"Data Suggests Boston Police Targeted Black & Working Class Areas For Surveillance"

"Data Suggests Boston Police Targeted Black & Working Class Areas For Surveillance" http://feedly.com/k/ITBhZW

Genealogy civil war

"Online Database Lists Union and Confederate Civil War Soldiers" http://feedly.com/k/1bVnqx4

Ilê Ayê, Bahia’s oldest bloco afro,

"Ilê Ayê, Bahia’s oldest bloco afro, celebrates 40 years; opens registrations for 2014 Ebony Goddess contest" http://feedly.com/k/1kdtvbI

7 Powerful Ways Black People Can Obliterate White Supremacy Right Now

by Dr. Boyce Watkins

I don’t know about you, but I AM SICK OF IT. I am sick of living in a world where my people finish last. I’m tired of seeing our kids being brainwashed into becoming drug-addicted, womanizing, lazy, wannabe thugs by a media industry that is determined to destroy us. I’m sick of seeing black people filling the welfare lines and unemployment offices. I’m tired of seeing black teenagers dying a physical and spiritual deαth before they ever have a chance to live.

I’m sick of people believing that white is right and black is inferior. I’m tired of celebrities, athletes and powerful black people who believe that they have no obligation to help anyone other than themselves. I’m “syka blak yuth hoo rite lyke dis” on Facebook because their educational systems have failed them and left them functionally illiterate. I’m tired of seeing people having baby showers without even wondering, asking or reflecting on who the father was. I’m tired of seeing so many members of the black middle class enduring workplace discrimination on a regular basis and not feeling that they have any way to remedy the disparity. I’m tired of people telling us that racism is a figment of our imagination and that the only conclusion is that we are inherently inferior. I’m tired of black teens being embarrassed and ridiculed for working hard or being highly educated. I’m sick of seeing our kids dying in the streets over nonsense.

I’m just tired of it, tired of it all, and I believe that you are tired too.

The reason I put together the New Paradigm Movement is because I was determined to do everything in my power to leave something to our children before I get old and die. We’ve taken the tour to three cities, including Chicago, New York and Washington DC, and are calling on all empowered and action-oriented voices in our community to share clear action steps that will allow us to rise above the sociological, economic swamp that drowns our babies before they are even born.

We know that white supremacy is real, and most of us have experienced racism up close. The problem is that, when we speak on these issues, no one is listening. Well, I could care less if anyone else is listening on this matter, because it’s about time we start listening to OURSELVES. Here are 7 things that all of us can do right now to engage in a new paradigm of thought and action, thus stopping white supremacy in its tracks:

1) Every black child should be homeschooled, even if they go to school someplace else: We know that many of our schools are failing. We also know that our kids are being left either uneducated or miseducated by a school system that doesn’t care about them. This is where we step in. After school, during weekends and holidays, that’s when you should be using the Internet to teach your child the basics of black history, how to start a business, how to be a good parent and how to survive and succeed. We must all be a part of that child’s educational process.

2) Every black child should be taught the basics of entrepreneurship, even if they work for somebody else: Children must learn to earn their own money the way you learn to grow your own food. It’s not logical to depend upon the descendants of your historical oppressors in order to get the things you need. It only leaves you in a position of weakness.

3) We must be willing to pay the cost of our own freedom by supporting black-owned institutions: It is critical that we support our own institutions, including HBCUs, community groups, and civil rights organizations. If we don’t support our own organizations, then who will?

4) We must rebuild the family unit and broken black relationships: The black family has been destroyed over the last 40 years, largely by the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. Now, our children must be re-educated on the fundamental skills necessary to build and sustain a strong family unit. This starts with learning how to manage and negotiate relationships, and giving our children a fighting chance at having a functional two-parent upbringing.

5) We must build better children: Too many young men are never taught how to be men, husbands or fathers and are misled by mass media into disrespecting black women. Too many young women never learn the value of respecting manhood or themselves. This must be changed so that when those young children reach adulthood, they can emerge as healthy, whole individuals capable of raising productive, safe and balanced children themselves. We must also confront the tragic mental health consequences resulting from the destruction of our families and mass incarceration.

6) We must be economically intelligent: Your money is your power, so why are we always so determined to give it all away? The key to liberation in a capitalist society is to understand and harness the power of money. We must support black-owned businesses, embrace the concept of financial literacy, teach the value of ownership and become savers and investors rather than borrowers and consumers. As a Finance professor, I can tell you that the key reason for chronic black unemployment is the absence of black-owned businesses. The next front in the fight for equality is going to be on the economic landscape.

