Anticipating Mn-nfr Negroes


“Never make the mistake of thinking that the object of being a man is to make a carpenter, the object of being a carpenter is to be a man.”
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~ W.E.B. DuBois, Does Education Pay

Don't neba sleep on WEB. DONT.

Oh yeah: idren feel bruddah Mos ode to Michael & auntee Marimba bun FUNDAMENTAL fya pon shituation hoy too.

Mos Def - hueman ntr
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Marimba Ani - ita Stinks
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Not sayin' I'm Number One...


In the oldest & best tradition of 'make iNi feel good' is a true master of the ceremony: Blast Master. 'Im affi call simple (seen?) & positivity spirit come wi chicken bubblin 8:46 full fya AWO. "Not sayin' I'm Number One, Oop m'sorry I Lied, I'm #1,2,3,4 and [figgyfiggy] 5".

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~KRS-ONE


It is with heavy heart that I announce the passing of a great Afrikan woman: Pamela Curtis, a defender of US (Cambridge MA)
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"Miss Pam, I like You too."
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RIPP

Smile: Profanization as Pretext


"Denmark's Queen Margrethe presents the official law of self-rule to the Chairman of Greenland's council Josef Motzfeldt in Nuuk, Greenland on Sunday, June 21, 2009."

"After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty. Greenland passed a referendum last year requesting more powers from Copenhagen, and it was granted, taking effect on June 21st, 2009. Denmark still retains control of finances, foreign affairs, and defense, but will phase out an annual subsidy, and give over control of most of the islands natural resources. Additionally, Greenlandic is now the sole official language, and Greenlanders are now treated as a separate people under international law. Although the island is massive - with an area of over 2 million square kilometers (825,000 sq mi), its population is small, with just over 57,000 residents, 88% of Inuit descent and and 12% of European descent." (Big Picture @ boston.com more).
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Queen Elizabeth toured the stolenwealth with the same 'give-paper' freedom (speaking to African/Caribbean 'leaders'). What does it really mean?
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To have the ruler aaa present a law aaa of self-rule aaa to the ruled aaa means what?
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[ insert thought ]
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Maybe, what they should be exchanging hand to hand are the blue-prints on how to actually, practically & technically tap the huge untapped natural resources (oil, gas, gold and diamonds) if it is the desire of the Inuit & on their terms. (African leaders -ALL OF THEM- accepted the rules their rulers made in 1890 in Berlin. ...and they still do). Just because bruddah/sistah are called free by their European rulers does not mean the Danes won't be back in a new different suits. How do we know? When the early slave ships carrying free afrikans arrived within sight of the 'american' coastline, the crew would celebrate and often open up the remaining food stores to the afrikan captives and share clothes with the afrikan captives. There was rejoicing and even our women would dance. There were some, however, who did not dance. Some who did not even smile. Some recognized the beginning of the cruelest trans-atlantic profanization. The recognition would survive during the mock of an american holydaze for Fredrick Douglass (his 4th of july). And many more years later, it still survives, (if just, by a crucial, crucial thread).

Black Jobs Disappearing at Depression-Era Rates


BAR Brother Glen drops another timely news item jewel.

"There are no targeted programs to address soaring Black unemployment on the horizon, despite Democratic control of the White House and both houses of Congress. President Obama puts his faith in a “rising tide” that “lifts all boats,” but in the real world “the economic tide is sinking Black boats at two, three and four times the rate of whites.”

Download the audio report here.

Make Life Swing


“Without the presence of Negro American style, our jokes, tall tales, even our sports would be lacking in the sudden turns, shocks, the swift changes of pace (all jazz shaped) that serve to remind us that the world is ever unexplored, and that while a complete mastery of life is mere illusion, the real secret of the game is to make life swing.”
~Ralph Ellison