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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 ...
If You Don’t Know Me By Now
A little treat from my youtube page. Just posted yesterday. Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes: The very begining obviously got cut off in the recording, but I didn’t feel like re-recording it. Sorry. Copyright © 2009 BlackPerspective....
Someday Redux
I don’t actively celebrate Christmas for spiritual and philosophical reasons; but Stevie Wonders’ Someday At Christmas has a great message that goes beyond the norm. A message that if the world headed would be something. So as last year ...
Celebrating Kwanzaa
This past Friday was the start of the 7 day celebration of Kwanzaa. 2008 marks the 42nd annual celebration of Kwanzaa. On today, the 5th day of Kwanzaa, we celebrate Nia - Purpose: To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our co...
Reports Say Jesse Jackson Jr Has Been Out Front in Reporting Illinois Corruption to Fed
In a Tuesday article entitled “Jackson Jr. cooperated with feds on governor probe” Don Babwin reports through the Associated Press that: Shortly after his 2002 election, Gov. Rod Blagojevich told Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. he didn’t app...
Iraqi Reporter Says Farewell By Throwing Shoes At President Bush (Video)
I have no shame in saying I wish one of them would have hit him. Gotta give him credit, good ducking by Bush. Bush said the only thing he could report is that they were a size 10. Hardy har… Copyright © 2008 BlackPerspective.net. This Fe...
Blogging To End AIDS Round Up
I know it’s long past due, but like I mentioned; I’ve been out of commission for the past week. I’m doing a little bit better and have matriculated through some work, so let me get this round up post finally up: My post - Preventi...
To Be Continued…
Hey y’all. I’m having some medical difficulties, and a long with work responsibilities; I haven’t had the time or th energy to do what I need to do to put together post. But at anytime if I began to do better, the blog will be back ...
World AIDS Day - Prevention Through Knowledge
December 1 is World AIDS Day, and I’m administrating the Week of Blogging To End AIDS. If you’re a blogger and you want to join the effort, comment to let me know so that you can be added to the list; and post anytime over the next seven ...
Remembering Sojourner Truth
Blogger Sojourner’s Place notifies us that this week was the anniversary of the passing on of the bloggers names sake (November 26, 1883). Sojourner Truth was a former slave turned preacher and civil rights activist (both women’s and R...
Citigroup Getting A Piece of the Bailout
And I was hoping Citibank would go under so that I could wiff on paying off the last 900 dollars of my credit card. At least they’re using this part of the bailout money for what they said they would. Via Yahoo News New Citigroup rescue as Ob...
‘Barack & Curtis’: Short Film Juxtaposing Obama To 50 Cent
Up and coming filmmaker Byron Hurt in September created a documentary piece exploring the images of Black manhood comparing the new President-Elect to rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The full name of the 10 minute short film is “BA...
World AIDS Day Is Coming
World Aids Day is December 1st every year and last year we did a week of Black Blogging To End AIDS. This year it’s just going Blogging to End AIDS, and we’ll do something Black specific surrounding National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day o...
Political Satire On Obama Victory
I originally saw this video a week ago at Lorraine’s Honky Talk Anti-racism blog Hillarious – satire done right. I marvel though at how often satire just goes way over people’s head. They simply don’t get the concept, and completely miss...
Hillary Clinton For Secretary of State, Why
I’m distraught at the notion that Hillary Clinton might be choosen for Secretary of State. Out of a number of good candidates, why her? Hillary Clinton’s fan site Hillbuzz writes: The NY Times article above basically says what we thought about th...
William Ayers Speaks Out On Good Morning America (video)
Chris Cuomo pushed false premise after false premise, and false dichotomy after false dichotomy; such as that if you know someone it’s because you sought them out to hear their political opinions. He did so in order to continue to support the m...
Paulson and Company Pull Bailout Bait and Switch
I told you the bailout was a con-game, it was all just a big money grab from the get go. Now Barack and congressional Dems want us to give them billions more for the auto industry. I let Obama slide on the bailout thing because of the position the s...
Klu Klux Klan Killing In Louisiana
From Yahoo News: Police: Woman slain as she tried to leave KKK rite COVINGTON, La. – An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town, the sher...
First Lady Michelle Obama, And The Meaning There In
While we are all in awe of the history of a Black man having become president; I’ve found myself struck in the last few day by another reality that is a consequence of Obama’s election. Michelle Obama, a Black woman, will be the first la...
Tickets to Barack Obama’s Presidentail Inauguration
Plezworld did a post with info about going to the inauguration. His information seems in line with what I’ve heard. I’m waiting for a response from a DNC official I left a message for over the weekend, but here’s what Plez posted: I...
Liberia - Pray the Devil Back to Hell
The Second Liberian Civil War from 1999 to 2003 was brutal and contain many attorcities; much blamed on the iron fist rule of the then president Charles Taylor. The fighting included the use of forced child soliders. A new film documents a little kno...
