Culture, Race & Economy

I'm familiar with some of Anyike's work. He has published some interesting information. -------------------- According to Rev. James C. Anyike, “One of the main reasons many of our churches and businesses are dying is because they have no relationship with younger people, and they don’t have any plans to.” Anyike is the Senior Pastor of Scott UMC and The Way, and a nationally known author of three books. “Our success as families, churches, businesses, and other institutions will be best realized when the generations can understand each other and work with each other,” said Anyike. ------- Do any of you agree with this?

It was very difficult to watch NBC's coverage of the Olympics. If I had to look at Michael Phelps mother's mug for another second I probably would have lost it. So much time was spent on human interest instead of actual competition it was nerve racking. The were so fixated on trying to catch Orsoco in tears they did not even cover other athletes competing. Scores were unannounced -- few routines shown. Why so much coverage of beach volleyball? There is an twitter hashtag #nbcfail where people are venting over NBC's coverage. I have not read many of the tweets, they are not very interesting to me. What is interesting is that athletes are getting booted ou…

Africa Must Produce or Perish Philip Emeagwali Imagine that it is May 25, 2063, the 100th anniversary of Africa Day, a day for reflecting on Africa's successes and failures. The newspaper headline announces, “Last Remaining Oilfield in West Africa's American Territory Dries Up.” The article continues: “The last patch of rainforest will soon be empty land scarred by oil pipelines, pumping stations, and natural gas refineries. Wholesale pollution will be the environmental legacy for future generations. “Africa's offshore oil reserves will ebb away. Abandoned oil wells could well become tourist attractions, and oil-boom settlements will be transformed int…

Has anyone seen this move? It sure helped to inspire our brother Michael Baisden.

“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paterna…

Don't know if you are familiar with the books of Max Brooks, but I like how he used "zombie" . Some readers consider it humor and perhaps even more consider it sci-fi. lol I don't know which planet the people from either aforementioned group are living on. The end was near. Zombies were taking over. They were infiltrating every corner the world. No neutral ground existed, no nation was secure, and we were in serious danger of becoming extinct - overrun by hordes of the living dead. . Brooks at Rutgers: The movie for World War Z was supposed to come out this year, but I think that it is now scheduled to come out in 2013.

Many in Anguilla seem to think so...

BIBLE MENTIONS ETHIOPIANS..IN GENESIS,ACTS,DANIEL,ISAIAH,JEREMIAH AND 2 CHRONICLES..DO BLACK PREACHERS PREACH THIS /NO/ BECAUSE IT IS PROFITABLE SAYING TO THE SHEEP GOD AND CHRIST IS WHITE FOR WHITE POLITICIANS MONEY.../ BLACK CHURCHES ARE PLANTATIONS,PREACHERS ARE OVERSEER'S AND SLAVE HOLDERS AND OWNERS....SLAVERY TIME FREED SLAVES BUILT CHURCHES...TODAY BLACK CHURCHES HAVE UNFREED ,CONFINED AND SPIRITUALLY CHAINED BLACK SOULS..I READ ABOUT CHURCHES BUILT BY FREED SLAVES IN BALTIMORE, SOUTH CAROLINA, SLAVES COULD NOT HAVE CHURCH WITHOUT WHITE SUPERVISION,, THAT GOES ON TO THIS DAY.....MALCOLM X SPOKE, DIVIDED WE ARE CONQUERED. .WILLIE LYNCH LE…

ON THE NEWS,BLACK CHURCH NOT SUPPORTING THE PRSIDENT,WHATEVER./BLACK CHURCH,PREACHERS SUPPORT PREACHERS WHO CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES,BEAT THEIR WIVES,AND KILL THEIR WIVES.MORE PIMPS IN CHURCH THAN ON THE STREET....PREACHERS ARE CROOKS AND PROFITEERS...WHY HAS BISHOP EDDIE LONG NOT BEEN CONFRONTED FOR SEXUALLY ROMANCING YOUNG BLACK BOYS.////// BLACK CHURCH FLOCK WILL JUMP IN VOLCANOES IF TOLD TO DO IT BY PREACHERS...BLACK PREACHERS WILL BURN CROSSES AT KLAN RALLIES FOR MONEY....BLACK PREACHERS ARE OVERSEER'S WITH BLACK PLANTATION SLAVES.....PROFITABLE....

