Culture, Race & Economy

The following is an except from a speech delivered at a high school graduation ceremony by David McCullough Jr., an English teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts, and has created a national stir. "You are not exceptional. Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you… you’re nothing special...Yes, you’ve been pampered, cosseted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped... But do not get the idea you’re anything special. …

(Is this truly a complete change in expectations or is this more of an evolution of expectations between these two generations?) Walter: I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy... Mama, look at me. Mama: I'm looking at you. You a good-looking boy. You got a job, a nice wife, a fine boy and- Walter: A job. [Looks at her.] Mama, a job? I open andd close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, "Yes sir; no, sir; very good, sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?" Mama, that ain't no kind of job...that ain't nothing at all. [Very quietly] Mama, I don't know if I can make you understand. Mama: Understand what,…

I APPLAUD THE BLACK MEN WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FATHERS. FATHERS DAY IN A FEW DAYS..THE BLACK MEN WHO TREAT WOMEN WITH RESPECT AND SPEND TIME AND ARE INVOLVED WITH THEIR CHILDREN/FOR ALL THE BAD FATHERS I THINK OF THE TEMPTATIONS SONG/PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE...CREFLO DOLLAR, PREACHER DOLLAR,IS THAT HIS NAME, PRACHER DOLLAR, NEWS FOR BEATING HIS DAUGHTER, WHY BLACK PEOPLE CANNOT RECOGNIZE FAKE PREACHERS AMAZE ME, ///.

Source: The Washington Post U.S. expands secret intelligence operations in Africa By Craig Whitlock, Published: June 13 OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The U.S. military is expanding its secret intelligence operations across Africa, establishing a network of small air bases to spy on terrorist hideouts from the fringes of the Sahara to jungle terrain along the equator, according to documents and people involved in the project. At the heart of the surveillance operations are small, unarmed turboprop aircraft disguised as private planes. Equipped with hidden sensors that can record full-motion video, track infrared heat patterns, and vacuum up radio and cellp…

The Only One Chapter 21 Determined not to give a lot of weight to Troy Briggs’ mention of the White Sox, Carole Everly had, nevertheless, turned to the channel where their Saturday afternoon contest was being televised. She wasn’t going to sit in front of the screen and watch, but would check the score from time to time while she went about her weekly chores, which included doing her laundry and tidying up her apartment. What did she have to lose? Only her sanity. Troy Briggs, as usual had left her hanging, never approaching her again at the company meeting yesterday, only offering a quick salute from across the crowded room as things were breaking up and …

[media=]

IN NYC MAYOR BLOOMBERG SUPPORTS RACIALLY PROFILING BLACK AND BROWN MEN...TO DECREASE CRIME.....BLACK,LATINO,HISPANIC AND MIDDLE EAST AMERICANS...NEO NAZI KKK IS IN EVERY CITY IN EVERY STATE........ATLANTA KKK PLAN TO ADOPT A HIGHWAY NEAR THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS...,THEY WERE SEEN WITH THEIR FACES COVERED MEANING, UNDER THOSE SHEETS,ARE POLICE,POLITICIANS,SOLDIERS ,PREACHERS AND THEIR NEO NAZI CHRISTIAN FLOCK...KLAN NEO NAZI ARE WHITE TRASH TERRORIST LIKE HITLER...../

http://blackagendareport.com/content/not-voting-obama-were-not-even-buying-voting-ticket-show Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show by Ezili Danto I speak my heart and mind on this. In 2008, Ezili’s HLLN supported a vote for Obama, not because we entirely believed the Obama fairytale (See, The America I Know, 2008.) We supported a vote for Obama in 2008 for both pragmatic and idealistic reasons. But more so because eight years of Bush and the application of the Wall Street deregulation excesses left over from Bill Clinton and others had reached a crescendo point that was shockingly, brutally horrible and demoralizing for t…

Michelle Alexander & Randall Robinson on the Mass Incarceration of Black America Part 1 of 2 (on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s bday). [media=]

www.democracynow.org Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land ( 2004) Longtime human rights activist and TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson joins us in our firehouse studios to talk about U.S. foreign policy in Africa and the Caribbean, why he refused an honorary degree from Georgetown after the CIA’s George Tenet spoke there and his latest book "Quitting America" which explains why he left the U.S. to live in St. Kitts-Nevis. [includes transcript] As we have pointed out before on the program, in his state of the union address last month, President Bush did not mention the word Africa once during the entire speech. In last …

AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY A BLACK MAN KILLS 3 BLACK MEN AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY....NEWS SAID IT WAS OVER A WOMAN.... 2 THAT WERE KILLED FORMER PLAYERS. . MORE GENOCIDE AT COLLEGE.. NAACP, BLACK CHURCH,BLACK POLITICIANS NO CONCERNED ABOUT ROBERT CHAMPION BEATEN TO DEATH ON THE FAMU BAND BUS..BLACK MAN KILLED AT A BLACK COLLEGE.. WHEN IT IS BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE NOBODY CARES,WHY IS THAT///CREFLO DOLLAR BEATS DAUGHTER,SAYS THE NEWS.I AM SICK OF THESE IDIOT PREACHERS AT THEIR MEGA CHURCHES/ HOW IS MEGA CHURCHES BUILT/IF THE BLACK POLITICIANS ARE GIVING MONEY TO PREACHERS THAT SHOULD STOP.///

I just recently completed Toni Morrison’s latest book “Home”, a novel I have been looking forward to reading because its advance notices promoted it as being set in the 1950s, an era I could relate to. Since many of Morrison’s novels take place way back in the day, I was glad she had chosen to write about what was, to me, a more recent period in history. I was curious about how Ms Morrison would portray the 1950s which have been referred to as not only a bland and innocent time populated by the “silent generation“, but also the decade that was ripe for the civil rights movement it spawned. I anticipated she would write about a passive race of people, done with being pat…

Britain apologizes for playing apartheid-era anthem By Richard Allen Greene, CNN updated 12:22 PM EDT, Thu June 7, 2012 London (CNN) -- British field hockey authorities have been forced to apologize "unreservedly" to South Africa after an old national anthem from the days of apartheid was played before an international game this week. Great Britain Hockey called the mistake "sensitive" and "unfortunate." "It was completely shocking," the chief executive of South Africa hockey said of hearing the pre-1994 anthem "Die Stem" being played before Tuesday's game in London. "I thought, 'What is that?' And when I listened further, I realized it was 'Die Stem.…

Reverend Creflo Dollar – Pastor of World Changers Ministries in College Park, Georgia near Atlanta, was arrested on family violence charges on Friday June 8, 2012. [media=]

MIAMI'S BLACK CANNAIBAL'S GIRLFRIEND WAS ON CNN NEWS.SAID SHE AGAINST CANNAIBALS..SAID SHE STILL LOVES HIM.HE USED MARIJUANA..RUDY EUGENE THE CANNAIBAL,WAS EATING THE FACE OFF A 65 YER OLD HOMELESS MAN..RUDY EUGENE WAS FATALLY SHOT BY POLICE.....I HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE- NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD,THE ORIGINAL A FEW TIMES. A BLACK CANNIBAL..AMAZING.///

The Only One Chapter 20 No, he hadn’t seen Debbie Marlowe lately, Troy Briggs ruminated as he made his way through a crowded hall in City Wide’s main office, on his way to a conference room on the other side of the building. But, then, there were a lot of people he hadn’t seen lately, including Carole Everly who had just asked him about Debbie during their conversation in the employee lounge, - an inquiry that was now inspiring a flashback… …Yeah, everything between him and his Barbie Doll had been great at first, what with how each one was trying to make a good impression. But because they were who they were, it was not natural for either of them to be…

"Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race," by Dr. Cartwright (in DeBow's Review) DRAPETOMANIA, OR THE DISEASE CAUSING NEGROES TO RUN AWAY. It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our planters and overseers... In noticing a disease not heretofore classed among the long list of maladies that man is subject to, it was necessary to have a new term to express it. The cause in the most of cases, that induces the negro to run away from service, is as much a disease of the …

BLACK CONGRESSWOMAN BERNICE JOHNSON IN DALLAS GAVE SCHOLARSHIPS TO HER RELATIVES AND HER AIDES RELATIVES, NOT SUPPOSE TO .AGAINST THE RULES OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCAS...10,000 ANUALLY GIVEN TO EACH MEMBER OF THE BLACK CAUCUS TO GIVE IN SCHARSHIPS NOT TO RELATIVES..SHE DENIED IT THEN ADMITTED IT..SAID DID NOT KNOW RULES...WHO ELSE IN CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS IS GIVING SCHOLARSHIPS TO RELATIVES,WHEN NOT SUPPOSE TO./////

African in America or African American? "The riddle of identity means I can live in the US for 20 years yet still be treated differently – by both black people and white" Mukoma Wa Ngugi guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 January 2011 08.30 EST Africans who live in America do not share the history of struggle for civil rights, and indeed, even today, do not experience racism in the same way – the 'African foreigner privilege', Mukoma W Ngugi calls it. Photograph: Corbis African in America or African American? Mukoma Wa Nguigi "You do not know what it means to be black in this country," an American-born son told his African father. He was right. W…

