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Raw Dawg Buffalo: CNN Correspondent Says ‘F–king N–ger’ On The Air

April 9, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: ‘Long Live Zimmerman’ Painted on Hale Hall, Ohio State’s black cultural center

April 6, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Ignorant and Stupid At the Same D### Time

April 5, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

I must admit, I am disappointed, afraid and frankly appalled at the extent to which sciolism is displayed in America, especially among folks that look like me. It seems that we parade our ignorance and lack of respect and appreciation for presenting ourselves in the best fashion, as if it is something to be proud of.The badge of honor through the lyrics include: “On the phone, cooking dope, at the same damn time and Selling white, selling mid, at the same damn time.” The only lyrics that are missing and would be a better reflection of the kind of mind set that would spend time creating …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Detroit: African American Students Test Scores Worst in State, Nation

April 3, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: King to Martin in Reverse 20 Years later

April 3, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

The Roman poet Caius Valerius Catullus (87–54 BCE) once wrote, “I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.” I like to think that he was speaking about a time in Europe when Christian fundamentalist rulers from kings and politicians to clerics and priest ruled and the punishment for speaking out against these individuals and/or their laws was torture and death for expressing opinions different from those of the primary belief system. These words are no truer today in America when the …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: New Smart Bullet Steers in Midair and Follows Target to Hit Targets a Mile Away

March 31, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Gun violence has incessantly plagued the African American community. In 1996, 29,183 males were killed by guns: 12,014 in homicides, 15,808 in suicides, 1,004 in unintentional deaths, and 357 in deaths of unknown intent. During the same time period, firearms were the second leading cause of death for African-American males aged five to 14, and the leading cause of death among African- American males aged 15 to 24. In 2007, the homicide rate for black male teens was 67.1 per 100,000, nearly 20 times higher than the rate for white males (3.4 per 100,000). Now there may be a new factor on the …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Did Santorum call Obama the N-word???

March 30, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: White Plains PD Shoot Dead Black Veteran, 68 after accidentally triggered his medical alert service in sleep

March 30, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Post Racial & Why I dont Go to Movies

March 29, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: New Data from U.S. Department of Education Notes Racial Educational Inequities in Public Schools.

March 29, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

New data from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights reveal an unsettling observation about the nature of the U.S. Public Education system. In summary, findings suggest that African American and Latino students across the nation are far more likely to be suspended than white students – as well as be more likely to have lower and limited access to rigorous college-prep courses.The study, which was conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a first-of-its kind and was designed to examine educational inequities around …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Lawrence O’Donnell & Charles Blow Grill Joe Oliver

March 28, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Classic: 5 Police Officers vs a law knowing Citizen

March 27, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: COINTELPRO Revisited

March 27, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Carl Rowan once said, “There are two ways to circumvent or trample over a constitution…one way is to arouse public fear and hatred…the second way is to amass enough police or military power to force your will upon society.” This was decades before the election of President Obama and he said it in reference to a book that I read as an adolescent and greatly admired called The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America by Samuel Yette.Written at the 1970s it addressed “the colonized colored people of the United States.” He referenced that black and white political leadership had …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Ethics Violations Racially Single out African Americans In Congress Disparately

March 26, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Is it possible that the manner in which the congress polices itself is racist and singularly targets African American members disparately when compared to whites? Many in the Congressional Black caucus think so. To date nearly a third of current African American lawmakers in congress have been named in an ethics probe during their careers, according to research compiled by the National Journal review.The question is why so many African-American members have been in the ethics violations and so few of any other races on Capitol Hill? Several reasons have been proposed. One is that African …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Aint No More Charles Hamilton Houston’s

March 23, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Once upon a time there were activist warrior scholars who served the needs and protected African Americans against the onslaught of laws designed to subjugate, marginalize and mass incarcerate this population disproportionately to their representation and the occurrence of such crimes. Most of these involved rights proclaimed under the constitution and dealt with receiving an equal education.As many know, during slavery, a slave was not allowed to learn to read; it was illegal. Whites didn't want black slaves to read and write because they might be encouraged to run away. In addition, People …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: How Obama and Black Politicians Have Reinvented the Negro

