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To live and die in colonialist America as an African is testimony of the elasticity of a people.

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading To live and die in colonialist America as an African is testimony of the elasticity of a people.

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In the slums and ghettoes the church and the mosque have proven to give laymen powers miraculous 

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading In the slums and ghettoes the church and the mosque have proven to give laymen powers miraculous 

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Everyone worships something, the needle, the pistol, the mattress, the cross, or the crescent moon. Everyone gives glory and thanksgiving.

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading Everyone worships something, the needle, the pistol, the mattress, the cross, or the crescent moon. Everyone gives glory and thanksgiving.

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The Church also represented holy sanctum for those who could not cut it in the harsh caste system of Street Life but could be adept to Pew Politics.

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading The Church also represented holy sanctum for those who could not cut it in the harsh caste system of Street Life but could be adept to Pew Politics.

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Re: Pharaoh’s sun

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

For a young African American child, the Church was where they could strut like peacocks in their Sunday’s Best or be praised for their own merits and talents (when used favorably for the Church). For grown folks the Church is … Continue reading Re: Pharaoh’s sun

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The realm is too small and time on earth is too precious to be isolated on an island struggling. 

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading The realm is too small and time on earth is too precious to be isolated on an island struggling. 

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Re: Projects

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Public housing is not the local, state, or federal government’s gift to Blacks after centuries of inadequate housing opportunities. Ironically public housing does provide “affordable” housing to the impoverished (which still come from their taxes as citizens). However Black residents in urban projects are … Continue reading Re: Projects

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African Americans were adding lightening to the thunder of a voice that was objecting to abjection.

May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading African Americans were adding lightening to the thunder of a voice that was objecting to abjection.

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Re: Black church

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

The benevolent yet persistent tactics of the Black church have effectively flexed on the system of White Supremacy in the United States. Symbolically, legally, and economically the church achieved palpable Civil Rights advancement both guilt free and hands cleans of … Continue reading Re: Black church

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…Racially, Africans and those of African descent were least empowered in every field besides labor…A controlled work force is controlled economics.

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015 Jewel Brooks

Continue reading …Racially, Africans and those of African descent were least empowered in every field besides labor…A controlled work force is controlled economics.

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