February 21, 2021
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination.” – Albert Einstein Forty Acres And […]
February 21, 2021
When someone deliberately and maliciously burns down a house it’s called arson and it remains arson until that house is rebuilt. If the house remains rubble […]
February 20, 2021
Forty Million And A Tool, the book, is a collection of essays that, in their pure essence, are a call to African Americans to transform the […]
February 20, 2021
Like the prison industry in America African Americans make up a sizable component of the poverty industry. What is the poverty industry? It’s the workforce of […]
February 19, 2021
Forty Million And A Tool proposes the use of Information Technology in all its power to secure for African Americans our birthright of wealth through a […]
February 18, 2021
Part and parcel of the modern day reparations debate is the notion of cash payments to every African American should monetary reparations materialize. Not only would […]
February 18, 2021
Many of us have no idea how close the newly freed slaves were to their (our) birthright and equal participation in charting the course of America. […]
April 17, 2008
In America, as I’m sure in most other societies, there exist “code words” and phrases that carry with them very potent emotional content and/or specific political […]
March 18, 2008
I don’t quite remember when I first heard the phrase or the young black kid who I last heard utter it, but I do remember the […]
February 1, 2008
Black History Month, like many other attempts to affirm African Americans, will soon fall to the wayside of non‑necessity. Not because it’s no longer relevant or […]
March 18, 2007
Throughout our history in America it’s been relatively easy to convey our pain and disillusion or chronicle precisely the sojourn we’ve endured as slaves and oppressed […]
September 17, 2021
This title chronicles 155+ years up from slavery, capturing our evolution as a physically free people from 1865 to the present in name (identity), mind-set and […]
May 18, 2021
Consider for a moment an American society where all whites were armed with concealed weapons and all blacks were not. Then have all of our young […]
April 7, 2021
Everything in America is an industry. Food, airlines, clothing, cosmetics, transportation, media, entertainment, sex, tobacco, travel – you name it. Anything that you can […]
March 27, 2021
Oftentimes when speaking about Self-Reparations I get questions or comments regarding immigrants and slavery reparations. The exchange usually goes something like this: “my ancestors came to […]
March 26, 2021
“The one thing we don’t lack is people playing roles.” – James (Mamba) McCuller There once were three Michael’s, all of whom were held out to […]
March 26, 2021
Some time ago I began to contemplate a possible replacement subtitle to Forty Million And A Tool. Phrases like “in search of a birthright” and “our […]
March 26, 2021
“dat nigga gon git us kilt … o’mebe free.” -A petrified slave I’d never heard the term “freedom fighter” uttered more than I did during the […]
March 25, 2021
Throughout the darkest periods of our captivity to the turbulent upheaval of the Civil War the one impulse we nurtured like a baby and kept alive […]
March 23, 2021
Africans taken during the transatlantic slave trade knew who they were, what land and people they were from and what language they spoke. History shows that […]
March 23, 2021
Wealth in America is really about having options, choice and the resources needed to confidently pursue the best quality of life possible to us. It’s the […]
March 19, 2021
In the most basic sense black people in America have always viewed white people as either the holders of power over them or as members of […]
March 17, 2021
It’s common knowledge that when someone suffers a poisonous snake bite the antidote to that poison is oftentimes another poison: one that neutralizes the first poison, […]
March 13, 2021
Among the many random or arbitrary instances where black people are killed in America the top three reasons during the last 150 years that have gotten […]
February 21, 2021
Rap music is here to stay! To be sure, a frightening thought to many, yet music to the ears of many more. This duality has and […]
February 21, 2021
Each time that white America excluded African Americans they held themselves back ten‑fold. Ample support for this analysis is found everywhere, but not so glaring as […]