Rebuilding the Community from within the Community
King seemingly handicapped the struggle for Black Americans by limiting his educational intake to that which was offered by America’s perverse educational system. White institutions programmed him, his ideas, his values, and misgivings of America’s capitalist infrastructure. He idealistically and not realistically posited equality. Intoxicated with hope, King sought by means of integration an equality […]
IDEOLOGY! KING VS. MALCOLM–TRUTH AND REALITY
I began to realize that my footprints were going to be washed away in the tide of life because I had not gave due consideration to how I was living it. In fact, I was not living at all. I existed and was struggling to survive. What prison did was gave me time to take inventory, a hard look, at the fact that I had become a statistic, a number with little value amongst my community and peers. It was then that I became determined to change not only my plight but those of others.
On August 21st, 1971, George Jackson, best-selling author and founding member of the Black Guerilla Family was shot to death in the San Quentin prison yard. Prison officials said Jackson had been trying to escape from the isolation unit where he was housed. Three...
In the face of adversity Not Worker, But N!##A Chattel! The F$%#?? By Ivan Kilgore Whereas the positionality of the worker (whether a factory worker demanding a monetary wage, an immigrant, or a white woman demanding a social wage) gestures toward the reconfiguration...
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