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Trying to Finish This Long Post on Trayvon

• March 28, 2012 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American History, American Politics, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Education, Hate Crimes, Immigration, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, National Issues, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: El Cajon California, Iraq, Million Hoodies March, New York City, Sandra Rose, Shaima Alawadi, Southern California, Trayvon, Trayvon Benjamin Martin, Trayvon Martin, Union Square, United States, Whitney Houston

Christmas Songs: Marvin Gaye, “I Want to Come Home for Christmas,” 1972

• December 21, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, Holidays, Iraq, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Afghanistan, African Americans, Berry Gordy, Blacks, Charting, Christmas, Christmas in The City, Forest Hairston, Funk Brothers, Iraq, Marvin, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Motown Records, Occupation, Prisoners of War, Santa Claus, South Vietnam, The Funk Brothers, The Nineties, The Seventies, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam War

Veteran Marine Sgt. Shemar Thomas on the Occupy Wall Street Protests: “This is Our Time…to Change The Greed…in America”

• October 18, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Black People, Budget Cuts, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Health, Homelessness, Joblessness, Labor History, Labor Relations, Mental Health/Psychology, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Public Intellectualism, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement
Tags: 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Afghan War, African Americans, Anarchists, Baggers, Benefits, Blacks, Civil Liberties, Civil Servants, Common Sense, Constables on Patrol, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Current TV, Demonstrations, Dirty Hippies, Iraq, Iraq War, J. Edgar Hoover, Jobless, New York City Police Department, New York's Finest, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Poor People's Campaign, Poverty, Raw Story, Ready-TV.com, Republicans, Riverside Church, Sgt. Shemar Thomas, Single Issue Politics, The Black Middle Class, The February Uprising, The Middle Class, The Poor People's Campaign, The Tea Party, Unemployed, Union Contracts, Union Members, United States, Veterans, Vietnam War, Wages, Wall Street, War Veteran, Wisconsin, Workers, You Tube, YouTube

Yesterday, Nine Years Ago

• September 12, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Afghanistan, African American History, Africans, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Arabs, Bailouts, Black People, Cancer, Class, Consumerism, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Health, History, Homelessness, Immigration, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Iran, Iraq, Islam/Sufism, Jews, Joblessness, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Public Intellectualism, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Teabagging Party, The Catholic Church, The Economy, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: 2001, 2050, 30 Mosques 30 States, Afghanistan, African Americans, al Qaeda, Alpha Kappa Alpha, American, American Exceptionalism, American Extremism, American Racism, Americans, Ayman al Zawahiri, B-17, B-29, BBC, Bin Laden, Black Muslims, Brown-Skinned People, Bush, California, Collateral Damage, Faculty Meeting, Fear, Fiction Writing, Human Beings, Iraq, Israel, Jingoism, Lebanon, Lives, Memoir, Mike Wallace, Mosques, Multiracial, Muslim Americans, Muslim Extremism, Muslims, Nationalism, Nativism, New York, New York City, North Dakota, Novel, NPR, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestinians, Racism, Reactionaries, Reactionary, Ross, Saudi Arabia, September 11, Sheboygan WI, Shi'a, Sunni, Television, Terrorists, The Bay Area, The Empire State Building, The FBI, The Justice Department, The Twin Towers, The World Trade Center, Travel Scholarship, Under Armour Caps, W, War on Terror, Writing, Writing Residency

Howard Zinn, Author of “A People’s History of the United States,” Dies at 87

• January 28, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cuba, Education, Haiti, History, Iran, Mexico, Native Americans/First Nations, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, The Economy, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "A People's History of the United States", "Memory of Fire", "The People Speak", Alice Walker, Anti-War, Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Civil Libertarian, Dresden, Eduardo Galeano, Heart Attack, Hiroshima, Historian, Howard Zinn, Iraq, James Bond, James Carroll, Jeff Zinn, Marian Wright Edelman, Matt Damon, Myla Kabat-Zinn, Nazis, Noam Chomsky, Royan France, Spelman College, The Greatest Generation, Tokyo, Vietnam

Obama’s Nobel Speech and the Price of War

• December 11, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Education, History, Obama Administration, The Economy, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Torture, War Crimes
Tags: "Rolling Stone", Afghanistan, al Qaeda, American Apartheid, Buddhism, Buddhist, Civil Disobedience, Civilians, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Iraq, Lebanon, Mass Shooter, Matt Taibbi, MSM, Nonviolence, Norway, Osama bin Laden, Peace, President Barack Obama, President Obama, President Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, The Media, The Nobel Peace Prize, The Obama Doctrine, The Wailing Wall, Theodore Roosevelt, Unarmed, Vice President Joe Biden, Vietnam, War

Coming: Lockhart and Grace, and On Obama’s War

• December 2, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, China, Class, Crime, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, History, Mexico, Murder/Manslaughter, Nancy Grace, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Public Intellectualism, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Antoinette Davis, Bradley Lockhart, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Generals, Goldman Sachs, Hamid Karzai, HLN, Iraq, Karl Rove, Nancy Grace, Ngo Dinh Diem, Pakistan, President George W. Bush, Rahm Emmanuel, Shaniya Davis, The Taliban, Vice President Dick Cheney, Vice President Joe Biden

The History That They’re Not Teaching Us or Our Children About Thanksgiving

• November 25, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Class, Education, History, Homelessness, Joblessness, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Race, The Economy
Tags: Afghanistan, Alternative History, Broken Families, Death, Eddie Izzard, First Nations, Homelessness, Iraq, King Philip's War, Massasoit, Mother Earth, Myth Making, Native Americans, Propaganda, Recovering Addiction, Scott Berkun, Settlers, Smallpox, Squanto, Thanksgiving, The Atlantic Ocean, The Civil War, The Great Recession, The Holidays, The Mayflower, The Pilgrims, The Puritans

Massive Fail at News Organizations: It Was Sergeant Mark Todd Who Brought Down Major Nidal Hasan

• November 13, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Crime, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Domestic Terrorism, History, Journalism and Ethics, Murder/Manslaughter, Religion, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Editor and Publisher", "Oprah", "The Early Show", African Americans, Blacks, CBS, Fort Hood, Greg Mitchell, Investigation, Iraq, Jessica Lynch, John Wayne, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Mass Shootings, Mighty Mouse, Murder, PowerPoint, Private First Class Jessica Lynch, Sergeant Kimberly Munley, Sergeant Mark Todd, The New York Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Pentagon, Timeline

Randi Rhodes Returning to the Microphone

• May 1, 2009 • 7 Comments

Posted in American Politics, Journalism and Ethics, Race, Randi Rhodes, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Afghanistan, Air America, Air America Radio, Bloody Marys, Clear Channel, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Iraq, Irish Pub, Ketel One, Nova M, Premiere Radio, Queen of Progressive Radio, Randi Rhodes, The Iraq War II

Race Jealousy was the Motive Behind Torture-Rape-Murder of Interracial Couple by Black Marines

• April 9, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Black People, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Race
Tags: African Americans, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY, California, Glenda Faye Williams-Jenkins, Guns, Henryka Pietrzak-Varga, Iraq, Jan Pawel Pietrzak, Polish Americans, Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, Rape, Riverside County, Torture, United States Marines

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