Just before the election Dr. West was interviewed on the popular website
Archive for January, 2009
30
Jan
09
Cornel West on AlJazeera
27
Jan
09
Voodoo
A disturbing piece of CGA I stumbled upon
more about “StumbleUpon WebToolbar – Openfilm “, posted with vodpod
by Jason Osborn
Success is so much easier to achieve if you have a success mentality. Without a success mentality it’s difficult to recognize when an opportunity for success is presenting itself. The more of a success mentality you have the more success you will have. So how do you develop a success mentality? Here are 3 keys to help you do just that.
1. Get around other successful people.
Have you ever noticed that smokers hang around other smokers and married people hang out with other married people? They do this because they have things in common and can relate to each other. If you want to develop a success mentality then you need to hang around people that already have one. By doing this, you will pick up and learn things from them so that you can also develop a success mentality.
2. Develop yourself.
You can’t develop a success mentality by just sitting around and wanting one. From now on make it a habit to do things that will develop your mind. Some of the best ways to do this is to read success centered books, attend seminars, and listen to cd’s that will help you grow. The more you develop yourself the more you will obtain a success mentality.
3. Stop thinking negative.
Negative thoughts will kill a success mentality. Start to replace negative thoughts with positive ones and you will see a huge difference in the way that you think and perceive things. The more positive your thoughts become, the more of a success mentality you will have. Is there greatness on the inside of you but you don’t know how to achieve it?
Venus delivers another fine broadcast, a true ecletic mix
Click on link and Enjoy
21
Jan
09
Its A New Day
Good Riddance
The Start of something Much More
20
Jan
09
History is Made by We the People
Its Safe to Say that the U.S. is in the eyes of the World the most Progressive Country on Earth
19
Jan
09
A Dream We All Can See
From the march for our rights
To the celebrating this nations first African American President
Images from the childrens book Correta Scott and Change
In my novel Night Biters a Tale of Urban Horror, I write about Oakland police Officers giving them due respect, but none is shared for the BART police, whom I also write about, whose MO seems to be that of intimidation, with little over site there’s little surprise that an officer would commit such an heinous act in broad day light, and I think it speaks to an even larger issue of how BART is managed and a deep rooted bitterness toward the poor communities BART serves, example BART is one of the most expensive transit systems in the country. It is nearly impossible for poor to get a job at BART as they claim there are no entry level jobs. And after 911, it was common to officers don in dark glasses walking the aisle with dogs. Sure, it’s for the safety of all, but it does something to your psyche. This was a situation bound to happen
The shooting occurred two weeks ago, early on New Year’s morning. Grant and his friends were heading home to the East Bay aboard a BART train after celebrating New Year’s Eve in San Francisco when a fight broke out between two groups of riders. BART police met the train at Oakland’s Fruitvale station and demanded that passengers disembark.
In videos that have been broadcast on television and viewed hundreds of thousands of times on the Internet, a uniformed officer later identified as Mehserle stands over a prostrate Grant, pulls his gun and fires point-blank into Grant’s back.
14
Jan
09
Cosby is Still Right
Great discussion on Meet the Press
Interesting article by Graham Tibbetts of the UK Telegraph
Thousands of illegitimate mixed-race children fathered by American GIs were given up by their British mothers and shipped across the Atlantic, according to newly released papers.
The issue of how to deal with the unwanted offspring of the illicit affairs divided the country towards the end of the Second World War and exposed the racial prejudices of the time.
It was considered so serious that there were dire warnings it could harm Anglo-American relations and the Government was urged to treat the children as “war casualties”.
The problem began to emerge in 1944, when increasing numbers of US servicemen were stationed around Britain.
Many of the women they fathered children with were wives of British soldiers fighting abroad.
The documents suggest that where the baby was white it was often possible for husband and wife to be reconciled and keep the child. However, this was rarely possible when the child was mixed race.
At a conference on the matter in December 1944 John Carter, of the League of Coloured Peoples, said: “In several cases they are married women whose husbands are in the army, usually overseas, and they usually get letters from their husbands saying ‘Well, I am very sorry to hear about it. If you can get the child adopted everything will be all right.’
“Then there is the unmarried mother who would have prospects of marriage if she could get rid of the child and I think the question is whether or not a Home ought to be provided for these children in some part of the country.”
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Some wanted the children raised in homes alongside white children, a few said they should be brought up with other black children to avoid racism, and many called on them to be sent to America to be nearer their fathers.
Speaking at the same conference a Miss Steel, general secretary of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council, said: “The suggestion that they should be shipped back to America is terribly cruel, even if it were possible. Their mothers are the people to whom they are linked most closely, and it would add to their sense of being unwanted, not only that their mothers had given them up but the country where they were born had given them up too.”
Miss Steel said the war babies should be given places in local authority and voluntary sector homes to solve the problem of finding foster parents.
“In rural areas and small towns…(social) workers found it difficult enough to find foster mothers for any children, and impossible to find for the coloured child…I know of an evacuated family where the father was a coloured man and every visitor to that village was shown the child as an object of local interest.”
The files, released today by the Public Records Office in Kew, include a letter from a Miss O. Clarke to her MP suggesting the babies be placed in West Indies mission schools.
However, a Whitehall official wrote to the MP in July 1944: “The proposed solution is high handed and – if confined to coloured illegitimates – has a Herrenrasse (master race) flavour not now popular.”
By the end of the war pressure was mounting on the Government to take action.
In letters to the Ministry of Health in December 1945 and March 1946 Harold Moody, founder of the League of Coloured Peoples, said Britain and the US must treat each baby as a “war casualty” and warned: “Our anxiety is to forestall a social problem which might not only affect the life of this country but which might also affect Anglo-American relations.”
In response Aneurin Bevan, health minister, said his policy was to encourage mothers to keep their children, or failing that to tackle the shortage of places in homes.
The Home Office, however, differed and one official wrote: “Provided it is clear that the mother does not want the child and there is a reasonably satisfactory home in the US the child will have a far better chance if sent at an early age to the US than if it brought up in this country.”
