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Coard: Drapetomania means Blacks who escaped slavery were clinically insane

A University of Penn Medical School graduate, Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, who was a psychologist and surgeon in Louisiana, Mississippi a

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Need to make this a Black Family Creed!

Coard: Nick Cannon was mostly but not completely wrong

At the outset, I must make one thing crystal clear. I do not and will never judge or condemn any Black person for speaking out against racis

Just the start of the article Michael Coard made it perfectly clear how we need to frame the critique:

"At the outset, I must make one thing crystal clear. I do not and will never judge or condemn any Black person for speaking out against racism. That includes Minister Louis Farrakhan, Elijah Muhammad, Khalid Muhammad, Sister Souljah, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Nick Cannon, or anyone else.

I adamantly and reasonably take that position because any particular statement that was made by any of the aforementioned persons- even if factually wrong, historically imprecise, intellectually misconstrued, or maliciously offensive- was a Black symptom of a white disease. Stated another way, it was a benign Black lesion caused by a malignant white cancer.

And, most important, it was an isolated oral response to a systemic physical assault. Not one of those aforementioned Black persons ever kidnapped or bought or sold or whipped or lynched or sharecropped or convict-leased or Jim-Crowed or redlined or gerrymandered or disenfranchised or miseducated or ghettoized or mass-incarcerated or police-brutalized or otherwise systemically oppressed any white person. And not one of those aforementioned Black persons had or has the ability to do so!"

Absolute Fact...digest it.

We can absolutely acknowledge misinformation or ignorance, but I'm not participating in tearing down someone I KNOW to be lashing out as a symptom of larger and continued abuses...I'll challenge myself more to be better versed to discuss such things, but I was called racist for even insisting that folks who ignorantly call what Nick said as racist get more education in what racism really is before tossing around the word. That is the kind of willful ignorance that is dangerous...not people constantly seeking to arm themselves with knowledge and they get a bit off road seeking empowerment, but the folks that double and triple down on hate and ignorance because of a privilege to do so...weaponizing that ignorance and hate to inflict actual pain, abuse and economic injury upon people...not just hurt feelings.

This isn't a dismissal, but about differential...details matter and it goes a long way in healing. Hurt feelings are much easier to patch up than the actual traumas/scars of years of seeing BLACK PEOPLE brutalized, raped, leased, and murdered and STILL having to move behind enemy lines to build a life...to build a nation...to drag these same dregs of society closer to humanity.

For Nick and especially for his very loud detractors...think before you speak...simple.

Funny how critical thinking aligned with conviction tends to eliminate the need to apologize or backtrack on you actions and words.

A lesson for him and others as we are more openly discussing Race, Racism, Supremacist Ideology, Bigotry, Prejudice, Stereotypes, Biases, and so many other poisonous things THAT ARE NOT ALL THE SAME...learn what they are before identifying them inaccurately in making an already challenging discussion just impossible to have.

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"It was 28 years ago, on May 13, 1985, when a Philadelphia police officer—with the official approval of Mayor W. Wilson Goode, and at the insistence of Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor—dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto 6221 Osage Avenue, in a black, middle-class neighborhood that was then allowed to burn to the ground. The so-called MOVE Bombing, in the words of special investigation commission member Charles Bowser, was a “criminally evil” act that led to the death of 11 human beings, including five innocent and defenseless children, and the hellish destruction of 61 homes.

More than 500 cops fired more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in less than 90 minutes, and many of those shots were fired at and into children and adults who were fleeing the flames and surrendering.

The overkill police presence, the military-style assault, the malicious bombing, the callous burning, and the evil shooting at fleeing victims were not just “grossly negligent” and “unconscionable,” as the MOVE Commission noted in its conclusions. They were also murderous. But more important, they constituted “terrorism” because they were premeditated (designed to get rid of social iconoclasts), politically motivated, violent, with noncombatant targets, and committed by local cops and city officials—or sub-national groups and individuals."

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8/20/12

As you take your lunch break today in Center City, stroll over to Front and Market where the historic London Coffee House once stood, and celebrate the institution that made America one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world, the institution born exactly 393 years ago on August 20, 1619: the institution of slavery. In fact, it was at that site in downtown Philly, where black men, women and children were bought and sold like cattle and like tools. -Michael Coard, Esq.