By N Oji Mzilikazi
31 October 2016
I own some 29 Earth Wind & Fire albums, including the 2002 Live in Rio, the 1989 Live in Atlanta, and the 1975 Live in Liverpool. I would never pass up any opportunity to see Earth, Wind &Fire live…
Category: blog
The Killing of Fredy Villanueva 8th Anniversary
By N Oji Mzilikazi
9 August 2016
The heavy snow and icy cold of winter can be so overwhelming, extended, and depressing, when summer arrives, Montrealers are about extracting as much heat and fun as is possible from its short stay.
Saturdays, especially when steaming hot, tend to be lazy days; days where persons want to do nothing except to “lime,” chill, hang-out, kick back, “shoot the breeze,” play dominoes, play cards, barbecue, play in the park, be in the park, watch girls go by or simply have a cold one in one’s backyard with family and friends.
It was on one such day, smack dab in the midst of summer — Saturday August 9, 2008, to be precise; a confluence of events brought a premature end to summer — for numerous residents in Montreal North…
From my forthcoming: The Killing of Fedy Villanueva: Policing, Race Bias & Media Complicity In Canada.
Emancipation 2016: The Economic Game
By N Oji Mzilikazi
7 August 2016
Power respects power. Economic empowerment/economic success lends itself to accessing power.
Failure of a race, ethnicity or community to be empowered economically ensures they remain powerless, weak, marginalised, exploited, and the footstool of others.
Economics is at the heart of anti-Black racism…
Black Lives Matter: Was Michael Jordan Shamed Into Activism?
By N Oji Mzilikazi
3 August 2016
Emancipation 2016: Why Observances, Black Lives Matter
1 August 2016
Today is Emancipation Day.
Today, we — in the millions, observe the Abolition of Colonial Slavery Act that abolished slavery “throughout the British colonies on, from and after the First of August, 1834.”
Today, we — in the millions remember the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Middle East Slave Trade —and African enslavement that took the lives of millions of African men, women and children, consigned much more to chattel, and left progeny — us, with a multitude of oppressive historical forces that we are still battling, even succumbing to…
Why Emancipation Observances Matter
By N Oji Mzilikazi
(Originally published in Montreal Community Contact Volume 21, Number 18)
September 1, 2011
Happy Emancipation Day 2016!
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Revisit Past Emancipation Articles:
Emancipation 2011: Renewed Songs of Liberation
By N Oji Mzilikazi
(Originally published in Montreal Community Contact Volume 21, Number 16)
August 4, 2011
Emancipation 2011: On Blacks Being A Cursed Race
By N Oji Mzilikazi
(Originally published in Montreal Community Contact Volume 21, Number 17)
August 18, 2011
Emancipation Celebrations 2012: On Blacks Being A Cursed Race (Part 2)
By N Oji Mzilikazi
(Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 22, Number 14)
July 26, 2012
Emancipation 2013: Beyond Rumshop Politics
By N Oji Mzilikazi
(Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 15)
July 25, 2013
Emancipation 2013: Who Will Pay Reparations For My Soul?
By N Oji Mzilikazi
(Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 16)
August 8, 2013
Emancipation 2013: Field Negroes Needed
(50th Anniversary of the March on Washington)
By N Oji Mzilikazi
(Originally published in the Montreal Community Contact Volume 23, Number 17)
August 22, 2013
Donald Trump For President: A Joke That Went Too Far
By N Oji Mzilikazi
20 July 2016
Yesterday, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Donald Trump was formally nominated by the Republican Party as its candidate to be next president of the United States of America.
Bear in mind, Donald Trump didn’t vote in any primary elections for 21 years. Trump also skipped the 2002 general election.
Talk about a joke that went too far. A totally unfit person, a birther, a bigot, a racist, a misogynist and a person given to numerous unsubstantiated/false/misleading claims is in contention; in the two-person race to be president.
Paul Ryan, Republican House Speaker acknowledged Trump’s racism. But, as Samantha Bee explained, “Republicans Can’t Denounce Trump’s Rampant Racism.”
Five years ago, Trump was regarded with contempt by Republican activists. Rush Limbaugh believed Trump is too kooky.
Trump hasn’t changed, and the Republican Party views of him hasn’t changed. Trump has been scolded by Newt Gingrich and by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell among others. So what happened? Stupid happened!
Pandering to poorly educated whites, racists, bigots and the ignorance of their fears, and the pedalling of racism via anti-immigration, anti-terrorism and anti-Muslim rhetoric won Donald Trump the day. The joke of his presidential candidacy became a reality.
Donald Trump is walking in Adolph Hitler’s shoes.
When Hitler first started out, the German establishment thought he was kooky and a joke; the people wouldn’t buy into his rhetoric – and look at the monster he became.
Not one person in the Republican establishment ever took Donald Trump seriously. Not one Republican political cognoscenti or political prognosticator gave Donald Trump a shot at winning the Party’s ticket. Now here stand The Donald… A joke poised to become horror and nightmare. Though for the likes of Carl Icahn, “Donald Trump is the only man to save the world.”