Modern Day Slavery in West Africa

 
In 1998 when I was planning my pilgrimage to West Africa, I was warned against visiting Mauritania. It was explained to me that slavery against the “Black” African population was still practised there by the “White” Arabs and I could therefore put my self at risk. The fear was not so much my abduction and enslavement, but certainly blatant [...]

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The influence of religion vs science on public opinion

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Recently I have been contemplating if the church has any real significant and positive influence on the world today, especially in the beliefs and actions of western society in particular. There was a time when Christian ideology, through the church was very influential (good and bad) in shaping political, social, cultural and even personal beliefs and viewpoints. I would argued [...]

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The Victim Mentality

Whenever a person voices accusations against the establishment about the unfairness of racial discrimination people white and black want to pop out of the woodwork to admonish the accuser for having a victim mentality. The knee jerk response of saying the victim has a victim mentality is meant to minimize or, even more effective, disparage [...]

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What Barack Obama Needs to Do

By Eddie Griffin who is devising a counter-strategy called “One Flew Over the Coo-Coo Nest“.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Rosalyn writes:

I am so ashamed to be a Texan today! I want Mr. Obama to know that he should have won the state of Texas. I have family and friends all over the state of Texas who are all [...]

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Whoopi Learns A Little Someting About Karma

As a Star Trek fan, I enjoyed the character of Guinan, the mysterious but wise hostess of the Ten Forward lounge on the starship Enterprise D captained by Jean Luc Picard. Guinan was always good for a word of advice, sometimes treading on counselor Deanna Troi’s job function. But nevertheless, the character of Guinan, played [...]

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