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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

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Tuesday
Nov022004

Russell Simmons takes mainstream magazines to task

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons did not mince words today as he took the magazine industry to task for its lack of cultural diversity.  Speaking on the third day of the American Magazine Conference in Boca Raton, Fla., Mr. Simmons told an audience of more than 500 of the nation's top magazine executives that they had failed to acknowledge the overwhelming influence that hip-hop has had on youth culture. "You are in the business of spotting trends, and you've been largely absent," said Mr. Simmons, who is chief executive of Rush Communications and the founder of Def Jam Recordings and the Phat Farm apparel brand. Describing hip-hop as a great brand-building culture, he said that the inattention of marketers and magazines had been good for him. "You're not thinking about it, so I can build another business," he said.  Mr. Simmons was especially pointed on the subject of who is making decisions throughout most of the publishing industry. "You've got two black people in this room, and both of them are on stage," he said, referring to his interviewer, Roy Johnson, assistant managing editor ofSports Illustrated, who is African American. "There are more images out there than Puffy [Combs]," he added. Later, Mr. Simmons acknowledged that he hadn't seen all of the people of color in the room. [more]