End Page: Colin Powell Re-entering the job market

• Pictured above: Colin Powell Re-entering the job market. Courtesy of BrownWatch Contributor, Greg Fuller. 
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• The Spook Who Sat by the Door - Now available on DVD [more ]

A Case for Race-Consciousness

• "The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which white Americans cling." -- James Baldwin

To say that race makes a difference means more than simply identifying material disadvantages facing people of color in contemporary America. It also recognizes that race may have an influence on how members of society understand their worlds and each other, and how such understandings may serve to perpetuate racial inequalities in our society.Race matters. Race is among the first things that one notices about another individual. To be born black is to know an unchangeable fact about oneself that matters every day. To be born white is to be free from confronting one's race on a daily, personal, interaction-by-interaction basis. Being white, it has been said, means not having to think about it. Understandably, white people have a hard time recognizing this difference. Most blacks have to overcome, when meeting whites, a set of assumptions older than this nation about one's abilities, one's marriageability, one's sexual desires, and one's morality. Most whites, when they are being honest with themselves, know that these racial understandings are part of their consciousness. Race matters with respect to the people we choose to spend time with or marry, the neighborhoods in which we choose to live, the houses of worship we join, our choice of schools for our children, the people for whom we vote, and the people we allow the state to execute. We make guesses about the race of telephone callers we do not know and about persons accused of crimes. While not every decision we make necessarily has a racial component, when race is present it almost invariably influences our judgments. We are intensely -- even if subconsciously -- race-conscious. [more]

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Snigger
Snigger -- a sold-out smiling Sambo-Negro. 2) a South-Bender offender. Snigggers smile for nothing except an empty mind. They typically have an intellectual base yet are devoid of intelligence, thus promoting the on-going smiling face. They also often giggle and have a frivolous conception of society and scant knowledge of the vestiges of the trans-Atlantic slave trade that brought their sorry ass to shore. Sniggers are traitors and pawns of the oppressors. Watch the company you keep! Don't cross-over unless you are ready to bend over! (See: Straw Boss, Sambo & Criss-Crossover) [more]
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• Pet Negro Armstrong Williams is an UNCLE TOM- BUTT Kissing Fool  [more] and [more] Please Keep it Real and Leave that Barney Sh** Alone Brother
  

Tokens are for the Subway:
Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Black Conservative
Black Conservative -- a lost sheep in master's clothing. A black conservative typically has nothing of his own to conserve with the exception of his or her own double-consciousness. So-called "Black Conservatives"  dodge the reality of their folly and posit that what they are truly conserving is traditional "values" as if values ever had anything to whatsoever to do with morality or ethics. A black conservative unknowingly preserves the differential power-relations and dynamics between those of African descent and their bosses, the overruling overclass elite. A black conservative is a turncoat made of wooly hair with no one to turn to because when it comes to empowering his own people, his master will turn to him and say: "Get your hat, your robe and coat and leave- you're still just a nigger Clarence!" (See Sambo; Somnamnesiac, Values, Status Quo, Strawboss, Double Consciousness, Overclass, Uncle Tom, Status Quoticians & Assimilationism) [more]
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Turning Million Man Marches into Parades:
The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome - The Slow Death of Black Politics
The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome (HNIC) syndrome has witnessed the rise of symbolic leaders--Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and now Sharpton--who may be charismatic, but are politically unaccountable to the very people they claim to represent. Namely African Americans. This transformation has been underway since the 1970s, but most African Americans have yet to confront it. Because black America has not faced up to the moribund nature of black politics, it has witnessed the rise of these symbolic leaders...This is exactly the HNIC syndrome, in which maverick presidential campaigns and Million Man March franchises are high-profile symbolic actions instead of real programs or policies. Like Jackson's campaigns or Farrakhan in the afterglow of the Million Man March, Sharpton will become a nationally known entity, the putative "president" of Black America, the titular head of a purported progressive insurgency. [more]

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• Buy, Rent or Steal this movie and check it out - Unprecedented, The 2000 Presidential Election. Excellent background on the Florida Felon Voter Purge and its impact on the Black Vote. A review is [here ]