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Posted: Saturday December 20th, 2003 17:19 |
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Posted: Saturday December 20th, 2003 20:37 |
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I would recommend....
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and the late Alex Haley
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Posted: Saturday December 20th, 2003 20:50 |
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Here is another one I think is a good read...
Before the Mayflower...A History of Black America
by Lerone Bennett
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Posted: Saturday December 20th, 2003 21:38 |
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Ashanti wrote: I would recommend....
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and the late Alex Haley
I would wholly concur with ashanti on this recommendation, I found it insightful, sad and at times very very funny..loved that book..
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Posted: Sunday December 21st, 2003 11:39 |
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Hmm I was very close to buying this book by recommendation of a friend so now I think it will have to bo done. Thankyou Ashanti and Kunjufu  .
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Posted: Sunday December 21st, 2003 16:16 |
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You guys NEED to check out this book by Earl Ofari. Even though it's based on an African American perspective it still has a universal application. I've had this book in my possession for a few years now and even though it's based on the demonisation of brothas, I feel that black women especially will benefit from it. You can purchase this book from Amazon UK too.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684836572/qid=1071994316/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4456207-7948061?v=glance&s=books
p.s. - Isn't it interesting that whenever something is produced to counter stereotypes and uplift black people there's always some b**tard that goes out their way to trash it? Click on the link and read the first review.
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Posted: Sunday December 21st, 2003 20:58 |
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I cannot leave off this brother....
Doing What's Right: How to Fight for What You Believe--And Make a Difference
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Posted: Monday December 22nd, 2003 00:42 |
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May I recommend:
Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern, Edited by Ivan Van Sertima, New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.): Transaction Books, 1991, Eleventh Printing. ISBN: 0-87855-941-8 (paper).
Here follows a brief extract:
"Metallurgy
In 1978 anthropology professor, Peter Schmidt, and professor of engineering, Donald Avery, both of Brown University, announced to the world that, between 1,500-2,000 years ago, Africans living on the western shores of Lake Victoria, in Tanzania, had produced carbon steel.
The Africans had done this in pre-heated draft furnaces, a method that was technologically more sophisticated than any developed in Europe until the mid-19th century. "We have found," said Professor Schmidt, "a technological process in the African Iron Age which is exceedingly complex.... To be able to say that a technologically superior process developed in Africa more than 1,500 years ago overturns the popular and scholarly ideas that technological sophistication developed in Europe but not in Africa."
There were Africans still living (the Haya people, for example) who, although they no longer produced steel, remebered, down to the last identity of detail, the machine and the process their ancestors used and were able to reconstruct the furnace and carrry out a successful smelt. When Schmidt and Avery began excavating near Lake Victoria and dug up 13 Iron Age furnaces, they found that "the construction of the furnaces and the composition of the steel was essentially the same."
The temperature achieved in the blast furnace of the African steel-smelting machine was higher than any achieved in a European machine until modern times. It was roughly 1,800 deg. C, some 200 to 400 deg C higher than the highest achieved in European cold blast bloomeries. The record for Europe was in an experimental 2nd century Roman shaft furnace where scientists recorded a temperature in the combustion zone of 1,600 deg C.
The African superiority was due to the fact that they preheated the air blast by inserting blowpipes into the base of the furnace. This not only led to the extraordinarily high temperatures but also to greater fuel economy. This was important since, in the areas where Africans produced steel, there is evidence of a severe depletion of forest resources, demanding a fuel-saving technology.
The machine they devised and the resourceful way they made use of available materials, is in itself fascinating. For example, the pit they dug beneath the furnace was lined with mud made from a termite mound. The termite mound was an excellent choice since termites make their hills of materials that won't absorb water, bits of alumina and silica piled up grain by grain. The Africans also introduced a process in their smelting that was very original and in advance of their time, making steel through the formation of iron crystals rather than by "the sintering of solid particles" as in European smelting. This led Professor Avery to comment: "It's a very unique process that uses a large number of sophisticated techniques. This is really semi-conductor technology - the growing of crystals - not iron-smelting technology."
