In black power organizations and movements, the creation of black families and children is stressed and encouraged. What about black people who don’t want marriage and children? Is something wrong with them? Do they hurt black power movements in your opinion?

No, not at all. In our community and culture; family ain’t the children your father or birth, family is anyone who you are responsible for and anyone who is responsible for you. In the housing project where I grew up I had all kinds of Brothers, Sisters, Aunts, Uncles, and way too many Cousins to count. In the Hood when I’d introduce my Cousin Ricky, no one would say “dats yo momma’s friends son, he ain’t no kin to you.” That...

What are your thoughts on the eastern faiths/religions/philosophies, buddhism, taoism, hinduism, jainism etc etc? There are quite a few brothers and sisters out here captivated by this stuff. This alarms me. In their quest for “enlightenment” they turn apathetic and hate or ignore all things political and economical.

The Eastern Religions are as Racist, Sexist, and Oppressive as the Western World Religions. They justice slavery, oppressive caste systems, and the degrading and subjugation of women. You see Black folks with Yin-Yang tats and talking that shit about Karama, they should know better. Now that China, India, and other Eastern Capitilist states have joined the “scramble for African,” maybe them Black folks who like to dabble in Eastern...

*continued back to work hoping that my little efforts make a difference but right now at this moment I don’t see how but I will continue! I won’t give in but I really need some advice on what to do when you get to the point of just wanting to give in and go out with a “bang” or do something very irrational I know I’m probably not gone do it but just having those thoughts scare me because I feel like if I think like that it means like the SOW is getting to me and winning

Oh, I’m just seeing this follow up, I’m glad you will endure and keep organizing. I hope the advice in my initial response is adequate.

I don’t know what to do! I’m fed up with how our people are getting treated! I’m usually a rational person and I try my best to take the emotion out of the equation because I understand there’s work to be done but I literally just sat in my car crying because just the thought of what my people are enduring is overwhelming! At times I feel like my little work I’m doing is not enough! Sometimes I ain’t gone lie I want to “Nat Turner” a few of them but then I come to my senses (I think) and get

I appreciate your feelings, they are valid and not only a sign of mental health, but empathy and intelligence. We have been conditioned to reject our emotion, our rage, our pain and sorrow; as if they are lesser emotion, as if being peaceful, content, or happy under oppression is virtuous. I encourage you to harness that outrage and cultivate it, don’t try to escape it, accept it, work with it, and work through it.If you need a physical...