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Just a few of many who contributed.
✊ Black History Month ✊
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Just a few of many who contributed.
i know negroes on this site don't give a damn about black people but i'll post this anyway
too few black people know anything about this brother here. his name and ideas should be as well known in the community as MLK, maybe even more so
one thing he showed me was that you didn't have to sound like the white man in order to be taken seriously or make a difference in your community. too many fools out here think you have to shed your blackness to be successful or make a difference.
listen to what he's saying
description:
"In this clip from the movie, "The Murder of Fred Hampton," Fred Hampton speaks on the need for (political) education for those within the movement.
Hampton reiterates again that the struggle taken on by the Black Panthers was not against white people but against oppressors, whatever the color of their skin. Hampton rightly recognized that people could become involved in the movement due to emotionalism or a desire for more. Without political education people could easily end up as capitalists and imperialists, becoming the oppressors themselves, instead of bringing about a fundamental change in the nature of society.
Hampton was assassinated by the U.S. government at the age of 21 for his political beliefs."
description:
"In this clip from "The Murder of Fred Hampton," Fred Hampton participates in a mock people's trial. In it, he articulates why the Black Panther Party, and he as a leader within the party, are being viciously targeted, even over and against other political movements of his day.
The central issue is that the BPP was not focused specifically on the issue of racism against black people but against oppression. Hampton and others were for people of any color who were oppressed and against any oppressor regardless of their color as well. They were even willing to take up arms of the oppressor illegally bothered the people. This represented a very direct challenge to the state and was an attitude that refused to fall into the "divide and conquer" trap many oppressors use against oppressed people.
Perhaps my favorite part of this scene is where Hampton succinctly explains how the oppressor has divided the oppressed along racial lines (among others) to keep people fighting against each other instead of recognizing their common interest and rising up together against the true threat and injustices they are all victims of.
Hampton was assassinated by the U.S. Government at the age of 21 for his political beliefs"
Fred Hampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
some quotes:
"A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals. A lot of people don’t even understand the words that Eldridge uses a lot. But what we’re saying is that there are white people in the mother country that are for the same types of things that we are for stimulating revolution in the mother country. And we say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind. We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just—it’s a byproduct of capitalism. Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people."
"We don’t think you fight fire with fire; we think you fight fire with water. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re still here to say we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution."
"Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means. And we’ve got to fight them. We’ve got to struggle with them to make them understand what peace means."
too few black people know anything about this brother here. his name and ideas should be as well known in the community as MLK, maybe even more so
one thing he showed me was that you didn't have to sound like the white man in order to be taken seriously or make a difference in your community. too many fools out here think you have to shed your blackness to be successful or make a difference.
listen to what he's saying
description:
"In this clip from the movie, "The Murder of Fred Hampton," Fred Hampton speaks on the need for (political) education for those within the movement.
Hampton reiterates again that the struggle taken on by the Black Panthers was not against white people but against oppressors, whatever the color of their skin. Hampton rightly recognized that people could become involved in the movement due to emotionalism or a desire for more. Without political education people could easily end up as capitalists and imperialists, becoming the oppressors themselves, instead of bringing about a fundamental change in the nature of society.
Hampton was assassinated by the U.S. government at the age of 21 for his political beliefs."
description:
"In this clip from "The Murder of Fred Hampton," Fred Hampton participates in a mock people's trial. In it, he articulates why the Black Panther Party, and he as a leader within the party, are being viciously targeted, even over and against other political movements of his day.
The central issue is that the BPP was not focused specifically on the issue of racism against black people but against oppression. Hampton and others were for people of any color who were oppressed and against any oppressor regardless of their color as well. They were even willing to take up arms of the oppressor illegally bothered the people. This represented a very direct challenge to the state and was an attitude that refused to fall into the "divide and conquer" trap many oppressors use against oppressed people.
Perhaps my favorite part of this scene is where Hampton succinctly explains how the oppressor has divided the oppressed along racial lines (among others) to keep people fighting against each other instead of recognizing their common interest and rising up together against the true threat and injustices they are all victims of.
Hampton was assassinated by the U.S. Government at the age of 21 for his political beliefs"
Fred Hampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
some quotes:
"A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals. A lot of people don’t even understand the words that Eldridge uses a lot. But what we’re saying is that there are white people in the mother country that are for the same types of things that we are for stimulating revolution in the mother country. And we say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind. We’re not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just—it’s a byproduct of capitalism. Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we’re going to have to put it back in the hands of the people."
"We don’t think you fight fire with fire; we think you fight fire with water. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re still here to say we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution."
"Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means. And we’ve got to fight them. We’ve got to struggle with them to make them understand what peace means."
In.
Black history is 365
Black history is 365
Let's pay our respects without crashing the party, shall we.
I like to think this month is reserved for African-American heros, really.
In Haiti every month is black history month because that's all we learn and celebrate all the time. African American heros are the ones that get very little spotlight year round in this country thus why the month dedicated to them in America.
Personally, Dr Frances Cress Welsing is one of the most important figures in black history. Her book the Isis Papers gave me so much clarity on this issue of race. She dedicated her life working towards the liberation of her people and providing solutions on how to counter this system of racism white supremacy. She also did not believe in hating whites, and thought that it was cheap. She wanted every black person to practice a deep sense of self respect and to look at the system of racism white supremacy as a chess board, and black folks need to look at it as we're playing from the black side of the board.
this is her last interview before she died. 80 years old and still sharp until her death.
she makes some critical points here, especially comparing blacks to the Jews in Nazi Germany.
her great Donahue appearance...
this is her last interview before she died. 80 years old and still sharp until her death.
she makes some critical points here, especially comparing blacks to the Jews in Nazi Germany.
her great Donahue appearance...
agnosticlady
AL loves da kids : )
Subs...Will add some more later 
Killings at Jackson State University | African American Registry
Date:
Thu, 1970-05-14
On this date in 1970, two Black students at Jackson State University were killed and many others injured by Jackson police. These killings were never as publicized as the Kent State shootings of four white students that had occurred only a few days earlier. It was a time of turmoil in campus communities across the country that were characterized by protests and demonstrations.
No college or university was left untouched by confrontations and continuous calls for change. At Jackson State College in Jackson, MS, there was the added issue of historical racial intimidation and harassment by white motorists traveling Lynch Street, a major thoroughfare that divided the campus and linked West Jackson to downtown. On May 14-15, 1970, Jackson State students were protesting these issues as well as the May 4, 1970 tragedy at Kent State University in Ohio.
The riot began around 9:30 p.m., May 14, when rumors were spread that Fayette, MS Mayor Charles Evers (brother of slain Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers) and his wife had been shot and killed. Upon hearing this rumor, a small group of students rioted. That night, several white motorists had called the Jackson Police Department to complain that a group of Blacks threw rocks at them as they passed along the stretch of Lynch Street that bisected the campus. The rioting students set several fires and overturned a dump truck that had been left on campus overnight.
Jackson firefighters dispatched to the blaze met a hostile crowd that harangued them as they worked to contain the fire. Fearing for their safety, the firemen requested police backup. The police blocked off the campus. National Guardsmen, still on alert from rioting the previous night, mounted Armored Personnel Carriers, The guardsmen had been issued weapons, but no ammunition. Seventy-five city policemen and Mississippi State Police officers, all armed, responded to the call. Their combined armaments staved off the crowd long enough for the firemen to extinguish the blaze and leave.
After the firemen left, the police and state troopers marched toward a campus women's residence, weapons at the ready. At this point, the crowd numbered 75 to 100 people. Several students allegedly shouted "obscene catcalls" while others chanted and tossed bricks at the officers, who had closed to within 100 feet of the group. The officers deployed into a line facing the students. Accounts disagree as to what happened next. Some students said the police advanced in a line, warned them, and then opened fire. Others said the police abruptly opened fire on the crowd and the dormitory. Other witnesses reported that the students were under the control of a campus security officer when the police opened fire.
Police claimed they spotted a powder flare and opened fire in self-defense on the dormitory only. The students scattered, some running for the trees in front of the library, but most scrambling for the Alexander Hall west end door. There were screaming and cries of terror and pain mingled with the noise of sustained gunfire as the students struggled to get through glass double doors. A few students were trampled. Others, struck by buckshot pellets or bullets, fell only to be dragged inside or left moaning in the grass.
When the order to ceasefire was given, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21, a junior pre-law major and father of an 18 month-old son, lay dead. Across the street, behind the line of police and highway patrolmen, James Earl Green, 17, was sprawled dead. Green, a senior at Jim Hill High School in Jackson, was walking home from work at a local grocery store when he stopped to watch the action. Twelve other Jackson State students were struck by gunfire. The five-story dormitory was riddled by gunfire. FBI investigators estimated that more than 460 rounds struck the building, shattering every window facing the street on each floor. Investigators counted at least 160 bullet holes in the outer walls of the stairwell alone bullet holes that can still be seen today.
