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Originally posted by Khalliqa:
Truth is superior to culture or lineage.

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Originally posted by negrospiritual:
You can get up in my politics, but do not get up in my face unless you plan for emergencies...

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Originally posted by thabrothaman69:
My mom use to say "parents parent, everyone else speculates"...

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Originally posted by Kocolicious:
I'm no scientist....but neither is MASSA!

Egungun, Egungun ni t'aiye ati jo!
Ancestos, Ancestors come to earth and dance!

"I'm sick of the war and the civilization that created it. Let's look to our dreams, and the magical; to the creations of the so-called primitive peoples for new inspirations."
- Jaques Vache and Andre Breton

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
-John Maynard

"You know that in our country there were even matriarchal societies where women were the most important element. On the Bijagos islands they had queens. They were not queens because they were the daughters of kings. They had queens succeeding queens. The religious leaders were women too..."
-- Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source, 1973

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Originally posted by Nmaginate:
I don't accept racist thoughts about anybody from anybody.

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Originally posted by Black Viking:
For me, this campaign was decided in South Carolina. Hillary eliminated herself with her race-baiting and scorch-the-earth campaigning. But I know, the Obama Haters Union is determined to overlook that... to overlook how Hillary pissed on African American votes knowing full well that we'd pick them up, dry them off, and give them back to her.

Some folks would consider that disrespectful to African America, but some other folks are more interested in whether or not Obama attended the SOBU. Nevermind the fact that he's spent his whole adult life working for the Black community as a civil servant. Nevermind that he's addresed the issues of African America countless times. What's most important is that he didn't show up to "vote present" during another one of Hillary's fake-azz Black community photo-ops.

I can't remember the last time there was a thread about this campaign that actually dealt with some issue of substance. The Obama haterism has been going on for weeks... and it's getting lower and dumber.

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Originally posted by Rowe:
In order to be racist, one has to have power to exercise racism on a systematic level. Black people, even with a Black president, will not have this power. Thus, we can never be racist.

Black people must not allow their oppressors to tell them what racism means, how it affects us, or how we should react to it. As oppressors, they simply do not have this right.

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Originally posted by Kweli4Real:
No candidate, white or Black, can/will be elected to the presidency touting a pro-Black agenda; yet in the face of this obvious, we credit the white candidates for playing politics and merely showing up [which will not hurt them because their lies are so obviously panderrific ]; while demanding of the Black candidate that he/she foreclose on any opportunity to promote any form of Black agenda because he/she recognizes and navigates the political landscape, even if it requires playing down his "Blackness", i.e., pandering to white folk.

At the end of the day and all things being equal, if given the choice between throwing my lot in with the white candidate, whose history and interests are opposed to mine, that MIGHT introduce a Black agenda; or the Black whose history and interests are similar to mine, that MIGHT NOT introduce a Black agenda ... well ... that to me is a no-brainer.

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Originally posted by Black Viking:

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Originally posted by Rowe:
In order to be racist, one has to have power to exercise racism on a systematic level. Black people, even with a Black president, will not have this power. Thus, we can never be racist.

Black people must not allow their oppressors to tell them what racism means, how it affects us, or how we should react to it. As oppressors, they simply do not have this right.

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Originally posted by Wiz:

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Originally posted by Black Viking:

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Originally posted by Rowe:
In order to be racist, one has to have power to exercise racism on a systematic level. Black people, even with a Black president, will not have this power. Thus, we can never be racist.

Black people must not allow their oppressors to tell them what racism means, how it affects us, or how we should react to it. As oppressors, they simply do not have this right.

I totally disagree with that sentiment. Racism is only an ideology, opression is oppresion Racist oppression is oppression based on a racist ideology but powerless people are free to be racist (or any other type of 'ist) and have no power to oppress them at all.

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Originally posted by Wiz:
I have disagreed and sometimes that is enough

and you may quote me

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Originally posted by Wiz:
Fuck that. Had you asked nicely, maybe. but I see we are already past that.