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Do African Americans Create Their Own Majority Identity?

It is a fact that a majority of African-Americans have this untruth that their racial duty and responsibility is to be strictly defined as "workers" of our many occupations, or "receivers" of anything that is left, that is second best.  They feel some sense of duty or honor with being a part of this unlabeled working order in America. They love seeing such identifiable images as entertainment (as though it identifies the identity of all blacks). Any other image on the screen isn't being black enough, seems to be a false sense of social reality, or simply doesn't bring in the big rating numbers. What images do you immediately notice, when you look around your community? White leaders (business, entertainment):"Well, if you don't mind  ... It works for us." [Hell yeah! Cool.] Even with the vast amount of people, globally, the reality is this form of making our world go around is no longer working for the white-race identity.  And when their e...

Native American Appreciation Month: Families, Climbing the Totem Pole

I read an interesting article of the facts of the totem pole, but I do not know to whom to give credit. Source unknown, n.d. The totem pole is mostly seen, today, in the Northwest Coast of our country. Did you know that the totem poles were actually status symbols? Only the wealthy could afford them: So, let's climb an imaginary totem pole so that we may review the history of the totem pole. Do you believe that you would have owned a totem pole? Let's climb the totem pole, unique households? Wealthy Native Americans took many hours to carve their totem poles. Such artwork of animals on the poles were of actual historical events or stories. There were many kinds of poles: Some as tributes of honored dead or of a chief. Others were used to make fun of or shame someone or the dead, and would often be carved upside down. Poles were used as a visual of one's family tree. Some Native Americans believe that they were ancestors of an animal or plant. If a group of ...