I wish the cops would just tell Black folks the damn truth. Just imagine if the head of all local, county, state, and regional policing forces simply admitted that it’s not their call to impose brutal repression on Blacks, and they don’t have the authority to end it. Do you know how much time and energy that would save Black activist and Integrationist? How much money and resources too. It would also pull the rug out from...
Brothers, we keep rooting our identities in shit we have no control over, as Black men. It’s insane to root our manhood in anything that other men can grant or deny us; a job, income, education, etc. That’s how these muthafuckas, disrupt and manipulate our Hoods. As Shahrazad Ali once stated; “the White man is the God of Jobs,” he giveth and he taketh away. Even you cats with “chall own biznesses,” yall do...
When Arab/Asian/Europeans invaders reach Africa’s shores and embarked on a genocidal orgy of colonization and enslavement there were only three basic options for Africans: 1. Cooperation (Treason) 2. Submission 3. Resistance These same three options still remain today, because Africa and the African Diaspora are still subject to the oppression and atrocities of those who invaded our lands and enslaved and colonized our ancestors.
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Protesting police for police brutality and murder is like protesting an attack dog for biting people in the neighborhood. Can you imagine that a child gets mauled to death and the community begins to march around the dog house, and form a blockaded around the dog’s water bowl? How stupid would they look? What do you do when there’s a dog terrorizing the neighborhood; you go to the owner! You sanction the owner, you fucking sue,...
Just as we finally, after more than 40 decades are finally making progress in the effort to remove “Black-on-Black” violence from the lexicon of the Black community and larger society; we have New Negros like Spike Lee injecting an even more insidious, and inaccurate term into our collective consciousness: Self-Inflected Genocide. You’d think that Africans, in Africa and the Diaspora would have a better understanding, or at...
“When the Lion and the Leopard go to war, who should the Antelope root for?” - Diallo Kenyatta (My wife told me to stop quoting myself, but I’m proud of this one, it rhymes.) When two (or more) Races, cultures, nations, religions that have historically oppressed, enslaved, colonized, mass murdered Africans go to war, what the fuck do we look like picking a side? Really? I ain’t even saying we shouldn’t, but how?...