Dark-Skin and Afros- Our worst nightmare

I’m not going to generalize this to all Africans. I’m going to speak about my nation. Inferiority complex is implanted in every Sudanese. We constantly bring ourselvesdown. We dislike ourselves. We are always trying to be something we are not. We view ourselves as inferior and others as superior. We need to emancipate ourselves from [...]

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AfroSpear Growing Pains

(Crossposted at thefreeslave.wordpress.com)
When this particular thing called “AfroSpear” was created, we didn’t have a three, six, nine, twelve or thirty-six month plan. We, the six of us, knew a couple of things: we wanted to do more for Afrikan people in the diasopora. And, we wanted to connect with people in the Afrikan diaspora to [...]

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More White People Like This Needed!

Hey Field,
I’ve been reading your blog for only two days. And I’ve been reading blogs like it for only two days. I’m sending this your way because I want you to know the effect your blog has had on me, and because I’d like to hear your thoughts on it, if you have the time. Either [...]

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Going To Jena

Justice in Jena:

Something beyond petitions and phone calls to corrupt, poli-tricksters is necessary to prevent the racists in Lu’siana from doing what they are in fact, DOING, to our people right now in Jena. Maybe its time for the AfroSpear to be raised in defense of our people and levelled at our enemy. [...]

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A Tale of Two Genocides

(I found this remarkably interesting article on Black Agenda Report. The article challenges the silence of the United States over the 5 million+ people killed in the Congo, compared to the various voices lifted for the deaths in Darfur. It also discusses imperial and corporate interests guiding ethical concern. Here’s an excerpt. [...]

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The Talibanization of Catholicism

 
Religious discourse can be very controversial. Although I am open to share and listen to the religious beliefs of others (or lack thereof), I have never been interested in debating the issue. How can one debate the issue of faith? I find it pointless. I have nothing to prove nor do I want to convert someone to my way of [...]

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A Great Movie Review!

I saw this great review of the upcoming Don Cheadle movie-an actor who I happen to like by the way, and I thought it was cut and paste worthy.
AFRO STYLIN’
Cruising along cinema’s chitlin’ circuit

By Armond White
Talk to Me
Directed by Kasi Lemmons
“Every stereotype has truth,” says Don Cheadle as Petey Greene. That fallacy ruins Talk to Me, the new [...]

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International Justice in the Shadow of Truth and Reconciliation

I was never a proponent of “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions” in adjudicating crimes, especially crimes involving human rights abuses and atrocities during armed conflicts,  such as torture, rape, kidnappings, murder, etc. The idea that a perpetrator of these crimes could just come forward and receive amnesty for telling the truth of their participation in these reprehensible acts [...]

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