Will Hunting Had It Right...

but he is the fiction.

Found at w3s.t (Waset)

"Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep."

"An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question."

"Leave him in error who loves his error."

"The best and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature."

"What you are doing does not matter so much as what you are learning from doing it."

"To know means to record in one's memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself."

"Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your illusion."  [ awo.  this is the story of the restless global travelings of whiteness in a nutshell. ]

"The only active force that arises out of possession is fear of losing the object of possession."

"You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb* you. This is the way of Maat."

[ Waset is Afrikan. ]
*...a similar saying i read once (something about the need to be even-headed about the realness about the struggle required of us) led me to ban using exclamation points in any writing (except when quoting others).  that was back in the late 90s so i now reckon that i've not written or typed an exclamation point in some 20+ years, at all...  strange what we do, and what we 'do' into habit. (smile).

How Many Bullets Does It Take

Death In Yorkville

(Jamas Powell, Summer, 1964)

How many bullets does it take

To kill a fifteen-year-old kid?

How many bullets does it take

To kill me?

How many centuries does it take

To bind my mind-chain my feet-

Rope my neck-lynch me-

Unfree?

From the slave chain to the lynch rope

To the bullets of Yorkville,

Jamestown, 1619 to 1963:

Emancipation Centennial-

100 years NOT free.

Civil War Centennnial: 1965.

How many Centennials does it take

To kill me,

Still alive?

When the long hot summers come

Death ain't

No jive.

~Langston Hughes, The Panther and the Lash

"... i grieve for our gone."

When one cannot influence a situation it is an act of wisdom to withdraw*
   Every Black woman in america has survived several lifetimes of hatred, where even in the candy store cases of our childhood, little brown niggerbaby candies testified against us.  We survived the wind-driven spittle on our child's shoe and pink flesh-colored bandaids, attempted rapes on rooftops and the prodding fingers of the super's boy, seeing our girlfriends blown to bits in Sunday School, and we absorbed that loathing as a natural state.  We had to metabolize such hatred that our cells have learned to live upon it because we had to, or die of it.  Old King Mithridates learned to eat arsenic bit by bit and so outwitted his poisoners, but I'd have hated to kiss him upon his lips!  Now we deny such hatred ever existed because we have learned to neutralize it through ourselves, and the catabolic process throws of waste products of fury even when we love.
         I see hatred 
         I am bathed in it, drowning in it
         since almost the beginning of my life
         it has been the air I breathe
         the food i eat, the content of my perceptions;
         the single most constant fact of my existence
         is their hatred . . . 
         I am too young for my history**
   It is not that Black Women shed each other's psychic blood so easily, but that we have ourselves bled so often, the pain of bloodshed becomes almost commonplace.  If i have learned to eat my own flesh in the forest - starving, keening, learning the lesson of the she-wolf who chews off her own paw to leave the trap behind - if i must drink my own blood, thirsting, why should I stop at yours until your dear dead arms hang like withered garlands upon my breast and i weep for your going, oh, my sister, I greive for our gone.
~From Eye to Eye: Black women, Hatred, and Anger by Audre Lorde

*From The I Ching.
**From "Nigger" by Judy Dothard Simmons in Decent Intentions

Neteru 2000s Lynching. Seeen?

  

"Why do white men lynch black men in America?  We are not dealing here with the original historical cause; nor even with its present social application.  We are considering merely the efficient cause.  White men lynch black men or any other men because those men's lives are unprotected either by the authorities of the commonwealth or by the victims themselves.  White men lynch Negroes in America because Negroes' lives are cheap.  So long as they remain, so long will lynching remain an evil to be talked about, written about, petitioned against and slobbered over.  But not all the slobber, the talk or the petitions are worth the time it takes to indulge in them, so far as the saving of a single Negro life is concerned."
~Hubert Harrison, When Africa Awakes: The "Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World (1920)


...read his conclusion as his next line asks, "What, then, is the cure?". 
Neteru, Awo. I ask(?) you too, why do white men imprison black men in America...Ditto.  
(@...how many black & brown men does that chart disemploy AND white men employ or emprofit until the next lynching?)

