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The End of American Thanksgivings – A Cause for Universal Rejoicing

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The Mayflower’s cultural heirs are programmed to find glory in their own depravity and savagery in their most helpless victims, who can only redeem themselves by accepting the inherent goodness of white Americans. Thanksgiving encourages these cognitive cripples in their madness, just as it is designed to do.

Nobody celebrates Thanksgiving quite like Americans. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish…

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God’s Judgment of White America – (The Chickens Come Home to Roost) – Malcolm X speech of December 4, 1963

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This is what happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. Whites joined it; they engulfed it; they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a black march; it ceased to be militant; it ceased to be angry; it ceased to be impatient.

Malcolm X Born: Malcolm Little, May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska Died: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, February 21, 1965, Audubon Ballroom, Harlem, New York City New York City,…

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I’ve Been to the Mountaintop – Martin Luther King, Jr – April 3, 1968

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Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…

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David A. Love, BC Executive Editor, on Al Jazeera English discussing diversity and the Oscars – Video

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January 21, 2016 – Issue 637 var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:true}; Diversity and the Oscars David A. Love on Al Jazeera English YouTube Video Link David A. Love, JD – Serves BlackCommentator.com as Executive Editor. He is journalist and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia, and a contributor to The Huffington Post, theGrio, The Progressive Media…

January 21, 2016 - Issue 637 var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Diversity and the Oscars David A. Love on Al Jazeera English YouTube Video Link David A.…

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April 3, 1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – I’ve Been to the Mountaintop

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 —…

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Chicago’s Homan Square: Detainees, Activists and Legal Advocates Testify at Hearing on Secret Detention Facility That Makes Black Men Disappear

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“Some of the activities in Homan Square fit into the definition of torture, internationally, under the UN’s definition, and Homan Square needs to be looked at under that light,”

In the city of Chicago, already reeling from a scandal involving police racism, violence and corruption, the next scandal involving law enforcement is about to take…

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