Khatib is an essayist, humorist, raconteur, and iconoclast whose writings critically analyze current events from a Pan-African perspective.
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Hard pill to swallow, but NOT EVERYBODY you want in your life wants YOU IN THEIRS "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 ..."
Rudy Ghouliani was a monster during his brutal tenure as Mayor of NYC, which was augured in by a riot that he incited with off-duty white cops shouting invectives with reckless abandon: hurling racial pejoratives like "nigger" and "washboy" at the incumbent Black NYC mayor, David Dinkins. The first Black man to hold the esteemed office. The riot grew rapidly with alarmed, risk-adverse, and highly-political, NYPD brass dispatching "white shirts" (NYPD line command staff to put it down by threatening the off-duty cops with arrest if they did not disperse). It was an insurrection before the J6 insurrection that one of his biggest fans during that infamous period reprised during his loss to Joe Biden in 2020. He promptly micromanaged all of his top aids most notably Education Commissioner Rudy Crews, who he initially praised to high heaven, right out of office instituting a "broken windows" approach to law enforcement to curb crime in the largest cit...
What defines NeoSoul? The question has not been clearly answered. But Neosoul is what the name implies: Neo meaning "new" plus soul music. If we start from that simple proposition instead of what some fans and aficionados and even industry insiders post, we have to define soul music, before we can even get to NeoSoul. According to Wikipedia, "Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues." Now that we have that out of the way, we can begin to talk about the evolution of NeoSoul, or "new" soul music that started being produced and recorded in the mid-to-late sixties. Who were the top five major Black musical talents or influences in the mid-sixties: Ray Charles, Gladys Knight, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye. All of these artists had careers that spanned decades and, mor...
Over the past year, my Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts respectively have been either restricted or suspended for short periods of time allegedly because I abridged Meta (parent company of both social media platforms) terms of service (TOS). Since I responded with this blog, the accounts restrict everything I attempt to post. Doubtless a deliberate campaign fostered by some anonymous, pimply-faced, Incel masquarading as a nerd, trying to curry favor with Suckersberg who would not know the employee's name if it smacked him in his smug pusser. In all the instances, I merely responded to either a provocative or implicitly racist post by catfishing settler-colonists masquerading as an original man or woman with a “locked” profile: a profile without a photograph in a space (i.e., group or page) “Kevin Samuels Official Discussion Group” to name one of many targeted to or focused on the issues of Black folks. Once ferreted out, the confederates of these settler-colonists, would ...
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