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GENESIS of BIA----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage........... (2651 hits)


Our founding mother/sister ---- is UP ALLNIGHT in the rain and cold giving America NEWS, Information and Help during the PERFECT STORM

WHAT COURAGE..............!

i stumbled upon BIA a while back thinking i was getting THIS beautiful, spectacular, GIANT of American Journalism
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EXAMPLE OF COURAGE, for the Educated, nonRacist America


Rev. Jackson diminished O’Brien’s efforts and accomplishments by telling her that she isn’t Black enough. Numerous Black Planet readers have expressed that they too share Jackson’s sentiment; in that they feel she isn’t “Black enough” to represent Black people, while many others feel that the complexion of her skin or genetic background doesn’t set a precedence in her connection to the Black race.

Soledad O’Brien RESPONSE-----I am immediately upset and annoyed and the even more annoyed that I am upset and pissed off. If Reverend Jesse Jackson didn’t think I was black enough, then what was I? My parents had so banged racial identity into my head that the thoughts of racial doubt never crossed my mind. I’d suffered an Afro through the heat of elementary school. I’d certainly never felt white. I thought my version of black was as valid as anybody else’s. I was a product of my parents (black woman, white man) my town (mostly white), multiracial to be sure, but not black? I felt like the foundation I’d built my life on was being denied, as if someone was telling me my parents aren’t my parents.

come on butterflys and sweetLittle old ladies ---- even kings and queens -- TOUCH THAT...


Tuesday, October 30th 2012 at 8:13AM
powell robert
I find the Rev. J.J. to be the biggest hypocrite of contemporary time. After all, what can you expect from a lap-dog of Wall Street.
Tuesday, October 30th 2012 at 1:58PM
Earl Brown

recently I had a discussion with 5 3rd Graders

-- 2nd generation eastAfrican Immigrant Families,----

i like to answer their questions that are a little too personal with --- "the chinese did it"?
just to end a thorny conversation.....forgive me

mind you ----- ALL or 98% that my schools have enrolled in 10 years have been from Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya or Somalia.........and 40% are related by marriage/family.

so one child asked me, "why dont you teach the 'blacks'?"

i asked, where are the 'blacks'------?

4-5 shouted out some parts of Africa................?

sweetIrma

---- María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien-- is an OUTSTANDING Journalist, WHO inspired BIA's Creation..................

AND she has the 'SKIN' of INTELLIGENCE, HARD WORD and DEVOTION to EDUCATING America and the WORLD ---- that her Broadcasts touch............

and when some of the children watched her on CNN Classroom Edition

--- my children LOVED her, almost as much as i do.............

THE GREATEST journalist in America 2012


Thursday, November 22nd 2012 at 8:33AM
powell robert

CONGRATULATIONS to BIA's Founder,

María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien for her new Journalistic Endeavors

----i, am looking forward to her new Produced specials......


Saturday, February 23rd 2013 at 12:44PM
powell robert
Ooooo a blog dedicated to

CONGRATULATIONS to BIA's Founder,

María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien for her new Journalistic Endeavors

----i, am looking forward to her new Produced specials......


Saturday, February 23rd 2013 at 12:44PM
powell robert




Now that's special!!

Monday, April 15th 2013 at 9:32PM
Cynthia Merrill Artis

Thanks Cynthia and others that we miss
---------- marta, Katherine, siebra

and

ABSOLUTELY --- she is now a Proud Journalist for AlJazeera

Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien is The Journalist that all quasiBIA journalist should follow...........why NOT follow Genesis?

----she is ON SUBJECT------ALWAYS
----she checks her sources
----her writing and presentations are Checked for spelling and content
----AND she NEVER deletes or blocks CONTENT......

i love her Journalism.........its Freedom is pure as the flight of a butterfly




Thursday, August 15th 2013 at 11:21AM
powell robert
eDUCATE!!!EDUCATE!!!EDUCATE!!!

TO ANY AND ALL WOTH OPEN MINDS...