7) Black leadership must be de-centralized: No longer should we define and confine black leadership to be represented by two or three figureheads that are burdened to lift 40 million people. Our community is filled with brilliant individuals from all walks of life, many of whom are quite capable of sharing viewpoints and ideas that can inspire and uplift those around them. Our belief is that we can ALL play a role in elevating our communities, since we are all positioned to be leaders within our own space. A mother and father can lead their own children. A teen can lead the people around him. A teacher leads her class. A strong man can lead our boys toward manhood. The fact of the matter is that black leadership starts in your living room and when it comes to solving the problems of our community, we need all hands on deck.

I’m tired of being tired, and I’m sick of being sick. It’s time for a New Paradigm in Black America, and I hope that you agree.

Airting

"Couldn’t have said it any better." http://feedly.com/k/1c1fr3d

Coon jigger

"Racist Mechanical Toys" http://feedly.com/k/1c1ekjR

Egyptian Language:The Mountains of the Moon, Niger-Congo Speakers and the Origin of Egypt

"Egyptian Language:The Mountains of the Moon, Niger-Congo Speakers and the Origin of Egypt" http://feedly.com/k/1c1dHqK

...believes he was making up signs as he went along... LMBO

This is so funny to me. I can't stop laughing. If this brother (who looks like the mechanic in Jill Scott's The #1 Ladies Detective Agency) did this as a f.u. to the global elites - a kind of, yall full of **it, talkin' but sayin' nuthin - then god bless him. If not, doesn't matter, I can not stop laughing. -maybe he is someone's cousin who got him the job, and he just hustled it...good for him (big smile).

Fast Runner Triology FREE

Fast Runner Triology FREE

http://www.isuma.tv/fastrunnertrilogy

Journals of Knud Rasmussen

The Fast Runner Trilogy Video on Demand (VOD)

Three unique Inuit films expressing the dramatic history of one of the world’s oldest oral cultures from it’s own point of view.
“A masterpiece... The first national cinema of the 21st century.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times review of Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, 2002.

Service of My Vision

“When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

~Audre Lorde

How should tears come?

“How should tears come? What would I be regretting then? In the decline of my life I have found it hard to take out anything that has found its way into my spirit and to say of it that it has brought with it peace and the good stillness which understanding brings.”

~Ayi Kwei Armah, Fragments

Free Men?

“The people would grumble and complain to the English Commissioner who was indulgent and showed mercy. And in this way they sowed hatred in the hearts of the people for us, their kinsmen, and love for the colonizers, the intruders. Mark these words of mine, my son. Has not the country become independent? Have we not become free men in our own country? Be sure, though, that they will direct our affairs from afar. This is because they have left behind them people who think as they do.”

~Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

System of Education Prepared Us For

“If we have lost touch with what our forefathers discovered and knew, this has been due to the system of education to which we were introduced. This system of education prepared us for a subservient role to Europe and things European. The educational system which we devise today must equip us with the resources of a personality and force strong enough to meet the extensiveness of the African presence and situation.”

~Kwame Nkrumah

m130 Culture

“Our culture is our immune system.”

~Marimba Ani

Capitol Junk

“You will not find in history an Afrikan people practicing Afrikan religion waging war or jihad based on their spiritual beliefs against others, it doesn’t exist. That should tell you something.”

~Wole Wanyika

Before Alexander of Macedon

“Nothing in Africa had any European influence before 332 B.C. If you have 10,000 years behind you before you even saw a European, then who gave you the idea that he moved from the ice-age, came all the way into Africa and built a great civilization and disappeared, when he had not built a shoe for himself or a house with a window?”

~Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Chief Seattle's Daughter

Primate Educator

“Do not show wisdom, where there is wisdom.”

~Kenyan Proverb

The animal on the left is not only teaching...he is teaching the most important thing: survival. He is clearly hungry. So his instruction is a benefit to the student and the teacher. Black folks can not teach their children this way (here). It is forbidden by beast-heart.

2pac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x2FqX2YZws&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Africa’s Oldest Known Boat 8000 years

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Children Hangmen

Anda brouwzeu (smile)

"Today is the National Day of Black Consciousness in Brazil; holiday now celebrated in more than 1,000 cities!" http://feedly.com/k/1ataCxi

Watchers watched. (vieola anyone?)

