Commentaries in 2013

Phaeton 1 day ago

Where is Cory Booker?  Bing (from Detroit).  I just think it was a photo op.  Those organizations are subsidized by the government.  So it was a meet and greet for them.  You can put a zillion organizations in a black neighborhood but the big elephant in the room is the HOME.

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Knowledge Allah 1 day ago

Lets be honest, the system is what controls politics, not the person. And the system will dictate the moves of the individual, NOT the individual dictating the system. So with this fact in mind we know that the President will NOT be able to make meaningful changes towards progress within the black community because the system will not allow it. Picture white politicians and clergymen, white business owners and corporate execs giving Black America and our children the same economic, social and political power as them and their children. That would be threatening their own position within society and that no one would willingly do. They will never willingly open the doors for us to be able to compete with them or have the same control as them. Which is why for the past 6 decades unemployment amongst blacks in this country has been double that of whites. Our schools, neighborhoods and resources amongst our communities vs. that of theirs shows and proves the inequality they desire. Black people within this country generate around 1 trillion dollars annually. We already have economic power. But until we realize that power, until we come together and unify ourselves, until we organize and structure ourselves and come up with a real plan as a collective, we won't have anything. If black people want anything in this country the only we to get it is to come together and take it for ourselves. Stop waiting on Obama. That man is under the same capitalist system we all are. And under capitalism there are those who are the capital and those who capitalize off that capital. This country thrives of the prison industrial complex. So it is profitable to keep majorities of Black men within the system. It is profitable to wage war because the active system within this country thrives off of it. Etc. etc. Until we come together and demand change and stop waiting for someone to give it to us... Remember anything someone had to give you can be taken away. Add on. Peace

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Not many of us think we're Egyptian. There is evidence that many (if not most) ancient Egyptians prior to foreign conquests were people who today would be called Black, and fifty years ago would have founded themselves subject to De Jure segregation. But this no more gives me a reason to believe that I, most likely a descendant of West Africans, am really Egyptian (or descendant of ancient Egyptians), than the fact that classical Greece was phenotypically white (at least predominantly so) gives the average Euro-American grounds to believe that he's a descendant of Periclean Athenians or Spartans. The "Black" groups in Africa are at least as diverse as the "white" groups in Europe. A Black Egyptian 3300 years ago would have felt more kinship with a white or "mixed" Egyptian than with a Black from Nubia. A "White" or mixed Egyptian would have felt more kinship with an Egyptian who was Black than with white non-Egyptians in Greece or the Near East. Similarly, white skinned Hellenes or Romans would have deemed it ludicrous if you told them they were to be lumped together with Celtic or Germanic people. In a way these debates about the racial character of the ancients, and our possible descent from them, amounts to projecting our modern racial concerns onto to people for whom these concerns would have been laughably absurd. As W.E.B Du Bois wrote in DARKWATER, "The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction." Perhaps later generations will also find these concerns and obsessions laughable.

-Savant

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Most American Muslims are moderates. Maybe even most Arab Musiims are, but they do have more extremists.
I doubt that they're the majority, but there are far too many of them.

If your source if Foxnews it isn't worth looking at.
Fact the facts: YOu got outvoted, and despite the efforts of reactionaries to suppress the Black and Latin vote. That effort really backfired!

-Savant

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all the so-called "aware" folks on threads like this know that no BM, including President Obama, is in charge.The folks who decide if WIII will happen are all WM. Let's keep it real.

But some are still falling for the OLD CON GAME of racial scapegoating/distraction instead of facing the FACT that your worst enemy looks like the man or woman in the mirror.

At some point, you will have to make a choice: keep practicing racial politics OR deal with the real enemy to survive. It's just that simple

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Madraven Reply:
February 25th, 2013 at 19:50
Yeah they called her a cunt. It doesn’t surprise me that they disrespected her like that. They have no respect for older black folks so naturally our children get none. And black people definately need to stay aware as well as vigilant cause the tide is starting to turn back towards the 50′s. Anyone who can’t see that is blind. The word nigger being freely thrown around(gwyneth paltrow, lisa lampanelli, quentin tarantino), our kids devalued(too many examples to list) and movies where black folks only play maids and slaves if they’re in the movie at all(the help, django unchained). Yep it’s the 50′s all over again-peep the game people cause now they aren’t even trying to hide it.


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aries | February 22nd, 2013 at 10:47
does she refer to whites as white trash, cr_---r and things of that sort in her comedy, cause that makes it different, but I only read that she used slurs for blacks, gays, Hispanics and Asians, don’t leave out the white race, there r some names for them as well, I saw her on Donald Trump’s Apprentice and she seemed racist on there, I saw her attitude toward Arsenio Hall.


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Black Pearl | February 22nd, 2013 at 10:51
I am so sick of that damn word. Lisa Lampanelli ain’t nothing but, white trash.
I was watching Wendy when she went in on Lisa’s use of that disgusting, degrading and dehumanizing word as a form of endearment for her white friend.
For the first time I was really proud of Wendy.

