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9/11: Ten Years After

Posted in 9/11, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Al Qaida, Love, Peace, U.S.A on September 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“Today I do not honor terrorism, reinforce fear or plot revenge. No. I pause today to commit to less violence and more peace. I choose today to be a part of the healing instead of part of the destruction. I remember today that peace begins within and love is an action.” Wayne Hicks

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“Kanye West Apologizes for Calling Bush a Racist, Highlighting Bigger Issue” by Devon Carlin

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, George Bush, Kanye West, Katrina, New Orleans, News, U.S.A on November 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Op-ed submission by Project 21  It may be too little and too late, but Kanye West is finally apologizing for calling George W. Bush a racist. Nonetheless, his realization could be a lesson for us all. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, celebrities offered their support to the affected areas with their “A Concert [...]

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“Kanye should never have apologized to Bush” by Dr. Boyce Watkins

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Critical Thinking, Dr. Boyce Watkins, George Bush, Kanye West, Katrina, New Orleans, News, The Today Show, U.S.A on November 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Article in Race-Talk by Dr. Boyce Watkins  One of the proudest moments in my life as a political observer was when Kanye West did something that almost no other artist or entertainer would be astute or courageous enough to do. In 2005, as people were dying in the streets of New Orleans, West used the powerful platform [...]

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Election Day 2010

Posted in 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, David Brooks, Politics, U.S. Politics, U.S.A on November 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »

In anticipation of the significant midterm election loses expected to be suffered by Democrats, I found these comments by David Brooks, a columnist with The New York Times, right on point: Democrats and their media enablers have paid lavish attention to Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino, even though these two Republican candidates have almost no chance of [...]

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More on U.S. experiments on people of African descent

Posted in African Diaspora, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black History, Crimes Against Humanity, Guatemala, News, Panama, Science, U.S.A on October 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Thanks to Ana for sharing this information. This article at The Silver People Chronicle: The Back Punch Revisted-”We can End the Silence”, is shockingly eye-opening by revealing the experiments that were done on people of African descent in Panama by the U.S. government.   On Friday, October 1st 2010, U. S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton [...]

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Byts and Bytes

Posted in Africa, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Arizona, Black History, Colourism, Critical Thinking, Cuba, Geopolitics, History, Immigration, Mexico, NAACP, Racism, Stratfor, U.S.A on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

1. “It is easy enough to dismiss those who persist in believing that the first successful African slave revolt took place in Haiti. Arab historians have themselves established the contrary, and in contemporaneous detail, so that it is near common knowledge that a revolt of epical dimensions took place at least a millennium earlier, in [...]

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It’s a nice place to visit but…..

Posted in AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Canada, Life, U.S.A on July 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I love America! Well… let me qualify that statement and say that I love “visiting” America. I have travelled extensively throughout the U.S. and last week the family visited Florida (Orlando, Hollywood and Miami). I have always found the people to be friendly and accommodating if need be. The infrastructure and other necessities for an acceptable quality of life is comparable enough to [...]

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Tim Wise and The Privilege of White Guilt

Posted in Activism, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Critical Thinking, Life, News, Racism, Tim Wise, U.S. Politics, U.S.A, White Guilt on April 29, 2010 | 34 Comments »

Whenever I get the opportunity to address a group of black youths or counsel a black male one-on-one, I always impress upon them two truths in our society, which I tell them never to forget. The first is: you are not white. This may seem obvious, but we have come to think of ourselves as being “the same” [...]

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