Baltimore seems to be the great Black dream: the mayor is Black, the Chief of Police is Black and about half the police force (including some of those charged with Freddie Gray’s death) are Black. All this under a twice-elected Black President. Yet things are clearly going south. What’s going on?In a word? Class. Eugene…
Before I begin, I’d like to give due credit to Diva for teaching me most of this. Without her, I’d still be wondering why men here assumed I was a fool and then were shocked when it became clear that I wasn’t. This isn’t about pretending you are something that you are not. It’s about…
It was 1934, and William Fullwood, a young baseball player in the Negro Leagues, wanted nothing more than to marry Williemae, a “God-fearing, God-loving” woman who taught in a one-room school in Georgia.She initially spurned him because of their three-year age difference, but eight children, 23 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren later, William says he has…
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As Samuel Huntington put it: “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” via The Dark Side of The Western Civilization | SiliconAfrica.com.
As time progresses, I’ve learned that this description of my mothers, sisters, and partners in crime is used as the basis and excuse for the further shoving, by the Black man, of his own head into the sand of oblivion. Hence, the black mother, housewife, and all-round girl Thursday is called upon to suffer both…