Incarceration… imprisonment...captivity…physically no longer free to come and go as one pleases.  Cement walls…clanking doors…body scanners…pat downs…a sea of men dressed in khaki colored uniforms…young…middle age…old…more blacks than Hispanics…more Hispanics than white… all suffering from a malaise…a social sickness…a condition of continual malcontent underscored by a desperateness …forever plotting and planning the next scheme…the next scam…pursuing a delusion…never seeing beyond the…

Rev. SMiley, Rev. Dr. West, and  ALL  concerned about poverty and social ills, our own U.S.

Census Bureau gives evidence that the #1 group trapped in poverty are single female-headed

households, people choosing to engage in uncommitted premarital sex, I PRAY that you will

address the underlying causes, I believe blacks are equal to whites and can that ALL youth

should be taught self-control, but it will take ALL of us to get back to the "protective" boundary of…

In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S.…

In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S.…

My position on the "Move to Amend" topic (if you don't know, it is the leader among several "movements" to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the ruling two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court, "Citizens United v. FEC", that in effect gives "personhood" to corporations, allowing them unlimited expression of "free speech" in the form of campaign donations to political parties and candidates, who already receive "laundered" money through political action committees — PACs).  My…

Elisha Robinson

Dennis Kucinich for President 2012

October 8, 2011

Dear Dr. West,

In light of the recent plan to “run a slate of six primary ‘challengers’ to the president” I, along with many Kucinich supporters would like to propose Dennis Kucinich as a strong contender to President Barack Obama. I am positive you are aware the Democratic foundation is less than excited about the upcoming 2012 elections, hence the slate of six primary…

I've listened to a few of your programs and have read more than a few blog topics.  I note the common theme among too many wrestling with psychological wounds within the black community.  I do not deny it's existence, it's origin, the guilt of civilization blind to the evil of slavery, but I do vehemently object to the remedy for illness.  When falling back on the same old arguments, rounding up the usual suspects perpetually angry at whites as your savior/ devil, it becomes a philosophical…

I am going to tthrow this out here. This was written by Brian Foulks. I contend that this is a coversation waiting for voices and ears.

"Often the voice of reason and truth is the very voice that is criticized by the agreeable others.  Huey P. Newton lambasts, “The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.” Profound wisdom encased in the practicioners of justice and scholars of humanity.  Life itself is lived inside out in order to revision the…

A Tribute to Haitian Soldiers for Heroism in the American Revolution

Posted by: Audiegrl

Dedicated to…