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Holding Space

  We have been holding "space" in this country since before our forced immigration here over 400 hundred years ago. The generational trauma to our collective psyche has some of US identifying with our oppressor (Stockholme syndrome) in the vain hope that whitey will be less brutal, release some pressure from his size thirteen jackboot on our necks, while others take an opposite stance. I am personally done because my anger is not directed toward whitey for doing what they do to preserve their 200 year headstart. My angst is directed at deaf, dumb, and blind Black folk who refuse to rise up collectively to effectively push back against the oppression because they are "not all that racist," or "maybe tRump needs to come back," or "I had more money under tRump", or whatever other bizarre rationalizations they can conjure up in their pea brain for supporting a documented bigot. The fact of the matter is chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka ...

The Hip Hop School Funding Proposal

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While fake, compromised "activists" are "acting"; brought  lock, stock and barrel politicians “politicking”; and everyone else figuratively scratching their heads trying to figure out a solution or simply paying lip service to the issue, the fix in the form of culture has always been right in front of our nose. Please help us to help our boys by building an alternative, Hip Hop School they actually enjoy attending. Once they realize what hit 'em they will be well educated by all objective standards. The fifth edition of the Schott 50-State Report on Public Education and Black Males presciently entitled “Black Lives Matter,” reports once again that “Black male students were at the bottom of four-year high school graduation rates in 35 of the 48 states as well as the District of Columbia where estimates could be projected for the 2012-2013 school year (Latino males are at the bottom in the other 13 states). This fact provides clear evidence of a syst...