Philosophy etc.

 Let's suspend talk of gun control and transition to discourse regarding the cultivation of human being toward higher ideals. We've taken for granted humane being and have become consumers of fantastic notions of consumerism and sundry forms of avarice! Being humanely human must not be a matter for serendipity. Our education-informally and formally, must be purposefully aimed at the h ighest aspirations! Please, no more talk of the "influence" of video games as a contributor to our inhumanity. What video game buoyed the vicious and racist European trade and enslavement of African peoples for over 400 years? To be sure, Our culture is morally anaemic at best. We all have emotional and psychological deficits that must be reconciled by love and care. Our emotional and psychological deficits are ubiquitous and we merely manifest our pathologies in varying degrees. Choose to refine and care for our personal self cultivation and our collective selves. The disciplines of Psy...

Morris Brown won't/wouldn't allow financial take-over by Tom Joyner. Are they being obstinate, unrealistic about the possibility of "successful" forward movement, or are the board members et al. authorities simply misguided and incompetent (feel free to offer other options)? Is it fair to bring students into an academic environment that merely exists on the perennial verge of closure, no accredita tion, and myopic administrators? My love for Morris Brown College is profound, but this must stop now! Conversations need to move in the direction of CAU, Spelman, and/or Morehouse absorbing the institution with the possibility of allowing Morris Brown to become a satellite institution of one of the others, or having Morris Brown become the honors college or business school campus for CAU, for example. Even if all the present debts were forgiven, are we honestly believing this won't emerge yet again? Progressive leadership is required, and we must respect...