The 'Get Over' mind set is basically unethical behavior in personal lifestyle and straddles along the criminal aspect. Generally, 'getting over' is believed to be a low to moderate income character trait which describes how people and families survive financially from day to day. Such as asking friends and relatives who work in public sector jobs to make unauthorized adjustments to their accounts; bribing the cable man to add extra channels during the initial installation, or falsifying information to get public assistance, unemployment, or a job....[more]

When Turning out Okay is All Wrong

To justify behavior that is out of sync with tradition, many people use the popular phrase, “I did such-and-such, and I turned out okay.” But when adjusting for moral standards, compassion, or sanity, are we really okay?...[more]

America Is A Loveless Society

For an entire country to be constructed on the foundation of Christianity and the so-called multicultural mixture of religions and values, America, including the politicians, lawmakers, elitist gatekeepers of social values, and the populous, has no understanding or even beginning knowledge of how to apply the concept of love or justice equally and fairly. Instead, hate, disparity, partiality, anger, lust, and many other immoral attributes of the human emoticons have always been foremost in ruling America....[more]

Black America's Friends and Foes

We think it proper to inform those who are of African decent or descendants of Black American slaves who their enemies are they live amongst each day. To possess this critical bit of knowledge can help a Black person understand their plight and to plot a better direction for their and their children's future....[more]

Newness and the Great Divide
By Kobina

When you get a peaceful moment, I want you to close your eyes and imagine a sea of desks in a classroom setting. Behind each desk are little brown, tan and black faces reciting poetry fluently in a language that was created to honor their ancestors. Imagine these children excitedly raising their hands to answer questions from their instructor. Imagine textbooks and reading books translated in this language opened in front of them. Can you imagine it?...[more]

Mother Afrika: Its Getting Late, Yall Come on Home NOW
By Isis

Beloved Ones:
Why have we Afrikans grown old in a foreign land? When will we become lien-holders of our own conscious? Why are we a conformist, allowing any teachings/ideologies/philosophies/religions that has Afrikans looken outside of Afrika, that which takes us from our ROOTS?....[more]

A Slave and Plantation Mentality
By E. Lee Sullivan

The present Bush regime has caused the greatest job deficit in decades. Nine million Americans out of work, social services cut, and here in Georgia Medicaid went broke. So are African American people banning together to overcome our specific hardships or are we acting like slaves on the master's plantation.....[more]

Acting White

The term "Acting White" has a two-fold meaning within the Black community, one having a more negative connotation than the other. One implies that a Black person is mimicking the characteristics of whites as in behavior, speech, and attitude toward others. The other meaning refers to Blacks who have decided to achieve something in life other than portrayal of the ghetto lifestyle.....[more]

How To Lie To Black People

To keep Blacks ignorant, hide knowledge in a book. To keep Blacks in poverty, apply institutional discrimination. To keep Blacks divided, create false leaders, and to keep Blacks loyal, lie to them daily and/or never tell them the whole truth. When will we rise above these obvious strategies to keep us down? We must realize and acknowledge the truth to break the yokes of oppression........[more]

Underdevelopment, Oppression, Hypocrisy: The Wests' Crimes Against Africa

Einstein, Socrates, Darwin; no philosopher, historian, scholar; political, economic, or social analyst past or present, or that has ever crept from under the cranium of Western thought, could ever justify or deny - within the aptitude of human comprehension - the crimes done to the continent of Africa by people of European persuasion........[more]

Inducing Blacks to Blame Ourselves

White America has perfected the "blame game" so good that they have succeeded in convincing many Blacks that we, as a whole, are the cause of our current problems. Starting from the top of the Uncle Tom pile, of course, articles, studies, and speeches pour out of the media about how Blacks can blame no one but themselves for the situations we are in.........[more]

Questioning the Morality of Black America

We should be ashamed of ourselves. Voting overwhelmingly for a candidate who supports issues contrary to the very Bible, we were taught to know and love. How can we live in a society and be shaken and stirred so many times that we cannot think clearly.........[more]

From the Mouth Speaks the Heart

Taking the issue of proper use of the "Kings English" a step further, let us branch out from diction and accent to motive and worth. The way someone says something is one thing, but what he or she says carries the actual weight. This is a concept from the laws of human nature and not from Webster's dictionary so if the one reading this listens only to diction and ignores the meaning, exit now........or, [more]

Inadequate Management

By its own continual admission, "America" has not measured up. "It," has abandoned its own ideology, therefore, why would it not abandon you, citizen? Are crime and values* necessary? Does it matter how we manage them? Are we effectively able to manage crime if we participate? Are we gently able to manage values if we exercise direct contempt for them? So much for the "U.S.".......[more]

When Slavery Meant Something
By T. Duffy - AfroStaff

When the title above is analyzed by some people, they will probably think that I as a black person condoned the slavery of my people, but that's not true. My reason for giving this title is to show why slavery was important to this country and the people who benefited from it.......[more]

No Shame in Stripping, No One to Love

There seems to be no shame in taking ones clothes off before tens of hundreds of people in nude bars and clubs throughout the country, although there should be. Shame; believe it not, was the first punishment man received as an act of sin. Even before God pronounced the curse of laboring by the sweat of his brow upon the man and bearing children in sorrow upon the woman, both the man and the woman experienced a consequence of nature when they defied God......[more]

Do You Prefer White Services to Black Services?

Back in the day, Black people - like our grandmothers and fathers (sorry to say) - would request a white man or woman before they would a Black man or woman when deciding on a service. They believed that whites were better at their profession than Blacks were. Be it medicine or Law, for example.....[more]

The Benefits of Being Black

Besides being the most beautiful (in physical body, spiritual mind and soul) people on this God's earth, the benefits and added perks of being Black far outnumber the negative stereotypes mainstream America has labeled us with......[more]

Excuse Me, While I Burn the Flag

Are Americans happy with the country? Well, according to the most recent Gallup Poll they are. Sixty-three percent said they are satisfied with the country as a whole and only 33 percent are dissatisfied. Compared to 1979, America is winning the hearts of her citizens; only 26 percent were satisfied in 1979 and 69 percent were dissatisfied.......[more]

When Slavery Meant Something
By T. Duffy - AfroStaff

When the title above is analyzed by some people, they will probably think that I as a black person condoned the slavery of my people, but that's not true. My reason for giving this title is to show why slavery was important to this country and the people who benefited from it.......[more]

No Shame in Stripping, No One to Love

There seems to be no shame in taking ones clothes off before tens of hundreds of people in nude bars and clubs throughout the country, although there should be. Shame; believe it not, was the first punishment man received as an act of sin. Even before God pronounced the curse of laboring by the sweat of his brow upon the man and bearing children in sorrow upon the woman, both the man and the woman experienced a consequence of nature when they defied God......[more]