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July 16, 2015

Commentary

Does Black America Understand We’ve Declared War On the Confederacy?

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Black folks have “declared war” on millions and millions of proud Rednecks . . . and their Conservative sympathizers, yet we’ve no way, no means to fight this war other than to appeal to “good” White folks” to help us/save us from “bad” White folks.

There’re consequences and repercussions for just about everything . . . . With that notion in mind, as I ran-across the news and discovered the Atlanta…

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Commentary

Reclaiming Our Youth

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill

“In contemporary Black America, the only ceremony that approximates the African youth’s rites of passage may be the coronation which introduces young men and women to Black middle class. However, this is primarily an elitist affair that focuses on social status rather than social development.”

The impact of African people being captured in the slave trade and introduced into the western hemisphere as property and commodity are at the root of…

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