This is an excerpt from Kozol’s website where he talks about the outdated texts in the schools he had to teach in.  He brings up the point that this shows just how unequal the schools really were because, as he points out in the end, if schools were equal, wouldn’t black have [...]

I cannot Stress how near and dear to my heart this is.  If you are in the struggle, let me know.  If you know how to get involved, pass it on.  This is a passage from the interview of Jonathan Kozol, Author of The Shame of a Nation.  It’s all right [...]

Check Here for an interesting interview of Author Jonathan Kozol, the author a new book Shame of a Nation in which he postulates that America is an Apartheid state where the segregation of schools is so deeply ingrained across the country that it is a part of life.  If any of [...]

This is from an article posted on the GNN Network which is a good place to get yourself real pissed off.  But here, just a good view of the though processes of our nations policymakers about drugs and our War on Drugs…Enjoy! =0)
 
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Then:“Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, jazz musicians, and [...]

The following is a conversation my beloved Mielita and I had today.  The weirder I get, the more unflappable she becomes…although every now and again I’d wish she’d flap but mostly I’m in awe of her no-flapping policies and her ability to stick to them in the face of horrific wierdness and toxic [...]

 Welcome to the New state of things.  This happened today amid tons of Katrina coverage and government blustering.  What this means to the future of dissent in this country is downright terrifying.  I cant think of a worse thing to happen to ‘America’, the idea and dream of what it could [...]

Kanye West uttered those words on National TV Friday (NBC) and, amoung most black people, uttered a fact that has been blatantly obvious for years.  I heard Obama talk about Kanye’s point, shift it, and polish it until it shined with a health PC glow, saying the Bush doesnt have much [...]

Katrina…back when Bill ‘He’s black enough’ Clinton was in office, some of the right winded among us wondered if a less than high moraled woman (who really was just pimped by a Tripp) would bring down the presidency.  Now we know that it is Katrina that has ripped the facade of America off of it’s [...]