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A Black Icelander?
Seems one escaped slave ..really escaped to a new world!
The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from His Living Descendants
Hans Jonatan, who escaped slavery in 1802, now has hundreds of relatives in the country.
Hans Jonatan was born into slavery on a Caribbean sugar plantation, and he died in a small Icelandic fishing village. In those intervening 43 years, he fought for the Danish Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, lost a landmark case for his freedom in The General's Widow v. the Mulatto, then somehow escaped to become a peasant farmer on the Nordic island.
A descendent of Hans Jonatan
No one knows how he got there. No one knows where in Iceland he is buried today. But the story of the first black man in Iceland, as far as it is known, has endured in local lore, passed down from his Icelandic wife and two children to hundreds of descendants since his death in 1827.
"The old East Fjords people would often say, 'Oh, yes, you're descended from the black man,'" one living descendant told Gísli Pálsson in his biography of Jonatan, The Man Who Stole Himself.
Today, Jonatan's descendants mostly lack the dark skin and curly hair that so obviously marked him as the son of a black mother, an enslaved woman named Emilia Regina, and a white father, identity unknown. But bits of his DNA live on inside his great-great-great-great grandsons and granddaughters, and it is possible, scientists have now shown, to reconstruct parts of his genome from his living descendants. And with that, it is also possible to trace his mother's ancestry in Africa.
It could only have happened in Iceland. The country's small and genetically homogeneous population is largely descendants of settlers who arrived from Scandinavia and the British Isles a millennium ago. This, along with, detailed genealogy records tracking centuries of family relationships, have made Iceland a genetics laboratory. The biopharmaceutical company DeCODE Genetics, whose scientists helped carry out the study of Jonatan's genome, has also analyzed DNA from more than half of Iceland's adult population—including 182 of Jonatan's living descendants.
Humans share some 99.5 percent of their DNA with each other, so it is in that other 0.5 percent where geneticists go looking for variations distinguishing one group from one another. In the relatively homogeneous Icelandic background, it was easy to find the African sequences. "If you're sequencing an Icelander, you will find about one variant per million bases that is not found in any other Icelander. But you go and sequence into the African part [of the genome], you will find at least 100 variants," says Kári Stefánsson, the CEO of DeCODE.
No single descendant carries all of Jonatan's original genome. But each carry a small part of it. So the team stitched together sequences found in 182 different descendants to recreate 38 percent of the African half of his genome—presumably the half that came from his mother. The sequences most closely matched present-day populations in Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon. There are few records about Jonatan's mother, who was also born into slavery in the Caribbean, so this may be the only hint to her and her ancestors' origins.
"It's the writing of history with DNA, basically," says Hannes Schroeder, an archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen who has used DNA to trace the origins of enslaved Africans. Schroeder was also a coordinator of EUROTAST, an interdisciplinary project studying the slave trade that helped fund the reconstruction of Hans Jonatan's genome.
Jonatan's life story was unique, and the methods used to study his DNA may prove unique, too. It would be difficult to reconstruct the genome of any single enslaved African in regions where many of them lived and their DNA mixed together in their descendants. "It's definitely a special case because of Iceland," says Schroeder. "The same project wouldn't have been possible in, say, France."
or similar reasons, it's almost impossible to reconstruct the European half of Jonatan's genome—the half that came from his unknown white father. Kirsten Pflomm, a descendent of Jonatan, says this is the question she hopes DNA can answer. You actually would not need to reconstruct a genome to prove Jonatan's paternity; you would just need to obtain a DNA sample from potential fathers or their descendants for comparison. Pálsson's biography suggests suggests Jonatan's father could have been a secretary named Hans Gram—or Jonatan's master, Ludvig Schimmelmann, or a certain Count Moltke.
Pflomm, who is American, lives in Copenhagen. When she moved to the city for a job, she was astonished to find that her apartment is across the street from Amaliegade 23, where Jonatan was living when he escaped to Iceland. Pflomm eventually hopes to make it to the small Icelandic fishing village where Jonatan lived out his days—by every account an upstanding citizen. "He seems like a guy I really wish I could have met," she says.
Posted by btx3 on January 18, 2018 in Black History
Tags: Black History, black slave, descendants, DNA, escaped, genome, hans jonatan, History, iceland
Depiddy Lawn Jockey Gets Slammed on Faux
Nice one by Eboni Williams.
Why isn't this clown in jail yet…For murder?
Fox News anchor swats down Sheriff David Clarke for disrespecting Rep. John Lewis
Controversial right-wing former Sheriff David Clarke got more than he bargained for when he tried to cast aspersions against the character and record of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA).
According to Mediaite.com, "Fox and Friends" weekend host Eboni Williams — who got her undergraduate degree in Communications and African-American studies before going on to graduate from Loyola University law school — decided not to let Clarke's talking points go by uncontested.
When asked what he thinks of Lewis' decision not to attend the opening of Mississippi's Civil Rights Museum, Clarke — who was busted for plagiarizing sections of his master's thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA — said, "John who?"
"John Lewis — he was bloodied on the Selma bridge, Sheriff, when trying to protest voting rights and a variety of other things," said Williams.
Clarke tried to smear Lewis as "the most irrelevant member of Congress" before Williams cut him off and said, "Sheriff let me say this to you. For you to say that nobody cares about John Lewis is inaccurate because I assure you that there are many people across this country that absolutely do care about him."
The former sheriff — who is accused of allowing an inmate to die of dehydration in a Milwaukee jail and of forcing a pregnant prisoner to give birth on the jailhouse floor, resulting in the death of her baby — tried to run to the bogus Republican talking pointthat Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act, which Williams corrected him on.
"I appreciate that history lesson but as somebody that holds a degree on the subject I really don't need you to update me on who was required for Lyndon B. Johnson to pass the Civil Rights Act," she said icily.
Posted by btx3 on December 10, 2017 in Black Conservatives, Faux News
Tags: Black History, civil rights, David Clarke, Depiddy Lawn Jockey, Eboni Williams, Faux News, Fox News, John Lewis, snackdown
The Black National Anthem
Remember singing this in the segregated elementary school I attended in Virginia. Remember proudly singing it at my brother's and cousin's graduation from Howard. Remember singing it instead of the Star Spangled Banner at events and protest marches in the 60's and 70's.
The Anthem was written by James Weldon Johnson
If you haven't heard it or experienced it –
Black Americans Have Our Own National Anthem. Stand Up and Sing It With Us.
It has been around for 117 years, after all.
