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		<description><![CDATA[This raises a long simmering issue which has plagued many aspects of our community from scholars &#38; artists to musicians and *leaders* &#8212; how do we, in a positive/noncontentious way, critique &#38; engage one another around our work, our collective responsibilities, the maintenance/upliftment of our culture, and nurture, in the process, as Dr. West suggests?&#8230;and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electronicdrum.wordpress.com&blog=3701017&post=765&subd=electronicdrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ARTICLE:  How Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained as the Nation&#8217;s &#8220;Leading Black Intellectual&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I had said I wasn&#8217;t gonna post anything else about Gates&#8230;.then Prof. Ishmael Reed comes along &#38; drops a series of photon torpedoes so incisive, I had not choice&#8230;.. As a sister friend put it “full metal jacket”&#8230;  It&#8217;s worth noting the recounting of facts/patterns Prof. Reed unfurls, and, as his writing tends to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electronicdrum.wordpress.com&blog=3701017&post=672&subd=electronicdrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Police, Racial Profiling &amp; Pigs in Uniform &#8212; The Stench is Still Strong &amp; Unmistakable</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, this is not about Prof. Gates, though I don&#8217;t want anyone to think I&#8217;m just skipping over him. The salient political dynamics of this situation are part of the RNA/DNA of this nation &#8212; they are inherited, renewed/renewable, and only appear to diminish or slip beneath the surface when those tattooed with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electronicdrum.wordpress.com&blog=3701017&post=647&subd=electronicdrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There is a new book out, by Douglas A. Blackmon, entitled:  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. I found out about it by catching the author being interviewed on Tavis Smiley&#8217;s show.    It was a very intriguing interview, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electronicdrum.wordpress.com&blog=3701017&post=60&subd=electronicdrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ FYI&#8230;just got the word myself&#8230;
There will be a great documentary series “Black Magic,” which shows the racism African-American basketball players and coaches encounter on and off the court.  Black Magic presented by Russell Athletic Group and State Farm will air commercial free in two parts Sunday and Monday, March 16 and 17, at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electronicdrum.wordpress.com&blog=3701017&post=57&subd=electronicdrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Check out this NYT article on Louis Armstrong &#8212; it&#8217;s some stuff I never knew, and it has reconfigured my sense of him significantly.  Like many such pioneers, such as Jackie Robinson, we have had their image painted for us by a media deliberately not aligned with the interests of AA&#8217;s.  This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electronicdrum.wordpress.com&blog=3701017&post=52&subd=electronicdrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Having listened to much of the harangue about Obama – from supposedly conscious components of the AA community, those posing as voices of our community, to those clearly aping the dominant chainlink mindset – a few things emerge with stark clarity.
 First of all, as is often the case, most are not getting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=electronicdrum.wordpress.com&blog=3701017&post=49&subd=electronicdrum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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