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Cornel West and Tavis Smiley Talk Poverty in DC
by Kirsten West-Savali, Your Black World
Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West continue to draw fire from critics for their Poverty Tour, which many consider a personal attack against President Barack Obama and his loud silence on poverty in the United States.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Duchess Harris: Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help
by Professor Duchess Harris, PhD, JD
I did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett. Why, you ask? Because I read the book.
Last week New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni saw an advance screening of the movie and referred to it as “…a story of female grit and solidarity — of strength through sisterhood.” He wrote, “The book’s author, Kathryn Stockett, told me that she felt that most civil rights literature had taken a male perspective, leaving ‘territory that hadn’t been covered much.’” What neither Bruni nor Stockett acknowledge is that the real territory remaining uncovered is civil rights literature written by the Black women who experienced it.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
NCAA Athletes Start a New Season with No Labor Rights, No Compensation and No Help for Their Families
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
NCAA athletics has become the new prohibition – the illogical construct that creates a destructive underground economy because leadership is being guided by an illusion of what should be, rather than confronting the NCAA for what it really is: a professional sports league. Some of our most highly educated figures within academia are forced to convince themselves that a multi-billion dollar sports entertainment behemoth should be able to get away with not paying its primary employees.
Home Ownership Hits Lowest Levels Since 1965
By JasmineHughes
According to a recent Morgan Stanley report, the United States is fast becoming a nation of renters. As the foreclosure crisis continues to gain momentum homeownership is reaching its lowest numbers in almost 5 decades.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Dr. Julianne Malveaux: S&P Downgrade is Beginning of the End
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux
When S&P downgraded the US bond rating from AAA to AA+, they formalized the financial buzz of months, if not years. The US is going to hell in a hand basket, replicating the denouement of England in the mid-twentieth century. Our tax structure, which rewards the rich and punishes the middle class, looks like something from a developing country, and our economic distribution is going to look like that soon, as well. While many are disappointed and outraged that the flawed S&P felt they could involve themselves in the internal meat grinder of US politics by demanding a certain level of spending cuts, the bottom line is that our politicians were willing to take us to the brink on the debt ceiling, and this brinkmanship does not bode well for fiscal stability.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Fox News Calls President Obama’s Birthday Party a “Hip-Hop Barbecue that Didn’t Create Jobs”
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University – Scholarship in Action
It appears that Fox News is at it again. The same network that has commentators like Eric Bolling, who asked why President Obama was "inviting so many hoods to the hizzy" referenced his 50th birthday party as a "Hip-Hop Barbecue."
Friday, August 5, 2011
What to Make of Black Women Playing Maids and Other Stereotypes in Hollywood?
by Renee Greene, Your Black World
“The Help” opens in theaters August 10.
In the midst of new millennium accusations of racism in Hollywood, and with the “underhiring” of blacks in the movie world for major A-list roles, it appears that black actresses can still find roles forged out of perpetually stereotypical characters. The Help, a best-selling novel-gone-silver-screen, is centered on the lives of Aibileen and Minny, two black maids living in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s. The maids are portrayed by African American actresses Viola Davis andOctavia Spencer.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Says that the Debt Ceiling Deal was a Disaster
Your Black World reports.
Princeton University Professor and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman expressed his concerns about the recent debt ceiling deal between President Obama and the Republicans. Krugman said that the president effectively caved in to threats from the Republicans, and gave them what they wanted.
Black Men Get Decades, but Ivy League Dope Dealer Gets Probation
By JasmineHughes
It is no secret that Blacks have been on the short end of fair treatment in legal sentencing for decades. Since the establishment of mandatory minimums and three-strike laws under the leadership of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, African-Americans have essentially been thrown under the prisons. READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY →
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Dr. Wilmer Leon: Debt Compromise on the Backs of African Americans is Really an Historical Trend
By
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
During this debt and deficit debate President Obama has been very clear in stating, “Not only is it not fair if all this is done on the backs of middle-class families,” Obama said, “it doesn’t make sense. … That’s why people from both parties have said the best way to take on our deficit is with a balanced approach … one where wealthy Americans and corporations pay their share, too.” It appeared as though closing tax loopholes and increased revenues coming from the “…oil company or a corporate jet owner that’s doing so well …” was not a point of compromise.
Malcolm X’s Daughter Gets 5 Years Probation for Robbing the Elderly
Ayvaunn Penn, Your Black World
For previous report click here.
It is probably safe to say that Malikah Shabazz is not upholding the image of her father, Malcolm X. At the age of 46, X’s youngest daughter has been sentenced to 5 years of probation for stealing $55,000 from an elderly woman by charging on credit cards in the woman’s name. Shabazz is required by the courts to pay off the debt in full. If she fails to do so, she could get up to 7 years behind bars.NYDailyNews.comreports:
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Are Black Rappers to Blame When a White Rapper Uses the N-Word?
How Prisons are the Latest Form of Slavery
Basketball Wife Tami Roman Gets into a Massive Car Accident
13-Year Old Boy Shot 8 Times by Chicago Police
What Should Be the Punishment for Touching a Black Woman’s Hair without Permission?
Yvette Carnell: Is Al Sharpton Owned by Corporate Ameri
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
JasmineHughes: Summer’s Eve “Talking Vagina” Ad Offends Some Black Women
By JasmineHughes, Your Black World
When advertisers try to ‘appeal’ to a specific audience on whom they have failed to do their research, the outcome isn’t so great. That was the case once again in a new Summer’s Eve advertisement that many are saying mixes racial stereotypes in a way that is both sexist and tasteless.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Symetry
And now a moment on the subject of symmetry. An issue this country has been fixated on for over 400 years.
By definition, any shape that is divided symmetrically is divided equally. If you were to take this shape and view it from the top it would indeed appear to be divided equally. However, when viewed from the side, each of the heretofore equally divided sections becomes disproportionate and it appears to be divided unequally...In essence, each new angle from which you view this shape presents a new reality.
And now a moment on the line itself. By definition, a line is the barrier that separates each of the early divided sections.
As I contemplate this shape that I live in I must ask myself:
"Who is it that controls the social, political and economic ink that is the line which divides this shape?"....Moreover, "Who is it that tells me that my people make up one of the evenly divided sections of that shape?"...
.....SURELY IT IS THEY WHO VIEW IT FROM THE TOP...
By definition, any shape that is divided symmetrically is divided equally. If you were to take this shape and view it from the top it would indeed appear to be divided equally. However, when viewed from the side, each of the heretofore equally divided sections becomes disproportionate and it appears to be divided unequally...In essence, each new angle from which you view this shape presents a new reality.
And now a moment on the line itself. By definition, a line is the barrier that separates each of the early divided sections.
As I contemplate this shape that I live in I must ask myself:
"Who is it that controls the social, political and economic ink that is the line which divides this shape?"....Moreover, "Who is it that tells me that my people make up one of the evenly divided sections of that shape?"...
.....SURELY IT IS THEY WHO VIEW IT FROM THE TOP...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
I've been afforded this opportunity to blog on this forum and as it may be my only chance to do so, I'd like to discuss what is most important to me, that being culture. In a world ruled by commercial interests, political maneuverings and religious zealotry (or apathy), the importance of culture is often overlooked. Culture is simply defined as one's way of life...as such it is within this field of study that the secrets of life are revealed.
As Afro-Americans, we find ourselves in a perpetual struggle. In whatever field of human endeavor you choose to select you will find that the Afro-American diaspora trails behind nearly every other. In education, it has been revealed that Afro-American males are the least educated and by proxy make the least amount of money. You will see that Afro-American women are at the highest risk of contracting some form of STD. You will see that black men seemingly sell themselves into the modern day slavery that is the United States Penal System.
This struggle begins for us in the public school system. Understand, that if one were to take a random Afro-American off the street and ask that they provide a brief discourse on the history of their race that summation will almost invariably begin with slavery. Understand, that brothers and sisters sell themselves into slavery because it is taught in our schools that slavery is our way of life.
