).” These responses came from Florida area codes called include 954, 407, 305, 813, Palm Beach, etc. The article described briefly, the processing and plight of Blacks in the Criminal Justice System. The essence was that:Black Boys or Girls have allegations against them, which are filed with the courts and the common practice of private lawyers, or Public Defenders to go directly to “Plea- Bargaining” without any discover conducted by them for their client. In clearer words this Plea Bargaining is done based solely on the allegations of the plaintiff and the information they submit in their discovery that supports their position(s). This type of “Plea Bargaining” normally results in the defendant child getting a sentence, which includes some combination of Probation, community Service, and/or jail time. The interesting thing in this plea-bargaining is usually carried out between the attorney and the Prosecutor or the Public Defender and the Prosecutor. You notice that the defendant and the parent are left out of the meetings. In fact these Plea-bargaining is regularly carried out by phone. In this plea bargaining system, most of these children-defendants will not have the chance to prove them selves not guilty.Children will have signed on to pleading guilty or no contest even if they are obviously innocent. Of the 90% who accept probation over 80% will never get through probation period without more probation time added for violations and will get more probation time or going to jail for violations of the probation. There are about 600,000 Black males in US prisons at this time. A great number started as boys just like these described in this article. Examples of responses received by phone are as follows: 1. Caller number one: My son has been in lock down sense he was in the 12th grade. They took him to jail from the school because a girl said that he was “stalking” her on the school grounds. He went from 30 months probation and 20 days community service to two additional months probation to lock down when we had to move. I called his probation officer and told her about our moving. But she said that I did not and gave him more probation time. In jail he was trying to be a man and be strong but the guard said he was defiant and gave him two years in "lock down." All this came from something a young girl said in school. 2. Caller number two: My son was placed in Juvenile lock down by a judge for being "in the way of harm" while he was with me. I had a small habit of using grass and my boy friend was staying with me but my boy was safe. He was raped while he was in lock down - charged with being defiant and- a troublemaker and given one more additional tear. My son can never be a man now. Please help me! 3. Caller number three. My son was reported a by a jail guard as being “Defiant.” When Black Boys are trying to be strong and show that they can "take it like a man." not by talking back but by silently taking their punishment or bad treatment they are called defiant and given more punishment and more time in lock down. Recommendations for changes or solutions: 1. Public defendants and private attorneys did all plea-bargaining without the attendance of the client or their parents or other family Meetings for plea-bargaining must include child, parent or surrogate parent, Public defender for child or private attorney of child and the State Prosecutor. 2. The child’s attorney must have done a discovery of information on behalf on the client before plea-bargaining. 3. Plea bargaining must not be done using only the information submitted by the plaintiff in support of tier allegations against the child. 4. Stricter Rules must be adapted for proof by the probation officer that the child has violated probation. 5. Sense a Black male child is encouraged to be a man and be tough or strong, proof of violation of probation for being defiant must have a high level of proof. 6. If a defending attorney goes to court with only the discovery provided by the plaintiff his court privileges must be revoked. The court must ask the defending attorney if he has conducted discovery on behalf of the client and if he has information other than that provided by the prosecuting attorney. Finding no such evidence the attorney fees must be returned to client, he must be placed on probation and fined and the defendant must be allowed to get a different attorney. 7. No agent of the court, attorney, prosecutor, judge, and clerk shall own a private jail or whole any stock in such a business. We all must get involved. Call your State Legislator and Congresspersons. Dr. J. Alva Scruggs







STOP PLEA BARGAINING BY ATTORNEYS, WHO DON'T CONDUCT DISCOVERY FOR THEIR CLIENT!!

It is generally agreed by all intelligent Americans that our Criminal Justice System has room for some real improvement. Of the over 2 million prisoners in our system today about 80 percent were placed there for “Victimless” crimes”. The written laws may need some redoing but the great injustice comes by the administration of our present laws by the attorneys, judges, and officers on the street.

After looking at the process of placing these Americans in jail, one inequity stands out as the cruelest. It seems that the process of “Plea Bargaining” has become a tool of convenience mainly for both prosecuting and defending Attorneys and the courts in particular. It makes money quickly for the attorneys and the court while cutting down the time and effort of the system.

Most alleged criminals are “Plea Bargained” without the process of discovery or investigation conducted by the representative of the defendant. In other words based on just the allegations of the accuser, the attorney for the defendant goes directly to Plea Bargaining. This most always results in the defendant being judged guilty and sentenced without the due process of an investigation on the accusd behalf!!

