AnaBlacktivist Seminary

Stop Sensitizing White Supremacist (8.13.17): White nationalist and their apologist are already trying to claim that yesterday’s terrorist attack, committed by James Alex Fields Jr, was a false flag. The group Fields was marching with, Vanguard America, has said he was not a member and was randomly marching with them. I call bullshit! James Alex Fields Jr was a radical white supremacist who according to reports, had identified with Hitler as early as middle school. He showed consistent white nationalist ideations on social media, and came to Virginia yesterday prepared, if not intent, to put his beliefs into physical action. If this were a Muslim, we’d already have reports out about what he was doing in kindergarten and where he got his “training” (what little we know so far is collected here, here, and here).  We cannot pretend that this guy was an aberration–he was the whole point of yesterday. This was not a false flag or a deranged lone wolf attack. This is the product of a ideology that says white people are naturally superior, must defend that superiority with “blood and soil.” He and his ilk must be unequivocally crushed. #goodnightwhitepride

Wow! That’s unbelievable and most including myself had no idea that he was throwing it back out of harms way to protect innocent people…

My heart goes out to him and his family!!

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means “The road is good.” Quick lesson: My tribe is Igbo, and you name your kid something that tells your history and hopefully predicts your future. So anyway, in grade school, because my last name started with an A, I was the first in roll call, and nobody ever knew how to pronounce it. So I went home and asked my mother if I could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent she said, “Why?” I said, “Nobody can pronounce it.” Without missing a beat, she said, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

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Say ‘racist’.

Adolph Reed, Tokens of the White Left (via lostcoherence)

…[A]ttention to black politics on the left tends to revolve around thin and simplistic definitions of good guys and bad, “true” leaders and false. This distorts political judgment into a search for authenticity, hauntingly like white youth’s quest in the 1960s for the most “authentic” blues-“pure” and untarnished by instrumentation, cultivated virtuosity, air-conditioned nightclubs, or indoor plumbing. (No Bobby Bland or Little Johnny Taylor need apply, just solitary old guys on porches of croppers’ shacks in the Delta, playing acoustic guitars with neck bones.) It’s also the exact meaning of exoticism and has horrible political consequences.

The “pure” black experience is monadic and antithetical to complexity in either orchestral arrangements or politics. Assigning authenticity requires “finding” the pulse of the community. (Actually, as with SDS and the Panthers, it requires designating the pulse-thus whites determine black legitimacy, as they have since Booker T. Washington’s day at the turn of the century.)

Toni Morrison, on writing Paradise (via ephemeralia)

Powerful New Video Tackles Racial Bias To Remind Kids Their ‘Black Is Beautiful’

A new video released Monday titled “The Talk” compellingly tackles the impact of racial bias through the lens of black parents in America.

This video accurately displays what it is like to be black in America. It shows the conversations all black parents have with their kids to keep them safe and to encourage them to fight the racist society. And it’s heartbreaking that parents need to remind their kids that their “Black is beautiful”.Society needs to change and time has come to talk about this.

‘Whose Streets?’ film highlights Ferguson activists’ battle with the trauma of protests

“You sacrifice your comfort, your security,” 28-year-old Ferguson activist Brittany Ferrell says in the upcoming Magnolia Pictures documentary about the Ferguson protests, Whose Streets?. 

“You sacrifice everything to do this work.” 

The film explores how Ferrell and other St. Louis-area residents dealt with the fallout of their demonstrations, even after most national news outlets left Ferguson to cover other flashpoints in the Black Lives Matter movement. 

The documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in February and will open in theaters nationwide on Aug. 11. Read more (7/24/17)