tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41946301602451375372024-03-13T15:11:58.375-04:00A More Perfect UnionCandid discussions designed to promote the "more perfect union" that our "living and breathing" constitution makes potentially attainableServant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-58522741373082773182021-01-26T15:30:00.003-05:002021-01-26T15:40:34.639-05:00On Death and Hell[The following is an excerpt from a book I'd been planning to write for years. It started as a book on comparative religions -- an effort to bring comity amongst the various religions as the world. But, then I became an atheist and a Humanist. Going forward, should I finish it, the book I may attempt to establish a new religion to either replace or be practice in conjunction with the other world Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-70692241996199309832018-04-26T04:00:00.000-04:002018-05-27T10:13:23.563-04:00Why My Anti-Theism Emanates From Love and NOT HateFrom
childhood I've always had a “hero complex”. I guess it started
with cartoons.... “Here I come to save the day. That means that
Mighty Mouse is on the way”. Or, “There's no need to fear.
Underdog is here”. Later came comic books. In the magical place
called “kidland”
I imagined being bit by a radioactive spider and becoming
Spiderman... or encountering Dr. Don Blake's cane that I could tap onServant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0Orlando, FL, USA28.5383355 -81.3792364999999928.0917165 -82.0246835 28.984954499999997 -80.733789499999986tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-41174422625130710192016-08-01T17:45:00.000-04:002016-08-01T17:45:54.885-04:00Why I Blaspheme Your God(s)[Originally I decided to write the following as a sort of preface to this photo description on my Facebook page to explain the reasoning behind the photo in particular and my typical blasphemy of god(s) in general. The eventual length of the explanation made it seem more appropriate for my blog... Now I DO ask – where Bible verses, Qur'anic ayahs (and one Bhagavad Gita text) are cited – that you Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-10199913356227965322016-07-30T13:45:00.000-04:002016-07-30T13:45:41.905-04:00Hidden Colors 4: The Religion Of White Supremacy
Hidden Colors 4: The Religion Of White Supremacy from Hidden Colors on Vimeo.Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-60920701975480128182016-07-15T17:03:00.000-04:002016-07-15T17:04:57.837-04:00Why MOST Cops Are F#CKING BAD!!
Many people believe that - despite the obvious surge in police misconduct, beatings, and killings - MOST police officers are GOOD! This video takes the opposite view and explains in no uncertain terms exactly WHY most of them are actually BAD!! Once you watch the video, I'm CERTAIN that you will agree...
Math update: 10 - 20% (officers classified as "bad actors") + half of remainder... (Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-77461546123457429452011-02-01T12:14:00.009-05:002016-07-18T21:29:34.305-04:00Agnostic’s/Atheist’s Prayer/Exhortation
Upon evolving from a seeker of the "face of God" to agnosticism - but still believing in the "what God", though doubting the existence of the "who God" - I felt the need for a "prayer", incantation, or invocation that was relevant for me.
Since I don't revere or worship an entity, there is no need for prayer or supplication. Still, some type of recital, evocation, or exhortation - perhaps Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-88255923454857646472011-01-15T19:11:00.000-05:002016-07-15T16:54:56.524-04:00Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence
This is the least known of Dr. King's speeches amongst the masses, but it needs to be heard because it is STILL relevant today.
Many folk have heard that the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. made the comment that the U.S. government [was/is] "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today". This was in context to a speech delivered on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-89075658542541753492010-01-31T04:46:00.003-05:002016-07-15T16:54:31.588-04:00Capitalist and Socialist Elements of a Competitive Market SystemCertainly many who are accustomed to hearing media pundits and politicians pit capitalism against socialism will be reticent to acknowledge that elements of both economic systems have been at play in our competitive market system for most of the time that we have been a nation. This fact is neither readily acknowledged nor publicized simply because our “free press” is predominately owned by Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-55724083875957125592010-01-12T17:33:00.003-05:002016-07-15T16:33:44.242-04:00Leave Senator Harry Reid Alone: His Comments WEREN'T RacistThe coverage of Sen. Harry Reid’s comments (from the book Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin) that then-candidate Barack Obama stood a good chance of being elected President because he is “light-skinned” and has “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one” is truly much ado about nothing - despite contrary viewpoint.
Fortunately, in a CNN interview, Dr. Boyce Watkins defends Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-89623395875248210442009-07-25T03:01:00.012-04:002016-07-15T16:34:40.019-04:00Answering The CallPresident Obama has nothing to apologize for. He said the Cambridge Police Department officers ACTED stupid-LY in arresting Prof. Henry Gates! He didn't call THEM stupid. People need to differentiate between calling a person or persons "stupid" and declaring that they performed a "stupid act" -- that is, unless they are too STUPID to know the difference.