Fists of Freedom: An Olympic Story Not Taught in School Dave Zirin on July 25, 2012 - 11:16 AM ET Nation readers —Over the next several weeks, I’ll be writing about the 2012 London Olympics. I’m going to try to write about the stories not just on the field but off: the Counter Olympics demonstrators, the workers behind the scenes, the athletes with personal stories that speak less to their desire for athletic success than a desire for human rights. It seemed fitting to start by looking back at perhaps the most political, controversial, inspiring moment in Olympics, if not sports, history: the medal stand black gloved salute of 200 meter runners Tommie Smith and …

Resolution for additional sanctions against Iran. Is this the road to greater security or is this the road to more war(s)? --------------------------------------- Congress approves new Iran sanctions on oil, shipping sectors Aug. 1, 2012 (Reuters) - The Congress overwhelmingly passed a new package of sanctions against Iran on Wednesday that aims to punish banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Tehran sell its oil. The legislation, agreed to by senior lawmakers of both parties, "seeks to tighten the chokehold on the regime beyond anything that has been done before," said Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the House Fore…

PBS Special Forum "The Issue is Race" Panelists include: Alan Keyes (then black republican candidate for Senate), Richard Nathan (then director of Rockefeller Institute/researcher), Sister Souljah (then raptivist/PoliSci major), Jonathan Kozol (educator and author) Anna Deavere Smith (playwright), Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly (then mayor of Washington) , Dhoruba bin Wasad (former political prisoner/wrongly imprisoned Black Panther, activist) Tony Brown (then journalist/author), Cornel West (then director of African American Studies at Princeton), and Sylvester Monroe (then of Time Magazine). This was in 1992. One of the main questions then was "What have we …

"Truth does not change, only our awareness of it." -Attallah Shabazz

There's a rumor that in Asian and Jewish homes, any grade less than an A means that changes will have to be made. In White homes, anything less than a B means that changes will be made. Unfortunately, in Black homes, as long as you pass, everything is okay. The future of te Black race lies in the hands of White female teachers and single-parent mothers. Why does parent involvement in school decline as the child grows older? Every boy needs a male role model. You can't be what you have not seen. Boys will be what they see. The teacher has your son for 180 days. You have your son for a minimum of 18 years. Many fatherless boys are aggressive and possess a derogatory at…

Well, looks like Obama is one of us, after all. Just in time for the election we learn he's a slave descendant. I knew that pimp walk was authentic. President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies PROVO, UTAH – July 30, 2012 – A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is the 11 th great-grandson of John Punch, the first documented African enslaved for life in American history. Remarkably, the connection was made through President Obama’s Caucas…

BLACK OLYMPIANS TO WATCH,SWIMMING I THINK HIS NAME IS CULLEN JONES.. WOMEN GYMNASTICS,GABBY DOUGLAS,MEN GYMNASTICS JOHN OROZCO.WOMEN VOLLEYBALL DESTINY HOOKER.BLACK MAN WAS ON THE FENCING TEAM,HE LOST..NAME IS DARRYL HOMER.......ATHLETES TO WATCH BESIDES THE BASKETBALL TEAM EGOES.///

HAVANA, July 26 (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro accused the United States on Thursday of seeking an overthrow of the Cuban government similar to Arab Spring countries, while reiterating his government's willingness to negotiate with its decades old foe. "“The day they want (to talk) the table is served," Castro said in a nationally televised address on one of the biggest days in Cuba's political calendar. “"I have already informed them through diplomatic channels. If they want to talk, we will talk ... but as equals ... We are going to talk about the same themes (democracy and human rights) in the United States," he said. The communist-ruled island …

Always an eyebrow raiser, Madonna, during her latest tour, has reportedly been flashing naked body parts, guns, and swatskias oh my. (By the way, I wonder if people have compared the criticism from the public that Madonna received for flashing her nakedness to the criticism from the public that Janet Jackson received after flashing her nakedness.) She's really been pissing a lot of people (including some officials from other countries) off lately, though. Anyway, bell hooks wrote this way before Madonna's recent tour. Many thought that bell hooks was being too harsh on Madonna while some did not, while others did not care one way or the other. At any rat…