The injured students, many of whom lay bleeding on the ground outside the dormitory, were transported to University Hospital within 20 minutes of the shooting. But the ambulances were not called until after the officers picked up their shell casings, a U. S. Senate probe conducted by Senators Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh later revealed. The police and state troopers left the campus shortly after the shooting and were replaced by National Guardsmen. After the incident, Jackson authorities denied that city police took part.
Reference:
The biographical dictionary of Black Americans
by Rachel Krantz and Elizabeth A.Ryan
Copyright 1992, Facts on File, New York, NY
ISBN 0-8160-2324-7
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Two students at Jackson State peer from a window that was shot out by police on campus in May 1970.
Jack Thornell/AP
Date:
Thu, 1970-05-14
On this date in 1970, two Black students at Jackson State University were killed and many others injured by Jackson police. These killings were never as publicized as the Kent State shootings of four white students that had occurred only a few days earlier. It was a time of turmoil in campus communities across the country that were characterized by protests and demonstrations.
No college or university was left untouched by confrontations and continuous calls for change. At Jackson State College in Jackson, MS, there was the added issue of historical racial intimidation and harassment by white motorists traveling Lynch Street, a major thoroughfare that divided the campus and linked West Jackson to downtown. On May 14-15, 1970, Jackson State students were protesting these issues as well as the May 4, 1970 tragedy at Kent State University in Ohio.
The riot began around 9:30 p.m., May 14, when rumors were spread that Fayette, MS Mayor Charles Evers (brother of slain Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers) and his wife had been shot and killed. Upon hearing this rumor, a small group of students rioted. That night, several white motorists had called the Jackson Police Department to complain that a group of Blacks threw rocks at them as they passed along the stretch of Lynch Street that bisected the campus. The rioting students set several fires and overturned a dump truck that had been left on campus overnight.
Jackson firefighters dispatched to the blaze met a hostile crowd that harangued them as they worked to contain the fire. Fearing for their safety, the firemen requested police backup. The police blocked off the campus. National Guardsmen, still on alert from rioting the previous night, mounted Armored Personnel Carriers, The guardsmen had been issued weapons, but no ammunition. Seventy-five city policemen and Mississippi State Police officers, all armed, responded to the call. Their combined armaments staved off the crowd long enough for the firemen to extinguish the blaze and leave.
After the firemen left, the police and state troopers marched toward a campus women's residence, weapons at the ready. At this point, the crowd numbered 75 to 100 people. Several students allegedly shouted "obscene catcalls" while others chanted and tossed bricks at the officers, who had closed to within 100 feet of the group. The officers deployed into a line facing the students. Accounts disagree as to what happened next. Some students said the police advanced in a line, warned them, and then opened fire. Others said the police abruptly opened fire on the crowd and the dormitory. Other witnesses reported that the students were under the control of a campus security officer when the police opened fire.
Police claimed they spotted a powder flare and opened fire in self-defense on the dormitory only. The students scattered, some running for the trees in front of the library, but most scrambling for the Alexander Hall west end door. There were screaming and cries of terror and pain mingled with the noise of sustained gunfire as the students struggled to get through glass double doors. A few students were trampled. Others, struck by buckshot pellets or bullets, fell only to be dragged inside or left moaning in the grass.
When the order to ceasefire was given, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21, a junior pre-law major and father of an 18 month-old son, lay dead. Across the street, behind the line of police and highway patrolmen, James Earl Green, 17, was sprawled dead. Green, a senior at Jim Hill High School in Jackson, was walking home from work at a local grocery store when he stopped to watch the action. Twelve other Jackson State students were struck by gunfire. The five-story dormitory was riddled by gunfire. FBI investigators estimated that more than 460 rounds struck the building, shattering every window facing the street on each floor. Investigators counted at least 160 bullet holes in the outer walls of the stairwell alone bullet holes that can still be seen today.
The injured students, many of whom lay bleeding on the ground outside the dormitory, were transported to University Hospital within 20 minutes of the shooting. But the ambulances were not called until after the officers picked up their shell casings, a U. S. Senate probe conducted by Senators Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh later revealed. The police and state troopers left the campus shortly after the shooting and were replaced by National Guardsmen. After the incident, Jackson authorities denied that city police took part.
Reference:
The biographical dictionary of Black Americans
by Rachel Krantz and Elizabeth A.Ryan
Copyright 1992, Facts on File, New York, NY
ISBN 0-8160-2324-7
Two students at Jackson State peer from a window that was shot out by police on campus in May 1970.
Jack Thornell/AP
hoodheronova
All Star
where this from
BLACK EXCELLENCE
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
yea ok man, whatever you say
I wasnt trying to be like that. Just saying
5 stars, dap and i tried to +rep @OfTheCross but couldn't because i already did recently 