African-American culture
- Black History: The Later Klans- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Brown vs. Board of Education- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: The First Klan- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: The Tuskegee Airmen- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- The Dilemma of Black Patriotism- route66 has a diary up about today, Flag Day here in these United States.
I was going to post up something I found recently that attempts to explain some recent occurances on the meaning of 'Patriotism', and a tie in with 'route66' diary is appropriate on this day.
After all I'm one of the millions, in this country, who have been called 'UnPatriotic' for having not walked in lockstep with the criminal cabal, and their followers, who have led this country into it's extreme failed policies of an Occupation built on Lies and Fixed Intelligence and done in All Our Names!
I'm not a Black American, I'm one of us many Lilly White Folks.
I happend upon this article Defining patriotism the other day, with a Video at the top.
- Black History: The Ku Klux Klan- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Reconstruction- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: U.S. Colored Troops- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Secession of West Virginia- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Emancipation- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Southerners Contemplate Manual Labor- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Sing your way to a Contraband Camp- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: First Shots of the Civil War- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Prison for teaching slaves to read- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: The Causes of the Civil War- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: The Underground Railroad- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Trusting Whitey- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Overseers- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: The Native Americans- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Transition from Servitude- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Birth of Colonial Slavery- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Slave Names- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- A Dangerous Unselfishness-
Where were you on April 4, 1968, w - Black History: Smile When You Are Sold- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Thirty Seasoned Negroes- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Slave Market of Charleston- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Inside the Seasoning Camps- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Triangular Trade- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Sailing To Arabia- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Sailing to the New World- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Slave Factories, The Middle Passage and Seasoning Camps- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: The Slave Coast- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Black History: Raw Human Stock- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- Ancient Goat Casinos of Thebes- Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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- The problem with progress-
Okay, that’s just a catchy headline. The problem isn’t with progress, but our reaction to it. When it comes to social progress, America is like a chronically ill person who stops taking his meds prematurely once the most egregious symptoms are gone.
Regarding racial inequality and black Americans, our country took its “medicine” through civil war, grassroots rebellion and governmental upheaval. As a result, the most egregious symptoms of racism are gone—slavery, lynching “parties,” poll taxes, “sundown towns” and government-sanctioned (or at least ignored) hate crimes against black citizens, are for the most part, sad stories from out past. And so, America put away its medicine. And because we have stopped having substantive racial dialogue, because we have too soon forgotten the sins of yesterday and too long ignored the sins of today, America’s low-grade fever is turning into an infection: a race-torn presidential primary where a nationally-known politician can say without irony that black men are privileged in American culture, and even white progressives are shocked at the anger coming from the pulpit of a black church.
From recent conversations in the media and online, several things are clear to me:
