Cheikh Anta Diop courtesy, L'Evenementwww.evenement-bf.net/pages/culture_86.htmWe get so anxious as Black people, Negroes, Coloreds, Nekkros, African Americans, "African-Descended Peoples", Diasporic Tribes, "Children of the Diaspora" or whatever you wish to call us. We as a diasporic people are all of that, and more, are we not? About identity, we are so easily spun off into Cartesian circles of confusion, conflict, doubt, anger, recrimination, and sh
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Considering how President Obama has appointed many Zionists to influential positions within his administrationits vital for us to understand who they are and what their agenda actually is:[wvns] How Jews Exploited Civil Rights MovementMonday, March 30, 2009 10:36 PMFrom: "World View" To: wvns@yahoogroups.comKhazari Dominance and Exploitation of the Black Civil Rights MovementAuthor and Source UnknownMany observers argue that the presumed Jewish altruism and social activism in the American civil
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From The RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonObama and the Banana Peel of Militarism“WASHINGTON — With a bloody suicide bombing near the Khyber Pass adding urgency to his words, President Obama announced on Friday that he plans to further bolster American forces in Afghanistan, increase aid to Pakistan, and set strict standards for measuring progress in fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban in both chaotic countries.”www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/washington/We can’t say he didn’t warn us. Less than sixty d
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BF Bankie:Location: Northwest Africa, latitude 250 & 150, longitude 170 & 70. Bordered by Senegal to the south, Mali to the east, eastern Algeria to the north, West Sahara to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.Main geographic features: The country occupies an area of 1,037,000 sq. km, of which 80 per cent is arid and 20 per cent semi-arid. It consists of a plateau, of which the highest point in 915m, and the Adrar Mountains in the north. Mauritania has 700km of Atlantic Coastline and 8
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Posted by TheBlackList on March 29, 2009 at 10:23pm
Dr. Ron Daniels:
As it became increasingly clear that Barack Obama was poised to make history as the first African American President of the United States, it was also clear that this was potentially a big moment for the progressive movement – a time to articulate a vision for a new America and to organize to advance an agenda for reform and fundamental change. As the Obama presidency unfolds, the question is whether the progressive movement is prepared to seize the opportunity presented by thi
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“The truth is, in the country of the blind, The one-eyed man is considered to be crazy as hell.”--Robin Palmer, Ex Officio, The Weather Underground"The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."-- Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocRead more…Africa
Abdullahi Osman El-Tom:March 16, 2009 — It would be a mistake not to take the recent formation of an alliance of a “jihadist” group with due seriousness. By any measure, this alliance bears the hallmarks of a terrorist organisation with the potential for grave consequences, both nationally and internationally. Given Sudan’s strict control over its printed media, the lack of prompt and categorical dismissal of the news is a firm indicator that the alliance is real and should be addressed as such.
