By John Dorsey Due, Jr. November 18, 2008 The nation will pause and reflect on the massive “Revolutionary Kool Aid Suicide” of almost a 1000 Americans in their Jonestown refuge in Guyana and the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, thirty years ago, on November 18, 1978. This could be my final ten year acknowledgment of [...]
Peoples Temple and Reverend Jim Jones
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 15. Nov, 2008 in civil rights movement, friends, human rights, john due, race and racism
How Much Time Should She Do?
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Oct, 2008 in election, politics, women and feminism
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McCain’s Self-Immolating Campaign
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 11. Oct, 2008 in civil rights movement, election, friends, politics, race and racism, Weblogs
For an elaboration on why the McCain/Palin hate mongering is a losing strategy see Abby’s post. I feel like McCain is doing a great job appealing to the bottom 16th percentile…. And “shoring up” the bottom 16th percentile isn’t going to win him any elections. There’s just not enough population there. Let me tell you [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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