After serious consideration to the possibility of a Black president, once the public has ventured beyond the five mental and emotional stages of shock; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, and reality sets in, we will actually know the benefits and possible setbacks to having a Black president...[more]

Civil Rights Chickens Come Home to Roost

Now that the NAACP is being challenged as a socially obsolete movement, far removed from technological and logistical advancements concerning the issues facing Black America, will they reevaluate their mission by transforming their ideology from victim hood to self-empowerment?...[more]

NAACP Stop Oppressing Black People
By Mmoja

Please go to this link http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ajabum/petition.html and sign the petition that calls for the NAACP to release the report it prepared on the 2002 Zimbabwe Presidential Elections. For the NAACP not to release the report actually damages Blacks born in America's relationship with Blacks born on the African continent....[more]

Turning Democracy Right Side Up
By Ryan Paul Haygood

Nearly fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a voting rights speech given before an audience of 20,000 in Washington, D.C., recognized that "all types of conniving methods are being used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters."...[more]

Blacks As Victims Theory

Conservative firepower take shots at Blacks by suggesting that all Blacks, not most, seem to carry a victim mentality thereby attaching an image of wretchedness to our lifestyles and efforts to succeed. This assumption has tainted the Black image in America and around the world thus bringing distain against us from people and cultures that have no knowledge of what a Black person thinks. Who started this negative image and why is it prevalent?....[more]

Should We Let the 1965 Voting Rights Act Expire?
By Jerry Smith

On March 7, 1965 this nation and the world witnessed the unprovoked and vicious attack on peaceful "Negroes" (we were not African Americans nor Blacks back then) demonstrating for their right to vote. This attack came at the hands of hateful and malicious white Alabama state troopers, while the demonstrators were trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.....[more]

The Untold Story of the Civil Rights Movement - Part I
by ALTON H. MADDOX JR.
Originally posted 10/28/2005

To make the point that Blacks must keep the pressure on the federal government, Min. Louis Farrakhan recited the story of a colloquy between A. Phillip Randolph and Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who told Randolph that he only responded to pressure. FDR was not only telling the truth but he was also conning Randolph, who readily ate the cheese.....[more]

The Civil Rights Movement in Review: The 1990s Political Emergence of Hip-Hop Nation
by Lisa Sullivan

Throughout the 1990s, scattered reports of class and generational warfare among Black Americans entered mainstream consciousness. Anyone paying just a little attention during the last decade of the 20th century picked up this Black community dynamic.....[more]

Media Portrayal of Atlanta March Degrading: Why Do We Need the Right to Vote if We Are American?

There are always two sides to any story, but not where it comes to the media's portrayal of Black America. CNN and other major cable news channels ran the story of the march in Atlanta over and over on national and world television complete with liberal slant: a slant that places Blacks in the infamous position of political sambos, deprived and needy of whitey's attention.....[more]

Preserving the Black Vote in 2007

"Massa, are yous going to allow us ta vote in 2007, suh?"

With all due respect to those who fought, were hurt and died in the Civil Rights Movement - for a cause they saw as worthy - to eat and be educated along side whitey, remember, there was a whole nother mass of Blacks who also fought and died for the struggle, but from underneath the umbrella of another Black perspective. They chose other ways in which to demand those rights, instead of fretful pleading.....[more]

The Past As Present
By Ryan Paul Haygood

William Faulkner, a Mississippi author known for his incisive writings about the American south, once wrote: "The past is never dead. In fact, it's not even past." We are reminded of Faulkner's observation as a number of voter identification bills that will erect new barriers to minority political participation make their way through state legislatures, with Georgia's being one of the most onerous....[more]

Black Grievances and White Mouthpieces
by Alton H. Maddox Jr.

The Mississippi Supreme Court informed attorney Chokwe Lumumba on March 17, 2005, that he should review Terri Schiavo's plight. Unlike whites, Jim Crow demands that Blacks survive on feeding tubes and vanish, hopefully, by euthanasia. It immediately removed his feeding tube and, unlike Schiavo, he has no allies in Congress or in the White House...[more]

Malcolm's Influence on the Civil Rights Movement
By Ryan Paul Haygood

When he took his place behind the podium at Brown Chapel AME Church and began his address to young civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama, Malcolm X had less than three weeks to live. Invited to speak by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Malcolm traveled to Selma to address 500 people on February 4, 1965, 17 days before his execution on a fateful afternoon in Harlem's Audubon Ballroom.........[more]

