“Shouts out to the Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Administration Building.”

The Falcons prayer, Lord!

Not the only time. There was also the Africa House bombing by the Philadelphia police, for instance. 

HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA (snort) HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

I am so very excited about MoB’s Hard Reset. Morris Brown is an HBCU founded, funded and governed by Black folks. It has dealt with all the challenges that plague small educational institutions and came up fighting. I have supported and will continue to support it both rhetorically and financially.   The AUC hasn’t…

Thank you for those last two sentences. It almost brought tears to my eyes, but I thugged it out. 

Woke White Warriors?

All of it is bad AND FURTHERMORE any candy that doesn’t involve either chocolate, butterscotch or fireballs is trash.

I love, Love, LOVE the Bay Area contingent of the Grand Negro Coalition for a lot of things, but one thing in particular has been wonderful over the past couple of years. Them dudes (Lynch and Coogler in particular) are not code-switching for y’all. The absolute joy in watching them cats (Gulf Coast, Nawlins, ATLiens…

Bruh.

We’ve all been taught some things that are wrong, though. We’ve been taught, for instance, that ‘civilized’ people should be ‘clean.’ The shame that then became associated with manual labor and farm work meant that itinerant farm workers (hoeing boys - hoe boys - hobos) were bad people instead of victims of an…

We probably don’t know each other, so I can’t really comment on whether or not you are worthy of respect. If I did comment on your worth, it would not actually have any effect on your worthiness. That is the entire point. You could be a most wonderful person, but if decide that you are not respectable, then your…

Nope. Respectability politics is even older than old Booker T and the MGs. Uplift Suasion was an older version of the same thing popularized as far back as slavery. If we could just show them our humanity, they’d stop being so inhumane. Unfortunately, there is always some disreputable nigra that justifies beating the…

Sweet potato scene from Ellison's Invisible Man reference for bonus points. You're good at this writing thing, bruh. 

I get that, most of the time, with publicly elected or politically appointed figures.  What confuses me is the career folks who make similar comments.  I know several folks who came back from a tour (or four) in Iraq or Afghanistan talking about ‘jihadis’ and ‘dress-wearing towelheads,’ like the guys guarding the…

To the person thinking that my comment was about showing respect to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

two things real quick, then i gotta get back to work on my day off.

Dear dontchokeonyourwoke:  Thank you for all the links you sent. It was very kind of you to attempt a research based argument, but since all the things you sent were related to individual incidents and not systemic structures, it did not actually further your point.  You are right; people in untenable situations…

I actually went back to read the article and his comment. He did not insinuate that the officer is white. He did insinuate the officer is prejudiced against Black and Brown children. This is another example of what is referenced as systemic oppression and systemic white supremacy. When the system itself is oppressive,…

Decatur Psalm.