j - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T11:42:59Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/jApril 27th is the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927) Extraordinary Harlem-Based Intellectual and Activisthttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/april-27th-is-the-130th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hubert-henry2013-04-26T15:45:00.000Z2013-04-26T15:45:00.000ZJeffrey B. Perryhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JeffreyBPerry<div><p style="text-align:center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">April 27th is the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Extraordinary Harlem-Based Intellectual and Activist</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the historian Joel A. Rogers, in "World’s Great Men of Color" as “the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time.” Rogers adds that “No one worked more seriously and indefatigably to enlighten” others and “none of the Afro-American leaders of his time had a saner and more effective program.” Labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph described Harrison as “the father of Harlem Radicalism.” Harrison’s friend and pallbearer, Arthur Schomburg, fully aware of his popularity, eulogized to the thousands attending Harrison’s Harlem funeral that he was also “ahead of his time.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Born in St. Croix, Danish West Indies, in 1883, to a Bajan mother and a Crucian father, Harrison arrived in New York as a seventeen-year-old orphan in 1900. He made his mark in the United States by struggling against class and race oppression, by helping to create a remarkably rich and vibrant intellectual life among African Americans, and by working for the enlightened development of the lives of “the common people.” He consistently emphasized the need for working class people to develop class-consciousness; for “Negroes” to develop race consciousness, self-reliance, and self-respect; and for all those he reached to challenge white supremacy and develop modern, scientific, critical, and independent thought as a means toward liberation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">A self-described “radical internationalist,” Harrison was extremely well versed in history and events in Africa, Asia, the Mideast, the Americas, and Europe. More than any other political leader of his era, he combined class-consciousness and anti-white supremacist race consciousness in a coherent political radicalism. He opposed capitalism and maintained that white supremacy was central to capitalist rule in the United States. He emphasized that “politically, the Negro is the touchstone of the modern democratic idea”; that “as long as the Color Line exists, all the perfumed protestations of Democracy on the part of the white race” were “downright lying”; that “the cant of ‘Democracy’” was “intended as dust in the eyes of white voters”; and that true democracy and equality for “Negroes” implied “a revolution . . . startling even to think of.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Working from this theoretical framework, he was active with a wide variety of movements and organizations and played signal roles in the development of what were, up to that time, the largest class radical movement (socialism) and the largest race radical movement (the “New Negro”/Garvey movement) in U.S. history. His ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy anticipated the profound transformative power of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggles of the 1960s and his thoughts on “democracy in America” offer penetrating insights on the limitations and potential of America in the twenty-first century.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Harrison served as the foremost Black organizer, agitator, and theoretician in the Socialist Party of New York during its 1912 heyday; he founded the first organization (the Liberty League) and the first newspaper ("The Voice") of the militant, World War I-era “New Negro” movement; and he served as the editor of the Negro World and principal radical influence on the Garvey movement during its radical high point in 1920. His views on race and class profoundly influenced a generation of “New Negro” militants including the class radical A. Philip Randolph and the race radical Marcus Garvey. Considered more race conscious than Randolph and more class conscious than Garvey, Harrison is the key link in the ideological unity of the two great trends of the Black Liberation Movement--the labor and civil rights trend associated with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the race and nationalist trend associated with Malcolm X. (Randolph and Garvey were, respectively, the direct links to King marching on Washington, with Randolph at his side, and to Malcolm, whose parents were involved with the Garvey movement, speaking militantly and proudly on street corners in Harlem.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Harrison was not only a political radical, however. Rogers described him as an “Intellectual Giant and Free-Lance Educator,” whose contributions were wide-ranging, innovative, and influential. He was an immensely skilled and popular orator and educator who spoke and/or read six languages; a highly praised journalist, critic, and book reviewer (reportedly the first regular Black book reviewer "in Negro newspaperdom"); a pioneer Black activist in the freethought and birth control movements; a bibliophile and library builder and popularizer who helped develop the 135th Street Public Library into what became known as the internationally famous Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; a pioneer Black lecturer for the New York City Board of Education, and one of its foremost orators).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">April 27th is the 130th anniversary of the birth of Hubert Henry Harrison -- there is much to learn from the life and work of this extraordinary intellectual and activist.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.jeffreybperry.net" target="_blank">http://www.jeffreybperry.net</a></p><p> </p></div>"I Hope He Fails" - A Unique New Book About Obamahttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/i-hope-he-fails-a-unique-new2010-08-26T23:00:00.000Z2010-08-26T23:00:00.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><br /><p><font><b>NEW BOOK "I HOPE HE FAILS" THEORIZES THAT THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SERVED AS A CATHARSIS FOR THE RESURGENCE OF RACISM AND HATE GROUPS</b></font></p>
