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The Ghetto Life…What the World Looks Like When?

The ghetto life — typically poor, predominantly black neighborhoods — have become microcosms of racial tensions and social injustice. There is nearly 1.5 million Black youth in the U.S. living in areas considered “statistically high risk” for social, economic, and cultural failure. For Black youth living in urban ghettos across the country, their experience with racism is more than just an abstract concept or a history lesson—it’s their everyday reality.  It can be especially difficult to navigate this world as...

Sojouner Truth

Sojourner Truth…Is What They Call Her 2

Sojourner Truth  They called her Sojourner Truth, but in actuality, her name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, to James and Elizabethan Baumfree. Along with her parents, she spent her life on the Johannesburg estate as a slave. Dutch was her first language since Dutch people enslaved her. Despite everything, when she turned nine years old, she was sold away from her family to a man near Kingston, New York, named John Neely;...

Understand What Is Your Purpose

I never understand the purpose of anyone’s hate carried in their hearts for people of color. They are cruel, heartless beings. And the way they got rich is even more brutal still. But what can be said about a being who is heartless even though they possess one?” People seldom talk about how primal emotions have pushed U.S. History where race and tribe are concerned. And yet, it has always been there. It stripped the Native Americans from their ancestral...

The insane, the stupid, and the lousy

The insane, the stupid, and the lousy weather destroy, spoiled,by the so-called Conservative mindset. Is aid to the poor a movement towards equality, or is it an inequitable burden for the middle and upper classes? Does permission for abortion defend American women’s freedom, or does it promote the end of human life? Or elected officials representatives of the people, or is it only for themselves? These and many other issues reflect a wide range of political attitudes that shape the...

White Couple Goes Uncharged

A Connecticut woman is demanding justice after being attacked by a white man and his girlfriend while working at the front desk at a Quality Inn. … White Couple Goes Uncharged After Savagely Attacking Black Woman To bring light to the stupidity of white people that seem to feel like its open season on black people …just because you want to do it. That being the case…I want to say this WHAT THE FNK is wrong with you mindless ignorant...