This technology was not confined to Lake Victoria. Further investigations showed that there was widespread distribution of Early Iron Age industrial sites in West Lake and neighboring areas, such as Rwanda in Uganda. The nature of the industry also indicates that these Africans lived in densely populated centers, with an organized, highly cooperative labor force."
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Posted: Monday December 22nd, 2003 01:43 |
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I agree with Ashanti
Every black person/person of colour MUSTread this book:
ROOTS By Alex Haley......its an education
ALSO READ:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
another good recent book is Stupid White Men by Michael Moore. "shocking" is one of the many words i could use to describe this book.
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Posted: Monday December 22nd, 2003 04:54 |
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 Autobiography of Malcom X and must read by everyone. Well done Ashanti, beat us to the punch on that one..
Afro-American History By Malcom X
Enemies: The Clash of Races-Haki R Madhubuti[probably the best political writer and essayist of his generation].
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Posted: Monday December 22nd, 2003 05:15 |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates
of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
MacArthur fellow and UCLA evolutionary biologist Diamond (The Third Chimpanzee, 1992, etc.) takes as his theme no less than the rise of human civilizations. On the whole this is an impressive achievement, with nods to the historians, anthropologists, and others who have laid the groundwork. Diamond tells us that the impetus for the book came from a native New Guinea friend, Yali, who asked him, ``Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?'' The long and short of it, says Diamond, is biogeography. It just so happened that 13,000 years ago, with the ending of the last Ice Age, there was an area of the world better endowed with the flora and fauna that would lead to the take-off toward civilization: that valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers we now call the Fertile Crescent. There were found the wild stocks that became domesticated crops of wheat and barley. Flax was available for the development of cloth. There was an abundance of large mammals that could be domesticated: sheep, goats, cattle. Once agriculture is born and animals domesticated, a kind of positive feedback drives the growth toward civilization. People settle down; food surpluses can be stored so population grows. And with it comes a division of labor, the rise of an elite class, the codification of rules, and language. It happened, too, in China, and later in Mesoamerica. But the New World was not nearly as abundant in the good stuff. And like Africa, it is oriented North and South, resulting in different climates, which make the diffusion of agriculture and animals problematic. While you have heard many of these arguments before, Diamond has brought them together convincingly. The prose is not brilliant and there are apologies and redundancies that we could do without. But a fair answer to Yali's question this surely is, and gratifyingly, it makes clear that race has nothing to do with who does or does not develop cargo.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
............ very thought provoking.
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Posted: Monday December 22nd, 2003 07:34 |
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kwese wrote: I agree with Ashanti
Every black person/person of colour MUSTread this book:
ROOTS By Alex Haley......its an education
Queen by alex haley is also worth a read as it is from the other parents history side of things.
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Posted: Monday December 22nd, 2003 11:47 |
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The Philosophy &
Opinions of Marcus Garvey
Compiled by Marcus Garvey, Amy Garvey,
Anne Jacques Garvey, and Tony Martin
Without a doubt the most informative and uplifting book I've read in the last 5 years.
Also, you can choose from any of the many Hesaid mentioned...
http://www.blackchat.co.uk/theblackforum/forum27/1081.html
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Posted: Tuesday December 23rd, 2003 01:22 |
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Kareem. The most inspiring speeches you will read from anybody this century or eariler. So inspirational will make you sweat if you have the intelligence, sensitivity and conciousness.
The greatest visionary and African leader. Ever. Described by Bob Marley as "Our Master, Mr Garvey".....The greatest son of Jamaica, the Founder of Modern Pan Africanism and Black Nationalism. The most influential African of all time.. . The conceptual archiect of the United States of Africa and its Diasporan Dependencies.
Kareem, boy you dropping it hard core. Me, I wouldn't even mention this book for now, coz you got to get through some of the above texts first and get your head and heart around them first, before you can step up to the high grade stuff.....You may regret dropping that book, god only knows what you might set off...
