August 27, 2023
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GREATER HOUSTON EDITION
Vol. 28, Issue 32
African-American News&Issues
If you don’t know your history, you don’t know where you come from.
“Addressing Current & Historical Realities Affecting Our Community”
- Roy Douglas Malonson
Wokism By: Bobby Mills, Phd
America is experiencing a socio-religious cultural crisis of monumental proportions. In fact, polarization in American society is at an all-time high, and self-centeredness is engulfing the soul of America’s spiritualmoral declaration: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness---”. Hence, America’s cultural crisis is grounded in fear of the browning of America’s population, and the declining White population based upon numerous factors. The front-line battleground is public education, and the intellectual turning of
children against the emotional notion of White Supremacy. Scientific and historical facts do not lie. Individuals are not superior to others simply based upon skin-tone. Wokism means entirely different things to Black and White individuals. On the one hand, Whites define Wokism as evil actions against them based upon their false sense of racial superiority as well as their disguised sense of inferiority. On the other hand, Wokism to Blacks refers to self-consciousness and self-awareness concerning one’s universal humanity and dignity in the context of a multi-cultural democratic society. Wokism on pg. 5
THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF Ruby Revis Poindexter Ruby Mae Revis was born May 16, 1928 and departed on August 14, 2023. Ruby Revis Poindexter was the last of ten children born to Billy Turner Revis and Hattie Elizabeth Stredic Revis; her parents, six brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. She was born in Van Vleck, Texas, A Negro Settlement, in Bay City. Ruby was raised with a strong sense of family and community; values that she voiced throughout her life. Ruby on pg. 5