Monday, January 27, 2014

Dear Dark Skinned Black Girls

Dear Dark Skin Black Girls
African-american_Woman
After looking at my very dark skin daughter, and watching all of the many hidden jokes about a complexion so original and so complete, on social networks – I had to present this challenge to my fellow darker skin beauties. My daughter will enter a world, of actuality and social media – where she'll learn that her skin color will be her own challenge. Dear Dark Skin Black girl, today I challenge you. Now, you first must understand that your complexion is pure luxury in design of a higher power. You see, your darker version of skin is full of very important history that has been overlooked – due to this new Americanized hype and beauty. We all originate from the same continent, Africa, where shades of skin colors were plentiful and still are.
 
Today, I challenge you to look in the mirror with all integrity and strength to detest what inexcusable slurs and jokes your peers make up about 'color'and 'complexion'. You see you're going to run across people who will discredit your beauty, due to your darker appearance – but you must think the opposite. Your skin color is what binds history onto a country that attempts through many unseen methods to erase – misleading African Americans. Your skin color is what latches on to everything great of African American history, so snuggly, that you even represent a visual – a canvas – allowing our history to never be forgotten. Your skin color has never subtracted a woman's strength, preventing them to do anything in this lifetime. That is an illusion. You are still able. Your skin color is not a deterrent keeping you from any goal in life, and I challenge you to fully grasp this concept. It is fact that you will turn on televisions that will spotlight women of fair skin and European hairstyles, overlooking all of your unique factors of beauty – including your dark skin.

The jokes tossed at you during your lifetime will not weigh anything compared to the richness in your deep skin tone appearance. Inner beauty does come from within, but you, with your shaded complexion- to me- are visual gifts. I challenge you to build a shield of African American history, revisiting some of the pictures and stories of great African Kings and Queens who also shared your chocolate wrapping. Understand that you must challenge your own mind and its strength to overpower the grotesque insults slurred by your own people, families, siblings, and peers – also African Americans. Unfortunately, news and media will not build this shield of dominance and protection for you. You must read and educate yourself, to overcome this childish set of 'beauty standards'. It is your challenge – no one else's. The hate embedded in African Americans is very miniscule and childish, but that is not your issue.
To think skin tone determines beauty is – idiotism at its finest – drenched in denied self-hate, but you cannot stop that weak process of thinking. Sad to state, but you cannot stop the mindset of people who have such warped concepts of what actual beauty consists of. All that you can do is be beautiful in the skin you're in, and challenge yourself to stay within that realm of thinking, with a head held high. You don't need to provide any explanation as to why your shaded skin is its complexion. All you need is a strengthened level esteem – provided by God's stamp and yourself. I challenge you to drink esteem and feed on what you know to be true. You are one example of perfection, in which a higher power gave life to. You have a skin tone, that's luxurious and timeless like the finest and purest wines. I challenge you to be beautiful, no matter what your neighbor may say. For, dark skin is a jewel, and you're acceptance of it will be your riches. I challenge you dark skin girl to love yourself – above all, anything, and anyone that tells you different. I challenge you to be beautiful, above all strife and ignorance.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Crazy Kanye West ! Black Madness! Richard Sherman! Toxic Democrats! - Black Agenda Report for Jan 22, 2014

On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:51 PM, "publisher@blackagendareport.com" <publisher@blackagendareport.com> wrote:
 
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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

A new poll shows "Blacks remain more NSA spy-friendly than whites and Hispanics." Earlier surveys showed Blacks were the ethnic group most willing to go along with Obama's threatened air war against Syria. What happened to Black progressivism? "If an individual exhibited such lifelong personality and values reversals, her relatives and friends would immediately suspect an emotional breakdown."

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

For the last couple weeks and several more to come, Chris Christie will get more air time on MSNBC than drone murders, gentrification, NSA spying, and network neutrality put together. Why not? He's a Republican, and Democrats are only fighting it out between the 40 yard lines.

