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Lovely.

Chaka Khan performing with Rufus at a record launch party in London, February 1975.

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MEDIA HUSSIES

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my daughters. over the years i realised matriarchy is more dangerous than patriarchy to social cohesion and equality of genders, when it comes to archetypically female roles being done by males especially. as a man (not male), you’ll never reach the other side of the road with your child without a woman (not female) trying to ‘assist you’. at the bus, at the shops e.t.c, they’ll jump on you brother.  some forcefully take your child and try some magic parcifying trick known only to women apparently. i could go on forever about this but you get it, it’s patronising to say the least but to reject them would do damage to the old adage i guess so i normally let them. “it takes a village..’’

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we had a nice session. 

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Daniel X, A strong Street Leader, A Teacher, An Emcee, A Brother and the most consistent Black Man you’ll ever meet besides Farrakhan. 

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AHHHHHHHH HAHAHA...This a real Black man. hehe

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WHY “WHITE SUPREMACIST CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY?”

BELL HOOKS: I began to use the phrase in my work “white supremacist capitalist patriarchy” because I wanted to have some language that would actually remind us continually of the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality and not to just have one thing be like, you know, gender is the important issue, race is the important issue, but for me the use of that particular jargonistic phrase was a way, a sort of short cut way of saying all of these things actually are functioning simultaneously at all times in our lives and that if I really want to understand what’s happening to me, right now at this moment in my life, as a black female of a certain age group, I won’t be able to understand it if I’m only looking through the lens of race. I won’t be able to understand it if I’m only looking through the lens of gender. I won’t be able to understand it if I’m only looking at how white people see me.

To me an important breakthrough, I felt, in my work and that of others was the call to use the term white supremacy, over racism because racism in and of itself did not really allow for a discourse of colonization and decolonization, the recognition of the internalized racism within people of color and it was always in a sense keeping things at the level at which whiteness and white people remained at the center of the discussion.

In my classroom I might say to students that you know that when we use the term white supremacy it doesn’t just evoke white people, it evokes a political world that we can all frame ourselves in relationship to….

And so for me those words were very much about the constant reminder, one of institutional construct, that we’re not talking about personal construct in the sense of, how do you feel about me as a woman, or how do you feel about me as a black person?

… We have to problematize nationalism beyond race, in all kinds of ways that I think there’s a tremendous reluctance […] to have a more complex accounting of identity.

From BELL HOOKS—CULTURAL CRITISICM & TRANSFORMATION, Produced & Directed by Sut Jhally

(for the record, seeing this in 1999 changed my life.)

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..this is how the dream mind sees faces in waking life..

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(via https://soundcloud.com/rahdiggamusic/rah-digga-angela-davis-produced-by-j-pilot?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr)

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keep watch for this name. That #Zulu #Russian #BlackSupremist #Socialist #Gangsta #Music #iGora se rhyme, uSomlomo we #Kasi nez' gebengu zase #Nanda...#kzn #Nostrovia

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Ibeyi about rock NYC...love these ladies. repost from #OkayAfrica

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repost #ekasi #naledi #Soweto coz we edit photos for food money

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Aesop Rock. The Writer Emcee with the highest vocabulary, amongst those studied. May 3015, also one of my favorite thinkers...in rap

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Haven't been a good #Muslim since mom passed..but dude #Allah is #merciful #repentance #Pretoria #metro_mosque

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#Initiation Season, #xhosaCulture #Cogta #EasternCape #AbaThembu #DibaClan

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#NationOfIslam rep #SA #BlackGods

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RIP...#PTA