King was not murdered by a vague white supremacy. That’s not “it.” He was targeted by the state, establishment press, white liberals and black bourgeoisie as an enemy for his criticism of w.s. and it’s violent organization as capital and imperialism.
#COINTELPRO
Being well-read don’t make you principled.
Being from whatever background (class, geographic, etc) don’t make you principled.
Being whatever identity (sexual, ethnic, religious, racial, etc.) don’t make you principled.
Being principled makes you principled.
Wow. MSNBC just fucked up! Producers must be scrambling! In all the inane comparisons between Trump and Hitler dude just acknowledged the latter rose to power because the elite preferred fascism to “Bolshevism” (socialism/communism)...
My father (right) was at times referred to as “the Black
#Lenin
” both due to his politics and profile. I love seeing this pic of him meeting
#StokelyCarmichael
#KwameTure
and I love my godfather’s story that it’s he and my pop who gave the man his first real gun. 😂🤣
If anything, Black journalists who are angry about the leaked Biden audio are in their feelings for being exposed as wrong after telling us for months that this was the man who can “be pushed” and who now can be heard by all telling them how wrong they were. 🙄
To those who would “thank me for my service” please do so by advocating student loan forgiveness, healthcare for all, and a national policy of spending $100 on each human for every $1 spent on the military.
‼️
#BlackAugust
‼️
Do you sense there is an over-emphasis on white "dissidents" who were imprisoned,exiled or freed?
Why is there a celebrity culture or hero worship of white voices vs black radical prisoners of conscience who don't get the same treatment by the media?
the people always publicly asking for "unbiased" or "nuanced" books and resources on bloody colonial conflicts, should ask themselves why they prefer (and often demand) any account other than those of the transparently 'biased' oppressed.
@KillerMike
@KillerMike
you have some nerve. And to think you claimed to read my work. Now I feel like you owe me a debate. This is pathetic. And to think you sat with Panther elders and damn sure didn’t say this dumbness then.
"By dismissing Black material inequality, poverty, and oppression as ignorance, financial, or otherwise,
#JayZ
powerfully reconstitutes and redistributes dangerously a
#Blackcapitalist
logic which has been encouraged as acceptable and against which many have... struggled."
This ain't it. And for good measure, here's a still of
@sc
and Jeffrey Yass, PA's richest man, potential Trump Treasury Secretary, and the force behind the voucher push in PA.
Nah. Whole video shows
#DianneFeinstein
doing what her half of the ruling elite do... scuttle potential progress while dressing in progressive clothing.
#MalcolmX
continues to be right, this is what the 🦊 sounds like v a more overt 🐺. But either way we are what’s for dinner.
Here's the
@SenFeinstein
video threaded
#DianneFeinstein
To recap: she engaged on substance, told them she might vote "yes," and OFFERED ONE OF THEM AN INTERNSHIP. pt 1
So wait. The “Russian propaganda targeting African Americans” with social media posts about police violence is what drove down the Black vote for Clinton? Not the police violence itself or an intelligent political response to a bad party and worse candidate? 🙄
I got an invitation to a private zoom discussion with Angela Davis, I'm on now. I was just told by her non-profit host that my question about her support for Biden cannot be asked due to their "non-partisan" nature. 😂😉
@CharlesMBlow
This is wildly anti-historical.
#NatTurner
was a hero who killed for revolutionary purposes. And oh, only one death was attributed to his hand. So even then “serial” would not apply.
“3% of American citizens are employers. 97% are employees.” - Richard Wolff
This is not “democracy” nor does it present potential for Black entrepreneurial solutions to Black material conditions.
If anyone says “just say you don’t wanna work hard”. Know that’s exactly what I’m saying. I don’t wanna work hard. Fuck these jobs. I don’t dream of labor. I dream of art, music, writing, traveling and connecting with people. I just wanna live. Not work. I hate working honestly.
Remember that this was his response to the
#Flint
water crisis when Black people called for him to come and help. He is now living on a 40 acre estate in Martha’s Vineyard and telling you to vote for his former VP.
Listening to the Judas soundtrack. We all should be praising
@noname
for her decision. Gotti, tight pussies, diamonds, cruising in 6s, Jay saying he feels like the Black Messiah and that his birth on the day of Fred’s death was the arrival of a greater threat.
If you REALLY believe Trump is the coming of fascism and that another four years would mean an “existential threat” to democracy and your answer is to vote for Biden you are not to be taken seriously.