On a cloudy day in May 2015, several hundred Howard University seniors, myself included, filed into the school's main quadrangle for commencement, a ceremony that kicked off with "The Star Spangled Banner." I can't honestly recall whether my fellow black students sang the words that day, but many typically did not. The America whose praises we were called upon to sing rarely returned the sentiment, and more often treated us like outcasts. We'd been reminded of this just weeks earlier, when Walter Scott of North Charleston, South Carolina, was shot in the backfive times while fleeing from a cop, the latest in a seemingly endless list of of black men to have their lives cut short by police officers.
But the crowd was galvanized as we moved to the next song on the program. It was one we usually sang as a matter of routine, but on that day we heard it as a rallying cry, and sang it proudly and passionately—fists raised skyward in defiant assertion of a blackness that we loved even if the rest of the nation did not. The song was "Lift Every Voice and Sing." For us, it had another name: the black national anthem.
James Weldon Johnson (right) and his brother J. Rosamond Johnson review sheet music for "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Unless you attended one of the historically black colleges that pair "Lift" with the official national anthem at ceremonies and sporting events, or you spent a lot of time in black churches, in black civil rights spaces, or in majority-black grade schools, you might never have heard the song. But for much of the last century it was a staple of black life in America.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was first unveiled at a school showcase in 1900 marking what would have been Abraham Lincoln's 91st birthday. It was penned by James Weldon Johnson, a graduate of the historically black Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta).
At the time, Johnson was a writer and the principal of a colored school in Jacksonville, Florida. (He later became a civil rights activist and US ambassador.) Members of the community had asked him to write a speech for the Lincoln affair. Instead, he wrote a hymn (his brother composed the music) and taught it to his 500 students.
Their performance was a hit. The song caught on in black Jacksonville and began spreading throughout the South. Churchgoers would even paste the lyrics on the backs of hymnals, says Imani Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University whose book about the song, May We Forever Stand, is due out in February. Black newspapers and journals published the lyrics to "Lift," and by 1906 they were calling it "an anthem for the Negro people." (Sheet music for the song was imprinted with the subtitle "Negro National Anthem" beginning in the 1960s.)
Dr Carter and the WSSU CHoir at Ellington
During the 1910s, many black schools and colleges—Howard included—adopted "Lift" for their graduation ceremonies, and the K-12 schools incorporated it into "daily or weekly rituals" according to Perry: "So kids are singing it at segregated schools at assemblies—sometimes every morning." The NAACP adopted "Lift" as its official song in 1921. (Johnson had become an executive in the organization.) And when Negro History Week (now Black History Month) was established five years later, Perry says, teachers started using the song to teach vocabulary and history.
Shana Redmond, a professor of musicology at the University of California-Los Angeles, says many of those teachers relied on "Lift" to "instill in their students those things that would best arm them" for a hostile world. "One of those things was about pride in self, about knowing your own heroes, your own ancestors."
At the time Johnson wrote his hymn, lynchings had recently hit their peak in the South, the fall of Reconstruction remained an open wound, and offensive caricatures of blackness were pervasive. Patriotic odes like "The Star Spangled Banner" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee" were popular, too, but black southerners were hungry for a cultural product that spoke to them.
"Lift" was that product. "It was the first widely circulated song that tells the story of black Americans, right at the time when black people are building institutional and civic life, as black people are imagining themselves," Perry says. Johnson depicted blackness as "proud and prideful, as progressing forward, and as enduring, as empowered," Redmond told me. "It was not solely an ode to this so-called Black Emancipator."
With words –
The 1814 poem that became "The Star Spangled Banner" was something radically different, coming from a slave owner who was open in his disdain for the black race. "There was a scorn for blackness," Redmond says. Many historians read part of Francis Scott Key's third stanza as a celebration of the deaths of slaves who escaped to fight against their captors, siding with the British during the War of 1812. "But it's also, to a certain extent, that blackness was not considered, in the least, part of the republic."
And whereas "Lift" speaks to a future black folks can aspire to, Redmond adds, the anthem "is really not about a future—other than a future already proscribed by what is assumed as a constant greatness."
So by 1931, when "The Star Spangled Banner" was officially codified as America's anthem, black people already had a song they were treating as their own—which spread further as African Americans migrated north and west during World War I, seeking new opportunities and fleeing the violence of Jim Crow. Black intellectuals debated over whether black Americans fighting for inclusion and enlisting in the military to defend their nation's overseas interests should insist on a separate anthem—Johnson, himself, preferred to call his song the national negro hymn. But there's "no evidence," Perry says, that black communities at large were "ambivalent" about the song.
During World War II, in fact, black servicemen, still in segregated units, sang "Lift" alongside the national anthem at sporting events and other formal assemblies on their bases, says Robert Jefferson, an expert on black military history at the University of New Mexico. "During the first half of the 20th century, that song is revered by the black American military."
The popularity of "Lift" waxed and waned over the years—it was usurped during the civil rights era by songs such as "We Shall Overcome" and "We Shall Not Be Moved." But in the 1970s, amid the Black Power movement, it was sometimes sung with an air of resistance. "People are singing the song with raised fists, dashikis, afros," says Perry, and black students at newly integrated schools fought to keep it in public school programs alongside the national anthem.
Indeed, the opening up of white spaces to African Americans has contributed to the song's decline. Following the gains of the Civil Rights movement, black people participated less in civic groups that sang the song in their rituals, Perry says. In 1985—roughly 20 years after Congress passed a law mandating the integration of public schools—an Ohio State University sociologist found that about one-third of black college students could no longer identify "Lift Every Voice and Sing." By that time, enrollment at black colleges and universities had dropped profoundly from their historic highs under Jim Crow. "It is inconceivable," the researcher wrote, "that African-American college students of even a decade ago would have responded in this fashion."
The spaces where black people hear "Lift" today are few and far between. We sometimes sing it in church, as I did growing up on the Southside of Chicago. It still can be heard at Black History Month programs and at formal gatherings of civil rights organizations like the NAACP and the National Urban League, and, of course, at HBCUs like my alma mater. But even HBCU students, decades removed from the song's heyday, don't necessarily feel connected to "Lift" in the way our grandparents or even our parents were, if my fellow Howard students and I were any indication. Few of us could sing past the first verse. My performance of it was usually pretty perfunctory. It wasn't until recently that I really thought about the words and discovered how much they resonated with me.
Buried in the history of black people's storied affair with "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a lesson on why we feel differently from white Americans about the NFL players who kneel during the national anthem: Because our relationship with the nation has been so fraught, black people have long felt ambivalent about the symbols and rituals of white America—which is why "Lift," written for us, by us, exists in the first place. Black folks are compelled to tell our stories on our own terms, and for us the story has been one of unceasing struggle and protest. How fitting, then, that we would use America's symbols to ink ourselves into its narrative.
