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For African-Americans, struggle and some gains (from Web Archive)
Chicago News Project ^ | 2001 | unknown

Posted on 10/07/2008 2:50:33 PM PDT by RDasher

Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city's grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.

...and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate.

Chicago is national center of black nationalist thought and organization.

Chicago is home base for African-American Muslim organizations. Muslims have been visible forces for organizing and stability in many neighborhoods, only some of them aligned with controversial leader Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam.

(Excerpt) Read more at web.archive.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacknationalists; obama; obamatruthfile; revjeremiahwright
A few excerpts from this one page newsletter Dated sometime in 2001.
1 posted on 10/07/2008 2:50:33 PM PDT by RDasher
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My law practice tries to help too...people of the shadow society.........no marriage, no driver license, babies are the “economic plan”........people are afraid of the truth....until they get a taste of its beauty...........the straight and narrow is the only way to go...one by one...crooked will always lose..........


2 posted on 10/07/2008 3:03:52 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: RDasher

ORGANIZING AND ISLAM

Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city’s grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.

In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate...

Chicago is national center of black nationalist thought and organization. Head of the nation’s largest secular black-nationalist organization, the National Black United Front...

Chicago is home base for African-American Muslim organizations. Muslims have been visible forces for organizing and stability in many neighborhoods, only some of them aligned with controversial leader Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam...


3 posted on 10/07/2008 3:04:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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ORGANIZING AND ISLAM

Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city's grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.

In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate. A quiet leader with broad vision of empowerment and redevelopment in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is Sokoni Karanja, 773-373-5700, whose nonprofit Centers for New Horizons provides social services, youth programs, education and child care.

Wow, that's a pretty cool find. Organizing and Islam!

Also, my four-year-old spells better than these people.

4 posted on 10/07/2008 3:08:14 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Looking ONLY within the black community...that’s racist!


5 posted on 10/07/2008 3:12:58 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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Looking ONLY within the black community...that’s racist!

It's ok, I'm voting McCain/Palin LOL

6 posted on 10/07/2008 3:15:39 PM PDT by RDasher (El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather)
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Wow, that's a pretty cool find. Organizing and Islam!
Also, my four-year-old spells better than these people

It must be those urban public schools that use creative spelling and ebonics.

7 posted on 10/07/2008 3:17:32 PM PDT by RDasher (El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather)
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BTTT


8 posted on 10/07/2008 3:24:52 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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There have been AT LEAST 17 million abortions of black kids in the last 30 years.

That’s equivalent to wiping out the black population of the US in the 1950s.

What sort of progress is that? What sort of gain was that?

But don’t ask the AA community about it, because in the past 30 years they’ve turned being pro-abortion and pro-gay rights into “black” issues, which get 100% support.


9 posted on 10/07/2008 4:29:21 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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