Counter-Racist Evolving Engineer (CREE)

**This program is rated "R" because it may not be suitable for black people of any age who are still in a typically vulnerable stage of self-acceptance/rejection in regards to their hue. It may be psychologically harmful for such people as it reviews scientific literature on the subject in the tiltle of this episode*** 

This episode will pick up the converstaion where it was left at the end of the 6-29-14  episode entitled "Black Men, Black Women, Bed-wenches & Nig@erstock."

In order to address this problematic behavior for the black collective today,  we will discuss the seemingly hundreds (maybe even thousands) of years black men have been drawn to and, perhaps, even preferred white and other non-black women.  Is this a preference hard-wired into biology?   If it is, what's next?  If it isn't, what's next?

Lets' get to the root of this thing  >>> Pun intended.

This episode is a continuation of a lengthy discussion recently/currently held on the Facebook group page for another BTR program with a counter-racist objective, The Justice Lab.

The objectives of this episode were to:

clarify the comparitive rates of "inter-racial" sexing/dating/mating/marrying of black men and black womenidentify the primary mental path-ways of this IR behavior for each genderidentify the primary responses encountered by black people who engage or have engaged in this behavior and examine any differences according to genderIdentify solutions to the hurt, confusion, and threat to our survival this behavior casuses black people and identify any differences in these solutions that exist by virtue of gender.

This is a re-broadcast of an interview of Horace Butler, the renowned author of the book, When Rocks Cry Out. This interview originally aired on Inner Light Radio on April 1, 2014 in preparation for Mr. Butler’s first live lecture in eight years on, April 06, 2014.  Details are on the event flier posted to this episode and linked above.  Mr. Butler has done groundbreaking work connecting the  Americas, northeast Africa, southern Africa, and west Africa with the stone and papyrus records of the empire of Ancient Egypt (KMT) and with the Old and New Testaments of the Christtian Bible and Hebrew Torah.    

The interview was recorded by Cree as she listened to the broadcast live.  However, the first 3 minutes are missing.  The audio begins with Mr. Butler saying, “One of them [a well-known Christian minister in the Dallas, TX area] came to me and said, “You have it.  I see it. But, I don’t have the heart to tell them.”

This interview is rebroadcast with the expressed written permission of Horace Butler and Inner Light Radio.  However, neither Mr. Butler, the publisher or distributor of Mr. Butler’s book, Inner Light Radio, any of Inner Light Radio’s staff, representatives or other individuals so  associated ,nor of any organization or individual promoting any of Mr. Butler’s lectures endorse any of the opinions expressed during other broadcasts on this page, CREE radio.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, PhD,  is a professor of sociology and a council member of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University.  He is the author of several books including the acclaimed Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America.  He is also the  the author and co-author of numerous other books and papers. Most interestingly for this program, Dr. Bonilla-Silva co-authored a chapter in  Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity: Theory, Methods and Public Policy entitled "We are all Americans!’" : The Latin Americanization of Race Relations in the USA. 

The center question of this discussion will be the functionality of the term "non-black people" in eliminating the global system of racism (white/light domination).

SeedPlanter and his partner, Dee Tee, are a twenty-something, heterosexual, black couple who will share how they handle the challenges of being recognized by strangers, friends, and kin as having affection and respect for one another.  Sounds simple doesn't it?  It isn't.  Tune in.  You may recognize the scenarios in your present partnership or one in your past.  We hope you will add to and/or benefit from the knowledge base on navigating these waters.

LBM and Cree co-host a discussion about how black people can prepare to have offspring and, then, prepare those offspring to be viable.

Specifically, we discuss:

How many of us actually planned for their offspring - what has been the consequence of planning or not? How important is marriage prior to having offspring - whether you did it that way or not.  How important is it to be able to help your offspring beyond 18-21 years - what should that help be? What accounts for the greater perception that black women are "sell-outs" when they date white folks compared to when black men engage in this tragic (mis)behavior?

The title of this episode is taken from a phrase in Kola Boof's letter two her two young sons which forms the essay, The Authentic Black Man.

Author, trainer, husband & father Ifayomi Grant who resides in England returns to the CREE venue to discuss his latest book, What's Love Got to Do with It?  Or, Is Marriage just for White People?"   

 

Mr Grant is the author of  six other books including Nigger, Negroes, Black People and Afikans. We last spoke with Mr, Grant during the riots in the Greater London Area in the summer of 2011.

Mr. Gran't books and DVD's  can be purchased at  House of Knowledge.  This book, we'll be dicussing----  "What's Love Got to Do With It?  should be read by every black person wanting to get this male-female formation amongst us correct. Yep, even the most virulent male detractors of the last few episodes will find MUCH to appreciate in this book.

We'll resume our discussion of the gender roles and behavior needed to have a an effective battle formation against our dominators.  The bulk of the discussion is about sexual and emotional motivation.

 

*The images accompanying this episode are from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival winner, Beasts of the Southern Wild.  They are intended to speak to the vulnerability of black females, the toughness that is encouraged in us by others  due to the system of white supremacy,  and the lethal, malicious white female.

This is the requested  follow-up to the October 6 episode featuring  a pre-recorded talk by author Nicolas Vaca. That episode was entitled, "What's That? A Non-white Alliance with Latinos? ".

Dr. Muñoz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.  He was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation in 1968 at the California State University at Los Angeles and the founding chair of the National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies (NACCS). He is the author of numerous pioneering works on the Mexican American political experience and on African American and Latino political coalitions. His book, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement won the Gustavus Myers Book Award for "outstanding scholarship in the study of human rights in the Untied States." The first edition of the book underwent 12 printings and was a major resource for the PBS television series Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Muñoz was the senior consultant for the project and was also featured in the series.

We'll ask Dr. Munoz whether Cree's conclusion is incorrect that many Latinos/Hispanics now function as white.

WHY is is soooooo difficult for many Black males to simply make a statement acknowledging centuries of abuse against black women and WHY it is soooo difficult to draw a line in terms of what is proportional response and why they EXPECT support of Black women no matter what.   Do they really not understand that there can be no "moving FORWARD" if half of your group doesn't feel safe?  That's what co-host, LBM, and I want to understand.

What we want black men to understand is the ultimate consequence (not threats) & solutions to this quandary.

I.e., What does the  withdrawal of  black women's  support  of black men's battle for black manhood look like?  And, what will be required to get that support back?