by Autumn Anderson
Friday, March 11, 2016
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth. Those who have specific agendas, which they put above truth, will always hate the truth when the truth is inconvenient for them. For them, truth sounds like hate because it goes against their beliefs.
It never crosses their minds that their personal beliefs may be wrong, only the fact that the truth is not helpful in their attempt to promote their own agenda.
The wise man puts truth first and foremost. If truth proves your previous beliefs to be wrong, change your beliefs; don't try to discount the truth. So many people in today's world hate the truth because the truth exposes the falsehoods in their personal philosophy. To them, truth sounds like hate because they hate the truth!
It never crosses their minds that their personal beliefs may be wrong, only the fact that the truth is not helpful in their attempt to promote their own agenda.
The wise man puts truth first and foremost. If truth proves your previous beliefs to be wrong, change your beliefs; don't try to discount the truth. So many people in today's world hate the truth because the truth exposes the falsehoods in their personal philosophy. To them, truth sounds like hate because they hate the truth!
"AREN'T YOU TIRED YET OF SELLING YOURSELF SHORT?"
by Khalil Somadi
Look, don't be cheap. Ok?
Don't be the kinda person easily bought and sold to the highest bidder!
Somebody needs somebody to be their mouthpiece for injustice and hatemongers, so they promise you notoriety and makeshift power in the limelight, and you jump at the chance to speak their words. You're no better than a dummy for a ventriloquist. Bought with a promise of pieces of silver!
Brothers and SISTERS, stop being CHEAP!
Somebody needs somebody to make money off of. So they see you showing no pride in yourself, exhibiting memory loss about your own royalty, and they offer you coke, crack, meth, alcohol. They promise you a chilled out frame of mind where everything is copacetic and your problems disappear like magic. So you hurry up! and give him your hard earned money (HOWEVER you may earn it!) You're no better than a slave being pimped to agents who eat your soul a little bit more every day.
Bought with the promise of Easy Street. Guess what? You're being played; problems don't get solved that way!
Brothers and sisters stop being CHEAP!
Stop selling yourself short, selling out for a promise of notoriety or for having some peace in your spirit that nobody can manufacture for you in any way that truly matters.
If you want to be Notorious or Known, be notorious for pursuing Truth and sharing Light. Be known for realizing you are of royalty and for carrying yourself like you know it.
If you want peace in your spirit, you have to humble yourself to open your soul and face whatever monsters lurk there. You have to LOOK and SEE so that you can identify their source and purge it thru sheer will and a concrete desire to ascend to your higher self!
You can't tip toe around it.
You can't straddle any fences.
Just as you cant get out of the storm and into a better more comfortable house thru some hidden hole in the wall or secret crack in the floor; as James Baldwin once said, "....you got to come in thru the door!"
by Khalil Somadi
Look, don't be cheap. Ok?
Don't be the kinda person easily bought and sold to the highest bidder!
Somebody needs somebody to be their mouthpiece for injustice and hatemongers, so they promise you notoriety and makeshift power in the limelight, and you jump at the chance to speak their words. You're no better than a dummy for a ventriloquist. Bought with a promise of pieces of silver!
Brothers and SISTERS, stop being CHEAP!
Somebody needs somebody to make money off of. So they see you showing no pride in yourself, exhibiting memory loss about your own royalty, and they offer you coke, crack, meth, alcohol. They promise you a chilled out frame of mind where everything is copacetic and your problems disappear like magic. So you hurry up! and give him your hard earned money (HOWEVER you may earn it!) You're no better than a slave being pimped to agents who eat your soul a little bit more every day.
Bought with the promise of Easy Street. Guess what? You're being played; problems don't get solved that way!
Brothers and sisters stop being CHEAP!
Stop selling yourself short, selling out for a promise of notoriety or for having some peace in your spirit that nobody can manufacture for you in any way that truly matters.
If you want to be Notorious or Known, be notorious for pursuing Truth and sharing Light. Be known for realizing you are of royalty and for carrying yourself like you know it.
If you want peace in your spirit, you have to humble yourself to open your soul and face whatever monsters lurk there. You have to LOOK and SEE so that you can identify their source and purge it thru sheer will and a concrete desire to ascend to your higher self!
You can't tip toe around it.
You can't straddle any fences.
Just as you cant get out of the storm and into a better more comfortable house thru some hidden hole in the wall or secret crack in the floor; as James Baldwin once said, "....you got to come in thru the door!"
Two must-reads by writer Keenga Yamahtta-Taylor:
"FROM #BLACKLIVESMATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION" and
"RATS, RIOTS & REVOLUTION".
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.
In this stirring and insightful analysis, "FromBlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation', activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.
******
In "Rats, Riots and Revolution: Black Housing in the 1960s",
through exacting research and urgent prose, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor demonstrates the way in which racism, redlining, and urban exploitation were not just expressions of white prejudice or generic anti-black attitudes.
Rather they were demonstrations of a "political economy of residential segregation."
Concisive. Explosive.
"FROM #BLACKLIVESMATTER TO BLACK LIBERATION" and
"RATS, RIOTS & REVOLUTION".
The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.
In this stirring and insightful analysis, "FromBlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation', activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.
