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Friendly reminder that Kwanzaa is not a real holiday.

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“Make America Not Racist For The First Time”

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Your AGE DOES NOT DETERMINE HOW RADICAL YOU ARE OR CAN BE. Please get this through your heads, wannabe revolutionaries. 

Listen again, none offensive, BUT did you see the kind of people who were at the Nazi marches? More than 50% of them were probably in their 20s-30s. Almost half of the American political discourse consists of baby boomers vs millennial as and it’s fucking hilarious because those were your millennial peers that were at that march. Almost every statistic shows that white millennial haven’t gotten any more racially sensitive or tolerant, this idea that they have and it’s old men who will literally keep over and die any second are the ones leading these fascist marches and not 30 year olds who are literally some think tank publishers, parts of the media class or tech giants lol

PLEASE STOP TRYING TO VIEW YOUTH AS SYNONYMOUS TO RADICAL ACTION OR LEFT WING POLITICS‼️‼️‼️

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But he had a black friend

Stop Sensitizing White Supremacist (8.13.17): White nationalist and their apologist are already trying to claim that yesterday’s terrorist attack, committed by James Alex Fields Jr, was a false flag. The group Fields was marching with, Vanguard America, has said he was not a member and was randomly marching with them. I call bullshit! James Alex Fields Jr was a radical white supremacist who according to reports, had identified with Hitler as early as middle school. He showed consistent white nationalist ideations on social media, and came to Virginia yesterday prepared, if not intent, to put his beliefs into physical action. If this were a Muslim, we’d already have reports out about what he was doing in kindergarten and where he got his “training” (what little we know so far is collected here, here, and here).  We cannot pretend that this guy was an aberration–he was the whole point of yesterday. This was not a false flag or a deranged lone wolf attack. This is the product of a ideology that says white people are naturally superior, must defend that superiority with “blood and soil.” He and his ilk must be unequivocally crushed. #goodnightwhitepride

Also, please consider supporting the fund set up specifically to support Heather Heyer’s family (the victim who passed following the attack) during this difficult time. Thanks!

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Terrorism. 

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Kathleen Cleaver. 

Kathleen Neal Cleaver was the first women to be a member of The Black Panther Party decision-making body. In 1981, she received a full scholarship from Yale University and graduated two years later summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. Later, she graduated from Yale Law School She is currently serving as faculty at Emory University School of Law

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#HandsOffNorthKorea #HandsOffDPRK. That is all. 

Trump, Pentagon, keep your bloody hands off People’s Korea!

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#EdwardCrawford. #BlackLivesMatter

Wow! That’s unbelievable and most including myself had no idea that he was throwing it back out of harms way to protect innocent people…

My heart goes out to him and his family!!

#EdwardCrawford

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Important.

Fresh Off the Boat - “Hi, My Name Is…”

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The key problem is that whites on the left don’t want to confront complexity, tension, and ambivalence in black politics. In general, they simply do not see political differences among black people. They do not see that blacks are linked to social, political, and economic institutions in a variety of different ways, and that those different links, and the networks that flow from them, shape interests and ideological perception no less, and no less subtly, than among whites.

Adolph Reed, Tokens of the White Left (via lostcoherence)

…[A]ttention to black politics on the left tends to revolve around thin and simplistic definitions of good guys and bad, “true” leaders and false. This distorts political judgment into a search for authenticity, hauntingly like white youth’s quest in the 1960s for the most “authentic” blues-“pure” and untarnished by instrumentation, cultivated virtuosity, air-conditioned nightclubs, or indoor plumbing. (No Bobby Bland or Little Johnny Taylor need apply, just solitary old guys on porches of croppers’ shacks in the Delta, playing acoustic guitars with neck bones.) It’s also the exact meaning of exoticism and has horrible political consequences.

The “pure” black experience is monadic and antithetical to complexity in either orchestral arrangements or politics. Assigning authenticity requires “finding” the pulse of the community. (Actually, as with SDS and the Panthers, it requires designating the pulse-thus whites determine black legitimacy, as they have since Booker T. Washington’s day at the turn of the century.)

This places a premium on articulate black people who will talk to the left. Whites tend to presume their inability-or tend not to want to expend the effort-to make critical judgments that might second-guess their designated black voices of authenticity, and therefore do not attend closely to the latter’s substantive arguments. The result is that these “authentic” voices are treated mainly as personalities-without much regard to the political implications of the stances they project. (via gothhabiba)

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I am aware of how whiteness matures and ascends the throne of universalism by maintaining its powers to describe and enforce its descriptions. To challenge that view of universalism, to exorcise, alter, and de-fang the white/black confrontation and concentrate on the residue of that hostility seemed to me a daunting project and an artistically liberating one.

Toni Morrison, on writing Paradise (via ephemeralia)

Toni Morrison on Whiteness

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#liberation. 

today we celebrate all of those who fought for and fight for liberation of the oppressed.

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#Blacklivesmatter

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#TalkAboutBias #WhiteSupremacy #blacklivesmatter

Powerful New Video Tackles Racial Bias To Remind Kids Their ‘Black Is Beautiful’

A new video released Monday titled “The Talk” compellingly tackles the impact of racial bias through the lens of black parents in America.

This video accurately displays what it is like to be black in America. It shows the conversations all black parents have with their kids to keep them safe and to encourage them to fight the racist society. And it’s heartbreaking that parents need to remind their kids that their “Black is beautiful”.Society needs to change and time has come to talk about this.

Source

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‘Whose Streets?’ film highlights Ferguson activists’ battle with the trauma of protests

“You sacrifice your comfort, your security,” 28-year-old Ferguson activist Brittany Ferrell says in the upcoming Magnolia Pictures documentary about the Ferguson protests, Whose Streets?. 

“You sacrifice everything to do this work.” 

The film explores how Ferrell and other St. Louis-area residents dealt with the fallout of their demonstrations, even after most national news outlets left Ferguson to cover other flashpoints in the Black Lives Matter movement. 

The documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in February and will open in theaters nationwide on Aug. 11. Read more (7/24/17)

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“[…] There is the question of whether ‘right-to-life’ language makes conceptual sense. We probably do have a ‘right’ not to be put to death, but it is unclear that we have a right to life. ‘Rights’ language implies corresponding duties. It is extremely problematic whether anyone has a duty to keep...

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The future of U.S. progressive politics lies with those engaged local activists who have made a difference, yet who also have little interest in being in the national limelight. They engage in principled coalitions that bring power and pressure to bear on specific issues—especially issues of jobs, housing, health, and child care, education and ecological protection. Without such activists there can be no progressive politics. Yet state, regional, and national networks are also necessary for an effective progressive politics. This is why locally based collective (and especially multiracial and multigender) models of leadership are needed. These models must shun the idea of ONE national progressive leader; they must highlight critical dialogue and democratic accountability  within and across organizations. These models of collective leadership will more than likely not be of the lethargic electoral system riddled with decreasing revenues (i.e., debt) loss of public confidence, self-perpetuating mediocrity, and pervasive corruption. Rather the future of U.S. progressive politics lies in the capacity of a collective leadership to energize, mobilize, and organize working and poor people.

Cornel West, 1991”The Making of an American Radical Democrat of African Descent”