August 2010 Blog Posts (42)

The Ministry of Foreign Relations says that the increase in drug trafficking in the DR is the result of demand for drugs from the United States. Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso was reacting to a statement by the US Embassy charge d'affaires Christopher Lambert who recently commented on the participation of drug trafficking in the Dominican…

NEW BOOK "I HOPE HE FAILS" THEORIZES THAT THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SERVED AS A CATHARSIS FOR THE RESURGENCE OF RACISM AND HATE GROUPS

August 26, 2010

Raynard Jackson

I was honored to be asked to be the moderator for the Maryland Black Mayors, Inc. (MBM), county executive forum for Prince George’s…

Did you know that every three minutes, another woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer? I didn't, and I was shocked to learn how prevalent this horrible disease has

become in this country. So shocked, in fact, that I've committed to doing

something about it, and I'm writing to ask for your help.…

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I think in order to discuss Wole Soyinka’s speech, (whether I am really qualified and intellectual enough to do this is another question, but I will try

nevertheless) as above, it is necessary to understand what Cultural Relativism

implies. The first use of the term, “Cultural Relativism” was around 1924 when

Alan Locke described Robert Lowe’s “extreme cultural relativism”, and since

then there have been…

August 19, 2010

Raynard Jackson…

By H. Lewis Smith

Even though not all black Americans refer to themselves as the pejorative n-word, an alarming proportion of the Black community uses and/or supports use of the term. For instance, ministers invoke the word from their pulpits, and the NAACP, with the wink of the eye, looks the other way when prominent blacks publicly embrace the word. Many black college professors support their…

Monday, August 16, 2010

Parable of Black August…

Paul Scott:



A broken, elderly black man limped into his doctor's office last Tuesday afternoon. His neck bore the scars of numerous lynching attempts and his back the whelps of years of severe beatings. Reflected in his eyes was the pain of seeing his mother and sister raped and being powerless to do anything about it. As he described in vivid detail his many thoughts…