University Cancels Common As Commencement SpeakerAs H. Rap Brown stated; oppressive conditions, ill treatment, and brutality make Revolutionaries, not other Revolutionaries. So Common could never be swayed back to his “Senses” by the mocking from the Black community or even rejection of him and his #NewNegro views by the Black community; but rejection, public humiliation at the hands of those he’s extended a Hand of...
There are more people enslaved in this nation and around the world than at any other time in human history. If you are not actively opposing Slavery, Oppression, Trafficking, Wage Slavery, Sweatshops, Mass Incarceration, Blood Minerals/Stones, and Capitalism; then you are no better than the passive Slaves, or the Free Blacks in the North who didn’t support the Abolitionist Struggle, or the non-Slave owning Whites who didn’t struggle...
If Isaiah Washington had told women to “adapt” to Rape culture but trading in their mini skirts and tight jeans for long dresses and head covers there would be massive public outrage and multiple boycotts of any and all things he’s associated with. If he told Jews to “adapt” to Antisemitism by trading in their religion for Catholicism or Protestantism the dude would have never been seen or heard from again. If he...
Why to do people try to separate God from Religion? They cannot be separated. You can’t say, I believe in God, but I’m not Religious because anything you do in response of you belief is a Religious act, I don’t care if it’s just you, you and a few other who believe as you, or billions of other people who share the same delusion, it’s all Religious if it’s done in the name of or in response to a God or Higher...
A culture as old, deep, and diverse as African culture can manifest in many ways and serve many purposes. In the US, we who embrace our Africanity generally use our Culture as an escape, as a place of shelter or retreat from the dominate culture, it inflates and sustains our egos and identities while serving as an Analgesic that reduces the pain of oppression. We’ve failed to Revolutionize our culture, to weaponize it, to apply it and...
My African-Centered, Pan-African allies; if having an African name, speaking an African language, wearing African garb, and worshiping African Gods/Ancestors were inherently liberating we wouldn’t have been colonized/enslaved in the first damn place…., right? So please, make sure we put as much energy into State-Craft, Institution Building, Cooperative Enterprises, Defensive Formations, Subversive Tactics, & all the other stuff...