Pimping Blackness: Porgy and Bess Is Racially Offensive
Black History Month Musings Part II
By N Oji Mzilikazi
Originally appeared in Montreal Community Contact Volume 24, Number 04 February 20, 2014
To Be Continued
Month: February 2014
Olympic Hockey Semi-Finals Canada vs USA: Canadian Rooting For USA
Shame on Mike Babcock for not playing P.K. Subban, the current Norris Trophy winner…… and regardless of what the reasons supposed are, RACE, RACE, RACE, remains the deciding factor.
Here’s hoping Canada lose this match.
And if Canada wins and Subban is not in the lineup for the finals, I hope the hockey gods answer my prayer…
The Great Black North: Obfuscations of Academia
A Year ago Frontenac House published THE GREAT BLACK NORTH: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry.
The compilation was so well received that Frontenac House has published a School Edition. The book is already being used extensively throughout Nova Scotia. This is my contribution.
Obfuscations of Academia
By N Oji Mzilikazi
Copyright © 2013 by N Oji Mzilikazi, All Rights Reserved
Originally published in:
THE GREAT BLACK NORTH: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry Frontenac House 2013
ISBN 978-1-897181-83-6
Black History Month Musings
Black History Month Musings
By N Oji Mzilikazi
Originally appeared in Montreal Community Contact Volume 24, Number 03 February 06, 2014
The exploitation of people and resources are intrinsic to capitalism.
Capitalists do not care about the human condition, morals, the environment, or corporate responsibility. Theirs is fixation on maximum profitability. Thus labour for the least possible benefits hired accordingly, low wages, poor and dangerous working conditions — and unions birthed to prevent workers from being overly exploited.
Capitalism/Economics and forced enslavement have a long history of intimacy; being lovers.
The enslavement of Africans to be units of exploitable labour resulted in institutional/structural inequalities, polices that ensure the enslaved and progeny remain economically, educationally, and intellectually poor…
To be continued