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Invented Reality: Trump/DeSantis/Republican Insanities
“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now is a form of racism. We are the only people...
Mwatabu S Okantah
Aug 10, 20234 min read
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When Is Now!
“Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s...
Mwatabu S Okantah
Jun 23, 20237 min read
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Race: The Elephant in the Room
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti- intellectualism has been a constant...
Mwatabu S Okantah
May 4, 20236 min read
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Big Lies
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect. --W. E. B. DuBois There is a malignant cancer festering in this society; a...
Mwatabu S Okantah
Jun 29, 20224 min read
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A Critical Race Reckoning
“When you make men slaves you deprive them of half their virtue, you set them, in your own conduct, an example of fraud, rapine, and...
Mwatabu S Okantah
Oct 10, 20215 min read
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Still Strangers
“… most white Americans have been taught to see themselves as individuals, not as members of a privileged group, so they are shaken and...
Mwatabu S Okantah
Apr 10, 20215 min read
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"Reckoning, or, Black Sun in the Western Sky"
“Give advice, if people don’t listen let adversity teach them.” --Ethiopian proverb 45 is gone from the White House, but the same “good...
Mwatabu S Okantah
Jan 24, 20215 min read
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Grid Lock: Dysfunction and American Politricks
“Rain beats a leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots.” --Ashanti proverb Independents. Democrats. Republicans. Republicrats....
Mwatabu S Okantah
Nov 17, 20204 min read
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The Way Forward
If we are to become a psychologically, physically and spiritually whole people once again ... healing must take place.
Mwatabu S Okantah
Jun 24, 20207 min read
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Legacies: Forward Ever, Backwards Never!**
"I do not know the power of my hand ..."
Mwatabu S Okantah
Jun 14, 20206 min read
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When Is Now!
I am a soon to be 68 year old black man ... I have looked down the barrel of more than one Police white man's gun.
Mwatabu S Okantah
Jun 7, 20207 min read
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Black Light
Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem in silent, peaceful protest against police killing unarmed black men.
Mwatabu S Okantah
Jun 3, 20205 min read
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"Sick and tired of being sick and tired"
In a riveting speech to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer, declared, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Mwatabu S Okantah
May 30, 20204 min read
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"America Is What It Has Always Been"
America is, now, what it has always been: a nation that is desperately trapped in the consequences of its own lies, distortions, deceits....
Mwatabu S Okantah
Oct 3, 20195 min read
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The N-Word, or, Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust
The first Africans enslaved in America did not answer to, "Nigger."
Mwatabu S Okantah
Aug 7, 20193 min read
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Toxic America
In the face of the tragic mass shootings in California, Texas and Ohio, this nation, once again, is in shock.
Mwatabu S Okantah
Aug 7, 20193 min read
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