Having said that, Professor Gates' Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-91965000346678819332009-07-14T01:39:00.013-04:002016-07-15T16:36:01.501-04:00Controlling IsraelThe recent arrest and detention of former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and 20 others aboard the “Spirit of Humanity” by the Israeli Navy raises serious concerns. It’s easy to dismiss this event as the result of the former lawmaker meddling where she doesn’t belong. And maybe I’m not so dismissive because I have long admired this woman for her championing the causes of the least of these -- Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-63023645268619969502008-10-05T15:25:00.022-04:002016-07-15T16:35:14.156-04:00IS AMERICAN JUSTICE TRULY BLIND?Troy Anthony Davis, convicted in 1991 for the fatal shooting of a Savannah, Georgia police officer is still embroiled in what has become a 19 year odyssey to save his life. Seven of the nine witnesses against him have recanted their stories -- many alleging police coercion. Yet he has twice come within hours of a scheduled execution - the first time within 24 hours of death and the second time Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-10514830050979400032008-09-04T22:05:00.022-04:002016-07-15T16:51:12.946-04:00BLACK YOUTH REVOLUTIONWARNING! EXPLICIT CONTENT!
The race-deprecation and misogyny saturating the hip-hop lyrics that American distributors unfortunately deem to make hip-hop most profitable, is obviously disturbing to most of us -- as recent outcries would attest. But calling for hip-hop artists to be fired will not work. Their music is considered to be protected artistic expression. Some of us may not like it, but Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-60363120343735509862008-08-29T08:59:00.005-04:002016-07-15T16:46:17.303-04:00BEING FAIRWhen Tim Russert passed earlier this year, many of his colleagues characterized him as a journalist who was tough, but fair. I have never have I had a problem being tough, but journalistic fairness is still a work in progress for me. On the other hand, I’m more of an activist than journalist. My writings are more about persuading than reporting -- more about calls to action than mere Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-11813497856180105662008-03-30T00:34:00.003-04:002016-07-15T16:53:03.398-04:00Tim Wise: On White PrivilegeI am REALLY starting to like this guy. Here he speaks not only of the origins of the elite fabricating non-existent barriers between the races, he implores us to rise above the facade. "The people united, will never be defeated"!! "The people united, will never be defeated"!!
From the DVD:The Pathology of Privilege Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality
For years, acclaimed author Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-8930911898962710252008-03-25T15:22:00.008-04:002016-07-15T16:39:44.149-04:00West Virginia's Greatest AthletesMainly this post is a memorial for a fallen friend, Michael Wayne Tyson whose body was found at home March 19, 2008. Here his athletic exploits are chronicled in a 1999 article appearing in the Charleston (WV) Daily Mail - juxtaposed with those of Randy Moss and others from Kanawha County, WV. Within the next week or so, a special edition of the internet radio program I host, will allow his Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-58829197431631007892008-03-21T19:15:00.005-04:002016-07-15T16:40:18.416-04:00Of National Lies and Racial America: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Audacity of TruthThis article was sent to me by a friend (and co-author of Red, White, Black and Blue) to buttress our mutual assertions that our White compatriots also understand that Rev. Jeremiah Wright's warning "principalities" of impending doom is both theological and patriotic!!
Of National Lies and Racial America:
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Audacity of Truth
By TIM WISE
For most white Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-65974424625411107622008-02-15T14:31:00.002-05:002016-07-15T16:41:09.822-04:00"DAY 1" PresidentHillary Clinton has campaigned on the notion that she is better prepared and it hasn't resonated. Hillary is no more "better prepared" to be president from having slept under a president than Bill is "blacker than Barack" — as Andy "Sell-Out" Young claims — from having slept with more Black women. Sex is a powerful tool, but it isn't a political panacea!
Additionally, despite the other Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-29587701478319419012008-02-12T21:31:00.004-05:002016-07-15T16:41:47.202-04:00Micromanaging The Iraqi WarThis is an article that I wrote between March & May of last year -- 2007 ("created" in March and last editing of the file done in May). I believe it still has vast relevance today!
Many Republicans of late have bandied about the term “micromanagement” in reference Congress’ involvement in the Iraqi war. They obviously feel that only the “macro managing” of said war ought to matter since Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4194630160245137537.post-36821194703606966362007-12-10T23:40:00.003-05:002016-07-15T16:42:22.097-04:00Imus vs. Hip-HopThe following article was one that I wrote right around the time that Don Imus was fired. Now that he is back, I thought that some reflection would be good.
Once and for all: DO NOT equate the disparaging words of fallen radio/TV host Don Imus with the disparaging words emanating from SOME of the lyrics in Hip-Hop music. They are NOT the same animal. As Russell Simmons recently indicated on Servant2Allhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18169588287019592119noreply@blogger.com0