As Greedy, Evil, and Destructive as the American Elite are, one thing you cannot call them is stupid. These people plan ahead for the long term. They see what’s coming long before the masses and they work diligently to keep us blind and focused on day-to-day survival, and unfocused on long-term trends and the control of institutions that drive society. Long before the end of the American Civil War, and the Emancipation Proclamation; the...
I encourage everyone to look at how the White majority riots in response to perceived or actual racial injustice. The OJ verdict gives us our most vivid example. The White majority of the US riots politically and economically when they feel slighted, or that the Black minority is simply getting too uppity. O.J. was accused of murdering his wife and her friend on June 1994, by the mid-term elections of that same year, White had totally flipped...
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. Thomas Sankara (via dynamicafrica)
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery … Capitalism is but the gentlemen’s method of slavery. Kwame Nkrumah (via dynamicafrica)
These men who murder our children do not act alone, they are created, taught, driven, armed, sheltered, defended, and justified by a much larger ideology and its institutions. This Omnicidal system is illegitimate, so it needs ongoing validation of its power, it must not only kill us, but dive us to kill each other, it must allow blatant acts if injustice to play out in its courts in order to reinforce its claim to power. It must also give...
I’m seeing that there are many people confused and/or annoyed that the Trayvon Martin murder is generating such attention and provoking national responses, both symbolic and active. I’ll try to explain once more: Individuals keep quoting the homicide statistics occurring with Black shooters and Black victims, or instances when the police kill Black youth and get away with it; and the fact they don’t garner the level of...
The government told the Black community, in the racial era of the 60s that if we continued to rebel against the government, kept disrupting the US economy and hurting its international standing by rioting, and seeking to link with international revolutionary and decolonization struggles in African, Asia, and South America; that we’d end up with mass incarceration, rising violence and homicides, and continue to be impoverished and...
Jail and/or an early death is hanging over the head of every Black man & woman in America. We work to avoid both of them in most situations; but sometimes the circumstances require us to welcome and embrace them both. If you cannot tell when that time comes, or fail to make the right choice when that time comes; then you are not a Man/Woman, you are not even fully human. I am/We are:Assata ShakurPete O'NealYaa AsantewasQueen Nanny of the...