"...the question of the universal validity of European forms must not be confused with the successful expansionism of European culture.”

~Marimba Ani, Yurugu

Cause & Effect

"We are usually taught:

1) Yt supremacy was the cause > Black inferiority is the effect

But

2) Black inferiority is the cause > white supremacy was the effect."

~Bro. Marcus Klien

Two Plus Two or Why Indians Flunk

All right, class, let's see who knows what two plus two is.  Yes,
Doris?
I have a question.  Two plus two what?
Two plus two anything.
I don't understand.
Ok, Doris, I'll explain it to you.  You have two apples and you get two more.
   How many do you have?
Where would I get two more?
From a tree.
Why would I pick two apples if I already have two?
Never mind, you have two apples and someone gives you two more.
Why would someone give me two more, if she could give them to
someone who's hungry?
Doris, it's just an example.
An example of what?
Let's try again-you have two apples and you find two more.  Now
how many do you have?
Who lost them?
YOU HAVE TWO PLUS TWO APPLES!!!! HOW MANY DO YOU
HAVE ALL TOGETHER?????
Well, if I ate one, and gave away the other three, I'd have none left, but
I could always get some more if I got hungry from that tree you were
talking about before.
Doris, this is your last chance-you have two, uh, buffalo and you
get two more.
   Now how many do you have?
It depends.  How many are cows and how many are bulls, and is any
of the cows pregnant?
It's hopeless!  You Indians have absolutely no grasp of abstractions!
Huh?
-Beverly Slapin, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children

Go, Ghost, Go

Go, Ghost, Go
At this university upon a hill,
I meet a tenured professor
Who's strangely thrilled
To list all of the oppressors --
Past, present, and future -- who have killed.
Are killing and will kill the indigenous.
O, he names the standard suspects --
Rich, white, and unjust --
And I, a red man, think he's correct,
But why does he have to be so humorless?
And how can he, a white man, fondly speak
Of the Ghost Dance, the strange and cruel
Ceremony
That, if performed well, would have doomed
All white men to hell, destroyed their colonies,
And brought back every dead Indian to life?
The professor says, "Brown people
From all brown tribes
Will burn skyscrapers and steeples.
They'll speak Spanish and carry guns and knives.
Sherman, can't you see that immigration
Is the new and improved Ghost Dance?"
All I can do is laugh and laugh
And say, "Damn, you've got some imagination.
You should write a screenplay about this shit --
About some fictional city,
Grown fat and pale and pretty,
That's destroyed by a Chicano apocalypse.
"The professor doesn't speak. He shakes his head
And assaults me with his pity.
I wonder how he can believe
In a ceremony that requires his death.
I think that he thinks he's the new Jesus.
He's eager to get on that cross
And pay the ultimate cost
Because he's addicted to the indigenous.
Sherman Alexie - Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian

Blue is the Color Of

(kiotd-download

Natural Illusion

"Individualism, competition, and materialism provide criteria for self-definitiion as a natural consequence of a world view in which a fintie and limited focus orients us toward such disorder that we fight one another to sustain an illusion."
~Linda James Myers









lookout

In a word: Baaabylonn

(normal?)

Babylon System (Tradition), Or The Danger of a Single Story

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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Bob Marley - Babylon System


We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be;
We are what we are:
That's the way (way) it's going to be.
If you don't know!
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity:
(Talkin' 'bout my freedom)
Talkin' 'bout my freedom,
People freedom (freedom) and liberty!
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
Babylon system is the vampire, yea! (vampire)
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!
Me say: de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yea-ea-ea-ea-e-ah!
Building church and university, wo-o-ooh, yeah!
-Deceiving the people continually, yea-ea!
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers;
Look out now: they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers).
Yea-ea-ea! (sufferers)
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth right now!
Come on and tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Tell the children the truth;
Come on and tell the children the truth.
'Cause - 'cause we've been trodding on ya winepress much too long:
Rebel, rebel!
And we've been taken for granted much too long:
Rebel, rebel now!
(Trodding on the winepress)
Trodding on the winepress (rebel):got to rebel, y'all (rebel)!
We've been trodding on the winepress much too long - ye-e-ah! (rebel)
Yea-e-ah! (rebel) Yeah! Yeah!
From the very day we left the shores (trodding on the winepress)
Of our Father's land (rebel),
We've been trampled on (rebel),
Oh now! (we've been oppressed, yeah!)
Lord, Lord, go to ...
[*Sleeve notes continue:
Now we know everything we got to rebel
Somebody got to pay for the work
We've done, rebel.]
give thanks fru/la ...ita fi loop play in projector d'idren center (smile).

