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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1908
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 01, 2008 - 10:35 pm: |    |
Love from the Eastside. |
Cub
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Username: Cub
Post Number: 675
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, August 01, 2008 - 11:59 pm: | |
Cub checking in. |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5870
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 3:50 pm: | |
Detroit Stylin STILL 7 Myle Rydin... |
Bragaboutme
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Username: Bragaboutme
Post Number: 410
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 7:28 pm: | |
Brag checkin' in. |
Wilkes36
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Username: Wilkes36
Post Number: 10
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008 - 9:25 pm: | |
A big Chi-Town shout to all my Detroit brothas and sistas. I live in Chicago but my heart will always be in Detroit. Reppin the West Side from Grand River and Evergreen all the way to Telegraph. My love is the East too, from Gratiot and Harper all the way to the River. Motown, my home, my muse, my black pride. |
Vantanna
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Username: Vantanna
Post Number: 14
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008 - 11:34 pm: | |
Vantanna checkin' in from ATL now. West-Side 4 Evah Though!! Livernois/Davison. Detroit Luv Still.. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 289
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 12:46 am: | |
Updated August BJL roll call is on and popp'n...
Big GRAND welcome to our newest member, by way of the Black Mecca paradise of Hotlandta...welcome Vantanna!
WELCOME TO THE BLACK JUSTICE LEAGUE KINGDOM!
So far we have in attendance.....
Honorary Commander, 'Rasputin'
LT Commander, 'Detroit_Stylin'
Secretary of War, 'Blksoul_x'...rep'n Southwest!
'Colgatesmile' aka 'Smiley'
'Wilkes36' (Rep'n the Chi-town Kingdom)
'Bragaboutme'
'Cub'
'East_detroit'
'Isiostar840'
Has anyone seen Commander 'ZULU WARRIOR' and Queen of State 'KIMISTREE'?????
Please continue to check in....
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
Zulu_warrior
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Username: Zulu_warrior
Post Number: 3405
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 11:43 am: | |
Amandla!
Zulu Warrior is here!
Nkosi, sikelel' iAfrika,
Malupnakanyisw' udumo lwayo;
Yizwa imithandazo yethu
Nkosi sikelela,
Nkosi sikelela,
Nkosi, sikelel' iAfrika,
Malupnakanyisw' udumo lwayo;
Yizwa imithandazo yethu
Nkosi sikelela,
Nkosi sikelela,
Woza Moya (woza, woza),
Woza Moya (woza, woza),
Woza Moya, Oyingcwele.
Usisikelele,
Thina lusapho lwayo.
Sikelela iNkosi zetu;
Zimkumbule umDali wazo;
Zimoyike zezimhlonele,
Azisikelele.
Sikelel' amadod' esizwe,
Sikelela kwa nomlisela
Ulitwal'ilizwe ngomonde,
Uwusikelele.
Sikelel'amakosikazi;
Nawo onk'amanenekazi;
Pakamisa wonk'umtinjana
Uwusikelele.
Sikelela abafundisi
Bemvaba zonke zelilizwe;
Ubatwese ngoMoya Wako
Ubasikelele.
Sikelel'ulimo nemfuyo;
Gxota zonk'indlala nezifo;
Zalisa ilizwe ngempilo
Ulisikelele
Sikelel'amalinge etu
Awomanyano nokuzaka,
Awemfundo nemvisiswano
Uwasikelele.
Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika;
Cima bonk' ubugwenxa bayo
Nezigqito, nezono zayo
Uyisikelele. |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5873
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 12:44 pm: | |
BGLO members, Greek or non greek if you are a member of an organization, fraternity or sorority, show your organizational pride.
SIX DEUCE!
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Gary
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Username: Gary
Post Number: 319
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 9:31 pm: | |
I've been on this site for quite a while, but I don't post all that often, and I never checked out the "Connect" forum until today. My bad. I've been a Black Detroiter for the last 49 years, grew up on the West Side, product of DPS and Wayne State. I'm checking in. |
Supergay
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Username: Supergay
Post Number: 181
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 9:47 pm: | |
I'm checkin' in too. |
The_ed
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Username: The_ed
Post Number: 1848
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 11:39 am: | |
still here and still Black... |
Kimistree
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Username: Kimistree
Post Number: 170
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 07, 2008 - 12:04 pm: | |
Check me in please! |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 291
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 8:53 pm: | |
The Black Justice League is glad to add another new member to our kingdom....
Let's give a BIG WELCOME to GARY, our newest member....
CONGRATS Gary and welcome to the Black Justice League Kingdom.
Gary we welcome you and encouraged you to add any news involving the uplifting of our villages.
