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Black America’s First Agenda Item

January 23, 2009 – 12:41 pm

Stanley Crouch, a writer whose pragmatism I usually appreciate, wrote the following:
“…Malcolm X was one of the naysayers to American possibility whose vision was permanently crushed beneath the heel of Obama’s victory on Nov. 4″
I say “wrong Stan”. If Blacks do not improve their condition while having an African-American as President of the United [...]

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Step Up Front

November 6, 2008 – 5:05 pm

The HNIC (Head Ni**er In Charge) has received a pink slip today. If there are future leaders who will choose to work specifically for the advancement of Black people, they will have to be as sophisticated and accountable as the best that this country has to offer. Sing-talking bootleg preachers will no longer suffice.
Today [...]

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Rededicated

November 5, 2008 – 10:55 am

My wife told me this morning that this was the “first time she wanted to wave an American flag,” and I feel her. An extraordinary event occurred on November 4th, 2008 – an event that I and many Americans of African descent never thought we would ever see – the election of the United States [...]

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A Change MUST Come

October 30, 2008 – 7:48 am

Did any of you happen to watch Barack Obama’s 30-minute infomercial on most of the major TV networks last night? Two words come to mind – emotionally brilliant. Whatever criticisms some contributors at Phiscal Matters have with the Senator, all of us recognize Mr. Obama’s brilliance, his sound intellect and measured candor – qualities befitting [...]

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Change…True

October 26, 2008 – 10:06 am

Shout out to Jycorri and the big homie, Ryan for this one. Filmmaker Charles Stone III (Paid In Full, Drumline and Mr. 3000), most notably known for the Budweiser True ad campaign, a.k.a. “Whasssuuuppp” TV commercials in 2000, is back with a redux of that classic spoof – just in time for Election Day.
Stone is [...]

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