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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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Saturday
Jan292005

Inauguration reemphasizes need for D.C. representation

  • DC is 60% African American
The District of Columbia is the capital of the world's oldest representational government. Within its borders, representatives and senators from 50 states debate and enact legislation.Yet the 563,384 residents of the district have no voting representation in either legislative chamber. There is no parallel to this situation anywhere else in American politics. Exaggerating felon lists to eliminate potential voters, as Republicans did in Florida in 2000, is undemocratic and offensive. In the case of Washington, D.C., there is no particular action to discuss and no details to ponder. The residents simply lack the representation that every other American citizen living in the United States has. Adding injury to insult, last week's inaugural bash diverted $12 million from D.C. security costs, and, defying long-standing tradition, Bush is refusing to reimburse the district for his outrageously costly festivities. Some say that contemporary Republican opposition to D.C.'s enfranchisement is based on partisan politics. More than 90 percent of D.C. voters chose Kerry in November, a more lopsided result than any state. Republicans would simply be weakening their power base to support enfranchising D.C.. Others suggest that racism plays into the disenfranchisement of D.C., which, if made a state, would be the only one with a black majority. The arguments against D.C.'s acquiring representatives are varied. Some argue that, since the district was never intended to be residential, its residents should not be treated like residents of the states. [more]
  • D.C. Reports $318 Million Surplus for 2004 [more]
  • Something corporate at inauguration [more]