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I have come across self perpetuating urban myths in chain e-mails that seem to never die (half truth about Denzil at a veteran hospital, Oprah/Hilfiger, Willie Lynch, Bill Gates/Microsoft free money, etc, etc...). It's amazing how people are taken in by these things. No research, verification or usage of common sense. I don't get it.....

Sorry for kibitzing, but why was Amiri Baraka calling Kola bitches? What was that all about? Just curious......

What do you expect the church, NAACP, politicians, etc to do? For the most part, no one can stop spontaneous passionate violence other than those involved. By the time others are made aware, it is usually too late. A young black man killed his mother and sister in San Diego two weeks ago. She was a 31 year veteran police detective and his sister was a young college student. The police found his mother dead in the house of stab wounds and his naked sister on the front lawn where he stabbed and threw her out the window. What was the church, NAACP or a politician supposed to do the moment he snapped? Often times such crimes may be prevented if proper authorities act or the potential victims have prepared themselves for a possible life threatening physical attack. And why are you writing in all caps.....??

Another good question. But I have no answer for this one......

It is a common practice not to announce the name of an alleged rape victim. It protects the womans anonymity. I understand this since plastering the womans face and identity all over the media, is one of the major reasons so many women will not come forth and report being raped. Tragically, there can be a cultural sigma attached to rape victims depending where it took place. This particular womans race is insignificant as far as I am concerned. A victim of a asexual assault is still a victim. Race carries no weight with me......

And your point is.......????

It’s interesting you asked that question. A friend of mine and I were discussing this exact issue two days ago. I asked her the same question being that the consequences of many black women not intelligently protecting themselves, has had devastating consequences in current black America. With unwanted pregnancies and fatherless children giving rise to and replacing the traditional two parent household, a dysfunctional baby-mama culture. And with black women being the number one rising AIDS infection group, the obvious seems oblivious to many of them. I don’t understand it and neither did she (she is also black). Your question is a good one. Why would anyone put their health and life in the hands of another person? You cannot and should not put your hopes into believing the other person will do the right thing. YOU HAVE TO PROTECT YOURSELF! Yes, tragically a number of black women were married or were into what they believed to be a monogamous relationship only to discover that their man was a down low Negro or ex-con booty transient (who they consciously chose as a partner) who infected them. This is tragic. But for many others, unwanted pregnancies, STD’s and contraction of AIDS (which black American women have the highest growing rates) can be avoided by simply taking such matters (condoms and more careful selection of sex partners) into their own hands and flexing control over their bodies and personal life. Perhaps someone can definitively answer your question because I certainly can’t……..

Brother Manning Marable just passed away after a long battle with lung complications. He was only 60 years old. But the scholary contributions he made cannot be understated. I, like so many other black Americans, knew little if anything about this brilliant black scholar. Sadly, he did not see the final publication of his meticulously researched and documented biography of Malcolm X (which has just been released). His biography of our Shining Black Prince (given by Ossie Davis) should be at the top of your books to get list. This is one of numerous videos of brother Manny at Democracy Now. Manny Marble and Malcolm X

Well, Larry Elder carries no weight with me. His slavish addiction and zealous desire to parrot the whims and interests of white conservatives is legendary. There are a number of things he has said that I agree with but his strident refusal to question or criticize the toxicity of white conservatives (Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Glenn Beck, Bush, et al...) while excoriating blacks and liberal whites at every opportunity, is unacceptable. Farrakhan is a tired aged self anointed buffoon who has made a life of race baiting, virulent antisemitism and divisive rhetoric.......

Nice rant but unfortunately, you might as well be pissing up the side of a tree in a 90 mile an hour windstorm. Your words sound like pure fiction and fantasy. Not saying that they are bad or anything like that (I agree with everything you suggested) but you are addressing the collective ineptitude of the American Negro. So, none of this (massive black entrepreneurship) is showing any signs of occurring now or anytime in the future. Sorry to be the messenger of bad news but the aforementioned is true.......

Troy, if you have to ask a ridiculously inane question like that, you don't deserve an answer. Seriously...... Wow! You really believe that? That's truly sad...... Tsk...Tsk....Tsk.....Troy, ummmmm......your thinking is becoming more bizarre and twisted by the comment. I'm really surprised to see this kind of melt down from I guy I thought was sharp and on point. Are you ok?

