"Errol returned to South Africa with a half-share in a Zambian emerald mine, which would help to fund his family's lavish lifestyle of yachts, skiing holidays, and expensive computers."
@CultExpert This relationship between former cult members and the Evangelicals who deprogram them + their ties to the Republican party is a fascinating recurring theme.
@CultExpert The Nazis used cult tactics, too.
Mar 31 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
The Black Conservative: A black conservative journalist responds to David Horowitz's article, "Ten Reasons Why #Reparations for #Slavery is a Bad Idea and Racist Too".
"Why y'all Blacks complaining 'bout slavery, now? The cotton has been picked and sold, we got iPhones now, and economies running on full speed; y'all should've asked for reparations - during slavey -- or at least during Jim Crow?"
#NP Anita Baker's “Giving You The Best That I Got”.
🍷🌹 💃
Mar 26 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Colorblind Racism
“If race disappears as a category of official division, as it has in most of the world, this will facilitate the emergence of a plural racial order where the groups exist in practice but are not official recognized - and anyone ....
... and anyone trying to address racial division is likely to be chided for racializing the population.”
— Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: #ColorBlindRacism
"Communism, socialism and Marxism are all ALIEN ideologies and can NEVER be defended by African tradition."
-- George Ayittey, Ghanaian economist
Mar 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first appearance in print of the adjective white in reference to “a white man, a person of a race distinguished by a light complexion” was in 1671."
#BlackHistoryMonth
"Colonial charters and other official documents written in the 1600s and early 1700s rarely refer to European colonists as white."
Mar 12 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
From Obama to Ketanji Brown Jackson: Tucker Carlson can't stand Black excellence a.msn.com/01/en-us/AAUB3…
Last week, Carlson claimed that Jackson — who served eight years as a federal district judge before being elevated last year to the prestigious U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Washington, D.C. — was not “much of a jurist,” was “simply ignorant of the law” and that her nomination ....
Feb 27 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
“The price of this transformation is the unconditional freedom of the Negro; it is not too much to say that he, who has been so long rejected, must now be embraced, and at no matter what psychic or social risk. He is the key figure in his country...”
—James Baldwin, The Fire
“...and the American future is precisely as bright or as dark as his. And the Negro recognizes this, in a negative way. Hence the question: Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
Feb 27 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Momma Africa Stands up for Ukraine: Destroys Russia's Legal Rationale For Dismantling Borders.
“If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you [blame everything on you] and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston
#GeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter #AhmaudAubrey
When they want the pathology (NATURE of the social disease) to be BLACK (unique to BLACK people) they are race conscious, collectivist. But, when evidence suggest
Feb 11 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
The tragic yet resilient story of Igbo slaves who committed mass suicide off U.S. coast in 1803.
face2faceafrica.com/article/the-tr…
"Contemporary artists like Beyonce have also depicted and paid homage to the Igbo Landing in their work. In the recent wildly acclaimed Marvel comic film ...
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
If Burkean conservatism is a response to the French Revolution; African or Black conservatism, emerges out of, and in response to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
"Arguably one of the cleverest artifices of white supremacy is the thorough scrubbing out of African civilization and human existence before contact with Europeans."
"When oppression and subjugation are falsely presented as the genesis of black human identity, it provides a pseudo-intellectual justification for the marginalization of black people both on the African continent and in the diaspora."
Jan 29 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#NeverForget The Aryan Jesus in Nazi Germany: The Bible and the Holocaust
"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jan 29 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Nazi concentration camp badges:
Jews (yellow, star of David)
Socialist/Unionist (Red)
Jehovah Witness (purple)
Gay (pink)
Gypsies (black)
Filibuster is a perilous wedge lodged in the heart of our politics
"How could a country [Germany] so highly developed, cultured, and educated descend from a functioning democracy to a full-blown dictatorship in just a few years?" bostonglobe.com/2021/10/30/opi… via @BostonGlobe
Is the Filibuster Just?
Does the Filibuster expand liberty or will it take it away?
The AFRICAN father of WESTERN theology whispering to another AFRICAN.
“Lex iniusta non est lex"
'An UNJUST law, is NO LAW AT ALL.’
Jan 13 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
"I said Georgia
Ooh Georgia, no peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps #Georgia on my mind"
"Before Central Park was built, New York’s first free Black Community, #SenecaVillage, was torn down to make room for it. This is a topic often left out of history."