The FBI's Vendetta Against Martin Luther King, Jr. excerpted from the book The Lawless State The crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies by Morton Halperin, Jerry Berman, Robert Borosage, Christine Marwick Penguin Books, 1976 p63 For the FBI, an organization seeking to register blacks in the South was clearly suspicious. Until 1962, the bureau would monitor King and SCLC under the "racial matters" category, which required agents to collect "all pertinent information" about the "proposed or actual activities of individuals and organizations in the racial field." According to the Senate Select Committee, the FBI inf…

Thomas Drake, a former top NSA official, went from being considered an American patriot to being considered an Enemy of the State when he became a whistleblower about the violation of citizens' privacy and other civil liberties as well as govn't wasteful spending. Though Drake considered his actions to be in accordance with integrity as well as in the defense of the American people and the Constitution, both which he says, that he had been sworn in to protect. He and others were targeted, harassed, had their homes raided, and were brought up on charges via The Espionage Act. The message from the govn't, to him and to any such whistleblower Drake says, was "Do no…

"There were two kind of slaves. There was the house negro and the field negro. The house negro, they lived in the house, with master. They dressed pretty good. They ate good, cause they ate his food, what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near their master, and they loved their master, more than their master loved himself. They would give their life to save their masters house quicker than their master would. The house negro, if the master said "we got a good house here" the house negro say "yeah, we got a good house here". Whenever the master would said we, he'd say we. That's how you can tell a house negro. If…

A film about the indigenous people of America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EedWZ_jaTiE&feature=related

THIS IDIOT WAS ABLE TO BUY THOUSANDS OF ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION, SEMI AUTOMATIC RIFLE, BALLISTIC HELMET AND BULLET PROOF VEST.SOME OF THIS ONLINE.////IF BLACK PEOPLE OR MIDDLE EAST AMERICANS BOUGHT THIS THE FBI WOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED.........EXCEPT THE JEWS OR SOMEONE FROM ISRAEL,, SINCE THEY TRY TO EXTERMINATE THE PALESTINES../////

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID1Km_SdBYI&feature=related ************************************* One summary of the movie***** “My name is Alex. I may look like a little boy, but I am a grown up.” The opening scene of the 2010 film I Want To Be A Soldier leads the viewer to believe that the film will be about a rebellious youngster who won’t tolerate authority and won’t give in to threats. That’s Alex and he is only eight years old. But then we see other scenes from earlier in his life which portray an ideal upbringing of a young boy – recorded via the family camcorder. But is it the same boy? And if it is, what may have caused the transformation tha…

Nothing clears your head like calling out hypocrisy and shameful pandering to a powerful interest group. These are the times when you know who is really running the government and it’s not regular citizens. One glaring example is the reactions to the real issues of actual gun deaths versus almost nonexistent real voter fraud. http://pollardpost.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-are-voters-controlled-more-than-guns.html

Despite my critic's 3 star rating, I found The Dark Knight to be only mildly interesting -- a disappointment. It really paled in comparison to The Dark Knight.

WATCHING THE NEWS, OPINION, BLACK CHURCHES ARE AS BAD AS PENN STATE HIGH UP. CHURCH,PREACHERS,MNAACP OR POLITICIANS HAVE CONFRONTED BISHOP EDDIE LONG FOR SEXUALLY ROMANCING BLACK BOYS..BISHOP LONG IS A FRAUD CONTROLLING STUPID BLACK PEOPLE.....THEN AGAIN, JESSE JACKSON SENIOR OR JUNIORS SEX SCANDALS WERE. NOT CONFRONTED........BLACK OVERSEER'S ......CONTROLLING BLACK PEOPLE FOR PROFIT....

"Religion itself is harmless. It is like a gun. A gun by itself is harmless." The above was an analogy made by Waterstar in I thought it was interesting enough to spawn a seperate discussion on the topic Interesting analogy Waterstar. A gun's sole purpose it to cause harm. Otherwise it would not need to exist. What would you argue is religion's purpose? How has it be used in this country as it concerns Black people? Has it done more harm than good? On a global scale has the impact of religion been good or bad? Note: I'm making a distinction between "religion" and "spirituality".