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Yada3x | February 22nd, 2013 at 19:49
2nd time viewer, 1st time poster
Had a black celeb posted a photo and said they were “hanging out with their h_-- , s----, or some other offensive slur” they would have been fired from whatever show they were on or gig they had. Don’t believe me ask Isaiah Washington?
What is even more insulting is that she goes even further and tries to insult our intelligence! ‘Ask anybody who reads the urban dictionary it means friend’?? What urban dictionary is she referring to? But I mean they do say “if you ever want to hide something from a black person put it in a book”, so I guess what the word was set to represent historically is a non m_------g factor in the 2Gs. Its a word that can not be put into context by people who aren’t black, thats the bottom line.
Now I usually don’t refer to my friends as my n------- in general conversation. Don’t get me wrong back in the day I did use it as a substitution for a BLACK PERSON WHO IS REFERRING TO THEIR BLACK FRIEND (or friend of any other race, but be careful because that is how they get more comfortable with it), but now its my peeps, my chicas, my boy, or heres one for shock value…my friend. As a word for friend I don’t use it anymore. That would be like me saying “I was bailing down the street”. No, I’m going to say I was walking. Its just played out. Black people are so far ahead when it comes to setting the standard on what is cool, that when others try to do it its usually a fail because we are on to the next. People have been copying us for so long they think the s---- is theirs. But I don’t think that was the case with Lisa, I agree with whomever said she was trying to check the “race temperature”. Well it stay hotter than fish grease and if you don’t believe me ask Al Green!
It could definitely be argued amongst us folks that we give the word too much power, when used outside of our race. But just like we set the standard on cool, we set the standard on forgiving, and black people will continue to check for Lisa just like we continue to check for other people who have said and done worse. So to the person who thought we have more issues plaguing our community, you are trying to treat a disease with a bandaid. Where do you think all of the self destruction came from? If you don’t think removing that word from our vocabulary would have a ten fold effect in a positive direction then you need your ghetto pass revoked. I am not so much of an idealist to say that it would eradicate our problems but words are powerful. This one happens to stir emotions both love, hate, and still worse, self hate. Even if we hear it as term of endearment, we still hear its other meaning. And when we have been conditioned to still believe that someone of another race is the authority and master on all things relating to us, on top of the fact that their use of the word has a negative connotation; it can be said by millions out of love but all it takes is one of us to believe and act on its negative meaning. Thus the creation of so called Black on Black crime (which will always be highest among black people, the same as white on white crime or any other race. I hate when people cite those stats) and everything else you see as a more pressing problem.
And somebody tell Lisa black folks put baby powder under their shirts, not in the middle of their face.
PS. Don’t know who you are Jacky (yes I will google next) but last night my friend told me I have to check out the site. Definitely digging it.


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azumanation 2 weeks ago

Also we must bear in mind that a week before the premiering of Django BET & other mainstream broadcasting stations aired Roots/slave documentaries back to back repetitiously for a whole week straight as if they were preparing our minds to be seeded by the movie Django??? remember black people a white director like Quentin Tarantino could never depict the true ugliness of slave history to white America because it would have severely offended it. so in essence the movie was watered down....

cont'd...painfully this was easy to trick so many of them due to the fact that they went to that movie to be entertained. so many of them only could pick up the exoteric meaning of the film. neglecting to see the esoteric meaning of the movie that shot pass their conscious mind & embedded it's self into their subconscious mind. as I stated before their minds have long since been put in a trance induced state when viewing Quentin's movies. yep the Genie is right we are in big trouble!!!!

Django made me realize that a lot of brothers & sisters that claim to be conscious is not conscious at all! their lack of basic Psychoanalysis & Subliminal perception skills rendered them to be sucked into the muck of celluloid oblivion... many of them surprised me that they could not pick up many of the triggers that was hidden all throughout the movie? this is because their minds had been thoroughly conditioned & fried by Quentin Tarantino movies years before they became so called conscious.



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I really dont care who other people date, but as a black woman i am tired of being talked down to by other blacks (mostly women) because i strongly prefer black men.   Is it such a crime that i want a black family like the one i had growing up (newsflash!! i had a mother and a father, both black)? Are other races of women made to feel bad because they have a partner that looks like them?  Maybe we should spend more time coming together and  uplifting one another instead of running away from issues.  And by the way, not every black man thinks or behaves like IceT.  Just like not every man is a drug dealer, rapper, or has a baby mamma.


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That is the problem many weren't raised with a Black mother and father, so they don't have any value in raising or being a part of a Black family. The concept is foreign or not that important. They don't have the same experiences or memories. That's why many of them are running scared to other groups instead bettering themselves and the community. And other races see their dysfunction and lack of foundation and want no parts of it.

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Lamonikamarie                                                                    

Ummm tigerlily01 your way off! Every black man is not on drugs or passing out aids. You sound really stupid. My husband is hard working monogamous never been in jail no baby mamas......black women are allowed to love and want a black man.......

