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May 22nd, 2024 - 10:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

RFK Jr. campaign loses black outreach director

This can’t possibly be bad for the candidate, because of who she is. Angela Stanton-King (photo below, at right) has quit that role, but will remain an informal adviser, MSNBC reported on May 22, 2024 (read story here). Stanton-King has, shall we say, an interesting biography. She did prison t[...]

May 19th, 2020 - 1:14 am § in Jews, Misc.

A Jewish Thought on Malcom’s Birthday

Ru Man   When I was a kid, the first book I read that I couldn’t put down was the “Autobiography of Malcolm X.” I loved it so much that I read it twice. Years later as a junior or senior in high school, I came to realize that the reason why a white Jewish kid […][...]

February 11th, 2017 - 1:44 am § in Jews, Misc.

Four months after the Colonies received 100 White children as slaves, the first shipment of Black slaves arrived.

American slavery has a unique flavor, the flavor of race, the idea that African humans were a different race, a lesser race that could be owned like cattle.  But Whites were also treated as slaves, under another name. (Based on an essay at Radio2Hot.com.  Parts of this text are from that essay.) T[...]

January 16th, 2017 - 1:19 am § in Jews, Misc.

MLK DAY

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August 30th, 2016 - 12:45 pm § in America, The Ave Scene

Why, What, How, Where, When?

Why have me read, Ellison, Baldwin, Parks, and Wright as a kid, if at the end of the day, I was supposed to simply accept the cards I was dealt. What was the point of learning and studying about Malcolm, Toure, Seale and Huey, if all we are going to do in response to police […][...]

July 8th, 2016 - 12:09 pm § in Misc.

Summer Racism

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June 24th, 2016 - 9:48 am § in Jews, Misc.

The Jewish Fight Against Apartheid

Few know how central the Jews of South Africa were to the overthrow of Apartheid.     [...]

November 1st, 2015 - 1:18 am § in Jews, Misc.

Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews, Jews,

Funny, Them Jews .. They Don’t All Look Jewish! The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) estimates there are currently 14.2 million people in the world today. That estimate approaches 16.2 million, the number of Jewish people in the world before World War II, when Nazis and their collaborator[...]

October 23rd, 2015 - 1:57 pm § in America, Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene

Anthony Washington: Thomas Jefferson is a hero to most, but not for me

Some would argue that Thomas Jefferson is the most important figure in our American history.  He along with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston wrote the Declaration of Independence.  Outside of the fact that the Fourth of July brings family and friends together, Am[...]

September 3rd, 2015 - 11:48 am § in Misc.

Slur of the day

Golliwog A predominately UK expression which originally was a children’s literature character and type of black doll but which eventually became to be used as a jibe against people with dark skin, most commonly Afro-Caribbeans.[76][...]