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blunthought:

Bobby Seale looking over bags of food being donated to the black community.

I think it’s telling that folks are more likely to circulate images of the BPP holding guns than they are of them passing out food. Even folks who supposedly support/ed the party. Guns are sexy and ~political~and virulent and masculine—groceries bags of food—that’s not what revolution is about. Except, that’s exactly what revolution is about.

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this is why, this is why the government destroyed the BPP, because they were winning the hearts and minds of the people, and most importantly the YOUTH..

thanoblesavage:

toartc:

withrevolutionarycries:

blunthought:

Bobby Seale looking over bags of food being donated to the black community.

I think it’s telling that folks are more likely to circulate images of the BPP holding guns than they are of them passing out food. Even folks who supposedly support/ed the party. Guns are sexy and ~political~and virulent and masculine—groceries bags of food—that’s not what revolution is about. Except, that’s exactly what revolution is about.

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this is why, this is why the government destroyed the BPP, because they were winning the hearts and minds of the people, and most importantly the YOUTH..

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Source: blunthought

"In a way, Kanye’s entire discography is leading to this (probable) point—his first two records were about reaching the top, Graduation was about loving life there, 808’s and Heartbreak was how the top can fuck up your personal life, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was about growing restless at the top, and Watch the Throne found him and Jay-Z negotiating the idea of why there weren’t more black men at the top. And now, it seems, Kanye’s taking stock of the world as he sees it from upon high, and deciding that he doesn’t like what’s flashing in front of his Fendi frames. The fact that the biggest black entertainer in the country even made those two records and debuted them on the beyond-white bread Saturday Night Live is huge. This isn’t Das Racist razzing a few privileged white kids at Music Hall of Williamsburg. This is Kanye West going into a million white people’s living rooms and saying, “Look at the terrible things your people have done to my people and are still doing to my people. We are not going to take it. I’m so pissed right now I wouldn’t even be here if I didn’t have something incredibly urgent to say. Fuck you.” That’s a powerful act, something that you can put up there with things that Bob Marley or Tupac did. I know that’s outlandish, but one day we’ll be holding Kanye West up next to those guys, so we might as well start now."

Source: Vice Magazine

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Gawker (Gawker): This New York Senate bill would make it a felony to annoy a police officer http://gaw.kr/h2r3kuT http://twitter.com/Gawker/status/342625499215970305 (Sent via Seesmic http://www.seesmic.com)

Parlé Magazine Online - Eric Bellinger - The Man Behind Your Favorie Song

Eric Bellinger and I on the in person interview! Very cool dude!

Blacks Are Singled Out for Marijuana Arrests, Federal Data Suggests - NYTimes.com

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Source: cosumosu

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Joblessness Shortens Life Expectancy For White Women http://n.pr/11aj0tI

I laughed so hard and felt a bit of guilt for laughing.

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The New York City Board of Education is a joke. These children lack motivation and a major issue is parenting. A stable household is key to a successful student but a school where it becomes a beautiful escape is the denominator. It does take a village to raise a child. It is a pyramid scheme, it starts from the parents, the educational system and the students. Where is the motivation on all parts?

"Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes racialized, demonized and stigmatized."

- Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)

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Source: nbcnews.com