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“A man’s rights rests in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” (Frederick Douglass)
After Charles Cotton, a Houston attorney and National Rifle Association board member, blamed the slain pastor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for the massacre that occurred at the church on June 17, 2015, a tornado of outrage engulfed his comments before he had time to delete them.
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“Some blacks would rather be shot by their enemies than shoot their enemies.”
Sometimes, the relationship between the old and the new is like a bad marriage. The old inside the marriage want to get out; the new outside the marriage want to get in. Yet, the new may not grasp that the marriage is bad for them too.
Read MoreIf you’re not moving forward and you’re not moving backward, you’re still moving backward. If this were not so, then a 2016 Forbes Now article on white privilege and black America would give African-Americans hope, if it had been written a hundred years ago.
Read MoreResolutions are the contagion of society. Everybody makes them; nobody keeps them. Or so it seems. Yet, the struggle to keep resolutions plays chess with our feelings, bringing shame to our weaknesses and avalanches of frustrations to our efforts.
Read MoreEverything has an opposite: Every mountain has a valley; every knife spurns a fork; every night turns to day.
Thanksgiving Day has its opposite too—the National Day of Mourning, which honors native ancestors and the struggles of native peoples. The National Day of Mourning began in 1970 when Wamsutta (Frank B.) James, an Aquinnah Wampanoag elder, gave a speech near the Pilgrim’s first meeting house in Massachusetts.
Read MoreOftentimes, a brave person is a despised person and, therefore, must exercise his rights of free expression in the musty gymnasium of opposition alone. NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is such a person.
Read MoreOn October 10, 2016, many Americans celebrated Columbus Day, a day bathed in controversy. The holiday is so controversial that Columbus Day has been replaced with Indigenous People’s Day by Albuquerque, New Mexico; Seattle, Washington; and the Portland, Oregon, Public School System.
Read MoreIn war, sometimes, to delay means to decease. But the opposite could also be true. If delay gives birth to death, haste may give rise to life. Perhaps that delicate balance sparked the rage of hundreds of black residents in South Dallas . . .
Read MoreOn February 24, 2015, during Estonia’s Independence Day parade, while African-American troops wearing NATO uniforms marched with Estonian soldiers ... neo-Nazis and other racists shouted ... “Go back to your grandparents in Nigeria!”
Read MoreTo brainwash is a game to some, a sin to others. Where you stand on the matter might find its fervor mirrored in where you stand concerning Stacey Dash’s comments on Black History Month.
Read MorePeople raised to believe in certain beliefs will generally retain those beliefs in their original or varied forms as they age and grow gray. This tendency apparently applies to the right-wing and libertarian Koch brothers, David and Charles, according to a new book by Jane Mayer called Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.
Read MoreCondoleezza Rice was once the U.S. Secretary of State in the administration of Republican President George W. Bush. She left the position as one of the most bloodthirsty Secretaries of State of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Read MoreSometimes, an idea downplayed is an idea remade. Black reparations is one of those ideas. When Congressman John Conyers, Jr., who represents Michigan’s 13th District, submitted bill H.R. 40 for consideration by the House of Representatives in 1989, he and other blacks cheered in hopes that the bill on black reparations would pass, if not in that year, in a few years afterward.
Read MoreRecently, the Ku Klux Klan pulled off one of the most astounding coups in the long catalog of racial hate and hysteria in America. It managed to maneuver its way into the veins of the NAA CP as if it were a sound never heard. But just as high blood pressure and diabetes are caused, not by the diseases themselves, but in general by the victims of those diseases, so the Klan neither laid the trap nor pulled the rope that snared that sweet herb of civil rights activism.
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