Posted by btx3 on November 14, 2017 in Black History, BlackLivesMatter
Tags: Black History, lift every voice, national anthem, Negro National Anthem
A Bit of History – How Kenny Washington Integrated the NFL in 1946
My local NFL Team, the Washington Redskins was the last NFL Team to integrate, as as such were perennial losers. They even passed on drafting Jim Brown, who was one of the greatest running backs in league history. As such a lot of black folks in the Washington, DC area rooted for the Baltimore Colts of Johnny Unitas and John Mackey. The Colts had integrated their team in 1953, with George Taliaferro, Claude "Buddy" Young and Mel Embree.
70% of the players in the NFL today are black. Which provides an interestin context to the Chumph's racist attacks on the players.
When and how did the NFL integrate? Well, it started in 1946 with Kenny Washington and Woody Strode (of movie fame).
Interesting is the history of "The Forgotten Four", who integrated the NFL before Jackie Robinson integrated MLB.
The following provides a link to the full Documentary, which is free to watch.
Posted by btx3 on October 20, 2017 in Black History, Giant Negros
Tags: Black History, black players, integration, Kenny Washington, NFL
Kareem Cuts Loose
This IS – the Second American Revolution. Hopefully we can get rid of the hater in the white's only house peacefully.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar compares NFL fight to American Revolution
Weighing in on the simmering debate over football players kneeling during the national anthem, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar slammed President Trump and those who have criticized high-paid players for their apparent lack of gratitude.
"That's pretty much what the British said about the leaders of the American Revolution — the wealthy were making money by colluding with the British, so they should just be grateful. Fortunately, those leaders couldn't be bought off," Abdul-Jabbar said.
"The implication here is that black athletes should be grateful that they've been invited to dine with the white elites and if they want to keep their place at the table, they should keep dancing and smiling and keep their mouths shut. The myth of the Happy Negro needs to be dispelled once and for all."
In two interviews with International Business Times, the NBA legend said that he is encouraged that athletes are unifying in protest against racism that is "getting worse under the current administration" and against "the attempt to curtail the First Amendment by a rich, entitled white man who thinks only he should be allowed to speak freely."
Responding to IBT questions on Sept. 26, after a weekend in which the NFL protests had accelerated, Abdul-Jabbar praised the now-unemployed quarterback who started the "Take the Knee" movement a year ago.
"It's to Colin Kaepernick's credit that he was willing to protest institutional racism when he was almost alone and without much power," Abdul-Jabbar said. "His goal was to make America aware that there is an underlying racism present and that we need to address it. President Trump's statements at Charlottesville and about the NFL proved to many Americans that Colin was right. It's a testament to the bravery and commitment of all those other players, coaches, and owners across all sports who have joined in the protest."
The former Lakers center — who remains the league's all-time leading scorer — is no stranger to protest. He attended the famous "Ali Summit," in which he and other high-profile athletes stood in solidarity with Muhammed Ali as the boxer refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War. He also boycotted the 1968 Olympics. In recent years, he has written books and columns about political issues — and has publicly tangled with Trump. During the presidential campaign, Trump sent Abdul-Jabbar a handwritten noteslamming a column he wrote in the Washington Post.
Abdul-Jabbar denounced Trump for saying protesting athletes should be fired.
"I can think of instances when a president's opinion could be worthwhile, especially when trying to uphold principles of the Constitution or the well-being of the players," Abdul-Jabbar told IBT. "However, Trump's comments are direct attacks on the constitutional principles of free speech. For someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, this is either an example of immense ignorance or willful treason."
But asked whether sports team owners should be allowed to fire players for speaking out on political issues, Abdul-Jabbar acknowledged owners' potential concerns.
"Sports teams are a business and business owners have the right to punish players who the owners think might be harming their business," Abdul-Jabbar told IBT. "There is a risk when a player chooses to protest. Hopefully, the owners will take into consideration what is being protested and the passive, non-violent method of protest.
"Two things are being protested right now. The original issue of systemic racism is still around and getting worse under the current administration. But the second issue that has brought so many athletes together is the attempt to curtail the First Amendment by a rich, entitled white man who thinks only he should be allowed to speak freely."
Abdul-Jabbar also addressed the issue of white privilege, responding to a quote from Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who recently said: "Race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that unless it is talked about constantly, it is not going to get better. … People have to be made to feel uncomfortable; especially white people. We still have no clue of what being born white means."
"Coach Popovich is absolutely right and he stated it eloquently," Abdul-Jabbar told IBT. "Many white Americans are aware that white privilege is embedded in American society and are eager to fix this disparity. Others have been affected negatively by the economy so it's hard to see how they have any privilege when they are struggling so much. Naturally, it angers them to be told they have an advantage yet still are fighting for survival. It's like blaming them for not being more successful.
"However, this understandable resistance to the facts can be overcome by a consistent and persistent effort to educated open-minded people. This is difficult because systemic racism seems hidden and therefore easily overlooked. But it isn't hidden to those suffering from it. By exposing it — which these protests by athletes are trying to do — we have hope of overcoming it. Seeing all these athletes, coaches, and players across the different sports kneeling together and locking arms gives me more hope than I've felt for a while."
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of IBT's Sept. 7 discussion with Abdul-Jabbar, who has just published a book about his college experience as well as a graphic novel about the brother of Sherlock Holmes. Podcast subscribers can click here for the full conversation.
How did you first become politically aware and engaged? What turned you into a political activist?
For me, it started with the murder of Emmett Till. I was in the third grade when that happened. I didn't understand it. I saw his picture in Jet magazine, when his mother exposed his body to show what had happened to him. I thought it was horrible. I asked my parents about it and they really didn't have the words to explain it. It bothered me a lot.
I started paying attention to what was going on racially in our country. I kept silent about it, but it troubled me each year of my life at that time while I was in grade school. Things were happening because the civil rights movement was gaining more momentum. I got drawn into it that way, but the one incident that really was the critical moment for me was the murder of Emmett Till.
When you decided not to go to the Olympic Games, sports announcer Joe Garagiola suggested that you should leave the country. How did that feel? Do you think the same hostility to protests and dissent exists today?
I think Mr. Garagiola was voicing the sentiments of most conservative people because America was just great for them. But for a Black American, we had to put up with people being murdered and denied the most basic rights: the right to vote, the right to go into a restaurant and order a meal. These are very fundamental things. We had to use separate bathrooms. I got a chance to see all of that up close and personal. I didn't like it. I wanted it to change. I was voicing the feelings of almost every Black American at that time…
Posted by btx3 on September 28, 2017 in BlackLivesMatter, Chumph Butt Kicking, Domestic terrorism, Second American Revolution, The Definition of Racism, Trump Impeachment
Tags: Black History, civil rights, flag protests, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NFL, resistance, the struggle
Fighting Fascism – How the Nazis Tailored Discriminated Against Jews Based on American Jim Crow
Fantastic bit of history here. The neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and alt-right of today aren't any different than Hitler's Nazis.
