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On Liberal, Conservative and Other False Dichotomies

Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Black folks can’t afford to buy into phony paradigms – but we buy them by the carton just the same. I was reading a congratulatory blog post here on the ‘Spear, by a member of the Project 21 Group, re. the recent Massachusetts Senate election. One white Republican candidate “upset” a white Democratic candidate endorsed [...]

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sat’day riddymz

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Geopolitics, hip hop music, Immortal Technique, Knowledge, New World Order, Racism, Rap, Revolution, sat'day riddymz, U.S.A on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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“The Hate and the Quake – Rebuilding Haiti,” by Sir Hilary Beckles

Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

From The Colorful Times: THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme Rethinking and Rebuilding Haiti. I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian [...]

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“Hope and Change and Pick-Up Trucks” By Lisa Fritsch

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Barack Obama, Black Conservatives, Conservatism, Critical Thinking, Democrats, Leadership, Lisa Fritsch, News, Politics, Project 21, Republicans, U.S.A on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Op-ed submission by Project 21 Just a year ago, Americans were so eloquently sold on hope and change that came from a shiny, new black sedan of a limousine liberal. It turns out what they really wanted was something that came from the likes of Scott Brown’s old Chevy truck. Once dazzled by the illusion [...]

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“A fool does not care whether he understands a thing or not; all he wants to do is to show how clever he is.” Prov 18.2

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Critical Thinking, Education, Geopolitics, Haiti, History, Knowledge, Life, News, Paul Shirley, Sir Hilary Beckles on January 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »

One of the advantages and dangers of the cyber age, is that anyone can post their opinion for the world to ingest. One of the things I sometimes struggle with is whether or not to post and/or comment on an article which I find incredibly distasteful. In a way I am giving that person a platform to [...]

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Documentary Thursday: Evidence of Revision

Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »

The “Underneath.” What’s really going on?! Here is a documentary, a part of series, that reexamines major events, unearthing material that will make you think. Part I: The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Perhaps you’ve never asked yourself who, why or how, never questioned what happened. Maybe you just don’t care. Some view this event [...]

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Holocaust Memorial Day

Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I had never heard of Holocaust Memorial Day until I read about it at the Afro-Europe blog. It is held internationally on the 27th January each year and commemorates the genocides of World War II, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. This date was chosen as it is the anniversary of the day in 1945 on which the Soviet Army liberated the largest [...]

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