"Watchers watched: Boston cops grumpy over GPS trackers on cruisers" http://feedly.com/k/1bMQPZX One Blaak Love. ReIdren Business Group. 765-734-3736. reidren.com

Nobel (ytboipreyes) = tnt

"‘Retract Peace Prize’: Russian NGOs blast Obama over ‘killing people’ confession" http://feedly.com/k/1h04OPQ

Jigsaw game

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/DF055D4DCEBE?z=21

Beast-heart Way IS Killing Our World

No black man defense. No beast-heart vision.

Lil' man.*

Beast-heart way,

is killing our world.

*lil' Man basically intended to STOP the cop from practicing Racism White Supremacy in a different way than his his sister. His sister tried to reason, he wanted to terminate beast-heart's action. His sister wanted to reason. He was beyond reason.

Full video.

"54 year old homeowner"

"gradientlair: There is no argument that can be made to justify..."

..dis fruitaa 2013 apartheid beast-heart amerikkka.

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"There is no argument that can be made to justify the killing of Renisha McBride as Whites ride under the protection of the obliviousness created by White privilege and a justice system that exists to uphold White supremacy, not fairness and certainly not justice.

I have been accosted by drunk White men and recently had my privacy invaded at home by a random White woman, which I wrote about here: Unlike Renisha McBride, A White Woman Came To My Door (Not Even For Help) And Lived Another Day. I did not murder any of them. Whites have spit on my life since childhood and I have not taken a life and most certainly not for someone knocking on my door. Yet Whites I’ve seen who seem to cheer her death have the audacity to attempt righteous indignation about her toxicology report released to the media for mass use even as “54 year old homeowner” has replaced this man’s name? Whites are really trying to have righteous indignation regarding alcohol? Do they know what they are like when drunk? Do they know the chaos they cause? Do they know the hell of dealing with them in a corporate workspace,college campus, restaurant or neighborhood when drunk? The entitlement and White privilege plus lack of inhibition? The hell that causes people.

A murder victim is being treated as a criminal. Still no charges filed and she’s already been buried. Yet the smear campaign against her continues and the quasi-anonymity for the killer continues. In a White supremacist society, Black victims are treated like criminals and Black criminals are treated like animals.

And since a part of White supremacy includes the toddler-like nature that many Whites approach race with, all of your derailment and excuses are covered here so no need to add them to my post: I don’t care if “all” Whites are not like this; no I am not the “real” racist; no, Black people aren’t racist towards you; no, racism isn’t just insults; no, this incident is not isolated; no, this is not about drones or President Obama—mentioned as a way for you to erase what has happened here; no this is not about the White supremacist label “Black on Black” crime that you think Black people are “happy” about, when most crime is intraracial (including “White on White” crime) and Black people who harm Whites pay heavily when Whites who harm Black people do not; and no, this is not about some “generic” issue where “anyone” is capable of doing badly. Race cannot be erased from a history that used our blood as its ink for its story.

I am tired of even having to write a disclaimer on my posts because your White supremacist petulance includes a lack of critical thinking, lack of boundaries, repetition of easily refuted derailment and a lack of self-control. I am…tired. I cannot even have a conversation on something like this—which is so stressful already—without having to address bigots every step of the way. Fuck you for this."

Anyway, some important information/links:

Vigil: In Detroit, Saturday, 11/16/13, 4:00pm
Demand Justice: Dearborn Heights Police Dept - (313) 277-6770
Petition: Color of Change - Demand justice for Renisha McBride
Petition: MoveOn - Treat Wayne Co. Prosecutors Office: Treat Renisha McBride’s death as a crime
Petition: US Human Rights Network - Petition to bring Renisha McBride’s killer to justice
Justice For Renisha McBride on Facebook
Democracy Now: with dream hampton discussing the case
Voices of Detroit: independent paper with story on the case

All of my posts on this are tagged under her name: Renisha McBride

Just like...

“The gun “accidentally” went off. The killer is “coincidentally” white. The dead woman is “unfortunately” black. These murders “oddly” keep happening. It’s all an “accident”, a “coincidence”, “unfortunate”, like slavery & Jim Crow & the KKK & the prison industrial complex & racist drug laws & police brutality.”

- Remi Kanazi (via gloomy-black-girl-blogging)

Worth a read (this Cristoforo Comebluff us day)...& forgot to mention Columbus was a rapist of native children and bragged about it in his journal... but the great 'father' "de las casas" was a devil through and through too. Don't sleep. DONnnt.

Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal:

Data storage...

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