Mwatabu S OkantahNov 22, 20216 minRace: Black Elephant in the RoomThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant...
Mwatabu S OkantahOct 11, 20215 minA 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...
Mwatabu S OkantahApr 10, 20215 minStill Strangers“… most white Americans have been taught to see themselves as individuals, not as members of a privileged group, so they are shaken and...
Mwatabu S OkantahJan 24, 20215 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...
Mwatabu S OkantahNov 18, 20204 minGrid 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....
Mwatabu S OkantahJun 24, 20207 minThe Way ForwardIf we are to become a psychologically, physically and spiritually whole people once again ... healing must take place.
Mwatabu S OkantahJun 14, 20206 minLegacies: Forward Ever, Backwards Never!**"I do not know the power of my hand ..."
Mwatabu S OkantahJun 8, 20207 minWhen? 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.
Mwatabu S OkantahJun 3, 20205 minBlack LightColin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem in silent, peaceful protest against police killing unarmed black men.
Mwatabu S OkantahMay 30, 20204 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."
Mwatabu S OkantahOct 4, 20195 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....
Mwatabu S OkantahAug 8, 20193 minThe N-Word, or, Ashes to Ashes and Dust to DustThe first Africans enslaved in America did not answer to, "Nigger."
Mwatabu S OkantahAug 8, 20193 minToxic America In the face of the tragic mass shootings in California, Texas and Ohio, this nation, once again, is in shock.