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Re: What Celebs Would You Like To Meet? (Dead or Alive)
Well, there are so many with this revised criteria. Here are some quick picks Jesus - Yeshua ben Yosef Mary - Miriam, mother of Yeshua W.E.B Du Bois Nat Turner Anton Wilhelm Amo Cheikh Anta Diop Sojourner Truth Leopold Senghor Toussaint L'Ouverture Franz Fanon Ahmed Baba Akhenaten Fannie Lou Hamer Harriet Tubman
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Re: African or African American Philosophers
Contemporary African/African philosophers would include Cornel West (pragmatist) K. Anthony Appiah (anglo/american) Lewis Gordon (phenomenology/existentialism) William Jones (existentialism) Paget Henry (continental/social critical theory) Lucius T. Outlaw Michael Dyson (analytical/pragmatism) Naomi Zack Angela Davis (Frankfurt School/Critical Theory) Eddie Glaude (pragmatism/phiosophy of religion) James Kirk Cameron (pragmatism/philosophy of religion) Victor Anderson (pragmatism/philosophy...
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Re: The Cruel Denunciation of "Duke" Cunningham ...
The premise of your assertion is awfully misguided and misinformed. You are, obviously, not thorougly reading the blog nor familiarizing yourself with the site, or the online radio program or staff affiliated with the Center. It would be fairly difficult to "thinly disguise" right-wing activites when the Executive Director of the Center for African American Policy (responsible for posting content on Blackpolicy.org) is also a well-known and very active young Democratic Black legislator from...
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Re: The Cruel Denunciation of "Duke" Cunningham ...
Well at least you are honest about your motivation. AfricanAmerica.org is a community. It is a place where people contribute and dialogue in a give and take that is designed to create real growth and learning. While I don't doubt the value of your site, I feel like you are approaching this community in a wholly usurious and exploitive manner. You are coming to try to take, without giving or contributing to what is here. That's not how communities work. If I were MBM I would consider banning...
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Re: The Cruel Denunciation of "Duke" Cunningham ...
No, it wasn't. I don't know what activities you're referring to, I referred only to the post. The thin disguise is your presentation of a right wing article without clarifying that someone from a site called redstate.org wrote it. I've already explained the shady element to the post. Stale predictability? Because the discourse isn't interesting to you and yours by no means makes it stale or predictable. Your statement implies that no one here seeks out information from other sources or...
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Re: African immigrants face bias from blacks
Relations between A.A. and A.'s are extremely difficult especially when one reads crap like this from an "intellectual" African: African Americans as I see them Tuesday, 31 January 2006 Ozodi Osuji's weekly psychological essays #7 AFRICAN-AMERICANS, AS I SEE THEM PREAMBLE Like all people, African Americans are individually unique and no two of them are the same. It, therefore, seems a mistake to talk about them as if they are all the same. Be that as it may, the fact is that there is such a...
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Re: Who From History Do You Invite To Your Dinner Party?
W.E.B Du Bois Anton Wilhelm Amo Tertullian Origen Clement of Alexandria Augustine Richard Wright Frantz Fanon Léopold (Sédar)Senghor Howard Thurman Sojouner Truth Jarena Lee Julia Foote Mariama Ba
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Re: Video Shines Light On The 'Disturbing Emotional Toll' Of Being Black At UCLA Law School
I attended graduate school at a predominantly white conservative private university in the State of Washington. I can recall when a white professor from New York used the N word there were only two African Americans in that class, a sister from Nigeria and myself. At the time the Chair of the Social Sciences Department was a black scholar of sociology. I was advised to say nothing to the Chair and keep my mouth shut if I wanted to get the required B to pass the class, - and so, I ate the...
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Demonization and Suppression of African Expressions
African Diaspora: Demonization and Suppression of African Expressions http://www.rastafarispeaks.com...&file=article&sid=69 By Ras Tyehimba June 23, 2004 A little over a year ago, I attended an Orisha festival in 'deep south', Trinidad,, near Princes' Town. This festival was entitled Egungun- A Celebration of the Ancestors. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience, families were present and men and women, young and old, were dressed in beautiful African garbs. Tony Martin, the esteemed Garveyite...
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Son of Africa?
On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They...
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The Dominican Republic Hates Black People
The Dominican Republic Hates Black People Wed, 12/14/2011 - 00:44 — Jemima Pierre Haiti | Dominican Republic Printer-friendly version by BAR columnist Jemima Pierre The indefatigable Dominic-Haitian activist Sonia Pierre died recently, at age 48, outlived by the deep racism that poisons her homeland’s society. “Anti-Haitianism is deeply embedded in Dominican society and has spawned continued mob attacks and lynchings, as well as other sanctioned acts of violence against Haitians or Black...
