I spent 15 hours with some of the most enthusiastic Community-level Repair/Reparations Advocates that I has been around in quite a while. During the Southeast Regional 2010 Convention, February 19th & 20th in Atlanta, GA, for a moment I thought the revolution was on! For me, it was both entertaining and educational (Edutaining). The presenters were powerful and the performers were dramatic. Only thing more we could have asked for was for more to gather with us in the name of our struggle. But I

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Parable of A Real Woman


There was a man who had many women in his life. They had come and gone, with himself at fault most of the time. But he wouldn't give up, he continued his self improvement and search for that special woman. He talked with elder women about what he should do. One told him he'd never had a real woman! If so, she would still be with him, no matter what, through thick and thin, up times and down times. Well, he asked, how would he know when such a woman

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Parable of the Woman in the Box

There was a woman who lived inside a box. Her whole life had been spent inside the little box, squeezed in from all sides. She never went outside the box. People brought her food to eat but she ate it inside the four walls of the box.

She was cramped to the point of being crippled because she could never stand up inside the box. Not only her body but her brain and spirit were crippled from living inside the box.

Her thinking was confined to w

Black Bird
A Fable

The cage door was always open, but the little bird wouldn't come out. He loved the cage, he had been in it so long. Other birds would fly into the white house and beg the little bird to come out, but he wouldn't. Sad, the other birds would fly away home to paradise, their hearts white with anger and sorrow for their lost brother who loved the cage. "He is so hard-headed, "the other birds said on their way home, "but we will get him out, we will get him out...." He was a smart

HOW BLACK UNITY IS DELIBERATELY HINDERED TO MAINTAIN WHITE DOMINANCE

Many African Americans now holds the opinion that in the face of greater gained opportunities that many within their race became their own worst enemies. It is a perception that often engenders profound feelings of immense humiliation, racial self contempt, and disunity among many African Americans in the 21st-century. But are these depictions and self perception of African Americans correct?
Scores of African Americans now shar

“Political dynasties are families that have exerted disproportionate influence on the politics of their societies. If they are
successful, they may produce more than one Head of State or Head of Government.
But at the very minimum, political dynasties have produced political leaders in
varied ranks of the political process”. (Prof. Ali A. Mazrui, 2008, Political Dynasties in African Politics)

According to definitions, a dynasty is a succession of people belonging to the same family, who, through var

Note: Gerald Ali put my fable of the Rooster and Hen in the context of alienation from the land, of which animals and their nature has escaped those landless in the urban, concrete jungle. But what is ironic is the nature of man when he returns to nature, his alienation has turned him into a straight out killer. When people used to come to my writing retreat in the mountains of northern California, they wanted to kill everything moving: kill the bee, the lizard, the spider