AFTER GENERATIONS UPON GENERATIONS ON CNN A MAJOR CABLE NEWS STILL DOMINATR BY THE (P-U-R-E) WHITE MALE SPECIES...

WHERE IS LARRY KING AND LOU DOBBS TODAY?...i DO BELIEVE THESE TWO REJECTING THE BLACK COMMUNITY'S HISTORY AS A CONSTRUCTIVE PART OF AMERICA HAS THEM NOW UNDER CONTACT WITH F-O-X...

"I" WONDER (?!?) WHY CLOSED MINDS STILL REJECT THIS KINDS OF FACTS / REALIT CHECKS AS A GIVEN (NUP/ SMILE0
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
Please, if everyday common sense was used here as related to the bheavior of CNN...

If this female were with actual B-L-A-C-K- S-K-I-N WOULD SHE EVEN BE AN ANCHOR THERE?????!!!!!?

EXAMPLE NAME MY 1 B-L-A-C-K SK-I-N MALE / FEMALE ANCORS ON CNN NOW OR IN THEPAST...GOD HELP US I I SAY 2/3/ ECT. (NUP!!!)

GROW UP....OR AT LEAT TRY TO WAKE UP...PLEASE...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

would the above comments be the best Memorial to racistlyIgnorant Stereotypical Misconceptions......?


"Please, if everyday common sense was used here as related to the bheavior of CNN...

If this female were with actual B-L-A-C-K- S-K-I-N WOULD SHE EVEN BE AN ANCHOR THERE?????!!!!!?

EXAMPLE NAME MY 1 B-L-A-C-K SK-I-N MALE / FEMALE ANCORS ON CNN NOW OR IN THEPAST...GOD HELP US I I SAY 2/3/ ECT. (NUP!!!)

GROW UP....OR AT LEAT TRY TO WAKE UP...PLEASE...

Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA | delete | block member


Monday, July 14th 2014 at 12:44PM
powell robert
Hey Robert
Monday, July 14th 2014 at 12:49PM
Cynthia Merrill Artis
Yes.
Monday, July 14th 2014 at 12:57PM
Steve Williams

Where are you GENESIS of BIA----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage?




Friday, August 15th 2014 at 11:11AM
powell robert

Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage

"It's hard to be the lone ethnic face in the room.

People look to me to explain a community that is diverse and ever-changing, a community with which sometimes I don't have a great deal in common.

There is so little in-depth reporting on people of color that I set the bar high for myself and the people around me.

I see the job I have now as my opportunity to get good reporting about black and brown people on TV, as a chance to bring people together, and to tell a fair and accurate story of communities of color, not just rehash stereotypes for the sake of drama."


Tuesday, April 21st 2015 at 9:57PM
robert powell

".....My ethnic roots are relevant when you look at the broader picture of who brings us the news.

Who you are matters oh so very much when, according to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), just 6 percent of the people working in TV news and 4 percent of the newspaper reporters in this country are Latinos.

The NAHJ presents a report on media diversity called the "Brownout Report," and it determined that less than 1 percent of the stories aired by the networks include Latinos, and that tiny amount is heavily concentrated on immigration, crime and drugs.

I have a chance to bring people together, and to tell a fair and accurate story of communities of color,

not just rehash stereotypes for the sake of drama. »

Again...Thank You dearest Lady.....


Saturday, June 24th 2017 at 4:13PM
robert powell

GENESIS of BIA

----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage..........WRITER

My Life in Black and White

Chapter 1

My......father began teaching fluid mechanics at..State University of New York ...

We grew up among well-educated white kids, with a nice home and good schools, and
pursued a life that seemed limitless. My parents hoped that the fact that

one of them was white and the other black would not define us.......

My siblings also went to Harvard, and now my sister Maria is a law professor, Cecilia is a corporate lawyer,

Tony heads a documents company, Estela is an eye surgeon and Orestes is an anesthesiologist.

We may have not blended into Long Island, but when it came to academic achievement we didn’t struggle.