Neutral - Objective A-merry-cans

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The Word - Neutral Man's Burden
http://www.colbertnation.com/
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum

Solid fist bump to The Black Snob.

Nigaz - No joke.

Last week Russia's energy giant Gazprom formed a $2.5 billion joint venture with Nigeria's oil company NNPC to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Africa's most populous nation. But while this deal has been celebrated as reinforcing Russia's position within Europe, the reaction among some Nigerians has been far from ecstatic. One group on Facebook calling itself 'Nigerians No Nigaz' writes 'How more derogatory can it be ... to set up a NEW company for the JV and name it NIGAZ...this is derogatory - surely not Nigerian-like.'
(more)

Russia's energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria's state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture.
The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria.
Analysts say the move could further strengthen Russia's role in supplying natural gas to Europe.
The agreement comes during a four-day African tour by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
As well as forming Nigaz, Russia is keen on developing a trans-African pipeline to transport Nigerian gas to Europe.
This could further reinforce Gazprom's already-strong influence over Europe's energy supplies.

(more)

Doesn't a story like this mean anything to you? Do you need to have the ancestors pinch you in the ass, poke you in the eye? ...don't forget...his name was MADEOFF. 'Pon Rome pinnickle, idren showa likkle signs like dis SHOUTED down fm de eldas 2 'new' ini ears, awo.

Nah, You Can Keep It.

Nah, You Can Keep It.
You can only say "I'm sorry" so many times before it loses any meaning.

Y'all know the United States Senate has decided to "apologize" for what happened during slavery. I guess I should say "Thank you."

Nah, screw it.

What do I care about an apology? Black folks have been getting these apologies for years now, and it doesn't seem to do much good. The legacy of slavery can't be wiped away by an "I'm sorry." It's going to take a lot more than mere words.

And that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.

Hell, even the apology was poorly done. The way it's worded it doesn't actually blame anybody for effing up. It just says "Oh, we're sorry about what happened to you people, tough luck." Then it makes sure to say that the apology in no way endorses the idea of reparations. It's like they tried to figure the easiest way to get credit for an apology without having to actually admit to anything. Lovely.

This apology became yet another reason for the Chicken Little white folks to complain about how everybody is always bowing down to black folks. It didn't matter that the apology provided no benefits to black folks and only acknowledged what we already knew. Nope, apparently anything that says that slavery was wrong is dangerous because all it will do is encourage the Negroes to complain some more.

It never stops.

I'd rather not have an apology. I'd rather folks just go about their business than make a half-hearted attempt to appease me. It just makes my job harder when I'm trying to expose the realities of life to people in the future.

I was always taught that repentance must be melded with a change in behavior for it to be valid. It doesn't matter how many times folks "apologize" for what was done to black folks, it only matter when people get committed to rectifying the problems created by slavery. Until then, I'm cool on hearing "I'm sorry."

They can keep it.

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Attempted Bconx Alert

Back from underground (smile) ...Monday na present. Same gov't wan' me fi 'day off' 'given in honor' of the man's life, is the same gov't who dey took that life-na celebrate left in me 4 dis. Tho, despite all of the many many thoughts on the Obama process, I did have a strong feeling tues. ...i supsect a black man stopped the world for a couple hours (for good or bad).

Last week i received an email titled "How far we've come". Normally trash mail that looks like a chain-letter but I opened it and scrolled through 2 pictures & some text: it was an attempted Black Connection (Bconx). The first picture was a Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges ... ... the little black girl who had to be escorted to school by federal marshals.