 

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Most black men DO NOT f_----- anything. Ice T, speak for yourself. And while you're at it, grow up! There is nothing worse than an old GERITOL PIMP reminiscing about the early 1970s.

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toomuch | February 22nd, 2013 at 22:57
No one should be using the “n” word. It’s disrespectful no matter what color you are. Lisa Limpshit is friends with Lena Dunham who already has problems with people of color. Birds of a feather flock together.

RamthaIKnow2 2 weeks ago

How to detect a fake "conscious" brotha or sista.....they'll not know our history or very little of it. They rarely research or read; they're still under the spell of western culture, fall head first for every war tactic devised against us ( there are many)....for our demise. They do not recognize who our enemies are...will run to this movie and think it's "great". They themselves use "n" in reference to themselves & each other. BOYCOT THIS MOVIE!!

Black Pearl | February 24th, 2013 at 15:10
People like Lisa Lampanelli and others like her who continuously use the N-word are one of the problem of our race. And for those of you who don’t think that it is a problem, then you are apart of the problem. I feel sorry for you.
I don’t support LL or any of the rappers who use the word. None of my family, friends or associates uses the word. If they use the word, it’s not around me.
White folks know that many of us will talk loud but, do nothing. They know that they can say and do anything they want to us and we will always crawl back to massa.
Quentin Tarantino wasn’t worried about black folk going to see his movie, he said that black folks understood him. I don’t support anybody whether they are black or white that disrespects our race.

MegaMalik30 1 year ago

and the social ills we have picked up even more than anyone else is a leftover remnant of the destruction from enslavement and present day institutional racism and prejudices which purposely has tried to make black people hate each other more and more and not focus,unite or build with each other to build our people up to the power we once had, which requires for the black man and black woman to have a strong family structure, which strengthens and recycles strong black people as a whole
MA'AT

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b3autiphulmokha 1 year ago

we need these positive images of black love!!!

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Agreed. Those right wing efforts in Florida and other states to suppress or at least stifle tha Black (and Latin) vote would have been even more extreme were the Voting Rights Act not available to block them. The Right is more or less determined to re-established Jim Crow in new forms.

-Savant

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Actually, there was a brilliant civilization in Mali and Snnghai that was predominanly Muslim. But Muslim invaders from the North, far less civilized than the culture of Songhai (as Vandals and Goths, though Christian, were less advanced than Romans) demolished the society. They demolished libraries and; or stole books (as commodities for sale; they weren't interested in LEARNING). And I think that the Univerasity of Timbuktu scholar Ahmed Baba, was taken captive and his library seized. But West Africans were less fortunate after the fall of Timbuktu than West Europeans after the collapse of Rome. For barely had Songhai collapsed than West Africa was beset by the slave trade. Songhai, had it survived, might have at least stifled and limited the slave trade if not ended it altogether parts of Africa.

Oui, ll'influence des poetes de Negritude. Mais l'ecriture aux DAMNES DE LA TERRE is plus lucide. C'etaot plus populaire aussi pendant les annees 60s parmi les revolutionnaires come Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, etc. Even Dr. King, who describes LES DAMNES DE LA TERRE as "well written", can hardly conceal his admiration for Fanon's call to try to "set afoot the new man." (But, of course, King regrets Fanon's call pour la revolution VIOLENT contra l'imperialisme. Comme dit Dr. King "Revolution, oui! La violence, no".)


-Savant

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You apparently didn't understand my analysis. Revolutionizations of the instruments of production has always been a part of capitalism, more so than in any previous social order. But previously the results were labor saving devices which revolutionized social and economic life. Human labor produced those earlier technologies as well. HUman labor under capitalism has craated the new LABOR REPLACING devices. This portends not simply the change in labor--as in earlier changes from agricultural production by peasant cultivators to industrial production by urban and industrial workers. It carries the prospects of the elimination of labor as such. We've already seen indications of that, and some people foresaw this development as far back as the 1950s &60s when they were talking about automation. As the progress of this revolution under capitalism continues, it may well be the DISAPPEARANCE of labor that we face. Initially, it was unskilled labor that was eliminated. And one of the reasons why Black or Latino laborers face such high unemployment, even before the reat of the nation, is due to the fact that the racial caste system kept them disproportionately locked into that level of the economy. But now the elimination fo labor is moving up the scale, destroying the livelihoods of middle class professional people as well. Actually, the disappearance of labor has a potentially positive side. Under more democratic conditions it could mean greater leisure (the basis of freedom and culture) for ORDINARY people. Such leisure and freedom has historically only been available to the elites. But under capitalism, and elitist class system like all others, the disappaerrance of labor means economic ruin. Moreover, to defend its privileges while ruining the masses the 1% must erode our civil liberties as well. For eventually the people will resist--the global Occupy insurgencies and labor uprisings being perhaps mere a foreshadowing of things to come. Without economic democracy we cannot sustain political democracy. (Civil liberties are increasingly under attack under BOTH Republican and Democratic administrations). Economic ruin and political tyranny--both already under way--spells a future of barbarism