This ragtag, multiracial gang from Smithtown did all right.

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At BIA, African American Family site GENESIS

....we had MANY African American LatinoHispanic Commentators --- THAT made our Family Better

Oh le ruego al creador que regresen y enriquezcan nuestras vidas una vez más, gracias de nuevo...



Thursday, July 26th 2018 at 10:32AM
robert powell

Un pequeño tributo a la mayor BIA African American Lady

Otra vez... Gracias señora querida.....

La historia de María de la Soledad Teresa Marquetti O’Brien tiene el sazón perfecto para ser

demasiado caribeña, para ser perfectamente latina. Su madre nació en el corazón de la Habana Vieja,

Cuba en 1930 y se casó con un australiano, relación de la cual nació esta niña con un toque de allí

y otro de allá.

Para ponerle más sabor a la historia, el abuelo cubano de María de la Soledad reconoció el potencial

que tenía abrir un bar en la calle Obispo, una de las zonas más céntricas de la Habana Vieja, entonces

el perfecto refugio de poetas, músicos, políticos y locos. Posteriormente, ese lugar se convertiría en el

famoso “Floridita”, que se inmortalizó en la pluma del célebre escritor norteamericano Premio

Nobel de Literatura Ernest Hemingway.

Ésta es una parte de la historia personal detrás de Soledad O’Brien, la periodista que por años fue cara

de la cadena CNN y quien ahora impulsa su proyecto personal a través de Starfish Media Group,

una compañía de producción y distribución de material periodístico.

-----Los miembros oramos defendemos sus enormes talentos de palabras escritas en 2020


Sunday, February 9th 2020 at 8:17PM
robert powell
Why would you post a blog comment in Spanish, when only few of us can't read what you had said?


Monday, February 10th 2020 at 9:36AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Spanish is the second national language of America.

Monday, February 10th 2020 at 11:15AM
Steve Williams
That is right Steve, that was apart of my High School education back in the mid late 60's.




Monday, February 10th 2020 at 11:54AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.


GENESIS of BIA

----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage..........WRITER

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the deaCON'blackChristianHebrewIsraelite' OWNS theBlack stereotype....RACISTLY IGNORANT

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".....Why would you post a blog comment in Spanish, when only few of us can't read what you had said?

Monday, February 10th 2020 at 9:36AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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1. BIA, African American Genesis and ORIGINATOR is native Latina or AfricanAmerican Latina

2. BIA, Original member and great Blogs..Senora Marta Fernandez AfricanAmerican Latina

3. There are MORE African American Hispanics than American 'so called blacks named by COLORED'whites'

4. The Spanish Language is the MOST spoken Language in the American Continent.....

5. My 6th Grade Spanish Teacher was my first crush …. she was Panamanian American African Latino

…….Spanish became Mi lenguaje de amor…..

6. I did NOT post this Spanish Letter for a dumbDOWNING 'black'..Uneducated in Hebrew..Israelite



Monday, February 10th 2020 at 7:53PM
robert powell
Así es robert, eso fue aparte de mi educación de secundaria a mediados de los años 60.


Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 8:00AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

Learn something someday about the African American Family Experience


Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 8:04AM
robert powell
Translate what I said to you in English, can you do that?


Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 8:17AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Do you speak Spanish Robert?


Tuesday, February 11th 2020 at 7:24PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

GENESIS of BIA

----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage.....Our founding mother/sister

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deaCON'blackChristianHebrewIsraelite' IS the'COLOREDBlack' stereotype...RACISTLY IGNORANT

......Misconception of America since 1600+kingJames SLAVE Versions of euroChristian action

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".....What Do The Bible Say

Have you ever seen a Caucasian couple produce a BLACK BABY?

"....That' robert, that was apart from my high school education in the mid-1960s..."

.....that KING Solomon is WHITE.

You are in denial of these FACTS that are in The Holy Bible ...attempt to with this BRAINWASHING...."

Posted By: Deacon Ron Gray
Sunday, April 5th 2020 at 2:34PM
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What D O E S deaCON LYIN....NONSENSE mean in English...60s was preCivil Rights hisSTORY..

......STAY on SUBJECT with your Attention Deficent russianBOT mind....

Write; with Me... of the African American Hispanic Americans Like BIA Originator and GENESIS

Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien and Mrs. Marta Fernandez...….

.......STOP diverting BIA, back to 1600+ slaverAmericana witchBurners NONSENSE...


Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 9:29AM
robert powell
You'll do well to follow your own advice, dumb ass. You don't identify as Black. You don't identify as African American, yet you're casually dropping in a forum named "Black In America" posting pathetic and delusional blogs built on your sheer stupidity.

You're hell bent on being honorable to your BIA preamble and membership agreement, and getting everyone to adhere to the membership agreement, yet you constantly engage in name calling, harrassment of female site members, even throwing the words "ape" "n*gga" and "n*gress" left and right. It really shows your mind state and your view for Black people, considering we're on a public forum that can be seen by non-black people and searched by Google. More and more you constantly demonstrate that you're really a white supremacist who probably has no Black/African American friends in real life.

Saturday, December 17th 2016 at 4:24PM
Siebra Muhammad

I could not say it any better, even if I put my speechwriters on it.


Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 11:32AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

LIKE most AfricanAmericans I came to BIA for GENESIS Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien

I, Robert Powell, am a Muslim of African Asian Monotheistic belief of the Creator of Adaam(as)

..deaCON and COLORED'whiteTOblacks' are Racists....the Antithesis of Mrs. Soledad O'Brien

..deaCON and COLORED'whiteSupremist' that are the GENESIS of the n IGGA word are Wrong...

..deaCON, russianBOTS and COLORED'apers' of COLORED'whiteSuprmacy' in US-USA are Wrong..

For a Human Being to IDENTIFY as a COLOR; made from euroPaganChristian slavery is Wrong...

...That IN MY OPINION is the Message of BIA Genesis Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien...

2015-2020 were years of russian Hacking of African American Social Sites

..USA Citizens in 2020-21 would like those Divisionists and Misconceptors GO BACK HOME...

..deaCON..Cartoonic Cowardly Blockers of American Rights of Speech .. GO BACK to deaCON russia

Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 5:14PM
robert powell
What race of people do you identify with ROBERTPOWELL?




Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 6:47PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

GENESIS of BIA----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage...........

SUBJECT

Posted By: powell robert
Tuesday, October 30th 2012 at 8:09AM
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deaCON wishes to ask OFF SUBJECT... of ME?

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".....What race of people do you identify with ROBERTPOWELL?...."

Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 6:47PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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....deaCON..non English Reader/Writer/Comprehensionist; for the 2,891,357, 111st TIME

....deaCON russianBOT; masquerading as an old ignorant RacistlyIgnorant chiTown guy

....deaCON COLORED'blackByCOLOREDwhiteSupremacist' paganChristian euroPEONS

I, Robert Powell; As any Believer of African Asian Monotheism from the Creator of Adaam(as)

..am of the Race of The Family of Adaam(as) to reach the most aware Belief of Rabeenaah....

as Written in the AfricanAsian Monotheistic Words of the Creator of Adaam(as)

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AL-ḤUJURĀT

( الحجرات )

Sura 49

The Chambers, The Inner Apartments, The Private Quarters, The Private Rooms.

بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ

In the Name of Creator of Adaam, The All-Beneficent, the All-Merciful.

13
يا أَيُّهَا النّاسُ إِنّا خَلَقناكُم مِن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثىٰ وَجَعَلناكُم شُعوبًا وَقَبائِلَ لِتَعارَفوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكرَمَكُم عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتقاكُم ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَليمٌ خَبيرٌ

O mankind Humanity!

Indeed We created you from a single male and a female, and made you nations and tribes

that you may identify yourselves with one another; as one another

Indeed the noblest one of you in the sight of Creator is the most aware of Rabeenah

Indeed Creator All Knowing, All Aware.

....May Rabeenaah, AlKalaaq, AbBari reward the knowledgeable in the race of the living....


Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 7:49PM
robert powell
If that is the case, stop that name calling "....deaCON COLORED'blackByCOLOREDwhiteSupremacist' paganChristian euroPEONS What Tongue on earth, is that ROBERTPOWELL?

are you smoking that BULL💩 TOO!!!

What is a "....deaCON COLORED'blackByCOLOREDwhiteSupremacist' paganChristian euroPEONS ?




Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 9:22PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

GENESIS of BIA----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage...........

SUBJECT

I stumbled upon BIA a while back thinking I was getting THIS beautiful, GIANT of American Journalism

Posted By: powell robert
Tuesday, October 30th 2012 at 8:09AM
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deaCON wishes to ask OFF SUBJECT... with ghettoFilth, and decadent writing to ME?

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"... smoking that BULL💩 TOO!!!

What is a "....deaCON COLORED'blackByCOLOREDwhiteSupremacist' paganChristian euroPEONS ?

Saturday, December 26th 2020 at 9:22PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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BIA, African American Family Genesis; Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien....American

Courage...and English Journalist Honoree might comment and report:......

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1) deaCON has selfIdentified at BIA, as a 'blackChristianHebrewIsraelite'.......NOT I, !

2) robertPowell has stated; with Mrs. Obrien that COLORING of Human Beings is a product of

....european COLORED'whiteRacistSupremacy'

....european Original Colonists Pilgrims....burned people as witches at the stake in jesusName

....european Original Colonists at JamesTown enslaved-raped men and women in jesusName

....european Original Colonists 1600---->1865 were not a people bearing AfricanAsian Monotheism

If deaCON learned, read, and COMPREHENDED English; all English Readers Understand; ME.

If deaCON ever READ English prose and poetry...ALL know that adjectives are not name calling

.....And DO SOMETHING, LEARN SOMETHING of creative poetic published English Literature....

Monday, December 28th 2020 at 8:38AM
robert powell
What is a "....deaCON COLORED'blackByCOLOREDwhiteSupremacist' paganChristian euroPEONS ?

Monday, December 28th 2020 at 10:42AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

GENESIS of BIA----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage...........

SUBJECT

I stumbled upon BIA a while back thinking I was getting THIS beautiful, GIANT of American Journalism

Posted By: powell robert
Tuesday, October 30th 2012 at 8:09AM
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AGAIN...deaCON asks ME for the 585th time.....

"...What is a "....deaCON COLORED'blackByCOLOREDwhiteSupremacist' paganChristian euroPEONS ?.."

Monday, December 28th 2020 at 10:42AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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BIA, African American Family Genesis; Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien....American

Courage...and English Journalist Honoree might comment and report as I have 5:......

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1) deaCON has selfIdentified at BIA, as a 'blackChristianHebrewIsraelite'.......NOT I, !

2) robertPowell has stated; with Mrs. Obrien that COLORING of Human Beings is a product of

....european COLORED'whiteRacistSupremacy'

....european Original Colonists Pilgrims....burned people as witches at the stake in jesusName

....european Original Colonists at JamesTown enslaved-raped men and women in jesusName

....european Original Colonists 1600---->1865 were not a people bearing AfricanAsian Monotheism

If deaCON learned, read, and COMPREHENDED English; all English Readers Understand; ME.

If deaCON ever READ English prose and poetry...ALL know that adjectives are not name calling

.....And DO SOMETHING, LEARN SOMETHING of creative poetic published English Literature....

BOTTOM line get a 4th grader to explain the English Words to deaCON dumbDOWN...Ignorance...


Monday, December 28th 2020 at 7:45PM
robert powell
Show me the link were Mrs. Obrien that COLORING of Human Beings is a product of

....european COLORED'whiteRacistSupremacy'

I want to see that connection between Mrs. Obrien and those words since you are her mouth now?


Monday, December 28th 2020 at 9:02PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

GENESIS of BIA----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage...........

SUBJECT

I stumbled upon BIA a while back thinking I was getting THIS beautiful, GIANT of American Journalism

Posted By: powell robert
Tuesday, October 30th 2012 at 8:09AM
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AGAIN.....for the 258,357th TIME

..deaCON seems to have NEVER read BIA, Preamble or KNOWS anything of BIA, African American

Family Genesis; Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien; or CAN READ my WORDS?.....asks ME?

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".....Show me the link were Mrs. Obrien that COLORING of Human Beings is a product of

....european COLORED'whiteRacistSupremacy'

I want to see that connection between Mrs. Obrien and those words since you are her mouth now?.."

Monday, December 28th 2020 at 9:02PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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deaCON's history at BIA, is racist LYIN; and russianBOTs in AfricanAmerican Media are Misconceptions!

...I, Robert Powell, am not a "mouth" or writer for Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien ...

...I, Robert Powell wrote above....

..."BIA, African American Family Genesis; Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien....American

Courage...and English Journalist Honoree...might...comment and report as I have...."

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Let BIA, this African American Family explore more Journalistic and English Excellence...of the Great

BIA, African American Genesis;.... Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien

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....from December 7th, 2012

Soledad O'Brien: Who is black in America? I am....

By Yaba Blay and Soledad O'Brien

..You Define America What Defines You...Who we are...What we think...How we look...How we live

(CNN) - Yaba Blay, Ph.D. created the (1)One Drop Project, a multiplatform endeavor that hopes to

challenge perceptions of black identity. Blay, a consulting producer for "Who Is Black in America?"

spoke to hundreds... not immediately be recognized as "black" based on how they look, including CNN

Anchor Soledad O'Brien....

Yaba Blay: How do you identify? Racially and culturally?

Soledad O'Brien: I’m black. I’m Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.

And I think because of my job, often a question like "How do you identify?" is really not about the question.

It’s always "What side are you on?" "What perspective do you bring?"

Blay: I remember when "Black in America" first came out, and a lot of people being like

“Who is she and why is SHE doing this?”

You know, white people really have a luxury in that they get a range of stories, that they’re not defined

“Well you know that’s about them, not about me.”

Blay: Have you had that experience of people asking you, “What are you?”

O'Brien: Oh my God yes! All the time. ..... I used to take great offense – like immediately sort of get

annoyed, partly because I don’t think that came from a very good place.

I think I read it as sort of questioning my value and reasons for being wherever I was.

I’m a journalist, people are really just trying to understand...my job as a journalist is to educate

people about stories in a way and some of these stories I’m part of that story..

Blay: Why are there questions about why Soledad is doing "Black in America?"

O'Brien: Some of it is physical presentation...anchoring shows..specifically with African-Americans..

At screenings for "Black in America" I’ve heard people say,

“Well.. I never thought you were black until you did Katrina and then I thought you were black.”

And I’d say, “That’s so fascinating. What was it that made you think I was black?”...

But even just going back to the questions consistently, I thought it was just illuminating.

I thought it was just so fascinating to really open up a conversation about race.

Now we’re up to "Black in America 5" and we’re having that conversation.

Blay: So what makes a person black?

O'Brien: I certainly don’t think it’s skin color. And I certainly don’t think it’s how well you speak the

language. And I’m not sure I can answer that question thoroughly because my consciousness about

race was really implanted in me by my parents.

I would say I’m black because my parents said I’m black. I’m black because my mother’s black.

I’m black because I grew up in a family of all black people. I knew I was black because I grew up in

an all-white neighborhood. And my parents, as part of their protective mechanisms that they were

going to give to us made it very clear what we were.

My mother would say,

“Do not let anybody tell you you’re not black. Do not let anybody tell you you’re not Latina.”

And I remember thinking her comments were so weird, like "What is she talking about?"

But now I understand what she was going for. And I am very grateful for those conversations...