Tuskeegee Airmen
761st Tank Batallion
A brief history of black Americans fighting fascism — from WWII to Charlottesville
In July 1943, one month after a race riot shook Detroit, Vice President Henry Wallace spoke to a crowd of union workers and civic groups:
"We cannot fight to crush Nazi brutality abroad and condone race riots at home. Those who fan the fires of racial clashes for the purpose of making political capital here at home are taking the first step toward Nazism."
The Pittsburgh Courier, a leading African-American newspaper at the time, praised Wallace for endorsing what they called the "Double V" campaign. The Double Victory campaign, launched by the Courier in 1942, became a rallying cry for black journalists, activists and citizens to secure both victory over fascism abroad during World War II and victory over racism at home.
There is a historical relationship between Nazism and white supremacy in the United States. Yet the recent resurgence of explicit racism, including the attack in Charlottesville, has been greeted by many with surprise. Just look at the #thisisnotwhoweare hashtag.
As a scholar of African-American history, I am troubled by the collective amnesia in U.S. politics and media around racism. It permeates daily interactions in communities across the country. This ignorance has consequences. When Americans celebrate the country's victory in WWII, but forget that the U.S. armed forces were segregated, that the Red Cross segregated blood donors or that many black WWII veterans returned to the country only to be denied jobs or housing, it becomes all the more difficult to talk honestly about racism today.
Nazis and Jim Crow
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime rose to power in the 1930s, black-run newspapers quickly recognized that the Third Reich saw the American system of race law as a model. Describing a plan to segregate Jews on German railways, the New York Amsterdam News wrote that Nazis were "taking a leaf from United States Jim Crow practices."
The Chicago Defender noted that "the practice of jim-crowism has already been adopted by the Nazis." A quote from the official newspaper of the SS, the Nazi paramilitary organization, on the origins of the railway ban stated:
"In the freest country in the world, where even the president rages against racial discrimination, no citizen of dark color is permitted to travel next to a white person, even if the white is employed as a sewer digger and the Negro is a world boxing champion or otherwise a national hero…[this] example shows us all how we have to solve the problem of traveling foreign Jews."
In making connections between Germany and the United States, black journalists and activists cautioned that Nazi racial ideology was not solely a foreign problem. A New York Amsterdam News editorial argued in 1935:
"If the Swastika is an emblem of racial oppression, the Stars and Stripes are equally so. This country has consistently refused to recognize one-tenth of its population as an essential part of humanity…It has systematically encouraged the mass murder of these people through bestial mobs, through denial of economic opportunity, through terrorization."
Victory at home
When the United States entered WWII, African-Americans joined the fight to defeat fascism abroad. Meanwhile, the decades-long fight on the home front for equal access to employment, housing, education and voting rights continued.
These concerns prompted James G. Thompson, a 26-year-old from Wichita, Kansas, to write to the editors of the Pittsburgh Courier. His letter sparked the Double Victory campaign. Considering his service in the U.S. Army, which was racially segregated during WWII, Thompson wrote:
"Being an American of dark complexion and some 26 years, these questions flash through my mind: 'Should I sacrifice my life to live half American?' 'Will things be better for the next generation in the peace to follow?'…'Is the kind of America I know worth defending?'"
For Thompson and other African-Americans, defeating Nazi Germany and the Axis powers was only half the battle. Winning the war would be only a partial victory if the United States did not also overturn racial discrimination at home.
These ideals seemed particularly far away in the summer of 1943, when racial violence raged across the country. In addition to the riot in Detroit, there were more than 240 reports of interracial battles in cities and at military bases, including in Harlem, Los Angeles, Mobile, Philadelphia and Beaumont, Texas.
These events inspired Langston Hughes' poem, "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943":
"Looky here, America / What you done done / Let things drift / Until the riots come […] You tell me that hitler / Is a mighty bad man / I guess he took lessons from the ku klux klan […] I ask you this question / Cause I want to know / How long I got to fight / BOTH HITLER — AND JIM CROW."
The end of Hughes' poem calls to mind the swastikas and Confederate flags that were prominently displayed in Charlottesville and at other white supremacist rallies. These symbols and ideologies have long and intertwined histories in the U.S.
Advocates of the Double Victory campaign understood that Nazism would not be completely vanquished until white supremacy was defeated everywhere. In linking fascism abroad and racism at home, the Double Victory campaign issued a challenge to America that remains unanswered.
Posted by btx3 on August 22, 2017 in Black History, The New Jim Crow
Tags: alt-right, Black History, Double V, fascism, fighting fascism, Jim Crow, KKK, nazi, neo-nazies, white supremacists, WWII
The Silent March
With the rise of the Second KKK, and the election of extremely racist President Wilson (Probably the most racist President until Trump in history), America was at War both in Europe and at home.
The KKK serially attacked 20 black communities in what were euphemistically called "Race riots" by the media of the time, as well as conducted lynchings. While the efforts and protests had an impact, what finally stopped the carnage was black folks shooting back – most notably in the attack on the black community of Washington, DC in July of 1919.
This peaceful March in 1917 set the stage for black resistance, and in many ways is the grandfather of today's BLM Movement.
Silent Protest parade on Fifth Avenue, New York City, July 28, 1917, in response to the East St. Louis race riot. In front row are James Weldon Johnson (far right), W. E. B. DuBois (2nd from right), Rev. Hutchens Chew Bishop, rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Harlem) and realtor John E. Nail.(Credit: New York Public Library (public domain))
100 years ago African-Americans marched down 5th Avenue to declare that black lives matter
Nearly 10,000 African-Americans participated in the "Silent Protest Parade"
The only sounds were those of muffled drums, the shuffling of feet and the gentle sobs of some of the estimated 20,000 onlookers. The women and children wore all white. The men dressed in black.
On the afternoon of Saturday, July 28, 1917, nearly 10,000 African-Americans marched down Fifth Avenue, in silence, to protest racial violence and white supremacy in the United States.
New York City, and the nation, had never before witnessed such a remarkable scene.
The "Silent Protest Parade," as it came to be known, was the first mass African-American demonstration of its kind and marked a watershed moment in the history of the civil rights movement. As I have written in my book "Torchbearers of Democracy," African-Americans during the World War I era challenged racism both abroad and at home. In taking to the streets to dramatize the brutal treatment of black people, the participants of the "Silent Protest Parade" indicted the United States as an unjust nation.
This charge remains true today.
One hundred years later, as black people continue to insist that "Black Lives Matter," the "Silent Protest Parade" offers a vivid reminder about the power of courageous leadership, grassroots mobilization, direct action and their collective necessity in the fight to end racial oppression in our current troubled times.
