Well Adjusted to Babylon: How Sad

(kiotd-download)

i pledge allegiance

to the united ban on warfare

for which it stands

the return of indian land

one nation

under god we trust

in nature's law

to liberate itself

from hefty injustice

for all

i pledge allegiance

to the future

of elevated children

everywhere.

and the reduction

of global warming

and unrest

all nations

under one indispensible

and self government

and plenty

for all.

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(mhm).

Yuta Sing Dem Pledge

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i pledge allegiance

to the u.s. of concious uprising

and the republic for which it stands

to the instruction of sterilized mendacity

recorded for our children

to the anals of memory

in your body

to the structure of justice

to the rythm of love

i pledge allegiance

to making love

creativity's invitation to celebrate

i pledge allegiance to uprising

rise up

rise up.

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(uuh).

Pictures Speak 172,000 Words (click for hi-rez)

Avatar who? Pumzi.

Waning of Rome

2nd day in a row of front page (site) feature of arrival of happy ma couple with haitian adoptee. ...and what of haitian parents awaiting their children who had visa interviews scheduled but now wait outside of a closed embassy? Gov't 'Rushes' for Swampscott, but no emergency visas for children with Haitian parents in the U.S.

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Dis here charlietown is a throat-cutting (slaver board-jumping) mf. idren wouldn't wish this wkdbabylon pon Valencia.

The Story of Stuff (n8v proverbs redux)

This story is missing a 'beginnings history', yt supremacy and root-cause solutions, (ita funda-mentally n8v amerikan / afrikan ourstory- fi'dem say ‘the big picture’) and above all it is missing culture (no subtle music for example). But this video is still an excellent work (a master work) of information design: high resolution (super-dense units of teaching thru her narrative) and all within the readers immediate eye-span. If you have 20 minutes, watch this (brin 'pon side an adult, young adult or teenager ...the very young already know this implicitly). Black Folk offa build proppah verzshun in our community centers or schools. Idren, pls put your voice below: responds. Awo.

The Origin of Death ~ Khoesan

THE Moon, it is said, sent once an insect to men, saying, "Go to Men, and tell them, 'As I die, and dying live, so you shall also die, and dying live.'" The insect started with the message, but while on his way was overtaken by the hare, who asked: "On what errand are you bound? "The insect answered: "I am sent by the Moon to men, to tell them that as she dies, and dying lives, they also shall die, and dying live." The hare said, "As you are an awkward runner, let me go." With these words he ran off, and when he reached men, he said, "I am sent by the Moon to tell you, 'As I die, and dying perish, in the same manner you also shall die and come wholly to an end."' Then the hare returned to the Moon, and told her what he had said to men. The Moon reproached him angrily, saying, "Do you dare tell the people a thing which I have not said? With these words she took up a piece of wood, and struck him on the nose. Since that day the hare's nose is slit, but men believe what hare had told them.

[sAfrika's cawbaan peuah]

N8V Spirit awo.

“Sometimes they have to kill us. They have to kill us, because they can't break our spirit.”
~Jimmy Looks Twice, (Bro. John Trundell, Thunderheart Film)

I ask you my children

I ask you my children
What did you learn today
did anyone tell you how to meet tomorrow
did anyone tell you why there are people
who don't know you...
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did anyone seem to know who you were
did anyone know that you have the blood of Africa
in your veins
or did they pretend to be blind to your color and thereby
deny its value
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What did you learn...
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did anyone explian the nature of freedom
did anyone explian the nature of racism...
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did anyone explain the nature of love
did anyone know anything about those things
did anyone know anything
What did you learn today?
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by Ronald Coleman

Terrorism in Jamaica (slavery records unearthed)

Slavery & Rebellion records unearthed. An important eye witness account of the conditions on the slave ships that plied between Africa and North America and an account of the Morant Bay Rising in Jamaica has been unearthed in Scotland by a Canadian-born historian. The account in the Scottish Catholic Archives is contained in a journal that has lain in Fort Augustus Abbey since the 19th century....