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Since Nmaginate and I brought up Dr. Na'im Akbar...
....I thought that I would post this for open discussion. I think that Dr. Akbar is brilliant and doesn't get the recognition that he truly deserves. Below are links and information about Dr. Akbar.Dr. Akbar was born and received his early education...
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Forty years of ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’
Forty years of ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ Nigel Westmaas 2012-06-14, Issue 589 http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/82937 Printer friendly version There is 1 comment on this article. © Pambazuka Press Walter Rodney’s seminal work remains a compelling and persuasive living history and totem of critical resistance to the exploitation and underdevelopment of the African continent. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped...
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Hey America! Can you please stop killing our (usually) innocent Black male children now?
Daily Kos Staff, Front Page RSS Daily Kos editors Profile Diaries (list) SUN DEC 02, 2012 AT 05:00 PM PST Hey America! Can you please stop killing our (usually) innocent Black male children now? by shanikka Follow for Daily Kos 423 Comments / 423 New Jordan Russell Davis, Another Statistic I'm now at the place where I am 100% comfortable saying that it is yet again open season on Black people, especially young Black men, in America. With Jordan Davis' murder last week, I fell off the psychic...
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Civil Rghts Pioneer James Forman Dies
Civil rights pioneer James Forman diesDate: Wednesday, January 12, 2005By: Associated PressWASHINGTON - James Forman, a civil rights pioneer credited with organizing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has died of colon cancer, his son...
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The legacy of Frantz Fanon
The legacy of Frantz Fanon Sheila McGregor looks back at the life and work of the radical psychiatristMay 22, 2007 : socialistworker.co.uk The World Social Forum in Kenya earlier this year was marked by a resurgence of interest in the ideas of Frantz...
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Black power: history's greatest black achievers
Black power: history's greatest black achievers The International Slavery Museum opens its doors in Liverpool next week with an exhibition naming history's greatest black achievers. Some are household names, others barely known. All are extraordinary....
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Colonized by Corporations
Colonized by Corporations Published on Monday, May 14, 2012 by TruthDig.com Colonized by Corporations by Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, a despised racial or ethnic group or an apostate within their own political class. The useless...
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Huey Newton, Bobby Seale Founded Black Panther Party On This Day In 1966
Huey Newton, Bobby Seale Founded Black Panther Party On This Day In 1966 Oct 15, 2012 1 By D.L. Chandler As one of the most-storied African-American groups during the turbulent late 1960s, the Black Panther Party For Self Defense (or the Black Panther Party ) stood out not only for their militant appearance but also for their work in impoverished neighborhoods as well. As students at Oakland’s Merritt College (formerly Oakland City College), Huey Newton (pictured right) and Bobby Seale...
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Booklist
Would anyone like to recommend any good books to read. The last book I read was "Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon. Real eye opener. Anyone have anything else they would like to recommend.Souljah
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The Retreat from Race and Class
The Retreat from Race and Classby David RoedigerAs the twentieth century started, indeed at almost exactly the same moment that W. E. B. Du Bois predicted that the "color line" would be its great divide, Eugene Victor Debs announced that the socialist...
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Black Caribbean-American politics after Marcus Garvey
Black Caribbean-American politics after Marcus Garveypublished: Sunday | August 27, 2006 August and September mark the first anniversary of the 'Katrina' crisis in the United States (U.S.), the time when Louisiana became a failed state. Neither the...
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Open letter to straight black women (by nubian)
Most discussion is about gay black males, but rarely gay black females, so I'm posting it for discussion and/or comment. I came across this blog page when doing a search for quotes by Fanon. Posted by nubian dear straight black women,let me be frank...
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LINGUISTICS FOR A NEW AFRICAN REALITY
Wow I found this via wikipedia, makes you think about how we like to be called black and stuff,LINGUISTICS FOR A NEW AFRICAN REALITY BY OWEN 'ALIK SHAHADAH 12-2005"Every generation must, out of relative obscurity,discover its mission, fulfil it, or...
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Destroying the Horrors of 500 Years
Destroying the Horrors of 500 Yearsby: Attahiru Kawu-BalaIntroduction"Africa now... Yes, there's disappointment, pain, sorrow. But I say to myself, when was it in the last 500 years that Africa has not been in great pain and sorrow and disappointment?...
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Nelson Mandela. Memorials, Militancy and the ANC movement
TUE DEC 10, 2013 AT 12:59 PM PST Black Kos, Tuesday's Chile by Black Kos 364 Comments / 364 New Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela raises a clenched fist, arriving to address a mass rally, a few days after his release from jail . Nelson Mandela. Memorials, Militancy and the ANC movement Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez South Africans and supporters world-wide continue to pay tribute to and honor Madiba, Nelson Mandela. You can...