An excellent and effective way to stop this injustice is to fine any attorney of the defendants, who goes to plea-bargaining for a client without the effort of investigation or discovery for the defendant shall be substantially fined and sentenced to time in prison!! I know personality of an attorney, who without any discovery, conducted Plea Bargaining by phone with the State Attorney's Office for ten Clients at one time. At about $5,000.00 per client that amounts to $50,000.00!! Good work if you can get it!!





Amy Goodman: How Two Former PA Judges Got Millions in Kickbacks to Send Juveniles to Private Prisons

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

Posted on February 17, 2009, Printed on February 19, 2009

http://www.alternet.org/story/127461/

Amy Goodman: “An unprecedented case of judicial corruption is unfolding in Pennsylvania. Several hundred families have filed a class-action lawsuit against two former judges who have pleaded guilty to taking bribes in return for placing youths in privately owned jails. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are said to have received $2.6 million for ensuring that juvenile suspects were jailed in prisons operated by the companies Pennsylvania Child Care and a sister company, Western Pennsylvania Child Care. Some of the young people were jailed over the objections of their probation officers”







AMERICAN HAS ONE OF EVERY 136 OF IT’S CITIZENS EITHER IN JAIL OR IN THE CRIMINAL SYSTEM SOME WHERE!!

(WRITTEN January 2, 2009)

(UNEDITED, UNABRIDGED)



It is a national shame how the media is showing/presenting the “Prison System” as just another life style.

This especially true when we view the MSNBC Show “Lock Down!” It is as though the inmates are no more than reluctant residence of a set in the stone of a “Prison Punishment” resort. There are the inmates and the guards. The guards are on the top and the inmates are on the bottom. (Elizabeth White One Out of 136 Americans in Jail, Associated Press, 22 May 2006)

The prison system as the US practices it today is not a rehabilitation institution. It is a repressive lock-down cruel operation. What can you expect from an inmate or resident if you place them in a 10' X 10' room with their open toilet in the rear for twenty-four hours a day, without any human interaction or positive stimulating input. It is more than any sane mind can endure and remain a human member of a civilized society. This is not the raving of a Liberal. Bleeding Heart, Milk toastier, Do-gooder. It is the sober conclusion of a rational thinking socially responsible American Citizen. American looks at an inmate as they are and asking why, instead of looking at them as they should be and saying why not!!

The insanity and criminal training gained by the inmate while in our “correctional/punishment institutions” is a breeder of the antisocial deviants we see in our ex-inmates. Further, even if the inmate, by some miracle, gets rehabilitated they are not turned back into society with the ability/tools to get a reasonable job because a can is tied to his tail. They are permanently labeled a criminal, which keeps them from being considered for gainful employment. They then hang in the fringes of society and end back in the Lock-Down because of some infraction usually caused by their trying to eek out some lever of living in a society which is programmed to avoid giving them a life sustaining job!

Our Criminal Justice needs as many trained rehabilitative psychologist as they do big mean strong guards. Presently, we take some bright potential law enforcement persons and train them to in the main be a control artist using measured force and pain!! They can take a juvenile joint smoker and turn them into a hard-core thief and killer-a heterosexual child into a homosexual or a harlot!

Of course there are the insane criminals and unrepentant criminals. But these should not be used to destroy the other wise potentially salvageable but unfortunate public.



Dr. J. Alva Scruggs, BS, MS, MA, EdD

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

THE INTELLECTUAL DEATH OF A NATION!!