He helped free Assata. I hope he has found some peace and freedom of his own. Much love and respect to
#SekouOdinga
, his family and comrades.
#FreeEmAll
Breaking News: It is with great sorrow that I report that legendary Black Panther Party member Sekou Odinga has passed. Sekou was a member of the Black Liberation Army and former Political Prisoner. He literally helped free Assata. Rest In Power
I can’t get over how good this book is!
It is now officially my favorite book on the history of MASS COMM and PROPAGANDA (never mind what it does for Black Studies, History and beyond).
We are now in generational texts territory.
#MustRead
... The “error” in this logic escaping is in its inherent challenge to soft liberalism and is what
#RussellMaroonShoatz
has written about; the antithesis to a politics is not capitulation but a fierce countervailing force.
You would only be the first
@drboycewatkins1
if you actually read my work and addressed yourself to the entire argument before so publicly misrepresenting it.
“Black people don’t have any money” - Please allow me to be the first to disagree with my brother’s assessment.
If that’s the case, why does nearly every immigrant group in America plant their business flag in a black neighborhood?
Would they be trying to make money in places
"That is why we, the editors and contributors to this volume of critical essays, charge that Manning Marable and Viking Press have produced what is, for them, a politically necessary version of Malcolm X and his governing radical ideas..."
😂🙄 “AOC reportedly broke down crying on the House Floor after changing her vote from “no” to “present” at the last minute… a necessary strategic move to position herself to run for Senate in New York. “ - Dems Support Massive Funding for Israel
Happy to announce that the
#MOBP
is now available for
#FREE
selected by
@PalgraveEcon
as part of their "... collection of books, journal articles and magazine content that amplifies Black voices and the issues raised by the
#BlackLivesMatter
movement..."
… and Trump was pulling an Obama who was pulling a Bush who was pulling a Clinton who was also pulling a Bush who was pulling a Reagan who was pulling a Carter who was pulling a Ford who was pulling a Nixon who was pulling a Johnson who was pulling a Kennedy…
What a horrific statement of nonsense from someone being given millions in white money and more in white media to be said to be leading a Black radical movement. This is the kind political “excrement” the socialist
#WalterRodney
spoke of. 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Garvey was not anti capitalist, Fannie Lou Hammer was not, Elijah nor Herman Russel. I love & appreciate much of what I read that Fred said but if I am in this country I refuse allow money or lack of be my chains & cuffs. May I ask if given a chance wud u move to another country
“We will never have a complete definition of
#fascism
… but … if forced … to define it in a word simple enough for all to understand, that word would be ‘reform.’ ‘Economic reform’ comes very close to a working definition.”
#GeorgeJackson
@KillerMike
Then let’s talk. Come on my show. Holla at me privately. Whatever. But you got to stop with all this misinformation and hostility to radical traditions and thought.
But his uncle never evolved his own politics and said in 2008 that the election of Obama signified an end to capitalism and white supremacy. No wonder his nephew is so lost.
But Sanders is NOT losing because of his relationship to the Black vote. Sanders is losing because of his relationship to the Democratic Party who do not want even his very basic humane (far from revolutionary) DOMESTIC politics.
To believe that
#Reparations
for the
@DNC
is anything more than another
#SheepDog
operation to keep Black people wedded to that party is to ignore history. That party will do to reparations what it has done to
#HealthCare
; rebrand conservative legislation and pass it as progress.
This is absurd and Obama looks worse still for choosing this guy. He says people would use the checks as “consumer spending” for “flights and restaurants” as if that wouldn’t help other working people or as if these checks are so people can go play and not simply survive. 🙄
"$2,000 checks would be a pretty serious mistake."
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says larger stimulus checks to Americans could risk overheating the economy
Why don’t Palestinians just better engage in financial literacy? Or use their buying power more responsibly? Or just start businesses? 🙄 “... see how it sounds? A little irrational...”
@IAmKRSOne
I was just asked Spike Lee’s latest. It’s trash. The only
#Bloods
film about Black men in Vietnam should be based on
#WallaceTerry
’s classic and not be some silly adventure movie that treats Asians and Vietnamese history like White Hollywood.
Between 1992-2012 Black people created 2 million businesses but captured a mere .03% increase in total US business revenue. And during that same time, Black median net wealth went DOWN from $17,700 to $1700.
This is wildly misleading.
