DIY Grandma Farmer
4 months ago
Oh my, did you say the Last Poets? Yes, Yes, Yes! Original Rappers, from waay back in the day. I'd have to say, The Last Poets taught truth with ease, style, rhyme, and genius!
X: Malcolm's Final Years (therealnews.com)
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BlackSapphire8804
10 years ago
@crammasters
Exactly.....and if Black People unified, the world would see a POWER never seen before.
If only enough of us realized this!
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Trojan Pam says:
May 2, 2015 at 9:54 pm
@ Jay
Unfortunately, brother, the only power we have is what we say, think, and do. There are things we do have power over and I have said this over and over again.
We have the power to NOT spend our money where we can’t work and I”m talking about non-essential items. We do have the power not to spend time and money on demeaning entertainment. We do have the power not to drink expensive alcohol, buy expensive designer shoes, and big houses and cars we don’t really need.
We do have the power not to shun a black male or female and go chasing after a white “prize.” We do have the power to turn the TV off and teach our children the JOY of reading (and thinking). We do have the power to not call each other foul names (often, just for “fun”)
And this is where I have a problem with most of the black people I meet, including many who come to my blog.
Now, I might step on a few toes but that’s alright. I’m not getting paid to do this so nobody can fire me.
It’s the PASSIVITY and lack of PARTICIPATION that concerns me.
The same people that complain about our condition are the same ones who won’t, for example, sacrifice ONE MOVIE that demeans black people because, “Well, I want to see it.”
We don’t seem willing (most of us, anyway) to make ONE SINGLE SACRIFICE, no matter how small, to gain our liberation.
There are a lot of things we can do or not do. At the very least, at least we can TRY
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Trojan Pam
@ Fan
I agree, and sometimes, I remind myself as well as other black people–
just look around the world, look at the chaos, greed, wars, cruelty, corruption, and the oppression of women all over the planet
it’s clear black people are not the only ones who are damaged.
There are a lot of issues and a lot of mental illness within the black collective but the people who damaged us are far worse off psychologically as can be seen historically in the long bloody trail of victims worldwide
How can a villain be in better mental health than their victims?
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Trojan Pam
@ Anne
While I appreciate any attempt at empathy, I also caution black people about putting too much faith in such overtures.
Unfortunately, we are often more impressed by people just because they aren’t black. We’re like the child in the playground that nobody likes and are overly grateful for any crumb of attention, which still does NOTHING for that child’s self-esteem or self-respect because he or she is STILL looking to others to validate them.
I always advocate that black people concern ourselves MORE with what we think of ourselves and each other than what any other ethnic group thinks of it.
We should practice not caring at all and focus on SELF and GROUP VALIDATION, building each other up and insulating ourselves against those who use our collective low self esteem to exploit us
and we see this happen every day by a variety of ethnic groups who have no vested interest in seeing their black cash cows start doing for self.
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Mary Burrell
I am truly sad to learn of the passing of Trojan Pam. She was a great teacher and activist. I loved post when she broke down systemic racism. Rest In Peace and Power Sister.
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Sharon53 says:
May 7, 2015 at 7:58 am
Sharonw53:
Timothy,
Thank you so very much for your comments. You are so right when you say “Our ancestors were never weak and their memories will forever be in our minds and in our hearts.”
They had to be resilient to endure what had to be “hell on earth.” Anybody else would have crumbled under that kind of brutality.
Something came to mind when you said ‘their memories will forever be in our minds and in our hearts.” I once was taking a tour of Ananberg Ruins in St. John, Virgin Island. It’s hard to believe in this beautiful part of the world that a slave plantation existed. And as we were standing in this cane field, the tour guide was giving us the history on it and this intense feeling came over me as if I could feel what our ancestors felt. I had to walk away because it was just that intense. I hear cane fields were worse than cotton fields and I can’t imagine anything worse than working in a cotton field in sweltering heat.
You also stated “…we have to work via working in our communities, supporting black authors (including black enterprises), improving our health, never supporting TV shows or movies that degrade us (in order words, we shouldn’t buy products from anyone who slanders us and we shouldn’t economically fund anyone who is anti-black), and treat each other as human beings.”
Yes indeed, I strive to do that every day. I don’t have a TV and can’t remember the last time I saw a movie. I try to treat others the best I can also.
Something I have been doing for the last 25 years is support at least one black business every week. I get a lot of lip about this. One person pointed out to me that I was wasting my time because all the owners of those businesses will do is go spend their money outside the black community. I replied to him by saying ‘that at the end of the day, I can say I did my part.’ I will not allow someone else’s spending habits to affect where I spend my dollar.