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And the only MACEO I know (or know of) is a brother from Bmore's Black Panther Party who had to split for Sweden when the cops nearl killed him, is wife and their baby boy in his crib. A brother, recently deceased named Truxton, told me about this. Truxton (formerly with the Deacons for Defense) tells me that about 2 or 3am, Bmore police pulled up in front of Maceo's house and OPENED FIRE!The place was riddled with bullets. A bullet went through the head board of the baby's crib. Maceo decided to leave the USA and go to Sweden, which was probably the most progressive country in Europe at that time. I don't know if he ever returned or evenif he's still alive. As for Loulou, she seems not to have the high level of social consciousness that I've heard was so common in Scandinavia. Now the few Scandinavians I've met seem to be pretty cool. And I know that Dr. King--on one occasion even Malcolm X---spoke very highly of Scandinavia. But all countries have different kinds of people with diffeent mindsets. Of course, it could some Scandinavians are moving toward the right. After all, Breivak didn't just drop out of the sky.

-Savant

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Are you really from France? Stephane Hessel is VERY well known there, and your posts reeks of the ignorance of somone on the mental level of OhReally. READ INDIGNEZ VOUS! before you express any opinions about it. Either that or expose yourself as a fool. Now just for starters: Hessel was a member of the FRENCH RESISTANCE under Nazi occupation. He also survived and escaped one of the Nazi camps. He joined the Free French forces under De Gaule; and with Eleanor Roosevelt helped to create the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. He was an OPPONENT of colonialism. A Jewish man, he supported both Israel's right to security and Palestinian rights to national sovereignty. He opposed both Arab terrorism and Israeli human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank--thus adopting a more discriminationg and balanced attitude than one normally finds with people who weight in on this issue. And Hessel non calls for NONVIOLENT resistance to plutocracy and corporate power, resistance to militarism and racism. And he invokes Gandhi, King & Mandela as the voices with the messages of greatest relevance to our times. INDIDNEZ-VOUS! has sold millions of copies worldwide, and became popular within the Occupy Movement. Indeed, it was first brought to my attention by a BLACK student involved with the Occupy Movement. Now kindly INFORM yourself before making judgments on Hessel or others whom you know not, or commenting on books or ideas you've not studied or even read. If you really are a Black person (from Europe, Africa or wherever) then stop writing drivel that is more in keeping with American anti-intellectual pish posh

-Savant

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The system of economic (as well as racial) inequality is imperiling more and more people, even educated people who were relatively secure one or two generatons ago. I'm a homeowner, or rather I'm paying a mortgage. But the real difference between me and most of the folk with whom I grew up in East Baltimore, is that they're ONE paycheck from homelessness and destitution while I'm probably two or three paychecks away. And the difference between me and many of my fellow academicians or educated professionals, is that I'm AWARE of this fact while too many of them are hiding from it.

-Savant

http://www.topix.com/forum/afam/TKA2JE8504JCPD3V9/p4


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Contemporary capitalism IS corporate. It is certainly no longer (if indeed it ever was) some community of freeholders envisioned by Jefferson.

-Savant

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holycrap wrote:

The last man standing is the total opposite of capitalism. Capitalism needs people. People are the most valuable resource in capitalism.
Those who believe they are following capitalism using the last man standing model are the ones ruining capitalism.

People have long had the status of commodities under capitalism. But before the electronic revolution within capitalism people were at least still needed for labor. Previously, technological revolutions within capitalism served to create labor saving devices which enhanced the productivity of labor while requiring less labor to create more and more wealth.
But somewhere along the way, with the electronic revolution, capitalist technological revolutions moved from creating labor saving devices to creating LABOR REPLACING devices. Now a robot can probabably produce more cars than could a thousant auto workers in the 1960s or 70s. They've even got robots that can do hip replacement surgery. That why you hear about "jobless" economic recoveries after a slump. In the 1960s a recovery meant greater employment. But as it has becoe increasingly possible to create wealth without labor, and by means of the very technology created by labor, the worker is becoming obsolete.
Now the market is not concerned about the inherent worth of the human being, or the "sacredness of the human personality," of which Dr. King and other Christian humanists spoke. Labor and the laborer is of value only if he can expand production and profit. Otherwise he (or she) is, from a capitalistic standpoint, without any value. Things take priority over person.
Why feed or pay the laborer when you can create wealth without him or her?
Our quest for the righ to be human, to live with dignity as human beings, increasingly puts us at odds with capitalism.
Civilized life can no longer be sustained on a capitalistic foundation. WE must create a new more cooperative society with democatic governance of technology and wealth centered in human communities.
Otherwise our future will be a nightmare. The struggle is now a fight between civilization an barbarism. Capitalism is the path toward barbarism,


-Savant
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@MegaMalik30 I have to tell the truth, When Dr Umar Abdullah Johnson speaks I just get energized and ready to assist this Brother in doing what he gotta do or we gotta do as a people. Oh Im excited about this brother here fam. I see something!

