Black Living Room Talkยฉ๐: Recent Episodes
TBwahid
Intellectual conversation about Afro-descended peoples issues for solutions to share history and culture and to Rebuild, Connect, Network, and Communicate. ๐
On a hot summer Sunday ๐ morning Elizabeth Jennings was in her way to church and decided to use the city's public transportation system, a 24-year- old African- American teacher.
The story of a Latchkey child and the feelings that they may have as they navigate through their daily life arriving home alone everyday.
The first is a story of a little boy named Theo, who asks his mom " what if there were no black people"? What would our society be like, without their contributions to our everyday lives. The second is a list black Musicians contributions to the music world.๐
Literary Analysis 5/5/2008 by Shaunte Huff "Make something of yourself" Symbolism in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" The family's history is physically imprinted on their possessions, through years of everyday use.
1"You are going to be in so much trouble when Dad gets home!" we shouted, and in response my mother pulled the drapes.Dusk approached, and as it grew colder it occurred to us that we could possibly die. - David Sedaris
I had a conversation about Ruby Bridges and trauma. It has not been that long since a once little girl went through such a historic ordeal before the world. Ruby Bridges is only 68 years old. Please let that sink in.
Every evil, he tells us comes from money. "And behind money is the Zionist Talmudic Jew." The Federal Reserve system, he tells us is a private system owned by eight banks, all of them Jewish, four of them foreign...-Raphael S. Ezekiel
Hip-hop grew out of African traditions...Sean Booker If the fifteen-year evolution of hip-hop teaches us anything is history is made in unexpected ways, unexpected people, unexpected results. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Innocent blood will always cry out to God Almighty for reparation.- Marie Fatayi-Williams
The CROWN ACT notes that while anti- discrimination laws protect the choice to wear an afro, afros are not the only natural presentation of Black hair.
The nation's highways were often built through the heart of urban neighborhoods. Planners steered the routes through what they termed "blighted" neighborhoods. -Rebecca Katzman
In those days, the most powerful individual in the world was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. When the heavyweight championship was fought, millions upon millions upon millions of people listened simultaneously by their radios all across the world. - Joe Louis Barrow, son of boxer Joe Louis๐
Also, Let's Really Reform Our Schools๐by Anita Garland Both of these stories are good listens and conversation starters. I hope you enjoy!๐
They are trying to break the cycle of death and destruction among the young. The men show the troubled kids love and respect.- James Grady. ๐
Breakfast in Arkansas, Sedition Trial ( The Klan, across time, has been a nesting ground for murder, whatever else it has been. Members of the Order did kill, as well as rob; properly they are jailed. The present trial for sedition, however, is troubling. The charge is odd; the government's case violates common sense. The defendants, in the end, are acquitted. - Raphael S. Ezekiel
Did you know that Ethiopians trained lions to capture the soldiers of the enemy and fought side by side with cheetahs, bees, and lions? And Marcus Garvey had a purpose, it was not the money.
"There is no doubt the finding of the report is true. The United States has evolved into a White supremacy social system. It is intended for Black people to always be in poverty, intergenerationally", Dr. Monteiro said. ๐
No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. The pitchforks are coming, an uprising and it's not if but when. -Barrington M. Salmon
These are just a few of the games played on us. They are harmful and, and in fact, lethal in more ways than one. If we had jobs there would be no need to sell crack and rip off. As long as they block us, high unemployment will continue. Let's begin to fight it. -Harry C. Alford ๐
To be Woke is to see and say what has gone unseen,unspoken. We have eyes, voices. We can offer both. Oprahmag.com
Shaquanda Cotton who in 2006 was sentenced to 7 years in cofinement at a Texas Juvenile Detention Facility, following accusations that she shoved a white hall monitor in school should have been the final straw for black people all over this country. - James Clingman also BlackNews.com
Oglesby asks whites to imagine a white infant placed in a Black home in a Black neighborhood to understand the frustration Black families feel. -Zena F. Oglesby, Jr. ( executive director of the Institute for Black Parenting).๐
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington๐
We must not abandon the struggle to demand that the public school curricula in America be changed to reflect an accurate interpretation of the history, culture, and contributions of African people in math, science, language arts, art and social studies. -Dr. Conrad Worrill, Ph.D๐
Black schools are our beacon of encouragement, bastions of pride and havens of concern by teachers who sincerely want each student to be successful and will do what needs to be done to make that a reality. -James Clingman
Fear-mongering on the issue of immigration comes from a bevy of sources-from white supremacist groups to CNN. -www.BlackPressInternational.com
The silent epidemic of dropping out of school not only hurts the student, but society as well. -George E. Curry / The Education choice to home school or charter schools charter schools have experienced double-digit annual growth, there are about two-million home-schooled children in the U.S. ( Final Call,2006)
