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Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago this summer Spike Lee released a touchstone film that still stands out and stands the test of time. Not many have pierced the consciousness in the way that Do The Right Thing did, garnering both priase and disdain. NPR took a look ba...
How Drug Conspiracy Laws Unfairly Incarcerate Black Women
Over charging in the legal (not justice) system has become a normative part of prosecution. An act that is in fact misconduct is accepted standard practice. It quite often disregards justice and truth for results; that being successful prosecutions. ...
Jesse Jackson Makes Health Care Bill A Litmus Test for Being Black
According to The Hill, on Wednesday night at a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation reception, Jackson said: “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote ...
Black Officer Actually Took Down Fort Hood Shooter
Senior Sgt. Mark Todd told the story of what really happened on Fox News this morning and in a New York Times article which states: KILLEEN, Tex. — Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley has been applauded as a hero across the nation for shooting down Maj. Nidal...
Video of Historical Black War Service
This is a repost, and by repopst I mean I wholesale stole the contents herein, by copying and pasting from my bloging pal. After viewing this, check out more from FROM MY BROWN EYED VIEW I did not want this Veterans Day to pass without acknowledgin...
Truth About Megan Williams Rape, Defendant Still Says It Happened
In the days following the Megan Williams press conference to recant her story, I’ve cobbled together from the facts and from the thoughts of those directly involved with the case, what I think can be demonstrated is really going on here. In contrad...
Audio - Video of Megan Williams Lawyer At Bizarre Recantment Press Conference
As I posted about Wednesday morning, Megan Williams was set to hold a press conference later that day to recant her claim of rape, torture and enslavement by 7 whites in rural West Virgina back in 2007. Megan Williams current Lawyer out of Ohio, Byr...
Harry Connick Jr Has the Gall To Object To Blackface
Opps! I had quened this, and meant to post it a week ago. Kind of old news now; but still important for my readers coming through to see. This is a gong type program in Austrialia that well known New Orleans Jazz Musician, Harry Connick Jr., was gue...
Without Sanctuary: Photographic Story of Lynching In America
I initially first saw this a couple-a-three years ago when the book and photo exhibit first came out. As stated on the Without Sanctuary website: Searching through America’s past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extra...
SNL Paints Obama As Do-nothing President - Video And Reality Fact Check
Saturday Night Live Paints Obama As Do-nothing President The SNL skit painting Obama as a do-nothing president is predicated on being rife with factual incorrectness. Not only does it not correct, as if they fudged around the edges for comical effec...
They’re Now Hanging People Working With The Federal Government
Beyond the horrific-ness of this act in and of itself, and the obvious anti-government base of it; is the method of the act instructive as to an added component? Watch the report, and we’ll discuss below. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, Wo...
Police Assault of Derryl Jenkins
Last week video was released of a Minneapolis man who was beaten by police during a traffic stop for speeding, and now Police Chief Tim Dolan is looking to the FBI to determine if it was excessive force. You can take a look at the video for yourself....
The Other Black Harvard Professor’s Home Arrest
Apparently Gates isn’t the only Harvard Professor that’s had trouble with Cambridge Police: Second professor accuses police of bias Harvard official asserts racism in 2006 arrest By Tracy Jan Globe Staff / August 6, 2009 A second black H...
Does the 911 Call Prove No Racial Profiling In The Gates Arrest
With the audio of the 911 call coming out the other day, the notion is that: “This would seem to undercut the idea that racial profiling was involved” Umm, no; not necessary. I think anyone half-sensible agrees that the neighbor was r...
Harvard Professor Gates, and Police Sgt Crawley To Visit White House
Pissh…so Henry Gates, Jr and officer Crawley have now been invited to the white house to talk to the president. Now ain’t that something? Black folks get harassed by cops everyday in racial profiling situations that result in much more dramatic c...
Black Kids Kicked Out Pool Because of Race
This took place in Philadelphia, proving once again that American racism is hardly the sole property of the South; as some, both black and white, like to pretend it to be. The following is an email authored by Mrs. Grapevine of mrsgrapevine.com 60 y...
Act Against Police Taser Abuse
AAPP, who lead the Afrospher Action Coalitions campaign last year on taser abuse awarness has called for a “A day of blogging for Justice - Standing up against the pre-trial electrocution” My post is to ask my readers to take action. Cont...
Discussing the Financial Meltdown, Legal System Injustices…
…and other issues recently posted here. Below is a video commentary of me elaborating on a few topics. My computer was out of commission for about 9 days, so I just got to make a video for the BlackPerspectivenet youtbe channel for the first t...
Police Shooting of Bernard Monroe In Homer Louisiana
Alright, there are some more police shootings and an apparent reprisal that we need to get caught up on here at BlackPerspective.net Other projects have lessened the time allotted to do the research and writing necessary to post here as often as norm...
New Mexico Governor Signs Bill To Abolish Death Penalty
In a move that BlackPerspective.net agrees with, New Mexico has now abolished the state death penalty. We have highlighted numerous cases of injustice, gross-over sentencing, and outright false conviction in the legal system here for the last couple...
More InJustice: Jamie and Gladys Scott
I haven’t independently varified the facts listed below; but as I’ve read and watch video about this case over the last month; the basic premise of the facts are consistent, and outrage if even only half accurate. From Nancy Lockhart: MI...
Secretary Clinton Speaks Against Planned Demolition of Palestinian Homes
This is how apartheid and social oppression often work. The goverment says you have to be liscensed/permitted to do necessary/needful activities ; then the goverment denies that liscensing to certain groups of people either through high fees, or oth...
Tennessee Poll - One In Six Tell Racist Obama Jokes
…Yet Obama Has Relatively High State Approval Rating Kleinheider of Post Politics reports that: “The newest poll on state and national issues in Tennessee is out from our friends over at Middle Tennessee State University complete with cha...
Police Shooting Victim Robert Tolan Speaks Out
BlackPerspecitve.net has been following the shooting of a Black man in his own front yard for stealing his own car (in actually they both belong to his parents, but transitorily the same difference as home and car where in his lawful and use). Here i...
National Black AIDS Day Black Blog Roundup
Saturday was National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day According to Avert.org The statistics on HIV and AIDS in America clearly show that all races are affected, but that ethnic minorities account for a disproportionate number of cases in most states. Af...
Jason Vassell Convicted For Defending Himself Against Racist Attack
The other day I received whispers in the wind from Jack and Jill Politics blogger, Jack Turner, about a case of a young male being prosecuted for self-defense in a race based assault. Jack, quoting From an advocacy site set up on Jason’s behalf po...
The Eternally Happy Negro Juan Williams Strikes Again
Juan Williams started on Fox news about a decade ago as a politically moderate analyst, who while not being the strongest hand on Black issues; would raise a counter balancing Black perspective amongst the circle of neo-klansmen he calls his Fox coll...
Update on Tolan and Grant Police Shootings
Last week I reported on two police shootings of unarmed Black men that I want to update. BlackPerspective.net will then discuss broader issues and implications of these shootings and others of their type in a post later this week. In the case of 23...
Some Real Talk On Martin Luther King’s Birthday
On this January 15th, the 80th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr, I want to take time to put forth some real information about the man and his philosophies. Below is an amalgamation of some previous post I’ve done on the subjec...
Cops Are At It Again: Apparently Negro Hunting Season Is Upon Us
I haven’t been following the news real closely day to day lately, so I may be a little late on picking up this story. Tuesday night former transit officer Johannes Mehserle was arrested in Neveda on a fugitive warrant from California for shooting ...
