L E F T, PhD ⚫️

PhD | Professor | Writer | Hip Hop Scholar | Of. The. People | Hoop-Court-Shit-Talker | Ginger Beer Connoisseur | Views Are My Own

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

A part of the trick is to devilishly get you to debate things that shouldn’t be debatable.

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

Hey Black folks: just so you know

there is a class of Black folk who will sell you out for a Data Center

there is a class of Black folk who will sell you out for zionism

there is a class of Black folk who will sell you out for profits.

Rebuke those niggas and disinvite them to the cookout

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

This “Bay vs. LA” conversation is some corny ass content created drama and podcast propaganda.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Genuinely asking a question, because I don’t follow this shit like that. Did Glasses Malone have P-Lo level energy for Game when he did ALL of the things with Drake?

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Richmond is one of California’s clearest examples of environmental racism. As a predominantly Black and Brown city, it has been forced to breathe the toxic consequences of the oil industry.

[Truthout @truthout]

California could put money directly into the hands of families harmed by oil drilling, testing an approach advocates hope will spread nationwide.
https://t.co/8wdN3WzWKP

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Malcolm X said, “You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.”

Dollarism will transform your “platform,” once used to expose and contest systemic oppression, into a marketplace for selling products and protecting profits.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Folks aren’t asking the right questions.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Note:

Enslaved Black folks were legally banned from using drums and other loud instruments throughout American colonies following the Stono Rebellion of 1739.

The law was called the Negro Act of 1740.

[GHANA FACTS & HISTORY @GhanaianMuseum]

Rare 1967 footage showing how traditional drums in Ghana were used to send messages over short and long distances, and even perform traditional poetry.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Note:

Kwame Nkrumah said, “Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.” Nkrumah also went on to say, “Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.”

In the Autobiography of Malcolm X, Brother Malcolm wrote about his father (who was an active organizer in the UNIA), “The image of him that made me proudest was his crusading and militant campaigning with the words of Marcus Garvey.”

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Marcus Garvey built the largest black movement of his era on the promise of redeeming Africa.

But he knew almost nothing about the continent, and his organization had nothing to offer black workers on the things that shaped their lives. https://t.co/ViI2afFvPw

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Black Capitalist criticizing Black Capitalist for acting out their Nixonian Black Capitalism differently than they do.

[Truthout @truthout]

There’s a notable exception to California's state heat safety rules: the staff and tens of thousands of incarcerated people who work in California’s prisons that are largely not air-conditioned. https://t.co/ixcaDsmN4x

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

The State of Alabama executed Jeffery Lee tonight, despite the fact that a jury of his peers voted for a sentence of life imprisonment.
https://t.co/mPXvL2z0jG

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Gossipmongering:

The deliberate spreading, exaggeration, or exploitation of rumors and private information, often to provoke scandal, damage reputations, or attract attention.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Interesting…

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

A Gun Was Detected Inside a Waymo. So the Driverless Car Alerted The Police, And The 2 Individuals Inside The Car Were Arrested.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

“It’s…important to me…that people are able to demystify the iconic. And that would include left iconography…There’s been so much corporate funding that has gone in our movements…What we think we’re embracing as a symbol of fundamental change…is actually paid for.”–Joy James

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Contradictions dressed in the clothes of bravado.

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Yeah…I see what’s going on and it’s gross.

[AFRO News afro.com @afronews]

A task force backed by Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is exploring the possibility of bringing a historically Black college or university to the city, potentially creating California’s first HBCU for undergraduate students.

Read more here: https://t.co/J1RKFlOQW0

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

Now is the time to talk about right now, not back then.