The incredible act of injustice that’s going down right now, is just another horrendous reminder of how much we DO NOT live in a post-racial society; how fucked our justice system actually is. I do not support the death penalty. I agree that some people (crazy ass mo/fos) need to be taken the hell out,…
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“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
-Assata Shakur
Troy Davis: Scheduled Execution Date, Sept. 21, 2011
Maybe you’ve heard of Troy Davis and been bombarded with e-mails to sign this and that petition and march on his behalf to try and convince officials to get a stay of execution. Then again, maybe you have no idea who he is. But if you don’t know, Troy Davis is a death row inmate…
Read MoreGraduate School
Right so, I’m a couple of weeks into my master’s program and I’m feeling rather underwhelmed and not very analytically challenged. This has been a real eye-opener to how privileged I was to get the kind of education I did in my undergrad at Oberlin. It wasn’t acceptable to just merely do the reading and…
Read MoreThe film industry and its control of Black images
[Originally a tumblr repost] violinphoenix: bell hooks on Spike Lee Waiting to Exhale… sold and marketed in ways that suggest this is a black film… this is a film about black women, this is gonna be for black people. In fact, this was a typical hollywood shitty, uninteresting film, with a script written by white…
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like black butterflies 