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Greetings Family,(Contact Information At The Bottom Of The Page)It's your friendly neighborhood "Digital Drummer" again...smilePresident Obama, long an advocate for closing the revolving door of felon release and reincarceration…needs your helpIn his new preliminary budget for 2010 President Obama requested $109 million for prisoner reentry programs, including $75 million for Second Chance Act programs. As the media is currently reporting the Democratic congress has taken a carving knife to his
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African America ministers/leaders have yet to recognize the glaring biblical similarities and parallels between the former Secretary of the United States Condoleezza Rice and Queen Esther from The Holy Bible's, Book of Esther.Queen Esther and the former Secretary of State have something very biblical in common, both women were appointed for such a time as this. Black ministers/leaders without the benefit of "divine" defined intelligence can't make the spiritual connection.African Americans and b
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Posted by TheBlackList on March 26, 2009 at 10:04pm
Dear Mrs. Obama:
It is with highest homage and admiration to you that I write this letter. I am the Northeast Regional Representative, and Board Member, for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. The Reparations Movement, of which N’COBRA is a member, implores you to start a national dialogue on a reparations accord for Blacks in America. This national dialog must be firmly rooted in the historical context of the “trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the “holocaust” of African
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March 26, 2009Raynard JacksonLast year, President Barack Obama ran the closest thing to a perfect campaign ever seen in this country. There was no senior level turnover during the campaign. There was no public feuding from various factions within his campaign (unlike Hillary Clinton’s). Even the transition was extraordinarily smooth.So, I am dumbfounded by all the drama surrounding the early days of his presidency. Seems like Obama went from a serious drama to a sitcom in short order. When he ma
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Freeman F Chari:
Before the current Government of National Unity, proponents of the theory of exclusive governance were of the belief that an MDC government in Zimbabwe would signal the end of Zimbabwe’s economic quagmire. This was premised on the assumption that once MDC gets into power, western governments particularly USA would pour economic aid into the government’s coffers. Today, we are wallowing in the realisation of the painful truth about the basic rules of engagement with these countr
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It was the moment I realized Ron number one, (Ron number one because there are so many of them, like Michaels and guys that chose the name Maliq that they must be numbered or described, because I don't like them well enough to remember them by last name or I dislike them enough to not credit them with full names) Ron number one, like me, like many writers was or is a lamprey of ideas. Latching onto to sharks of language until almost all recognizable elements of self disappears. I was sitting in
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Posted by TheBlackList on March 24, 2009 at 11:09am
March 21, 2009
Vernellia R. Randall
Professor of Law
On 21 March 1960 at least 180 black Africans were injured (there are claims of as many as 300) and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws, at the township of Sharpeville. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signaled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies.
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1. What is Feminism?Good afternoon. We will begin by defining feminism.Feminism is humanism. That is, feminism as a political and a social movement is a humanist movement. It is one of the more crucial strands within a collective history of liberation struggle here in America. Along with Unionism, the Amerindian and First Nation struggles, the Black liberation struggle, the anti-war movement, the ethnic rights struggle, the free speech movement, the sexual liberation struggle, the socialist move
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Posted by TheBlackList on March 23, 2009 at 10:10am
Dr. Rodney Coates:
When was the last time that you cried for the abused?
Was it then, that you saw that their plight was your concern?
Or did their plight become your problem to discern
Manipulate, transform, or perform some statistical,
Analytical, non-practical deliberations upon -
When was the last time that you decried the crimes?
Insanity, then masking as repetitious diatribes against
The sanity of those trapped in the studies that lost
All connection with the people whose problems were
T
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Dear Kwasi
Greetings
Trusting this finds you in good spirits.
Few Africans, outside of east Africa have much understanding of the Sudan
issues. I met last week the Special Advisor to the Namibia Foreign
Minister/President, to discuss Sudan. I noted that his was the standard
OAU/AU view, which is determined by the geo-political considerations
of east Africa. He knew little, nor cared much in my view, about the situation
of Darfurians, yet he partook in the Abuja Talks on peace for Darfur.
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From The RampartsJunious Ricardo StantonThe Truth About AIG“Credit default swaps are non-standardized private contracts between the buyer and the seller. They are not traded on any exchange, and have remained unregulated by any government body. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association estimates the total amount of outstanding credit default swaps to be around $ 62.2 trillion, making these contracts the most widely traded credit derivative product, as of December 2007.Due to the lack Read more…West
Greetings Family,(Contact Information At The Bottom Of The Page)It's your friendly neighborhood "Digital Drummer" again...smileOnce again the Republican party has demonstrated that it is the party of the richLast week Representative Charlie Rangel, (Dem of New York) sponsored House Bill H.R. 1586. The Bill, essentially will impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses given to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at AIG and other companies that have received at least $5 billion in government bailo
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Friends of The BlacklistPub,Coming Soon " The Cricketers" movie.Please support this movie which is made and directed in different areas of The Bronx and Brooklyn.The Cricketers”The West Indies cricket team suffers a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Australian World Cup champions. Four friends must dig deep down inside of themselves to realize their lifelong dreams of winning. They must overcome health, commitment and family issues, romantic pressures and their own egos. They surmount these
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