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		<title>The Enigmatic N-word</title>
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		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though not all black Americans refer to themselves as the pejorative n-word, an alarming proportion of the Black community uses and/or supports use of the term. For instance, ministers invoke the word from their pulpits, and the NAACP, with the wink of the eye, looks the other way when prominent blacks publicly embrace the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frederick Douglass’ 4th of July Speech:  “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Frederick Douglass’ July 5, 1852, Fourth of July speech, he told the audience: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boondocks Obsession with the N-word</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 02:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No American minority group has been caricatured as often and in as many ways as blacks. The entertainment media, from vaudeville to television, has portrayed blacks as happy-go-lucky idiots, dangerous thugs, and any definition of a n**ga one could fathom. The industry has degraded the black community for years, simply to make a buck, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boondocks&#8230;Black America&#8217;s Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black America&#8217;s failure to hold Boondocks ACCOUNTABLE for its use of the n-word manifests an inability to rise from an 18th century enslaved mentality state of mind. If the producer of the show was white all of Black America would be up in arms over the use of the n-word and the fact that Aaron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wife of Slain Civil Rights Leader Speaks Out</title>
		<link>http://theunitedvoices.com/commentary/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 01:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of slain prominent Mississippian civil rights leader Medgar Evers, speaks out against use of the n-word by all Americans, but especially Black Americans&#8217; use, whose use of the word is the most disturbing and damaging in her perspective. Why all the fuss over a word?, many will and do ask. Some Black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Omens of an Orwellian Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self-preservation, the primal instinct or natural desire to protect self and stay alive, is a universal, normal and natural phenomenon for all living organisms. In the event of a perceived threat, the life form settles into survival mode and begins to exhibit those behaviors that ensure the organism’s existence. However, human beings’ ability to self-protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Black History Lesson: The Odyssey of Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a moment in time when Haiti was the richest and most prosperous colony in the Americas…so what happened?  Pat Robertson, the American Christian televangelist and host of “The 700 Club”, attributes Haiti’s misfortunes—in light of the 7.0 earthquake that shook the island-nation—to the nation having a sworn pact with the devil. Robertson states: "They [Hatians] were under the heel of the French…and they got together and swore a]]></description>
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		<title>Euro-Centricity Isn&#8217;t Racism, But Afro-Centricity and Kwanzaa Are?</title>
		<link>http://theunitedvoices.com/commentary/?p=35</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kwanzaa celebrations seem to be an enigma to many blacks, and some feel that they have a legitimate cause or concern for disregarding the event. For instance, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, is quoted as saying, “Celebration of Kwanzaa is racist; blacks should see themselves as Americans – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Profound Critique of Farrakhan&#8217;s &#8220;The Time and What Must Be Done&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theunitedvoices.com/commentary/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan recited a speech on November 15, 2009, titled &#8220;The Time and What Must be Done&#8221;, on how Black America must change to survive. Minister Farrakhan pointed to scriptures, current events, and other social conditions to issue a warning about the need to change to avoid divine chastisement as an old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morehouse College Takes a Stand: Breeding Upstanding Professionals—Nothing Less</title>
		<link>http://theunitedvoices.com/commentary/?p=43</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Lewis Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Morehouse College was heavily scrutinized and shunned for speaking out and taking action against cross-dressing and promotion of thuggery. The school requested that black men refrain from making a mockery of themselves and race, and be what they have always been: dignified men. The Atlanta-based school&#8217;s policy prohibits wearing of sagging pants, women’s clothing, [...]]]></description>
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