Horrific Attack At Batman Screening Leaves 12 Dead by The Associated Press text size AAAAURORA, Colo. July 20, 2012, 08:13 pm ET AURORA, Colo. (AP) — As the new Batman movie played on the screen, a gunman dressed in black and wearing a helmet, body armor and a gas mask stepped through a side door. At first he was just a silhouette, taken by some in the audience for a stunt that was part of one of the summer's most highly anticipated films. But then, authorities said, he threw gas canisters that filled the packed suburban Denver theater with smoke, and, in the confusing haze between Hollywood fantasy and terrifying reality, opened fire as people s…

Remarks by the President at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, D.C. 10:00 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everyone. It is a great honor to be with you here today. Of course, it is a truly humbling moment to be introduced by Elie Wiesel. Along with Sara Bloomfield, the outstanding director here, we just spent some time among the exhibits, and this is now the second visit I've had here. My daughters have come here. It is a searing occasion whenever you visit. And as we walked, I was taken back to the visit that Elie mentioned, the time that we traveled together to Buchenwald. And I recall how he showed me the barbed-wire…

Today, because the whole world is caught in the same electronically produced, intercommunicating network, youth have an experience that their elders never had. They face a new era, one shaped by the Bomb, satellites, jet flight, free-wheeling technology, the population explosion, the breakdown of cities and the destruction of the natural environment. Until recently, our elders could say, "I have been young and you have never been old." Today, the young can reply, "You have never been young in the world I am young in ." From "Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap" 1970 (<---- And just think of how VERY much has changed even since then.) Ch…

------------------------------- US ArmyAfrica does not need an American military base on its soil. Would Americans welcome such a foreign base in their land? Motsoko Pheko urges African countries to resist this imperialist move, which is intended to facilitate plunder of their resources. Africa: US Africa Command a Tool to Recolonise Continent Motsoko Pheko US ArmyAfrica does not need an American military base on its soil. Would Americans welcome such a foreign base in their land? Motsoko Pheko urges African countries to resist this imperialist move, which is intended to facilitate plunder of their resources. The USA Africa Command, which America…

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FOX NEO NAZI NEWS, ZIMMERMAN SAYS GOD WANTED TRAYVON MARTIN DEAD..I HOPE THIS IDIOT MURDERER KEEPS TALKING..HE WANTED TO KILL A BLACK MALE AND HE DID...THOSE NEO NAZI'S AT FOX NEWS WOULD NOT BE SUPPORTING ZIMMERMAN IF HE HAD SHOT SOMEONE WHITE.////.

The 'Race' Card By Karen Hatter The majority of people of African descent, living in America, do not have the luxury of compartmentalizing our collective experience here in America, beginning with forced immigration, enslavement, Jim Crow, the Black Codes and after slavery, in modern times, the long list of inequalities and abuses that have been brought down upon our heads as a result of who we are and our past relationship to those in stewardship, of non African descent, in America, when we express our feelings, beliefs and concerns over our past and for our as yet to be known futures in America. Many Americans find it difficult and it makes them uneasy to …

Michelle Obama death threat by D.C. cop under investigation Michelle Obama death threat? A Washington D.C. motorcycle cop said he would shoot the first lady, the Washington Post reported. But some officials say it was a 'joke.' By Staff, Associated Press / July 13, 2012 Washington A District of Columbia police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for the White House and other officials has been moved to administrative duty after he allegedly made threatening comments about Michelle Obama, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The officer was overheard making the comments Wednesday as several officers from the Special Operations Divisio…

This is not a rebuttal to but rather a reflection inspired by his earnest concern. What I have to say is debatable and even negative, but it is my “truth”, the personal opinion and theories that I have formed over 60 years of observing a struggle that recycles itself decade after decade as the same laments come and go, and the same calls for reforms echo each other, and the same strategies are swallowed up in the black hole of frustration. Obviously, a lot of present black problems stem from the past. We all know how our ancestors were sold into bondage and brought to this country against their will. If they survived the brutal middle passage, upon their arrival th…

Not long ago in the news, there was coverage of a person being attacked by a shark. The news anchor said something to this effect: "We're seeing more and more of this. Is it because of all the sharks or is it because of all these underwater cameras?" You know what? That is too real. Cameras /satelites everywhere, watching everything EXCEPT the more important things it seems. If more lives are being lost in the streets of Chicago than in the "conflict" involving Afghanistan and if there are cameras all around, where does our logic take us in such a situation? When drugs are being shipped in by these planes, we don't see or hear about this, yet we see the effects of …

