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why assimilate if the dominant culture is unjust? #10BasicStops

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@felis2458 @DerenicByrd @ansell_malik https://t.co/Vk4I7cquCQ

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The Black bourgeoisie identifies Blackness with subjugation and shame.
—Robert L. Allen

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The Negro middle class… is characterized by a desire to separate itself from the masses. This is because it has selected the White middle class as its reference group and, therefore, tries to assume the values and attitudes (including prejudices) of this group.
—Robert L. Allen

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“…the Ten-Ten-Ten Program: if one Panther organized ten people, those ten people organized ten people, and those ten people organized ten people, exponentially we would organize the world for revolution.”
—Safiya Bukhari, the War Before

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“13) I will steal nothing from a brother or sister, cheat no brother or sister, misuse no brother or sister, inform on no brother or sister, and spread no gossip.”
—the New Afrikan Creed

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@blulvsmatter @JohnBudge @StevenRKing55 @FoxNews Some context…

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@KarlousM Some context…

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"Many Black [people] must have experienced feelings of inadequacy because they could not measure up to the standards set by Whites and developed warped psyches and 'self-hatred.'"
—Joyce A. Ladner

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That is, that we are not simply creating art for arts sake, or writing for the sake of writing, but have a moral obligation to use our artistic and linguistic talents in the service of liberation.”
—Dev Springer

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“And, if we as organizers… and revolutionaries are committed to upholding a revolutionary culture, then our labor as cultural workers is accountable to the notion of working to uphold that revolutionary culture…

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“The people in the Negro community do not control the resources of that community, its political decisions, its law enforcement, its housing standards; and even the physical ownership of the land, houses, and stores lie outside that community.”

Toward Blk Liberation
-Stokely C.

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The vast majority of Negroes in this country live in these captive communities and must endure these conditions of oppression because, and only because, they are Black and powerless.”

Toward Black Liberation
-Stokely Carmichael

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Recycling plastic doesn’t work.

The makers of plastic – the nation’s largest oil and gas companies – have known that all along, even as they spent millions telling Americans the opposite. @frontlinepbs https://t.co/2sZS9Tqc06

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How Police Unions and Arbitrators Keep Abusive Cops on the Street - The Atlantic https://t.co/okSEcXfaNv

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@ThaGoodFather 😆

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@justDiallo2 @zayebanks @TheOrlandoJones Self respect is underrated.

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@justDiallo2 @OmowaleAfrika @TaTa_Babaoke Why does that term minimize? It’s understood to be destructive.

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@justDiallo2 The work of producing justice.

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This is the work...
https://t.co/gws1SJWxTt