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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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Deeper than Atlantis
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Thursday
Feb172005

Mfume decries widening economic gap

  •  "Minorities, disadvantaged must demand change, work together to achieve it."
People of all races and ethnicities who are disadvantaged and discriminated against need to demand change as the gap between rich and poor in the United States grows, the former head of the NAACP said Wednesday. "People will try to tell you to be silent, to look the other way," said Kweisi Mfume. "Challenge them." Mfume, past president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke in a packed auditorium at 2,100-seat Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University. The 40-minute speech, sprinkled with personal anecdotes and gospel-fueled humor, was part of the university's Black History Month observance. Mfume said lawmakers in Washington have been advancing a "reverse Robin Hood" agenda. "Economic disparities have grown; gaps between the haves and have-nots have grown," said Mfume, who served as a congressman from Maryland for 10 years. "Blacks, Latinos and poor whites are falling further behind. "We have a problem." Mfume said the war in Iraq and the trillions of dollars the United States is adding to the national debt are making matters worse. "War and recession historically have collaborated with diminished civil rights," he said. "With our collective voice, we need to say we should be less concerned with rebuilding the economy of Iraq and more concerned with rebuilding our own economy." Mfume urged minorities not to give up on one another. [more]
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