Comments on Akindele Unleashed: Building Independent Minds by Akindele Akinyemi

Nice. "Ignorant" was the PC word of the year four...

2009-07-06T04:44:43.953-07:00

Nice. "Ignorant" was the PC word of the year four years running back during my time at Ottawa Hills High School in Grand Rapids.

It meant a lot of things. It meant "bad kid." It meant "violent." It meant "drug addicted."

And it was for sure an insult. I can't use that word to this day, it was so misused by the staff and students. Like it could be used to cover up everything that was happening at the school.

Cracks me up to read it wasn't just confined to the Big O.

--Nick
www.RightMichigan.com

[quote] I am pretty sure you heard about the 7 tee...

2009-07-04T14:27:04.331-07:00

[quote] I am pretty sure you heard about the 7 teens that were shot at a Shell Gas Station here in Detroit after summer school a few days ago[/quote]

Brother Akinyemi:

What you are discussing are the consequences of the same END GAME.

The Black community likes talking about "being used" by the White man in the guise of Slavery and Jim Crow.

Today we are BEING USED just the same but it is in the context of the big game of political chess known as national politics and ideological theories of governance.

The reason why you are not going to see a stronger reaction to 7 Black kids SHOT - neither locally or nationally is because this level of violence among Black people has reached the point to which it is commonplace. Why do they need to report on something as it being "exceptional" when tomorrow we will likely hear something that is equally as damnable?

As a people we have been defeated by operatives FROM OUR OWN. They have used us to insure the political domination of a particular party and ideology. In exchange we have been given a series of entitlements that have functioned far more effectively than the blankets that were infected with Small Pox that did the Native Americans in. Our culture and racial dignity has suffered from this assault that I am speaking of.

I get so frustrated as I debate with various Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chasers as I reaffirm that - YES IT IS TRUE - "you all dominate the Black community". They love to brag about the power that they have as compared to the conservative. They are loathed to turn this POWER into "accountability". Its like the more control they obtain over Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago, Philly, Newark, DC, Atlanta and Memphis and elsewhere - the more that their claims that "SLAVERY DID THIS TO US" will become.

I am convinced that they are doing everything necessary to allow us to live yet another generation hence where we presently reside.

They are too ideologically bigoted to do otherwise.

"You spoke of godless children, and churches being...

2009-07-04T08:30:36.376-07:00

"You spoke of godless children, and churches being agents of change, and then you say we must strive to escape from religious dogma."

Hi and thanks for visiting my site. When I say religious dogma I am speaking on using religion to control people's spirit. Oftentimes we use religion as a weapon to keep people in fear and intimidation instead of a tool of enlightment and encouragement.

I agree with your message. In the two years I have...

2009-07-04T07:52:49.205-07:00

I agree with your message. In the two years I have been visiting this site, you have been very consistant in your views, which to me shows you are motivated by principle. But, I think some clarification is needed. I am interested in the role of religion in society and if it is the religious teachings that serve the most important function, or is it the community of people, the team, that makes the difference. For example, fraternities are groups of associated individuals sometimes working for societal goals, As do charities, many of which are completely secular. The only reason I bring this up is not to be tedious, but as I say, to get clarification. You spoke of godless children, and churches being agents of change, and then you say we must strive to escape from religious dogma. Men were moral before religion and most are moral in their natural state. How do you propose churches modify, what you admit seems to be a failing regime (churches on every corner unable to stem the tide of social disintegration- your observation),to increase to growth of social conscience. Are they able in this day and age to make the abstraction of God more real, real enough that behavior changes?