What if I told you Obama isn’t the first Black U.S. President?
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Teach the Babies
The Nsoromma School in Atlanta, GA
by Tre B.
Another testament to the failure of the Black and white media and my own ignorance, I just recently discovered these two great Black-controlled institutions in Atlanta: The Nsoromma School and the Imhotep Center of Education. They take an Afrikan-centered approach emphasizing Afrikan values “to develop the whole child – the mental, physical, social, and spiritual aspects – so the children can work towards creating a more humane existence not only for themselves but for the entire world.” If you don’t know what an Afrikan-centered consciousness is, read this book.
Imhotep Center of Education (ICE) has built its program around the concept currently known as African-Centered” education. Our holistic approach is based upon the premise that children will only excel academically and intellectually when the curriculum, teaching methodology, and environment reflects the builders of yesterday and the ideas of the future. Our belief in universal knowledge provides each student with the skills to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
dangerousNEGRO hits the streets of NYC
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Spring ’09 Sneak Peek
much more coming soon…
Quote of the Moment: Malcolm X
“You have whites in the community who express sincerity when they say they want to help. Well, how can they help? How can a white person help the black man solve his problem? Number one, you can’t solve it for him. You can help him solve it, but you can’t solve it for him today.”
-El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Kinara (The Candle Holder)
This year Christmas seemed to have a somber tone. The recession has everyone down. More than ever, I have seen the importance of celebrating Kwanzaa. These 7 principles are more relevant today than ever before. Do yourself a favor and celebrate Kwanzaa with me:
NGUZO SABA(The Seven Principles)
Umoja (Unity)To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (Purpose)To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba (Creativity)To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani (Faith)To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
To kick off today’s concept of Umoja (Unity), check this out: U.N.I.T.Y
Collection Plate Money (Arab Money Parody)
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Anti-dangerous video of the moment
Are they serious with this video? Now they’re just mocking us. First of all, girls that eat Mickey Dees in the middle of the night ain’t hot. Second, why do they market to us so hard when we’re already a hefty bunch? That’s like marketing cigarettes to people with lung cancer. They must want us all to die, didn’t anybody watch Supersize Me? Wanna know how to be an anti-dangerousNEGRO? Eat McDonald’s
…really, please don’t eat that crap. We love you and we don’t want you to die.
Quote of the Moment
“The community’s concern with the election and appointment of Black political figures helps it to maintain false hopes that their attainment of office will significantly resolve its problems. The activities of Black politicians, given the current inadequacy of social organization and economic resources, harmfully distract the Black community’s attention from recognizing and eradicating the true causes of its problems and the remediation of its powerlessness. ” -Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Blueprint for Black Power
I think it’s worth mentioning that this book was first published in 1998…looks like we’re still falling for the same politrikkks
Dead Prez: Politrikkks
First single off the upcoming Dead Prez album: Information Age
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Quote of the Moment
“Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.”
-Huey Newton, In Defense of Freedom
The American Criminal Justice System Needs To Be Revamped
Clarence Aaron remains in jail serving a triple life sentence
by Demetrius Walker
I’ve never agreed with the American criminal justice system. Point blank, it is wrong and unfair on too many levels. Since a youngster in New York, I have observed how our current system has destroyed more lives than it has protected, reformed, and/or rehabilitated.
To be considered the land of the free, the United States certainly boasts a dynamic air of hypocrisy. We have the HIGHEST incarceration rate in the world. In fact, the International Herald Tribune (owned by the NY Times) recently reported that “The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners (READ HERE).”
Very few people seem to have a problem with this in middle America. More than likely because this alarming figure affects the Black community in widely disproportionate numbers. I would venture to say that most African Americans, myself included, can list someone within their immediate reach that is incarcerated. Yet ALL Americans turn a blind eye to the prison industrial complex that assists young brothers like myself in donning orange jumpsuits. In case you haven’t realized it, there is an entire system set up to fill and build prisons to the economic benefit of corporations and private ventures.
Freedom Rider: Obama is not King
from our fam over at Black Agenda Report…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
It is the height of historical distortion to compare President-Elect Barack Obama in any way, shape or form to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King “is probably the only person in American history who gave up a close relationship with a president,” Lyndon Johnson, “because his convictions demanded it.” Those convictions were anchored in King’s opposition to “racism, materialism and militarism.” Obama, conversely, makes common cause with financial speculators and militarists. Under the current system, “It is simply impossible to be both a fighter for justice and president of the United States.” Read More…
Russian Civilization and Historical African Influence
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Dead Prez: They School
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