Category Archives: race

100 GREATEST AFRICAN AMERICANS

February 7, 2024 – 9:28 am

In 2002 Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante amassed list for his biographical dictionary 100 GREATEST AFRICAN AMERICANS. The illustrious names were listed alphabetically with # 1 being Hank Aaron and Malcolm X closed out the hundred. I recognized forty-one of them. Historical giants and thank to Wikipedia I read how the remaining fifty-nine African […]

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True Lack Of Color

February 6, 2024 – 3:18 am

George Washington has been revered as the Father of this Country for decades. The Virginian planter and his wife owned 318 slaves. Life of the plantation masters had always been painted full-white, however the Southern climate had been deadly to white women and slave owners exercised droit seigneur over the chattel women and girls. The […]

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Abe And Marilyn and Blackula

February 5, 2024 – 8:28 pm

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclaimation in 1863, freeing slaves throughout the South, however their liberation awaited the arrival on the Union Army at which point they sang, “Free at last, hallelujah.” The unchained darkies’ paradise lasted a few years, as the South instituted Jim Crow laws aimed at their subjugation to sharecropper lands. The […]

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Tar In The Blood

February 5, 2024 – 9:35 am

My father’s side of the family traveled to the New World on the the Mayflower. My antecedents were Howlands. A young indentured servant, John Howland, had been washed overboard mid-Atlantic and somehow had grabbed a trailing lanyard to haul himself to the safety of the Mayflower. Centuries later my Irish Nana had sailed on a […]

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The True Meaning of the Stars And Bars

February 4, 2024 – 4:17 am

The Stars and Bars of the Confederate nation was first raised over the South Carolina State House on April 11, 1961 to commemorate the centennial celebration of the War Between The States and a year later the state’s all-white legislators enacted a law to continue flying the flag as a protest against the civil rights […]

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