A March 7, 2011 article in the New York Times entitled, “Mexican Church Takes a Closer Look at Donors”, says, “The Church is grappling with its role as thousands die in turf wars among rich and sometimes generous criminals.” I guess the question is whether it is okay for the church to knowingly take money from criminal enterprises such as gang and drug wars that counts as its fallout the deaths of thousands of people? The same question, I suppose, could be raised about the African American community allowing rappers who get paid to publicly to call Blacks the N-word and publicly sanction them getting paid for calling Black Women B’s and W’s. Continue reading
I heard this phrase throughout my childhood. Whenever the grown folks would say it, I thought they were predicting the end of the world, for sure. But now that I reflect back over the events of my day, growing up in Bakersfield, California, those days seem rosy, compared to today. Yes, things changed back then, but not so fast. I witnessed the advent of television, electric typewriters, automatic cars, automatic washers and dryers, and the refrigerator. People were more civil. The worst thing for Blacks was that we were 2nd class citizens, but we knew exactly where we stood and our station in life in America. Continue reading
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Republican Mission
Posted on March 28, 2011 by Editor
The Republicans are on a mission to return America to the principals that made slavery successful. Slavery was an economic success for America, as long as it lasted. It was based on principals that included: (1) cheap labor, (2) an uneducated mass of workers, and (3) a false theory of racial superiority of those in power, i.e., the slave-masters, then, or the corporate owners, now. Today we see a major effort to return to those principals, only this time, there are real obstacles to success. First of all, the principal of cheap labor will require either outsourcing to countries that will work cheap, or beating down the labor classes in America so badly that they will work for next to nothing. The problem here is that the working class, unlike it was during slavery times, is organized. They are literate and demand a better way of life. Continue reading →