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Re: Footnotes on Black Priorities / Part 1: White Privilege » onlineJournal | The Liberator Magazine

Foosball100 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:17:23 -0000

Any suggestions on what ails our country now ?

Re: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2008/05/uncontacted-amazon-tribe-shoots-arrows.html

jp — Tue, 12 May 2015 07:02:30 -0000

Oh yeah? And I'll bet your tin foil hat protects your brain from the mind waves of Skeletor!? Religious nutjobs everywhere, always have to bring their stupid god into shit.

Re: "Deeper connections with everything we engage with" / A conversation with jazz prodigy Esperanza Spalding » The Liberator Magazine | Blog

Dr. J A Jamil Brownson — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:08:47 -0000

Esperanza (hope) plays two instruments: contrabass & voice .. one requires an object through which to express her sensibilities touching strings with fingers or bow (horsehair) ... the other, her voice, more directly expresses her sensibilities, but how much of each instrument engages the cognitive & how much the affective ... emotional & does the label 'soul' encompass a synergistic melding of the two?
She also bears the burden of being over educated in the cognitive aspects ... consequently her words come on as more academic with a slight nod to some sensibility of street / everyday conversational speech ...
But the more she plays with diverse musicians to diverse audiences, especially in afrocentric club atmospheres where booze & verbal games resonate through the vibratory qualities of that soundscape, the more she will unconsciously be absorbed into 'our' / her roots & the less formally cognitive her work/expression, & the more emotional 'soul' will fill her performance ... but she's definitely a unique musician.

Re: David Banner talks African culture, creativity, and Walking With Gods / "For your thought to influence and spark other people is amazing" » onlineJournal | The Liberator Magazine

Dr. J A Jamil Brownson — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 08:55:21 -0000

its been nearly a half century since I was in touch with Liberator & so many of us from that era have passed on, but i salute this new generation & era of Liberator (online) ...

... one comment on David Banner interview & video illustration ... well done & necessary to rekindle the spirits & ancestral ties ... but geography weaves throughout history & we humans are as mobile as ever & ever since we all emerged from African ancestors, our species has diffused & diverged in adaptation to environmental conditions, especially since we all share 99.99% of the same genetic fabric ...

Africa is a beautiful word, but all too often used in idealised social constructs that twists history into binary opposites whereas the illusion of polar black & white was forever a sickness, especially in Newtonian physics of action-reaction ...

Today's conflict in Yemen (Arabia Felix to the Romans) sends refugees across the red sea to the Horn of Africa from where so many have transited back & forth for Millennia. Looking at African East coasts to Arabian West Coasts (Southwest Asia) we see connections long before Islam or Christianity, while those migration routes connect across present Oman & UAE to Persia, which often exchanged hegemony over the region with ancient Abyssinian, Cushitic, Hamitic & Semitic cultural memes & gene pools. Skin colour, hair texture & physical features in this case are relatively useless dividers.

North Africa's Mediterranean coasts were always shared with other shores, Europe (a Hellenic label) and the Southwest Asian Levant, some 5,000 years of war and migration created a melting pot of secondary genetic & cultural traits that not only linked sub-Saharan Africans but intermingled in a constantly changing rainbow dance of genetic merging & cultural innovation.

Most of the central bioregions of the so-called "Dark Continent" were uninhabited until the 15th-17th centuries when enormous Hameic-Nilotic migrations of cattle herders & horsemen from the North East swept south & west across the Sahel pushing Bantu language groups into previously uninhabited tropical rain forests.

Whatever was going on in the Western arena of Iberia & Africa where Islam battled Christianity, reached down deep into subsaharan Africa, where waves of nomadic warriors - related to those Northeast-to-Southwest migrants continually swept north into Iberia & created coastal sultanates to prey on Mediterranean shipping and settlements ... slaves, mainly European, were captured for rowing galleys along with Slavic captives taken by Tatars & Turkomans preying on the Southeastern edge of Europe.

In short my dear comrades, whenever you open Pandora's box of history out comes the djinn of history with all the migrations, conquests, cultural & genetic merging that reached across the entire old world from Atlantic to Arctic, Indian & Pacific Oceans ... think Cultural Rainbow with a short-term American (WASP vs the rest) aberration that cannot last much longer as Rome evolved from a Republic to an Empire until it overstretched its base and collapsed from within as much as from without.

Re: Michael Rolando Richards, 1963-2001 » The Liberator Magazine | Blog

Dream Circle — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:55:17 -0000

unreal...he saw 911 coming like so many artists.

Re: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2008/05/uncontacted-amazon-tribe-shoots-arrows.html

jp — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:54:54 -0000

I don't think they care about having no idea about "the Jesus"... So. Much. Fail. Fucking religious nuts, looking forward to the day you all kill each other (or yourselves).

Re: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2008/06/black-demagogues-pseudo-scholars-hgates.html

Hateful BlackMan — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:59:16 -0000

The rest of mankind don't have neanderthal DNA because Africans don't have ANY at all you liar

Re: "2236": Militant black Christians executing crooked cops [reading notes] » The Liberator Magazine | Blog

TheBlackWhole — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:25:21 -0000

FINALLY, Our Christian brothers are starting to get the RIGHT idea!

