A Pursuit of liberation

Out of breath I regret to inform you that I’ve made a habit of chasing my freedom. My detriment is in motion and so am I -- This is a black space; a dimension tucked in the recess of a book that will never be. Know that all musings are informed and my own. Scroll down

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21st century care

Hospitals are fundamentally anti-black 

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Cause =/= consequence

Racism can create pathologies but it itself is not pathological

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The only thing more annoying than a Bernie stan are the folks still pushing his whole half baked "revolution" shtick

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The only politics in this country that’s relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution…none other.

H. Rap Brown

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One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on Black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But, no, they appear to glory in their chains; now, more than ever, they appear to measure their safety in chains and corpses.

James Baldwin (and excerpt from “An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis”)

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Late-modern colonial occupation differs in many ways from early-modern occupation, particularly in its combining of the disciplinary, the biopolitical, and the necropolitical. The most accomplished form of necropower is the contemporary colonial occupation of Palestine

Achille Mbembe

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“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

(via fuckyeahaudrelordequotes)

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The post-racial mosque is a myth

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“اسقاط المجتمع الذكرى!” “Overthrow the Patriarchy” 

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Liberating song of the day 

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines “Racism”

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Whiteness & the segregated metropolis pt.2

Housing policy, beginning in the 1930s, rested at the core of the postwar housing industry. The Federal Homeowners Association (FHA) acted as the prime facilitator for government issued housing subsidies. The FHA also acted as a model for future insurance programs backed by the federal government. The GI Bill’s housing provision specifically adopted the FHA’S insurance plan but went a step further by creating additional incentives (Freund 2007 pg 181).  Long-term debentures and waived down payments were amongst the number of incentives put forth by the GI Bill. Along with adopting it’s insurance plan, the GI Bill also established similar appraisal standards underlined in the FHA’s Underwriters Manual. These guidelines aided in maintaining segregated housing markets. These discriminatory procedures pushed suburbanization to be the primary beneficiary of federal subsidization.

As a result, public housing efforts took a back seat in market stimulation. The Wagner-Taft-Ellender is a prime example of efforts that began but never saw full fruition due to underfunding. Title 1 and 2 of the bill focused on urban renewal but due to a lack of authorization from both Congress and the White House and the supplementary absence of proper subsidy allocation the project was effectively silenced (Freund 2007 pg 186). Demands from labor and civil rights organizations caused little change. Attempts by the FHA to quell their protest only furthered the issue of homeowner inequality. The creation of separate white and minority housing markets allowed for the FHA to further control the livelihoods of citizens of color within the U.S. Furthermore it created a discourse in which race could be discussed under the guise of actuarial ‘risk’ factors (Freund 2007 pg 187).  

Establishments within the conventional mortgage market, an industry of institutions not directly promoted by the FHA, also aided in constructing the segregated metropolis. Conventional lending agencies like insurance companies, mutual saving banks, and commercial banks played a role is suburbanizing the American polity by increasing their share of state mortgage debt (Freund 2007 pg 191). Fannie Mae (FNMA), another organization in the conventional mortgage market, acted similarly by purchasing FHA loans and repurposing them with more attractive inducements (Freund 2007 pg 192).

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Liberating song of the day

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The Reagan administration stigmatized welfare by deploying the myth of the black "welfare queen" who had babies to fatten her benefit check, but it was the Clinton administration that worked with Congress to abolish the entitlement to welfare altogther

Dorothy Roberts “Fatal Invention” 

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Muslims who identify as modernist but do not critique modernity:

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Healthcare and death penalty abolitionist  

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In somali when we see injustice we say ‘dhiiga kuma dhaqaqo?’ which translates into ‘does your blood not move?’

Warsan Shire, water (via bhagyawati)