March 22, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Politicians of African descent in America, in concert with the non-concern of their voting constituency have reinvented the Negro, or better yet made the Negro retro chic. What do I mean by this? Well from an etymological perspective, the word Negro is Spanish for black. The Spanish language comes from Latin, which has its origins in Classical Greek. The word Negro is derived from the Greek root word necro, meaning dead. It was a reference to the state of mind for millions of Africans. Politicians thrive and live on the fact that folk are negro as opposed to self determined individuals with …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Introduction to O-bushian Nationalism 101

March 21, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

A decade later and we are still in Afghanistan. Those on the campaign trail for the GOP nomination are pontificating out the sides of their necks, John McCain is inveighing nonsense and the Obama administration is taking hits left and right – and rightly so. I have expressed my view on the US occupation of the central Asian nation eve prior to Obama, but clearly to no avail. I regrettably do not have the ears of the President or media pundits. And God knows I would love to hear urban radio adduce such a discussion with clarity. However, it seems that discussions on the photographs of …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Fact: Health Insurance Doesn’t Equal Better Health Care

March 20, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Soon, very soon the SCOTUS will hear arguments for and against President Obama’s Health Care Law. The central target of debate will be the “minimum coverage requirement.” Most folk call it the “individual mandate.” Opponents assert that by requiring or mandating by law for people to have to buy a service or product such as insurance may lead to laws that will allow the government to make folk purchase anything.When I first read the 2300 plus page proposal some call “Obamacare,” I did not read anything that really served to improve health outcomes. It did and still doesn’t …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Santorum’s Positions Reminiscent of Jim Crow

March 19, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

It is not farfetched for me to see Rick Santorum living in America some 160 years ago, comfortable in his conservatism appreciative and accepting of the status quo. Maybe this why he resonates so clearly with a large corpus of benighted lunatics that cherish his every word. No doubt, Santorum as his supports would be more comfortable and would prefer to live in a world in which African descendants were in bondage or subjugated by institutional laws and policies that kept us in our place. If not during the time of slavery, then certainly Jim Crow America would have suited him fine. Especially …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner is sponsoring bill that would mandate men see a sex therapist before getting Viagra.

March 16, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Black and Illiterate: We Can’t Read, But We sure Can Watch TV

March 16, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Hypothetically, let us assume there is a young man who has just finished school, and he is attempting to decide where he will move on to for his personal professional development. In this process, he meets with several interesting entities, of which many offer him incentives to select their organization, for they see great talent and how he could add to their bottom line in being profitable. In some cases he is wined and dined and set up in expensive hotels with access to host who are female. In others he is given envelopes with money and in one case a backpack or briefcase filled with …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Honor amongst Thieves

March 15, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

If one takes a serious look at the recent history of organizations like Lehman Brothers, Countrywide and most recently, MF Global, you start to wonder if what is defined as criminal behavior in the rest of the United States is the same for folks on Wall Street with straight line connections inside the belt way.Last I understood theft was defined as “a criminal act in which property belonging to another is taken without that person's consent.” It refers to “all crimes in which a person intentionally and fraudulently takes personal property of another without permission or consent and …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: D.C. Politician to Citizens: Being a Victim is better than for citizens to Own Guns

March 14, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Redistricting and the Electoral College: Two Reasons Why Obama May Loose in 2012

March 14, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Around the media world and blogosphere I incessantly see articles suggesting how Barack Obama has assured a victory in the 2012 Presidential election after his decision to go into Pakistan and kill Osama bin Laden. Now I too, wrote a piece some weeks ago asserting six reasons why he had the inside road to winning in 2012. Although I stand by it, it was written before the raid on Osama bin Laden and more importantly, the actual redistricting of the GOP. Redistricting occurs once every ten years which just happens to be now.Redistricting efforts will be very important in the 2012 Presidential …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: MALCOLM X: We are Living in a Police State

March 13, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Bye Bye 1st Amendment and Due Process

March 12, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Imagine that there was no March on Washington led by the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or that there was no Montgomery to Selma March or Bus boycott as a direct consequence of the actions of a Rosa Parks, or even no sit in's at Woolworths. All may have never have happened if legislation was existence during that time like the recently passed H.R. 347. Last week on a late Monday evening, the bill described by some as the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011 was passed by the US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3.In simple terms it is another way of …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: What Dubois and Woodson had to say about interracial hatred?

