Tag: Jewel Brooks
Re: Pharaoh’s sun
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
One should never forfeit any parts of their identity to qualify for full transaction of citizenship.
The realm is too small and time on earth is too precious to be isolated on an island struggling.
Re: Projects
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
African Americans were adding lightening to the thunder of a voice that was objecting to abjection.
Re: Black church
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
…Racially, Africans and those of African descent were least empowered in every field besides labor…A controlled work force is controlled economics.
Africans in America presented clear physical and cultural opposition to the proprietors of the slave trade, Europeans.
Jewel Brooks 