Talking to "freethinker" I guess I mention my credentials, not just because I have some...and you don't, but because I have had to work harder to get them.. And I am thankful to have... Read More
Posted by: RaymanT on 2008-05-11 06:36:30
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I am a black American living in Atlanta, Georgia. I am college degreed with a MBA and work as an executive with a major corporation in Atlanta. I like other black Americans would probably had an... Read More
Posted by: RaymanT on 2008-04-27 20:56:05
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Hi Everybody, I wanted to thank all of you for your inspiring words of encouragement and stimulating conversation on my e-mail. My e-mail has been packed since my last blog. Special thanks... Read More
Posted by: journeyman on 2008-04-26 01:40:34
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If slaves are human beings, then slaves are as free as every human being is free. Spartacus, the famous Thracian slave, who died in 71 B.C., was free; and that is why he finally... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-16 12:31:12
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Just in case you have forgotten this most famous quote from Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia Convention - words of equal import - and maybe more so - today as then: "The gentlemen... Read More
Posted by: jchernic on 2008-03-06 19:14:34
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That a slave does not exercise their natural and enduring freedom does not deny the reality and existence of freedom. As long as the slave is alive, the slave's freedom lives, even if that... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-05 14:26:37
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If Africans were free before institutionalized slavery, if African-Americans are free after the abolition of slavery, then how is it that those enslaved Negroes were not also free? Are we to... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-05 14:21:52
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In the antebellum United States, the New England states used the labor of escaped chattel-slaves in the more fashionable form of modern-day slavery known as wage- slavery. In his... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-05 13:06:44
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There can be no doubt about it. Slaves are human beings; and, as human beings, slaves are both naturally intelligent and naturally free beings.  During all the centuries of slavery, there... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-05 13:03:03
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If slavery enables the transfer of wealth from the slaves to the masters, then it must be that the slaves directly created the wealth by their labor, and then the wealth is transferred from the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-03-05 11:59:15
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There is a huge mismatch between the medical needs of so many people, and their ability to pay for what they need. Marketing is not education.  Advertising is not... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-24 12:49:19
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Even if one imposes their will on another, the other must choose, the other is forced by the one to decide, to make a decision.  Whether or not the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-02-18 12:26:36
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  I was surfing when I came across this , just some food for thought tell me what you think of it..... &quo Read More
Posted by: davistheblackeagle on 2008-01-20 14:55:25
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BLACK HISTORY as told by the Bible! What race of people in the entire western hemisphere were brought here against their will? What race of people in America is... Read More
Posted by: TrueIsrael on 2007-12-08 19:47:31
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I was reading a poem titled "Life Cycle" the other day and it was about the state of our youth and how they got there. The poem also shed light on the fact that we will continue to... Read More
Posted by: meka1021 on 2007-11-16 02:20:32
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How does a nation rise from the theft of a nation and the oppression of the lands rightful owners?   How is European rule allowed to exist in foreign soil?   How is it that my... Read More
Posted by: voiceofmyfather on 2007-10-23 10:06:32
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Struggling uphill, I feel each muscle move. Knowing that the load on my back was given to me by me alone. I have enslaved myself for no apparent reason. Wishing , dreaming - hoping to set me... Read More
Posted by: wwm3 on 2007-10-21 22:55:22
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"How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, to see the unification of all Africans." Bob Marley. Africa is the epitome of unfulfilled potential that is so glaringly... Read More
Posted by: digistudio on 2007-10-10 14:37:03
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http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/mandm/index.asp So if you haven't had the time ,or didn't know about it, you should check out the Myth and Memory exhibit at the Library of... Read More
Posted by: jahllini on 2007-09-21 15:11:32
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I am not old enough to remember the civil rights movement and the time where black people fought and died to be seen as equals but from the account of history, I can clearly see the suffering the... Read More
Posted by: digistudio on 2007-09-21 14:05:18
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I wrote this poem a couple of years ago after we went camping as a youth group and our pastor preached about how we used to be slaves for Satan. The Abolitionist You can read... Read More
Posted by: mattlaura3sweetgirls on 2007-08-24 10:15:18
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