March 8, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

“If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.”The above statement was written by Dr. …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: New 2013 Proposed Budget Grows and Increase Prison Funding

March 7, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

We are all aware of the massive debt that has been accrued over the past six executive administrations. Likewise that a lot of it is either wasted for stuff I can’t figure out like $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay or giving one Alaska Airlines $500,000 "to paint a Chinook salmon" on the side of a Boeing 737 or given away massive loot to countries like Israel that don’t have or serve our best political interest as a nation.As Africa Americans we expect this since historically no one I Washington seemed to care about us unless we were rioting or making …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Why Obama Needs To Let Israel Fight For Themselves

March 6, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

“As President of the united States, I don’t bluff.” These were the words of President Obama, sounding as bellicose as the neocons of the prior administration and prior. I guess to take a lyric from a song from Sesame Street and replacing lulu with Be Be, “Be Be’s back in town. Not to mention I’m sure it was to impress Mr. Netanyahu, Israel and the AIPAC Zionist lobbyist who vote he will definitely need for a second term.The statement from my perspective was disappointing and demonstrates the president, as Bush, do not understand history nor evince the capacity to learn from it as …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Empowered by Super Fly Forty Years later

March 5, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

I was going on ten years of age when the movie SuperFly was released. It was the talk of nearly everyone I came in contact with. My first experience came with the album cover and soundtrack, the pictures and the music and although I would not be able to see it for another six years, when my family secured our first VCR, namely because back then parents would not take children to such foul language movies as many in our community do today, it has left a lasting impression on me.Superfly was released in 1972. The movie is about Youngblood Priest a stylish and successful cocaine dealer who …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: CNN: Ad tells Obama to ‘go to hell’

March 3, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: 120 French Troops Captured In Homs, Syria

March 2, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: The Illusion of Economic Recovery

March 1, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

They say that the economy is growing and that we are in the midst of an economic recovery, but as I look at my neighbors who are losing their homes and the parents in the PTA who are under-employed and looking for full-time employment, I must admit I do not see or feel it.I figure Obama and the democrats have to say such to make themselves look good. Likewise, the Republicans have to intentionally imped programs and the efforts of the President to make him look bad. Regardless, the view from the ground level remains one of wealthy politicians bickering like caddy nanny goats. Charlie Brown’s …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Video: CIA / Mossad Snipers in Syria and the Arab States – Can Obama Explain?

February 29, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Fried chicken and watermelon placed in black students mailboxes at Notre Dame

February 29, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Severe Conservatives Equal Amero-Facist

February 27, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

In the mid-1930s, Sinclair Lewis once stated that “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” I do not think that he was aware that his words would aptly describe many in the conservative party today from the halls of congress to the GOP presidential candidates.A while back Willard Romney labeled himself "severely conservative." During the same period, both Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have been presenting moral-social concerns and tossing out their records to attempt to show who can be considered as being an “authentic conservative” like …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: VIDEO: Libyan rebels treating blacks like apes in the zoo

February 26, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Santorum Cites Racist Author To Defend His Views On Contraception

February 24, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

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Raw Dawg Buffalo: US Shouldn’t Be Israel’s F+++ Boy on Iran

February 23, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Unlike some folks, I remember the day the people of Iran overthrew the Shah in 1979. Looking at our current contrived grievance with Iran, I wonder if the present administration does. Over the past year, due to the omnipotent pressure and power of the US Zionist lobby, we have seen multiple military attacks on Iran nuclear facilities and even the kidnapping and assassination of leading Iranian academics and scientist. We have even seen pressure placed on democrats by this lobby, in particular the loss of the New York 9th district congressional seat vacated by Anthony Weiner to such an extent …
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Raw Dawg Buffalo: Neoliberalism and Foreign Policy in the Obama Adminisration

February 21, 2012 by Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

Undoubtedly the Obama Administration inherited a complete mess from the prior administration covering both the economy and foreign policy. And true to form, he in many respects has continued the aforesaid policies of the former president from the bail out of the Auto industry, TARP, extending the Bush tax cuts and even Bush’s neoconservative foreign policy undertakings. In the classic sense, a large assemblage would propose that Obama’s foreign policy strategy is diametrically opposite to the neoconservative hawks of the prior administration. Maybe, but in the verity of evidence suggest …
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