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The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Pema Chödrön (via blackamerikanprince)
Huey P. Newton, Ishmael Reed & Jawanza Kunjufu On Racism Again Black Men (1988)
1. White woman: You scared people Huey. The Black Panthers scared people.
Huey Newton: Any time the black man attempts to change the slave image he will scare white people.
2. Jawanza Kunjufu: Why were black people brought into this country? They were brought here to work. Does that reason exist today? America has a problem. What do they do with a people they no longer need?
3. White woman: I hate to disagree, but I was stopped this morning at 5:30 [a.m.] walking my dog by a policeman who just wanted to know why I was out at that hour.
Huey Newton: Of course, we weren’t talking about white people are never arrested, white people are never stopped. See, that’s an absolute statement. We mean as a statistical average that blacks are more often stopped according to our number that we represent in society which is only about 11%. And I think that’s a very racist way to look at things.
White man: You know what? How do we change this? It”s the same old talk!
Huey Newton: The way you change it is through revolution. The way you change it is changing the entire institutionalized racism in this country.
We have to start movement likes the Civil Rights movement, continue it like the Black Panther Party, continue it like the Republic of New Afrika, continue movements like the Nation of Islam, because it needs all of those groups, all of those movements just to start to make a dent in the kind of twisted mentality white people have in this country, from the upper class to the middle class, because they all profit by the situation of black oppression one way or the other-even when they don’t want to.
4. White woman: I see some black men as it’s their attitude. You have the Black Panthers but you are separating yourselves still, and we’re going to get a group, then you’re going to get a group, and that’s what separates us.
Huey Newton: We don’t have to separate ourselves when we’re already separated … I think that our problem is so large until it takes more than Martin Luther King, it takes more than Malcolm X, it takes more than Huey Newton to solve this problem, so I would like to know how this young lady will contribute in her actions or in her teachings to solve the problem.
Because of cognitive dissonance it is very hard... basically impossible for white people to tell the truth about history. The most dangerous thing a person of color can do is let this white controlled education system teach your child about him or herself. White people have no interest in telling the truth, when it comes to history their only goal is to boost the false sense of importance and self esteem of their white children. Everyday I ask my niece what they taught her in school today and then I tell her the truth. My Grandfather RIP had a saying "If a whitey say the sky is blue, ya betta go outside an check"
Sex isn’t good unless it means something. It doesn’t necessarily need to mean “love” and it doesn’t necessarily need to happen in a relationship, but it does need to mean intimacy and connection…There exists a very fine line between being sexually liberated and being sexually used.
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then, it is not omnipotent [possessing unlimited power]. Is it able, but not willing? Then, it is malevolent [malicious]. Is it both able and willing? Then, whence cometh evil? Is it neither able nor willing? Then why call it God? [The Logic to end all Logic]
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WHAT IS THE MEANING OF “SANKOFA”? Used as a symbol of the Pedagogical Use of the General History of Africa, the concept of SANKOFA is derived from the Akan people of West Africa. The term comes from the words “san” (return), “ko” (go), and “fa” (look, seek, and take). Sankofa teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, we should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward Visually and symbolically Sankofa is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg (symbolizing the future) in its mouth
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcolm X
