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traytray2: Ying Yang

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:29:58 -0500

Ying Yang

"Hip-hop was a problem because an underclass that had been left to die didn’t, and instead created a..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:07:15 -0500

“Hip-hop was a problem because an underclass that had been left to die didn’t, and instead created a music decrying their conditions that was vivid, troubling and beautiful, a declaration of existence in the face of those who’d condemned them to oblivion. It screwed up the narrative, and thus was born an anti-rap racism in which symptom became cause, laments of violence and deprivation becoming justifications for violence and deprivation. Anti-rap racists hear rap music as proof that black men pose a uniquely violent danger to the American status quo, even as the entire trajectory of that status quo suggests it’s the other way around. As theories of history go it’s both aggressively incorrect and depressingly unoriginal.
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Disliking hip-hop doesn’t make you a racist any more than liking hip-hop makes you not a racist, and I’m sure there are plenty of Stormfront enthusiasts with Rick Ross in their iTunes. If you don’t like Jay-Z because you just don’t like the way he sounds, or you’re sick of his cloying ubiquity, or you wish he’d talk about something other than where he’s from for five seconds—hey, I’m not mad, I don’t like Bruce Springsteen for the same reasons. But if you don’t like rap music—a genre that contains multitudes—because of a self-satisfied moralism, or because you’re scared of it, or because you wish those people would stop talking about their problems and get out of your television and radio and kids’ bedrooms: well.

And I’m not just talking about the American right, I’m talking about all the well-meaning white folks who’ve told me how they want to like Lil Wayne but lo, the misogyny, the violence, the drugs. But, but, I’ll say: Bob Dylan aced misogyny; the Rolling Stones sang about violence; the Velvet Underground knew their way around some drugs. Yeeeah, but it’s different, they’ll say, elongating that “yeah” with conspiratorial inflection: you know what I mean. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

Rap music doesn’t get unarmed kids shot to death, “it’s different” does. “It’s different” infuses “these assholes always get away” and gives solace to people who hear that sound bite and nod their empty heads in agreement. “It’s different” is the same logic that suggests a teenager’s skin color combined with the music he listened to means he had it coming, and it’s the same logic that lets a bunch of people feign outrage over a teenager’s use of the n-word to describe himself when they’re really just outraged that he beat them to the punch.”

- GOOD || America Is Dying Slowly (via drinkyourjuice)

"You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:24:24 -0500

“You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don’t tell me my son died for freedom and democracy…You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine!”

- Cindy Sheehan (via readyokaygo)

awakeningourtruth: “Enlightenment is a destructive process. It...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:09:36 -0500

awakeningourtruth:

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”

— Adyashanti

Awakening Our Truth

~~ENLIGHTENMENT~~

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holy shit . .

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sandandglass: Wayne Allyn Root - seriously, look his face in...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:12:45 -0500

sandandglass:

Wayne Allyn Root - seriously, look his face in the last gif.

mark this guy under people who need to be gruesomely murdered . .

i’ll teach you the definition of callous . .

sandandglass: “The last I checked, the profiling that you’re...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:09:02 -0500

sandandglass:

“The last I checked, the profiling that you’re talking about has never ruined a human being’s life in the history of the world.”

booksandwildthings: giving-myself-to-ashes: admiringthefuck...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:06:48 -0500

booksandwildthings:

giving-myself-to-ashes:

admiringthefuckingscenery:

bl00db3nder:

And the movie couldn’t have looked like this BECAUSE?!?

If cosplayers had made the ATLA movie, it would have probably won some Oscars…

Seriously, this was made by teenagers in their spare time because they were bored and it’s still better quality than the movie that took millions of dollars to make.

don’t worry, i’ll re-film this movie once i get the resources to do so . .

liberalsarecool: The Corporate class has taken all the profits...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:04:51 -0500

liberalsarecool:

The Corporate class has taken all the profits while the average worker has seen little or no increase in pay. This phenomenon is called capitalism.

THIS PHENOMENON IS KNOWN AS CAPITALISM

fuckyeahamericanart: soulbrotherv2: Black Panther: The...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:10:28 -0500

fuckyeahamericanart:

soulbrotherv2:

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas by Emory Douglas and edited by Sam Durant

The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party’s message and artist Emory Douglas became the paper’s art director and later the party’s Minister of Culture.

Douglas’s artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era’s most iconic images, like that of Newton with his signature beret and large gun set against a background of a blood-red star, which could be found blanketing neighborhoods during the 12 years the paper existed.This landmark book brings together a remarkable lineup of party insiders who detail the crafting of the party’s visual identity.

"If were gonna talk about Assata and say she’s a ‘cop killer’, let’s be completely honest and put..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:09:21 -0500

“If were gonna talk about Assata and say she’s a ‘cop killer’, let’s be completely honest and put such accusations into perspective. Everyone wants to forget that in the 60s and 70s the FBI and police declared War on the Black community and organizations that formed in the community to end oppression. The police and FBI went all out to destroy Black leaders and these organizations with undaunted impunity. The reason why you had BPP (Black Panther Party), SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) and BLA (Black Liberation Army) was because they responded to police terrorism. They were tired of seeing the police come into our communities and take them over like an ‘occupying army’, if I may quote Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale. These groups formed because they were tired of seeing police and FBI with white supremacist attitudes, assassinating, brutalizing or jailing Panthers and members of other Black Power organizations left and right for little or no reason..They were tired of seeing government forces foster the killing of Black leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. So if we’re gonna talk about Assata, let’s talk the police and FBI murders of unarmed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark? Let’s talk about the murder of Lil Bobby Hutton. Can we say COINTEL-PRO?”

- Assata Ain’t No Terrorist. She’s the One Who Fought Terrorists (via blackcyborgs)

seriously though . . people act like the 60s-80s never existed . .

liberalsarecool: The GOP hates students, loves their debt...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:56:56 -0500

liberalsarecool:

The GOP hates students, loves their debt payments.

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revolutionaryriots: Politricks

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:13:08 -0500

revolutionaryriots:

Politricks

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exallamsehtfes: Music is everything music causes all bad vibrations to fade away. It [should]...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:16:44 -0500

exallamsehtfes:

Music is everything

music causes all bad vibrations to fade away.

It [should] make[s] one want to love instead of hate.