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    Race: Black Elephant in the Room
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Nov 22, 2021
    • 6 min

    Race: Black Elephant in the Room

    There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant...
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    A Critical Race Reckoning
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Oct 11, 2021
    • 5 min

    A Critical Race Reckoning

    “When you make men slaves you deprive them of half their virtue, you set them, in your own conduct, an example of fraud, rapine, and...
    110 views0 comments
    Still Strangers
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Apr 10, 2021
    • 5 min

    Still Strangers

    “… most white Americans have been taught to see themselves as individuals, not as members of a privileged group, so they are shaken and...
    168 views1 comment
    "Reckoning, or, Black Sun in the Western Sky"
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Jan 24, 2021
    • 5 min

    "Reckoning, or, Black Sun in the Western Sky"

    “Give advice, if people don’t listen let adversity teach them.” --Ethiopian proverb 45 is gone from the White House, but the same “good...
    154 views1 comment
    Grid Lock: Dysfunction and American Politricks
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Nov 18, 2020
    • 4 min

    Grid Lock: Dysfunction and American Politricks

    “Rain beats a leopard’s skin, but it does not wash out the spots.” --Ashanti proverb Independents. Democrats. Republicans. Republicrats....
    116 views1 comment
    The Way Forward
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Jun 24, 2020
    • 7 min

    The Way Forward

    If we are to become a psychologically, physically and spiritually whole people once again ... healing must take place.
    229 views0 comments
    Legacies: Forward Ever, Backwards Never!**
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Jun 14, 2020
    • 6 min

    Legacies: Forward Ever, Backwards Never!**

    "I do not know the power of my hand ..."
    225 views1 comment
    When? Is Now!
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Jun 8, 2020
    • 7 min

    When? Is Now!

    I am a soon to be 68 year old black man ... I have looked down the barrel of more than one Police white man's gun.
    175 views0 comments
    Black Light
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 5 min

    Black Light

    Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem in silent, peaceful protest against police killing unarmed black men.
    170 views1 comment
    "Sick and tired of being sick and tired"
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • May 30, 2020
    • 4 min

    "Sick and tired of being sick and tired"

    In a riveting speech to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer, declared, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired."
    257 views0 comments
    "America Is What It Has Always Been"
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Oct 4, 2019
    • 5 min

    "America Is What It Has Always Been"

    America is, now, what it has always been: a nation that is desperately trapped in the consequences of its own lies, distortions, deceits....
    195 views0 comments
    The N-Word, or, Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Aug 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    The N-Word, or, Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust

    The first Africans enslaved in America did not answer to, "Nigger."
    139 views2 comments
    Toxic America
    Mwatabu S Okantah
    • Aug 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    Toxic America

    In the face of the tragic mass shootings in California, Texas and Ohio, this nation, once again, is in shock.
    72 views2 comments

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