Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American' (Breaking news?)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'By JESSE WASHINGTON | Associated Press – 21 hrs ago The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: "black." For this group — some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate history — "African-American" is not the sign of progress hailed when the term was popularized in the late 1980s. Instead, it's a misleading connection to a distant culture. The debate has waxed... |
Italy borrowing costs hit record 7%
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Italy's cost of borrowing has touched a new record, a day after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he would resign once budget reforms are passed. The yield on Italian 10-year government bonds reached 7%, the highest since the euro was founded in 1999. The debt was pushed up as a clearing house asked for a larger deposit to trade Italian bonds - to cover the increased risk of non-payment. Investors fear that Italy could become the next victim of the debt crisis. |
Kapiolani Medical Center Confirms 'African' Never Used On Birth Certificates in 1961 or Now
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| We spent a very long (and hot) day talking with many people on the island and filming several scenes with the “big check” that will be compiled into a video once we get home. There was one conversation, however, that I want to share with you tonight. We spent at least a couple hours at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children today. I got a call this morning from a reporter with the Honolulu Civil Beat who wanted to interview us, so he met us at the Medical Center. His story should run tomorrow. After that interview, we... |
America’s Civilian National Anarchy Force
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Once again, a gunshot got me to thinking—fuming really—about the steadily declining state of morality of the younger black generations in America today, and I’m wondering if it’s just my imagination that the bad behavior by young blacks running in packs has escalated since Obama took office. Hang on a minute before you jump in and tell me not to “unfairly” single out young blacks, when people of all “makes and models” do bad things. Of course it’s true that bad behavior occurs among all people, but you would have to be blind not to see that in America, black... |
48 women raped every hour in Congo, new study shows, far surpassing previous estimates
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| The central African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released Wednesday shows it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every day, a rate equal to 48 per hour. That rate is 26 times more than the previous estimate of 16,000 rapes reported in one year by the United Nations. Michelle Hindin, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health who specializes in gender-based violence, said the rate could be even higher. The source of the data, she noted, is a survey that... |
Orly Taitz: Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate Should Say 'Negro' Not 'African'
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| "In those years ... when they wrote race, they were writing 'Negro' not 'African'," Taitz says. "In those days nobody wrote African as a race, it just wasn't one of the options. It sounds like it would be written today, in the age of political correctness, and not in 1961 when they wrote white or Asian or 'Negro'." |
Keeping the Dream Alive: President Obama's Work with the African American Community (WTF!)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Keeping the Dream Alive: President Obama's Work with the African American CommunityPosted by Michael Blake on April 08, 2011 at 10:30 AM EDT On Wednesday, April 6th, the National Action Network kicked off its 20th anniversary convention, celebrating "20 years of struggle, 20 years of progress, 20 years of shaping history." During the day, four Cabinet members--Education Secretary Duncan, Attorney General Holder, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan--spoke to convention attendees about how the Obama Administration has been working with the African American community. That night, President Obama spoke at the Keepers of the Dream Awards Gala.... |
South African Communist Leader on the Significance of the Egyptian Revolution
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| The Egyptian revolution has huge implications for Israel, the U.S. and what is left of the Free World. Excerpts from a statement by Blade Nzimande, General Secretary South African Communist Party. In a column by George Galloway analyzing the Tunisian and Egyptian developments in the British ‘Morning Star’ – the daily newspaper of our sister party, the Communist Party of Britain – reference is made to Lenin’s apt observations about revolutions: “There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen” |
Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation, Experts Say
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| — Africa can feed itself. And it can make the transition from hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation.The startling assertions, in stark contrast with entrenched, gloomy perceptions of the continent, highlight a collection of studies published December 2 that present a clear prescription for transforming Sub-Saharan Africa's agriculture and, by doing so, its economy. The strategy calls on governments to make African agricultural expansion central to decision making about everything from transportation and communication infrastructure to post-secondary education and innovation investment. |
Jesse Jackson calls for Africa reconstruction plan
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| LAGOS, Nigeria -- U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson called Tuesday for an African version of the Marshall Plan, saying the continent deserved reconstruction and assistance, similar to that given to postwar Europe, after the years of "colonial rape" it suffered. |
NAACP and It's "Usefulness"
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| If I weren't getting so used to the inequity of political correctness, I would be stunned at this: http://www.blackpeoplemeet.com/index.cfm The Fresh Prince happened to be on TV while I was surfing the Internet and of course, the commercials are aimed toward the largest audience for such programming, black people. For a moment my jaw dropped as I watched the commercial that caught my attention as soon as I heard "black people meet" in the background. To be sure, I checked http://www.whitepeoplemeet.com/ and was redirected to a dating site for Generation X'ers that never once mentioned race. I don't know why... |
South African opera rejects call to cancel Israel tour
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Desmond Tutu says by bringing int'l artists to perform, TA Opera House "advances Israel's fallacious claim to being a 'civilized democracy.'" Talkbacks (23) Cape Town's renowned opera troupe has rejected a call from retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu to cancel a performance in Israel scheduled next month. The opera's managing director Michael Williams said in a statement Wednesday that the opera would not take a political position and cut cultural ties with Israel or the Palestinian territory. Tutu, who earned a Nobel Prize for his peaceful opposition to apartheid, urged Cape Town's renowned opera troupe not to tour Israel until... |