While we are on the subject of Garvey a book which is better for giving the broader historical/political/cultural context and outling The Master's impact after his death is
'GARVEY AND GARVEYISM' By Amy Jaques Garvey and John H Clarke.....
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Posted: Tuesday December 23rd, 2003 06:17 |
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The ones I was going to say "Hesaid" them already..in the link posted by Kareem..thanks Hesaid thats the shortest post I have ever written. If I think of anymore I am sure you and Kareem will post them for me
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Posted: Tuesday December 23rd, 2003 16:44 |
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Soledad Brothers, George Jackson
Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
Black Skins White Masks, Frantz Fanon
Infact everything by Fanon
Conciencism, Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, Nkrumah
Africa Must Unite, Nkrumah
Infact everything by Kwame Nkrumah
Barrel of a Pen, Ngugi Wa Thiongo
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
From Capitalism to Slavery, Eric Williams
I Write What I like, Steve Biko
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Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2003 00:24 |
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@Kunjfu. Hey bro, after Talibah's list think the issue is almost done right here. Been surveying the books on the list to date. With the exception of a few eg the interesting anthropology text somebody recommended, which I need to check out, and Bell Hookes who was not around at the time in intellectual terms, and not of the weight of others included.
We now have the basic reading list for level 1 and 2 Conciousraising Classes which my organisation ran, and we educated and trained some damn good solidiers on that material. In fact I would swear Talibah is one of our crew given, I just scanned one of our old reading list and she has got one section almost verbatim. 
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Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2003 00:43 |
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 Almost forgot some for those with a regional interest.
All classic works and back in the day if you hadn't read them not allowed to enter serious people, particularly Caribbeean radicals from the islands, look on you like you are ignorant.
1. "Black Jacobins", Toussaint L'Overture and The Hatian Revolution, CLR's seminal and classic work viewed as one of the greatest of its kind
2. "How Europe Under Developed Africa-Dr Walter Rodney. Amazing study".
3. "From Columbus to Castro" Dr Eric Williams, and "Capitalism and Slavery", very detail examination of the economics of slavery in the Caribben
4. Resistance and Slavery Vol 1 & 2 Dr Richard Hart. The most detailed study of African resistance in Jamaica, including the key military campaign in the North. Excellent studies.
5. "African and Caribbean Politics" Dr Manning Marable.
This is not what I would call one of the great classic texts, but a very important book.
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Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2003 03:47 |
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Fredblack, No I am not one of the 'crew' Although if it is the organisation I am thinking it is, (given what you said about the reading list), I have had contact with them over the years. If you do a word search of the old forum you may find they have been mentioned.
Industrialising Africa, Makonnen Alemyehu
Short Changed: Africa in World Trade, Micheal Barrett Brown
Famine Crimes : Politics And The Disaster Relief Industry in Africa, A. De Waal
some more recent, writings. I am also including a few good sites for reading material.
http://zmag.org/weluser.htm
http://www.africa2000.com/
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Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2003 06:39 |
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Taliba, only talking tongue in cheek. But the books you identified and the order hit me immeditately. Of course there is coincidence etc. But if I was to dig up one of the readings lists you would laugh. Such core reading was part of the basic reading list of the politically active. Almost catechism. You don't get the average person educated or not citing people like Soldedad Brothers/George Jackson and that kind of person, or saying anything by Fanon, a true genius and more....
But fine choice of wine if I may say so....
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Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2003 08:20 |
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The Judas Factor
Another recommendation. This book is a real eye opener. The last chapter is especially shocking.
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Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2003 10:54 |
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Prince Hakeem said of "The Judas Factor"
Another recommendation. This book is a real eye opener. The last chapter is especially shocking."
Shocking is one way of describing it. Shows those who are a bit unsure, what this thing is about, and who are enemies are and what evils looks like in black face, and those they serve. Moreover, shows us what we must be prepared to do to them.
The murder of the Iman's little children was one of the most hideous things I have ever read. Black men working for white men will murder a black mans children...