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

White NFL fans blow hot and cold when it comes to their feelings about Black players. Idolatry turned quickly to hate when Richard Sherman forgot his "place." The psycho-fanatic twitter mob "called Sherman a nigger, a thug, a gorilla, and a porch monkey who ought to be lynched."

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

If you think Dr. Martin Luther King would have mellowed with age, you haven't been keeping track of the "triple evils" that he warned about. "The United States clearly leads the world in all three of Dr. King's categories of evil."

by Anthony Monteiro

Amiri Baraka, the poet/activist who was laid to rest in his native Newark, New Jersey, last Saturday, came to understand 40 years ago that all art is ideological. "It is the courageous move from cultural nationalism to Cultural Revolution that liberated Baraka, and ultimately us, to understand the democratic and revolutionary possibilities inherent in our artistic and cultural traditions."

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka

It is difficult to call this week's gathering in Montreux, Switzerland, a "peace conference" on Syria, since the U.S. and its allies are determined to change the regime by force of arms. Washington has forged an "unholy alliance with its "Wahhabi allies from Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda," who act as America's "boots on the ground."

by Antoine Roger Lokongo

Readers of the corporate media might conclude that France is carrying the White Man's Burden in the Central African Republic, without which the Africans would descend into barbarism. However, "it is France that is 'a burden' to CAR and its other former colonies in Africa, not the other way round."

by Pascal Robert

The white colonialists have never forgiven Haitians for the revolution of 1804, the first successful revolt against white supremacy. "The slander and degradation against us about our poverty, alleged political incompetence, and poor educational infrastructure is tied to the persistent desire of our historical enemies to wipe our revolution from our minds and the rest of the world's."

by Danny Haiphong

Barack Obama took his presidential oath on Dr. King's bible, but has spent every day in office fighting against MLK's legacy. "If King were alive today, he would be on the streets opposing each and every one of Obama's neo-liberal economic policies and imperialist wars."

by Gregory Elich

Marked as spies by the U.S. corporate media, the Cuban 5 are actually heroes in the fight against imperial terror. "U.S. official policy has been to wage a multifaceted and protracted war against Cuba and its people, which includes all forms of economic and political sabotage to destabilize the island."

IFCO Tax Exemption Imperiled

The IRS is threatening to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, IFCO, the venerable anti-poverty and human rights group. The government is investigating IFCO's aid to Palestinians in Gaza and its assistance to U.S. students that want to avail themselves of medical scholarships in Cuba. The web site of the pro-Israel Investigative Project on Terrorism accuses IFCO of links to Hamas. "To have the IRS utilize a blog to come after a 47-year old, faith-based, non-profit organization run by people of color since its inception, is an outrage and an insult," said IFCO co-director Gail Walker.

Health Disparities Rooted in Racist Legacy

Racial income and wealth gaps lead to racial health disparities, said Brian Miller, executive director of United for a Fair Economy, UFE. "Vast economic disparities are still with us, and these disparities, coupled with racial segregation, create a toxic soup that is brewing up health problems and shortening people's lives," said Biller, at a press conference to debut UFE's 2014 State of the Dream Report, "Healthcare for Whom? Enduring Racial Disparities."

War on Poverty was Great Success

The War on Poverty accomplished many of its goals, according to Annelise Orleck, professor of history at Dartmouth University and co-editor of The War on Poverty: A Grassroots History, 1964 – 1980. President Lyndon Johnson's community action programs made enemies. "It shook things up when poor people demanded representation in school boards and housing boards and welfare boards," said Orleck. The War on Poverty was attacked "not because it failed, but because it succeeded."

White Racism Undermined Anti-Poverty Effort

"White backlash" scuttled some War on Poverty programs, including job training for minorities in the skilled trades. White workers whose union hiring halls had "for decades hired their sons, their nephews" became Reagan Democrats, said Jill Quadango, professor of sociology at Florida State University and author of The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. White union members saw minority trainees as "a direct threat to their prerogative to choose who was hired."

