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		<title>This Week In Black History</title>
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			<title>Pushkin:  His Ethnic Origins</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While there seems to be considerable speculation as to the Russian's ethnic beginnings, the texts I have consulted on the same subject would have it that Ibrahim Hannibal, as it was spelled, Pushkin's ancestor, was Somalian and held in slavery in Turkey, where he was purchased by Peter the Great. Historians also say that Ibrahim's godmother was the queen of Poland. How this happens to be I will have to research further. But from what information I do have at my disposal leads me to believe that Pushkin's genetics are not of the Bantu nation but of Hamitic East African or fine featured African. I might be on shaky ground here, since I do not pretend to be an ethnologist, but I have read that when the Hamitic branch of African peoples intermarry, the offspring do not, as a rule, resemble the African side. However, what is relevant, at least to me, is that Pushkin's line went from African slave to Russian aristocracy, with an offspring listed in history as a countess.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John West</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>The Two Alexandres:  Two Diffeent Worlds</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Apparently, on sketchy knowledge of their entire backgrounds, the two Alexandres had different pathways to success in social and professional life. On meager data, it would seem that the French Alexandre had a dose of race prejudice thrown in his direction on his way to success, this despite being a member of France's literary society. In fact, after roughly some 100 years following his death, Dumas, at the behest of French President Chirac, was finally interred alongside Hugo and Voltaire, a burial he had previously been denied. On the other hand, although Pushkin's beginnings in Russia during the 16th century are quite humble, his antecedent being a slave, Pushkin's rise, as well as his slave grandfather's, was quite remarkable. I find it interesting that between Russia and France, the question of color was not so deep in Russia as it was in France. One of Pushkin's offspings is listed in history books as a countess. Some descendants, it is said, reside in the US.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John West</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Black History:  A Reservoir of Pride</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you, New Pittsburgh Courier. You never fail to please! In reference to the statement made by a teacher to the then pupil, Arthur Schomburg, to the effect: "“Black people have no history, no heroes, no great moments," I might add that this thought laid the base for much, if not all, of the African exploitation and slavery under the Christian reign of Gloriana from the 16th century continuing today. That thought also holds the Modern Period (the 16th century to the 20th) was the exclusive province of the West European and that, in contrast, the African (the "savage," "heathen," and thus "nigger" or "kaffir") has met none of the civillizing criteria of the West European. This fuels the superiority attitude coming from many Americans, subtle or overt, and perhaps all South Africans of European descent, however impoverished their beginnings]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John West</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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