Zambian miners shot by Chinese managers
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| <p>A backlash against China's powerful presence in the Zambian economy has been triggered by an incident in which 11 miners were shot by Chinese managers.</p> <p>Police said that the Chinese executives opened fire on workers protesting against poor pay and conditions at the Collum coal mine in the southern Sinazongwe province on Friday.</p> |
Obama, the African Colonial
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Had Americans been able to stop obsessing over the color of Barack Obama's skin and instead paid more attention to his cultural identity, maybe he would not be in the White House today. The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa. Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western... |
Mugabe and the White African (Brilliant Documentary)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Has anyone seen the documentary "Mugabe and the White African?" I watched it last night after downloading it and it's brilliant. What do you think of it, if you've seen it? |
Tanzanian News: Obama Has 2nd Middle Name & Origins From East Africa
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Obama has a 2nd middle name of "Abdalla" and originated from East Africa per "The Citizen" newspaper of Tanzania For more than 200 years US citizen could not pick a president who has roots outside the country. This might have been the result of racism or belief that a person other than ‘original’ US citizen was capable of effectively leading the powerful nation and help it to maintain its values. But after political changes globally, and strengthening of democracy, things have changed in the US. We witnessed last year a senator with his origins from east Africa, Barack Abdallah Husein... |
The COLORED PATRIOTS of the American Revolution
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| This is an excerpt, to link you to the internet free and readable copy of: THE COLORED PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WITH SKETCHES OF SEVERAL DISTINGUISHED COLORED PERSONS: TO WHICH IS ADDED A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE Condition and Prospects of Colored Americans By William Cooper Nell Page 5 INTRODUCTION. THE colored race have been generally considered by their enemies, and sometimes even by their friends, as deficient in energy and courage. Their virtues have been supposed to be principally negative ones. This little collection of interesting incidents, made by a colored man, will redeem the character of... |
Kenyan official : Obama born here
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| A Kenyan lawmaker told the nation's Parliament last month that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American." During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite: "If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation," Orengo posited, "how could a young man born here... |
African American Is a Racist Term
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Kevin Myles the president of the Kansas chapter of the NAACP recently claimed that a government retreat on enforcement of civil rights threatened the rights of blacks. Actually the threat comes from the perpetuation of the racist belief that skin color separates us into different "races". The best way to eliminate discrimination is to recognize that skin color is only skin deep. Skin color does not automatically make us different in any other way. Black leaders are just as guilty of perpetuating the belief color is important as whites. The media actively support this belief by using the racist term... |
Tesco sacked African royal over time off
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| A Nigerian king-in-waiting has been awarded €10,000 compensation for unfair dismissal by Tesco An Employment Appeals Tribunal found that Tesco had failed to "adhere to any of the procedures" when it dismissed Edward Agbaje, of The Sycamores, Edenderry, Co Offaly. Mr Agbaje, who said he is now a taxi driver taking home €31 a week after expenses, had started work with Tesco in May 2006. Speaking at his home in Co Offaly yesterday, Mr Agbaje expressed disappointment at the level of the tribunal settlement. As he comes from royal lineage, Mr Agbaje had been required to carry out ceremonies in... |
Passenger was attempting to blow up plane, U.S. official says
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Romulus, Mich. - A senior U.S. counterterror official says a passenger aboard a Delta Air Lines flight in Detroit was planning to blow up the plane but the explosive device failed. The official said the passenger was being questioned Friday evening. It was not immediately clear why the passenger wanted to attack the flight that was arriving from Amsterdam |
Man Attempts to Set Off Explosives on Detroit-Bound Airplane ("directed by Al Qaeda")
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| Federal officials and police are interviewing a man, believed to be Nigerian, who allegedly was trying to "explode" a powdery substance aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, injuring himself and two other passengers, law enforcement officials said. |
What Do Amnesty Advocates Have Against Africans?
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| I'm writing this in West Africa where I have spent eleven of the last fourteen months working with compassionate, dedicated, and brave people on humanitarian programs designed to save lives and alleviate human suffering. During the past five years, I have traveled to the Eastern Congo where the deaths of millions of people have gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world, been to Darfur, responded to famines in Ethiopia, helped end a measles epidemic in Burkina Faso, and been deployed to Guinea Bissau in response to a cholera epidemic. I am currently focused on helping people affected by... |
In the Bronx, a Clash of Cultures Turns Violent [Blacks vs West Africans! Racist?]
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| In the Bronx, a Clash of Cultures Turns Violent Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Community leaders organized meetings at Al Tawba mosque in Claremont to address fear and frustration expressed by many local West African immigrants who have experienced tensions with the local black American residents. Published: October 19, 2009 The storefronts on a stretch of Webster Avenue in the Claremont neighborhood in the South Bronx tell the story of local shifts as well as any census: a Senegalese-run 99-cent store, an African video store, an African-run fast-food spot, a mosque, several African restaurants. A Community Struggles The owner of... |
Girls warned not to hide boyfriends' guns
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:11:37 PM
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| LONDON– A campaign warning girls not to stash or carry guns for their boyfriends was launched by London police Wednesday. The hard-hitting adverts, which are aimed at 15 to 19-year-olds of African and African Caribbean heritage, are designed to combat a worrying growth in the number of young women being arrested and convicted of possessing weapons. "This year's campaign has been designed to tackle an emerging and concerning trend," "Sadly, young women have always been involved in carrying and storing firearms," said Claudia Webbe, chairman of Trident's Independent Advisory Group. "We are deeply concerned, however, that this involvement seems to... |
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