political musings
The Colony of Sierra LeoneHenry Smeathman, the botanist, recommended Sierra Leone as the most advantageous place for the establishment of a settlement.1 Established as a Crown Colony in 1808, the Sierra Leone peninsula and the areas directly to the south of it were governed by a Governor-in-Council who combined both Executive and Legislative authority. This [...]
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Robert F Kennedy’s speech, On the Mindless Menace of Violence, delivered on the night of 5 April, 1968 in the City Club in Cleveland, Ohio is truly a magnificent piece of rhetoric. Conveyed in the attractive, thick Boston accent with broad A’s and non-existent R’s; his voice remains steady, but with difficulty, suppressing the passion, [...]
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The movie The Great Debaters debates universal topics and themes which all human beings can relate to and understand. In regard to what is morally right or wrong, which is to be preeminent? The law or one’s own conscience?This is but one of the many outstanding topics debated and argued throughout the film, which deals [...]
When Africans first arrived in this country on slave ships, no one would have ever dreamed of this day. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s when African Americans struggled to simply obtain the right to vote in this country, no one would have ever dreamed that this day would come during [...]
Throughout this last year or so I have paid far more attention than usual to politics and politicians, newscasts and newscasters, lobbying groups and their shills, and the skillful perversion of truth by twisting words and meanings. I’ve thought seriously about setting up a website for the truth, recognized that my life would essentially be [...]
