Would King Even Speak On Matters Today?

“Our disease is ordained. With that resented suddenness, recurring in each of us waking from mystification, our eyes are forced open and we see ourselves, competitors in the debilitating struggle to climb into easier stations in a world built on injustice. Then there are saving minds-ours and others’-ready to create for us the indispensable sustaining illusion: that the aim of our particular climb is not to share the saccharine crumbs of privilege but to end the real bitterness of oppression. A soothing, confusing fusion: the huge social fight to destroy injustice is swallowed in the petty private struggle to promote the isolate self into sharing privilege, oppression’s fruit. Fiction so hollow, yet needing to believe it we fill it out, using all the force of youth’s clever, selfish righteousness.”
~Ayi Kwei Armah, Why Are We So Blest?

So.
How does one use 'all the force' properly (right force, right way, first time)?

Fight fiction with rootz then fluency then quality.

"carryed (sic) away" by jungle monkeys

"This Negro ran away from my Service before he servd me one year of ye eight wch he was to serve me & carrryed away forty pounds of my Estate with him..."
~Massachusetts Colony Slave Owner William Park's account of expenses, 15 November 1682

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(inverse principle of soccer :)

Tired of Being Tired of Gatesgate Teaching Moment(um)

Wi de bull. dem Mata Door. 'wi-dem', 'dem-wi' = dem sata, seen? d'cian't keep stop sending dem red flag(ism) pon wi fi dis-tract we. Furse disconnect all dem bumba lievision, ita worse fi eyes unification den yt sugar.

“When you control a man’s thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. you do not have to tell him to stand here or go yonder. He will find his “proper place” and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.”
-G. Carter Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.

Mashpee Pow Wow

This summer makes idren's 7th (formal) year of both celebrating alternatives to U.S. Holydazes and not celebrating U.S. Holydazes. Each fourth of youlie, ini spend time wi n8v bruddah/sistah. Every year ini see somethings that am supposed to see, needed to see. This year, at their 83rd Pow Wow, there were four especially memorable experiences. One, the Gombey dancers-Bermudian afro-amerN8Vs returned. Two, afro-n8v brothers and sisters, young & old came again -dem ah caryee da ways of de crown & idren saw it. Three, brother Annawon spoke some necessary words about 711 & 'rules' that i needed to hear. Four, sister Lorin, made a upspirit gesture during a yut's dance that struck me in my heart (last 'money' dance idren danced was with Fon of Mankon visit 2 winters ago-bconx live). Pure livity.

"Space ships don’t come equipped with rearview mirrors."

~3 Stax

Afrika's Inside Me ...(O 'where..not today)

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(kiotd-download)

nope. naacp/ghana...not feelin obama. not feelin it at all.

Sickness Invaded Me

Seven days since I saw my sister,

And sickness invaded me;

I am heavy in all my limbs,

My body has forsaken me.

When the physicians come to me,

My heart rejects their remedies;

The magicians are quite helpless,

My sickness is not discerned.

To tell me "She is here" would revive me!

Her name would make me rise;

Her messenger's coming and going,

That would revive my heart!

My sister is better than all prescriptions,

She does more for me than all medicines;

Her coming to me is my amulet,

The sight of her makes me well!

When she opens her eyes my body is young,

Her speaking makes me strong;

Embracing her expels my malady—

Seven days since she went from me!

~Seventh Stanza, from Papyrus Chester Beatty (Pleasant Versus),
New Kgdm Kmt 1200 B.C.E.

Even if you don't

I bconx. ...directly.

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.

Banished

Add to the archives about why many we iz 4 generations in northern slums: 1st generation was Banished.

See Sundown Towns too.

Cambridgeland

This is livicated to dear brother Henry Louis Gates . Although, sometimes you have clearly forgotten either the hebrew saying (13:3) "Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering", or the afrikan saying that the “The shoulder never grows above the head", today you gave me a great tremendous spontaneous chuckle and wide grin.
(kiotd-download)

I wonder. Are you more upset at your neighbor jane or at officer charlie?

oh & nice bconx Intersection:

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RIPP brave teacher.

Normal Beautiful Things

W.E.B. DuBois' description of the purpose of the Brownies Book (a magazine for children ages six to sixteen):
“To make colored children realize that being colored is a normal, beautiful thing, to make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race, to make them know that other colored children have grown into beautiful, useful famous person, to teach them delicately, a code of honor and action in their relations with white children, to turn their little hurts and resentments into emulation, ambition and love of their own homes and companions, to point out the best amusements and joys and worthwhile things of life, to inspire them to prepare for definite occupations and duties with a broad spirit of sacrifice.”

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.'
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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.

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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.

Price of the Confederate Veterans Loyalty Oath

“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify the City’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions. Discarding the test results was impermissible under Title VII, and summary judgment is appropriate for petitioners on their disparate-treatment claim,”...

“If, after it certifies the test results, the City faces a disparate-impact suit, then in light of today’s holding the City can avoid disparate-impact liability based on the strong basis in evidence that, had it not certified the results, it would have been subject to disparate-treatment liability.”
~JustUs Kennedy

(What's that saying?) ...when you fail to be surprised, something something something?

Police Draw Guns on Black Men Opening Bank Accounts

Brother took bby questions, answered them, taught, and advised. Ainshun yut's dem: ever new miracles. (still haffi deal w/banc: truck note...awo).

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kowabunga

i languish

i languish in america
america home of the free-ized
it’s brilliant marble embrace
chop blocked my sacredwere
& listen’s to my prisoner worry
with an old smile
i languish in america
but not alone.
June 14, 2009

Chief Yellow Lark, Lakota Prayer

Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds.

And whose breath gives life to all the world.

Hear me! I am small and weak.

I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes

Ever hold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made.

My ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand

The things you might teach me.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden

In every leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother.

But to fight my greatest enemy, myself.

Make me always ready to come to you

With clear hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset.

My spirit may come to you without shame.

Great Spirit,give us hearts to understand;

Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;

Never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;

Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;

Never to take from her what we cannot use.

Give us hearts to understand

That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;

That to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;

That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;

That as we care for her she will care for us.

We have forgotten who we are.

We have sought only our own security.

We have exploited simply for our own ends.

We have distorted our knowledge.

We have abused our power.

Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,

help us to find the way to refresh your lands.

Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,

help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.

Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with mis-use,

help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.

Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,

help us to find a way to replenish them.

Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost

in selfishness and corruption,

help us to find the way to restore our humanity.

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