Category: Cultural Reflections
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Introduction to Black Classical Republicanism and its Influence on early Black Intellectuals
EARLY BLACK INTELLECTUALS AND THE INFLUENCE OF CLASSICISM AND REPUBLICANISM In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a small but influential group of Black intellectuals engaged deeply with Greco-Roman classics and the ideals of classical republicanism. This engagement was multifaceted in that they drew on ancient texts to demonstrate Black intellectual capacity in the…
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I Need A Roof — Mighty Diamonds
“I need a roof over my headI need a roof over my headAnd bread on my tableAnd bread on my tableThis love in my heartIt′s love for everyone(Remember Garvey say)Remember weh Garvey say, sayTime a go dread out dehEverybody a go run now(Remember Garvey say)”
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Feeling Soul — Bob Andy
“To be true to one another.To be kind and gentle to each other.To give your best when it’s asked of you.To do what you have to do when you’re supposed to. You’ve got to feel it.You’ve got to feel the soul down inside of you.You’ve got to feel it, mmm.” 🎶
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Sun Shines For Me — Bob Andy
“I am rich ’cause the sun shines for meI never cry ’cause I know that the rain falls for meI feel like a king, though the salary I earn is thin, thinI realise money’s not all, there are other things”
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Natural Facts — Cornell Campbell
“My heart beats on a solid foundationSo I always love my country’s fellow manI’m proud to know I’m black‘Cause it’s a natural factWhether you are white or blackTo me it’s just the sameLord knows I’m not ashamedOf loving my fellow man.”
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The Lost Meaning of Republicanism in Modern America
Americans often appear indifferent to “Republicanism” (meaning the classical republican tradition) because the word has been almost completely hijacked in everyday language by the Republican Party. When most people hear “republicanism” today, they think of the Grand Old Party, Trump, culture-war talking points, or at best vague slogans about “limited government.” The deeper philosophical tradition…
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Cornell Professor Robert Sternberg debunks race-based IQ Statistics
There is no debate about Black-White gaps or sub-Saharan Africa estimates of 70-80 IQ. The entire so-called debating of the issue is used to justify the world envisioned by proponents of White ethno-states and ethno-nationalist ideology and done by individuals in bad faith and bot armies. In truth, all we find are White people, who…
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Reconciling Black Identity and Western Civilization: A Philosophical View
A Black American explores reconciling identity with Western civilization rejecting alienation, false myths, and apathy for full leadership and belonging in America’s future.
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Civilizational Limitations: Ethnic Chauvinism and Religious Rigidity
The persistent emergence of overly-performed ethnic chauvinism, racial arrogance and habits of religious dogmatic or rigid orientation is a combination that will degenerate our civilization far faster than any wave of migrant ever could. As those who immigrate to Western countries have to look up to essentially no men or people no more better, nobler…
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Anti-Blackness as World Norm
Thoughts on Anti-Blackness as the norm in the world, asks “Do I Live in Your World?” DO I LIVE IN YOUR WORLD We do not live in “a White man’s world,” and certainly not in the world of the racists and anti-blackness far and wide across this planet. Is this not what we are taught…
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Letter on my Political Ideas, History and Critiques of Conservatism
THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA The purpose of The American Minervan began as a side project to question and refute by myself, certain unverified claims made in Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Destiny of America and to lay out what was addressed between William Q. Judge, Dolatram and H.P.B. on the question of Freemason and…
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Influence of Tsarist and Nazi Propaganda Tactics on Modern Normalization of Racism
The interesting pattern in the proliferation of political and religious conspiracies in the twentieth to twenty-first century is that many of their sources are rooted in Nazi era propaganda and older anti-Jew tactics. Many of these tactics and conspiracies emerge particularly in that era of pamphleteers and the technological advancements in the twentieth-century of the…
The American Minervan 