....REVERSE DESTRUCTION!!!! CAPTURE TOMORROWS... Haki Madhubuti
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« Pour moi, la chose pire que la mort est la trahison. Voyez-vous, je pouvais concevoir la mort, mais je ne pouvais pas concevoir la trahison. » - Malcolm X
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Frantz Fanon argued in his 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth that the violence in the colonies is not brought there by the colonized.
It is installed there by the colonizer.
It is the foundational grammar of colonial rule, which can only maintain itself through force.
The colonized learns violence from the colonizer, as the primary language of their relationship.
When that person arrives in the metropole, they do not bring foreign violence into a peaceful civilization.
They bring home a violence that was always already French.
They bring it back to its source.
And the source looks at them and calls them "savage."
This is not complexity.
This is a mirror.
And the civilization that cannot look into it has not, despite all claims to the contrary, grown up yet.
aboveTHEclouds retweeted
You have to be the most morally bankrupt piece of shit on the planet to ever say that a 1 year old baby being shot is justified, but this is how dehumanized Black children are in this country. Their lives don’t matter to these people, and they make that clear every single day.
The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi attorney general’s office announced mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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“The most perturbing question for the liberal is the question of violence. The liberal’s initial reaction to violence is to try to convince the oppressed that violence is an incorrect tactic, that violence will not work, that violence never accomplishes anything. The Europeans took America through violence and through violence they established the most powerful country in the world. Through violence they maintain the most powerful country in the world. It is absolutely absurd for one to say that violence never accomplishes anything.”
-Kwame Ture, The Pitfalls of Liberalism
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In 1952, a 27-year-old psychiatrist from Martinique published a book arguing that colonialism wasn't just a political system, it was a documented form of collective mental injury, and he had the clinical training to prove it.
Frantz Fanon trained as a psychiatrist in France before working in colonial Algeria, and Black Skin, White Masks was his first major work, written while he was still finishing his residency. In it, he argued that colonized Black people are pushed to internalize whiteness as the standard of worth, then measured permanently against a standard they're never allowed to fully reach, producing real psychological damage he treated directly in his own patients.
He wasn't writing as an outside observer theorizing about race. He was a clinician diagnosing a condition he watched colonialism actually produce in people.
The book became foundational to postcolonial theory and influenced the thinking of civil rights leaders well beyond Africa and the Caribbean. More than 70 years later, people are still assigning it in university courses because the psychological pattern Fanon described never fully went away, it just changed its packaging.
aboveTHEclouds retweeted
Happy heavenly birthday to Fannie Lou Hamer! A Mississippi sharecropper who became one of the boldest voices for voting rights this country has ever heard, she proved that courage is contagious. Let's carry that courage with us this election season and honor her legacy at the ballot box.
aboveTHEclouds retweeted
"History, despite Its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, But if faced with courage, Need not be lived again."
—Maya Angelou
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« Et nous ne pouvons plus ignorer le fait que nous ne pouvons pas nous asseoir et attendre que les choses changent. Parce que tant qu’ils pourront garder leurs pieds sur notre cou, ils le feront toujours. Mais il est temps pour nous de nous lever et d’être des femmes et ds hommes
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"Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved"
~ George Jackson
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She escaped in 1848 and spent the next SEVENTEEN YEARS trying to get her children back. She was fifty-seven when she finally saw them again.
Mary Walker. She was travelling with the family that owned her when they stopped in Philadelphia in the summer of 1848.
Her owner threatened to send her to the plantation fields. She walked out of that house with nothing and never saw her mother, her sister or her three children again for a generation.
She settled in Massachusetts and went to work as a seamstress and a housekeeper.
And then she spent seventeen years on one project. She wrote letters. She saved money. She hired intermediaries.
She tried to buy her own children — her owner refused outright, more than once, specifically because she had run.
In 1865 her son Frank and her daughter Agnes were brought north to Cambridge, Massachusetts and walked into the house where she was living.
She had last seen them as small children. Her son was a grown man.
Tomorrow tens of millions of people will sit down at a table with their family and not think about it once. That is the correct way to live.
But tonight, before you do — somebody in your line fought like Mary Walker to make that table possible, and most of them never got the seventeen-year ending.
Eat well. Say a name out loud at the table. We must keep our stories alive savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…
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Steve Biko’s funeral procession on this day in 1977. The state initially barred the family from having the funeral service take place at Victoria Grounds stadium because they didn’t want people to come out in their numbers. Malusi Mpumlwana is said to have asked the security branch in King (Qonce) something to the effect of: Would you prefer your men be outnumbered by an angry community here in Ginsberg? And like that permission was granted.
📸: Peter Jordan
