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Back to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
posted Friday, 25 August 2006
Losing the religion of liberties
I would not be speaking too soon if I suggest that all the freedoms and liberties we fought for and gained in the last 50 years of the 20th Century are disappearing into the cloud of the war on terrorism that fosters profiling, discrimination, segregation and suspicion amongst people who had heretofore been neighbours expressing all manner of civility.
Rosa Parks must be turning in her grave as news arrives that blacks were asked to give up their seats for white kids by a school bus driver.
This in the self-same United States of America – Read on (unfortunately the Shreveport Times has killed this link).
As the story goes, this happened in Coushatta, Louisiana on the 24th of August 2006 where 9 black kids were asked to give up their seats for fellow white students on a bus. I have included a transcript from the CNN about the event. (Search for Coushatta on the page to land within the text of the matter).
This town has history.
Updated 11th March 2008
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Thought Picnic: The Americe First Principle in Fort Hood
Saturday, 7 November 2009
The trigger for the killings at Fort Hood was pulled long before the guns went off, can the family of the US Army be a family of siblings that feel equal and respected no matter their diversity?
A relocation from the cacophony
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
From noise to more amenable people, the results confirm what would be an aggressive course of treatment, it is Day 9 at the hospital.
Nigeria: When women rage with the pudenda and the paps
Thursday, 30 April 2009
The women are using unusual weapons of warfare to effect political dialogue and change, I think it would be very effective
Nigeria: Why Candidates Fail Our Examinations - WAEC
Saturday, 18 April 2009
WAEC lists why candidates fail their examinations, I think they are unto something very true.
Nigeria: Obasanjo's Hard Talk
Friday, 20 March 2009
The ex-president of Nigeria - Olusegun Obasanjo was on Hard Talk and failed to answer the real questions.
Thought Picnic: Our Truth
Friday, 2 January 2009
The happenings in Gaza with the media grab by both Israel and Gaza is summed up in one sentence by the Israelis - We are showing the world our truth.
Is anyone entitled to their own truth - this is the first of my Thought Picnics.
An interpretation of Islam lost in the embrace of a house slave
Sunday, 23 November 2008
An analysis of race, heritage and the real context of Islam and religion in our everyday humanity. What is the message from religion for today and does it convey the advances in civilisation?
Nigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation
Sunday, 23 November 2008
The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out of the event too.
The matter of tying the knot
Monday, 8 September 2008
Reflections on the matter of marriage and where I stand.
Firing of Pardon Attorney hardly a victory for Nigerians
Saturday, 19 July 2008
The Pardon Attorney Roger C. Adams is fired for including racist recommendations in the clemency petition of a reformed Nigerian ex-convict minister.
I sympathise more with the attorney than the Nigerian immigrant.
Introducing the Apes Obey! Series
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Introducing the Apes Obey! series of blogs that takes a phrase our of an excerpt of Lord Lugard's writings 86 years ago and aligns it with contemporary events in Nigeria today, showing how those observations still find true today.
Adedibu, Half of Ibadanland, the man is no more
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The strongman of Ibadan, the elder thug that has plagued Oyo State with menace and with impunity - that power broker and peddler of the riotous mob - Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu has died.
Nigeria: Kick out all foreign British Airways staff
Sunday, 27 April 2008
The developments regarding the British Airways treatment of Nigerians are coming to a head, some serious action needs to be taken about their attitude and the revelation that it is institutionally racist.
Some African development issues are covered.
Olympic torch lights up Tibetan cause
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
If anything, the Chinese have been naive to think they could pull off the Olympics without the spotlight being shone on their internal affairs including Tibet.
They should have known someone would take advantage of the Olympic year for this.
Inside China: Hatchlings of Democracy get nasty
Sunday, 23 March 2008
The election for class monitor of 8-year olds in China reveals a lot more about the machinations and manipulation of democracy and the dangers that might be ahead.
In Nigeria, can wives make independent choices?
Friday, 21 March 2008
A news story throws the spotlight on the husband-wife dynamic within a patriarchal hegemony.
No race issues about Obama or Clinton
Thursday, 13 March 2008
We have to believe a lie, there is nothing about race in the presidential nomination battle.
Punish Spain hard for Sport racism
Monday, 4 February 2008
The Spaniards have form when it comes to the racist abuse of people of colour at sporting events, the episode in Barcelona during a Formula 1 practice session should not be taken in isolation.
I have a nano-dream
Monday, 21 January 2008
As we commemorate the Martin Luther King Day 2008, I do not think we are any nearer fulfilling the words of that "I have a dream" speech given almost 45 years ago.
We have individuals, fine, but not great numbers of people who have really made it.
Handling Internet Intimidation
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Handling an Internet menace of harassment can be a time-consuming and resource intensive business. However, sometimes one has to be tenacious enough to gather the evidence and bold enough to involve the police before it terrorises your existence.
Nigeria: Another two oil cremations
Sunday, 13 January 2008
News of Nigerians caught in the flames of oil burning amongst them hits the wires - two days in a row.
Between Smith and Mugabe - no difference
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
The death of Ian Smith allows us to reflect on his life and the regime of the man who succeeded him.
It would appear apart from race, Robert Mugabe may now be hearing what would be said of himself through what is being said now of Ian Smith.
Happy Retirement, Dr. Watson
Friday, 26 October 2007
Dr. Watson, the DNA pioneer has retired from the laboratory he headed for 40 years - he says it was more than overdue.
Doctor Neutralises Africans
Friday, 19 October 2007
A Nobel laureate who won for the discovery of DNA in 1962 says Africans are less intelligent to whites.