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 292
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, August 09, 2008 - 9:58 pm: | |
From the 'Black Justice League' Sacred Articles...a piece of power from one of our great Black visionaries toward the uplift of the Black experience.....
enjoy!
Marcus Mosiah Garvey An Example of Africanist Self-Determination
Never be satisfied to always live under the government of other people because you shall ever be at their mercy. Visualize for yourself and your children and generations unborn of your race your own king, your own emperor your own president your own government officials and administrations that look like you. God never could have intended to make you look as you look and as you are, and to make your king,president, emperor and ruler different to you in race."
__(Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons, edited by Robert A Hill)
One key symptom of a people totally out of their right minds due to the domination, subjugation, oppression and cultural imperialism of another is the oppressed have acquiesced their vision and hope of self-determination, self-rule, self-governance and freedom. This is done in a myriad of ways: through stark violence and abuse killing or torturing the leaders and those who resist, through cunning psychological manipulation and subsequently through the co-option,corruption and making puppets of the subjugated people's "leaders". We see that in Afghanistan where the US and Britain have installed a puppet regime, the same thing is happening in Iraq. It certainly has been happening in 'amerikkka' over hundreds of years as the Europeans murdered,tortured and co-opted the leaders of many Native American cultural groups and de-cultured, de-tribalized and dehumanized millions of Africans who were imported to these shores targeted with and subjected to european menticide and genocide. In 2008 we find ourselves as a people with no vision and little or no knowledge (of self). Even the Hebrew Bible states and reiterates a people who lack vision and knowledge are destroyed.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of our greatest heroes, admonished us to continually seek learning and to familiarize ourselves with what he called Universal Knowledge. Garvey was a visionary but he was also a motivator, an organizer and a builder. It was his divine mission to plant and cultivate the seeds of African redemption in the masses of Africans around the world. It fell upon Garvey to impregnate our minds with the will and desire to rise up and be who the CREATOR in infinite wisdom and intelligence created us to be. Marcus Mosiah Garvey thought big. He traveled all over the world and saw the deplorable and humiliating conditions African people were living in and dared to say, 'We can do better.' When he asked himself 'Where is the African King? Where is the Africans' great government?' seeing none, he thought to himself, 'I will help create one.'
Garvey was the ultimate race man. He witnessed the squalid conditions,oppression and degradation Africans lived in that was not of their own making but refused to allow himself to be overwhelmed by what he saw or the challenges he and his people would face rectifying those conditions.Instead he resolved to do something about it. He set out to work and make the connection with like minded people; which is why he wrote to Booker T Washington. Washington invited Garvey to the United States for a visit to see Tuskegee Institute and what he was doing there, but Washington made his transition to the spirit realm before Garvey was able to get here. Once Garvey started he was ennobled and embolden by his mission. He shared his dream with millions via his speeches, public meetings and his media outreach, which were quite phenomenal for the
times.
While Garvey was an extremely eloquent and charismatic man, he knew he could not accomplish his vision of African redemption alone. He wrote, spoke and lectured sharing and spreading his message of 'Up you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.' He encouraged African people to be life long learners and students. 'You can only make the best out of life by knowing and understanding it. To know, you must fall back on the intelligence of others who came before you and have left their records behind... No one is ever too old to learn. Therefore, you should take advantage of every educational facility. If you should hear of a great man or woman who is to lecture or speak in your town on any
given subject and the person is an authority on the subject, always make time to go and hear him. This is what is meant by learning from others... All the knowledge is in the world, and al that you have to do is go seeking it and never stop until you have found it.'__
(Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons Edited by Robert A Hill and Barbara Blair University of California page 187)
Garvey made a major impact on the black world because his message resonated deep within the souls of African people. His messages and programs generated hope, positive imagery and group esteem. He challenged us to have a new vision and reality for ourselves and to take action to actualize that vision by learning, contributing, starting businesses, supporting black businesses and investing in their own development. Garvey addressed the deep yearnings of African people, our need for self-respect, ethnocentric socio-economic and political development, the building of a land base and political organizations.
Garvey espoused a program of African self-sufficiency. He demanded Africans use their imaginations to create in their minds and energize within their souls a new world reality ,a reality where African people were well organized, productive, self-sufficient and pro-African. At the same time Garvey's message of African redemption sent fear in the hearts of European imperialists/colonialists. Garvey understood this so he explained to his followers that African redemption did not mean they had to hate, demean or wage war against the government or any other group. 'To fight for African redemption does not mean that we must give up our domestic fights for political justice and industrial rights. It does not mean we must become disloyal to any government or any country wherein we were born.'
