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A Poem By Rudwaan AmenRa Lumumba: "I Am Troy Davis Today"

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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

 

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Randall Kennedy on Barack Obama

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Watch the full episode. See more Tavis Smiley.

Is Tavis getting to be a better, more skeptical interviewer (I guess he should be, after seven years 😉 ), or is he just hatin’ here because of the subject? Either way, good interview.

(And it’s interesting to me that a well-known retired Black journalist who has always believed in being critical of Black leadership is smacking Tavis because he gave a tough interview about a president who has gone out of his way to not serve Black people. Who is the hater, really? :))

"DC Comics: The New 52": Is This Trip Really Necessary?

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Okay, so I read a few pages of “Justice League” No. 1, out on Aug. 31. (And boy, DC must be desperate to pull a “Harry Potter”esque midnight release!) It’s great. But at 43, do I really want to see the Justice League form AGAIN?!? Do I want to read (as in, BUY, READ AND COLLECT)  Clark Kent falling in love with Lois Lane AGAIN?!? I hope this strategy works, and I hope DC saves comics (and with it, my local comics store). I really do. But I’m only in for the Black books (and, okay,  maybe “Superman” and “Action Comics” —but only because I love the work of Grant Morrison and George Perez!—and, well, maybe…… 🙂 )

Lord, "Help" Us :)

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Since I loved “Captain America,” with its desegregated (!) military, I’m on no moral ground to criticize this movie.  (Although, having said that: did we really need to see a film about a grown up Scout? LOL!  All these people don’t think so. So, now, in 2011, The “Magic Negroes” are now maids? AUUUGGGHHH!!!!) I did, however, enjoy Viola Davis’ frankness here.

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