Anne, I whole-heartedly agree with you and I think...- May 17, 2007 Anne, I whole-heartedly agree with you and I think one of Gore's big failures in 2000 was the failure to call Democratic voters and activists out into the streets the way Republicans did. Because of that failure, the Supreme Court was enabled to make the decision that the most peaceful way to settle the election would be to throw it to the Republicans, since it was only the Republicans who cared about the election enough to vigorously protest the result in the streets.Had both sides been...http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... Thanks, Francis. I read those links. The voter fra...- May 17, 2007 Thanks, Francis. I read those links. The voter fraud thing is very interesting. I think I'll need to blog about that soon.In regards to Malcolm X - I don't feel militarism would be the best way to approach the 2008 election - something more journalistic or legal sounds better, but I think we do need to be prepared for political tricks, and make sure people are aware of their rights.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... Francis: You may have been thinking of the Most Re...- May 17, 2007 Francis: You may have been thinking of the Most Recent Common Ancestor, who would be much more recent (probably between 1-3000 BCE).http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... Thanks, Zimbel. That's precisely what I was refer...- May 17, 2007 Thanks, Zimbel. That's precisely what I was referring to when I wrote that paragraph, although I put the location about ten thousand miles to the north and a million years in the future.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... Francis - "As much as we might want to disown the...- May 17, 2007 Francis - "As much as we might want to disown them, the similarity of our biologies and our common origins in the Fertile Crescent simply do not allow us to disown whites (or them us) any more than we can disown our own parents."I think that the Fertile Crescent was the location of the oldest known Civilization, not humanity. Mitochondrial Eve (a female from which every living human directly descends through their matriarchal line), for example, appears to have been African, roughly from the...http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... Read the Democracy Now link above. Although intim...- May 17, 2007 Read the Democracy Now link above. Although intimidation at the voting booths is one of the Republican tactics, an even more powerful one may be their efforts to strike Blacks from the rolls before the election is even held. The people who most likely to be willing to take a militant stance are those who don't believe in American electoral politics at all. Have a look at this Malcolm X speech.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... Speaking of voting, didn't the Black Panthers or s...- May 17, 2007 Speaking of voting, didn't the Black Panthers or someone else observe polling places in the 1960's to try to insure fairness I've been wondering if something like that would be useful or possible in 2008http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... Zimbel: I had a professor like that. He insiste...- May 17, 2007 Zimbel: I had a professor like that. He insisted that V.S. Naipul's fictional novels accurately represented Black culture in the Carribean (like Elton John's "Jamaica Jerk-Off" song fairly represents Jamaican culture!)I think it would behoove us to stop using the word "racism" entirely, if only because the word presupposes the existence of "race," which is a delusional "scientific racism" concept. There's just as much evidence that the world is flat as there is that race exists. "Race" is...http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... This is an example of where having a mental illnes...- May 16, 2007 This is an example of where having a mental illness should not prevent a person from being prosecuted criminally. These "Larry's" obviously are aware of the wrongfulness of their acts because they are going to such great lengths to cover them up.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... I found Larry!His name, apparently, is Tim:GREG PA...- May 16, 2007 I found Larry!His name, apparently, is Tim:GREG PALAST: "we found were this massive plan to deny the right to vote -- I mean, extraordinarily targeting African American soldiers sent overseas.""Griffin is the guy who, with Rove, picked out the US attorneys to be fired and then had himself named by Rove -- had himself named by Rove to the spot as US attorney for Arkansas. So what we may have here is a case of the perpetrator of voter fraud becoming the prosecutor. I mean, it is -- and what this.http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/05/can-you-help-my-brother-larry.html?showComment... |