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Philosophy And Opinions Of Marcus Garvey
Philosophy And Opinions Of Marcus Garvey December 16, 2013 | Filed under: Editorial , Featured | Posted by: Editorial_Staff Marcus Garvy AFRICANGLOBE – Marcus Garvey remains one of the key influences underlying the African renaissance. From the streets of Harlem, far and wide across a viral spectrum, the grand patriarch of Pan-Africanist thought commanded the arena with successive generations under his inspiration. The Provisional President of Africa, as Garvey was known to his adherents, is...
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Why I Hate Being a Black Man
http://www.theroot.com/article...ing_a_black_man.html Why I Hate Being a Black Man Ever-present criminal suspicion and fear have driven this writer to a prison of self-hatred. BY: ORVILLE LLOYD DOUGLAS Posted: Nov. 13 2013 6:26 AM A man bows his head in prayer during Easter service in Harlem. MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES E ditor's note: This article originally appeared in the Guardian newspaper. It appears with the writer's permission. Every time I sit on a crowded street car, bus or subway train...
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The Afro-Brazilian Story III: Link With Africa, Affirmative Action, Changing Trends
November 24, 2013 | Posted by ABS Staff Tagged With: Affirmative Action in Brazil , Africa , Afro-Brazilian , Brazil , Racist is is the third in a three-part series on Afro-Brazillians. The other two parts may be found here: The Afro-Brazilian Story I: Black November and Zumbi dos Palmares and Afro-Brazilian Story II: Slavery, Identity and the Question of Racism Link with Africa Complex as racism is, Brazil has certainly made progress in addressing it within the last years. The close...
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The Post Hip-Hop Generation
We Are The Post Hip-Hop Generationby M.K. ASANTE, JR.Published in the San Francisco Chronicle (Feb 7, 2005)The "hip-hop generation," a tag customarily attached to blacks born after the civil-rights movement, may have once captured the essence of the...
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The dark face of the Bolivarian Revolution
The dark face of the Bolivarian Revolutionhttp://www.vheadline.com/main.aspUniversity of Los Andes (ULA) professor Franz J. T. Lee writes: Surely, Latin America and Venezuela have to create their own revolutionary praxis and theory, to realize their...
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All cultures are not equal
All cultures are not equal Kenan Malik 2002 ˜I denounce European colonialism', wrote CLR James. ˜But I respect the learning and profound discoveries of Western civilisation.' [1] James was one of the great radicals of the twentieth century, an anti-imperialist, a superb historian of black struggles, a Marxist who remained one even when it was no longer fashionable to be so. But today, James' defence of ˜Western civilisation' would probably be dismissed as Eurocentric, even...
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Re: Random Thoughts
Hotep Kocolicious, I agree with you completely. Black folk are being lulled to sleep with the promise of a 'pie-in-the-sky myth (heaven) while the true heaven is right here on earth. Whitey either lives it or lives in it or visit it daily. Hell???? We live it, live in it, embrace it and condone it. Hell is our comminities with the filth and crime perperated by some of our own ignorant people who are like the grasshopper: life is one big party. Blame whitey? Hell yes. Had he left us alone we...
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Re: Hispanics and other minorities show little confidence in African Americans
MASKING HISPANIC RACISM: A CUBAN CASE STUDY Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre I am a recovering racist, a product of two race-constructed societies.[1] Exilic Cubans see themselves as white and the Island's inhabitants as mostly black. A major issue which will arise in a post-Castro Cuba is intra-Cuban race relations, an issue mostly ignored because of the myth proclaiming Cubans as non-racists. I propose to debunk this myth. Any serious discourse on intra-Cuban reconciliation must unmask the hidden...
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Re: Bush is signing away our checks and balances
I don't mean to sound like a fatalist, but Frantz Fanon and Karl Marx actually predicted that Western capitalist power would devolve to this kind of stuff as their imperialism (today Globalism) causes economic collapses within their own system. Bush's actions, and the actions of many Western governments today, are the same pattern of actions of Fascists during the 1930's. The economy was bad, the New Imperialism was stagnating as the colonies were stretched to their limit and created...
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Re: Black Caribbean-American politics after Marcus Garvey
Interesting, when exactly did these people's ideologies represent the LEADING themes of the African diaspora? I would say NEVER. So since they were never the leading themes, exactly ewhen did they die out? Strange that they are dead 'themes' but for this article the writer is speaking to a CURRENT UNIA member...hmmm Also of note is that Edwards Seaga's opinion of Garvey is even mentioned. Seaga is the former President of Jamaica who is a X-tian Arab(considered 'white' in the Caribbean colour...
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Re: South Africa recalls 20M condoms
The 'new Black leaders' are hand picked traitors who were installed by the former overt colinizers.... They are working for the same interests, and are equally bad IMO. Equally bad in the sense that they can both catch a bullet!
