Still, blacks come by their color consciousness honestly. The income gap between light-skinned blacks and dark-skinned blacks is the same as the income gap between whites and blacks; more light-skinned blacks hold white-collar, professional jobs than darker-skinned ones. Pre-movement, black organizations played a role, using the "paper bag test" or combing applicants' hair to screen out the Negroid. In 2001 a black ad agency hired to launch a campaign for a black college was found to have rej...
Posted by Tarus on Thursday, November 19, 2009,
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The economic crisis has had an especially heavy toll on women of color. African American women were disproportionately impacted by the subprime and housing crisis that triggered the longer-term global meltdown and they continue to be marginalized in the US. job market. The total African American unemployment rate in February was 12.6 percent, the highest of any ethnic group, although in general, men appear to be losing jobs faster than women. According to the Center for Responsible Lending, 1...
Posted by Tarus on Tuesday, November 17, 2009,
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When African Americans entered
the industrial economy, it was temporarily as strike breakers or to fill a
shortage in labor supply during the first and second world wars. Once a strike
ended or peacetime conversion generated less demand for labor, African
Americans were fired. Systematic exclusion from the industrial economy remained
the norm for African Americans well into the 1950, by which time the cities had
already begun to shed manufacturing jobs to the suburbs, the Sunbelt and
finally ...
Posted by Tarus on Saturday, October 31, 2009,
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Just as crucially, the decline and eventual disappearance of AWS less than a decade ago revealed what a critical role it had in shaping the African literary imagination. Today Africa, even with the emergent local noise of FM radio and the immediacy of the internet, has grown strange to itself. Nations, to paraphrase philosopher Stephen Chan, are built on words. Because that supply of words has run dry, African writers of my generation have begin to talk to their readers at home through a...
Posted by Tarus on Wednesday, October 28, 2009,
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No people can go forward when the majority of those who should know better have chosen to go backward, but this is exactly what most of our mis-leaders do. Not being learned in the history and background of the[ir] race, they figure out that there is no hope for the masses; and they decide, then, that the best thing they can do is to exploit these people for all they can and use the accumulations selfishly. Such persons have no vision and therefore perish at their own hands.
Posted by Tarus on Tuesday, October 27, 2009,
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Xenophon stepped up the pace of his harangue, calling upon the men to seek out their brothers who might be too weak or demoralized to emerge from the snow, pleading with them to build their fires high and warm themselves. He denied the bitter cold and threw off his cloak, stripping himself naked in the biting air as if for his morning exercises, insisting that he felt no discomfort. He seized an axe that had been struck into a tree and began to noisily hack at a rotten stump, until before my ...
Posted by Tarus on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
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Such conditions show that the undeveloped Negro has been abandoned by those who should help. The educated white man, said an observer recently, differs from the "educated Negro" who so readily, forsakes the belated element of his race. When a white man sees persons of his own race tending downward to a level of disgrace he does not rest until he works out some plan to lift such unfortunates to higher ground; but the Negro forgets the delinquents of his race and goes his way to feather his own...
Posted by Lamont Cranston on Wednesday, September 23, 2009,
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Now, I think the biggest problem with the white liberal in America, and perhaps the liberal [Obama] around the world, is that his primary task is to stop confrontation, stop conflicts, not to redress grievances, but to stop confrontation. And this is very clear, it must it must become very, very clear in all our minds. Because once we see what the primary task of the liberal is, then we can see the necessity of not wasting time with him. His primary role is to stop confrontation. Because the ...
People always devise their own justifications. Fixed and immovable Law merely provides a convenient structure within which to hang your justifications and the prejudices behind them. The only universally acceptable law for mortals would be one which fitted every justification. What obvious nonsense. Law must expose prejudice and question justification. Thus, Law must be flexible, must change to fit new demands. Otherwise, it becomes merely the justification of the powerful Frank, Herbert. The...
Posted by Lamont Cranston on Wednesday, June 24, 2009,
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Pan-Africanism is grounded in the belief that Africa is one; the artificial borders being the result of the Berlin conference, where European powers carved up the continent and divided the spoils among themselves. Pan-Africanism is grounded in the belief that all African peoples, wherever we may be, are one, and as Dr. Nkrumah says,"belong to the African nation"; our dispersal was the result of European imperialism and racism. Pan-Africanism is grounded in socialism which has its roots in com...
Posted by Lamont Cranston on Sunday, June 21, 2009,
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In this untoward situation the negro finds himself at the close of the third generation from Emancipation. He has been educated in the sense that persons directed a certain way are more easily controlled, or as Ovid remarked,'in time the bull is brought to bear the yoke.'The Negro in this state continues as a child. he is restricted in his sphere to small things, and with these he becomes satisfied. His ambition does not rise any higher than to plunge into the competition with his fellows f...
Some stories just don't have happy endings. But we Americans suffer from an optimism others interpret asnaivaté. Maybe that's why we sit in front of our TV sets gazing mindlessly at horrific video images looped by cable news outlets. Maybe we believe if we watch the space shuttle replay enough times it will race into the heavens instead of violently crashing to earth. Or maybe, just maybe, the second plane will miss the South Tower on the one hundredth viewing of that grim video clip on Sep...
Cuando intentamos ocultar nuestros impulsos mas secretos, todo nuestro ser expresa a voz en grito la traicion. When we intend on concealing our most secret impulses, our entire being screams betrayal.
- Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Dune: La Casa Corrino, P.36 2003 Translator Eduardo G. Murillo
A man's destiny is forged by events, surely, for we cannot help bearing the crowns and the scars that random fate has bequeathed to us in our lives. But more than events, it is a man's own free will that shapes him that reflection and echo within him of the very God who created him. Free will, like God, can rise above any circumstances or obstacles one may face; like God, it can make the humble great, make a weak boy into a strong man, make a timorous student into the Emperor of the world. An...