Brothers must interact where the young Brothers hang. Go to school and mentor, Go to a barbershop. Just talk to them-the young Brothers, Mr. Powell said. ( Payday Loans: These places thrive in socially and economically deprived neighborhoods. They are bloodsuckers of the poor. There is nothing to educate people on how to get out of the debt that they are in so they get deeper in the hole. -Anthony Muhammad, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner ๐
A few years ago, leaders in this country proposed a formalized dialogue about race and racism. While there are some organized groups meeting together to engage this very delicate and critical conversation, I think we are further behind than we were during the Civil Rights days when racism was so glaringly obvious. - M. Linda Jaramillo ๐
When Martin became a man, he worked hard to change the laws that kept people apart. Because of Martin and others like him,the laws changed. - Walter Dean Meyers๐
"Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. But I could not conquer my sense of guilt, my feeling that the white men around me knew that I was changing, that I had begun to regard them differently." ๐(Richard Wright)
This novel is about a mystery, about moving to a new house to begin a new life, and about a United States history lesson of the Underground Railroad. The house is like a character. It has hidden doors and secret passages. The community's tangled web of problems add to the plot line while we read about the memories of the enslaved people who were trying to escape to freedom. *( I have really got to buy this book.)๐
"In the flickering light the mob swayed, paused, and began to flow toward us. In that instant there opened within me a great awareness; I knew then who I was." -Walter White๐
"God had not struck Westley dead for taking his name in vain or for lying in the temple. So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I'd better lie, too, and say that Jesus had come, and get up and be saved."
Son of a Harlem minister, James Baldwin summarizes his life up to the age of thirty-one. He concentrates in his life's ambition into one sentence, and talks about the Negro problems in America. He said " I want to be an honest man and a good writer".
This is the story of Mr. Red Leg a masterful black man, skillful at turning white bigotry into black profits. ( The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American community ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast.) - Maya Angelou
The author of this post talks about All white people being racist, and that they are taught to work hard at doing 3 things....Deny, Ignore or Spread the lies of white supremacy.
Before Emmett Till, Willie James Howard born July 13, 1928 a 15 year old boy from Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida was killed for allegedly writing a letter to a white girl.
This conversation is about Our issues, Our community, and Our solutions to Action. Come listen to The Ansubu expound. ๐
Marilyn Grimes, wife and mother is trying to find out who she is apart from the many roles that she plays.
The Reprogramming of ones mind information that we need to replace in our minds which are our truths as a people, our heritage and our culture which was stripped from us.
Marilyn Grimes is a wife, a mother, a sister, and a daughter. Today, she's decided to make changes in her life, to do something different. Today, Marilyn Grimes has finally decided to be herself. First, she has to find out who that is.
My guest Michael Sibley talks about his journey to healthy eating and its importance and what he went through getting there. He explains the importance of sun gazing and the benefits of it. This Brother has a wealth of information to share with us. Michael looks forward to sharing more of his knowledge with us. ๐๐
The African in America is in a constant battle fighting to survive in a world filled with an unfair justice system, racial bias, police brutality, poverty, and racial inequalities. My guest Lucio Bitoy/ Wolf Lue will dissect this ongoing current state of war that is a continuous battle for the African in America and it's effect upon the African throughout the Global Diaspora.
In this conversation King Aijalon explains why Black people should or should not be in solidarity with those who will not stand with us or ally with us in solidarity.
The fabric of racism is built into the halls of every American institution, and way of life. This conversation will give a complete and thorough breakdown of this intricate pattern and how it was woven to wield upon those of African ancestry.
The Gatherings are the subject of racist rallies and conclaves. They stem from small regions to national. This the last part of The Gatherings which took place at Stone Mountain Georgia. - by Raphael S. Ezekiel
TBwahid with Guest Nubian Goddesses/ DaGoddess Ma'Tarah and Queen Jharrie Anut discuss.
TBwahid and Guests King Aijalon The Ansubu,and DaGoddess Ma'Tarah conversate and unpack the five stages of Cointelpro's tactics devised to stop the advancement of Black Unity, advancement and the birth of a Black Messiah.๐
The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed. The quotations in the chapters based on interviews ( Part Two and Three) are exact. I did not tape-record, on the other hand, while observing gatherings.- Raphael S. Ezekiel
Much more impressive, and significant, were the self-confident faces, the brisk walk, the expensive, lustrous shoes, the crisp suit jackets, the narrow ties of the small army of African-American professionals and businessmen who marched through the terminal, with equally well-dressed and confident black women at their sides. -Raphael S. Ezekiel
What it must have been, I thought, to have been a black man or woman, and to have worked here for civil rights. To have been stripped in this way, to have no identity-and to be marked: TARGET. What incredible courage, I thought, to have persevered.- Raphael S. Ezekiel
Racist conclaves and rallies involving indoctrination speeches in the daytime and robed ceremonials at night, usually around a flaming cross.