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Re: Being Bi-Racial
Sorry EP, I am usually down with you, but this seems beyond odd to me. Firstly, you have already said that you reject the 19th century notion of race as biological, and that it is a social construct. So then where are these ratio's coming from. Moreover, what are black genes, and what are white genes? Folks have been moving around and getting busy with each other for millennia. I do agree, however, that being black is more than strictly cultural. It is also existential. This in part may be...
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Re: Being Bi-Racial
Black and White are not races, that is true. But we do have some different genes that are particular to whatever our ethnicity is. That's why I was talking about genetic ratios. But if you believe that race does not exist as anything but a social construct (which I would agree with mostly), then would you consider a Biracial person to be White if they consider themself White? If not, why not? So, we should let the reaction of White people define race? We should define people as Black simply...
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Re: Being Bi-Racial
Good discussion - I like what OA has to say, and I think that this type of discussion is helpful. I understand EP desire for some kind of objectivity in terms of defining Blackness, but I am not sure that they kind which he seeks can be found in the context of a socially constructed construct. I also understand the desire not to be defined by white folks, but I also think that if we do not acknowledge the power of white patriarchal supremacy, that we are deluding ourselves, and are engaged...
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Re: A favour - your book suggestions please?
Here's an impressive list I found online... KNOWINGAFRICA.COM SUGGESTED BOOK LIST 1. Civilization or Barbarism. By Cheihk Anta Diop 2. African Origins of Civilization: Myth or Reality. By Cheihk Anta Diop 3. Cultural Unity of Black Africa. By Cheihk Anta Diop 4. Pre-Colonial Black Africa. By Cheihk Anta Diop 5. Black Man of the Nile and His Family. By Yosef Ben Jochannan 6. African Glory. By J.C. Degraft Johnson 7. Stolen Legacy. By George G.M. James 8. What They Never Told You in History...
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Re: Lying on the Nation Of Islam
Peace..... I do not mean to insult you or any of those who study our African systems of spirituality. If I have then please accept my apology. What I am trying to convey is the idea that when the spiritual alchemist confronts a disease of the mind he must engineer a system which will penetrate into the core of the disease. 0 Frantz Fanon spoke of a disease of the mind called "Violence beyond violence". This form of brutalization is inflicting on a people by subjecting them to a an alien...
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Re: South Africa recalls 20M condoms
Its disheartening, I don't know who's worse in this situation, the whites or the new black leaders in South Africa. Insane! This is textbook Frantz Fanon...
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Re: Top 10 Greatest Black Icons
1. El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X to the mainstream media) & Menelik I 2. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Menelik II 3. Frederick Douglass & Sojourner Truth 4. Huey P. Newton 5. Frantz Fanon 6. Patrice Lumumba & Queen Nzingah 7. Kwame Nkrumah & Queen Mekeba, Queen of Sheba 8. Mary McLeod Bethune 9. Ida B. Wells 10. Harriet Tubman 11. W.E.B. DuBois & Chaka Zulu 12. Paul Robeson 13. Crispus Attucks 14. Fannie Lou Hamer & Hannibal 15. Ralph Abernathy 16. Richard Pryor...
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Re: Can We Talk?
The after school program is an excellent idea. Yeah it's a beautiful thing to see young people grow some pride and self confidence when they learn their people's history NOT the euro centric sanitized version taught in American schools, the real deal, the Van Sertima, the Frantz Fanon, The Malcolm X, the true African history of Egypt, the true history of religions, the true history of west African kingdoms,etc. When I worked in the prison system there were similar experiences when I shared...
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Reparations Now: UN Working Panel Recommends U.S. Pay Black People for Slavery, a Crime Against Humanity
Reparations Now: UN Working Panel Recommends U.S. Pay Black People for Slavery, a Crime Against Humanity February 1, 2016 | Posted by David Love Tagged With: 40 acres and a mule , acts of cruelty during slavery , American Slavery , apology for slavery , Case for reparations , Frantz Fanon , history of reparations , human rights abuse , mass incarceration , Mireille Fanon Mendes-France , Opponents of reparations , Rep. John Conyers , subprime mortgages , UN human rights council , United...
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“Vanguard of the Revolution” is Liberal History, Strips and Omits Socialism from History of the Black Panther Party
“Vanguard of the Revolution” is Liberal History, Strips and Omits Socialism from History of the Black Panther Party Submitted by Bruce A. Dixon on Wed, 02/17/2016 - 19:06 Black Panther Party Share this story... Forward Print HTML Reddit Viadeo by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Stanley Nelson's documentary on the BPP is “history” by and for lazy American liberals. He turns the BPP into a pop culture icon a T-shirt. Nelson mentions guns hundreds of times, big naturals and swagger a few...