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

PALESTINE

By Marvin X

(Imam Maalik El Muhajir)

I am not an Arab, I am not a Jew

Abraham is not my father,

Palestine is not my home

But I would fight any man



Who kicked me out of my house

To dwell in a tent

I would fight

To the ends of the earth

Someone who said to me

I want your house

Because my father lived here

Two thousand years ago

I want your land

Because my father lived here

Two thousand years ago.

Jets would not stop me

From returning to my home

Uncle Toms would not stop me

Cluster bombs would not stop me

B

Dr. Nathan Hare's Fictive Theory

Dr. Nathan Hare teaches us
the fictive theory
everything the white man says
and his woman too
(she's him in drag, says the doctor)
is fiction
til proven fact
no matter news
bible
president (black face too)
garden of eden
the snake the apple
fiction
snakes don't talk
cept two legged snakes
who deceive the world
bbc, abc, cbs, nbc, npr, cnn
all fiction
history sociology psychology
econ finance romance fiction
love words fiction
when not followed by action
rap songs bout ganstas
from subur

Essays on Education

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Essays on Education

The War Before

Read the Introduction by Laura Whitehorn

In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street corner. The young pre-med student felt comp

“What About We People Who Are Darker Than Blue?”

By Norman (Otis) Richmond

As this is being written President Barack Hussein Obama is yet to
issue a proclamation for Black Music Month which is in its 30th year
of observance. Toronto’s Mayor David Miller however, issued a
proclamation for Black Music Month on May 11th, 2009.

President Obama did issue of a statement in support of what he is
referring to as African American Appreciation Month on Jun