A Setback Is a Set Up for a Comeback

A SETBACK IS A SET UP FOR A COMEBACK—Willie Jolley

DO FOR SELF—The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey

KEEP HOPE ALIVE—Jesse Jackson

SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED

Over fifty years ago Fannie Lou Hamer described with powerful eloquence the emotional state of African Americans. Two hundred and forty years ago, the U. S. Constitution declared us to be three-fifths human; and, even today, we keep on being sick and tired of being sick and tired.

The moneyed white men who founded America generated incredible wealth through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the genocide of the First Nations people and the unconscionable plunder of their lands. For two centuries there was a trickle down of some of this wealth to the majority white population. About one generation ago, the trickle dried up, leaving the white working classes empty handed. So, they have become sick and tired.

It took the white working class just one generation to become sick and tired of being sick and tired. Donald Trump speaks to their rage and holds out the promise of restoring the benefits of white privilege.

Starting in the early nineteenth century, the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, the Platt Amendment have made Latinos sick and tired. So Latinos have been sick and tired of being sick and tired from at least as far back as the Alamo. Of course, African Americans have been sick and tired of being sick and tired for nearly four centuries.

Latinos and African Americans can trump Trumpism tomorrow. This is the only way that the nation will finally begin to address the fundamental problems that have made the majority of its citizens sick and tired of being sick and tired. 

TRUMPISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE CAPSTONE

TRUMPISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE CAPSTONE

Trumpism downplays white supremacy.

The Howard University (The Capstone) administration downplays white supremacy.

ERGO: The Capstone is aligned with Trumpism

The Capstone of what? . . .  Could it be “Negro Mis-Education” (to cite Carter G. Woodson)?

TAKING INSANITY TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL

You are a University facing an existential crisis, a crisis of management. Your Spanish program is on the brink of extinction. So what do you do? You spend precious resources trying to harass, silence, and even fire the most senior faculty member in Spanish, someone who is demonstrably one of the University’s most productive scholars. And then you try to subject him to an incredibly incongruous PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN (PIP), WHICH, DE FACTO, PLACES HIM UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A TEMPORARY INSTRUCTOR WHOSE HIGHEST DEGREE IN SPANISH IS THE B.A.

As The Donald would put it: “What the hell is wrong with these people?”

THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION'S ANTI-HISPANIC BIAS

In 1982, when the late Stanley Cyrus and I founded the Afro-Hispanic Institute and the Afro Hispanic Review, Howard University was the leading institution in the world in the field of Hispanophone Africana Studies. It was the only institution which offered the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in this field. The upper administration of the University, however, had already targeted the Spanish, French, and Portuguese programs for extinction.

Is the upper administration of General Oliver Otis Howard’s university driven by an anti-Hispanic bias?

DEMONSTRATING TO THE HOWARD U ADMINISTRATION THE REALITY OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM

DEMONSTRATING TO THE HOWARD U ADMINISTRATION THE REALITY OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM

STEP ONE: Look at the videos of the gunning down of Mr. Terence Crutcher and   Mr. Keith Lamont Scott.

STEP TWO: Ask yourself: If those two gentlemen had been white, would they be alive today?

STEP THREE: If the answer is a resounding yes, then institutionalized racism is a reality in America.

Q.E.D. 

HOWARD U QUESTIONS THE REALITY OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

            The Howard University upper administration has run the University into the ground; the institution is basically broke. So the University administration went, hat in hand, to the National Science Foundation, which doled out some funds on condition that General Howard’s university keep up the dance to their tune, the tune of turning our focus away from white supremacy. And the National Science Foundation engag­es a for-profit white corporation to help the nation’s leading HBCU forsake its misguided preoccupation with white supremacy. In accord with one of the central premises of the Willie Lynch doctrine, the National Science Foun­dation ensures that Blacks love, respect, and trust only Whites. (Cited from Justice or Else at The Capstone, page 19)