ha, you are so rich with knowledge.. Such a joy!

 Great showing for Jeremy Corbyn given efforts by some within Labour to sabotage his leadership - much like the democrats tried to checkmate Sanders’ candidacy. I’m especially happy for Diane Abbott on her huuuge victory! She was demonized and made a bogeyman by Theresa May and other conservative fascists. It will be…

Ha, we are not supposed to take note of these things much less say them in public. And some of Gandhi’s views on distinguishing Indians from Blacks in SA are even more reactionary & racist... hopefully he changed - hopefully.

I remember a conversation during a family gathering when someone started praising SIR Winston Churchill.. I started quoting some of the extremely racist shit Churchill has said about those who look like us - shit that kinda justified genocide! It produced a moment of cognitive dissonance among us and I was like the…

Absolutely! We have to know these things or we perish as a people. Cesaire’s point is that for Black folks and other colonized peoples, Hitler was not new - the European landscaped produced them in bunches and dispatched them to other lands. King Leopold is Hitler too...

“..take practices common in European colonies and apply them to the center.”

Such resistance.. A beautiful & joyous space of resistance! And Black women - something about Black women.. Always at the front lines yet mostly underappreciated! Peg me as a Black man bursting with pride at this image.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing HELPS this asshole’s poll numbers.”

I believe the Pope’s body language is calculated and authentic and damning. Don’t forget he was a well situated witness during Argentina’s dictatorship/“dirty war” period - he understands the fascist personality quite well. I think he is totally repulsed by Donald Trump and everything he stands for - this Pope has…

President Jean-Bernard Aristide started a movement around the demand that France pay Haiti reparations... The French govt immediately joined the US effort to overthrow Aristide’s government. They succeeded!

Yes, The Black Jacobins for sure.. after you’ve read it, check out ‘Facing Racial Revolution: Eye Witness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection’ by Jeremy D. Popkin. It’s a very intriguing look at surviving firsthand narratives with biases duly noted.

Props to The Root for this article!

Well laid out.. especially putting Kaepernick’s quote on voting alongside or in cooperation with Malcolm’s.. Smith & Clarke’s photo pretty much says it all... Much respect to Michael Bennett!

now now, let’s not speak evil of the wicked bastard!

If the story is true, it will be a yuuge body blow against the white privilege shield around TrumPutin..

I agree! And it’s interesting to watch the super-patriots/trampanzees help destroy the very thing they’re supposed to be patriotic about - “American democracy”. Trump is wrecking havoc on all of its institutions!

If Obama, within the same period of time, had done half the shit Trump has, he’d be hounded out of office already by both democrats and republicans. White male privilege continues to protect Trump, but for how long?

There are a lot of us who feel the same way.... Great post!

“It’s the second time in 6 months Lee was shot in the same part of Baton Rouge.”

With due respect, it is a genuine belief system and way of life for many folks. I don’t see voodoo as trivial at all. Michael could well have substituted another faith (catholic/Judaism/christianity in general) in that question, but voodoo is always an easy target.