Blocking The Vote 40 Years After "Bloody Sunday"
By Ryan Paul Haygood

The tragic, history-making events of "Bloody Sunday," on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, ultimately freed the vote for millions of African Americans. Forty years later, as we reflect on the march that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we are also reminded that more than two million African Americans continue to be denied the right to vote by one of the vestiges of American slavery..........[more]

Affirmative Action: The Elitist Welfare Program

Addressing the issues of Affirmative Action could take us on a long, historical journey into the Civil Rights movement, the justice system, and race relations; however, Afromerica will skip the preliminaries and get right to the point. Attacking the subject purely from a racial perspective, Affirmative Action is merely an elitist government program that gives handouts to privileged Blacks who otherwise lack confidence in themselves, or what we know today as, the Uncle Tom consumed with self-hatred..........[more]

What Has Voting Accomplished?

Before reading this article please ask yourself this question: do you consider yourself Black first or an American first? If you consider yourself an America first and do not see race as a factor, then you would never see any reasoning to the point of this article. In fact, you probably do not belong on this site, so click here. However, if you consider yourself as Black first then prepare to think twice, twice.........[more]

Black Rights and Gay Rights

Long ago on the continent of Idiomerica, there lived a cruel king who stole and enslaved an entire nation of Gay people. He brutally beat them and stripped them of their human dignity and God-given rights and forced them to slave and toil, and he beat their men and raped their men, and made their women to perform acts of sexual pleasure with the men of his armies. Sound ridiculous? Well consider the current mainstream claim that Gay rights are equivalent to Black rights........[more]

A Debate On Black Feminism

Among all the "isms" of American society, the ism of feminist is being introduced to the Black community as one that should be considered and possibly embraced as everyday Black thought. Unsure of the greater public opinion on the issue, Afromerica will explore two theories, one from an advocate of Black Feminist thought and one who questions the need for the concept entirely.......[more]

Blacks Lack Criminal Underground

For hundreds of years the fight for human and civil rights have been based on economic, social, and Constitutional freedom from oppression. Blacks have complained rightly about inequality in all the above areas specifically for the betterment of our situation here in America. But not once have we realized that without an organized underground crime ring such as the Mafia, Free Masonry, a long history of organized political corruption, and a secret Intelligence agency to sabotage the advancements of other races, we are fighting a losing battle......[more]

Whites Swim In Racial Preference - [an excerpt]

By Tim Wise
AlterNet - Article Dated 2/24/2003

Ask a fish what water is and you'll get no answer. Even if fish were capable of speech, they would likely have no explanation for the element they swim in every minute of every day of their lives. Water simply is. Fish take it for granted......[more]

Why Killers Kill Our Leaders

First Malcolm then King, two of Black America's most powerful leaders killed by people who viewed them as threats. Threats to the social integration of America; threats to the superiority of white America, threats to the institution of good Christian peoples. That one killer represented the mindset of the majority of America simply because the majority of whites, at the time of the Civil Rights movement for Blacks, protested the issue of civilized equality. So to minimize this threat of a civilized nation, men were set in position to eliminate the threat.......[more]

How Should Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday be Observed?

The Civil Rights Movement was the birth of a new America. Like the Exodus from Egypt and independence from Britain, the Civil Rights Movement was a major breakthrough in the conviction of social freedom and human rights. And like the leaders who stood against the odds of social oppression throughout history, Martin Luther King Jr. stood for a cause that could not have gone unchallenged much longer.......[more]

What are our Civil Rights? In addition to the rights given under the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights, the minorities of America (those who are not of the intended group) are given special right that are suppose to help us to survive and acquire the basics in this "white-man's land." Below are just some of them:

* Voting Rights
* Employment Rights
* Equal Protection under the Law
* Equal Housing Rights
* Rights for the Disabled
* Immigration Rights

The above are just some but there are more and some being created as society advances and discovers other forms of discrimination.

Afromerica addresses Civil Rights issues from a TODAY point of view, not from a 60's point of view. There are many liberal campaigns today fighting for civil rights using old campaigns, This is not good strategy. We have to use a stronger means that challenges the prejudices of today, not yesterday.

Reasons for Not Voting

When election time rolls around, recruiters hit the street corners vying for the public's vote. In suburbs, urban areas, and rural, campaign signs litter yards and off ramps advertising the name of a candidate and passersby subconsciously absorb most of the names. However, having knowledge of whom these candidates are, what they stand for or even what they look like escapes the mind of the average citizen....[more]