The text beside it read: "On November 14, 1960, Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend a previously all-white New Orleans school. She was 6 years old and had only been told by her mother that she was going to be attending a new school that day and 'had better behave.' Little did she know that she would be bombarded with jeers and even death threats, and that she would end up being the sole child in her first grade class after other children were kept home by their parents. All because Ruby was Black." (*awo) One of the chail letter senders (an elder Sister) commented: “I just busted out in tears. I actually saw that on the news when I was a little girl”. This was follwed by another picture & text:

"Forty-eight years later -- January 5, 2009 -- here is a picture of Sasha Obama, a little 7 year old Black girl, being escorted to school by her mother, First Lady-elect Michelle Obama, and the Secret Service because Sasha's daddy is now President-elect of the United States, Barack Obama".

Here are 3 more Bconx that were not made because we are asleep or sleepwalking or both. The Obamas inherit an upsidedown kingdom, one in which the 'highest' leaders must use great protection for themselves & their family because of fear of the wi(d)er society. This fear is displayed in other escorts:

Charlietown Yut still need Ruby escort. W/Backthorn transfer, whey dem strong self-hate self-damage 'pon one a neddy.

Seen. Na bullet proof windows...MISSLE-Proof. Root of this fear? The Barricado.

Besides disease, pirate's biggest fear was insurrection on the slaver. They had insurance: arms, and wooden wall-barrier (escort) right on the deck in case of bad (upsidedown) feeling. Progress? Only a progression of wasted earth resources, insuring-re-enforcing unnecessary sysdems of fear (backthorn, awo), eh? Game as old as Empire.

& Jan 21... "So which way now? We have known hurt. But we have known miracles." -sister Adalaide Sanford

This is what sleepwalking too long does...affects language and even thought: Ruby's escort was not 'all because Ruby was Black'. HER BLACKNESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. OUR BLACKNESS NEVER HAD TO DO WITH IT. WHEY BBY IMAGINATION IN DEM DOME STRANGE IS ‘ALL BECAUSE’. This imagination has not been addressed in the 'Obama process':

(what sysdems = 'elephant in the room' here?)

Kirikou & The Sorceress (incient wisdom)

Kirikou & the Sorceress 1hr20min Video

i saw this movie w/my cousin tribe 3-4 years ago. There is a deep & wonderful story in the script. i don't know if the movie makers even understand it...(perhaps their african story tellers knew it if they consulted on the project). idren recommend u see it [if u do, do not read further because my comments retell the story. ]
in my reading of it, karaba (sorceress) represents strange people (& others) infected by yt supremacy (back thorn). She causes all kind of sufferment (maafa) to the village (world idren). When a savior (a youth living in the positive, or ma'at) borns himself and has an old testament mission (keep fixing straying tribes) he ends up seeking his elders' wisdom, uses creativity, sacrifice & courage and curiosity (why? why? why?) to end the 'back thorn'. What happens when the back thorn is removed? Karaba screams in pain at first, but then all the green returns to the earth, the village, suspicious at first, embraces karaba and sings and the imprisoned black men return freed to the village (smile). Result: amenta/ heaven/ paradise/ mecca (all in the best rallying ground-the african village). To me, beside roots miniseries, I think this is one of the most important movies u can show yut, for it shows kids dem power to _______ ; eh? (smile). Quizasiman crazy but that is what am told thru this beautiful (pseudo-colonialist french) movie.

Behind the image: Poverty and 'development pornography'

Jah made enough for everyone. Mama Africa is the richest 12mn square miles in the world. People and nations contiue to take from it without giving back, but keep the people on top of the land eating dirt and fleeing it at very great risk (cayucos) for (other) ways of illivity (western economies).

1994 Pulitzer prize picture shows a nile valley child watched over by nrt - sacred to Mut, mother goddess (bantu attributes, seen?).

In a world where graphic pictures of starving children are used by development agencies to raise funds from the public in the rich world, ROTIMI SANKORE critiques the phenomenon of ‘development pornograpy’ and argues that it has contributed towards deeper prejudice. New ways must be found to reach the public and more clearly explain the real reasons behind poverty in Africa, he states. (more)

Bconx: vulture watching over below. What is the true measure of our fall?