Category: black family
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Wake Up, Everybody!
Over and over it plays— “wake up, everybody, no more sleeping in bed. No more backwards thinking, time for thinking ahead.” Every time I communicate with someone, thinking we might just be on the same level, the verse begins anew. By someone, I mean, other Afrikan people. I swear there’s this switch that clicks on…
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Love Is . . . Tangible
Betty Wright had this song way back called “Love Is.” One morning I woke up with it on my mind. It led me to reflect on what “real” love is about. Not the word “love” that’s tossed around so much in Amerikkan culture it has become as rancid and empty as the morals of Amerikka,…
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Me? Apologize?
A good many Blacks/Afrikans get all apologetic when it comes to vicious attacks by people of caucasoid persuasion. The caucasoid does the bad deed, and Afrikans jump up, quick to forgive, especially if television cameras are rolling. I consider this being apologetic against our own best interests. Not only that it diminishes our power when…