#MalcolmX
was clear that Black people should form independent blocks running their own candidates with their own agendas. This isn’t speculation and he was unambiguous. Turning him into a de facto Dem is anti-historical.
Speaking of voting our
#WhatMalcolmXMeans
conversation is important! Listening to ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ allows us to get educated on the past and empower us for the present. 👉🏾 Visit
@Audible_com
’s voting action hub now:
#allinforvoting
An Open Letter from Original Black Panther Party Members to Black (Hip-Hop) Artists Who Have an Interest in Our Community (T.I., KILLER MIKE, CARDI B, KANYE WEST, BEYONCE’, JAY-Z, P-DIDDY, LUDACRIS, 50-CENT, and others)
Black people hating on pan-Africanism because the Africans they meet hate Black people is as foolish as me defending the tradition based solely on the fact that me and my Gambian neighbor are real cool.
The Bullshit: "We can't be too far Left of our people, we have to build where they are."
Me: Dr. King said, 'A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.' Arguing against being too far Left is an attempt to mask cowardice with "practicality.”
“I want my students to dream about a world that they want, that they will bring into existence.” - 2022
#FreedomScholar
Dr. Jared Ball (
@IMIXWHATILIKE
), Professor of Communication & Africana Studies at
@MorganStateU
.
#DerekChauvin
's lawyer: You called officers a bitch, right?
#GenevieveHansen
, off-duty firefighter on scene: "Mmhm ... I got quite angry after Mr. Floyd was loaded into the ambulance & there was no point in trying to reason w/ them anymore because they had just killed somebody."
Ok
@KillerMike
but as I said: 1) that was no real build, I wasn’t able to convey much and 2) my suggestion you join BAP was to expose you to real radical, internationalist, anti-capitalist politics, to change your current trajectory, not to help cover it.
I sincerely appreciate
@IMIXWHATILIKE
talking. U helped me to understand some stuff better & I look forward to talking more privately (as a student) & publicly in the future. Joining the Black Alliance For Peace and looking forward to learning more. Love & Respect. Be well.
Renowned author and political dissident Noam Chomsky slams President Biden’s foreign policy, particularly its aggressions toward China: “The U.S. will not tolerate the existence of a state that cannot be intimidated.”
Tuned in this morning after a long break to DemNow and got not even 1 minute in before hearing that they would be interviewing Dyson and talking to Justice Dems about Biden's potentially "bold" policy agenda... and I am right back out the door.
Years ago based on an idea I got from
@AyizeS
I made my babies cards to teach them suppressed histories. The cards were lost years ago but my daughter’s remade them as a gift this year for
#FathersDay
! 🥲☺️😊
Soooooo... he is a racist, is anti-woman, unqualified, ignorant, childish, a liar, a fraud, justice obstructing, working for Putin, but correct on
#Venezuela
? 🙄🧐🤨🙄
50 Cent and Ben Crump will meet with Congressional leaders tomorrow in D.C. to discuss "the Black wealth agenda, the widening of the wealth gap, and corporate America’s marginalization of Black-owned companies"
When I and
@GlenFordBAR
debated Dyson and his tag along friend Dr. James Patterson (😳) in 2016 the point was he was then signing up for team Hilary and we argued it was to remain “relevant” to ruling elites. So him coming out for Biden is typical, predictable.
This bit of propaganda - and the many versions of this going back to Obama - is a disastrous interpretation of the history. It is great as psychological warfare but that’s about it.
Look at all the radicals out here talking big shit now like they didn’t tell us all last year that we HAD to “stop fascism” by voting for Biden and we could “push him Left.” Post-election demands and tough talk is really the original “studio gangsterism.” 🙄
My father (right) was at times referred to as “the Black
#Lenin
” both due to his politics and profile. I love seeing this pic of him meeting
#StokelyCarmichael
#KwameTure
and I love my godfather’s story that it’s he and my pop who gave the man his first real gun. 😂🤣
👀Wait!! Please check this out! This is almost too perfectly amazing!🤣 The arrogance and foolishness of a "scholar" who literally demonstrates my point while ignoring my work and claiming simultaneously that i am wrong! Look at this 👇🏿
The definition of hilarious is the black Man who tells me “Black people can’t build wealth because we don’t have any money,” as he hops in his Mercedes, wearing Air Jordans on his way to a $200 concert with the girl he plans to take to his $2000 a month apartment after going to a