On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down separate but equal was unanimous.There was no dissenting opinion this time.All nine Supreme Court Justices, on the strength of the evidence of the Clark’s Doll test, struck down “separate …
Watts Lights Up or “You Don’t Like It? Move”
1966,Watts, Los Angeles, California. The Watts Riot of 1966 marks a significant turning point in American History because it was the first riot in America where Black Americans were the main participants.In every riot involving black Americans prior to 1966, …
Do Unto Others
“So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do unto you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 7:12 Watts burned. In 1964, the same year that The Diana Ross and the Supremes were …
Going from House Pets to Wretched
One of the tale-tell signs of White Supremacy are having different rules for different people. Whenever you see this in public policy, the hairs on your back should start to go up. The G.I. Bill or The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act …
Bad Blood
On July 25, 1972, the year I was born, the Washington Star ran a story that they were tipped off from a whistleblower named Peter Buxtun, a venereal-disease investigator in San Francisco, about a research experiment being controlled by the …
Unintended Consequences: Southern Drawl
The distinctive Southern drawl we know today is the unintended consequence of southern Planter’s children imitating the broken English of their enslaved African caretakers who few English words they could pronounce, they did so with heavy African intonation. “Our children …
Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon
Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon was written in 1901 and was one of the biggest hits in America that year. It was written by two white men, composer J. Fred Helf and lyricist Will A. Heelan. The …
But Nkrumah, You’re Different…
When a good friend of mine was a little girl she badly needed glasses.She still remembers how she felt when she finally put on a pair of prescription glasses for the first time and saw that the blurry, green part …
Cousins by Blood, Friendship by Choice
Tonight my family and I were dinner guests at Wavering Place, an old plantation founded in 1768 near Hopkins, South Carolina where four generations of my grandmothers lived and worked as slaves when they were emancipated in 1865. The reason …
Louis Farrakhan “likes what he sees in Donald Trump”
So Louis Farrakhan “likes what he sees in Donald Trump”, huh?The only people who would be surprised by this would be people who don’t know history. On Sunday, June 25, 1961, on the personal invitation of Elijah Muhammad, ten members …
White Identity & Shame of Poverty
Carl Jung said that shame is a soul eating emotion. In his New York Times opt Ed piece, Raising A Moral Child, contributor Adam Grant explained why Carl Jung wrote that about shame. The difference between shame and guilt is …
Unfriended
Recently a colleague of mine “unfriended” me from Facebook and refuses to speak to me or even acknowledge me when I am in their presence, all because they discovered that we hold diametrically opposing views on the subject of homosexuality. I …