-A Person

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MegaMalik30 1 year ago

There's nothing wrong with you all labeling it black love and marriage, and making that the staple point for exactly that....we as a people have to be able to have something for ourselves without being targeted for assimilation ....the divide between black men and black woman has come to be due to the social set up of this land, and the assimilational tactics of amerikkka in the first place.....

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The sky is not falling, and nobody stole the election from Romney--, as Republicans arguably stole the 2000 election with their shennanigans in Florida, and TRIED to steal ther 2013 election by attempting to suppress or stifle the Black and Latin vote.
By the way, I've read that nearly half of Republican voters believe that the 2013 election was stolen by ACORN. But thanks to the McCarthyistic campaign against ACORN it has not existed since 2010. And I can assure you that the GHOSTS of ACORN didn't steal the election either.
America is changing. It the fault of the Right if it is out of touch.
Now you try to make a LAUHABLE personal insult. But every INTELLIGENT and EDUCATED poster in AA Forum KNOWS that Savant is very well educated. Far more so that you. You may wish to take your childish insults elsewhere.
Again, Romney LOST the election. Nobody stole it from him. No Communist or Muslim conspirators were involved either, little boy. LOL!950

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Bigsmoke wrote:

Not even. You claimed blacks here haven't produced a single genre I showed you otherwise, I wasn't bragging about it considering I do not like Jungle, Grime or Dubstep but just UK Funky. Cut the crap about the EU I am just talking about the UK which is what I know.
Nonsense Herc is considered the founding father. Hip Hop has clear Caribbean influence. It's clearly an inner city mixing of cultures something I can relate to being from London which is similar to NYC in that regard. Blues, Jazz, R'n'B yes it's entirely ''African American'' but Hip Hop/Rap sorry it's not.

There's evidence that older DJs in Brooklyn and Queens were developing turntable techniques before Kool Herc in the Bronx. Guys like Grandmaster Flowers, the Disco Twins and the Smith Brothers. In fact there's recently been a documentary dedicated to the subject entitled "Founding Father: The Untold Story of Hip-Hop".

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Hip-Hop as a music genre was born when The Sugar Hill Gang release "Rappers Delight". It was conceived by jazz-poetry, and slaves who rhymed on plantation fields(signifying). And it's godfathers include the Last Poets, James Brown and Rudy Ray Moore.



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attai1 wrote:

Correct Sir but where does it come from ?
isn't it a consequence of the white matrix ? some, whether AAs or Africans, are so eager to look at themselves along the "whiteness" scale and criteria - at every level - that it is translated in an unhealthy competition between the 2 groups when the conditions that put both groups down have been set up neither by AAs nor by Africans but by whites.
a whiteboi

The legacy of slavery, colonialism, etc, The psychological consequences thereof which Fanon speaks of in Peau Noir, Masques Blanc.
Perhaps the American dimension of what you call the "white matrix," and its effects on our perception of Mother Africa and Africans, can be seen in these words of James Baldwin:
"At the time that i was growing up, Negroes in this country were taught to be ashamed of Africa. They were taught it bluntly, as I was, for example, by being told that Africa had never contributed "anything" to civilization. Or one was taught the same lesson more obliquely, and even more effectively, by watching naked, dancing, comic-opera, cannibalistic savages in the movies. They were nearly always bad, sometimes funny, sometimes both. If one of them was good, his goodness was proved by his loyalty to the white man." (NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME, pp.79--80)
Think about decades of that kind of conditioning, that psychological colonialism, and it is hardly surprising that the misunderstandings between Africans & African-Americans are as bad as they often are.
I know from reading African and Caribbean writers that experiences analogous to our experience happened in other parts of the Black world as well.
But the more ADVANCED Black people in America, Africa and elsewhere don't simply yield to this, but try to transcend it.

-Savant

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The powers-that-be often do

beverly - 02/13/2013 - 21:46

The powers-that-be often do more harm than good. Instead of demanding the powers do something, it may be wiser to pool ideas and resources amongst yourselves to tackle the issue on a local level. On the flip side, those who demand (in the case of King Barry, they more than likely politely suggested) action against inner city gun violence are stone cold silent with regards to demanding jobs, healthcare, education, and infrastructure improvements in the inner city. These things would do more to reduce violence (of the gun variety or otherwise) in inner cities and in any other location. As usual, the focus is on the wrong issue.

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Why aren't they putting the fire out?

Cynical Negro - 02/12/2013 - 20:57

Did they kill him and burn the body and all evidence?
We would've preferred they kept him alive and put him on trial. Or left the body for autopsy
1. The black face on white global oppression is attacking Africa
2. The New Nat Turner emerges: Christopher Dorner
Coincidence?
Alex Joker Jones promotes the idea that white people are the target. Ofcourse we don't believe this.
Are all Black's, Asians, arabs & Muslim, Latino Americans going to be interned as the white man goes nuts globally?

