In These Times

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• • 26 Dec 06
  • 10:28 pm

  It is quite clear that "Blonde Mike" is fearful, just as the rest of his European/White world leadership is, of, in the words of one Malcolm X, the "chickens coming home to roost"... Exploitation can only exist if you are willing to be exploited... and his message is one of clear, and overt racism. Africans/African Americans, Latinos, Indigenous Indians....we are all one people with one struggle. Fighting against a fundementally corrupt, racist, brutal, and injust global economic and social hierarchy. No matter how hard you and your kind attempt to mystify our history and relations, as with time, eventually, all will …

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• • 27 Dec 06
  • 4:46 pm

  First, my comments had absolutely nothing to do with black nationalism-- either you can't read or, as I presume to be the case, you wish to transpose your own ignorant and false intimations on others words to mask your own discomfort with the truth. Second, comparing the injustices perpetrated by whites against non-whites to the former Soviet Union and it's struggles and ultimate failure with Socialism is absolute nonsense: there has never been a free and true, GLobal, Pro Socialist movement or state advocating true justice for all people; your attempt to lump communism into the greater struggle for fundamental civil …

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• • 25 May 06
  • 3:00 pm

  The existence and acknowledgement of Racism does not exclude the individual from personal responsibility. One, ultimately, controls his/her own actions by his/her own individual choices; the duty of enlightenment remains solely the responsibility of the actor - whether negatively impacted from a surrounding, detrimental, and proven obligatory force, such as the institution of American racism or otherwise. The issue is simpler than the played-out semantics of democratic/republican ideology wish to conclude. The struggle for liberation, truth, begins first with the individual determining the need for liberation. That appears, to me, to be the central issue concerning the crisis of young Black …

  Posted to Black Men: The Crisis Continues

• • 25 May 06
  • 6:39 pm

  R.B. Green: It is unfair and incorrect to assume that the crux of my response was geared towards the idea that one is poor because he chooses to be poor. This concept is false, and is an egregious, often used tactic for displacing the blame for wrong doing unto the victim; I agree whole-heartedly. However: personal ignorance is, and can no longer be, an excuse for the failure for our community. While our environment may be controlled externally to our detriment, what cannot be controlled except by it's owner, is the soul. This is why the caged bird sings... The personal …

  Posted to Black Men: The Crisis Continues

• • 25 May 06
  • 6:44 pm

  I must also suggest that the ills of Black men & Black women are intertwined. Any discussion of one without the other is an excercise in futility, pointlessness. The key to our rise, our independence, is an honest reflection upon that which we face; not an isolation of our problems. We must view the whole, and not simply the particles which comprise us.

  Posted to Black Men: The Crisis Continues