Posted by Soledad O'Brien -- CNN, Yaba Blay -- Special to CNN: Black in America ...

Who we are.."Who is black in America"

black or white can identify a skin color but can never describe a person.

Color id just a physical identification or outward appearance of a person so the question

"who are you,what are you or who is black? is more than color.

What I am is in other wards, the whole of me. And that includes my heart, my spirit and mind,

all of which can not be limited to color. By saying I am black or white is trying to describe who you

are with on percent of who actually you are.

I come from Africa, and my skin color is black, but myself, I am more than black so it is lack of

understanding of human values that may lead someone to describe themselves as being black or white.

.....in the Bible knowledge, skin color makes no sense.

Genesis 1:26-27 says;

And God created man in His image and likeliness. I we are created in God's image and likeliness,

then the right answer to the questions above should not be black or white.

If God is black, then all humans are black, and He is white, all humans are white.

Fortunately, God is neither black nor white therefore we are neither.

Black or white color identifies only skin color of a person and not the real person.

I am an image of God. I am a person with a black/white colored skin.

I am not a color. I am not black/white.

...many are not Christians and do not recognize the Bible.

Christians do not speak for the world.

But the sentiments that there is no such thing as race, that it is a cultural construct is absolutely true.

I will also add that "race" is a construct of the Western European, Christian mind;

..ancient people did not recognize race, make theories about it...

Western European Christians are responsible for creating categories of race, devising "scientific" theories

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....YES, deaCON and russianRACISTS:

BIA, is the GENESIS of this great Journalist and Human Being....AND YES deaCON

...Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien....and I are Americans that wish to "shatter'

RACIST euroCENTRIC opinions/ideas and old Misconceptions by the likes of deaCON russianBOTS..

...deaCON learn, read, follow BIA, Membership Rules...STOP LYIN and do COMPREHEND English!



Tuesday, December 29th 2020 at 10:41AM
robert powell
Robertpowell, you really need to shut up LYING, you have not lifted a finger to post a positive blog on Black In America since August 2020.




Tuesday, December 29th 2020 at 11:56AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Robertpowell, you really need to shut up LYING, you have not lifted a finger to post a positive blog on Black In America since August 2020.

You only posted “FIVE” blogs since Aug 2019.

Robertpowell, come on man, we can do better then this! Do on Black In America, what you have been doing all of your life and that is to encourage people to learn, —-TEACH—- enlightenment.

Encourage all people to learn who they are. Together on this site, we can lift this sit of ours, to new levels.

This is something we can do together by promoting learning.



Tuesday, December 29th 2020 at 12:11PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

GENESIS of BIA----Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien----American Courage...........

SUBJECT

I stumbled upon BIA a while back thinking I was getting THIS beautiful, GIANT of American Journalism

Posted By: powell robert
Tuesday, October 30th 2012 at 8:09AM
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AGAIN.....for the 258,358th TIME

..deaCON seems to have NEVER read BIA, Preamble or KNOWS anything of BIA, African American

Family Genesis; Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien; or CAN READ my WORDS?..

WHO is deaCON...English challenged PASTER..to grade my BIA, content...yet deaCON trump$$ette

russianBOT has another oldeComment Like the following psychotic banter....

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"......Encourage all people to learn who they are. Together on this site, we can lift this sit of ours,

to new levels. This is something we can do together by promoting learning..."

Tuesday, December 29th 2020 at 12:11PM
Deacon Ron Gray

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American COLORED'whiteSupremacy' was the TARGET that BIA, Genesis the African American

21st Century mind of the great Journalist Mrs. Mrs. María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien

....deaCON, russianBOT....AfricanAmericans have Intelligence and KNOW who they are....

We know that we cannot be concerned with the COLORED'whiteMind' of the Past BUT....

We know that the Future of AMerica is Mrs. Soledad and President of Senate...Kamala Devi Harris....

...Learn to READ, learn English Comprehension and reREAD BIA, membership agreement....

Saturday, March 20th 2021 at 10:39AM
robert powell
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