Each and every race outside of its domestic national loyalty has a loyalty to itself; therefore, it is foolish for the Negro to talk about not being interested in his own racial, political, social and industrial destiny. 'We can be as loyal American citizens or British subjects as the Irishman or the Jew and yet fight for the redemption of Africa, a complete emancipation of the race.'
__(Marcus Garvey The Negro's Place in World Reorganization written March 24, 1923 Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey slightly re-edited.)
Make no mistake Marcus Garvey was no fool or idle dreamer. He knew full well for Africans to collectively create and establish a territorial socio-economic and political base during an era of rabid European imperialism he would have to create a force to defend and protect that base. Thus he established the Universal African Legion also known as the African Guards; paramilitary units that acted as ceremonial drill and marching squads during parades and public functions and security during the UNIA conventions. Garvey envisioned eventually the Universal African Legion would be his army. But Garvey knew he was being monitored and watched by the imperialist powers and their flunkies around the world,so he eschewed inflammatory public rhetoric about building an army and directly confronting European leaders and their imperialism.
__(See his lessons on diplomacy in Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons.)
Garvey encouraged honesty and truthfulness amongst his followers and lived a life that exemplified these values. 'Men and women who want to be of use to themselves and humanity must have good character. Good character means that kind of behavior and demonstration of it that will meet with the moral precepts of civilization.' Garvey was so honest J Edgar Hoover and the US government had to trump up charges on him using lies, false testimony and encourage an attack campaign against him by his Negro detractors plus a rigged trial to convict him on mail fraud to get rid of him. Garvey was taken down by a forerunner of the US government's COINTELPRO. We must learn from these lessons and use them to build upon Garvey's accomplishments as we push forward a new program of world wide African redemption.
If Garvey could lay the foundation in 1920's surely we can take up his vision. Self and African redemption should be our goal. This is the essence of self-determination and self-actualization. We must stop being okay and satisfied with living under the political hegemony of others especially adversaries who demonstrate their hostility towards us. We must formulate a new vision of ourselves, a new vision and reality of our place in the world and work assiduously to bring our vision/reality of African redemption into being.
...my sentiment...some might believe this to be a romanticise perception of Black freedom__ a vision the would not/ or could not be accomplished in modern day times. We as Blacks (past and present) have without any contingency vested and struggled to hard to disinvest ourselves in the progress/or process of this herrenvolk democracy of amerikkka,thus making the vision of Marcus Garvey appear to be unnecessary.
Nevertheless, no matter how you feel about the state of our people today, one cannot deny the brilliance of his vision and its affirmation to ourselves as human beings, a vision that promotes 'for us by us'__perhaps no longer viewing our bodies, minds, and souls through white lenses, and believing ourselves capable of taking control of our own destinies.
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 295
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 10:53 pm: | |
Updated Black Justice League August 10th roll call (10:51pm)
so far we have in attendance.....
Honorary Commander, 'Rasputin'
Commander, 'Zulu Warrior' (thank you for the find words)
LT Commander, 'Detroit_Stylin'
Secretary of War, 'Blksoul_x'...rep'n Southwest!
Queen of State, 'Kimistree'
'Colgatesmile' aka 'Smiley'
'Wilkes36' (Rep'n the Chi-town Kingdom)
'Bragaboutme'
'Cub'
'East_detroit'
'Isiostar840'
'The_ed'
'Vantanna'
'Gary'
Black people, please continue to check in!...new members welcomed!
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08'(change is coming) |
Jita1
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Username: Jita1
Post Number: 33
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 10:26 am: | |
jita1 checking in |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 302
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 9:01 pm: | |
jita1 welcome to the Black Justice League Kingdom!
jita1 checked in!
jita1, you are welcome to add any relevant information regarding the uplift of our village.
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
Peterhuntprincess
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Username: Peterhuntprincess
Post Number: 17
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 7:54 pm: | |
Born and raised 80s baby of the east side.
A. L. Holmes Elementary
Stevens Elementary (was first middle school graduating class)
Cass Tech. (a lil)
Murray-Wright
Wayne State University
Currently teaching in HP |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 2489
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 8:22 pm: | |
Whats up fellow Murray-Wronger. c/o '03 |
Mayor_sekou
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Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 2490
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 8:22 pm: | |
...and oh yeah I'm still black so check me in. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 306
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 10:18 pm: | |
'Peterhuntprincess' welcome to the Black Justice League Kingdom!
'Peterhunteprincess' checked in for August Roll Call!
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
Blksoul_x
Member
Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 307
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 10:32 pm: | |
Updated BJL August Roll Call....
So far we have in attendance....
