Mwatabu S Okantah
Big Lies
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect. --W. E. B. DuBois There is a malignant cancer festering in this society; a...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Nov 21, 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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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Oct 10, 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...
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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...
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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...
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Nov 17, 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....
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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.
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Jun 14, 2020
- 6 min
Legacies: Forward Ever, Backwards Never!**
"I do not know the power of my hand ..."
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Jun 7, 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.
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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.
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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."
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Oct 3, 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....
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Aug 7, 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."
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Mwatabu S Okantah
- Aug 7, 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.
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