Who's crazy? It is really the natural healer Dr. Sebi or is it really the profit centered system that says which suggests that he is crazy? Dr. Sebi

What happens when you protest in America? Well, that depends largely on what you are protesting about, but most importantly, it depends on the color of your skin. Check these protests out and see if you can determine how and why things went awry. The first peaceful assembly starts off peacefully yet ends violently. The second peaceful assembly is met with resistance, but the resistance is dramatically different. Why? Check this out:

*Note: I thought that it would be good to post this since there is a discussion on here in which social security is mentioned** Home | FAQs | Contact Us | Text Size < div><img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="https://stats.ssa.gov/dcs5w0txb10000wocrvqy1nqm_6n1p/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&WT.js=No&DCS.dcscfg=1&WT.tv=8.6.2"/></div> Hstory Home This is an archival or historical document and may not reflect current policies or procedures …

Source: The Huffington Post Cuomo Targets Stop-And-Frisk, Seeks To Lower Number Of Low-Level Marijuana Arrests [uPDATE] Posted: 06/04/2012 9:40 am Updated: 06/04/2012 1:28 pm Entering the debate over NYPD stop-and-frisks, Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing legislation that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in public view. The Governor plans to meet with state lawmakers Monday, The New York Times reports, in an attempt to amend a state law that was the basis for the arrest of over 50,000 people in New York City last year, most of whom were black or Latino. Under the current law, possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana shoul…

Hello - I also posted the press release about these books on New Book/Press Release forum. I hope I am not overdoing. However for this forum, these books undoubtedly qualify as they relate to the well-being of the African peoples and perhaps other people in tropical, indigent settings. Given the proper attention, these books could affect the lives of millions of African people. Before I go further, allow me to relate my pedigree vis-à-vis writing about HIV/AIDS and scientific/medical material. Here's my biography as listed on Amazon.com: **** Chris Jennings (Harvard, B.A., Biology 1976/77) excels at writing scientific books that fulfill the needs o…

ON A TRUE CRIME SHOW CALLED SNAPPED.A PREACHER , PREACHER SON, AND PREACHER'S GIRL FRIEND ARE BEHIND BARS.THE PREACHER WHO LIKES BEING WITH A LOT OF WOMEN, .HAD HIS SON KILL HIS WIFE...SON SHOT PREACHER'S WIFE, PREACHER GIRLFRIEND HELPED PREACHER SON GET RID OF THE GUN..... ONE DAY AFTER BIBLE STUDY, PREACHER HAD SEX WITH A WOMAN IN THE CHURCH////WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT CORRUPT PREACHERS///BISHOP EDDIE LONG, JESE JACKSON, HENRY LYONS, A LONG LIST..PREACHER HENRY LYONS WAS BEHIND BARS 5 YEARS, HE STOLE 4 MILLION DOLLARDS.......IF LACK PEOPLE WANT BLACK MALES IN THE COMMUITY TO HAVE SEXUAL DISCIPLINE, OUR LEADERS SHOULD HAVE IT///////ON CSPAN THE C…

Re-electing President Obama Trumps Black Resistance to Same Sex Marriage Cleo Manago, CEO and founder of the Black Men’s Xchange (BMX) "For the last few weeks since President Obama became the first sitting president to endorse same-sex marriage, pundits have been obsessed with what this support will mean for this year’s election. Specifically, will Obama’s rock-solid support in the black community waiver? Of course, this obsession is predicated on the false belief by nearly everyone in the media that African Americans are somehow more homophobic than other ethnic groups. However, how exactly African Americans feel about homosexuality and why has rarely been investi…

IN 2003 12 YEAR OLD ASHLEIGH MOORE WAS KILLED BY HER STUPID MOTHER'S CONVICTED CHILD MLESTING BOYFRIEND..IF SHE KNEW HE WAS CHILD MOLESTER SHE IS QUILTY OF HER CHILD BEING KILLED.BECAUSE OF PROSECUTION INCOMPETENCE CASE DISMISSED.WHERE IS THE NAACP, CHURCHES AND BLACK POLITICIANS...////IN TENNESSSE CHRISTIANS ARE AGAINST A MUSLIM MOSQUE BUILT.....ARE THE BLACK CHRISTIANS AGAINST KLAN CHURCHES IN TENNESSEE..KLAN CLIMS TO BE CHRISTIANS.......