Mumia on COINTELPRO

A new book reveals the identities of three people who broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971, and made off with files on the bureau's COINTELPRO campaign against Blacks and the Left. Mumia Abu Jamal, America's best-known political prisoner, recalled learning of the revelations, shortly after he left the Black Panther Party. "To read about people who you've known for years, who were FBI informants, was absolutely mindblowing," Abu Jamal told Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild and host of WBAI Radio's Law and Disorder program.

Socialism Needed – Quickly

Capitalism "is utterly irrational, it's out of control, and unless we democratically organize and plan this economy, they're going to kill us, literally, through climate change," said Michael Steven Smith, co-editor of Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA. The new book contains 31 essays by a wide range of Left activists and writers.

 

 
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Virginia History Day Judging (Judges needed)


From: Engel, Henry (Andy) [mailto:HEngel@CWF.org]
Subject: Virginia History Day Judging


Virginia History Day
January 15, 2014

Dear Colleague/Friend:

On April 26, 2014, Virginia History Day, the state competition of National History Day, will take place once again at Thomas Nelson Community College- Historic Triangle campus, 4601 Opportunity Lane, Williamsburg, Virginia. One of our requirements is that three highly qualified historians, history professionals, or educators judge each entry. We hope that you will be interested in serving as a judge for this event.

The Kenneth E. Behring National History Day Contest is a series of competitions on local, state, and national levels. Students in grades six through twelve conduct extensive research on a topic related to an annual theme and present their findings in historical papers, exhibits, performances, documentaries, and websites. This year students have focused on the theme "Rights and Responsibilities in History." More information about the competition can be found at www.nhd.org<http://www.nhd.org/> or www.history.org/vhd<http://www.history.org/vhd>.

Evaluation of student projects and discussion with fellow judges will take place from 9:00 am - 1:00pm. An orientation session will be held at 8:00 am, prior to the actual judging. To ensure the highest quality of judging, it is imperative that all judges attend this meeting. The students will be anxious to receive the evaluation of outstanding professionals. In return for your time and effort, we offer coffee and refreshments, a box lunch, a t-shirt, endless gratitude, and a positive perspective on Virginia's youth.

If you would like to participate please return the attached Virginia History Day Judges Information form to the address below by March 15, 2014. The information can also be e-mailed to awolfe@cwf.org<mailto:awolfe@cwf.org> or faxed to 757-565-8916. We will send more explicit information and confirm your judging category by March 22, 2014. If you have questions, please call 757-220-7186. Thank you in advance for your participation.

Sincerely,
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Tab Broyles
Virginia History Day State Coordinator

Virginia History Day
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Bruton Heights School,
PO Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187



Tuesday, January 21, 2014

SMH... A White Fraternity hosts a MLK Black Party dressed like thugs with watermelons

Original article:
http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2014/01/arizona-state-university-tau-kappa-epsilon-mlk-black-party?utm_source=network&utm_medium=leaderboard&utm_content=Someone+Thought+This+%22MLK+Black+Party%22+Was+a+Good+Idea&utm_campaign=house-ad 

Someone Thought This "MLK Black Party" Was a Good Idea

Every year, people exhibit a lack of respect for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes it's with shameful party flyers; other times, it's at the opposite end of the spectrum. The Arizona State University chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon's stunt falls into the latter category.

For inexplicable reasons, members of Tau Kappa Epsilon thought it would not only a good idea to have a "MLK Black Party" where attendees paid homage to "African-American" culture by dressing like the Diplomats, circa 2003. Oh, and they photographed themselves and shared it social media as people tend to do, leading to their suspension.
As far as cultural sensitivity goes, TKE pissed all over it:
Pictures from the event, coined "MLK Black Party" by the group, show members and guests dressed in basketball jerseys, flashing gang signs and even drinking from watermelon cups...
Whether incidents like this are intentional or born of pure ignorance, they still need to be punished. In some cases, it's the only way people will learn.
[via Gawker and KPHO]
RELATED: A Recent History of Racist College Parties
RELATED: The Most Disrespectful Martin Luther King, Jr. Party Flyers 

http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2014/01/most-disrespectful-mlk-jr-day-flyers/another-jumpoff


