A lot of money for faded newsprint! But what faded newsprint it is! LOL!
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Let Those Who Worship Evil's (3-D Animated) Might……
……not be watching Cartoon Network next week. 🙂
Movements Mainstreamed, Or Just Another Day In America?
A new movement that is not completely a movement (didja hear about the “Occupy” reality show yet? 🙂 ) has luminaries that are not completely leaders. “Democracy Now!” profiled in Monday’s New York Times. West profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday. <a href="”>West and Michael Moore on “Democracy Now!” for the hour yesterday. Okay, legitimate (elite) public recognition for legitimate work. (Perhaps the mainstream will pay a little more attention now.) But for people and institutions that are supposed to be “grassroots,” it feels a little too elitist and chummy around these parts, with these (anti?) establishment folks being both sincere and playing their part–as in prescribed role. Perhaps this is just the nature of American society–particularly if you graduated Harvard, as Goodman and West did (and I guess in Goodman’s case, we could argue whether Radcliffe was or wasn’t Harvard when she attended 🙂 ), and worked for the white leftist elite, the way Michael Moore did. What about the grassroots co-host Juan Gonzalez, you might ask? Well, thanks to the Ford Foundation (and “Democracy Now!”‘s significant exposure, I might add), he’s on a book tour. Again, maybe this is just America. Cue Don King–or Tom Hayden. 😉
I Hope It's Not Inappropriate…….
U.S. Supreme Court Says, "Not My Business……."
…..so I guess 30 (!) years in, they’ll be more legal wrangling before the inevitable. Not exactly a victory, as Pam Africa said here.
My Mantra :)
I am not excited about “The Avengers.” I am not excited about “The Avengers.” I am not…… 🙂
OCTOBER 11th UPDATE: WOW!!!!!
Dear "Occupy Wall Street:" I Admire You, But Would You Please……
….read about the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-Vietnam Movements so you can understand how police respond when you threaten white property and capitalism. (You can start, of course, with my book and this one I’m in. 😉 This classic I’m currently scanning-to-re-reading will help as well.) Boy, your white skin REALLY shows here! LOL!
I Get It, TV Guide,……..
…….I really do. But it still looks bad. You could have just taken another photo, or at least told Ms. Henson’s people beforehand.
Call It A Comeback!
I hope this works. I always wanted to write an article for Ebony. Lerone Bennett Jr., a journalist-turned-historian, is my role model. And it was great to hear Richard Prince here!
A Poem By Rudwaan AmenRa Lumumba: "I Am Troy Davis Today"
I AM TROY DAVIS TODAY
Yesterday I was Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo
So many others how far will this go
How long will we gag on this diet from he who oppresses
Hold the presses, this just in, another African killed by injustice
I am Troy Davis
Today
No doubt about it their system is unjust
But that’s not the only thing killing us
Black people wake up we’re killing us
The shame and pain of the maafa is still in us
Black boys filled with self-hate are stealing us
I am Troy Davis today
But who will stand now and say I am Tayshana Murphy
She was only 15 they say it was mistaken identity
He was black, she was black, where’s the mistake in that
Stop lying to yourselves Black people
If we really be Troy Davis then the frequency should ripple
Predominantly Black hoods should be the safest place for Black people
But instead we’re hunted by the hunter and the hunted
bars on windows, triple deep dead bolts got imaginations stunted
I am Troy Davis today
Tomorrow I’ll go back to being the demon that haunts the hood
that crack dealer dealing death to Black wombs
Black woman stripping her soul on poles paying rent in private rooms
I’ll be that black pimp for whom that little black girl walks in the moon
The gang-banger gang banging black boys into black men too soon
but until the needle hits the vein
I’ll respond and say
I am Troy Davis
today
Drums in the Global Village 