By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka Claude Anderson, the author of Powernomics and a number of other enlightening books that all Black people should read, reminds us both in his books and in his lectures that the game of race is a team sport. As in all team sports, it matters little how skillful each individual player […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka Christianity is generally divided into Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant sects. Of these three sects, Roman Catholicism is by far the oldest with a membership of approximately 1.3 billion. The Catholic community of faith is the closest numerical rival of Islam which boast around 1.8 billion adherents. Protestantism, which was launched in […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka Perhaps one of the most Machiavellian effects the introduction of Christianity had on people of African ancestry was the erection of a firewall between the Black psyche and Black spirituality. Christianity, its gods, holy book, angels, saints, and adherents were all elevated to the highest pinnacle of the evolutionary ladder. Anything […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka On July 13,2023, Reuter News Service carried a story which stated that the US will not pay reparations to developing countries hit by disasters related to global climate change. John Kerry, the US special envoy on climate change, told a congressional hearing that under no circumstances will the US pay climate […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka The Ukraine war and the LGBTQ+ issue have thrusted Africans and more specifically African politicians into the limelight and on to the international stage. The historically minded would understand why many African leaders overtly or covertly support Russia in its proxy war against the West in Ukraine. Africans who know their […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka Bridgetown, the Capital city of Barbados, is normally described as a ghost town after the sun sinks below the horizon on the Caribbean Sea. Daily, Caucasian, East Indian, Lebanese, Syrians, and a growing number of Chinese sell to Black Barbadians everything from wine to iodine, significantly increasing their share of the […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka The publishers of Christopher Hitchens’s best seller God is not Great used as a subtitle, ‘How Religion Poisons Everything.’ Karl Marx of Communist Manifesto fame is often quoted as saying that religion was the opium of the masses. The famous or notorious psychologist Sigmund Freud went a little further and hinted […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka Anti-LGBTQ activists have long argued that the LGBTQ agenda is nothing more than a gateway drug for the harder diabolical practices of pedophilia, incest, and zoophilia. Some overzealous activists go so far as to add polygamy to the list of diabolical practices coming to a city or town near you tomorrow. […]
Most if not all religious faith traditions believe in some version of life after death. When we reach our point of transition from the realm of the living to join the realm of the ancestors, it is generally believed that our physical bodies return to the soil. Our breath, or the animating principle in the […]
