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Help support Mrs. Mingo's ClassroomThe students at Little Black Pearl are creative, imaginative, and fun! These young people know and understand technology, to an extent. However, making it a personal part of their day, will help transfer their digital knowledge to practical, advanced, composition and literary work. I am excited when I think about this group of young people. LBP is a small school. We are a high school with only 200 students. The...

It seems as though everyone enjoyed the activity, but for some reason I have this unsettling sickness in the pit of my stomach. I just don’t see how they could clump all oppressions together. “Black” was on the list which is obviously where I chose, there was also “queer, undocumented, woman, jewish, atheist, unemployed, etc.” I don’t want to get into an oppression competition but I honestly don’t see how most of those can compare to blacks oppression. Am I wrong for thinking this?

“Blacks are Oppressed, Whites are Exploited.” - Kwame TureOppression comes from outside your culture, and requires you to overthrow, destroy, or oust the alien/foreign culture (from your land/mind) to be free. The Oppressed must go to war with all elements within system that Oppresses them. There can be no compromise or reform; only Revolution can address and eliminate Oppression.Exploitation comes from within the culture, when...

The way you describe the failed Black Revolution of the 60’s and the effects thereof is very depressing. It seems like there’s little chance left of organizing Black people in America and that they are lost.

The Black Revolution did not fail, it was obstructed, attenuated, and even derailed; but that’s how struggles go.Just imagin how many losses the Oppressor took, and is still taking; how many times the Natives in the lands that the Colonizers and the Enslavers invaded handed their asses to them; but they kept coming, the celebrated and took full advantages of their wins, they studied and took time to recover from their loses, only to attack...

Do you believe that black people have are suffering from “double or dual consciousness”; or should we be looking at newer terms in reference to the psychological state of Africans in america. I tend to believe that post the Black Power Movement and intergration there seems to be more of the “unconscious” African, who is hell bent on full assimilation and disconnecting from their African heritage. I don’t see that as a struggle with duality; thoughts?

There is no double or dual consciousness, I think that concept was a mislabeling of a mental illness/mental corruption that is spawned by constant abuse, trauma, and the failure to acknowledge and treat the trauma we have been subjected to for generations.You are correct in your conclusion that a person is either Conscious or Unconscious/or suffering from a warped consciousness, but there’s no dual consciousnesses; that’s just...