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Archive for April, 2007

Your AfroSpear Circle, will over the next little while, each drop a post telling a bit about themselves, share why they got into blogging and what they hope to see Afrospear accomplish. TheFreeSlave, who I refer to by his African name, Lubangakene, started with his post: Intro To The AfroSpear: TheFreeSlave. Here is mine.  I [...]

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I wrote this on February 26th, but I expect it to segue into another post I’ll make here adding a little context to the origins of “snitchin’ culture.” So bear with me! I’ll also include a couple of the comments from that post. It hurts my heart more when I notice well-to-do black intellectuals blaming [...]

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Gimme Five!!!

We’ve Created The AfroSpear, Now What? Consider this a public brainstorm – a global brainstorm within the Black Diaspora.  How can we who use the Internet change the world – OUR WORLD. What strategies and tactics should we use to liberate ourselves? What pitfalls do we need to avoid? What should be our initial first [...]

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Being black in America, being black anywhere is like swimming amongst piranhas while bound to an anvil. Some of us learn to swim these waters and stay intact simultaneously.  The miracles that black people are capable of. I’m from DC originally. I go by a few aliases: TheFreeSlave, MaxJulian, Lubangakene. Who I really am is [...]

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What’s in a name?

What is is with brothers named Thomas? I mean there must be some type of divine crystal ball at work here. Trust me, the irony isn’t lost on me that both Clarence Thomas, and Thomas Sowell, are….how do I say this; firmly in the Tom camp. These two brothers are embraced by the conservative movement, [...]

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Jared from “Lies Before Breakfast” submitted this post called “Action” in response to our Mission Statement:  The Afrospear has the potential to be a powerful tool, which can be used to better our community. At the beginning of anything that is new, the possibilities of what I can do are in fact, limitless. However, there comes [...]

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Asabagna, this is great! I just called my daughter in to show her the immense growth of the Afrosphere/AfroSpear in just the last two weeks! And I described to her the artistic and conceptual development of the Afrosphere, some of which she already knows because I had to rely on her CorelDraw skills. Take the Afrosphere [...]

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The days of Rhodesia were over in 1980: the newly independent nation marched into the post-colonial world with the heraldic anthem ‘Zimbabwe’ by Bob Marley, a Jamaican whose country like Zimbabwe was a satellite of those British islands. 1980 was the year of Robert Mugabe. 2007 is the 27th year of his reign. Africa’s political elite will never listen [...]

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