Just Call on Jesus

“The black plantation preacher, who was licensed, assigned, and carefully monitored by the slave maker, preached ‘resignation’ and ‘passive hopefulness’ to slaves with few other options. To establish America’s racist code, slave preachers and missionary whites were authorized to teach a very specific doctrine, which the Africans were expected to internalize through repetition. Brainwashed plantation [...]

Mos Def the Fertile

“Mos Def is facing a whole new danger. The rapper/actor is having trouble paying his $10,000 monthly child support payments, and went before the Supreme Court in Brooklyn yesterday to explain the circumstances of his late payments, according to The New York Post.” “Mos had been ordered by a judge to pay $10,000 a month [...]