Buju Banton’s “Boom Bye Bye-isms”

“Boom bye bye inna batty bwoy head”
Translation: “Shoot and kill a gay man in the head” 
Back when I was living in Toronto in the late 90’s, I went to a Black club for a comedy night event. A local and very popular Black comedian was in the middle of his set when he made a rather offensive gay [...]

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Mitrice Richardson Is Just Another Missing Black Woman

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released twenty four year old Mitrice Richardson at an ungodly hour in the middle of the night from a remote substation. The young black woman, an executive assistant and lived with her grandmother in Los Angeles, was arrested on September 17th from an upscale restaurant in Malibu, about [...]

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The Great African Scandal

This very informative documentary is by Robert Beckford on his fact finding visit to Ghana and the “new” colonization of Africa.

“What has been shall be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

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sat’day riddymz

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“When AU blessed and honoured a terrorist” by Nkwazi N. Mhango

The report that Ali al-Megrahi, the alleged Lockerbie bomber (released recently on the grounds of poor health), received ovation from African Members of Parliament in Libya is disgusting and shameful. The 57-year-old was serving a life sentence in Greenock prison for the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, which killed 270 people.
The speaker [...]

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Beatrice Acheleke Honored with The 2009 World Diversity Leadership Summit “Freedom and Justice” Award

Beatrice Acheleke, founder and leader of the Black European Women’s Council was honored at the 2009 World Diversity Leadership Summit this month in Washington, DC. Ms. Acheleke is a mother, executive director of AFRA, a non-profit, non governmental self-organisation and NGO of Black Women with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, and an inspiration to Black women [...]

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This is a test… this is only a test!

Last week I was away from home for a few days attending a meeting in another city. I stayed at a hotel, an international chain, which is known to cater to government officials and business people. The morning I was checking out, there was no customer service person at the counter. A moment later another guest, a White male, also [...]

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sat’day riddymz

Usually I don’t add any commentary with the sat’day riddymz post. Usually I don’t watch the Oprah Winfrey show either. However, my wife convinced me to watch the Oprah interview with Whitney Houston and I must say that I was captivated as I watched. Although I was never a big Whitney fan and never got caught up in following the drama of [...]

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