Continuation of Stokely Carmichael – Part 3: The Years at Bronx High School of Science … On the streets of Harlem, more precisely on 125th street, Stokely Carmichael found what was missing in the white leftist world: a dynamic oratory concerning black nationalism and America’s racial problem. Both issues were addressed extensively by Harlem’s “stepladder [...]
Continuation of “Stokely Carmichael’s Youth – From Port of Spain to New York City”. … In 1956 Stokely Carmichael broke with the past. Being an “[...] intellectually precocious child, he [had] found American education a breeze compared with the British-based rigors he’d experienced in the Trinidadian school system”. Passing a tough entrance test he was [...]
I have always been fascinated by the strategic use of language and when I stumbled upon the following passage of Joshua Meyrowitz’s “No sense of Place” I decided to dedicate my attention to Carmichael’s rhetorical style.
Obama Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the most recent Al Qaeda tape praised Malcolm X bringing discredit on the US president-elect Barack Obama: “And in you and in Colin Powell, Rice and your likes, the words of Malcolm X (may Allah have mercy on him) concerning ‘House Negroes’ are confirmed.” Reintroducing the distinction between [...]
Through his moving rhetoric and his charisma Barack Obama has conquered the entire world, some German newspapers called him even the world’s president (“Weltpraesident“). But what about the people living in the poor and degenerated areas of the United States? Can Obama’s words follow up with deeds to help improve their living condition and be [...]