            American has become the victim of media control that substitutes the sound bites of the ambitious for the facts that makes mankind a progressive evolving species. In other words the method of using “Facts and observations” to fuel the human mind for making valid decision and conclusions has been corrupted by mass media which has made convenient sound bites the resources for human and national growth and advancement!
            The schools of sociology, psychology, propaganda, and Public Relations have become America’s source of information. These four bodies of knowledge are powerful and subject to abuse in the hands of the greedy and evil. These four subjects provide the tools to control the beliefs and actions of individuals and in turn control the masses!
This would not be so bad if this media was free of the corruption brought by those who wish to use it not so much to educate but to control the population for selfish reasons. The fact is that the process of reason using facts is much more labor and time intensive than taking actions and making conclusions from the human quality of “fear and emotion!” Therefore, people politicians and capitalist who choose to use the public for greedy and exploitive reasons choose fear and emotions to reach their ends.
Unfortunately, this has an extremely negative effect on the intellectual level of a nation or a group of citizens that use the media for their primary source of information. It is easy to make a decision from the phase, “If it don’t fit then you must acquit” than to have the information that backs up the decision provided. The latter is too long and the former is not only short. It has a poetic ring and a short emotion filled base. It is easy for the pharmaceuticals and their PR people to use the fear and emotion of proposing that a Health Bill create “Death Panels for old people” than for the president to provide the details and facts of the bill to the citizens. Just the other day a Congressman said, “Short term pain for long term gain!” He was talking about a bill to cut taxes of the Middle Class and raise them on the wealthy. It made an immediate impact on the public looking for a simple answer or phase on which to make a conclusion on a complicated bill that would positively affect them if they supported it. It was easier for President Bush to use the fear of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” to get Americans to invade Iraq than to try to explain any other reason for this preemptive stick on a sovereign nation!
In the pas election November 2, 2010, the Republicans and their conservative supporters bundled together several existing conditions of Americans as they said, “unemployment, Obama care, Raising Taxes, Out of control federal spending” do you need more of this from Democrats. Now the condition such as "Unemployment" was obvious to everyone, but the reasons were not so clear and easy to determine. Therefore, in putting the easy subject in the same slogan with other not so clear things the Democrats were voted out by Americans that did not vote in their best interest!
But alas, American citizens are known to vote and other wise support things that are not in their best interest. This is noted in the many articles that claim American society had become stuck at the intellectual level of “Stupidly!
In addition, America has a flaw in its national base belief. This is that there is a significant difference in the intellectual ability/IQ between races and gender’s of its population. This belief is that the IQ of a white male (not all but too many) is superior to all other groups of citizens. The acceptance of this serous lie has paved the way for a white male to hold the belief of being more accepted in their thoughts than any other group. However, instead of using this advantage to increase their base of knowledge and lead fellow citizens to higher levels, they have commonly used this to avoid the labor of learning things and information. He will say fearful and emotional things that are unsubstantiated by facts or observation. This leaves citizens to attain low reasoning low level and settle for “Stupidity” This can be seen in the publics responses to life’s questions. Americans in the last election voted for people and things that were not in their best interest! Thus, the public this state of stupidity provides an advantage for people that work to use the public for selfish reasons such as making profits and exploiting resources. It further creates a false role model to emulate by those who are trying to gain power and status in American society. Some few striving leaders do not fall for this role model and take the chance and be the hero (such as Maddow, Olberman, L Gantt of The Gnatt Report, Hillary Clinton, Ed Schaltz, Ann Hoffington, Matthews, maybe Obama, Ploski, etc). But people as Shara Palin/Mother Grizzlie or Grizzly Mama (Adele M. Stan, Sarah Palin's Brand of "Feminism" More Popular With Men Than Women, AlterNet, November 26, 2010)  take the easy way up and as she says,“man-up (White Male-Up)” to the role model! The productivity and advancement of the human kind is retarded by this activity. . Thus goes American society preoccupation with “Stupidity” of today!
The real tragedy in this is that America has fallen behind other nations in their historical leadership in education and production of ideas and goods. Politicians and exploiters have used the human nature of fear and emotion and substituted the word “Common Sense”: to make those who are not educationally achieved fill comfortable with their condition. Further, this “Common Sense” stand is regularly used by politicians as they say things that clearly have little foundation in fact! As Americans we can no longer allow our so called political leaders to deliberately use misinformation and plain old lies to get citizens to vote on issues of paramount importance! These politicians are resetting the body of knowledge even in our higher education and contaminating the history of events and information enough to make human progress impossible!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

DON’T CALL ME BLACK!

In the olden days Blacks would say, "Don't call me Black!" The public image of Blacks was so negative in those times!
They were not proud of their color. 

Today I am saying, "Don't call me Black!" This has nothing to do with color. But this is because of the fact that the lack of voting in election 2010 showed the world that we are a silly people-brain washed by nagative race images, ignorant,  weak, small and unimportant!! We had the power to sway this most important election in our hands and would not use it! It seems that Blacks need a special incentives (a dance, a party, some fried fish or barbaqueed ribs) to get their vote out every time!

In addition, if I hear that song "We Shall Over Come" one more time I think that I will throw chunks!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

AMERICA AND THE WORLD CANNOT WIN A FIGHT UNTIL THEY ADMIT WHO THE ENEMY IS!!




Did the President tell Muslim countries on his recent trip that American citizens have never done anything to them to cause their hostility toward our country!