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This is true not only in the hood, but everywhere. We judge ourselves and each other by the size of our wallets, the quantiies of our trinkets, and our so-called "status. " Consuerism, acquisitiveness and possessive individualism erodes our moral core and community life. When I talk to my middle class students about their aims in education, for most it's about making more money or achieving greater status. Not about an intense spiritual search for values, or the pursuit of knowledge, or social justice and the uplifting of community. Dr. King was right: We need a REVOLUTION OF VALUES. Malcolm X was right: WE need a CULTURAL REVOLUTION to de-brainwash our people. (Frankly, whites need this too. But it's OUR PEOPLE that I'm speaking of now).

-Savant

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Yeah, and the whole of the history of white America shows how lawful whites are--from Jesse James, to the 5 point gangs, to Capone, Luciano, Richard Nixon, and the long tradition of such lawful activity as lynching and mob violence. Strange that Jesse James, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde and numerous others were seen as popular heroes

-Savant

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You know, even our religious life if affected by these things. Now the so-called prosperity churches are edging out the more prophetic congregations. Somewhere in DEMOCRACY MATTERS AA philosopher Cornel West asks how it is that Dr. King's "I have a Dream" has been replaced by the "bling bling." After making his criticisms of Marx, King nonetheless argues that "capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a LIFE. We are more prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than the quality of our service and relationship to humanity...." Is life not more than bread and the body more than raiment, Du Bois asks. West believes that in the post-1960s era vital communal institutions (which promote caring, service, etc) are frayed as market oriented values become dominant. Such values always had their influence, but previously those materialistic values were not the ONLY game in town. So, how do we turn this situation around 

-Savant

http://newsone.com/2188016/freedom-wright-atlanta/

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trollslayer wrote:

your thoughts on apple cider vinegar

Its been used for thousands of years for medicinal purpouses. One in aiding digestion,and also for losing weight. It can help stimulate hydrochloric acid in the stomach(which is responsible for breaking down foods). If you don’t produce enough hydrochloric acid, you can be classified as having an “underactive stomach”(also called hypochlorhydria). Symptoms include excessive gas and belching after meals, as well as an “over full” feeling, abdominal pain and cramping.

Chinese medicine guru dr. Mao wrote about how apple cider vinegar can balance the digestive system. Here’s his take:

“Traditionally apple cider vinegar is used to remedy digestive distress, aid in detoxification, and to reduce intestinal bloating. Mix one tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar with 12 ounces of warm water and drink it in the morning on an empty stomach. The acetic and butyric acids promote gastrointestinal health by balancing your pH and encouraging friendly bifido bacterial growth.”


-Capricon Black


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Shiron55 minutes agoin reply to tracy smith

Unfortunately, sometimes we as Black folks get in our OWN way too! We can do ANYTHING we put our minds to--this lie that Whites have always tried to perpetuate about Blacks being intellectually inferior is garbage! The years I have spent in college (currently in graduate school), I can say first-hand that Africans in particular, CONSISTENTLY out-scored everyone else in the classes I took! I remember years ago being in a class with a student from Ghana who had the highest scores in Algebra, Calculus, and Geometry for the whole program--when the teacher announeced this, the look of shock (and jealousy) on the White students faces was priceless!

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Mike Stein7 hours ago

This kid is a GENIUS! As a long time tournament chess player and expert myself, I know what goes into becoming a master at the game, which is higher than my standard....Just like a small number of geniuses excel to an outstanding level at a young age in their particular area....it takes an outstanding level of natural talent, lots of study, and a master's level of direction to create a Master of chess at 12. It does not occur often, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
The only other kid I remember that became master at 12 years old was Bobby Fisher, who later became the world's Strongest Grandmaster and International Champion, before retiring in the early 1970's
To put it in clearer perspective, over 96% of all tournament level chess players (non tournament players can never become as strong as top tournament players) can practice, study, and take chess lessons for 40 years, AND NEVER REACH THE LEVEL OF MASTER.
Mazel tov young brother, the world of competitive chess looks forward to you becoming a GRANDMASTER!

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Not to Dispute the Premise of this Article - I Do Feel...

Nixakliel - 02/08/2013 - 23:38

Where the Author's Coming From....

