Western culture’s adherents think engulfing Barbarism, Theft, Slavery, Ecocide, and Genocide in Legality, Pomp, and Formality makes them civilized. “Civilized” people will sit by and allow all types of atrocities and the very destruction of the world’s ecosystems as long as there are laws, regulations, technological efficiencies, and a sterilizing distance between them and the crimes committed on their behalf. Too many...
Black people have been Trained/Brutalized/Manipulated to see it as negative to act, think, or even speak in the exclusive support of Black people or in our interest. For other Races, who’ve never been, or liberated themselves from colonization it is considered not just common sense, but a National duty to consider their People’s interest above all else and to inflate the positive over the negative when reflecting on their history...
During Chattel Slavery our ancestors sang songs of liberation, coded songs that would help guide those who were daring enough to take the risk to freedom in the North, or deeper South. Songs like Wade in the Water & Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd. These songs were sang through the Slave Quarters, and in the fields, and wherever you found enslaved Africans. Today, as I live in my (poor Black) community, and visit Hoods all over the US I...
I was really pissed off when KRS-One did the voice over for this commercial. The BlastMaster actually said “the Revolution is about Basketball & Basketball is the truth,” while speaking over Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” track. I couldn’t believe my ears, I even felt betrayed as a long time student, not fan but student of “the Teacha.” How could he do such a thing?!?...
As the Donald Sterling controversy winds down and we await the next Atrocity or Racist Incident to hit the corporate media, can we use that gap in Black Reactionary Excitement to do some rational planning and organizing for fundamental Liberation and Empowerment? The people who are willing to sit at the table and take it to the streets when the corporate media isn’t whipping them into a frenzy are the ones you want at the table. You can do...
I don’t teach my sons to only not hit women, but to not hit or harm men, animals, or the personal property of others, I even teach them to avoid harming insects…. …unless that man, woman, animal, or insect becomes a threat to them, or to those you are responsible for, then I instruct them to exert the needed amount of force to end/subdue/balance the violent or harmful situation. Removing a person’s right of self defense...
The US, since the end of the Civil Rights era has successfully created what Dr Claud Anderson calls; “a permanent Black underclass.” The US economy has entered it’s 4th-5th decade with a large population of unneeded Black workers, and has yet to offer anything more then false promises of employment if our youth jump through all the hoops, or mass incarceration as the youth enter the “underground economy.” Blacks...
If the Bible is the word of the Almighty, All-Knowing, Perfect God, how can man misrepresent, manipulate, edit, distort, and even misinterpret The Word? There are hundreds of Versions of the Bible, there are collections of deleted Books of the Bible, there are thousands of denominations based on the Bible, and millions of contradicting interpretations of the Bible. God is even incapable of properly managing his image, he has been shown as...