Well, it's not a question of the legal right to do so. Legally being able to name a child what you desire is not in question. It's the long term consequences of a generation of self ghettoization via buffoonish names and a collective obsessing with names ending with the "a" vowel (WTF?). But sadly, it is what it is......Oh yeah, I love that avatar.....

This is very true. I've always laughed when white conservatives hysterically rant and rail against affirmative action while giving Clarence Thomas a mega free pass. This shameless Negro is the poster child for affirmative action. He possess the most mediocre and unaccomplished legal career of all the Supreme Court justices. Yet he is constantly praised by white conservatives for his uber right wing leanings and his slavish aping of Federalist Society ideology. The only reason he is the celebrated darling of white conservatives is not because of an academically impressive or stellar legal career but for his parroting and wallowing in right wing Weltanschauung. There was absolutely nothing about his career that qualified him to be a candidate for the Supreme Court. And the previous statement is an irrefutable fact -not speculation, conjecture, rumination, personal opinion or hyperbole......

Well, it may not be original, but I do aree with it......

Works for me...!

Well, not much you can say about that. It's all true. I've shaken my head all my life at the blatant failure and impotency of the American Negro for the facts stated above. She is correct, no other group on this planet is more dependent and helpless than American Negroes when it comes to entrepreneurship, political and economic self determination of their own communities. All you will ever hear is vapid excuse making, finger pointing and spurious bluster of past historical injustices. Never an intelligent nor acceptable reason why other nationalities and races fill a vacuum created in the American Negroes communities because of their inability to independently sustain themselves as other groups do (Arabs, Koreans, Latinos, Jews, Italians, Poles, Vietnamese, Africans, Chinese, et al....). But I'm sure bro Troy will come up with an acceptable mea culpa for this well known discrepancy.....

It's not a problem but a consequence of freedom? Ha! Ha! Ha! That's funny. But I don't think so. Having the legal right to has nothing to do with this particular subject. And if you want to reduce the reality of a post 1970 self-ghettoization of a generation of Negroes with buffoon coon names to personal freedom, well....there's not much more to be said. You have the right to stab yourself in the eye with a lead pencil if you want to although it's something I personally wouldn't recommend; "Yo! I'm going to stick a sharp pencil in my eye because...well,it's you know...being different. Yeah, I know it probably will hurt a little but what the hell, it's my right to do so. It's called personal freedom bro. What? You have a problem with dat?" And there ya have it. As I said before Troy, if you can't see this ongoing self inflicting apocryphal travesty, there isn't much more I can say. Not worth my time nor yours to explain or debate the obvious. I guess we can break out a few cold brewski's and talk about our passion for Malcolm X or the music of Miles Davis. Something I'm sure we can agree on.......

Yep! And that's the problem.......

Don't fool yourself Troy. The U.S. is not the only country that obesses over skin color, ethnicity and race......TRUST ME!

Well, that’s because you have dug your heels in by ignoring the facts and the criteria that the people who awarded him the prize decided upon. You seem to be caught up in the Tavis Smiley hate thing that is simple minded and ridiculous (I’ll specifically address that later). First, it may have been trivial and meaningless to you, but after 8 years of saber rattling and driving the prestige and credibility the US once had into the ground under Bush, this was a startling change of events in America foreign policy. You may disagree with it and dismiss it, but it was seen as a major gesture to turn the American foreign war mongering image around. You say he accomplished nothing by doing so. This is false. It garnered the attention of our allies and others about affecting new foreign policy and peace efforts. Once again, no other major world leader has done what he did! Something you have failed to comment on or recognize. Now, I’m not suggesting Obama is free of missteps but your personal vitriol is not enough to technically diminish what he did in that short period. Bottom line is this bro Troy, we can spin wheels about this for days and I don’t see the need to do so. But to be fair, I can understand you reticence and belief in prematurity. I have no problems with that. But totally ignoring the facts and waving them off as nothing or meaningless is another matter.

Too bad it couldn't have stayed that way........