If Facebook was a University
There is this pressure to be popular, to figure out what your audience likes and feed them it and hopefully, they will continue to support what you are doing so that you can go out and do more of the
Popular today, not popular then
I sometimes reflect on Malcolm and how isolated he must have felt at times in his journey. He was not loved within the NOI, he was certainly not loved by White America or most African Americans, and he was a
How to defeat Oppression according to the Oppressor
Imagine a book called How to Defeat Capitalism by Milton Friedman, or how to Rob a bank by Chase Manhattan, or How to Liberate Palestine by Benjamine Netanyahu? Would you buy and trust a book like that? There is a conflict
But the words get in the way (advanced)
This will be an ongoing project based on years of research and drawing from articles on linguistics, such as Linguistics for a New African RealityThis will be an ongoing project based on years of research and drawing from articles on
Educating Failure
The above picture comes from my son's school— in Africa. Not North Africa but so-called Sub-Saharan Africa in 2022 after King, after BLM after Afrocentrism, after Critical Race Theory, After Brown vs the Topeka board of education. The best environment for
Non-Violence vs Violence
Did non-violence work? Because we have a peppered history all over the world of non-violent movements. The pattern suggests no such correlation between one being "better" than the other. Each situation seems to be dictated by the prevailing conditions that
Quest for African Authenticity
The quest for African authenticity must start by recognizing the limits of that search and moreover, it must serve a higher purpose. We often characterize our society as White or Eurocentric, and that is accurate but we must never forget
Our Mission
We need a system of taking the good, modifying what can be salvaged, and dumping the bad like hot coals. Who is responsible for this? the conscious amongst us who understand our prevailing conditions. When do we have to do
Africans of mix-Heritage Identity Crisis
Our most primary sense is our vision. We react to the world based on what our eyes see and then our brain processes it. When we have a realistic advanced discussion about these issues of identity and identifying it becomes
Slavery a moral judgement today about the Past
Writing incomplete )Scholarship is secular, and like a Dr or a lawyer, you must divorce yourself from your work and go about research from a position of relative dispassion. Like a detective, you must follow the facts until you reach