Belgian racist murderer sentenced to life in prison
Friday, 12 October 2007
Two racially motivated murders and an attempted murder leads to the conviction of a young man in Belgium. Another judge is trying to foul the iar with rotten assertions.
Disgraceful police behaviour
Thursday, 23 August 2007
The police should go about their lawful duties fairly, justly and without reproach - it should not be too much to ask especially if you are an ethnic minority in Amsterdam.
News: Chasing the thrill
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Are these news chases really about getting us the news?
Pygmies in a zoo in Tintin's Congo
Saturday, 14 July 2007
Congo is in the news about the Tintin comic portraying blacks as imbeciles and the pygmies of Congo are housed in a zoo.
A class struggle disguised as news
Monday, 4 June 2007
Class still counts for much in England even though it is not made too obvious to notice. The Daily Telegraph dabbles in these murky waters for an ulterior motive and one is not impressed.
Achtung! Schwarz Neger
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
A training video from the German Army showing typical racist incitement to aggression and we are all caught up in angst. Oh! Brother.
African-American women caught in race and racism rows
Saturday, 14 April 2007
It seems acceptable for black men to maltreat their black women but completely unacceptable for a white man to do the same. If it is not right, it is not right regardless of race.
Stripping the "Great" out of Britain
Wednesday, 4 April 2007
This UK-Iran crisis did nothing to affirm the great in Great Britain, instead we were out-manoeuvred at every turn as the Iranians chose the tempo of events.
Do Africans still live on trees?
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Do Africans still live on trees? You do wonder, but I once had to answer that question and I did answer it, hopefully, quite well.
Could have danced in a dress
Monday, 22 January 2007
Strictly Come Dancing is one reality television show you will always want to watch, but Channel 4 has more in store with one that plumbs the depth of human depravity in Shipwrecked, how can one wreck this wretched thing?
I wish Big Brother was about racism
Sunday, 21 January 2007
In my view, Big Brother revealed a great problem with out education systems and expectation management of career development. Racism was all too convenient a tag to blanket this issue and hence my decision to comment on it.
My bald head, a perch
Saturday, 20 January 2007
I cannot say my life is without event, even a bird found comfort on my bald head.
The Cult of the Burnt Fornicator II - Judgment Day
Thursday, 11 January 2007
The leader of the Christian Praying Assembly where sex sinners get doused with petrol and set alight in Nigeria is to hang. Would this be a lesson to those charlatans who seek to deceive?
Back to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
Friday, 25 August 2006
Black students are asked to give up their seats for white students 51 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. America, we've got a serious problem.
A coffee blend bereft of Java beans
Monday, 7 August 2006
I just could not find the heart or inspiration to embark on a Java course, so that venture is postponed for 24 days whilst I seek some therapy through going on holiday.
Condi knows nothing about birth pangs
Saturday, 29 July 2006
Bombs and hostilities continue as birth pangs of a new Middle-East as the midwife returns to the woman in travail and extended labour to probably deliver the baby still-born. No new Middle-East can emerge with this belligerence.
Explaining a stolen lunchbox
Thursday, 27 July 2006
A hapless stranger gets mobbed and killed because some other stranger believes that his manhood has been stolen. This a part of reality in some parts of Nigeria. Unbelievable but true.
Evidence of good medical research
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
That testtube baby is 28 today - that was research done in Europe for the benefit of all - hopefully, America and see through the emotion of stem cell research just as Europe did yesterday.
Tone blind
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
Skin darkening (tanning) and skin lightening (toning) all get a look in as the sun tans some and the heat leads others to expose their toning mishaps. The Summer season is here at last.
The new ball order - Football meritocracy
Friday, 23 June 2006
The World Cup levels the playing field of political powers and undue influence - little countries make minced meat of behemoths and if you cannot play you get beaten and go home. The Olympics has nothing on the World Cup.
Arise! Sir easy
Saturday, 17 June 2006
The Chairman of easyGroup of companies is knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list- I suppose a new business can come out of this accolade - easyHonours?
The Joy of Living
Friday, 16 June 2006
20 years ago, a group of Christian joined in the United Artistes for Africa project to raise money for the Ethiopian famine victims. I remember only so much.
Insemination Tax Credit
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
If the President of the United States is really serious about strong marriages, he should stop going after gay marriage and rather strengthen marriage through Insemination Tax Credits.
Diplomatic tactlessness
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
The Iranian President writes to George Bush - they read and castigate - are there not other ways to reply to a letter? The US could have been more discrete, sensitive and mature about this episode - Unlikely!!
Old-age Rum's field day
Friday, 5 May 2006
A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?
Parachuting into Antwerp
Sunday, 30 April 2006
Your mind is a parachute, it works better when open; is the open minded lesson I learnt from Antwerp this weekend.
Why Brussels doesn't work
Sunday, 23 April 2006
Europe and Brussels are synonymous, Brussels is a microcosm of Europe. What works works and what doesn't grates. We, the people of Europe have to protest vehemently to be heard but no guarantee of good results. This is Europe through storage lockers.
No harsh tongue for Mrs Verdonk
Monday, 23 January 2006
The Dutch have come up with a very innovative public places ban; whist we are still trying to stomach the smoking ban in some public places, we now have the prospect of banning other languages but Dutch in public places.
How in God's name, did this happen?
Wednesday, 4 January 2006
The media feeding frenzy around the West Virginia mine disaster just shows how rumour, speculation and incomplete information plays around with people's emotions.
Setting democracy ablaze with gas
Tuesday, 3 January 2006
This little Ukraine problem of gas supplies has more far-reaching consequences that could affect the whole basis of our democracy
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