"I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human" - John Trudell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fM_ttXdtmo&feature=related John Trudell is an acclaimed poet, national recording artist, actor and activist whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a spokesperson for the Indian of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island from 1969 to 1971. He then worked with the American Indian Movement (AIM), serving as Chairman of AIM from 1973 to 1979. In February of 1979, a fire of unknown origin killed Trudell's wife, three chi…

Wells Fargo Agrees to $175 Million Settlement Over Lending Discrimination Wells Fargo has denied claims of lending discrimination and said it's settling "solely for the purpose of avoiding contested litigation with" the Justice Department {C} {C} Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Wells Fargo has denied claims of lending discrimination and said it's settling "solely for the purpose of avoiding contested litigation with" the Justice Department Wells Fargo Bank agreed to pay at least $175 million Thursday to resolve allegations it discriminated against black and Latino home buyers, in what the Justice Department called the second largest settlement over fair le…

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"Slavery, Imperialism, and the African Diaspora: Black History II" Ivory Phillips http://www.jacksonadvocateonline.com/?p=2223

Chris McGreal in Nairobi Kenyan Mau Mau war veterans Generals Kassam Njogu, Njeru Mugo and Ndungu Gicheru. Photograph: Jacob Wire/EPA An ageing group of former Mau Mau insurgents will launch legal action in the UK next week accusing the British army and colonial authorities of torturing or illegally killing thousands of Kenyans during the independence rebellion 50 years ago. Lawyers acting for the Mau Mau veterans say they will serve the Foreign Office with a notice of intent to seek compensation for human rights abuses involving a group of about 10 Kenyans in what is being seen as a test case. Those involved have given accounts of rape, systematic and prolonge…

Our very existence is under attack. This is not hyperbole. I wish it were. Many of the games we've made have been reversed. Off the top of my head: There are fewer Black studies programs in our colleges and universities We have lost the vast majority of of Black bookstores over the last two decades Black radio is virtually dead Black film is virtually dead The Black voices on the Internet is dying Black newspapers are dying Black magazines are dying Black folks are being incarcerated at an alarming rate Black unemployment rates are staggeringly horrific Our course Black at the bottom of every major social economic measure available Mental illness is a major probl…

One of my "bots" found this article, Why the Republican Party is a better fit for African Americans, and posted it on Facebook for me. I noticed it got a lot of clicks so I decided to check the article out myself. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I'm sure there are righteous and kind people in both parties as well as evil ones. I don't think either party really serves the people, so the whole rigid allegiance with one party over the other does not resonated with me. Because of the way I think, the whole idea that a group of people have so completely embraced the democratic party is something I simply can't fathom. White folks are free to be in either party ba…

FBI report: No evidence George Zimmerman is racist An FBI investigation into the shooting of black teenager Travyon Martin concluded that there's no evidence the suspect, George Zimmerman, was motived by racial bias or hatred. By Patrik Jonsson, Staff writer / July 12, 2012 FBI report: No evidence George Zimmerman is racist After interviewing 30 people familiar with George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain charged with killing African-American teenager Trayvon Martin, FBI agents found no evidence that the shooting was driven by racial bias or animus. Before Thursday's release of a Department of Justice report, both sides have argued…

BLACK COLLEGE FAMU-FLORIDA A AND M IS AS BAD AS PENN STATE..PENN STATE HIGH UP WAS IGNORING THE EX COACH BEING A CHILD MOLESTER TO PROTECT COLLEGE AND FOOTBALL.WHERE WAS THE BLACK LEADERS AND COMMUNITIES WITH ROBERT CHAMPION HAZED BEATEN TO DEATH ON THE BAND BUS.../NAACP,BLACK CHURCHES AND POLITICIANS SHOULD HAVE PROTESTED FOR THE FAMU PRESIDENT TO BE FIRED, BAND DIRECTOR AND THE MURDERS THE BAND MEMBERS WHO HAZED BEAT ROBERT CHAMPION TO DEATH TO BE BEHIND BARS......LIKE THERE WAS FOR TRAYVON MARTIN DELIBERATELY KILLED BY THAT LUNATIC MURDER GEORGE ZIMMERMAN.... WHY WAS THERE UNCONCERN AND SILENCE/.....