Racial violence and the East St. Louis Riot
One of the great accomplishments of the Black Lives Matter movement has been to demonstrate the continuum of racist violence against black people throughout American history and also the history of resistance against it. But as we continue to grapple with the hyper-visibility of black death, it is perhaps easy to forget just how truly horrific racial violence against black people was a century ago.
Prior to the "Silent Protest Parade," mob violence and the lynching of African-Americans had grown even more gruesome. In Waco, a mob of 10,000 white Texans attended the May 15, 1916, lynching of a black farmer, Jesse Washington. One year later, on May 22, 1917, a black woodcutter, Ell Persons, died at the hands of over 5,000 vengeance-seeking whites in Memphis. Both men were burned and mutilated, their charred body parts distributed and displayed as souvenirs.
Even by these grisly standards, East St. Louis later that same summer was shocking. Simmering labor tensions between white and black workers exploded on the evening of July 2, 1917.
For 24 hours, white mobs indiscriminately stabbed, shot and lynched anyone with black skin. Men, women, children, the elderly, the disabled — no one was spared. Homes were torched and occupants shot down as they attempted to flee. White militia men stood idly by as the carnage unfolded. Some actively participated. The death toll likely ran as high as 200 people.
The city's surviving 6,000 black residents became refugees.
East St. Louis was an American pogrom. The fearless African-American anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells traveled to the still smoldering city on July 4 and collected firsthand accounts of the aftermath. She described what she saw as an "awful orgy of human butchery."
The devastation of East St. Louis was compounded by the fact that America was at war. On April 2, President Woodrow Wilson had thrown the United States into the maelstrom of World War I. He did so by asserting America's singularly unique place on the global stage and his goal to make the world "safe for democracy." In the eyes of black people, East St. Louis exposed the hypocrisy of Wilson's vision and America itself.
The NAACP takes action
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoplequickly responded to the massacre. Founded in 1909, the NAACP had yet to establish itself as a truly representative organization for African-Americans across the country. With the exception of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the NAACP's co-founders and editor of The Crisis magazine, the national leadership was all white. Branches were overwhelmingly located in the North, despite the majority of African-Americans residing below the Mason-Dixon line. As a result, the NAACP had largely failed to respond with a sense of urgency to the everyday horrors endured by the masses of black folk.
James Weldon Johnson changed things. Lawyer, diplomat, novelist, poet and songwriter, Johnson was a true African-American renaissance man. In 1916, Johnson joined the NAACP as a field secretary and made an immediate impact. In addition to growing the organization's southern membership, Johnson recognized the importance of expanding the influence of the NAACP's existing branches beyond the black elite.
Johnson raised the idea of a silent protest march at an executive committee meeting of the NAACP Harlem branch shortly after the East St. Louis riot. Johnson also insisted that the protest include the city's entire black community. Planning quickly got underway, spearheaded by Johnson and local black clergymen.
A historic day
By noon on July 28, several thousand African-Americans had begun to assemble at 59th Street. Crowds gathered along Fifth Avenue. Anxious New York City police officers lined the streets, aware of what was about to take place but, with clubs at the ready, prepared for trouble.
At approximately 1 p.m., the protest parade commenced. Four men carrying drums began to slowly, solemnly play. A group of black clergymen and NAACP officials made up the front line. W.E.B. Du Bois, who had recently returned from conducting an NAACP investigation in East St. Louis, and James Weldon Johnson marched side by side.
The parade was a stunning spectacle. At the front, women and children wearing all-white gowns symbolized the innocence of African-Americans in the face of the nation's guilt. The men, bringing up the rear and dressed in dark suits, conveyed both a mournful dignity and stern determination to stand up for their rights as citizens.
They carried signs and banners shaming America for its treatment of black people. Some read, "Your hands are full of blood," "Thou Shalt Not Kill," "Mothers, do lynchers go to heaven?" Others highlighted the wartime context and the hollowness of America's ideals: "We have fought for the liberty of white Americans in six wars; our reward was East St. Louis," "Patriotism and loyalty presuppose protection and liberty," "Make America safe for Democracy."
Throughout the parade, the marchers remained silent. The New York Times described the protest as "one of the most quiet and orderly demonstrations ever witnessed." The silence was finally broken with cheers when the parade concluded at Madison Square.
Legacy of the Silent Protest Parade
The "Silent Protest Parade" marked the beginning of a new epoch in the long black freedom struggle. While adhering to a certain politics of respectability, a strategy employed by African-Americans that focused on countering racist stereotypes through dignified appearance and behavior, the protest, within its context, constituted a radical claiming of the public sphere and a powerful affirmation of black humanity. It declared that a "New Negro" had arrived and launched a black public protest tradition that would be seen in the parades of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s and the Black Lives Matter marches of today.
The "Silent Protest Parade" reminds us that the fight against racist violence and the killing of black people remains just as relevant now as it did 100 years ago. Black death, whether at the hands of a Baton Rouge police officer or white supremacist in Charleston, is a specter that continues to haunt this nation. The expendability of black bodies is American tradition, and history speaks to the long endurance of this violent legacy.
But history also offers inspiration, purpose and vision.
Ida B. Wells, James Weldon Johnson and other freedom fighters of their generation should serve as models for activists today. That the "Silent Protest Parade" attracted black people from all walks of life and backgrounds attests to the need for organizations like the NAACP, following its recent national convention, to remember and embrace its origins. And, in building and sustaining the current movement, we can take lessons from past struggles and work strategically and creatively to apply them to the present.
Because, at their core, the demands of black people in 2017 remain the same as one of the signs raised to the sky on that July afternoon in 1917:
"Give me a chance to live."
Posted by btx3 on July 29, 2017 in The Post-Racial Life
Tags: 1917, Black History, black lives matter, James Weldon Johnson, NAACP, race riots. KKK, Silent March, woodrow wilson


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Q: Multiple if statement in list comprehension I have a python list that needs to be converted to a tuple, I also need to add a additional check to check the list element type and convert them to tuple
for example:
row_data = ['map',[10,20]]

row_data = tuple(d._get_pk_val() if hasattr(d, '_get_pk_val') else d if type(d) is list else d for d in row_data)
print row_data

result
row_data == ('map', [10, 20])
Expected result

row_data == ('map', (10, 20))

Need to add multiple ifs within the list comprehension and each having its own output.