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Trojan Pam
@ Fan
What I have found in my experience the white supremacists are pros at identifying the “wrong” type of blacks — those who actually care about their own people and those people
Case in point, a former best friend of mine studying to be a doctor was asked by the white male in charge of the residents what she wanted to do once she finished her residency at a prestigious hospital. Well, she made the mistake of saying she wanted to come back to the black community to help poor people.
From that point on, she was blackballed, harassed, and they did everything they could to make her drop out. She was on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the torment ended. Today’s she’s a doctor working in the black community but she’ll never get a prestigious appointment anywhere.
The odds that an integrity driven person of any ethnicity getting the power to effect real positive change in today’s corporate and political world is becoming as rare as the do-do bird.
There are many in the psychiatric community who claim the people most likely to rise up the corporate/political ladder today are sociopaths and psychopaths. Based on what I have seen, I say they are absolutely correct.
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Nixak*77*
Say it one more time again... China's 1 child per couple policy definitely slowed its population growth, yet China economic policy over that same time span has resulted in a HUGE increase in its GHG gas emissions. Thus this fact challenges the meme that reduced population [growth] guarantees reduced GHG gas emissions- 'It ain't necessarily so.'
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Nonso Nnaemeka
9 months ago
Malcolm X is the real deal
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Trojan Pam
Interesitng post.
I think this is a very, very, very important topic because the white supremacists love to pretend that all people do the same things but they never pretend that all people are equal. I have a long response so I’m going to break it up into two or three parts.
White supremacy is Racism. Racism is White Supremacy. White people are the ONLY people on the planet who have devised a SYSTEM to mistreat people based on skin color alone. This SYSTEM embraces EVERY aspect of human existence — education, economic, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war.
That is why black and non-white people CANNOT BE RACIST. We do not have a SYSTEM — the power or the institutions– that allows us to mistreat people based on color. Of course, black and non-white people can be PREJUDICED (meaning to pre-judge) someone based on color but that prejudice is limited to what that INDIVIDUAL can do to another INDIVIDUAL.
In fact, most of what black and non-white people do and say is BASED on what they LEARNED under the system of white supremacy – a GLOBAL system that includes India and Japan and their skin color madness. That is NOT ‘internalized racism” because black and non-white people cannot practice “race-ism.”
A more accurate term (in my opinion) for a black person mimicking white racism would be “anti-blackness” or “self-hatred” or “anti-self” but it is NOT racism because we do not have the systems to mistreat other people. Words are important. We should NOT include ourselves as complicit in the practice of race-ism anymore than a concentration camp prisoner who have been brainwashed (gone insane) against his or her fellow prisoners should pretend he or she created the prison or is responsible for its existence. Let the white people responsible for creating and practicing racism TAKE ALL THE BLAME.
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Marilynn Jones
4 days ago (edited)
Everything is always about " FORCE" when we Advocate for ourselves. This is why the Police (Bad Ones) operate with impunity--they are the largest gang in America operating under " the Law".
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Charles White
2 days ago
How can it not be a law for members of Congress who support and/or participated insurrection against USA Government to be allowed to be a Member of Congress? Congress needs to pass bill to banned members who support sedition.
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Vitin Manuel
2 years ago
Proud to be an Afro Boricua !!!! Always....
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TROJAN HORSE
7 months ago
African Americans stand with our brothers and sisters living in Brazil
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Bre Bre
6 months ago
I stand with my black brothers and sisters around the world. its crazy how here in America they deny white supremacy. but you see it around the globe.
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judo 101
11 months ago
I’m a black Puerto Rican both parents born on the island! I love ❤️ my blackness 🇵🇷✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
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Trojan Pam
@ Kushite Prince
when people accuse black people of being “just as racist as whites” they NEVER give any real examples of this “power” that blacks allegedly have over whites.
All they can say is, well, a black person cussed me out and called me a “honk*y!” or some black person (usually one person) said or did something which may or may not have happened because they were white.
If a black criminal robs you on a street corner, they’re not doing it because you’re white, he or she is robbing you because he or she wants your money, phone, etc,
but they call this “black racism”
Even when black people have powerful “titles” they still cater to white people and are still following their orders from their white bosses but as soon as the black person does or says something white people don’t like (like Michelle Obama talking to black girls)
they call this “black racism”
It’s so bad that even black people are calling other black people “racist”
“Oh, so and so said something unflattering about white people so that black person is a racist!”
that’s why it’s important to know the definition of words and how they’re used to confuse and deceive us.
