The following analysis was conducted on Harvard professor Robert Harro’s “Cycle of Oppression” (https://depts.washington.edu/geograph/diversity/HarroCofS.pdf) in response to the writing prompt from a college English class.

Michelle Winbush

We have been asked to reflect on Harvard sociology professor, Robert Harro’s presentation of what he calls “the cycle of socialization.” …

The following essay was written in response to the prompt of a college English assignment to investigate the conditions of three social groups: Women, LGBTQ’s and Transgender peoples.

Michelle Winbush

We have been given four articles to read regarding three distinct social groups: Women, Queers and Transgender peoples. In accordance with today’s wording in International Law, I call these three groups “oppressed peoples,” peoples oppressed by the male supremacist, patriarchal social system that rules most of the Earth today.

Immediately as the United Nations was formed, International Law (1948) began to be framed by the votes of the large majority…

Loved Ones, look out (tonite) for the new HBO film, “The Crime of the Century,” which addresses the willful and deliberate addicting of the US population to opioids.

In this presentation, filmmaker, Alex Gibney provides evidence to the effect that the addiction to super-profits among the corporations which make up Big Pharma and the health insurance industry, on one hand, and the addiction to “the economic incentive” to over-prescribe among this country’s most prevalent front line drug dealers, psychiatrists, on the other hand, are more egregious symptoms of the disease of addiction than is the actual physical addiction to opioids.

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Loved ones, nothing has placed in bold relief more than this pandemic, the insanity of capitalism.

33% of people in the United States have the vaccine. 2% of the people in India have been vaccinated. The companies which produce the vaccine are based in the top two capitalist countries in the world, the US and the PRC. The vaccine belongs to the corporation known as the People’s Republic of China. The vaccine is the private property of a few corporations in the US.

The state capitalist PRC pays for the vaccine to be produced by itself and then pays itself…

By Zainab Abbasi

Introduction

Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latino, was gunned down, murdered while standing with his hands in the air, by Chicago police on the night of April 15th 2021. Daunte Wright was slaughtered by the gunshot of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police officer on April 11th and the policewoman’s supervising captain said “it was an accident.” An African American army veteran, wearing his army fatigues, was pepper sprayed last week, maced in the face, beaten, handcuffed and then taken into custody, only to be released when it was discovered that there were no charges filed against him.

Each…

Well, prayer is the key to heaven,

And, faith unlocks the door

That’s why my God gave me the key,

And, He told me to carry it wherever I go

Loved Ones, below are the links to two versions of “I Am the Light of this World.” I send these to you because of the madly transcendent character of the music: As you read in the story “the Union Band” (https://alexandersjeunity.medium.com/the-union-band-ee6c9c8265fd), Reverend Blind Gary Davis was performing at a time that was equidistant between two revolutionary movements — that of the 1860’s revolution to overthrow chattel slavery, and that of…

Stories for Little Children When we were in our single digit years one of the stories my Daddy told us was of “the Union Band.” One of my father’s character traits was that of Griot in the African American story-telling tradition. He saw it as part of keeping our ties to our ancestors and helping to keep in the front of our minds how we got here, from whence we came, and this “how” and “whence” included the resilience, dedication, and perseverance of our forbearers in our people’s uninterrupted fight for freedom.

When he intoned about the “the Union Band”…

I came up in what would be called, in today’s common parlance, an upper-middle class White neighborhood. In my late teens the Black Liberation Movement became the catalytic agent for a drastic life change for me. First, from the campus of Boston University, where I was in my 3rd year of undergraduate “work,” then later when I left the campus to live in Roxbury, MA (at that time the center of Boston’s African America), I was part of a group of literally tens of thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands of students, who left their campuses to participate in community-based activism.

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