URBAN HANG SUITE: Soulful Singer John Lucien Dies

THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than
the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its
muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky, rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Huges

urban legend

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Donald Washington
for his denial that the
incident with the hanging
of the nooses in Jena and
the fight involving Mychal
Bell were related

Juan Williams, for trying to
protect his talking head
buddy, Bill O'Rielly, who
just couldn't believe that
black folks sat in a restaurant
owned by blacks, and acted
like everyone else did, like white
restaurants, and didn't ask for
their m'fer iced tea.

Joe Watkins, another republican
apologist making excuses for
O'Reilly

Justice Clarence Thomas
Author:My Grandfather's Son
This is one angry non black man
He's angry about being black
He's angry about not being white
He's angry that whites don't see him
as white
He's still angry about the grilling he got
during his confirmation hearings
But not angry that he used affirmative
action programs to go to school-
which he now doesn't agree with
Well Mr. Thomas, as you once said,
whoop dee damn do!

BLACK FACTS

Today is the 6th anniversary of 9/11
Did you know that the total number
of people killed during the attack was
2,819.

Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion
Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million

Between 1441 and 1888, Europeans and their descendants in the Americas enslaved many millions of Africans. Torn from their homeland, men, women, and children were shipped to the Americas and forced into slavery.

Slave traders actively encouraged wars in Africa, resulting in the death or enslavement of millions more Africans on that continent than ended up in the Americas. Scholars of African history believe the total number of Africans killed or abducted in Africa and the Americas could be between 50 and 100 million. Whatever the figure, the slave trade brought death and dislocation on an unimaginable scale. Its full impact will never be fully known.

There have never been any reparations paid to the decedents of slaves in this country.

H. R. 40
The bill to study reparations

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Soulful Singer John Lucien Dies

Sad news to report today. The web site of Jon Lucien has indicated that the longtime soul crooner has died at age 65. The notice indicates:

JON LUCIEN DIED ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 18, 2007 OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE and OTHER COMPLICATIONS. JON WAS ONE THE MOST REMARKABLE MUSICIANS, SONGWRITERS and SONG INTERPRETERS THAT GRACED OUR LIVES

REST IN PEACE
JON LUCIEN - JAN 8, 1942 to AUGUST 18, 2007

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Anonymous said...: Thank you Jon (for EVERYTHING).; February 9, 2008 at 9:37 AM

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