Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)
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Long Live The Kane
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I was down there tonight and it really did feel like this was the desired result to me...the vigil started off perfectly peaceful and as much as I was angered by what we were gathered for, a part of me was proud to see the neighborhood I grew up in rally together for a cause...mike's mother announced that everybody should march to the corner of west florrisant and lucas and hunt (a major intersection maybe 3/4 of a mile from canfield) and less than halfway there cops block the way in complete riot gear...a mile or so in the other direction they blocked west florrisant and chambers...so they basically put a sudden end to what had been to that point a peaceful demonstration, agitated all the anger and resentment everybody there was already feeling by making them feel like they were being occupied by an hostile army, then basically quarantined a now furious crowd of like a thousand in the street unable to leave the area...the area was locked down with nobody able to leave or come for at least 3 hours...then they just stood there and literally watched the looting go on for the entire time...the neighborhood was essentially a combination of Purge and Hamsterdam on the wire...the whole thing was surreal...about a block away from that QT that was pretty much the catalyst of the looting (and pretty much my official "corner store" as a kid...the type of spot your mom or big homie or uncle sends you to..i got caught stealing a video magazine out of there in like the 4th or 5th grade) , a young dude that couldn't been any older than 16, 17 punched an old white dude who was a reporter walking around with a notepad...he yelled for his homeboys to come jump him and me and an older woman had to physically grab him and tell him to chill out...seen people letting off shots in the middle of the street...in all honesty things could have easily gotten FAR worse than it did...i've detached myself from moralizing the looting for the moment, just don't have it in me...will only say i would've stopped it if i could
r.i.p., meaning the young boy who died michael
fukk 12, meaning fukk the police. 12 caught on as the new slang word for police a few years ago
cole phelps
Superstar
black folks in 1919 had it right pt.2
The African Blood Brotherhood was a short-lived but highly influential Black Liberation organization in the US, formed during the infamous “red summer” of 1919. That year saw murderous pogroms against African-Americans from Chicago to St. Louis, yet it also was a year of rising militant resistance to racist oppression. The African Blood Brotherhood was formed in part to organize physical resistance to pogroms, but also to organize for socialist revolution against white supremacy. Many members of the African Blood Brotherhood eventually joined the nascent Communist Party and helped to shape their policy on Black Liberation through the 1920’s and 30’s. Notable African Blood Brotherhood comrades included queer communist poet Claude McKay, whose 1919 poem “If We Must Die” epitomized the African Blood Brotherhood’s spirit of militant struggle.
The African Blood Brotherhood was a short-lived but highly influential Black Liberation organization in the US, formed during the infamous “red summer” of 1919. That year saw murderous pogroms against African-Americans from Chicago to St. Louis, yet it also was a year of rising militant resistance to racist oppression. The African Blood Brotherhood was formed in part to organize physical resistance to pogroms, but also to organize for socialist revolution against white supremacy. Many members of the African Blood Brotherhood eventually joined the nascent Communist Party and helped to shape their policy on Black Liberation through the 1920’s and 30’s. Notable African Blood Brotherhood comrades included queer communist poet Claude McKay, whose 1919 poem “If We Must Die” epitomized the African Blood Brotherhood’s spirit of militant struggle.
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daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
kevin arnold
Superstar
you can break shyt to an extent, but what about those nikkas who just got caught in hibbet sports. that's 2nd degree burglary which is a maximum of 7 years, and you know nikkas ain't got no lawyer money, so they gotta plead out, and probably go do 2 and 1/2. That shyt accomplished absolutely nothing man.
cole phelps
Superstar
If We Must Die”: Claude McKay Limns the “New Negro”
If We Must Die"
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
If We Must Die"
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
so thats it or what its over
Is he wrong though? And I don't fully believe that he was genuine to begin with. Easily could have been an informant.
it's not a race thing it's a class thing
an informant tho
yeah the cops are so dumb they send a white guy 
the town is 90% black from what I understand, I'm sure they would send someone who blends in better
it's not a race thing it's a class thing
an informant tho
Any other time nothing would have happened to the white guy. But once the riot started, shyt happens.
Then shut the fukk up.
Think of court and juries.