-- In "I Hope He Fails" the author theorizes that the election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States of America has served as a catharsis for the resurgence of racism and hate groups in America and that these two entities are being fueled by the rightwing media.<br /><p><font><i>Courageously taking on the biggest names in conservative talk radio and TV -<br /> going where even politicians and the mainstream media dare not go. --</i><br /></font></p>
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<br /><p><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"><b>Walls, MS</b> (BlackNews.com) -- Robert J. Walker announces the release of his new book, <i>I Hope He Fails</i>. With all the paraphernalia being sold on the internet using the slogan, "I Hope<br /> He Fails," referring to Rush Limbaugh's statement, made shortly after Barack<br /> Obama won the 2008 presidential election to become the first African American<br /> elected President of the United States, at first glance one would probably<br /> conclude that this new book, <i>I Hope He Fails</i> was yet another rightwing<br />
attack on President Barack Obama. However, when you read the subtitle you<br />
instantly get a clear picture of the content of this book.</font></font></font></p>
When asked what inspired him to write the book, the author Robert J. Walker, who considers himself a working class educator states, "I am not a politician or a media pundit. I am an educator, a working class teacher. I was not in the<br /><p><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2">country during the 2008 election. I was in Ethiopia, Africa training teachers. I<br /> voted in the 2008 election by absentee ballot. When I returned to America, I was<br /> surprised and hurt by all the anger and false accusations hurled at the<br /> President by the conservative right. That is what inspired me to write this<br />
book. I wrote <i>I Hope He Fails</i> as a play on Rush Limbaugh's words - to<br />
defuse his statement and as a trumpet call to awaken people of faith and good<br />
will who have fallen asleep after the 2008 election. If those of us who went to<br />
the polls in 2008 to elect President Obama, especially those of us in a minority<br />
group; whether religion, race, gender, or sexual preference, if we want to<br />
continue to have a voice in this government, we must recharge the zeal we had<br />
during the 2008 campaign. We must rally around the President and push back<br />
against those on the radical far right and Tea Party movement who want to take<br />
the country back to the 1950s when everything in America was, 'for whites only.'" <br /></font></font></font></p>
<p><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2">Throughout the pages of this controversial book, the author walks the sensitive tight rope of the three most divisive issues in America: Race, Religion, and Politics to make the argument that hate in America towards<br /> President Barack Obama is being fueled by the rightwing media. The author<br /> believes that Rush Limbaugh leads the Republican Party and the rightwing attack<br /> against President Obama. <br /></font></font></font></p>
<p><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2">Walker says, "The book also gives my somber and revealing assessment of how I believe the rightwing media has joined forces with the Religious and Political Right in establishing a 'Legion' for the purpose of destroying the Presidency of Barack Obama. I compare the rightwing media to the demon named Legion as found in Mark 5:1-18 and Luke 8:28-39. Throughout the book, I give current event<br /> examples to support my hypothesis that the rightwing media has polarized the<br /> country on the lines of Race, Religion, and Politics so much to the point that<br /> nothing is getting done in Washington, D.C. for the good of the American<br />
people."<br /></font></font></font></p>
<p><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2">Walker concludes by say, "With a Black man in the White House, the conservative rightwing media has a perfect hate target to attack each day on their radio and TV talk shows. If anything should happen to President Barack Obama, his blood will be on their hands."<br /></font></font></font></p>
<p><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"><br /><b>About the Author:</b><br />Dr. Robert J. Walker is the recipient of the 2009 President's Volunteer Service Award and was selected the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) organization Outstanding Educator<br /> of the Year 2008-2009 for the year he served in Ethiopia, Africa training<br /> college teachers. He is chair of the Department of Education at Southwest<br /> Tennessee Community College - the largest community college in the state of<br /> Tennessee.<br /></font></font></font></p>
<p><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana" size="1"><font color="#000000" face="arial" size="2"><br /><b>About the Book:</b><br /><i>I Hope He Fails</i><br />By Robert J. Walker<br />$14.95 paperback 164 pages<br />ISBN 978-0-557-40752-1<br />Available online at amazon.com, <br /><a href="http://booksamillion.com">booksamillion.com</a>, <br />barnesandnoble.com, or <br />lulu.com<br /></font></font></font></p>
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