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The War on Drugs in Pictures

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I came across this Infographic while doing some research behind Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow. This sista was on point, and every interview she does adds a new dimension to the tribulation that has been the war on drugs. I didnt make this, but I thought it should be shared. Thank ya boy Ronald Regan for this...

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The Hitler-Marcus Garvey Paradigm

The Hitler/ Marcus Garvey Paradigm

Most of us see Marcus Garvey as a founding father of Pan-Africanism and a Black Moses, but he would have rather be seen as a Black Hitler. There’s a lot that says Marcus Garvey structured the United Negro Improvement Association after Hitler’s Nazi Party. Even his speaking style was modeled after Hitlers. Listen to this short clip from one...

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Idyllic Africa? Not So Much…

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@OwlAsylum and I had a convo a few weeks back on whether things were as idyllic in Africa as most Afrocentric literature makes it out to be. It turned out to be a valid question that changed my perspective on many of the great leaders that we tend to adore. I had already explored some of the conflict going...

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Black women should look outside their race for a successful man?!?!

Ralph Richard Banks is an IDIOT

Ralph Richard Banks is an ignorant and incompetent moron. I dont give a damned what college he teaches at and what his so-called credentials are. I will let you read this exerpt from the U.K.’s Daily Mail: Black women are surging ahead of black men both socially and economically, leading to a ‘relationship crisis’, says a professor of family law....

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Who is better for Blacks, Democrats or Republicans?

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Black Republican candidates (including Herman Cain and Alan Keyes) have been getting alot of attention lately, which begs the question. I just left the barber shop, almost after being tarred and feathered for some political comments I offered up. In my part of the country, the powers that be have done a magnificent job of keeping my people in...

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Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality

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The subject of race, ethnicity, and nationality have been a part of the conscious debate for as long as I can remember being in the community. Its an important question – one that forces us as Blacks in America to decide who our allegiance belongs to (Are we African? African American? Black? What do we call ourselves??) Its a...

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White Girl Detox

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Yep, another interracial dating, criticism of Black men and white women caked up in the mall like they have something “special”, screw-that-go-black type of post. But this one will be different, I promise…. I have a secret. Before I was awakened and initiated in Black thought and consciousness, I was addicted to …white girls. I have been with women...

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Keep Your Opinions To Yourself

Black debates

Instead of fighting over, focusing on, and becoming divided over our differences in OPINION, let us take a close look at our points of AGREEMENT. Cooperation amongst our people and organizations cannot consist of "tearing each other apart" as I have one organizational leader put it.

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Should The Black Community Work With Other Races to Solve Our Problems?

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Should the Black community work with other races and non Black organizations to help our conditions?

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White Values on Verge of Causing Mass Extinction

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————————————————————————————————————————————————— So thanks to the white values of capitalism and industrialization, we are all brought to the brink of extinction. In a followup to my post yesterday entitled Oil, Global Warming, and our Near Extinction, today I go to Yahoo and see the folowing article on their main page: Humans on Verge of Causing 6th Great Mass Extinction. According to a...

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