The Black Man is Endangered (Oscar Grant) by Tamara Blue
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The Black Man is Endangered (Oscar Grant) by Tamara Blue
Posted by admin in Politics, Social Awareness on July 16th, 2010
Last night I held my son until he fell asleep in my arms
Rubbed his head and
Repeated prayers in his ear until he awoke
He wiped my tear as it rolled down my check
Sang the Barney song and gave me a hug
I told him I loved you
He told me he lobed me to
But how do I tell him
There is no way that I can properly prepare you.
How do I teach you to be confident and independent?
in a society that with out justifiable reasons
will castrate you
rape you
beat you
imprison you
and kill you
with little to no punishment or justice
When is the right time to tell you?
That you are on your own in this society
When do I tell you that your black skin is a threat?
All on its own
All men are at risk in these days
Where officers are trained to kill
and cuff
And ask question later
But Black me are endangered
And I don’t see no buttons
I aint seen no stickers
But they are surly
most definitely
killing Black Men
A Pod Cast in Honor of Oscar Grant and All Black Men
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OMAR BROADWAY STORY GIVES US A RAW LOOK INTO AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM
Posted by admin in Africa, Editors Picks, Nappy News, Politics, Social Awareness on July 16th, 2010
Take a rare look behind the walls of America’s prisons to see what really goes on when the authorities think no one is watching. In an unprecedented move, filmmaker Omar Broadway, a prisoner inside Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey, managed to sneak a video camera into his cell. Broadway’s documentary shows us the daily, unrelenting torture and brutality that these men face while our eyes are closed and our backs are turned. These are not correctional facilities, they are modern torture-chambers. Is this what we call justice? Decide for yourself.
FROM OBLIVIOUSNESS TO EMPATHY by Arian White
Posted by admin in Opinion/Commentary, Social Awareness on May 13th, 2010

“I Love Mad Men” the 30-year-old girlish woman almost squeaked next to me. Her arms shrugged tight by her neck in pure delight. “I love the 50’s. It was such a clean and neat era.” Was she aware that I was Black?! Surely, she was aware of the state of race relations in the 1950’s. Suddenly, the irony hit me. I am at a ‘Progressive school in California, experiencing what Black Folks and many other people of color experience every day in White-dominated workforces, universities, schools, and any other communities in which a Black person finds themselves the minority in the United States. — “White-Privileged Obliviousness”.
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I’M NOT QUITE BLINDSIDED BY WHITE PRIVILEGE (SUPREMACY) by Niki Williams
Posted by admin in Entertainment, Opinion/Commentary on May 19th, 2010
We are in a pivotal turning point in America’s obsessive fear of race.
We’re struggling to evolve past our shameful race-based history. We’re in such a rush to “move on” and “get over it” that we miss the subtle things standing in the way of true progress.
All across the media (and America’s consciousness) there are the subliminal attacks. Consider Confederate History Month, the Obama rape cartoon, the Harry “no Negro dialect” Reid conversation, and films like “The Blind Side” being obfuscated by the overt. See the spitting Tea Baggers, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. In fact, look at “The Blind Side.” The popular movie and its on-and-off screen controversy is the epitome of America’s multi-faceted race problem. I would argue that the real conversation about race is painfully nuanced and hard to pin down. Because the problem sometimes looks like Sandra Bullock, sometimes like Jesse James, and the dialogue is colored with much anger.
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film, racism, the blindside, tv
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