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hjaybee: fwyt: hjaybee: Paying homage. Commemoration of ...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:01:11 -0500

fwyt:

hjaybee:

Paying homage.

Commemoration of Malcolm on Feb 21

#MalcolmXDay

Wear all black
(&/or buttons, pins, or something else Malcolm X-like)

Previous Questions, Comments, Concerns are here

Please spread the word.
& On the 21st,
Upload your pictures to twitter / instagram / tumblr with the hashtag #MalcolmXDay

ALSO! HOW ABOUT YOU ALL READ THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOM X! THEN…ACTUALLY TRY TO CHANGE THE CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS IN PLACE TODAY…instead of just wearing black….”yay we did it, we wore black and now people think we are part of something that is actually trying to change the world yay!” ….

READ HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY before you try and rep someone you don’t even understand.

America is full of pseudo activists who don’t take the time to learn about the causes they supposedly support. Education leads to revolution. READ.

We should undoubtedly do that!

Wearing all black - is just a way to commemorate his life.

It encourages people to have conversations about him, learn about him, and portray some sort of unity about a person who has been vilified over the decades.

I’m not saying that wearing black in itself is revolutionary
I’m saying that opening discourse and taking a unified stance is one small step
I’m saying that this is one thing to encourage many more things.

So I mean.. since the flyer is already made, and folks are already down … Why not do this ALONG with manifesting all the things he would have liked to see?

=]

This is directly addressed in the Questions & comments that I linked, but here’s a link to my response specifically, which is in part replicated here.

I’m putting this in your askbox too. Sorry if it’s annoying/repetitive, but many don’t look to see comments from their reblogged posts.

awaliyauzuri: kemetically-afrolatino: kaltheartist: haitianque...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:55:54 -0500

awaliyauzuri:

kemetically-afrolatino:

kaltheartist:

haitianqueerpoet:

kemetically-ankhtified:

Black History Month fact #27

Haiti was the first free Black nation of the western hemisphere.

The Haitian revolution actually began in the village of Guakayman (sp?) on August 14, 1791, where ambitious Haitians thirsty for freedom sacrificed a black pig during a voudun ceremony. This ritual spiritually catapulted Haitians to fight to the death until they earned their liberation as the first successful slave revolt in all of history.

We all know who Toussaint L’Overture was, but what do we know of Jean-Jacques Dessalines (above)? L’Overture was the organizational genius of Haiti’s fight for freedom, but it was Dessalines who declared independence on January 1st, 1804 after L’Overture was captured by France. Dessalines after became the first ruler of Haiti before being assassinated in 1806.

for more on the history of Haiti, see the film Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided.

Black History month fact #28: Rome had an African emperor

fact #27: Haiti was the first free Black nation of the “New World”

fact #26: The Pan African flag and its colors.

fact #25: Judaism originates in Africa.

fact #24: Buddhism originates in Africa.

fact #23: Africa is bigger than you think.

fact #22: Sara Baartman: The origin of black female sexual exploitation.

fact #21: Catholic Virgin Mary was Black.

fact #20: Africans founded Chinese dynasties.

Fact #19: Africans invented the calendar.

Fact #18: Africans came before the Mayans.

Fact #17 Africans discovered America

Fact #16: Africans saw planets with the naked eye.

Fact #15: Africans in Europe

Fact #14: vase Heart symbol

Fact #13: Chess originates in Ethiopia

Fact #12: The Great Pyramid of Giza and Pi (3.14)

Fact #11: The Rosetta Stone

Fact #10: The Shabaka Stone

Fact #9: Ancient Egyptians wore locs.

Fact #8: Africans had walled cities.

Fact #7: Africans had the first sewers, toilets, and perfumes.

Fact #6: The first modern humans were born in Africa

Fact #5: Ancient Egyptians were Ethiopian-descendent.

Fact #4: Origin of Greek language

Fact #3: West African empires were wealthy

Fact #2: Etymology of the word Egypt

Fact #1: Pyramid builders were Black.

MY HISTORY!!!

My history is epic!

if anyone is interested in checking out my Black History Month project, in which i posted a fact about Black history each day last February, click the links above.

they weren’t working before but now they do. if you want to check all of them out at once, check out the tagged posts #blackhistorymonth. spread the knowledge, peace!

Cuz yall need to know this

fylatinamericanhistory: José do Patrocínio (1854-1905) was a...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:55:13 -0500

fylatinamericanhistory:

José do Patrocínio (1854-1905) was a prominent Brazilian writer, abolitionist, and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Born to a White Brazilian man and a formerly enslaved Black woman from what is now Ghana, Patrocínio trained as a pharmacist and became known for his writing and his fierce support for the abolitionist cause. His efforts came to fruition when Brazil became the last nation in the Americas to outlaw Black slavery in 1888. After the overthrow of the empire the following year, he would run afoul of the country’s new republican government when he supported a military revolt against president Floriano Peixoto, which got him banished to a small town in the Amazon. He returned to Rio de Janeiro a few years later and is said to have died following a tribute to Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1905.

ianthe: Today In Black History: February 6, 1990 - Harvard...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:40:36 -0500

ianthe:

Today In Black History: February 6, 1990 - Harvard student Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review; this role is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School.

In 2010, third-year Harvard Law student and Review editor Stephanie Grace circulated an email that began “I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.” The email was forwarded to the entire Black Law Students’ Association.