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Fredblack wrote:
The murder of the Iman's little children was one of the most hideous things I have ever read. Black men working for white men will murder a black mans children...
That's the part that really troubled me after reading the book, more than anything else I had read in the previous chapters. I remember it staying in my mind the whole day after that. What the f*** makes someone shoot a little boy at point blank range then drown infants in a sink?
Many in the NOI were just gangsters hiding under the mask of being called 'Black Muslims'. Even before I read that book I always thought that the so called 'Honourable' Elijah Muhammed was a shady and ungrateful character. You know something's not right when a bunch of lunatics would get ready to kill anyone who even looks at their leader funny without leaving justice in the hands of the Most High. The excuse that many of the old prophets committed sins and fell short is just that - an excuse. The fact that they worked side by side with the FBI and CIA against Malcolm and other muslims really blows away any and everything they talk about. They let jealousy and animosity get better of them and rather than acknowledging the hard work that Malcolm had put into the Nation by introducing not hundreds, but THOUSANDS, of young blacks into the organisation.
Plus I don't even need to say anything on Louis "I admit I was guilty of creating the atmosphere that led to Malcolm's death" Farrakhan (please.....).
The splinter group Five Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) makes the point that there are black devils too and after reading that book you can't help but come to that conclusion. Many NOI members still alive who were active during that period have a lot to answer for.
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Posted: Wednesday December 24th, 2003 23:57 |
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:Fredblack wrote:
"The murder of the Iman's little children was one of the most hideous things I have ever read. Black men working for white men will murder a black mans children"...
That's the part that really troubled me after reading the book, more than anything else I had read in the previous chapters. I remember it staying in my mind the whole day after that. What the f*** makes someone shoot a little boy at point blank range then drown infants in a sink?
Many in the NOI were just gangsters hiding under the mask of being called 'Black Muslims'. Even before I read that book I always thought that the so called 'Honourable' Elijah Muhammed was a shady and ungrateful character. You know something's not right when a bunch of lunatics would get ready to kill anyone who even looks at their leader funny without leaving justice in the hands of the Most High. The excuse that many of the old prophets committed sins and fell short is just that - an excuse. The fact that they worked side by side with the FBI and CIA against Malcolm and other muslims really blows away any and everything they talk about. They let jealousy and animosity get better of them and rather than acknowledging the hard work that Malcolm had put into the Nation by introducing not hundreds, but THOUSANDS, of young blacks into the organisation.
Plus I don't even need to say anything on Louis "I admit I was guilty of creating the atmosphere that led to Malcolm's death" Farrakhan (please.....).
The splinter group Five Percent Nation (Nation of Gods and Earths) makes the point that there are black devils too and after reading that book you can't help but come to that conclusion. Many NOI members still alive who were active during that period have a lot to answer for.
Prince Hakeem, The Black Panthers were even worse. Yes they had a large numbers of very righteous brothers and sisters, like Fred Hampton head of Chicago Chapter. An exemplarly leader. But the amount of thugs, gangsters, criminals and just low life, they had amongst their ranks, who contributed in the death and murder of so many and the destruction of the very thing they proclaimed to believe in.
Think about it from a FBI/CIA point of view doing in such organisations don't even require much work, such is the low calibre of so many of these people. Look at Tupacs mother she was a heroine addict while in the Panthers and got that probably from some brother in there already hooked. What type of sh*t is that. Those brothers just opened the doors and said your black and from ghettoe[which seems to be their only credentials], come right in, knowing that criminals are dangerous to the movement. Always have been always will be, with few exceptions.
Beware of anyone or thing, who after a little while come aspousing this or that, because conciousness is a very long, not short road. Conciousness is not what takes place in public but what takes place in private and is consistent. Fundamentally consistent.
You are damn right there are a lot of black people who are going to have to pay for things they have done. No doubt about it. Those 3 swines, so called Muslim swine, and ex criminals who helped set Malcolm up for a start. I have got interviews on with them in copies of a journal that used to be called Black News from the US. I follow these things carefully, because one soliidier has to remember their names to pass onto someone so we can remember to pay that visit to them in old age, of their seed.
