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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
Jan152005

Minimum wage just not enough. Republicans Against Raising it.

If you work 40 hours a week and make minimum wage, you earn $206. Before taxes are taken out. Wait a minute; that can't be right! Two hundred and six dollars? Some people have cell phone bills that high, for Pete's sake! Forget about your high-speed Internet, cable television, health clubs and regular haircuts. What about basic amenities such as heat, electricity, shopping for food, paying the rent and credit card bills? I mean, everybody has credit cards, don't they? We're not even talking about kids yet. Do you know how much kids eat? I mean, even when they're not really hungry? Seems to me, if you make $206 a week, you simply can't make it all by yourself on that kind of money. Can you? Clearly, it's been a long time since many of us had to live on minimum wage. But maybe it's time to consider the reality. The current battle in Madison between Republicans and Democrats is centered on raising the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $6.50, which seems like a paltry sum for those of us who can't comprehend living our lives on that little money. Which is the main problem for most in relating to this issue. If you can't imagine living a minimum-wage life, you have no clue what it takes. [more]
  • Maximum benefit: Oregon minimum wage hike offers real help [more