"THANKS to an unlikely confluence of history and genetics — the fact that he is African-American and president — Barack Obama has a unique opportunity to reshape the debate over one of the most contentious issues of America’s racial legacy: reparatio ...
Posted Sunday, April 25th 2010 at 7:11AM
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On a road trip to visit my family in San Francisco, my father was flipping through radio channels and found one, even though it was playing country music he stuck with it because we had no other options. Soon as Merle Haggard's song went off, I heard ...
Posted Saturday, April 24th 2010 at 6:08AM
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While having a conversation with the love of my life, she pointed out a conversation that a woman was having with the press on CNN about how another country’s educational system should be implemented there in America; in an effort to kick start a woe ...
Posted Tuesday, April 20th 2010 at 9:17PM
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I have recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia, the experience changed my life on so many levels: culturally (I was embraced as a fellow Ethiopian, my ancestors more than likely originated from there) spiritually (touching down in the land of my an ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2010 at 12:38AM
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Greetings All,
While putting the finishing touches on the Guardian Angel painting I was also listening to Minister Farrakhan's speeches during the past State of the Union addresses. While his words were uplifting and incredulous I couldn't help b ...
Posted Wednesday, December 16th 2009 at 6:47AM
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I was surfing the internet yesterday when I came across something so profound that I had to share it with the multitude that were not aware of its existence, what is it, you ask? A website that actually shows the contributions African-Americans have ...
Posted Saturday, September 19th 2009 at 5:59AM
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I was looking over the content on this website and some of the facts blew my mind so I wanted to share it with everyone, when you read this it will enlighten you on so many levels, enjoy.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/black.shtml
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Posted Friday, September 18th 2009 at 11:43AM
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I have gained a new perspective on things since I started teaching here in South Korea, for example in this country the students love monkeys but don't equate them with human beings, such nonsense originated within the warped mind of racist America ...
Posted Sunday, August 16th 2009 at 1:49AM
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The family celebrating Dad's special day at Longhorn Steakhouse in Hiram, Ga (2008)
I posted this pic because this year I am in South Korea and couldn't be there to celebrate my dad's birthday with him so this is my way of celebrating his special ...
Posted Friday, July 31st 2009 at 4:50AM
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You have to understand that prior to this pic, my father visited me in the hospital, the doctor told him to prepare himself because I probably wouldn't survive and would die of a massive heart attack. Even the people who came to see the patient lying next to me felt sorry for me and, I quote, ...
Posted Sunday, July 5th 2009 at 4:08AM
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I just wanted to comment about this, first of all I was born in America am currently living in South Korea and from what I have witnessed in my native country and abroad is this. Your race has nothing to do with how you treat one another what we are ...
Posted Saturday, June 20th 2009 at 7:05AM
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I apologize to everyone who has read this post because I always believe that one has to experience a situation for themselves before they can make a decision and I failed to practice what I preach. I am currently in Munsan, South Korea my employer Papyong Elementary has shown me the error of my ...
Posted Saturday, April 25th 2009 at 3:40AM
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While watching television one night and seeing another African-American man standing trial in a court of law for the murder of another civilian. I began to wonder why a certain segment of our population still chose to remain on the path of uncertainty and destruction leading to prison ...
Posted Saturday, February 28th 2009 at 3:35PM
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November 18, 2008 at 6:02 am
I’m living and working South Korea right now. I was all ready to press the abort button here. I’m white by the way. I have an African American friend who’d been so hurt by all of this. Sometimes we walk around the city ...
Posted Wednesday, February 18th 2009 at 4:28AM
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This controversial piece was conceived in response to the Bush/Cheney Administration's illegal tactics that was responsible for thousands of deaths around the world. Watercolor Pencils, Acryllic. ...
Posted Monday, February 16th 2009 at 5:55PM
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"When the third eye opens the blind will once again see." I created this drawing back in 2008 with color pencil, art stix and a pen. ...
Posted Sunday, February 15th 2009 at 4:26PM
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This picture arrived in my inbox along with the reason behind it a few days ago and blew my mind. It seems that back in that time Muhammad Ali was affiliated with Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. When Malcolm went through his transformation a ...
Posted Saturday, February 14th 2009 at 6:25AM
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A statue of Imhotep next to Hippocrates.
The next time that someone mentions the Hippocratic Oath keep in mind that Hippocrates owed his knowledge of medicine to Imhotep; not the other way around. ...
Posted Tuesday, February 10th 2009 at 3:41PM
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This is me clowning around at my brother's house in Hiram, Georgia (2009) Right before I left to go teach in S. Korea. ...
Posted Saturday, February 7th 2009 at 12:30AM
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The center of my universe. My baby brother on the far left in the blue jacket next to my mom and cousins and of course my middle brother standing next to me in the upper right hand side. That's him again graduating on the lower right side along with ...
Posted Saturday, February 7th 2009 at 12:19AM
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