A: this should work -
row_data = ['map',[10,20]]

row_data = tuple(d._get_pk_val() if hasattr(d, '_get_pk_val') else tuple(d) if type(d) is list else d for d in row_data)
print(row_data)

Output: ('map', (10, 20))

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The Glorious King: Dec. 24 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made…
The Resurrection: Dec. 23 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of…
The Crucified King: Dec. 22 As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among…
The Anointed One: Dec. 21 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his…
The Willing Sacrifice: Dec. 20 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the…
The Bread of Life: Dec. 19 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but…
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The Fountain: Dec. 18 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out,"If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been…
Who is This? – Dec. 17 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on…
The Obedient Son: Dec. 16 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." But he answered, "It is written,"'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word…
The Serpent Seeks the Son: Dec. 15 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained…
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Home » Minnesota device-makers join forces with FDA to advance regulatory science
Minnesota device-makers join forces with FDA to advance regulatory science
December 8, 2011 By MassDevice staff
The FDA made it official with LifeScience Alley, a Minnesota-based medical device lobbying group, signing a memorandum of understanding on the continued development of best practices in regulatory science.
Center for Devices & Radiological health chief Dr. Jeffrey Shuren signed the memorandum yesterday, formalizing more than a year of joint effort toward developing regulatory science – a set of tools and methods for evaluating the safety, effectiveness, quality and performance of medical devices.
If the pilot version of the program works in Minnesota, it may serve as a national model for device safety and clearance.
"This agreement represents a critical step in the process of realigning the day-to-day interactions between medical device companies and the FDA," LifeScience Alley and Alliance of Minnesota president & CEO Dale Wahlstrom said in prepared remarks. "It builds the foundation for specific projects that will improve the environment in which the medical device industry is operating, which will help to ensure the availability of life-enhancing and life-saving devices for patients."
The memorandum notes that CDRH and LifeScience Alley have shared goals in advancing regulatory science, and forms the basis for development of scientific and intellectual collaborations, education and outreach, according to a press release.
The partners recently organized a meeting of more than 35 Minnesota med-tech industry professionals to discuss their research and other matters of concern with officials from CDRH's office of science and engineering laboratories.
"The FDA's approach to regulation must be as smart and as innovative as the products we review," Shuren said in prepared remarks. "This MOU represents the beginning of important collaboration among industry, government and academia to strengthen the medical device industry and assure that Americans benefit from safe and effective medical products."
Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well Tagged With: 510(k) reforms, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Medical Alley


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Home NEWS Buhari Has Not Done Enough To Deserve Re-election – Civil Society Group
Buhari Has Not Done Enough To Deserve Re-election – Civil Society Group
Olu Jameson Media November 30, 2017 NEWS,
President Muhammadu Buhari has been told by a Civil Society Group to focus on fulfilling his campaign promises instead of seeking re-election.
A civil society group, Sage Africa, has said President Muhammadu Buhari should focus on fulfilling his electoral promises as he has not done enough to deserve re-election.
The group added that President Buhari should not be nursing the hope of a second term in office at this point in time when Nigerians are disillusioned with his administration, describing it as "lacking coherence."
According to Punch, the Sage Africa Director, Joshua Asubiojo revealed this on Thursday in Abuja and observed that government action and policies had worsened the unemployment rate in the country, adding that "a record number of Nigerians had lost their jobs under this government."
The activist cited the termination of the contract between the Nigerian Ports Authority and Intels Nigeria Ltd., noting that the move was meant to cripple the presidential ambition of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who owned the firm.
Asubiojo argued that the action of the government constituted a breach of the binding contract between the firm and NPA, stressing that the sacking of Intels and the revocation of its expatriates' residency was "malicious and done in bad faith."
He said the deportation threat against the expatriates working in Intels would send a wrong message to foreign investors about the political and economic climate in the country.
Asubiojo said, "President Muhammadu Buhari has not done enough to deserve a second term in office; he has largely failed to fulfill his electoral promise.
"He has also failed to empower the youths as he promised. A high number of agencies are without heads, making them directionless.
"Buhari's plan to seek re-election is a slap on Nigerians' (faces)."
The Sage Africa South-South Coordinator, Clive Igbinevbo, said the sacking of Intels might worsen the unemployment rate in the region and lead to more job losses across the country.
"The government should be taking decisions that would attract investment and create jobs, rather than embarking on punitive action against business owners who are seen as constituting a threat to the President's second term ambition," Igbinevbo noted.
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Lifestyle choices that impair blood circulation can contribute to ED. Smoking, excessive drinking, and drug abuse may damage the blood vessels and reduce blood flow to the penis. Smoking makes men with atherosclerosis particularly vulnerable to ED. Being overweight and getting too little exercise also contribute to ED. Studies indicate that men who exercise regularly have a lower risk of ED.
This penile tumescence monitor is placed at the base and near the corona of the penis. It is connected to a monitor that records a continuous graph depicting the force and duration of erections that occur during sleep. The monitor is strapped to the leg. The nocturnal penile tumescence test is conducted on several nights to obtain an accurate indication of erections that normally occur during the alpha phase of sleep.
ICI therapy often produces a reliable erection, which comes down after 20-30 minutes or with climax. Since the ICI erection is not regulated by your penile nerves, you should not be surprised if the erection lasts after orgasm. The most common side effect of ICI therapy is a prolonged erection. Prolonged erections (>1 hour) can be reversed by a second injection (antidote) in the office.
Organic Impotence. Diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease, and dysfunction of the pituitary gland or testes can cause impotence, as can certain medications. Other organic causes include arterial ischemia associated with atherosclerosis of the aorta and common iliac arteries, extensive pelvic surgery such as radical prostatectomy, spinal cord injury and other neurologic disorders, and a history of cigarette smoking. Because certain medications can cause impotence, it is recommended that in cases of recent impotence it be determined whether the patient has started on a new drug. The most common offenders are diuretics, antihypertensives, and vasodilators. Alcohol, which sometimes is ignored as a drug, is often a contributor to the problem of impotence.
Penile erection is managed by two mechanisms: the reflex erection, which is achieved by directly touching the penile shaft, and the psychogenic erection, which is achieved by erotic or emotional stimuli. The former uses the peripheral nerves and the lower parts of the spinal cord, whereas the latter uses the limbic system of the brain. In both cases, an intact neural system is required for a successful and complete erection. Stimulation of the penile shaft by the nervous system leads to the secretion of nitric oxide (NO), which causes the relaxation of smooth muscles of corpora cavernosa (the main erectile tissue of penis), and subsequently penile erection. Additionally, adequate levels of testosterone (produced by the testes) and an intact pituitary gland are required for the development of a healthy erectile system. As can be understood from the mechanisms of a normal erection, impotence may develop due to hormonal deficiency, disorders of the neural system, lack of adequate penile blood supply or psychological problems.[18] Spinal cord injury causes sexual dysfunction including ED. Restriction of blood flow can arise from impaired endothelial function due to the usual causes associated with coronary artery disease, but can also be caused by prolonged exposure to bright light.