Did he tell them that some corporations through their Pure Greed, Exploitive and criminal activities have harmed both American and foreign citizens alike?

No, he didn't, he couldn't, and he wouldn't!!

He wouldn’t because he is the first Black President and this affirmation would be so remarkable that the American public in their state of stupidity and pedestrian understanding would crucify him.

He shouldn’t because his own party would impeach him without hesitation.

He couldn’t because corporations would probably stop him with malice!
           

But this the truth is that unregulated, unrestrained, corporations based on American soil have in the past unduly influenced and sometimes solely made our “Foreign Policy.” Corporations have become the fourth branch of the US Government! They have used the populations of the world and the world’s natural and mineral resources to enrich their coffers with the entire world be dammed! Corporations have demonstrated their disloyalty to the US by acting as a traitor and moving the livelihoods of American to other nations. They have left the US floundering on the verge of economic disaster. Many citizens and their families go to bed each night hungry, cold, and ill.  This common enemy is their enemy and “the enemy of Americans enemy must be our friend”. Yes, the bombing of America’s citizen owned places is a misdirected effort.

 But until America declares the truth of these hostile acts toward other nations, and the making of national policy is removed from the influence of corporations -- the world will continue to be our enemies. What about inviting Muslim leaders to set in on Congressional Hearings as corporate CEOs such as Exxon/Mobil, Shell, BP, etc, are brought before the committee??

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

AMERICA’S REAL ENEMY IS HERE AT HOME


THE PRESENT DAY GREEDY CORPORATIONS THAT WANT TO OWN ALL THEY CAN SURVEY!!!

Americans must gain the backbone to once and for all provide the world with the truth that, “The American that they see that is causing harm to other nations is the so-called-corporation located in America and posing themselves as the representative of American Citizens!” The truth is that the energies that the third world, which includes the “Muslin-Jihad” is displaying in violence toward the USA is really a response to the cruel, greedy, criminal, exploitation, that corporations are practicing on the American People as well as the third world.
American has “outsourced and contracted” its Constitutional Responsibilities, decision making, and functions to profiting making corporations which are making International publicity and even conducting wars for the personal private gain of the New Day Super Rich!! Presently, BP has demonstrated clearly that private industry/capitalism the American way is truly the enemy of the people and will do harm as long it is making profits. This is the American people’s enemy today and the enemy of the Third World, which includes Muslim militants. The saying, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” clearly applies here. No amount of propaganda can fool even those Americans that are still fascinated with stupidity!! America’s real war is not in Afghanistan. It is here right on our soil with the enemy from within!
In other words, American Citizens and foreign institution and Third World Nations have a common enemy- the BP, Exxon/Mobil, Wall Street Insiders, etc presently predominantly based in the US and under the protection of the US Government. The phase, “What is good for GE is good for America” has unconsciously become a part of the US mental base as solidly as has the US Constitution!

Saturday, November 06, 2010

THE TRUTH AND FACTS MUST BE PUBLICIZED!!


Obama and the progressives must realize that it is most important to establish a formal group to saturate the public with the factual truth about the things that this political season has so successfully misrepresented. The word on the street is that the Karl Roves and his US Chamber of Commerce types are intending to take this time between now and the elections 2012 to reinforce the political misinformation given as facts in the disastrous election 2010! 

This serious activity is one of the most dangerous challenges to our freedoms as American Citizens! This includes things big and small LIES ALL LIES! such as:
*Obama is not a citizen and
*Health Care Legislation (Obama Care) is too expensive.
*That there are really Death Panels in the Health Legislation that will say who lives and who dies,
*That Obama and his policies caused the unemployment,
*Only tax cut for the wealthy will create more jobs,
*There is no hot house crisis associated with fossil fuel/oil burning, private industry is better without regulations,
*The educated are those old reputed professional Liberals elitist,
*The trust worthy media moguls are the Limbaughs, Becks, Hannities and O’Reillys, Fox News. Etc.
This fact-promoting must be formal and consist of a government staff, a foundation such as The Heritage Foundation or both! The messages must be built for the comprehension and interest level of the high school dropout and functionally unreasonable. It must use the base of Fear and Emotion in a “Wag the Dog” attitude! It must be, animated, Hollywood styled, at times cartoonish but factual, professionally done using the Hollywood talents, easy to understand, given regularly on TV, Radio, and the world wide web!
NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE IRON OF FACTS TO BE STRUCK!!