BUT- IMO this is a must see article especially when coupled w Bruce Dixon's article 'The Real & Racist Origins of the 2nd Amendment'. - From Mother Jones: 'How the NRA Helped Fuel the Largest Prison Boom in History' - The Big House That Wayne LaPierre Built: } The NRA spent millions in the 1990s pushing the largest prison construction boom ever—and harsh sentencing to keep them full. {[@ www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/wayne-lapierre-crime-strike-three-s... ]

Of course the article skirts the fact that Ole Slick Willie on one hand came up w the assault weapons band, but on the other co-opted & climbed in bed w the NRA's LaPierre & ole Newt Grinch-witch get tough on crime mantra by backing 100 to 1 sentencing RE: crack vs powered coke [FYI: the CIA's finger-prints were all over the 1980's crack epidemic w Mena AR as a focal point on Ole Slick Willie's watch] under the phony 'War on Drugs' paradigm, 3 strikes laws, 100,000 cops on the street, etc- which all fueled the racist Prison Industrial Complex [= BIG BIZ].
IMO the NRA / gun-lobby wants more guns out there because for them it means more Profit$$$! They could care less if guns are in the hands of [Black & Brown] criminals [causing havoc in the Hood & the Barrio]- because that helps to secure cops' jobs & makes prisons a 'growth' industry- Furthermore the hype helps to convince whites that they need to pack even more heat to keep Black & Brown thugs at bay! All of that = BIG $$$ for the NRA & Gun-lobby!
IMO: The problem w the current 'liberal' gun-control debate is the same problem w Gitmo / Abu Ghraib / Bahgram torture debate. Liberals often talk about gun control in a vacuum while conveniently ignoring discussing reigning in the US' exploding Military Industrial Surveillance Security Complex, which fuels US imperialism & Rapidly unfolding Police State- all of which is coupled to the fact that the US is by far the world's largest weapons dealer & spends as much on it's DoD / CIA / NSA / DHS as the rest of the world combined! Such a discourse is at-best short-sighted if not out-right hypocritical! - Just as 'Liberals' hyping torture at Gitmo & Abu Ghraib while ignoring the fact that torture in the US' Racist Prison Industrial Complex / Criminalized {in}Justice System has been common practice for decades if not centuries- along w the fact that cops & cop wanna-be [ala Zimmerman] gun-down unarmed Blacks & Browns at the rate of 1/day w near impunity- is at best short-sighted if not out-right hypocritical!

And when I see 'liberal' gun-control advocates hyping NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg as the US' foremost advocate for gun-control, even though he oversees the US' most notorious legalized racial profiling regime [aka 'Stop & Frisk'] for his entire tenure- as well as continously 'sanctioning' the NYPD's notorious track-record of gunning down unarmed Blacks w near impunity- It's enough to make me wanna PUKE!!!

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Negro Puhleez

Enlightened Cynic - 02/08/2013 - 18:35

There aint one soul in predominantly Black, overwhelmingly Democratic Detroit that's giving up his "piece." I overheard a conversation one day at the fitness center, an older Black man shot 2 home invaders, per protocol the police confiscated the weapon, he told his friend he was going out to purchase another one right away. Only a fool believes in "gun control."

Given the creeping facism in America escalated by Obama, frankly even the White zenephobes ain't so crazy when they talk about defending themselves against the government. Law enforcement is in bed with the corporatists and elitists, the US DOJ cooperates with Wall St.
Only Elitist Whites and Blacks who live in gated communities support gun control.
When dead Black kids were piling up this summer in Detroit and Chicago like wood cords, I didn't hear any outcry nor see any tears shed. Why won't Obama deploy federal resources for Black on Black crime, or spearhead prison reform so non-violent offenders don't come out as monsters?
Even Obama does'nt believe in gun control, he's just giving it political lip service. How can a man who presides over a "Kill List" and who has started more wars and conflicts, and created more death and destruction than George W. Bush talk about gun violence? How many drone assassinations did he orchestrate when he gave his weak as water speech in Minneapolis? As fire, police and EMS services are deeply cut nationwide, only a fool believes 911 is to the rescue.
With over 300 Million weapons (and counting) in the public domain, gun control is a liberal panacea and feel-good, jerk session. Frankly, we should have all purchased stock in Smith and Wesson because since Obama got into office, you can barely buy a gun or ammo because White folks done gone buck wild over fears of gun confiscation.

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Beware of the current gun

beverly - 02/07/2013 - 22:59

Beware of the current gun control debate - it could be another Trojan Horse. Sounds good on paper - ban military assault rifles. But read the fine print of any bill proffered by Washington DC to make sure there are no loopholes that allow ban of handguns owned by millions of people for protection. The govt wants us scared s------ (see: War on Terror, false flags and all), poverty striken, ignorant, AND unarmed to facilitate the globalists' fascist agenda.


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LOL. LOL.
Now, I know I have seen everything. Him trying to advance Black Power is like Osama bin Laden claiming to be an true believer in the agenda of George W. Bush. That is like saying that David Duke is the most pro Black man in the history of all creation. The reality is that laissez faire capitalism and radical privatization is neither the exilir to solve our problems neither are they are words of salvation. Ignoring corporate corruption and economic inequality will lead into feudalism and ignoring altruism. These methods of Tea Party rhetoric & old school reactionary backward thinking are not the ways that we can see the Keys to the Kingdom. He omits that both parties have failed greatly the real needs of African Americans. This is beyond left vs. right or Democrat vs. Republican. It is about whether human beings have individual and collective rights or we don't. A real solution is using both private and public tools in the right way. There is nothing wrong with Black Power indeed, but we need immigrant rights and a strengthen of voting rights (which Nugent wants to eliminate among those having welfare). We need to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act. Nugent doesn't desire real Black Power (in opposition to white supremacy). He just want blacks to be under his ideological control and bow down to his way of thinking. Instead, I will bow down to God alone not to any reactionary white man. My black people know what time it is.


