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Video Of The Week: Culture, Thanksgiving & Holidays
The lecturers discuss: The definition of culture, the definition of holiday, the 10-song radio rotation list, the co-opting of culture, and social engineering. At the 30-minute mark, Native American, Guy Jones, discusses: Thanksgiving, nations vs. tribes, love and hate, relationships, the capitalist system, and prayer. [SIDEBAR: Black Love Day & Maafa Recognition Day- Genius!] Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »What’s In A Name?: Cadillac: The Slave-Holding Founder Of Detroit
“The Detroit River frontier, which encapsulates the present Detroit are and the counties of Essex and Kent in Ontario, was also a centre of French habitation and hence slavery. Black slavery in the Detroit River district began when the fur trader and explorer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac traveled to the region and in 1701 […]
Read the rest of this entry »NY Is The Original Trendsetter When It Comes To “Urban Renewal”
“In 1949, the federal government enacted a new approach to the housing problems in cities: urban renewal. The approach was now both in philosophy- for the first time in America, government was given the right to seize an individual’s private property not for its own use but for reassignment to another individual for his use […]
Read the rest of this entry »Christopher Columbus: “The Globalization of Greed”
I’m reading a book that described Christopher Columbus’s expeditions as, “the globalization of greed.” This description puts into historical perspective the mores and values of present day society. Here’s how the author astutely describes Columbus and his travels: “Columbus had set out from a Europe ravaged by poverty, violence, famine, and the Black Death to […]
Read the rest of this entry »How Many American Corporations Were Built On The Backs Of Slaves?
“In 1858, 75 percent of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance policies were written on slaves.” – From, “Medical Apartheid” By: Harriet Washington. So many American corporations were built on the backs of slaves. Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »The Origin Of The Term “Indian-Giver”
“When the Europeans came to Turtle Island, they looked at it as land that was there for the taking. They had to kill a few Indians to get it but history shows that was no problem for them. At the time the first Europeans came to the continental United States, there were at least three […]
Read the rest of this entry »How Many American Corporations Were Built On The Backs Of Slaves?
“In 1858, 75 percent of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance policies were written on slaves.” – From, “Medical Apartheid” By: Harriet Washington. So many American corporations were built on the backs of slaves. Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »THROWBACK POST: The First African-American Secret Service Agent To Guard An American President
“…Abraham Bolden, who in 1961, had been the first Black man ever assigned to the secret service detail guarding American presidents. In May 1964, Bolden made an attempt to contact the Warren Commission concerning two matters he felt should be brought to light: (1) A rumored plot to assassinate JFK at a college football game […]
Read the rest of this entry »The People’s Power
“It was disclosed later from notes and memoirs of cabinet members that Nixon and Kissinger had considered dropping nuclear bombs on Vietnam. Fear of campus rebellion was one of the reasons they decided against it.” -From, The Assassination of Fred Hampton By: Jeffrey Haas Tweet
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