Black Progress In America

1. Listen to all the clicks when you enter information on this blog. There are hidden links on her that go to Homeland Security, The RNC, The CIA, The FBI, and Fox News. How have Blacks progressed if Blacks can't control what story is shared? The same old players are playing the same old games. Rev. Jesse Jackson raced to be the first one to use the N-word to cut Obama off at the knees. The same tired old voices are speaking for us. The state of the Black community has nothing to do with responsibility. Irresponsible people go to jail. What Blacks need is access to capital. Obama didn't get where he is today by begging. He had access and he's not responsible for that.

Cecil Jones at 8:07AM on Jul 23rd 2008

2. Somebody is playing some serious games with this Blog. You lose you comments in cyberspace and this is censorship. Blacks haven't done a darn thing if we can't grant access to our community to share thoughts without censorship. We are still slaves to someone's technology and chains. It has nothing to do with responsibility.

Cecil Jones at 8:09AM on Jul 23rd 2008

3. Take the 10 catagories you used as progress, and show the flip side of each. Because the solution to some problems have for sure brought us face to face with new problems. Example:You write that Hip Hop is not one thing, it is everything, that is exactly the problem, its intellectually counter productive.Education, for every black college grad, how many black dropouts are there and why, its easy to count what you can see. Sorry, but I see BET, Black Voices,as part of the problem, and if you ask why they are part of the problem, then you must be in denial.

Charles at 1:03PM on Jul 23rd 2008

4. Cecil, Blacks do have access to capital. Blacks are not organize. We won't come together.

There are about 85,000 Black churches in America. They deposit approx $1 billion every Monday to the tune of 98% in banks that are not own by blacks.
There goes your CAPITAL.

Banks used this money to create and make loans for all sorts of businesses, home buyers and so forth. The big question is how many Blacks are receiving this CAPITAL. I think very few.

Now, are they forcing Blacks to put money in their banks. No, we are just giving our CAPITAL to them to be used for them, not us. Thereby keeping Blacks begging for jobs, affirmative action and loans.

We have no one to blame but ourselve and the pathetic greedy Black preachers who go along with this scheme.

Jarvis at 1:32PM on Jul 23rd 2008

5. The rise of the African American is the greatest success story of the 20th Century. No longer transplanted Africans, but a new and unique culture, the most advanced and advantaged black ethnic group on Earth.

jamesnpost at 2:02PM on Jul 23rd 2008

6. THE BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS is soon to be a motion picture. Wm O'Neal was the FBI's mole in the Chicago Black Panther Party who set up the raid killing Fred Hampton. Was he the black Donnie Brascoe, or the Judas of the BPP? Read the book: www.postpubco.com/newpulp.htm

jamesnpost at 2:03PM on Jul 23rd 2008

7. Black progress is certainly a good thing. Having someone step up to fill shoes of some of the greats that left us too soon is an even better thing. I enjoy Najee Ali. Check out his blogs and opinions and his activism. http://urbanthoughtcollective.com/author/najeeali/

Torian at 3:24PM on Jul 23rd 2008

8. I don't think the problem is American.... for Afro Americans YES, but I'm not black but white, have a slightly darker skin color and didn't know I was 25% Navajo until much much later. I was born on US soil but raised in the Far East and educated in Europe where the problem arose.... My dad was French/Navajo 50/50. He was American, had the same skin color I was born with, but because of his naval rank, Cdr USNavy, didn't have too much of a problem for being darker of tint. I didn't have much of a problem in the far east. Everybody was darker than all white Europeans, but it started full blast when educating in Europe and didn't last too long for the fact that I seemed to be a bit smarter than all of my class mates, was a 3x A student all thru university and admired for sharing my knowledge with whoever wanted to gain better credits by it, without being nasty or protective. I simply didn't care who was copying my thesis, knowing I still was the best of the lot. BUT.... one sunny day in California, US of A, I was pulled over by some Harley cop and fined 25 bucks for giving a 9 year old black boy a lift in in downtown LA. The year was 1957 when I was age 35, married w/ 2 kids. I didn't say much bet went to court next day and filed a complaint with the Judge who looked down on me and said Who're YOU !! I told him and he said he was not going to believe such a sooped up story from any lousy mejicano, etc. etc. I didn't say much but emptied my pockets on his desk, showed him my passport, my USN ID and told him that I was no Mejicano, no niggah, no chino or Jap but a lousy 25% original Navajo and that I wanted 25,000 for damages to my race !!. Now you blacks stop hollering bloody murder if you don't have the means. Shut up !! Colin Powel, Condy Rice and so many others ain't "special". They earned what they are, no more... and don't you think they never had any experiences for being "coloured" when they were young..... Do something about yourselves....!! All over the world people get discrimminated.... In China when you're Japanese, In Indonesia when you're Indio, In Russia when you're a Turq and in Africa when you're from another tribe.....
And DON'T follow that Arab Pied Piper Obama.... He ain't BLACK but fully caucasian:- White and Arab. But go ahead and believe in that joker..... You'll find out the second he's crowned PRESIDENT and his elefant Michelle plunks her ass on Hillary's matrimonial.... that he is a FAKE !!! He's on tour now and boy, he's shining !!.... but he does not realize he's making a fool of himself by acting as if HE OBAMA IZZZZ The President of the mighty USA.... Do you really believe all those foreign countries which derived from dynasties and kingdoms accept him as their equal ???? Him, the pariah.....?? But nobody's blaming him.... They blame YOU ... for selecting another goofball as your Commander in Chief of the almighty US OF A.... 'BIG LAUGH !!..... Donah////

