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Learn this poem!!!!!

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,

they are…

Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White School District

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 I have wanted to ask this question... so here goes

I have attended the seminars on race and fully understand how this concept of race came about. I am working on my dissertation and the literature that I am reading refer to race as a characteristics that is a determinant of specific risk factors (high blood pressure, obesity, kidney disease, depression). When statistics were run on a study similiar to the one I am working on it  "showed" that there was a significant difference of a…

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                                    ELEMENTARY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE SUBJECT OF RACE!!!

1.)  WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF RACE AND WHERE DOES YOUR  WORLDVIEW OF THE SUBJECT HAVE ITS ORIGINS.?

2.)  WHAT PART DID YOU PLAY IN CREATING THE CONSTRUCT THAT YOU CALL RACE?

We will begin our discussion with these two basic questions--then we can add more!!!!

The information below is the modern context relative…

Does anyone remember the times when people of color could only go to the basements of major department stores and shop?  Or the times when people of color could only go to the balcony at certain theaters to watch movies?  Growing up in St. Louis, I vaguely remember those times.  I grew up thinking it was normal to shop in the basement at Famous Barr and Stix, Baer and Fuller.  I thought that the balcony was, automatically, where we liked to sit at Loew's State and the Fox Theaters.  I was…

There was a program that aired on CNN concerning race. It was worth watching to see the children's reaction to it. It just happened to be about race in the United States. I deduced from viewing it that it may be a wise thing to de-label oneself especially if the label is false and ladened with shards of…

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1. What is it that you know that you know?

2. What is it that you know that you don't know?

3. What is it that you don't know that you know?

4. What is it that you don't know that you don't…

The Portuguese in Africa in the 19th Century

Ulysses Jones, Jr. born June 7, 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee, died November 9, 2010) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the…

We now are nearing the final decade of the 20th century. Recently, there has been an unraveling and an analysis of the core issue of the first global power system of mass oppression-- the power system of racism (white supremacy). Once the collective victim (non-white population) understands this fundamental issue, the ultimate organizing of all of the appropriate behaviors necessary to neutralize the great injustice of the…

Smedley Butler on Interventionism

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the…

On Saturday Oct. 16, 2010 the Cooper/Jones Initiative sponsored the third installment of "A Case of Race III" at the Memphis City Schools Teaching and Learning Academy. This symposium was a continuation on 'a real conversation' on the issue of…