'If Neal Street Could Talk

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79940849034814652512012-02-16T10:09:42.076-08:00'If Neal Street Could TalkThis blog is dedicated to the memory of Kathryn Johnston. It is a forum for progressive community activism. It is written from the perspective of artists and activists who have lived their lives uniquely crouched upon the bridge betwixt two legendary generations seemingly ‘Willie-Lynched’ towards one another. It has as its purpose to stimulate, or to provoke if need be, an intergenerational discourse; curried unequivocally in our own likeness.T. S. Aschengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095580997011249878noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994084903481465251.post-65539028877003720112008-09-18T06:08:00.001-07:002008-09-19T04:08:10.209-07:00Why Lady Rothschild’s Rhetoric Against Obama Is Inherently Racist

After taking the time to write an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining why she in now switching her allegiance to John McCain, former Democratic Platform Committee-woman and long-time fundraising surrogate of Hillary Clinton, Lady Rothschild has gone the offensive against Barack Obama. On Thursday morning she seemed to have had a sleepover at the CNN studios in order to continue her

T. S. Aschengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095580997011249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994084903481465251.post-12051740535428828752008-09-12T12:44:00.000-07:002008-09-12T12:49:37.639-07:00We Have Been To The Mountiantop

“America will be ready for a Black president in 40 years!”Bobby Kennedy 1968America’s PromiseIt was an hour before midnight on a warm summer night. The nation was already duly immersed within the throes of an unprecedented political season and all of a sudden history would pause for just a moment in order to take note of a remarkable convergence of time and space. It would all ultimately come

T. S. Aschengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095580997011249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994084903481465251.post-82388595844987552242008-06-18T06:59:00.000-07:002008-12-09T16:49:04.615-08:00Black Orchid in the White House Garden ---- Assailing Michelle Obama

“The slave woman is at the mercy of the fathers, sons, or brothersOf her master!”Fredrick DouglassWhere and When She EntersPolitics is the hyper-actualization of the zeitgeist of American life and culture. It speaks to the very soul of the nation from its own particular vantage point, garishly poised in the mirror and boldly facing down the physic crucible fronting scene and script of all that

T. S. Aschengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095580997011249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994084903481465251.post-11795805653125247712008-04-08T08:36:00.000-07:002008-12-09T16:49:06.047-08:00Bubba In The Backyard by T. S. Aschenge

The politics of race and gender in Campaign 2008“The struggle for freedom in America is a struggle to free Black men’s bodies and white men’s minds!”Fredrick DouglassIn director Milos Forman’s 1981 movie adaptation of the E. L. Doctorow classic novel Ragtime, Howard Lee Rawlings plays the suave Coalhouse Walker Jr., a dapper, sophisticated, and well mannered jazz pianist caught driving a fancy

T. S. Aschengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095580997011249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994084903481465251.post-35051010400513745882007-12-29T13:11:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:49:07.032-08:00Mom's Death in Iraq Leaves Family Adrift http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-casualty25dec25,0,7006928.story

Thomas Davis and his sons pictured in Oswego, New York, near Ft. Drum, the base for his wife's unit. Staff Sgt. Carletta Davis went on her third tour while her family counted the days until her return, but she was killed by a roadside bomb near Kirkuk.

T. S. Aschengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095580997011249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994084903481465251.post-58426282797668991742007-12-29T04:57:00.000-08:002007-12-29T04:59:58.263-08:00Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status

On December 20, 2007, the Lakota Nation withdrew from all treaties with the United States and declared their independence. A delegation from the tribe made formal notice to the U. S. States Department. The Lakota said the decision was necessary due to what they descried as conditions of ‘Colonial Apare-[Hate]’. Life expectancy for Lakota men is less than 44 years, and 96 percent of the Lakota

T. S. Aschengehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095580997011249878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7994084903481465251.post-46256988752915872642007-11-08T19:34:00.000-08:002007-11-11T10:56:52.447-08:00IF NEAL STREET COULD TALK!

Beloved, nearly a year has passed since that horrifying day when the Atlanta Police brutally murdered 92 year old Kathryn Johnston in her own home. At the time, our community was still reeling in anguish more than one year after the great Diaspora within the Diaspora that was Katrina. However, we awakened that morning after November 21, 2006 only to be faced with yet another equally inconceivable

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