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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a young, extravagant black man getting a full ride is what is getting the public to finally question the wisdom of athletic scholarships.

What would be useful is a real discussion of the considerable resources - including scholarships — public universities devote to intercollegiate athletics, especially at a time when the California’s public universities are under terrible strain and students are being asked to pay more and more to attend institutions that are supposed to be defined by their inclusiveness. Instead, we have a useless round of collective indignation of a rich black kid becoming the posterboy for a system that he is not a very good representative of. 

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Imagine you saw that headline. Imagine you woke up on Monday morning and those words were spread across the top of your local city paper. By the time you read it, the Governor would have already deployed the National Guard. The President would have already made a statement. A curfew would have been set for anyone under 18. Schools would have been closed. Check points would have been set up around the city. Every active police officer would be called into work. CNN, MSNBC and Fox News would all break into their regular scheduled programming for a special report.  Just close your eyes for a moment and imagine that fifty-three WHITE people were shot in one weekend in one city by fifty-three different people. Just for a moment, imagine. You can open your eyes now…

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The history of the United States has produced much in the way of race riots, from the New York City riots of 1862 to the Los Angeles riots of 1991, this country has experienced much civil unrest between blacks and whites. The year 1919 was particularly noted for the large number of riots in…

“Louisiana, beh beh, how ya do dat dere??” The Black Belt has been wilding out over the past few months, huh? ***cues Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”***

- C.D.M

Some of us like to optimistically believe that we indeed live a post-racial America. And even some of us negroes, whom Brother Carter G. Woodson might document as “mis-educated”, also like to buy into the notion that America has indeed ceased to judge a man by his race. Now while I’m sure things aren’t AS BAD as they were a decade ago, or so on, things are still bad. But many of my people and fellow minorities don’t understand the systematic oppression and how it’s applied, but hopefully the link provided here can help you better understand.

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This is bigger than Kim and Kanye. This is bigger than the Facebook IPO. This is bigger than rockin the hoodie to the rally or pouring out some Arizona ice tea for the deceased. This moment right here is a moment of clarity. A moment of definition. A gut-check. A moment of reality. This is the…

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What if Congress passed a bill making it illegal for parents to abandon their newborn? That would mean every birth certificate would have two signatures. That would mean the woman wouldn’t need her nurse to help her into the car. That would mean that women wouldn’t have to teach boys how to men,…

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(Source: Gawker)

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1. WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.
   We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by fully controlling all the institutions which exist in…

(Source: blackpanther.org)

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*crossblogged at thethreaders.com*

“What we do, how well we do it… does it even matter?”

From the very moment I heard that question presented to Cuba Gooding Jr.’s character in the Red Tails movie preview released so many months ago, it resonated with me. Clearly, perseverance…