Tuesday, January 14, 2014

$1000 in Cash Prizes for talented teens in Virginia

High School Teen Performance Talent Hunt with $1000 Cash Prizes
The Omega Psi Phi Teen Talent hunt
The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. is proud to present its Annual Teen Talent Hunt Program. The Talent Hunt Program strives to provide young Americans with an opportunity to develop, express, and receive recognition for their talents. This Talent Hunt has been a proud tradition of the fraternity since 1949, and that same enthusiasm still exists today. We take great pride in recognizing talented youth. Applications may be downloaded from:  
The website for the Talent
Download the application here:
IF UNABLE TO DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION EMAIL: OMEGATALENTHUNT@YAHOO.COM
The prizes are $500 (1st place), $300 (2nd place), $200 (3rd place).
In addition five finalists will be chosen to perform with the Zeider's American Dream Theatre.
Participation is solicited in the following areas:
1. Music: Vocal, Instrumental, Piano Solo (classical, semi-classical, gospel, jazz)
                [printed music must be provided for the judges].
2. Dance: Interpretive movement to music (ballet, modern dance, tap).
3. Drama/Speech: Poetry, readings, orations, monologues. (script must be provided for the judges)
Sunday, March 9th, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Green Run High School auditorium.
Deadline for entries is February 29, 2014.
 
Contact: David Whitted - 757-288-9116
Completed applications are to be mailed to the following: 
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc
Gamma Xi Virginia Beach
P. O. Box 64535
Virginia Beach, VA 23467
Attention: TALENT HUNT 2013
omegatalenthunt@yahoo.com
If you have any questions, or need further information, please feel free to contact Bro. David J. Whitted at 757-549-2346 or 757-288-9116. 
 

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

The 100 Year Anniversary Of The UNIA & ACL Telephone Conference

On Monday, January 6, 2014 11:43 PM, Shaka Barak <> wrote:
 
 
The Marcus Garvey Institute will host a telephone conference discussion on "Jim Crow, a System of White Supremacy." When the UNIA & ACL was founded 100 years ago in the year 1914, there were several major systems of white supremacy in place, including Jim Crow, Capitalism, and Colonialism. We will take a close look at Jim Crow in America and how after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment, for 90 years it worked to keep African people living in states of fear, and how that fear, when not checked, carry into the present, that prevents Africans from uniting on a mass scale to address the massive problems we face. We will look at how Marcus Garvey defeated Jim Crows fear tactics. The Honorable Marcus Garvey wrote in P&O page 3. "Fear is a state of nervousness fit for children and not for men. When man fears a creature like himself he offends God, in whose likeness and image he is created. Man being created equal fears not man but God. To fear is to lose control of ones nerves, ones will-to flutter, like a dying fowl, losing consciousness, yet alive." The call in number is 605-562-3000, Pin 1052837 #. We will begin Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 8:00pm cst.
Shaka Barak
President
shakabarak1@yahoo.com
The Marcus Garvey Institute, Inc.
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Saturday, January 4, 2014

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Friday, January 3, 2014

Sunday Jan. 5th FREE Dance with Sunshine Classes in Norfolk Virginia

KICK OFF THE NEW YEAR ! Dance with Sunshine is offering a FREE COMMUNITY CLASS for CHILDREN (5 and up) and Adults.

SUN., JAN. 5, 2:00 pm for CHILDREN and 3:30 pm for ADULTS. Hope to see you on the dance floor....call for details @ 757-354-2777

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Email: DANCEWITHSUNSHINE1@GMAIL.COM
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Learn about the Ubuntu Dance Collective !

Classes are engaging, stimulating, developmentally appropriate,  and FUN!  Students are exposed to thought provoking moves and choreography in urban, Caribbean, and African dance forms. Participants are encouraged to dress in comfortable attire, and should feel free to wear anything that empowers or liberates their dance experience