Donah at 6:26PM on Jul 23rd 2008

9. Why is it that everytime a successful black person makes strides in our history, someone of his own kind cannot be happy for them in his journey to create better strides for his race? Take the old and famous Reverend Jesse Jackson for instance. Barack Obama is overcoming barriers that our race has never crossed in becoming the first black presidential candidate in the history of the United States also known as a racist society against blacks still. Reverend Jackson goes out of his way to do the very thing that our own past and prominent leaders did not tolerate by calling our new hope the N-Word. He can't get mad because his tactics to bring blacks to a new since of awareness has undeniably failed. Barack is just picking up where Jackson left off and actually making the change that should have been made a long time ago. Judging by Jackson's actions, tell me how is that making anything better for our kind if Reverend Jackson was actually trying to make a change at all? Or was he? Maybe he just got sucked in because he has truley lost his way, his mind, his dignity, and ultimately my respect and also the respect of countless other African- Americans who once believed in him.

aurora at 7:51PM on Jul 23rd 2008

10. No more sniping from me.... you said it all.... BUT all I can hope for is that you won't put another stupid but nice sounding whippersnapper in MY and Hillary's White House.... Donah////

Donah at 8:54PM on Jul 23rd 2008

11. No more sniping from me.... you said it all.... BUT all I can hope
for is that you won't put another stupid but nice sounding
whippersnapper in MY and Hillary's White House.... Donah////

Donah at 8:58PM on Jul 23rd 2008

12. Someone suggested that people who are black and Buddhist should make their own documentary rather than complain about being left out of CNN's investigative report, so I did.

I too am black in America and this is my story:
http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/theater1.htm

Lama Rangdrol

Original Black Buddha at 3:31AM on Jul 24th 2008

13. Someone suggested that people who are black and Buddhist should make their own documentary rather than complain about being left out of CNN's investigative report, so I did.

I too am black in America and this is my story:
http://rainbowdharma.com/festivalscreening/theater1.htm

Lama Rangdrol

Original Black Buddha at 3:35AM on Jul 24th 2008

14. Donah,
YOU ARE AN IDIOT!! YOU HAVE PROVEN THAT IN YOUR SAD STATEMENT. AND YOU ARE NOT AS INTELLIGENT AS YOU HAVE PROCLAIMED YOURSELF TO BE!!

AURORA,
IT IS NOT JUST BLACKS WHO PUT DOWN SUCCESSFUL BLACK FOLKS, OTHER PEOPLE DO IT AS WELL. AS A MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU HAD READ THE NONSENSE THAT DONAH HAD TYPED, THEN YOU WOULD SEE THIS TO BE TRUE!

elizabeth at 8:48PM on Jul 24th 2008

15. Now Donah, it is obvious by your choice of words that you are not nor have you ever been intelligent. It is also evident by the way you change your tone in mid sentence that you are most likely bipolar and have either forgotten or refuse to take your medication because you are under the impression that you are normal.

Next time you try to impress the world with your intelligence, please press a little icon by the name of spell check and you may be able to deceive a couple of people.

By the way, it is not Hilary Clinton's white house. The white house belongs to the candidate elected. Hilary Clinton lost, game over!

Proud Sistah at 1:15AM on Jul 25th 2008