******
In "Rats, Riots and Revolution: Black Housing in the 1960s",
through exacting research and urgent prose, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor demonstrates the way in which racism, redlining, and urban exploitation were not just expressions of white prejudice or generic anti-black attitudes.
Rather they were demonstrations of a "political economy of residential segregation."
Concisive. Explosive.
"HOLLA"
by Khalil Somadi
Unintimidate your voice
so you are visible.
Even a little kid can hoist
his decibel
to state his case,
and his terrorizer slows from sprinting to running in place
while he figures out the change!
So Stop. Shift. Rearrange!
Mumbling grumbles
keep you humble
in somebody else's field,
working for another meal
of jim crow dressed like steak...
Do NOT Let Them Take
Your Voice!
Or Your Choice
To Be Heard!
You personify your word
when you live what you speak,
when you give what you seek
then find:
Black gold of the mind, transplanted...
soul
to
soul
to
soul!
by Khalil Somadi
Unintimidate your voice
so you are visible.
Even a little kid can hoist
his decibel
to state his case,
and his terrorizer slows from sprinting to running in place
while he figures out the change!
So Stop. Shift. Rearrange!
Mumbling grumbles
keep you humble
in somebody else's field,
working for another meal
of jim crow dressed like steak...
Do NOT Let Them Take
Your Voice!
Or Your Choice
To Be Heard!
You personify your word
when you live what you speak,
when you give what you seek
then find:
Black gold of the mind, transplanted...
soul
to
soul
to
soul!
One of my favorite early Saturday morning, OldSkool shows to watch is "It Takes a Thief".
The hero is Alexander Munday, a professional criminal, a thief, forced to take clandestine jobs from the government in exchange for being un-incarcerated.
He's also a "lady's man", and every episode we see him kissing and kickin it with one beautiful woman after another. Alexander isnt racist; international playboy that he is.
But on this one episode where black singer Marilyn McCoo of the 70's pop group The Fifth Dimension starred as the female love interest, the tv networks refused to show a white person & black person kissing. Everytime they were about to fall kissing into each others arms, the phone would ring, the tea kettle would whistle loud, or someone would knock on the door.
Lol.
The only episode of It Takes a Thief that Alexander Munday didnt "get the girl"...because even a criminal was too good to be seen kissing a black woman...
Only in America!
--Khalil Somadi--
The hero is Alexander Munday, a professional criminal, a thief, forced to take clandestine jobs from the government in exchange for being un-incarcerated.
He's also a "lady's man", and every episode we see him kissing and kickin it with one beautiful woman after another. Alexander isnt racist; international playboy that he is.
But on this one episode where black singer Marilyn McCoo of the 70's pop group The Fifth Dimension starred as the female love interest, the tv networks refused to show a white person & black person kissing. Everytime they were about to fall kissing into each others arms, the phone would ring, the tea kettle would whistle loud, or someone would knock on the door.
Lol.
The only episode of It Takes a Thief that Alexander Munday didnt "get the girl"...because even a criminal was too good to be seen kissing a black woman...
Only in America!
--Khalil Somadi--
‘‘'Tell me again about the liar who lied about a lie,’' my son said recently. It took me a moment to register that he meant #RachelDolezal. He had heard me talking about her with Noel Ignatiev, author of 'How the Irish Became White.' I had said: ‘'She might be a liar, but she’s a liar who lied about a lie. The original fraud was not hers.' Because I was talking to Noel, who sent me to James Baldwin’s essay ‘'On Being White ... and Other Lies’' when I was in college, I didn’t have to clarify that the lie I was referring to was the idea that there is any such thing as a Caucasian race. Dolezal’s parents had insisted to reporters that she was 'Caucasian' by birth, though she is not from the Caucasus region, which includes contemporary Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Outside that context, the word 'Caucasian' is a flimsy and fairly meaningless product of the 18th-century pseudoscience that helped invent a white race.
Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, than we are to black people. American definitions of race allow for a white woman to give birth to black children, which should serve as a reminder that white people are not a family. What binds us is that we share a system of social advantages that can be traced back to the advent of slavery in the colonies that became the United States. 'There is, in fact, no white community,' as Baldwin writes. Whiteness is not who you are. Which is why it is entirely possible to despise whiteness without disliking yourself."
- Eula Bliss, "White Debt"
[Photo description: A drawing. On a black background, an arm is raised with the palm of the hand facing upward. On the palm sits a tiny house with smoke coming out of the chimney.]
(H/T @NameIsQ)
#Whiteness #Race #WhiteSupremacy
Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, than we are to black people. American definitions of race allow for a white woman to give birth to black children, which should serve as a reminder that white people are not a family. What binds us is that we share a system of social advantages that can be traced back to the advent of slavery in the colonies that became the United States. 'There is, in fact, no white community,' as Baldwin writes. Whiteness is not who you are. Which is why it is entirely possible to despise whiteness without disliking yourself."
- Eula Bliss, "White Debt"
[Photo description: A drawing. On a black background, an arm is raised with the palm of the hand facing upward. On the palm sits a tiny house with smoke coming out of the chimney.]
(H/T @NameIsQ)
#Whiteness #Race #WhiteSupremacy
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