--The Black Whole

Re: Dr. Asa Hilliard & Listervelt Middleton / "Free Your Mind ... Return to the Source ... The African Origin of Civilization" » The Liberator Magazine | Blog

comfort onyee — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:20:11 -0000

Where Dr. Hilliard sitting down with Listervelt Middleton – I am
awakened into self-knowledge about the methods and the content of the
socialization processes to continue creating wholeness among us people of good
Human family … Most of all, to learn of the fact that the Kemet, in other words
– the Negro had All Mighty God in place much longer before the Abraham followers
claims ... this thrills me beyond words!

Re: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2007/10/neoslavery-social-services-industrial.html

Matthew Montgomery — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:53:12 -0000

It's all a scam. It's interesting to see this in context of blacks, particularly in MN. I think the real problem are the central banks. When Obama was elected, I thought there would be change, but it was more of the same. I am thoroughly convinced that each president since Kennedy was a puppet for the central banks, which are owned by private people (probably of European ancestry). I don't mention that to stoke racial divides and feed into the current social engineering bs of pitting race against race.

If I could ask Obama a question, I would ask him, "Given the history of the treatment of blacks in this country, haven't we learned that slavery is abhorent? And Mr. President, if you believe that to be true, then why are you not doing anything to wake up the people (of all colors) to the economic slavery you are pushing on behalf of the Federal Reserve (and really the families that own it)?"

Fundamentally, I don't see this as a racial problem, but one of a few psychopathic people on this planet who think it's their right to rule this planet and run it as they see fit. Via social engineering and other methods, they keep the herd busy bickering amongst themselves.

Re: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2007/07/fallacies-of-afrocentrism.html

asantewaa — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:21:19 -0000

A few months ago I was thinking of subscribing to the Liberator. I am soooo glad that not a dime of my money went to a publication as backassward as this.

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asantewaa — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:16:23 -0000

shut up!!!

Re: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2008/06/dissenting-view-by-john-henrik-clarke.html

Claudia Scott — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 02:03:49 -0000

All I can say is awesome.

Re: My name is Louis Nthenda (a Malawi national, now aged 72 and living in Japan) the young black man talking to the girl in the photo behind and to the right of Malcolm X » onlineJournal | The Liberat...

martins — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:05:27 -0000

good article

Re: My name is Louis Nthenda (a Malawi national, now aged 72 and living in Japan) the young black man talking to the girl in the photo behind and to the right of Malcolm X » onlineJournal | The Liberat...

Thoskiev C — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:59:52 -0000

Thanks to Kes! Saw it on a Facebook a few years ago and for a while. Each time I hear of a Malawian accomplishing great things away from home, I feel greatly inspired. We will perhaps never walk the shoes you walked in, but we can certainly follow the trail you leave behind!

Re: David Banner talks African culture, creativity, and Walking With Gods / "For your thought to influence and spark other people is amazing" » onlineJournal | The Liberator Magazine

Joseph E Pryor — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:27:25 -0000

thank you

Re: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2008/12/lauryn-hill-interview-with-shawna-renee.html

Stevie Robinson — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:12:52 -0000

Great interview

Re: The Case of Hip-hop » The Liberator Magazine

Olayinka Sunday Kolawole — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:13:53 -0000

Achali... where to begin? My disillusionment with hip hop began when I started to look for better things to do and think about than "big booty hoes," "rims," and better ways to have relationships with women that were more fulfilling - hip hop was not doing it for me. And so while I can appreciate a great rhyme/emcee, I was struggling to live the message. I am very much still in the tradition of Large Pro, KRS, Rakim,
Professor X, Kane and Brand Nubian - all as proud, strong and smooth cats, but again,
Hip hop no longer spoke to the intellectual in me - the one who was
trying to come to terms with a world outside of the 'hood and integrated
with my world of hip hop.

So, I hear you, and I hear your pain (disappointment?) Much has changed. There are/were many messages of hip hop that spoke to us heads and our sense of manhood and machismo, of politics and style. Think Main Source with "Peace is no the word.." or even more relevant "Its just a friendly game of baseball." That is what was lost, and the "ratchet" became the dominant strain of the music. Where are the next generation PEs, BDPs, Commons and Roots? They should have been the predominant voice of rap.

Re: Reading notes on the "otherness" fetish » The Liberator Magazine | Blog

lfpe — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:30:07 -0000

We need to talk more here about what Morrison's book says about black writers obsessed with whiteness, too.

Re: Methodology, translation + the scribes' eloquence

omalone1 — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:38:08 -0000

Gwiz, his university appearance was quality also

Re: Sugar Cane Alley (1983) » The Liberator Magazine

angela Babel — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:18:15 -0000

Great movie. My father's story growing up in Guadeloupe in the late 50's was very similar to José. It was my favorite movie growing up because I could relate to pretty much the entire movie. I remember doing same tricks with my cousins, keeping grocery'a change, pooling it together and go buy a bottle of rum supposedly for my grand pa, visiting my great grand ma who had stories to tell...in 2005-2006, there was talk of a similar movie called "Neg' marron" , it ended up being an urban movie about friendship on the island

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livefromplanetearth — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 10:48:02 -0000

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Re: Ancient Egyptian Symbolism In Black American Music » The Liberator Magazine

livefromplanetearth — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 14:59:30 -0000

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Re: Ancient Egyptian Symbolism In Black American Music » The Liberator Magazine

Patrick James Bayham — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 13:08:28 -0000

what about Funkadelic? george clinton?…

Re: The bitchassness of Touré + his post-black rhetoric

livefromplanetearth — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:44:23 -0000

Isn't there so much more to Africana cultures beyond Blues and Christianity? What about the work of recovering what was so-called "lost"?