This is a true story. I am just retelling it the way it went went…
A 10 year old West African boy had eaten too much of the macaroni cheese his mother had made. When she came home from work she was furious with rage. She ordered her sister to boil a pot of groundnut oil.
After [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 19:00:57 on November 10th, 2005 in Issues
No Comments »Here’s a little experiment for you to try: type the word ‘niggerland’ (without the quote marks) in a blank Microsoft Word document. Highlight the word and press F7 to do a spell check. You will see the words ‘Nigerians’ or ‘Nigerian’ come up as suggestions. Funny? No! There is a reason for that…
It is time [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 20:37:31 on November 9th, 2005 in Culture
No Comments »Sixty-Four year old retired school teacher Robert Davis, Black man of good standing, is captured by a CNN camera crew being violently kicked, punched and assaulted by a group of four white New Orleans policemen. He sustains a broken nose, bruised arm and the loss of cupfuls of blood.
Yet he is confident two days after [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 13:12:08 on October 12th, 2005 in Issues
No Comments »The internet is driven by businesses and individuals who need to find stuff. This means it is technologically driven and sites which make or develop the programs that sustain this infrastructure are laughing all the way to the bank.
Microsoft is one such company.
But there are many others including Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Fastclick and Ebay. Within [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 16:00:52 on September 14th, 2005 in Technology
No Comments »The renkest thing about how Jamaica is handling this homosexuality thing is that it seem to be bowing (bending over backward) to the wishes of the gay brigade from within and outside of Jamaica. Take a bow Human Rights Watch and Outrage, two pro-gay organisations that have previously labelled Jamaica and its people homophobic and [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 18:16:06 on August 15th, 2005 in Society
No Comments »Yesterday’s shooting of an innocent man by London police who mistook him for a terrorist, tells a great deal about British police’s so-called intelligence. It means they got none.
Intelligence in this sense means prior knowledge about what was going to happen. But, intelligence as in having sense and sensibity could also be appropriate here too.
The [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:19:24 on July 23rd, 2005 in Society
No Comments »I don’t know about you but the latest Live8 concerts to raise awareness about African poverty, has got me thinking. My thoughts occupy the fact that so many white people are willing to pay lip service to Africa. What has happened to the idea of us helping ourselves?
Black Power, as far as I can see, [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:22:43 on July 5th, 2005 in Culture
No Comments »I wish Live 8/BandAid organiser Bob Geldof would shut the eff up! He keeps making statements like “President George W. Bush has done more for Africa than any other U.S. president…” and it’s really getting on my nerves.
He has just given an interview to Time magazine, in which he admitted recently defending Bush in France [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:32:58 on June 20th, 2005 in People
No Comments »The minute you get involved in any Black-focused project, you have to deal with (or consider) a number of colour specific and cultural issues. One of the most pressing is the issue of whether to accept white participation and input.
Another is whether to encourage others whose views, lifestyle or opinions we either do not respect [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:36:50 on June 16th, 2005 in Culture
No Comments »The morning after the Michael Jackson is innocent child molestation verdict and these are some of the facts, legally and/or otherwise true, that we know. Michael Jackson:-
Is or was not “let off”
Did not “get away”
Is not a guilty person who has somehow evaded justice
Is not a paedophile
Is not a proven child molester
Is not a white [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 02:22:33 on June 15th, 2005 in People
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