The Harvard Law School has been described as a “racist breeding ground,” and Stephanie Grace’s email represents just one of many more incidents that still contribute to a hostile climate for students of color at Harvard Law and other college campuses nationwide.

disciplesofmalcolm: W.E.B. Du Bois. Taken from an issue of The...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:37:51 -0500

disciplesofmalcolm:

W.E.B. Du Bois. Taken from an issue of The Black Panther.

disciplesofmalcolm: Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:37:00 -0500

disciplesofmalcolm:

Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.

blackpoemusic: My people are Black, beige, yellowBrown and...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:35:05 -0500

blackpoemusic:

My people are Black, beige, yellow
Brown and beautiful
A garden of life
with a love as sweet as scuppernong wine
growing in muddy waters
making brown babies with
pink feet and quick minds
My people warm sometimes hot
always cool always together
My people let’s be together
understand that we’ve lived together
understand that we’ve died together
understand My brother that I’ve
smelled your piss in my hallway
and it smell just like mine
understand that I love your woman
my sister and her rare beauty
is reason enough for a revolution

My people by The last poets

brancorhodes: Malcolm X in Nigeria (Circa 1964)

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:34:12 -0500

brancorhodes:

Malcolm X in Nigeria (Circa 1964)

blackhistoryseries: #Art Bobby Seale Tribute #BlackHistory...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:32:35 -0500

blackhistoryseries:

#Art Bobby Seale Tribute #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory

lifepathofascribe: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women,...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:29:49 -0500

lifepathofascribe:

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Vintage)

Danielle L. McGuire

Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.

The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written.

In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer to Abbeville. Her name was Rosa Parks. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that ultimately changed the world.

The author gives us the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began; how it was in part started in protest against the ritualistic rape of black women by white men who used economic intimidation, sexual violence, and terror to derail the freedom movement; and how those forces persisted unpunished throughout the Jim Crow era when white men assaulted black women to enforce rules of racial and economic hierarchy. Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled civil rights campaigns throughout the South that began during World War II and went through to the Black Power movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was the baptism, not the birth, of that struggle.

At the Dark End of the Street describes the decades of degradation black women on the Montgomery city buses endured on their way to cook and clean for their white bosses. It reveals how Rosa Parks, by 1955 one of the most radical activists in Alabama, had had enough. “There had to be a stopping place,” she said, “and this seemed to be the place for me to stop being pushed around.” Parks refused to move from her seat on the bus, was arrested, and, with fierce activist Jo Ann Robinson, organized a one-day bus boycott.

The protest, intended to last twenty-four hours, became a yearlong struggle for dignity and justice. It broke the back of the Montgomery city bus lines and bankrupted the company.

We see how and why Rosa Parks, instead of becoming a leader of the movement she helped to start, was turned into a symbol of virtuous black womanhood, sainted and celebrated for her quiet dignity, prim demeanor, and middle-class propriety—her radicalism all but erased. And we see as well how thousands of black women whose courage and fortitude helped to transform America were reduced to the footnotes of history.

A controversial, moving, and courageous book; narrative history at its best.

hunterkitten: “Fulani girl ~ Nigeria… “

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:20:49 -0500

hunterkitten:

“Fulani girl ~ Nigeria… “

whisperscream: Today I stumbled over the greatest greeting...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:52:08 -0500

whisperscream:

Today I stumbled over the greatest greeting cards. Yes Lioness Arts fills much needed a hole in the industry. Check em out.

7lettersofglori: Centuries Later….

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:58:27 -0500

7lettersofglori:

Centuries Later….

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Land of No Hope: 49 year old Black man murdered after being beaten and run over by white supremacists

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:47:56 -0500

Land of No Hope: 49 year old Black man murdered after being beaten and run over by white supremacists:

disciplesofmalcolm:

“James Craig Anderson was a 49-year-old African American who was murdered by being run over, in Jackson, Mississippi on June 26, 2011, by a pick-up truck driven by 18-year old Deryl Dedmon. The event was recorded on a security camera. According to police,…

Land of No Hope: Whitewashing U.S. History on Slavery and Emancipation Proclamation

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:46:12 -0500

Land of No Hope: Whitewashing U.S. History on Slavery and Emancipation Proclamation:

knowyourprivileges:

Today is 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and seems like a good time to dispel some common historical myths:

Myth: The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery and freed all Black people who were enslaved

Truth: The Emancipation Proclamation signed on…

sinidentidades: outofworkaholic: sinidentidades: In 2011,...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:40:05 -0500

sinidentidades:

outofworkaholic:

sinidentidades:

In 2011, researchers at the University of Chicago conducted a simple experiment to ascertain whether a rat would release another rat from a cage without being given a reward. The answer was yes. After several sessions, the rats learned intentionally and quickly to open the restrainer and release the caged rats. The rats also repeated the behaviour even when they were denied the reward of reunion. Even more astonishing, when the rats were presented with two cages, one containing a rat, the other chocolate, they chose to open both cages and “typically shared the chocolate”.

Morality without religion

HAHAHAHAHA

We should learn a lesson from these rats.

pushinghoopswithsticks: “I’m tired of people asking me to...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:38:19 -0500

pushinghoopswithsticks:

“I’m tired of people asking me to smooth my name out for them. They want me to bury it in the English so they can understand. I will not accommodate the word for mouth. I will not break my name so your lazy English can sleep its tongue on top. Fix your lips around them. No you can’t give me a stupid nickname so that you can replace this gift of five letters.” - Hiwot Adilow (linked above, performing the quoted piece)

“Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.” - Warsan Shire

pictured above: Entitled white woman Jenny Johnson in all her ethnocentricity. I grew up with women like her, they were my teachers, classmates. They resent any self-possessed “other” as “arrogant” for attempting to access the same common courtesy and respect they might allow those as vanilla as themselves. These women view it as their birthright to decide what is “weird” and “obscure” from within a niche limited to “white women named Jenny.” They blame their linguistic inadequacy on our parentage while resting on the privileges of their own. These women never amount to anything beyond an ignorant bully forever isolating themselves from incredible people with spectacular names.

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