TheBlackList's Blog – March 2009 Archive (6)

The Obama Presidency: Will Progressives Offer a Vision For a More Perfect Union?

Dr. Ron Daniels:

As it became increasingly clear that Barack Obama was poised to make history as the first African American President of the United States, it was also clear that this was potentially a big moment for the progressive movement – a time to articulate a vision for a new America and to organize to advance an agenda for reform and fundamental change. As the Obama presidency unfolds, the question is whether the progressive movement is prepared to seize the… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on March 29, 2009 at 10:23pm — No Comments

N’COBRA: Open Letter to First Lady Michelle Obama

Dear Mrs. Obama:

It is with highest homage and admiration to you that I write this letter. I am the Northeast Regional Representative, and Board Member, for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. The Reparations Movement, of which N’COBRA is a member, implores you to start a national dialogue on a reparations accord for Blacks in America. This national dialog must be firmly rooted in the historical context of the “trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the “holocaust”… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on March 26, 2009 at 10:04pm — 3 Comments

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – A Call to the Obama Administration for Action

March 21, 2009

Vernellia R. Randall

Professor of Law

On 21 March 1960 at least 180 black Africans were injured (there are claims of as many as 300) and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws, at the township of Sharpeville. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signaled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on March 24, 2009 at 11:09am — No Comments

That the fire this time was in your hands

Dr. Rodney Coates:

When was the last time that you cried for the abused?

Was it then, that you saw that their plight was your concern?

Or did their plight become your problem to discern

Manipulate, transform, or perform some statistical,

Analytical, non-practical deliberations upon -

When was the last time that you decried the crimes?

Insanity, then masking as repetitious diatribes against

The sanity… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on March 23, 2009 at 10:10am — No Comments

WHAT THE *^%#? The ‘Stop Cussin LLC Campaign’ Generates the Buzz, While Brent Hatch of ‘The No Cussing Club’ Gets the National Recognition

Tonya ‘Miss Right Now’ Ellington:

Is This Modern Day Racism? African-American Owned Organization Initiates and Sparks Interest in Stopping the Youth from Cursing, but Caucasian Man Obtains All of the Credit

North Charleston, SC, March 14, 2009 -- Imagine an entity coming along saying that they have invented the Big Mac®, after McDonald’s® so poignantly formulated the Big Mac’s great taste and unique sauce, so one might understand why… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on March 16, 2009 at 1:38pm — No Comments

500 years hard labour

John Maxwell:

As I looked at the photograph last Sunday, in this paper, I though they could be my relatives. The caption said "Anger, Despair at Long Pond" and their faces seemed very familiar.

I knew them. Not personally, but they were my kin.

Three people in desperate search for justice.

Knowing, after 500 years and 300 years and 100 years that no one is going to offer them justice. If there is to be justice they must make that justice themselves.

I was… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on March 1, 2009 at 12:18pm — No Comments