President Obama unleashed a storm of condemnation with his May 9 public statement in support of gay marriage, and changed the political conversation. But with the American economy in free-fall, police brutality reaching epidemic proportions, and the military and prison industrial complex operating at full steam, shouldn’t we be talking about something else? Is the [...]
As a high school student back in 1999, I made the comment that “if there is ever another Amadou Diallo, then his death would have been in vain”. In case you have forgotten who Amadou Diallo is, he was a 23-year-old African immigrant who was shot 19 times by plain clothes police officers. Diallo was [...]
In plain terms, there is a direct relationship between the forced enslavement of Black men into white society, the ongoing fear of Black men by White men, the racist global system of white supremacy that we all live in, and the feminization of Black men in Western society. The formula is simple (Emasculization + Effeminization [...]
Who Is Joseph Kony? A picture is worth a thousand words. This video speaks volumes. Watch it now. It might be the most important video you see all day. How We Screwed Up Back in October of 2011, President Obama authorized a small group of Marines into Africa to destroy the Lords Resistance Army and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
@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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
