Posted in Law & Justice, Socioeconomic, Struggles on Apr 13th, 2009
Meandering through the World Wide Web, a headline – “A Child’s Questionable Arrest” caught my attention. Written by Marian Wright Edelman in 2007, the story of a 7-year-old black child unfolds. The young man was arrested (7 year old) for riding a dirt bike on the sidewalk. He (a 7 year old) was taken into [...]
Posted in Happiness, Racism, Relationships on Apr 10th, 2009
“If I am me because you are you And you are you because I am me Then I am not me and you are not you. But if I am me because I am me And you are you because you are you Then I am me and you are you.” Abe Wagner Have two [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Socioeconomic on Apr 10th, 2009
Let’s say President Obama’s bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia earns him a gift, in the form of a gesture to help shift the balance of power in America from the white upper and middle class base that currently holds it. The goal would be that 60 years from now, there would be a [...]
Why can’t Republicans attract minority votes? Strong agreement on social values hasn’t made a dime’s worth of difference at the polls. What gives? Ta-Nahesi Coates and Shelby Steele provide two interesting recent takes on the disconnect. Steele, who is among only a handful of prominent Black conservatives, says the problem is that conservatives are uncomfortable [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Business, Economics, Equity, Immigration, Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2009
“……. Northern Europeans are a superior subspecies of the white race. The Nordics were superior to the Alpines, who in turn were superior to the Mediterraneans, and all of them were superior to the Jews and the Asians.” This is how Rice University professor Stephen Klineberg described the racist immigration laws in the United States prior to [...]
Posted in Anglo-European Primacy, Business, History, Labor, Law & Justice, Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2009
Many of the tributes to John Hope Franklin included his statements on the need for apologies and reparations. I think its time for some gratitude because the only uniquely American contribution to world culture is the blues and her many children. It is said that Louis Armstrong singlehandedly created the instrumental improvised solo and the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2009
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Posted in Entertainment on Apr 8th, 2009
Photographer Delphine Fawundu-Buford is a smart, worldly woman, with a masters degree from NYU and solid commercial assignments. (Her picture of asha bandele and bandele’s daughter, Nisa, forms the cover of the author’s new book, Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, right, for example.) But she’s also quite youthful. So, as she’d not heard [...]
Posted in Education, History, Law & Justice, Politics, Religion on Apr 8th, 2009
Mahatma Ghandi, the man in the picture, has been one of the most profoundly positive influences on mankind in the last century. I suspect that his teaching of passive resistance liberated more humans non-violently than were been liberated by war.
Posted in Business, Economics, Labor, Racism on Apr 7th, 2009
One of the world’s leading diamond producers, DeBeer’s, has decided to halt production in their diamond mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, withthe reason being the current economic climate makes the project no longer viable.
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