Major League Baseball in alliance with Rawlings Sporting Goods moved their baseball factories to Costa Rica in the late 1980s, throwing thousands of Haitian women out of work. Its million dollar donation to Haiti earthquake relief should be measured against its long, exploitative relationship with the devastated nation and it should make a much more significant donation to help rebuild the nation from which it made so much money.
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Haiti’s $1.30 a day minimum wage,
Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier,
Jean Damu,
Lance Armstrong,
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Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig,
Miami News reporter Bill Brubaker,
MLB exemption from federal anti-trust legislation,
New York Yankees,
Port au Prince,
Rawlings Sporting Goods,
Sandra Bullock,
Theory of Surplus Value
The horrific disaster that befell Haiti Jan. 12 may have killed hundreds of thousands. According to the media, Haiti’s weak infrastructure and poor quality of construction account for the large number of deaths. Left to their own efforts, however, Haitians would have been more than able to build a reliable democracy with adequate infrastructure. But they have never been allowed to do so.
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discriminatory lending policies,
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formerly enslaved peoples,
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French plantation owners’ reparations,
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Jean Damu,
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Marine Brigade Commander John Russell,
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NAACP official James Weldon Johnson,
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National Bank of the Republic of Haiti,
National City Bank of New York,
National Railway of Haiti,
Niggers speaking French,
President Woodrow Wilson,
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Roger L. Farnham,
severely indebted country,
U.S. Marines,
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam,
W.R. Grace Corp.,
William Jennings Bryan,
World Bank,
Wounded Knee,
“negritude” movement
The richest nation in earth’s history can’t agree on how to insure that its citizens get good health care, while one of the poorest nations on earth – Cuba – not only provides free universal health care, but it provides well-trained, humanistic doctors to developing and poor countries all over the world. In fact, there are more Cuban doctors helping people overseas than there are from the U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO).
The idiotic controversy that is the focus of the nation’s media and which claims Nevada Sen. Harry Reid uttered racist comments is mind boggling in its obtuseness. Democrats and honest Republicans, white and Black, cannot seem to gather the moral energy and mental clarity to call the Republicans who are promoting this issue by their true name: demagogues.
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Black Alliance for Just Immigration,
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California Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
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International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
Jean Damu,
Jesse Jackson,
John Heilmann,
light skinned,
Mark Halperin,
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA),
Negro dialect,
Nevada Sen. Harry Reid,
racism,
Republican demagoguery,
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele,
Sen. Strom Thurmond,
Snoop Dogg,
Southern strategy,
Trent Lott
Recently the cold war against Cuba was ratcheted up when an acrimonious debate broke out over the issue of racism in Cuba and for the first time the issue of Brazil was thrown into the mix. The brouhaha began when scores of prominent African Americans, many of whom should have known better, put their names to a petition calling upon the Cuban government to release a dissident from prison.
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Afro-Cubans,
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Black Civil Rights Movement,
Brazil,
Brazil’s Black Movement,
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Clarence Thomas,
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Cuban President Fidel Castro,
Cuban revolution,
Dr. Abdias Nascimento,
Dr. Darsi Ferrer,
fiction of racial democracy,
Fidel Castro,
human rights,
Jean Damu,
Johnetta Cole,
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael),
Latin American School of Medicine in Havana,
laws that criminalize racism,
Maya Angelou,
medical technicians,
National Endowment for Democracy,
political progressiveness,
racial profiling,
racial solidarity,
racism,
Randall Robinson,
remittances,
rights of Africa and Black people,
socialism,
solidarity between Black America and Cuba,
Spelman College,
training African American youths as doctors,
TransAfrica,
U.S. Interest Section,
Ward Connerly,
“Lusotropicalism”,
“one drop rule”
The Oakland Police Department suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot when it further racialized the March 21 shootings by rescinding Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums’ invitation to speak at the public funeral of the four officers who were gunned down.
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Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson,
Attorney General Jerry Brown,
Black Panther Party,
Congresswoman Barbara Lee,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Jean Damu,
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums,
Oakland Police Department,
racial divide,
Sen. Barbara Boxer,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
State Assembly Member Sandre Swanson
When the full story is finally told and, though not likely freely admitted by many, deep within the spiritual thinking of numerous African Americans, an emotional candle will be lit in memory of Lovelle Mixon.
When opportunity presented itself in the form of widespread warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwean military leaders were quick to provide troops in exchange for permission to establish Zimbabwean corporations to exploit Congolese raw materials.
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Air Commodore Mike Tichafa Karakadzai,
Air Marshall Perence Shiri,
Brigadier General Sibusiso Busi Moyo,
Burundi,
Colonel Simpson Sikhulile Nyathi,
Colonel Tshinga Dube,
Congo gold and diamonds,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
DRC President Laurent Kabila,
economic "structural adjustments",
Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP),
elites,
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
General Vitalis Musunga Gava Zvinavashe,
Jean Damu,
John Mikembe,
Joint Operations Command,
Joseph Kabila,
Morgan Tsvangirai,
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),
National Security Council,
personal enrichment of military leaders,
political elite,
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe,
Rhodesia,
Rwanda,
Sidney Sekeramayi,
Solomon Mujuru (aka Rex Nhongo),
Thamer Bin Said Ahmed Al-Shanfari,
Uganda,
wealth accumulation,
Western economic sanctions,
ZANLA Deputy Commander Solomon Mujuru,
ZANU-PF,
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA),
Zimbabwe Executive Vice President Grace Mujuru,
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
Madison suggested creating a new capital, one that would geographically be part of the South but in close proximity to the North – a capital that would allow Southerners to safely bring their human property.
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African American History Month,
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Black citizenship,
first Black president,
human property,
James Madison,
Jean Damu,
Mayor Adrian Fenty,
President Barack Obama,
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Thomas Jefferson,
Washington D.C.
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