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The Meaning and Moral Imperative of Struggle: Some Instructive Insights From the Odu Ifa  

In the midst of our and other ongoing struggles for liberation, freedom, justice and other indispensable and indivisible goods in the world, I turn constantly to the sacred texts of our ancestors for grounding and guidance, for constantly deepening insight, urgently needed answers, and uplifting and liberating inspiration. This is especially important to me, to Us, in these difficult, dangerous and demanding times in which evil seems ascendant, shape shifting oppression appears ever-enduring, genocide is shamelessly “justified” by the would-be “superior” and “civilized,” and righteous resistance is denounced and outlawed on campus, in Congress and society.   But still we must

Concerning Whites’ Current and Historical Hating on Haiti; Unforgivable Blackness of Liberation, Resistance and Radical Refusal 

The most recent fabricated, false and fear-mongering ranting by Trump, Vance and various other MAGA advocates and allies, claiming Haitian immigrants are eating White peoples’ pets is another Hitlerian lie that has its roots and twisted rationale in the social virus and pathology of anti-Black racism. Like all viruses and opportunistic and persistent pathologies of the heart, mind and body, it attacks most viciously the weak and vulnerable.