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Posted: Thursday December 25th, 2003 01:12 |
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Kunjufu. Not trying to divert the thread. But wanted to conclude a point touched on Prince Hakeem forgot one point when you said:
"Plus I don't even need to say anything on Louis "I admit I was guilty of creating the atmosphere that led to Malcolm's death" Farrakhan (please....."
Farrahkan is up to his eyeballs in the death of Malcolm and anyone who is anyone knows that; and like some of his gimmicks, Farrahkhan likes to insult people's intelligence. The fact of the matter, Farrahkan only admitted that much because a lot of top soliidiers like Haki R Maduhubti, Jitu Weisu etc refused to have anything to do with the Million Man March and was forced to have a personal meeting with them and others to discuss his role in Malcolm's death.
It was Betty Shabazz on the advise of others who decided to squash the beef in the sake of broader unity, so brothers had no options to respect her wishes on the matter, but I would not leave those brothers in a room with Farrahkan for a second without his best security. Trust...
Farrahkan is insulting himself with his last line of defense that he may have contributed to Malcolm's death by creating the environment. Like in too many things, he think he is talking to kids who been to their first rally and are in awe. People in positions of public power never deal in dirty detail. All they do is create the environment, which is enough to get anyone killed.
The Queen or Prince Philip would not say they want Diana dead, but it don't take nuclear science to work out ,the atomosphere or environment in that place, of the thought of the future kings mother and monarch to be having a Arab half brother, by Doddie. It was never going to happen. Ever. And that alone, or fears of that and the kind of things beings said about her, is all that needs to be heard, for the appropriate technicians to say things have gone far enough. That is how it works, so who is this man a taking for fool.
Reading an interesting analysis of 'Yardie' gang and organisational structures, recruitment, training etc etc and a particular interesting case study of one leader of the infamous Spanglers Possee, reputed to have killed 67 people. Same thing with the Farrakhan dymanic, and status and incentive systeem which existed in the NOI at the time.
Many of these dons, charged with muliple murders actually were never involved in the technical commission of the acts, and in most cases knew nothing about them. But they did not have to, because once these guys made it public that so and so was their enemy, or diss them behind their backs, or whatever; and this became public knowlege, you had scores of young men in ghettoes everywhere looking to make rank, and gain profile who would take it on themselves to kill the person in question[ often extremely animalistic and brtual]. Then to make sure the message reach the don. He of course is happy, on top of that the world knows, how his enemies are dealt with; better still he has nothing to do with it, other than express his disatisfaction and dislike for that person, eg create the environment.
Farrahkan is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Because it was his mouth which the FBI in cahoots with NOI operatvives used to hide behind. Farrahkan created the rush and clamour to kill Malcolm, just like those yardie dons. No difference, and he took the credit just like they did, until he realised the little world of the NOI and the national African American and internaltional Pan African community, are not one and the same ,and won't swallow that bullsh*t. And had it not been for his desire to lead the Million Man March, I doubt we would have got this much from him
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Excellent post. You're right about the Black Panthers. They too trivialised our struggle by and undermined themselves by committing criminal acts and sleeping with white women. No wonder many people don't take black power seriously nowadays....I'm sure you've heard people say that the most 'radical' ones are those who bang white girls and do the total oppositie of the very things they advocate. If you can't walk the walk, don't talk the talk it's that simple.
Also my views on Farrakhan are this: If you are truly repentant of your past wrongs, then it's only just for you to set the example in humility by stepping down as leader. The prophets of old were held accountable for their wrong actions, therefore the same should apply for any spiritual leader or messenger today.
You would think that the supposed assassination attempt on his life by one of Malcolm X's daughters would have made him seriously consider taking this step, but I guess it feels good to have the title 'Honourable' before one's name. That he's still head of the NOI has caused a lot of people to be disillusioned with the organisation, and surely one needs to put the interests of the people they profess to love ahead of their own.
