I want to share with you, one of the most poignant things I've read lately, "The Measure of a Man" by Sidney Poitier. This selection reduces his life experience into a nugget of pure philosophical gold, and I produce it here at length for its brilliance. Afterwards, the juxtaposition of the People of African Descent conference at MCC in St. Louis ( Read more... )

I wonder why, in a postmodern age, we in a default, and perhaps monolithic mode of interpretation deny existence until it can be proven by 'tangible' data ( Read more... )

I had forgotten the answer to the question of why, for quite a while, and then it was on "Blacktastic Movies" on BET.

So, enjoy:

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When Neo knew why... because he chose to, ..."it all begins with choice."
Then the agent who formerly called him "Mr. Anderson" called him 'Neo', and that's where the tides turned, and the new matrix cycle could

I think that this clip represents the age old debate between Cain and Abel; mankind's solution is the nannystate - which by compulsion through regulations, solves.

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What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go ( Read more... )

Okay, so there's just something so inherently gay about the military...

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Or, for that matter, cultures like those in the middle east which rigidly segregate out the weaker sex, and spend their time achieving alpha status. When there aren't enough women to go around, because some guy gets 4, others turn to pre-pubescent males. This is ( Read more... )

Empire is norm, anarchy is exception... Ecclesiastes on Empire ( Read more... )

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~ Frederick Douglass ( Read more... )

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity. ~ Giordano Bruno

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Originally, I had planned on writing a piece in an Onionesqe style, which held the media to task for their biased coverage of the war of aviation agression. Untold birds have lost their lives in man's pursuit of travel. In this case "The plane had suffered “a double bird strike,” one of the pilots told an air traffic controller at the New York ( Read more... )