RESPONSES TO THE GUNNING DOWN OF OUR YOUNG MEN

It is claimed that, in America, young Black men are killed—frequently gunned down—by some branch of law enforcement at the rate of one every twenty-eight hours. We African Americans have basically tolerated this outrage. Two years ago, I published a book, THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE. The book still languishes on the shelves, basically ignored by the African American community.

Now Micah Xavier Johnson’s Afrocentric response to the gunning down of our young men has certainly gotten all kinds of attention. One wonders: if even a fraction of that level of attention had been given to Afrocentric responses such as mine, could we have forestalled, prevented young Micah’s desperate, deadly action? 

RESPONSES TO A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS

Micah Xavier Johnson declared that he was responding to a “long train of abuses and usurpations.” For him, the men in blue represented exactly what the men in red coats represented for the original white Americans.

Micah Xavier Johnson is deemed by the general public to be “deranged.” The general public in England—and many even in the Thirteen Colonies—would have deemed the response to that “long train of abuses and usurpations” inflicted by the King to have been “deranged.” Certainly, in 1916, the general public and the Catholic Church leadership in Ireland deemed the Easter uprising to be the work of “deranged” young hotheads. 

THE WAR HAS STARTED, BUT WE CAN END IT IMMEDIATELY

Micah Xavier Johnson started the shooting war. He was a young African American who simply could not take another minute of the vicious white supremacist oppression. But at the song says: “War is not the answer, only love can bring us peace.”

In our book, THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICAHEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC APPROACH, we present an approach that is consistent with the love that can bring us peace.

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The Ruling Oligarchy Is Pleased with Howard

The Washington Post reported on 27 June that Moody’s is pleased with Howard’s progress in its struggle to right its finances. However, is our dear University, under the leadership of its current president (a “foreign Black” Howard-trained physician with a Howard MBA) selling us out in order to do right by the ruling oligarchy? This is the kind of issue we discuss in JUSTICE OR ELSE AT THE CAPSTONE

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RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES

Remember that? Remember when “the sun never set on the British Empire”? The Fall of Rome came after half a millennium. The heyday of the British Empire spanned the period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression, that is to say, at most two centuries.

Now, as the great Caribbean bard, the Mighty Sparrow, sang: “London Bridge is falling down.” Brexit appears to be the final nail in the coffin.

The British Empire was an enterprise of global proportions that created incredible wealth for the island nation. People from the plundered nations have come to the center of the fallen Empire to reclaim some of what was stolen from them.

What goes around comes around. 

0-3 FREDDIE GRAY v. THE “JUSTICE” SYSTEM

0-3  FREDDIE GRAY v. THE “JUSTICE” SYSTEM

Yesterday, for the third time straight, the “Justice” System failed to avenge the killing of Freddie Gray. Two years have passed since Michael Brown was gunned down. Our book presented “An Afrocentric Response” to that atrocity. Visit our website for more information.

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MY LATEST BOOK

MY LATEST BOOK WAS PUBLISHED ON JUNETEENTH (19 JUNE) 2016. HERE IS THE BACK COVER BLURB

Justice or Else at The Capstone

The United States of America was founded on the principle that Africans are only three-fifths human and therefore could be reduced to the status of chattel in perpetuity. The election and reelection of a Black man to the highest office in the land utterly wiped out the final lingering theoretical underpinnings of this principle. The current process to elect a successor to the first Black president is laying bare all of the bloodcurdling bigotry generated by over two centuries of white supremacy. Not surprisingly, the undercurrent of xenophobic rage masquerades as an attempt to find a way back to a so-called “greatness.” At this juncture of the nation’s troubled history, there is need for the premier historically Black college / university (HBCU) to live up to its call to provide “Leadership for America and the Global Community.” In order to live up to the challenge, “The Capstone of Negro Education” must fix itself. There must be “Justice or Else at The Capstone.”