"Is that a right of life when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men than it is by 120,000,000 people?” Senator -Huey P. Long If only history were studied more, there would be less surprises and a lot less strategic issues. If people would study history, they would know that "today's crisis" is often old news. This address was delivered by Senator Huey Long in 1934: Radio Address by Senator Huey P. Long, of Louisiana, February 23, 1934 Ladies and Gentlemen: — I have only 30 minutes in which to speak to you this evening, and I, therefore, will not be able to discuss in detail so much as I can wr…

Stories such as these about the apartheid in Israel deserve to be heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yW2WOe1SA4 And why was journalist Helen Thomas blasted for her comments about Israel? What is it that she said that was not factual? Does offense to truth change truth into anything other than what it is? For those who did not hear what she actually said, it is here: An interview with Helen Thomas about the backlash she received about her comments about Israel. (Please pardon Joy Behar's hot and botheredness.)

From: African Writing Online Toyin Agbetu, the Nigerian founder of the African rights campaign organisation, Ligali, was recently in the news for disrupting the slavery abolition anniversary ceremonies at Westminster Abbey. He had risen to protest the sanitized and elliptical official version of the abolition story in an occasion at which the Queen and royal family, the Prime Minister and many distinguished others were present. Toyin Agbetu was arrested for his action. considers his Westminster intervention in the light of a continuing struggle for African emancipation. There are iconic moments, oc…

(Any familiar with the Stephen Lawrence case? So many parallels in the cases of Stephen Lawrence and Trayvon Martin. So many similarities in these cases being symptoms of a much larger, institutional/systemic problem. The Lawrence and Martin families recently met.) Source: The Sun: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4307008/Stephen-Lawrences-mum-welcomes-shot-Trayvon-Martins-parents.html Stephen Lawrence's mum welcomes shot Trayvon Martin's parents By NEIL MILLARD Last Updated: 11th May 2012 THE mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence yesterday showed his London memorial to the parents of a black boy shot dead in the US, tell…

This is a movie about Bro. George Jackson. Wish it were just one full movie here, but having to get it in 10 parts is better than not having it to get. :-)

The Only One Chapter 19 Chicago's summers were always slow in coming, mainly because its cold winters were so reluctant to defer to the tentative little episodes that passed for spring. But somehow the luke warm Junes showed up, hinting at better days ahead when July caught fire and August waited in the wings. Weather aside, the passing months had been a productive time for Carole Everly, a period of growth and change. And the first thing change involved, was realizing that she needed to stop making book covers the parameters of her world, needed to cease relying on fiction to escape reality. So, getting up off her ass and becoming a more active participant in…

I don't think that the problem is so much about prayer being taken out of school as it is thinking being taken out of school. Prayer in school might not be a bad thing, don't get me wrong. However, I believe that there should, more than any other campaign, be a campaign which focuses on putting thinking back in school. (George Dubya should be the poster child for WHY the now extracurricular program called "thinking" should be supported and promoted in schools.)

LAST WEEK MAURY POVICH SHOW, BLACK MAN 4 BABIES WITH 4 WOMEN, ON NANCY GRACE NEWS SHOW , BLACK MAN HAS 30 CHILDREN WITH 11 WOMEN IN KNOXVILLE,TENNESSEE.....IS IT TOO MUCH FOR BLACK MEN TO BUY CONDOMS/ BLACK WOMEN SEEMS FASCINATED WITH MEN WHO DO NOT TAKE OF CHILDREN THEY ALREADY HAVE..BLACK PEOPLE SOME, DO NOT FEAR GETTING AIDS OR HIV VIRIS..AMAZING......

This is an excellent documentary detailing the events of the Black Wall Street atrocities. Sadly, this is little known history. Please pass it on. A note about the documentary, it gets started around 5:50 time. I posted this one because it had the full version and not segments of it. The beginning is a little editorialized, but to go straight to the doc, just skip to 5:50 time. BLACK WALLSTREET (From Davey D's Hip Hop Corner) Please pass this on to the Iota Family. It's an important part of history that every Black person should know, if they don't know already. Ron Wallace: co-author of Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream Chronicles a little-know…

Lorraine Hansberry was a genius! The way in which she described institutionalized racism through characters in "A Raisin in the Sun" was brilliant. However, it is little known that her play, A Raisin in the Sun (though reflective of the story of the collective) was also very much reflective of her personal experiences. Link: http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=76,4,4,10 "Chicago native and author Lorraine Hansberry drew on childhood experiences to write her acclaimed novel-turned-play A Raisin in the Sun, in which a black family faces discrimination after buying a home in an all-white neighborhood. Hansberry was nearly eight years old when her father, Carl Han…

Spike Lee's biopic "X" is a really good movie. It tells a great deal, but this documentary, Make it Plain tells a great deal. It deals with the evolution of Brother Malcolm in ways in which many other documentaries and/or even books have not. I believe that Bro. Malcolm's evolution has really been misrepresented purposely and otherwise. This is one of the best documentaries that I have ever seen.

The Only One Chapter 18 Carole Everly was grateful for an opportunity to finally start turning her life around, and riding alongside Philip Atkins as he wheeled his BMW through the traffic on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, she felt more relaxed and upbeat than she had in a long time. “I’m glad you could fit me into your busy schedule,” Philip was saying. “Really flattered that I beat out the book you were planning to spend the evening with.” “I’m never too busy to meet with an old friend,” Carole replied. “Particularly one who wants to take me out to eat!” “A dinner invitation always works with women,” Philip chuckled. “Y’all love to be fed.” “This is true…

ON CNN NANCY GRACE NEWS, SHOWED A BLACK MAN WHO HAS 30 CHIDREN IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE..HE IS IN JAIL.DOES NOT PAY CHILD SUPPORT.WHY ARE BLACK WOMEN SEXUALLY INVOLVED WITH IRRESPONSIBLE STUPID BLACK MEN//WHY DO BLACK MEN HAVE MORE CHILDREN ,WHEN THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT CHILDREN THEY ALREADY HAVE...SEXUALLY DISCIPLINE SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN CHURCH/BUT PREACHERS CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES AND BLACK PEOPLE SUPPORT IT.....AT A LAUNDROMAT A BLACK MAN PUT A BABY IN THE WASHER AND DRIER , BABY IS FINE AMAZINGLY...MORE BLACK MORONS..PUTTING A BABY IN THE WASHER AND DRIER.......BLACK MAN HAS 30 CHILDREN WITH 11 WOMEN.. .FEAR OF AIDS DOES NOT EXIST IN BLACK COMMUNITIES...…

(Note: Would anyone happen to have a violin? You can almost hear the snobs and feel the tears and snot dripping from the screen.) "Path to National Suicide" Pat Buchanan 2007 "At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? "I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." So said Abe Lincoln to the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield. Observing the Senate last week, and looking over the latest figures from the Census Bureau, America is now risking national sui…

I can absolutely respect this.

This has got to be so hard for the family of Tyler Clementi. Can you imagine the heartbreak of the dead son as the mother of the defendant, bawled and that her son (who was possibly facing at least 10 years) had not even yet had the chance to live his life, that he already had "so much on his shoulders"? What about the Tyler Clementi? Who has less of the chance to live his life? Is the one that was breathing and looking quite indifferent as the mother of the son he had spied on cried? Or is it the one who ended his life after being humiliated by the defendant's cyber actions? I know that Ravi did not physically murder Clementi, that Clementi took his own life. Howeve…

AALBC.com Interview with President Jimmy Carter Hey Cynique Kam asked your question. I trust too much did not get loss in translation In 2002, President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." The author of 25 books, here, he talks about his latest, NIV Lessons from Life Bible.

IS THE NAACP,BLACK POLITICIANS AND CHURCH INVOLVED WITH ROBERT CHAMPIONS DEATH..HE WAS KILLED BY THE FAMU BAND HAZING ROBERT CHAMPION I THINK ON THE BAND BUS...BLACK ON BLACK CRIME AT A BLACK COLLEGE..AMAZING.////

ABC News Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics By COLLEEN CURRY May 18, 2012 The number of radical hate groups and militias has exploded in recent years in reaction to the changing makeup of America, and new census figures showing the majority of babies born in 2011 were non-white could fuel those simmering tensions, experts who track hate groups warned. "White supremacist groups have been having a meltdown since the census bureau predicted that non-Hispanic whites would lose the majority by 2050," said Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. "The demographic change in this country i…

Should Mt. Rushmore be returned to indigenous Americans? Why or why not?

Wowow, this is BIG news! Those in the mainstream media are really keeping this pretty quiet, but this is big, big, monumental (literally) news! http://www.huffingto..._n_1496120.html 05/07/2012 12:12 pm Updated: 05/08/2012 12:48 am Mt. Rushmore Site Should Be Returned To Indigenous Native American Tribes, U.N. Official Says South Dakota's Black Hills, home to the granite faces carved into Mt. Rushmore, should be restored as Native American tribal lands, a United Nations official recently said. James Anaya, a U.N. special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people, completed a fact-finding mission on Friday that included meetings with a n…