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"I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream, I see an American nightmare."

Malcolm X  (via thepeacefulterrorist)

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Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar

BADU: How do you choose chicks from backstage?

LAMAR: How do I choose chicks from backstage?

BADU: Yeah, what is the protocol?

LAMAR: I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.

BADU: [laughs] So you just pass?

LAMAR: I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.

BADU: So who is your asshole-checker?

LAMAR: Who is my what?

BADU: Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.

LAMAR: I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.

BADU: What’s your favorite cereal?

LAMAR: Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.

BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?

LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…

BADU: That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.

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From Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: This just in. The FBI has put Assata on its “Most Wanted Terrorist” list and increased its bounty for her capture. As a movement we must state loud and clear “Hands Off Assata”!

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A militant convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper 40 years ago is now the first woman on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists.

The FBI and state of New Jersey also announced Thursday a doubling of the reward, to $2 million, for the capture of Joanne Chesimard.

The state is adding its own $1 million on top of the million dollars already offered by the FBI for her capture and return.

Chesimard was a member of the Black Liberation Army. She’s been on the run since 1979 when she escaped from prison, where she was serving a life term in the death of Trooper Werner Foerster.

She fled to Cuba, where she has lived under the name Assata Shakur.

Foerster was killed on May 2, 1973, during a traffic stop.

are you FUCKING KIDDING ME

"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying."

—  —Nikki Giovanni (via theredtree)

THIS WOMAN IS SPEAKING AT MY SCHOOL’S COMMENCEMENT IN A WEEK

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"We cannot emphasize too much this relatively simple idea: that the two groups [white and Black Americans] operate from different vantage points and different concepts of what constitutes legitimacy."

From the original Afterword of Black Power by Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton.

I don’t understand why this is such a difficult concept for most white people to grasp. 

"As for white America, perhaps it can stop crying out against ‘black supremacy,’ ‘black nationalism,’ ‘racism in reverse,’ and begin facing reality. The reality is that this nation, from top to bottom, is racist."

From “What We Want” by Stokely Carmichael in 1966.  (via thepeacefulterrorist)

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