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Parable of Oakland Police Riot

Tuesday, June 29, 2010







Parable ofOakland Police Riot


The Oakland Police areplanning to riot. This is the community consensus based on conversationsat the crossroads. They shall be waiting for the crowd to gather infront of City Hall after the verdict is announced in the Oscar Grantmurder trial. The consensus among the people is that the BART policeofficer shall not be found guilty of murder. The prosecution has beenweak as water, with no real effort to convince the jury Oscar Grant wasmurdered in
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Parable of Value

Tuesday, June 29, 2010


Parable ofValue

Dat Dere

Dat Der


Brother Khalid came to Plato Negro wanting to know why his latest book waspriced a hunid dollars? Plato replied, did not a character in one ofShakespeare's plays say, "I know my price"?
Plato told Khalid I wantpeople to value wisdom as opposed to the common, Miller Lite trashpromoted as literature by the bourgeoisie press. Value is based on truthand beauty. Will you not, Khalid, admit The Wisdom of Plato Negrocontains a generous amount of truth
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Chicago-Midwest

Congressman Rush, Rev. Jackson, Activists, Unity Meeting On Chicago Violence Call For United Front Meeting/Rally at PUSH Saturday, July 3rd

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Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago.

MARK ALLEN T

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Pull Yo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

PullYo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself!

I don't want to see your naked behind, show me the genius of your mind.
--Marvin X


Coming Soon From Black Bird Press

Marvin X

Pull Yo Pants Up

fada Black Prez

and Yo Self!











Essays on

Obama Drama

plus

the Hustler’s Guide to the Game Called Life

Stay connected to new generation. they really can feelyou. as much as you dislike rap. your style is very hip hop. Lol!brash. raw. in your face. not givin a F what anybody thinks albeit amuch stronger
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South

from, NY to Cali by with Sankofa..Maybe to Africa?

A MAN AND HIS HORSE

SEEING HIS VISION AND HOPES FOR OUR SUNS AND DAWTAS..ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

HE WOULD PLANTED ANOTHER SEED

WHEN THE GOING GOT RUFF SPEAK TO ANCESTORS

VISIONS PASSED ON

GOOD FRIENDS NEVER BECOME ENEMIES


http://www.federationofblackcowboysnyc.com/page/members01.html

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..http://www.blackheritageriders.org/

www.milesdean.com..Thank u my brother..


AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY AND STAYING GROUNDED:

My 15 yr old grandawta did some research about smal

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Chicago-Midwest

Support For Black Owned Business Growing - Smokin' Joe Products

Marksallen
One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago.



MARK ALLEN TALKS -- Black economic empowerment and the effort to sustain an increase Black owned businesses and local job creation.

As a board member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Projec

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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Plato Negro's Republic and Morality

Plato Negro's Republic and Morality

There are those who claim we don't want a nation of saints or holy men and women. For sure, we don't need a theocracy, a nation ruled by the religious clergy. Iran has destroyed any desire for such a nation of religious purists, and the Taliban have put nails in the coffin. The pall bearers in Saudi Arabia make us repel at the notion of a nation under the rule of Sharia or Islamic law, and Christian Ameri
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Ode to Michael Jackson--II

Having received so many calls this week on the approaching anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death June 25, 2009, 1:25 p.m. (LA time), I decided to re-run the column I wrote last year in the aftermath of his death. This was my tribute to Michael and his family. I will have an exclusive announcement about this very soon, so be on the lookout!

Ode to Michael Jackson

July 2, 2009

Raynard Jackson

Like a candle in the wind,

Your life came to a sudden end.

With “A Child’s Heart,

You began your start.

You brou

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Saturday, June 26, 2010


For Sister Njere Aghanee, in memoriam










Parable ofPlato Negro's
Republic of North American Africans


Ifyou are not for yourself, who shall be for you? Those who are for
everybody are often for nobody. For sure, all nations move in their
national interests. Even the most revolutionary internationalist nation
will give you up when it is in their national interest to do so. Black
in the 60s, the Algerian Government gave refuge to the Black Panther
Party until some BPP
members hijacked a
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Chicago-Midwest

I received an e-mail from Wallace "Gator" Bradley, regarding an e-mail that was being circulated regarding a proposed Monday afternoon meeting with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr at Rainbow/PUSH regarding solutions to crime, assuming that I was overlooked and may indeed be welcome to this Monday's meeting or to provide some input.