Unfortunately for us, every contribution Afro and Afro-American peoples have made to the advance of humanity have been stolen from us. We are taught that Hippocrates is the father of modern medicine yet this is patently untrue, insofar as Ancient Egyptians were known to have very specialized system of medicine, even to the extent of performing successful brain surgery. Hippocrates did establish the profession of medicine and as such should be known as the "Father of the BUSINESS of healing others"
As a people we must do a true investigation of culture, not from the perspective of "look how far we've come since slavery" but, " look, our throne is still outside our grasp". What this includes is an elimination of black history month because human history is black history. We need to stop highlighting the "first black person" to do this and that because while the intention is good, the cultural influence it carries sends the message that we are playing catch up. Schools need to teach about the Moors because it was their influence that acted as the catalyst for the renaissance.
Much akin to the above example is the relationship shared with the Greeks and the Persians, the Romans and the Carthaginians, the British and the Zulu wherein it is revealed that that traditionally black societies as a matter of necessity have historically been dealt with as equals by other cultures.
We should be approaching the realization that heretofore, what we have attempted has not worked. Government invariably results in class warfare ( Monarchy and the peasants revolts, Czarism and the Bolshevik revolutions...Democracy and trickle down economics). Religion undoubtedly results in zealotry for anyone who feels they have a corner on the market of truth is indeed a dangerous force.
In closing I'd like to state emphatically, that as long as we as a people continue to fascinated by symbols and illusions of power we will continue to be powerless...and that as long as we allow the education system to indoctrinate our children with all the things that DON'T matter we will remain, Deaf, Dumb and Blind to the world around us...
I go as I came...
with respect for my ancestry and love for my people
As Afro-Americans, we find ourselves in a perpetual struggle. In whatever field of human endeavor you choose to select you will find that the Afro-American diaspora trails behind nearly every other. In education, it has been revealed that Afro-American males are the least educated and by proxy make the least amount of money. You will see that Afro-American women are at the highest risk of contracting some form of STD. You will see that black men seemingly sell themselves into the modern day slavery that is the United States Penal System.
This struggle begins for us in the public school system. Understand, that if one were to take a random Afro-American off the street and ask that they provide a brief discourse on the history of their race that summation will almost invariably begin with slavery. Understand, that brothers and sisters sell themselves into slavery because it is taught in our schools that slavery is our way of life.
Unfortunately for us, every contribution Afro and Afro-American peoples have made to the advance of humanity have been stolen from us. We are taught that Hippocrates is the father of modern medicine yet this is patently untrue, insofar as Ancient Egyptians were known to have very specialized system of medicine, even to the extent of performing successful brain surgery. Hippocrates did establish the profession of medicine and as such should be known as the "Father of the BUSINESS of healing others"
As a people we must do a true investigation of culture, not from the perspective of "look how far we've come since slavery" but, " look, our throne is still outside our grasp". What this includes is an elimination of black history month because human history is black history. We need to stop highlighting the "first black person" to do this and that because while the intention is good, the cultural influence it carries sends the message that we are playing catch up. Schools need to teach about the Moors because it was their influence that acted as the catalyst for the renaissance.
Much akin to the above example is the relationship shared with the Greeks and the Persians, the Romans and the Carthaginians, the British and the Zulu wherein it is revealed that that traditionally black societies as a matter of necessity have historically been dealt with as equals by other cultures.
We should be approaching the realization that heretofore, what we have attempted has not worked. Government invariably results in class warfare ( Monarchy and the peasants revolts, Czarism and the Bolshevik revolutions...Democracy and trickle down economics). Religion undoubtedly results in zealotry for anyone who feels they have a corner on the market of truth is indeed a dangerous force.
In closing I'd like to state emphatically, that as long as we as a people continue to fascinated by symbols and illusions of power we will continue to be powerless...and that as long as we allow the education system to indoctrinate our children with all the things that DON'T matter we will remain, Deaf, Dumb and Blind to the world around us...
I go as I came...
with respect for my ancestry and love for my people
Dr. Boyce Watkins: Let Me Explain How BET Has Become the New KKK
Click to listen to Dr. Boyce Watkins explain his assertion that BET has become the new KKK
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