I don’t think I’ll ever get over losing Roberta Flack. Her influence is severely underrated even as the first artist to win back to back Grammys for Record of the Year. You can still her piano’s influence in music today. Her softness & melancholy are why we have the Quiet Storm.
As a southern born african american, I despise all of those xenophobic fba, ados, pretendian, hotep, and hebrew israelites pseudonegros. All of that anti-panafricanism nonsense gotta go.
We joke about the neo-soul era and how corny it was but we have to give the artists of that genre their 10s for keeping it an authentically negros only party.
I do think we owe it to our ancestors that we get their stories right. Especially at a time when people are trying to erase them and the harms they experienced.
Carter G. Woodson was driven by the effort to raise Black historical literacy and consciousness, not by the desire to fold Black history into American history. That is why he wrote about Africa’s great nations and heroes. Chill with that “Black history is American history” shit.
Israel executed an 8-months-pregnant Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank today.
Then they blocked the ambulances to make sure both she and her unborn baby died.
This isn’t war.
It’s the systematic extermination of an entire people.
I know Americans have never been anti-imperialists but sometimes I look around at people in my generation and the generation above us like, damn, didn’t we all live through Iraq and Afghanistan together? How are so many people still this pro-government and pro-military?
Sometimes I randomly think about how The President of the United States that lied about seeing 40 beheaded babies, and we just moved along as a country as if that wasn’t the most heinous shit ever. Absolutely no one paid a price for that lie.
Also worth noting: the reason you had things like this appearing in the source is because groups like the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, December 12th movement, and descendants of the BPP still had access to the community psyche. Grassroots organizations are important.
trans people being .5% of the population yet being one of the most contested political topic of discussion is so bleak bros keep yourself safe things are gonna get worse.
They didn’t just kill him. They cut up & dissolved his body in acid. His killers kept his tooth as a trophy and his family only got it 61yrs later. A tooth. Thats all they have left of him. Belgium does not get enough hate imo.