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Another recommendation:
MELANIN: THE CHEMICAL KEY TO BLACK GREATNESS
If any book in recent years opened my eyes it was this one. I always wondered what it was that made us so unique from other races of people i.e. our distinctive voices, natural rhythm etc and this book gave me the answers. It also shows how we are more susceptible to drugs like cocaine and marijuana. A must read.
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Posted: Wednesday January 7th, 2004 22:33 |
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I would recommend this book to anyone who has n't read it. This book is so relevant to our time
and he is so truthful. It is so good to hear a white man talking like this. Sometimes i do worry for him though, because when you talk so much truth like this the governments usually shuts you up for good. e.g. malcolm x, Martin luther king
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Posted: Thursday January 8th, 2004 20:22 |
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I would recommend this book to anyone interested in developing knowledge about the African existance in Britain.
Black British culture and society
edited by Kwesi Owusu
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Posted: Saturday July 10th, 2004 09:56 |
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Would anyone be able to recommend any excellent books to do with the Caribbean?
I have a few names of books, but I don't know if they’re any good. Due to the cost, I have to really be sure they're worth buying.
The key areas I'm interested in are: -
- Broad politics
- Key leaders
- Religion
- Civilization/culture/identity
- Economics
Also anything else that people think would be interesting.
Thanks in advance.
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Posted: Saturday July 10th, 2004 22:59 |
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@Name. Will get back to you with the some books on the areas mentioned. Problem with Caribbean literature it is very island specific. So you will have to do what i do get books from each island as you visit. So can't help you with the names of just a few.
Need to speak to someone at University of West Indies level where they do regional wide studies and books for that market. But I am waiting for somene to contact me on a related matter who and will get some titles for you.
Got an excellent book in storage about "The University of the West Indies an Institution In Transition". Gives an insight into all the issues you talk about via the persepctive of preparing higher education to meet needs eg growing empthasis of teaching Latin American langauges regionally, increase empthasis on science and that type of stuff.
Can't remember the title but when I come across it, will post details.
A very good book that touches on civilisation, culture, history and politics and one of the best books I have read is Leonard Honeychurch's The Dominica Story: A History of the Island". Published by McMillan 1994.
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Posted: Monday July 19th, 2004 06:45 |
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The Isis Papers, by Dr Francis Cress Welsing. A good read and will realy get your mind thinking. It explores some really interesting concepts, which you know but have not really considered in this concept. Give it a go
Another Kaffir Boy, quite an old book but was really heart wrenching- Life growing up in South Africa during apathied
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Posted: Monday July 19th, 2004 07:15 |
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Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick Ph.D.
::: Deeper Roots :::
Price: $ 9
 Introduction
Deeper Roots is what that other book promised to be but never was. Rather than an incapacitating and sentimental Christian tracing of ethnicity, the author reconnects the African American and his Caribbean brothers and sisters to the dynamic West-African cultural expression of the universal way of Islam.
Heyerdahl's Ra I, built by African boatmen from Lake Chad. It sailed from North Africa in 1969 for Barbados. It proved the feasibility of using such a boat for an Africa to America journey
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Posted: Tuesday July 20th, 2004 17:21 |
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I would like to recommend a few books:
My first book is called Black Girl in Paris it's by Shay Youngblood. After reading this book I said to myself I have to go to Paris. Shay is one of the most creative writers in the book game. She's a gifted lyricist. When you read her book you can just imagine everything she writes about. The book is about a young black girl named Eden's quest to become a writer and to meet her idol writer James Baldwin. The book is extremely touching as it depicts a young black girl's coming of age.
Another book that I HAVE to recommend is Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo. I LOVED THIS BOOK! The book was about three sisters (all of whom are artistic in their own way) struggling to make it in this f**ked up world. Shange just like Youngblood is extremely poetic which is refreshing especially in a book game where everything is about "homo thugs", "fly girls" and gangstas.
