"There is nothing hard for people to understand in reggae. Reggae is music. Music has words. Words are either a message or something to get down. And I don't deal with get down. My music is to make you get up." - Peter Tosh #blackmusicmonth#blackmusicappreciationmonth
“If you go to a municipality in Venda, you won’t even find one Swati person but Vendas are there in the City of Mbombela municipality. It’s unfair on a local level, we can entertain it on a provincial or national level due to cooperate governance, but not locally.” - Mandla Msibi, SDP National Convener. 🇿🇦
"We know that at the very center of Egyptian philosophy was the admonition, Know Thyself. That is the essence of wisdom. Garvey thus recognized that a lack of knowledge, an amnesia about who and what we are, is pathological.
We recognize today in psychology that amnesia is a pathological state of mind; that a people who suffer from lack of knowledge of themselves and of their history, a lack of knowledge of their creation, are a people who suffer from lack of identity.
We recognize, as Garvey recognized, that this lack of self-knowledge was deliberately induced into the mind and psyche of black people. We could not be Afrikans and slaves at the same time; we couldn't hold onto our Afrikan identity, our Afrikan selves, knowledge of our Afrikan culture, and be enslaved - the subordinates of another people.
It is only when that knowledge is removed, erased, degraded, stolen, taken and distorted that we lose our identity. It is then that an identity is placed upon us by another people and by external forces."
Dr. Amos Wilson, "Afrikan-Centered Consciousness vs The New World Order"
If there was a real commitment to international accountability informed by the law and international morality, the U.S. team would not be in the world cup let alone hosting it. The U.S. - the greatest violator of human rights on the planet. That cannot be defended!
"There’s no such thing as an inferior people. There are oppressed people. And they’re not oppressed by superior people. They are oppressed by people who are better organized than they are."