Honorary Commander, 'Rasputin'
Commander, 'Zulu Warrior' (thank you for the find words)
LT Commander, 'Detroit_Stylin' (7mile down!)
Secretary of War, 'Blksoul_x' (Southwest!)
Queen of State, 'Kimistree'
'Colgatesmile' aka 'Smiley'
'Wilkes36' (Rep'n the Chi-town Kingdom)
'Bragaboutme'
'Cub'
'East_detroit'
'Isiostar840'
'The_ed'
'Mayor_sekou'
'Vantanna'
'Gary'
'Jita1'
'Peterhuntprincess'...(newest member!)
We only have a few more days in August to check in...so if you have not reported, please do.
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 2615
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 6:24 pm: | |
I'm sorry about this, but I always thought Colgatesmile was, by definition, white. |
Colgatesmile
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Username: Colgatesmile
Post Number: 25
Registered: 06-2008
| | Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 9:28 am: | |
Im black, and I have been told by people of all races that I have a "colgatesmile" so the nickname although long, kinda stuck, along with smiley.
So I guess its ok for me to use it since white people I know agree the nickname fits.
What inspired you to use the username Ravine?
(Message edited by colgatesmile on August 29, 2008) |
Originalg313
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Username: Originalg313
Post Number: 4
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 1:18 pm: | |
Count me in, please! I'm new to the Forum. |
Cub
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Username: Cub
Post Number: 772
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 3:53 pm: | |
Welcome to the forum Originalg313. |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 2619
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 - 7:52 pm: | |
I was being silly. Maybe too silly. I understand the nickname. No malice, or even mean-spiritedness, intended.
"Ravine" is an English approximation of my real name. |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 311
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2008 - 9:55 pm: | |
'Originalg313' welcome to the Black Justice League Kingdom!
'Originalg313' checked in for August roll call.
September roll call will be starting soon, please make sure you continue to check in with the Kingdom.
I will be posting some great information in the near future...stay tuned!
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
Blksoul_x
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Username: Blksoul_x
Post Number: 314
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, September 01, 2008 - 10:20 pm: | |
A special BJL 'Black-thought' on Barack Obama's acceptance speech....by Blksoul_x
I was anticipating this moment...passionately, emotionally, and a bit reluctantly, the acceptance of Barack Obama's democratic nomination for the presidency, a Black man in 'amerikkka', leading the charge for the Democratic party's presidential endeavors.
I watched in admiration, almost in tears, witnessing a man, that looks like me, and sounds like me appear onto the platform and accept the bid for the presidency of the United States of 'amerikkka'...naw check that AMERICA...on this night, I will gladly leave out the kkk in America in honor to Barack Obama on his historical nomination last Thursday night , in-fact, juxtaposing the vision of another great Brotha' of ours on the same night, the philosophy and prophesy of Dr. Martin Luther King's, I have a Dream speech. It is something magical about the 28th day in August.(Dr King and Barack Obama standing strong together on the Day of...the 28th of August!)
The first thing I ask myself, What did that night mean...I didn't have a ready answer, a bit flummoxed I seemed to be, I had to get into my car and take a drive to think about that night. While driving, I thought about the many times I gave up on doing something because it was just to difficult or I didn't understand. I thought about the times that I ran away from opportunities because I didn't want to challenge my comfort zone. I thought about the time I refused to commit to my ex-girl friend because I was not ready to be a Man. I thought about the time I turned down the chance to start my own business__even more, I thought about the times I have been self-centered, inconsiderate, stubborn, inert , scared, docile, ill-tempered, hostile, scandalous, fretful, and evil.
So then, what did that night mean to me...It was encouraging and positive to see Barack Obama on stage pledging to make the lives of the people higher, not only in America, but all over the World. If this great man, can come from the debts of poverty and rise to such a high importance by understanding and changing his perspectives in life, then all of my most inner-issues, the social mechanisms that causes my inability to cope with the worlds problems should be the least of my deterrents. That night, I decided to take full control of my destiny, the future is with us all tonight rising up and becoming important in our plight. Barack Obama, in a metaphysical sense, that is, the spiritual existence of his message, is the positive light that will guide our people out of the on-going grips of oppression to which we find ourselves genetically enveloped.
If last Thursday night was any indicator of the future of America and the Black Man, then we should look no longer to the hostility that this world incessantly imposes on our Black Souls. We should challenge the very words of this great Man...because I believe this is our calling. We owe it to this great Man to become the best...and show the world that Black is Back, and we intend to keep up the great work of our African Ancestors from this point on!
I believe in Change...Thank you Barack Obama!
blksoul_atcha!
Obama 08' |
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