SOCRATES DESCRIBED HIS OWN APPEARANCE AS BLACK Death from a kangaroo court brought on by drinking from a cup of poison hemlock as punishment for his teachings, the words of Socrates provide pillars of Christian belief and Western thought. These have earned him the title of Father of Western Philosophy. Those ideas include: The [...]
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In 2010 The History Channel released a documentary, “Who Really Discovered America?” It examined claims of a host of reputed pre-1492 arrivals: the Chinese, Welsh, Polynesians, Israelites, Vikings, Irish, Japanese and others. However, neither the name, Ivan Van Sertima, nor his book, They Came Before Columbus, was mentioned even once. They Came Before Columbus [...]
The New York City Board of Education spends $22,500 each year on each of the more than one million students in the system. The New York City Public Schools have a 40% dropout rate. Only 60% of the students entering the ninth grade graduate four years later. Of that 60% only 1/4 are college [...]
I listened to as much of President Obama's Chicago speech today as MSNBC and CNN would allow, with interruptions for advertisements and comments from "experts" unknowledgeable about Chicago or education. The president was appropriately passionate about the tragedies of Hydia Pendleton, acknowledged the presence of Haydia's parents and spoke passionately also of the murdered children and teachers of Sandy [...]
One is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful nation on earth. The other is Public Enemy Number One. As one stood before a thousand cameras, his image flashing across 70 million television screens, the other was holed up in a cabin on the other side of the continent, with hundreds of police streaming to the [...]
When England seized Jamaica from Spain in 1655, the Africans held in bondage by the Spanish escaped into the interior of the island and began an 80 year struggle against the British. They came to be called Maroons. They set up independent African societies, complete with towns, crops and armies in the mountains and [...]
Ivan Van Sertima’s 1986 book, They Came Before Columbus, claims that Africans made a series of settlements in the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus set sail. The author cites a wealth of linguistic, historical and anthropological evidence, not to mention the written accounts and diaries of Columbus and other explorers who mention finding [...]
"Chickens come home to roost." said Malcolm X in 1963 when President Kennedy was killed. Chickens wander all over during the day, but they always come back to their pens at night. Malcolm implied that the bloodshed that America practices all around the world had returned to haunt her. The same can be said about [...]