Excerpts from Mcclement' journal (an Irish surgeon with the Royal Navy in the 1860s):
Transcription[p 293][October 23 1865]
.....2.30. P.M. HM Troop Ship “Urgent” camein. Brings news that the negroes of Jamaica have risen against the whites and a pressing demand for all the troops that can be spared as well as all available ships of war. All the 2nd West India Regt present and twoCompanies of the 3rd Buffs are ordered to embark immediately. The Urgentis coaling with all despatch.Accounts from Jamaica show a longlist of “whites” cruelly butchered.We are to proceed to Dominico In the morningto meet Sir Leopold McClintockWent on shore to the Ice house in the Evg......[p 294][October 29 1865]

.....6.AM. entered and lay to under steam inMorant Bay – Jamaica – Found herethe Gun Boat “Onyx” Lieut. Brand incommand. This officer came on boardand reports the Insurrection crushed.....[p 295]He states that up to this time 1200 rebelshave been shot or hanged. He himself has hanged 83, being President of the local Drum head Court Martial, and, amongstthe number Mr Gordon, a member of Parliament Lieut. Brand is pretty well known as a person of a most curel disposition inall cases, but, has a particular aversionto the Black Race, therefore, those unfortunaterebels are still more unfortunate inthe judge appd to try them. He willhowever do good by striking a terror thata more humane man would fail to do. His usual programme is to flog theculprits first and hang them afterwardsThe very first case executed was atPort Morant and by Lt Brand personally. The Govr went down to this place in the Onyx with a few troops and soonafter landing discovered one of the ringleaders in the late massacre and made a prisoner of him. He then sent a message to Lt Brand to say that he had not rope on shore nor hadhe any means of disposing of theprisoners, but, if he would oblige him it would be well. The Lt no sooner gotthe message than he landed in a dingywith two boys and the gun boats signal halliards. He then forced the nigger to wheel a cart under the branch of a tree – made him stand on it – fastened“the noose” – threw the rope over the branch – made it fast – and – lastly dragged awaythe cart from beneath the wretch. Being a tall man and the branch yieldingto his weight his toes touched the ground His noble executioner seeing this walked up to him – put his Revolver to one eyeand shot a ball through his head;- a soldier present, then, unnecessarily,[p 296]put another bullet through his chest.Since this Execution from 8 to 14 or 20 areusually strung up together after gettingtheir flogging. I think all are treatedwith disgraceful and barbarous cruelty Surely hanging ought to be enough! Lt Brand has hanged two women (who no doubt deserve death from their acts: one of them disemboweled Baron Kepenfelt;) and holds the wedding ring of one (which has‘the names’ engraved inside) as a kind oftrophy....."

The McClement Project centers on the journal of McClement, an Irishman and assistant surgeon who served with the Royal Navy between 1857 and 1869. McClement’s 400 page journal is a tremendous historical resource for students, scholars and the general public. This project is interactive - it is about making history accessible and allowing people to participate in the development of an historical project.
You can read the diary of Richard Carr McClement at http://www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/mcclement.

You can read more background information about the diary at http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/real-lives/unearthed-journal-gives-eye-witness-account-of-slavery-1.995613.

(fistbump2 Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter by Dick Eastman)

“It’s a Blacksheep thang who gives a f*** if you don’t understand”

This album. Awo. ...so so so so so so dope.

Marcus Garvey's Words come to pass,

Marcus Garvey's words come to pass,

Can't get no food to eat,

Can't get no money to spend,

Can't get no food to eat,

Can't get no money to spend,

Come, little one and let me do what I can do for you

And you and you alone

Come, little one,

Let me do what I can do for you and you alone

He who knows the right thing

And do it not

Shall be spanked with many stripes,

Wepping and wailing and moaning,

You've got yourself to blame, I tell you

Do right do right do right do right do right

Tell you to do right

Beg you to do right

Where is Bagawire, he's nowwhere to be found

He can't be found

First betrayer who gave away Marcus Garvey

Son of Satan, First prophesy,

Catch them, Garvey old

Catch them Garvey, catch them

Hold them Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Marcus Garvey, Marcus

Ashe n Awo.

Fresher Stronger Wings (172k)

I wish for you fresher stronger wings
to battle the ever blowing winds
we encounter with each new year.
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I know you have it in you to soar
beyond every single wall and roar
I know you won't let me down.
Soar, my friend, where eagles dare.
~Nana Kofi Acquah