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 It looks like our elected representatives are trying to eliminate or weaken the public health care option.  

They have put corporations in front of the welfare of the people that elected them.  

How can we expect a private insurance company to fairly offer a low cost solution along with their regular insurance?

It is like letting the fox watch the chickens.

I have been reading The Gifts of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois this past week and my eyes have really been opened to the intellect that existed before we were born.  His writing was not only well documented, but it was also filed with compassion.  

The academic rigor of his work must have been a prototype for the intellectual  writing that exists today; it assuredly influences the style that is used by our top Black scholars now, such as Dr. Cornel West and to a lesser... (continue reading)

The greatest Black mind ever produced in the Western hemisphere since our fall was W. E. B. Dubois.

Any Black intellectual that has not read his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk is missing one of the greatest pieces of literature written in America.

It chronicles his journey through the south shortly after the end of slavery.  It is an eye opening account of our struggles from his own perspective.  

Even though the book was written over 100 yeas ago the... (continue reading)

What is up with these politicians?

They try to pass a public healthcare option, meaning government run insurance, but then these cats want to give states the right to opt out.  What does this mean for the people that really need it?

The other two times in history where state's rights was an issue was during the civil war when the southern states seceded because they wanted to protect their right to own slaves!

The second time was during the civil rights movement when... (continue reading)

 The foot dragging by these politicians It is getting rather old.  We are approaching 2010 and they still have not realized that everyone in this country should have access to affordable health care.

 I am not just talking about an understaffed clinic where women die on the floor nor a busy emergency room in a hospital off MLK where gunshot victims bleed to death but rather affordable public insurance.  Where people can get regular checkups and preventative... (continue reading)

I got an email Friday from President Barack Obama. Well, it said it was from him but I know that it was probably written by someone on his staff or a public relations person but anyway It made me feel kinda proud whenever I thought about it this weekend. He said that we all shared in Nobel Peace Prize because we are lovers of peace and truth.

Here are his exact words.

"This award -- and the call to action that comes with it -- does not belong simply to me or my... (continue reading)