The first things that sticks out to me are "activists" and "community organizers" missing from the subject matter, text of the meeting and systematic part of the plan of act

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Kinda Makes You Wonder

From the Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Kinda Makes You Wonder

“With 12 Democrats joining a unanimous Republican bloc, the US Senate voted Wednesday to defeat a proposed extension of unemployment benefits for workers who have been jobless for nearly two years. The bill would have extended unemployment benefits for those out of work more than six months, until November 30. In the two and a half weeks since June 1, when the last extension expired, some 903,000 workers have seen their benefits cu
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Parable of the General as a Rolling Stone

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Parableof the General as a Rolling Stone


Parable ofthe General as a Rolling Stone


In actionreminiscent of of Harry Truman firing General MacArthur during theKorean war, President Obama relieved General McChrystal
of his dutiesin Afghanistan for denigrating remarks in Rolling Stone magazine.

Wethink the general orchestrated his departure to escape being part ofAmerica's neo-Vietnam, especially after calling for a surge of troopsthat have done nothing to stop the forward march o
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Europe
Quote (Elombah Perspectives): “President Barack Obama's salary is $400,000 per annum. A Nigeria Senator collects ₦48 million per quarter. At the end of the year, each senator's haul will be in the neighbourhood of $1.7 million. Each of the 360 members of the House of Representatives will receive ₦35 million, that's $300,000 per member per quarter. At the end of the year, each member of the House would have collected a cool $1.2 million”.

Past surveys of salaries and benefits of public office hol
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Parable of a Nigguh

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Parableof a Nigguh


Parable of a Nigguh

Don’t act like you don’t know what a nigguh is, don’t go there because you know very well what a nigguh is because morethan likely you are the very essence of a nigguh, especially you nigguhswho say don’t say nigguh, many of you have been the most niggardly inyour behavior. Some of you who are now so holy have a history of killingnigguhs, robbing and raping nigguhs, doing the most horrible things tonigguhs, but now that you see the ligh

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Europe

I spent each and every night until 4: 00 am, a time came when I could not write further, not even a single character of my dissertation.I went to the bed and start planning for next day progress of my dissertationbut helpless as I fell to sleep and the next morning, 8 o’ clock I was upwriting my dissertation again.

This is the most common situation for students because most if not all students have to face the predicaments and need the help for dissertation,research papers, or any other assignmen

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I Cannot Hide from the Kora

Thursday, June 17, 2010


Oh, MightyKora

Why do you tear the heart apart
take soulfrom mind
ten thousand years of culture
seeps into a soul lost intime
Oh, Kora
taking heart into time lost, time regained
whatmagic is this, what mystery
sound set centuries ago
noimprovisation, no jazz
myth and ritual set for infinity
voicesheard
message to the king
from the king
griot sings song to thecourt
king listens and obeys sound of kora
submit or die
heartmusic cannot lie
sound of a thousand nights on the River Senegal
danceof
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Parable of Slow Dance on the Killing Floor

Thursday, June 17, 2010


Parable ofSlow Dance on the Killing Floor


The people werefull of fear at what retribution might be coming to pharaoh since hehad been so mean and evil to the people throughout his empire. He was acruel bone crusher who showed no mercy to the poor, who gave the peopleslave wages and little, if any health care, when they became old, theirbodies full of disease from bad food and hard labor throughout theirlives.

The people could see afflictions coming upon pharaohslowly, one af
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Don’t Ask and I’m Telling

June 17, 2010

Raynard Jackson

There is a raging debate about the Democratic Party’s push to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) and to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. This debate provides an interesting insight into the psyche of Democrats and Republicans.

DADT is a Clinton era policy that simply says gay people can serve in the military as long as they don’t make their sexual preferences known (notice I used the term preference, NOT orientation. Orientation is very passive and suggests that one

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Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

MARK ALLEN TALKS - ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. "As a Board member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Project, I am pleased to help host these national company executives from Rain International, and expose grassroots entrepreneurs to the company's Chicago faith based cause initiative, and most importantly, local investment and small business, local job creation, ownership opport
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