Merry Christmas From TheStateOf . . .

Merry Christmas to all of you that read this blog! Peace!

Sade’s "Slave Song"

“Slave Song”
I see them gathered, see them on the shore I turned to look once more And he who knows me not Takes me to the belly of darkness
The tears run swift and hard And when they fall Even, even the comfort of a stone Would be a gain There was a time when [...]

Hip Hop is Black America’s Black Eye: "Hip Hop is Dead"

Writer Shemia Miller takes hip hop to task for its incessant degradation of black women.

“Turn on the television and you have Flavor Flav, a man that was in one of the most socially conscious rap groups of all times, Public Enemy, now parading Black women around like pieces of meat to fight over his affection. [...]

The Ammunition of Love

“God has a job for us to do. Maybe our mission is to save the soul of America. We can’t save the soul of this nation throwing bricks. We can’t save the soul of this nation getting our ammunitions and going out shooting physical weapons. We must know that we have something much more powerful. [...]

Quote of the Day

“The theology that many of our black mega church pastors are following is not a theology that finds its roots in our struggle as a people in a strange land. And that’s part of the danger.”
-Calvin Butts, Pastor of Abyssian Baptist Church, comments on the prosperity gospel.
The State Of . . . Our religion. Wealth [...]