by Reneegede | Nov 1, 2017 | Opinion
Born on July 23, 1892, Haile [Tafari Makonnen] Selassie came to power as regent of Abyssinia, later called Ethiopia, in 1916. He was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. The son of Ras Makonnen, a cousin and close friend of Emperor Menelek II, Selassie was baptized...
by Reneegede | Feb 2, 2016 | Opinion
There was never a “white jesus,” and we, as a People who have yet to discover we are a People, have been aware of that for quite awhile. White Jesus is so over for us, and I think we (Black folk) are all pretty much schooled about the truth by now. Those...
by Reneegede | Dec 9, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series… There is a certain song many of us Black people were raised to sing in the so-called “Christian” church. It was called the “Gloria Patri”, coming out of the Roman Catholic churches. It went a little...
by Reneegede | Dec 7, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a Daily Series… I’m not an atheist, everyone knows that. I’m also not a Christian, Muslim/Islamist, Judaist, Shintoist, Jainist, Jehovah’s Witness, 7th Day Adventist, Mormon, Catholic, Buddhist, Krishnaist… not even...
by Reneegede | Sep 21, 2014 | Opinion
It’s hard to talk about these things and even harder to point a finger of blame at who did what or why, but every day -even moreso since the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008- it comes to light that Black people the world over...
