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“Form of a Donkey! Shape of an Elephant!”

In History by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …

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Watts Lights Up or “You Don’t Like It? Move”

In History by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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, …

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Do Unto Others

In History by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

“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 …

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Going from House Pets to Wretched

In History by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …

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Bad Blood

In History by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …

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Unintended Consequences: Southern Drawl

In Anecdotal Notes by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …

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Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon

In Anecdotal Notes by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …

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Cousins by Blood, Friendship by Choice

In Commentary / Opinion by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …

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White Identity & Shame of Poverty

In Commentary / Opinion by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …

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Unfriended

In Commentary / Opinion by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

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 …