Perspectives
The Way to Peace and Contentment of Mind
Almost daily comes video, statistics, tears, and tragedy depicting harrowing conditions Black people face in the United States. Political leaders seem weak, failing and unable to honestly meet questions and problems of race and reality head on. The American president views everything through a narcissistic kaleidoscope devoid of national interest. Everything is tied to his personal popularity or personal political fortune....
We are Jordan Davis, but what are we going to do?
By Richard B. Muhammad Related story: Murdered over music? (FCN, 02-12-2014) (FinalCall.com) - The horrific thing about the failure of a jury to find Michael Dunn guilty of murdering Jordan Davis is that it is not surprising. It may be outrageous, maddening, disgusting, infuriating and racist but unsurprising that a White man could kill an unarmed Black teen and not be held...
Reparations Movement beware: A lesson from the Black farmers
-Guest Columnist- (FinalCall.com) - In an article called "The Achilles' Heel of the Reparations Lawsuits," Henry Mark Holzer points out four legal flaws in current reparations lawsuits: 1. There are no legitimate plaintiffs, i.e. the reparations lawsuits have been brought by people who were not slaves, and thus have no grievances; 2. There is no recognizable legal claim, i.e....
‘The Easter Mystery–Colored Eggs And Christ?’
(FinalCall.com) - As I pondered, as I often do, over what would be of interest to our readers at this particular time, I was going through my mail and up popped a magazine which I take, with the answer. The magazine is THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET, and above the name were listed three featured articles, one of...
Hip Hop, Harvard and Hoaxes: Exposing the Hood Myth
“Mental pictures, stereotypes and fake history reinforces mystery?”—From the song “Why is that?” by Boogie Down Productions From birth, we are taught to believe myths. We start off believing fables about tooth fairies and an old fat dude in a red suit ridin' around the hood in a red sleigh pulled by a red nosed reindeer. As we grow...
Time to join movement for power in Chicago?
By Final Call News Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church in Chicago drew national news and set the city abuzz with chatter after a Saturday shutdown of a major South Side expressway. Unless you want people dying as a result of getting struck by cars, the authorities absolutely had to get involved because protestors walking on a highway is a...
Mis-defining Madiba
By Richard B. Muhammad Nelson Mandela, the beloved freedom fighter, onetime political prisoner and president of South Africa, has departed this life. We thank Allah (God) for his life, his yet unfinished work and our challenge is to complete his task. Part of completing that task lies in understanding the man, the mission, challenges he faced–and challenges his beloved South...
Positive spring break for Black college students
By Ron Walters-Guest Columnist- Webcast: Tour of New Orleans Lower 9th Ward (FCN, Spring, 2006) We live during a time when we have doubted the commitment of Black students to help elevate the condition of the less fortunate among us. Some of this ambiguity has been focused on college students whom we believe should know better. They have access to the...
Paradise is a Garden
What is “paradise” and what is a “garden”? According to Webster’s Dictionary, “paradise” is “The Garden of Eden.” Therefore, when we say “paradise is a garden,” we are 100 percent correct according to the meaning of the words. “Garden,” according to Webster, is a “plot of aground where herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables are cultivated.” “Cultivate” means “to prepare...
‘Separate, hostile and unequal’
By Final Call News When writer Andrew Hacker looked at race and reality in America, he reached a telling and almost prophetic conclusion. Inside the United States, he wrote, there were “Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.” Race, the ugly bedrock of American history, had shaped and would continue to shape life and perceptions of life in this country,...