February 2012
33 posts
“This is a pretty common perception of White Identity that should definitely be...”
– foxtalbotnegatives (via sapphrikah)
WELP!
(via sourcedumal)
RIGHT!!
WatchBlack Hair: Perms may lead to TUMORS! (Click for Full Story)
the bad dominicana: "If" Black Women Were White... →
This whole post is absolutely brilliant!
peecharrific:
notesonascandal:
soydulcedeleche:
August 23, 2009 In “If Men Could Menstruate,” Gloria Steinem makes the persuasive argument that “Whatever a ‘superior’ group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an ‘inferior’ group has will be used to…
If My Soul Vacates My Flesh
I’m thinking about Ramarley Graham, the teenager who was murdered by the New York Pork Department (NYPD) a few weeks ago. His funeral is happening at the same time as Whitney Houston’s as I write this. I don’t want to be insensitive. Death is a difficult thing to deal with, though it is one of Life’s apparent guarantees. The center of what I’m feeling right now is...
Out My Mind: I realized I'm in love with Whitney... →
supasupanova:
And Anita Baker, and Gladys Knight… Mary J also , these are some my favorite vocalist , I salute them.
Continued :2/12/12
And now Whitney isnt here in the physical anymore. And im gonna be very selfish and say that this really pisses me off and makes me very sad. Us as Black People always seem…
The US Economic System Is Like A Pyramid Scheme →
“The reelection of President Obama is imperative to ensure a more balanced Supreme Court. The cynical progressive base must vote, if only to ensure a more egalitarian Congress.”
Read full article here.
Sa-Roc is my favorite emcee! →
You really need to listen to her albums. Y’all know that I don’t give emcees unwarranted props. This is calibration music.
Octavia Butler novels should be turned into... →
woolferine:
notyourkinddear:
newwavefeminism:
movie versions of Octavia Butler novels. I’d be really interested to see how a motion picture version of her book Kindred would play out… And how people would respond to the content
Don’t know who Octavia Butler is or what I’m…
If Black people organize our dollars, we won’t need to worry about racist Hollywood. With Unity, we...
the bad dominicana: 19 Things That School Children... →
onceuponanotsolongago:
lost-and-searching-in-america:
19 Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old…
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A Formerly Enslaved Man Writes His Old "Master"
from Letters of Note:
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according tonewspapers...
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A Formerly Enslaved Man Writes His Old "Master"
from Letters of Note:
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according tonewspapers...
The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg →
schasem:
…It’s not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it’s not that we spend a lot of time storing, organizing, pruning and maintaining our access to it all. It’s that we’re collectively engaged in a mass conversion of what we used to call,...
“I hope you would make mention of the fact that the very land upon which you are...”
– John Paul Montano, Anishnaabe writer,
“Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street Activists”
(via solitaryforager)
As a descendant of abducted Africans, I always stand in solidarity with Indigenous Americans.
“I fully step into my power now. It is safe for me to be powerful and I accept my...”
– Solar plexus chakra affirmation (via serpentpriest)
The Bronx is Still Burning! →
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TODAY! RALLY AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER!
Saturday, Feb. 4th 3:30pm Rally & 4:30pm March
Third Avenue between 161st & 163rd Streets, Bronx.
An African on Blacks in the Americas: →
thegoddamazon: On behalf of some of my more arrogant African brethren, Black folks, I apologize.
Some of my fellow Africans seem to think that we should separate ourselves from our American kin because you all “lack culture” and have a negative stigma attached to your very identity.
I call bullshit.
Africans taken from the Continent and brought here have managed to have more influence...
The State of Israel is racist. (more proof) →
This is an AP story… (click here for the FULL story)
Israel is closing the books on a rare millennia-old Jewish tradition.
Nearly three decades after Israel began airlifting Ethiopia’s ancient Jewish community out of the Horn of Africa, Israel’s rabbis are now working to phase out the community’s white-turbaned clergy, the kessoch, whose unusual religious practices are...
January 2012
58 posts
Pan-Africanism and American Blacks: An Argument... →
peopleofcolor:
As someone who grew up with parents involved in the Pan-African movement (The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party was the organization) in the 80’s and 90’s my political development as a black person was markedly different from most of the other black activists I know….
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“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005.
In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business. Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying legislators.”...
I figured "The Help" was racist →
I’m definitely slapping it onto the floor next time I see “madame blancita de madison avenue” reading it. Shout outs to Willie Perdomo.
The Flaming Lips’ 24 Hour Song “7...
The Truth About Flyin' Colors...
The Truth About Flyin’ Colors/Patches as a B-Boy, B-Girl, Rocker/Up-Rocker, Et C.
by Jorge Fabel Pabon (originally posted on freestylesessions.com on Nov. 18th, 2008)
Peace,
First off, indigenous people have been rockin’ their own feathers, colors, tattoos, regalia since the beginning of tribes. The West Coast made wearing patches on a vest popular but definitely not the concept...