UIMD: The Social Security “Safety Net” is Gravy for Years…Decades…to Come
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… You do know that SOCIAL SECURITY is solvent, correct? Yes ... every time the Tax Man...that's him, the man named "Mr. FICA" takes money out of your pocket before you get your paycheck, that is YOUR money going into a pooled resource...
UIMD: Since When Did Rich People Get So Jealous of The Poor?
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… Greedy rich folks. They want what is theirs and what is yours, too. Since when did rich people get so jealous of the poor? Since their 90-percent of the take is simply not enough to make it off of. Poor things.
Part 5: Tracking Obama’s Response to the Economic and Housing Crises in Black America
Part 5 of 5 of a series... [Part 4] Component One: Job creation and income. Component Two: Flow of Credit. Component Three: Foreclosures and the Destabilizing of Home Ownership amongst Black Families in America (i.e., 'predatory lending scams'). *** Q: Does Black...
UIMD: What We are Up Against in Education for Black America
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… This is what we are up against. It is not entertainment, it is not unintended, it is not a joke - and YOU are not paranoid. It is exactly what you are seeing and thinking it is, all the way from grade school through college. This is...
UIMD: Know You Are Greatness
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… You are Greatness: Never Forget That. Your Ancestors -The Elders- know who you are, where you are, why you are and what you are doing. They are not dead, they are watching you, and watching over you, at this very moment. Mind your...
UIMD: The Harriet Tubman Spirit
**¥** UI Meme of the Day, a daily series... "I coulda freed a thousand more." Let's get down to brass tacks. There is no documented evidence that Harriet Tubman spoke these actual words, but she came pretty close and close enough. Here's something she did say: “I was...
Part 4: Tracking Obama’s Response to the Economic and Housing Crises in Black America
Part 4 of a 5-part series... [Part 3] Vicious Cycles "What is the task of policy in such an environment? While greed is no virtue, entrepreneurship and the search for opportunity is what we need today. We need a program that breaks and reverses the vicious cycles. We...
Four Areas of Mis-Education for Black Children
I recently perused my old notes from the classic book The Mis-Education of the Negro. Dr. Carter G. Woodson asserted that Black children in American schools are not actually taught but encouraged to accept inferiority. In doing so, Black children become reliant on a...
UIMD: Cost of Living Raises for Them – None for You
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… The Republican government, the GOP, is always advocating for "small government." What this means is that they want LESS government regulations for THEM, in order to set them up to siphon money from taxpayers into their private...
UIMD: PSA – Elementary Genocide
Today's "Meme" is not really a Meme. This is a Public Service Announcement (psa) about a very serious situation that we need to draw our attention -our hearts, souls, and minds - to as Black citizens of the United Prison States of America. They say we can't "prove"...
UIMD: For Black Women and Ladies Only-How to Be a Real Diva
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… How to Be a True Diva in Real Life and Not a Simple-minded Reality Show One For whatever reason, I never imagined that the day would come when I would be that older lady of my childhood and younger days telling younger women how to...
UIMD: Love Thine Enemy as Thyself
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… This Sunday, this is not for the purpose of hate-mongering, this is simply a rhetorical question. And before you answer this one, keep in mind 9-11 and the false flag operation of a made up "war" in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as...
Part 3: Tracking Obama’s Response to the Economic and Housing Crises in Black America
Part 3 of a 5-part series... [Part 2] Keynes General Theory (Employment, Interest and Money) Said Obama in 2009: "Consider the vicious cycles. Declining asset prices lead to margin calls and deleveraging which leads to selling, further declines in asset prices,...
UIMD: To All Who Spread Conscious Knowledge…
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… Urban Intellectuals (UI) is committed to spreading conscious knowledge to all Black people, indigenous people and African American people within the sound of us and within reach. We know that those who are with us and have stood by...
Why We SHOULD Watch Black-ish
Wednesday evenings are now known as “Black Wednesday” in my household. Akin to a national holiday, everything stops in observance of Black-ish. Yes, the television situational comedy (sitcom) Black-ish. At first, I, too, did not appreciate the name of the sitcom. The...
Killer Michael Dunn Sentenced This Morning to Life in Prison
This is a day that will live in infamy. At least for Black and African Americans. Rest in Power, Master Jordan Davis. Justice has FINALLY been done. Michael Dunn has been convicted and this day also given life in prison without possibility of parole, and the ancestors...
The Huey P Newton Gun Club: Self-defense is Expedient
Even if you have to defend yourselves against the police, do what you gotta do. Some folks don't respect a damn thing BUT violence. It's how they roll, it's all they answer to, it is how they are wired, it is what they have taught others, it is the state in which...
11 Historically Black Colleges & Universities That Have Closed
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs as they are called, have been in the news lately for a variety of different reasons. Many of which have been lack of enrollment, the lack of funding, and questions about the curriculum if they are really and truly...
UIMD: Poverty in Africa is Man-Made
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… The continent of Africa and its 'middle eastern' (i.e., Northern African) partition -as mandated by Europeans- has been raided, looted, raped, ravaged, and pillaged for at least the past 500 or more years. For a continent that was...
UIMD: It’s Mother’s Day Every Day
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… Black women - always the womb, the wet nurse, the "belly" as Dr. Ameena Ali of the Bellies of Grracee ("grace") Foundation would put it - of the world. We know that every time a child wants to go to default and blame someone else...
