http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/02/02/algeria-the-noble-black/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sun, 27 May 2012 16:56:01 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/02/02/algeria-the-noble-black/comment-page-1/#comment-754022 ernest laster Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:56:06 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/02/02/algeria-the-noble-black/#comment-754022 The word Black in the United States used to be roughly analagous to dirty or when used in contrast to the word White when contrasting the differences between good(white) and Evil(Black). Black became "Beautiful" only by an exercise of pure will as exemplified in the statement:"I'm Black and I'm Beautiful." and so it became and still is. This great leap in consciousness arose during the Civil Rights era in the US, when Blacks arose en masse to change the meaning of that word: "Black" when describing an American Black. The word Black in the United States used to be roughly analagous to dirty or when used in contrast to the word White when contrasting the differences between good(white) and Evil(Black). Black became “Beautiful” only by an exercise of pure will as exemplified in the statement:”I’m Black and I’m Beautiful.” and so it became and still is. This great leap in consciousness arose during the Civil Rights era in the US, when Blacks arose en masse to change the meaning of that word: “Black” when describing an American Black.

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