The Introduction to this research the author explains in detail how he was able to write this book. ( Part 2)
Portraits of American Neo-Nazis and Klansmen. A journey inside the American white Racist Movement. ( Introduction 1)
My Guest King Aijalon Joseph The Ansubu unpacks the second part of our discussion of the tentacled beast we know as Institutionalized Racism its many faces and the ways in which it manifests.
King Aijalon Joseph The Ansubu examines the downfall of this tentacled Beast we call Institutionalized Racism. ๐
Who Asked you? A Novel by Terry McMillan, this novel pulls no punches about family, love, race and the ties that bind and liberate us. You'll meet 56 year old Betty Jean Butler the matriarch of the family a very opinionated woman who craves her identity beyond that of mother and wife.
Harvard Sociologists Dr. David R. Williams pulls back the veil on the nuances of Race Relations in America today.
TBwahid and King Aijalon The Ansubu unpack on the subject of Identifying the Condition of Racial Trauma.
Stop the Profiling; in the wake of the not guilty verdict for Trayvon Martin's killer, NAACP president and CEO Ben Jealous said the fight isn't over. ( September 2013, Essence)
Chronic stress breaks down the body processes that can lead to sleep problems, disease, and acceleration of the aging process. It is important to take time out for Self. ( Article By Sharon Boone, senior health and relationships editor @ Essence)
It is important for African people to learn and know where your money goes and how to make that "doll holla" make that dollar work for you. Mrs England will sharing lots of important in this area of her profession to help you learn how to make that money work harder for you. ๐ฐ
This is the reason why African-Americans throughout the diaspora have to be on Alert and Aware at all times!
Trump supporters react to the Democratic victories this year beginning 1/6/2020 after wins in Georgia with violence and losses of life and the year has only just begun! Welcome to 2021.
African-Americans are concerned and have to be for the safety and welfare of their families in this heightened racial climate.๐
James E. Baxter discusses the controversial subject of transsexual surgery. Dr. Baxter argues his case in plain language informed by technical knowledge.
The Rosewood Massacre was carried out in the small predominantly black town of Rosewood in Centr Florida.
That year in reflection, 2020 is hindsight. So, reflecting on who you were then, physically, mentally how will you proceed in going forward. - TBwahid
From the child on the side to being the other daughter, then Sisterfriends. ( A secret can't be kept forever sooner or later it will eat its way through the box you packed it in. It might gnaw at your conscience somebody who held it close may tire of it and share it with somebody else.) By Robin D. Stone๐
Dee DePASS asks have our attitudes about dating outside our race changed? I as should this even be a conversation given the climate that African-Americans are currently living in nothing about that has really changed so can this truly be a conversation.๐
There are about 400,000 Black undocumented immigrants, who have been living unheard. This young lady explains in the story about why she is willing to risk everything to stay in America. ๐
Is it because black lives are still seen as 3/5 of a human being? Is it sex? Or does she feel she is helping a race of people by doing this? What is it? ๐
An excerpt set against the backdrop of the Korean War, where promises of freedom for Black folks remain unfulfilled. In this passage we meet Ycidra, aka Cee, whose life goes from bad to worse, and soon to the unimaginable. ๐
A letter from the Birmingham Jail/ by Dr. Martin Luther King ๐ Non-violence and violence as it pertains to MLK. Sundown Towns do not need signs to exist today.
Chicago's southside is a war zone where troubled young men are armed with their anger and firearms. - by Jeannine Amber๐
Nearly half of Black women killed by an intimate partner die while attempting to leave. - Jordyne Blaise
Afro-Americans and Sterilization by States, young black women were coerced into sterilization procedures by welfare departments in order to keep benefits or being diagnosed as being"feebleminded".
A bill to end discrimination against persons who wear natural hairstyles in schools and the workplace. Bill 188 ๐ CROWN
The conclusion of our discussion on the any facets of fear as applies to the Afro-American.
A mention about current events and looking to the future with great topics in the works.
The rich are getting richer with the decline of America's middle class and the Working Poor becomes poorer.
The rich are getting richer as disparities grow and loom larger in America is this survivable?
The conditions that the Afro-American lives under has not changed much the struggle is still so real and very young.
There is a difference between how Black and Brown people are treated in the media which paints a totally inaccurate picture of the community as a whole.
Religion, Education and every aspect of Afro-American life we discuss this illusion that is permeated in the lives of Afro-American life.
It's all about unity and the lack that exist in some of the African American community, in which the people are rebuilding is a daily struggle.