June 2013
10 posts
“Who but a black teenager has the ability to dehumanize a police officer with a stare? Who but a(n unarmed) black teenager can make (armed) police feel threatened by clenching his fists? Who but a black teenager can simultaneously clench his fists and feed a puppy? Who but a black teenager isn’t afforded the opportunity to comply with a request before it’s determined that they’re not complying? Who but a black teenager is choked to the point they urinate themselves while being handcuffed? When does any of this happen to people aren’t black teenagers?”
—Mychal Denzel Smith, To Be Young and Black in America: Always Considered a Threat (via thenationmagazine)
May 2013
48 posts
When you the only nigga who saw the fight in school
noooooooooooooooooooo
it makes me sad to see how many black girls measure their attractiveness by how light their eyes are and how long their hair is :/
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People wonder why there are no black astronauts or deepsea divers or jet pilots who are my age … well the reason is simple; black people didn’t train black children to be anything except Christians. My generation was deserted by its elders, left to be educated by the very same people who had enslaved us; and there we were, in a men’s toilet preparing ourselves to meet years ahead. And here we are now.
The white preachers, teachers, and the rest of them did their jobs really well. We could not compete with their form of life, we were too busy challenging death … and death wins. My generation was intellectually dead, spiritually dead, economically dead, politically dead and there was nobody around to give hope to the hopeless nor help to the helpless. So, in we plunged.
” —Hakim Jamal
Taken from his book “From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me” (page 42). Hakim Jamal was a cousin of Malcom X who worked with him and was organized within Malcolm’s Organization of Afro-American Unity as well as in the Black Panther Party.
(via disciplesofmalcolm)
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
—Assata Shakur (via arianathepoet)
‘Worse than death row’: Gitmo hunger strike reaches Day 100 — RT News →
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Close this base. It’s a torture resort and costs us way too much money with no benefits. They’re not even charging these people with crimes.