Sexual functioning involves a complex interaction among biologic, sociocultural, and psychological factors, and the complexity of this interaction makes it difficult to ascertain the clinical etiology of sexual dysfunction. Before any diagnosis of sexual dysfunction is made, problems that are explained by a nonsexual mental disorder or other stressors must first be addressed. Thus, in addition to the criteria for erectile disorder, the following must be considered:
ED can also occur among younger men. A 2013 study found that one in four men seeking their first treatment for ED were under the age of 40. The researchers found a stronger correlation between smoking and illicit drug use and ED in men under 40 than among older men. That suggests that lifestyle choices may be a main contributing factor for ED in younger men.
And surgery comes with its own serious risks, such as developing incontinence or impotence, while radiation can result in urinary problems. — Peter Loftus, WSJ, "Surgery Adds Three Years to Lives of Prostate-Cancer Patients, Study Finds," 12 Dec. 2018 Male-impotence pill Viagra began facing generic competition late last year, while the Lyrica pain treatment is expected to confront generics at the end of this year. — Jonathan D. Rockoff, WSJ, "Pfizer Narrows Guidance on Tougher Pricing, Generic Competition," 30 Oct. 2018 Arkham Horror Third Edition is a classic struggle of agency versus impotence, set in the uncanny world of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, "Arkham Horror Third Edition: The classic Lovecraft adventure returns," 24 Nov. 2018 There's obviously a lot of anger and frustration here toward the US government at the moment—along with side effects like bottled rage and sometimes a creeping sense of ineptitude or impotence about our ability to do anything about it. — Corey Seymour, Vogue, "Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova On Her New Guide To Activism, Raising The Next President Of Russia, And Her "Holy War" On Fairy Tales," 12 Oct. 2018 In exchange for political impotence, they would be mostly left alone and allowed to get rich. — Paul Mozur, New York Times, "Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras," 8 July 2018 Their suspicion is compounded by rumors that the polio vaccine causes impotence, death and, ironically, paralysis. — Meher Ahmad, New York Times, "Pakistan Has Just One New Polio Case, but Isn't Declaring Victory Yet," 20 May 2018 Fighting back, even as an exercise in impotence, did a lot for McCain. — Alex Horton, Washington Post, "John McCain rebelled at the Naval Academy — and as a POW — long before he was a Senate maverick," 3 May 2018 Feelings of desperation and impotence are being felt throughout Central America, where the lawlessness, endemic poverty and levels of gang violence akin to war zones that have driven so many families from their homes show little signs of abating. — Washington Post, "Violence keeps Central Americans coming to US despite Trump," 21 June 2018
Before taking any medication for erectile dysfunction, including over-the-counter supplements and herbal remedies, get your doctor's OK. Medications for erectile dysfunction do not work in all men and might be less effective in certain conditions, such as after prostate surgery or if you have diabetes. Some medications might also be dangerous if you:
Diabetes is an example of an endocrine disease that can cause a person to experience impotence. Diabetes affects the body's ability to utilize the hormone insulin. One of the side effects associated with chronic diabetes is nerve damage. This affects penis sensations. Other complications associated with diabetes are impaired blood flow and hormone levels. Both of these factors can contribute to impotence.
Inflatable prostheses are complex mechanical devices that imitate the natural process of erection. Parts are inserted surgically into the penis and scrotum, and activated by squeezing. When erection is no longer desired, a valve on the pump is pressed, and the penis becomes flaccid. Self-contained single-unit prostheses are similar to the inflatable types, but more compact. The entire device is implanted into the penis. When erection is desired, the unit is activated by either squeezing or bending, depending on which of the two types of self-contained prostheses is used.
The vacuum device creates a vacuum to pull blood into the penis. Unlike a normal erection, the inflow of blood does not continue once the individual removes the vacuum device. The rubber band placed at the base of the penis constricts the penis to prevent the blood from leaving the penis. As there is no inflow or outflow of blood when the rubber band is in place, it is uncommon for the tip of the penis (the glans) to appear a little blue and the penis to be cooler. Once intercourse is completed, the individual removes the rubber band and the blood drains out of the penis.
PDE5 inhibitors, the primary second-line therapy, have been the mainstay of ED treatment since the release of sildenafil (Viagra) in 1998, with the subsequent development of many others, and still more in the development stage. These medications do improve erectile quality for the majority of men, and they work by enhancing blood flow in the corpora cavernosa. These medications are generally used on demand and need to be taken about an hour before sexual intimacy. Tadalafil (Cialis) is longer acting and does come in a daily preparation potentially eliminating the 'on-demand' need. The daily dosing of tadalafil, 2.5–5 mg\day, has also been approved by the FDA for treatment of symptoms of BPH.41 PDE5 inhibitors are contraindicated in men taking nitrates, but otherwise PDE5 inhibitors are very safe and effective. When PDE5 inhibitors are coadministered with nitrates, pronounced systemic vasodilation and severe hypotension are possible. Many patients with ED are elderly and have the same risk factors as patients with CAD, so these drug combinations are commonly considered or encountered in clinical practice.42
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An occasional problem achieving an erection is nothing to worry about. But failure to do so more than 50% of the time at any age may indicate a condition that needs treatment. About 40% of men in their 40s report at least occasional problems getting and maintaining erections. So do more than half (52%) of men aged 40 to 70, and about 70% of men in their 70s.
Of the drugs used for depression, tricyclic antidepressants may be associated with erectile problems and other drugs may be substituted to prevent this complication. Currently available substitutes include bupropion, nefazodone, and trazodone. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (eg, fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, citalopram) can also cause difficulties with ED, but they might also have other significant sexual side effects, including decreased libido and anorgasmia.
Soler et al. compared sildenafil to vardenafil and tadalafil (69). Sildenafil was effective in 85% of SCI patients, 74% of the patients on vardenafil and 72% of the patients on tadalafil. Sildenafil was associated with more rigid and longer lasting erections. Additionally, 50 mg of sildenafil was effective in 55% of patients compared to more than 70% of the patients on vardenafil and tadalafil requiring 20 mg for a similar response. Men who used tadalafil were able to achieve erections 24 hours after administration, improving overall satisfaction related to the possible spontaneity of sexual encounters. Del Popolo also evaluated the time/duration effectiveness of PDE5i sildenafil 50 mg versus tadalafil 10 mg (64). Tadalafil 10 mg significantly increased the percentage of successful intercourse attempts at 12–24 hours compared with sildenafil. One can suspect that vardenafil, which has a longer half-life than sildenafil, could offer a similar benefit but a study investigating this occurrence has yet to be performed.