My last book that I'm recommending is a novel that I just started reading nonetheless I am already hooked. If there are any black femminist out there you will definitely love this book. The book is called Their Eyes Were Watching God and it's by late novelist/folklorist/anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. The book is about a young black woman growing up in the South at a time where women were subserviant to their men. Janie Crawford who is the lead character in the novel defies the role that she was position to play as a woman. Like I said I just started reading it but I'm already hooked.
What makes me upset is if it wasn't for associates and me searching on my own I don't think I would have ever heard of these writers and that's sad. Sunday I was looking through the newspaper where they advertise their books and I notice that when it comes to White media (and Black media to a certain extent) a lot of good black authors tend to get shut out. Why is it that when it comes to the White media Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Iyanza Vanzant are the only Black authors White Media seem to know. Even when you see the vendors out selling black books they don't promote the Shay Youngbloods, Ntozake Shanges and the Zora Hurstons. What I like about these authors is that besides being a hell of a writer their books have a kind of diasporic feel to them plus they deal with themes that young and older black women can relate to. These are the type of books that need to be put out there. I don't feel that it has to do a lot with supply and demand but moreso with the fact that white/black media feel that black people don't want to deal with anything "deep". I don't think it's true. They put Morrison, Walker, and Vanzant out there because they already have a following so they feel safe. But frankly I'm tired of seeing the same three faces. There are many great novelist out there that came before, during, and after those three and they need to have their voices heard.
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Posted: Wednesday July 28th, 2004 12:18 |
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I would like to recommend" The Lonely Londoners" by Samuel Selvon. This is a classic novel about the first generation of male West Indians in London. It's a long time since I read the book but I suspect it still has relevance today. "It has been argued that Selvons work reinforced the stereotype of a rootless male West Indian engaged in marginal, often criminal activities. " I think Selvon paved the way for other writers but make up your own mind. For certain Selvons' characters live and breathe the effects of decolonization and the dismantling of the empire. The book flows with dry humour and a pathos which hits hard.
"Crick, Crack, Monkey" by Merle Hodge. Hodge provides insight into the problems faced by women who are raised in a colonialist education system. It's a story of childhood exploration entwined with gender, the caste system in Trinidad and cultural identity. It's a real blood boiler of a book, which guides you through an emotional mine field.
And finally, I agree people do focus on writers such as Morrison and Walker but my all time favourite has to be "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison. "It's the struggle of eleven year old Pecola Breedlove- a black girl in America whose love for it's blond eyed children can devastate all others-who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful." I was introduced to this book last year and my copy is now dog eared and battered but much loved. I can not begin to do justice to how precious this novel is. Morrisons' words are poetry, music, dance- the words flow. It is a heart wrenching novel but I would recommend it to anyone. I LOVED IT!
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Posted: Thursday July 29th, 2004 18:47 |
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| My son came back from nursery reciting the 'three little pigs' - you know the story, the one with the three innocent white/pink pigs and the big bad black wolf........we've been through the system and know the subliminal pitfalls....teach the next generation what the system will not
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Posted: Friday July 30th, 2004 00:36 |
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@Name. Still waiting for my man to get back to me. But here is a book on the Caribbean and it has a very good bibiliography, so you can chase up other books. I have mentioned it a couple of times in recent posts.
Its called "Learning To Be A Man: Culture, Socialisation and Gender in Five Caribbean Communities"
By Barry Cevannes
Published by the University of West Indies Press.
Very very interesting book on a multitude of levels and very relevent for understanding aspects of male behaviour in this country..
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Posted: Tuesday September 7th, 2004 14:44 |
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| I would like to recommend a book that I think most people would find very interesting. The book is called krik? krak! it's by an author named Edwidge Danticat. The book consist of nine short stories about life under Haiti's rule. Danticat imo is a powerful storyteller. I think anyone who reads this book will definitely be effected. I read the first story children of the sea and I literally cried. This book is no joke!
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Posted: Wednesday September 8th, 2004 10:38 |
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Ashanti wrote: I would recommend....
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and the late Alex Haley
I adored that book, I have my copy ready and waiting for the time when my son is ready to immerse himself into it.
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