-By  Timothy (Me)

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NATO Supporting the jihadi's in the Arab muslim world, but....

Cynical Negro - 02/09/2013 - 16:13

Bombing the Jihadi's in the Black muslim world:
"Making sense of Mali's armed groups"
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/20131139522812326.html
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
AQIM is a mostly Algerian and Mauritanian group that has been present in northern Mali since 2003 and which has kidnapped and held more than 50 European and Canadian hostages for ransom in the last ten years earning what is estimated to be well over $100m.
Niger's foreign minister Mohamed Bazoum recently said that AQIM's presence in northern Mali was part of a deal between the group and the deposed President of Mali Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT), a deal brokered by ATT's close political associate Iyad Ag Ghali [Ansar al-Dine].
Hostage ransom money from European governments was allegedly spread around to Malian officials while AQIM was given free rein in Tuareg areas, with a wink and a nod from the Malian Army.
AQIM is currently holding at least nine European hostages in northern Mali.
Over the last decade a few local Ifoghas, Tuaregs and Arabs joined AQIM in Mali, and their members also inter-married with the community. However now that AQIM are openly circulating in the main cities of northern Mali, and thanks to its association with local groups like Ansar al-Dine, the group has become more mainstream.
Now youths from southern Mali, Senegal, Niger and other countries have come to join them under the rubric of the Islamic Police which AQIM has a direct hand in running.
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An "exclusive" Al Jazeera report from inside northern Mali.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/2012review/2012/12/2012122810...
How did al-Qaeda get here?
Al-Qaeda has based itself in northern Mali for 10 years, as part of an alleged secret agreement with Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT), the president of Mali who was deposed in a military coup in March 2012 as northern cities were falling to Tuareg rebels.
During ATT's presidency, AQIM amassed an outrageous fortune in Mali – collecting up to $250m in hostage ransoms from Western governments for more than 50 European and Canadian hostages kidnapped over the past decade, usually from neighbouring Niger.
At this moment there are still European hostages being held by al-Qaeda in northern Mali pending delivery of a $132m ransom.
The ransom negotiations, which were carried out under the auspices of the presidency, were confirmed by the Wikileaks cables to be a goldmine for the Malian VIPs involved - with each receiving his cut of the jackpot including, according to a former Malian official with knowledge of the deals, the president himself.
Another powerful individual alleged to have enriched himself from hostage ransoms was ATT's close political and business associate Iyad Ag Ghali who has been involved in nearly every al-Qaeda hostage negotiation since the first one in 2003.
Iyad Ag Ghali is the head of al-Qaeda offshoot Ansar Dine, and the closest thing Mali has to a Mullah Omar.
Now Mali's closest neighbour seems to be confirming the deal.
Niger's foreign minister Mohamed Bazoum recently told the French National Assembly:
"ATT was very proud to appear on the steps of his palace trying to return former hostages to their country. But there was a deal with AQIM, which kidnapped the hostages in Niger and Mauritania before taking them into Malian territory. The hostages were then released through the mediation of the Malian president. And his emissary was often Iyad Ag Ghali."
For years Malian Tuaregs have been complaining that their government was in bed with al-Qaeda, but their cries fell on deaf ears.
"Mali opened the field to Al Qaeda- to roam among the camps and villages, to build relationships with the people… Mali facilitated Al Qaeda."
-Colonel Al Salat Ag Habi,Commander MNLA
According to numerous northern residents, AQIM fighters have been circulating openly in Tuareg towns, not for the past year, but for the past 10 years; shopping, attending weddings, and parading fully armed in the streets, in front of police stations and military barracks.
Colonel Habi ag Al Salat, a Malian army commander who defected in 2011 to join the MNLA, was one of the first to notice the Algerian fighters from the Salafi Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) entering Tuareg towns of the far north such as Aguelhoc, which was under his command.
But when Habi warned his army superiors they told him to stand down and leave the men alone because they were "not enemies" of Mali. When the GSPC changed its name to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, following a pact announced by Ayman Al Zawahiri, that policy did not change.
"Mali opened the field to al-Qaeda - to roam among the camps and villages, to build relationships with the people," says Habi.

"Local people benefitted up to a point from the trickle down of money flowing to al-Qaeda by way of Mali.
And this ensnared many of our youths who are unemployed.
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And finally...
"Qatar plays key role in US Middle East/North Africa plans"
By Jean Shaoul
9 February 2013
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/09/qata-f09.html