In the 14 years or so since Viagra was introduced in 1998, the number of men diagnosed with erectile dysfunction (ED) has increased by a whopping 250 percent. Men are realizing more and more that they're not alone and that they have options. Aside from pills like Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis, for example, there are surgical, therapeutic, even do-it-yourself treatments that can bring back that lovin' feeling. "Some older ED treatments are actually being used more than ever, especially for men who can't take the pill," says Michael Feloney, MD, a urologist at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Read on to find out about nine common remedies for ED, plus the truth about which ones live up to the hype and which fall flat.
Poor sleep patterns can be a contributing factor for erectile dysfunction, Mucher says. One review published in the journal Brain Research emphasized the intricate relationship between the level of sex hormones like testosterone, sexual function, and sleep, noting that testosterone levels increase with improved sleep, and lower levels are associated with sexual dysfunction. Hormone secretion is controlled by the body's internal clock, and sleep patterns likely help the body determine when to release certain hormones.
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is commonly called impotence. It's a condition in which a man can't achieve or maintain an erection during sexual performance. Symptoms may also include reduced sexual desire or libido. Your doctor is likely to diagnose you with ED if the condition lasts for more than a few weeks or months. ED affects as many as 30 million men in the United States.
Another potential new treatment consists of penile low-intensity shock wave lithotripsy. This consists of 1500 shocks twice a week for 3–6 weeks. The purpose is to stimulate neovascularisation to the corporal bodies with improvement in penile blood flow and endothelial function. The use of low-intensity shock wave lithotripsy may convert PDE5 inhibitor non-responders to responders.47
There are many effective treatments for impotence. The most popular is a class of drugs called phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors. These include sildenafil (Viagra), vardenafil (Levitra), tadalafil (Cialis) and avanafil (STENDRA). These drugs are taken in pill form. They work in most men. But they are less effective in men with neurological causes of impotence.
The inability to achieve or sustain a sufficiently firm penile erection (tumescence) to allow normal vaginal sexual intercourse. The great majority of cases are not caused by organic disease and most men experience occasional periods of impotence. It is often related to anxiety about performance and is usually readily corrected by simple counselling methods which prescribe sensual massage but forbid coitus. Organic impotence may be caused by DIABETES, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, spinal cord disorders and heart disease. Many cases can be helped by the drug SILDENAFIL (Viagra).
The various PDE5 inhibitors for the treatment of ED share several common side effects, including headache, flushing, nasal congestion, nausea, dyspepsia (stomach discomfort), and diarrhea. Differences exist in side effects of the different PDE5 inhibitors, and thus it is important to be familiar with the prescribing information of the PDE5 inhibitor you are prescribed.
ICI Alprostadil may be used as a mixture with two other drugs to treat ED. This combination therapy called "bimix or trimix" is stronger than alprostadil alone and has become standard treatment for ED. Only the Alprostadil ingredient is FDA approved for ED. The amount of each drug used can be changed based on the severity of your ED, by an experienced health professional. You will be trained by your health professional on how to inject, how much to inject and how to safely raise the drug's dosage if necessary.


Can you believe that for as slowwwwly as January went by, Valentine's Day is next week? And that means February will be half way over! Maybe a speedy February is our reward for surviving January… Anyway, Valentine's Day is next week! Do you have plans to stay in? If you do, that's awesome! I love a low key evening in with my sweetheart, especially when a thoughtful dinner is part of it. We are staying in and going out this year, which is kind of different. Most of the time we stay in or go out, but never both.
There is a new-ish distillery in our area that is only open Thursday through Sunday, so while we were with our friends this past weekend we thought it would be fun to check it out on Valentine's Day! But they don't have food, and it's a weeknight, so arranging dinner for a group before heading over to the distillery is a bit much. We'll have dinner at home and then meet up with our friends. Best of both worlds! Now I just need to figure out what to make for dinner.
Of course, as usual, Pinterest has me covered! Let's take a look at some recipes that are perfect for a special evening in, Valentine's Day, a dinner party with good friends and any other day that calls for a something a little extra.
How amazing does this roast beef from Olivia's Cuisine look? OMG. I am so hungry- now may not be the best time to be working on this post, lol! Especially when we're having not-so-exciting leftovers tonight… Anyway- I am adding this to my list now because my husband would devour this alongside some garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus or roasted Brussels sprouts. This is perfect for an evening in with a bottle of good red wine, some crusty bread and quiet conversation.
This is actually my recipe for palomino sauce and it is SO GOOD. It is by far our favorite way to "dress up" store bought pasta sauce. It's easy and everyone here loves it. It's kind of a pink color, so it's great for Valentine's Day, too. Add Italian sausage or meatballs if your sweetie is a carnivore.
We love salmon and I usually make it at least twice a month. This salmon wellington from 31 Daily looks amazing! Mushrooms, spinach and dill add great flavor and who doesn't love anything wrapped in puff pastry?
Beef tenderloin is always a treat at our house. We usually have it for Christmas, along with crab legs, and it is so tender and delicious. Valentine's Day definitely calls for a special occasion dinner and this beef tenderloin from the Striped Spatula is perfect. It can be paired with your favorite vegetables and potatoes for an amazing meal you'll both love.
These seared scallops from Julia's Album look fantastic! This would be so good served over pasta. Plus, bacon is the definition of love, right?
When I see recipes like this they really make me wish my husband liked goat cheese! It's one of my favorites and I wish I was able to cook with it more often. This Chicken with Goat Cheese and Caramelized Onion from A Dish of Daily Life looks so good! And it combines three of my favorite things: breaded chicken, caramelized onions & goat cheese. Like the tenderloin, just about any of your favorite veggies and potatoes would work perfectly with this dish.
Pork tenderloin is one of my favorite foods to make for dinner parties. It's inexpensive, can be prepared 101 ways and is always excellent. This pork tenderloin stuffed with bacon & dried cherries from the Frugal Hausfrau looks so tasty!
I know I recommend this recipe all. the. time. But I have a question for you: have you made it yet?!! It's seriously amazing. I have been making this beef ragu from Pinch of Yum once a month or so. The beef ragu is made in the crockpot, so this is a great recipe for a weeknight Valentine's Day dinner. You're going to LOVE this recipe. I bet it becomes one of your favorites!
Not gonna lie, I love pasta. I think I could eat pasta with a nice, crusty bread and a glass of wine every single night. This pasta with shrimp and bacon from Salt and Lavender looks terrific!
What I love most about doing these roundups is finding all of these recipes I can't wait to make! This panko crusted chicken piccata from Neighbor Food is going on my "to make" list asap. This looks amazing, and from the recipe it is easy enough to make on a weeknight.
So what will you be making this Valentine's Day? We have about a week to decide!
Looking for a new drink to try with your perfect dinner this Valentine's Day? Then check out our post on 7 Gorgeous Rose Gold Cocktails. They are sure to make your dinner even more perfect.
Be sure to check out our Valentine's Day board on Pinterest for tons of great ideas!