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What You Gonna Do Black People?

Where is the outrage, the rallies, the protests, the Black folks stepping up to the plate, when Black people kill Black people? More specifically, when Black youth, kill other Black youth? Is there some type of chip embedded in us that will allow us to so brutally kill each other, yet ignore the real threats that place us in the positions of servitude the majority of Blacks find themselves in?

How Racial Hatred is Sustained in the White Mind

I always advise people to pay attention to the small print. In the sense of reading daily media "conditioning" articles, it pays to also read between the lines AND use common sense. According to AJC reporters Tammy Joyner and Michael E. Kanell, Georgia white men have been hardest hit by the recession.

Where 4 Art Thou?

Can you imagine speaking in such a stilted language your entire life? I've always made a connection between the energy of a language and the overall vibrance of the people speaking that language.

Produce the Note

This CNN Live Report features an Ohio councilwoman who urges residents to stay in their home--even if they've been foreclosed on. Find out how and why you might be able to do the same.

Dr. King Speaks: In His Own Words

 

"Since I am a preacher by calling, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor--both black and white--through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated, as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So, I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Worth Considering

"I have not made myself deaf unto the words of right and truth."

A Piece of Mine

As a little girl, I dreamed of stepping out on my own. Of making a way when I couldn’t see one. Oh, the fairy tales we embrace when we’re young and, if I might add, dumb. My father once informed me that youth and wisdom usually don’t arrive at the same time. He had no idea how right he was—or did he?

Smoking Mirrors

Food Crunch Opens Doors to Bioengineered Crops

In other words, these wanna-be "gods" create the situations that lead you to believe that genetically modified foods are your only choices and that these altered foods will provide the same nutritional values as "whole" and "natural" foods. If you walked in and caught the robber toting out your television, why would you believe him when he says his intention wasn't to steal it? Same with the manipulative profiteers of this particular smoking mirror.

Broke Bailout

Why is it that corporate sharks can receive bailouts, but everyday citizens are ignored? Better yet, why is it that corporate sharks are "given" taxpayer (citizen) funds to bail them out, but the taxes aren't being shared with the very people from whom it's taken involuntarily?

Just thoughts for consideration as we continue this march toward total damnation with total sharks in charge.

How the Cancer Industry Controls Women

You've already seen the headlines touting October as breast cancer awareness month. A zillion products are available in "pink" editions now, and gullible consumers snatch them up at retail outlets without knowing a single thing about where that money goes or even what percentage of their product sale is donated to cancer non-profits. (For many products, the amount donated is mere pennies, and much of the donated money goes to worthless cancer maintenance non-profits that have no interest in actually preventing cancer...)

The level of hype and propaganda in this year's breast cancer awareness month has risen to a new low. The American Cancer Society, as usual, appears to be absolutely worthless in all this, still failing to teach women the No. 1 way to prevent a whopping 77 percent of all cancers: Sunlight and vitamin D. Read the entire article.