That’s an amazing experience. But did you know guns were integral during the civil rights era? Did you know violence was all around and that many civil rights activists were getting their hands dirty to keep their non-violent leaders alive? Pulling someone over for a traffic stop and then trying to assassinate them,…
I’m troubled by this. Mr Al-Amin during his days as H. Rap Brown sat at my parent’s dinner table during my childhood as he was fomenting for our rights. He is for me a larger than life figure who represents the best of blackness. However, this is the man who is famous for saying violence is as American as cherry pie.…
The revolution will not be televised, tweeted, posted, hashtagged, streamed, commercialized or serialized. People assembled and in the street - listening to a single voice, gathering with a single purpose is what the system fears.
I saw him speak in 1990. When the news hit about this incident, I could not believe it. But the media coverage really made me change my mind at the time, I was shocked. I remember the man hunt for him all over the news. I actually thought he must have lost his mind, instead of omg he is being set up again. The man I…
it’s amazing how our country’s very stupid collective fear of muslims makes the shitty prison system even worse
