I began thinking of White Supremacy/Racism as a construct, paradigm if you will because we can trace the codification of White Supremacy through laws/codes designed to damage Black people. I know everyone doesn’t have a love of history but for understanding the true nature of Institutional Racism, it is highly instructive. Although, there is much […]
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Harassment and Interdiction_Revised
My Vietnam military experience was spent as a section leader for the Fire and Direction Control for a 105 mm towed howitzer unit. We did the calculations for howitzers and directed fire to prescribed targets. One of our jobs was directing Harassment & Interdiction fire. “In 1965, the U.S. military in South Vietnam began conducting […]
Atlantic Slave Trade: Fallacy of Blacks selling Blacks
In understanding the racism paradigm it is not only important to understand that we Africans have not only had a long history before Columbus but in the process of “whitewashing” African history, many lies were created to justify the enslavement of Africans for PROFIT. It is important to understand that these lies infected European, Asian, […]
What are we going to do next?
Whether we want to or not, as Black people, most of us are always conscious of race because our lives depend on it. Not just because there has been another Black male shot down in the street but because we exist in this country built on the exploitation and the suppression of our race; suppression […]
An Awakening
I grew up believing in social integration. I was the only Black kid in my kindergarten class, that pattern was often repeated over the years, and the perceived goal, at that time, for Black folk was social integration as the means to rise up and become better Americans. I wanted to be a better American, […]
The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493
The Papal Bull “Inter Caetera,” issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493, played a central role in the Spanish conquest of the New World. The document supported Spain’s strategy to ensure its exclusive right to the lands discovered by Columbus the previous year. It established a demarcation line one hundred leagues west of […]