Category: Represent Our Resistance

-bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love My younger sister called and told me. Ike had died. My sister and I had nose-bleed seats at the then McCormick Place in Chicago. But I see him. “When?” It wasn’t Shaft. I saw that film so many times. I knew lines by heart. No, Isaac Hayes gave…

We ought not to cultivate the exceptional or to seek for a hero, who is another form of leader. We ought to uplift the people. -Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Dream within a dream, Our dream deferred –Langston Hughes, “Island 2” “Barack, he’s talking down to black people on this faith-based – I…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member, Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD, has been a writer, for over thirty years of commentary, resistance criticism and cultural theory, and short stories with a Marxist sensibility to the impact of cultural narrative violence and its antithesis, resistance narratives. With entrenched dedication to justice and equality, she has served as a coordinator…

Clinton then urged these people with “a little left over at the end of the month” to see themselves as “equal” with others like herself and Obama (millionaires)! “We are all Americans” and “we” need to “work hard to elect Barack Obama.” That “work hard, again. But this time, work hard for Obama, for the…

British journalist John Pilger commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, spoke about the eerie similarities between Kennedy’s and Obama’s position on war. On Democracy Now, (June 5, 2008), Pilger argues that Kennedy was not anti-war “much like Obama.” “I draw the comparison,” Pilger said. “I see so many echoes in…

To be committed to dismantling capitalism requires personal and social sacrifice not identification with the Empire. “We need a concerned left politics,” writes bell hooks, “that continues to launch powerful critiques of ruling class groups even as it also addresses and attends to the issue of strategic assault and demoralization of the poor, a politics…

“‘Get that head up’” (Assata: An Autobiography). In defiance of bullet wounds and physical imprisonment, Shakur raised her head! The path to freedom, as Shakur discovered, is knowing that “the almighty dollar is king; those who have the most money control the country and, through campaign contributions, buy and sell presidents, congressmen, and judges, the…

Dr. Daniels appeared with Mark May 22, 2008 Happy Birthday, Black Left! – Still Voting for Malcolm! “Hard-working American people” are white American people. These “hard-working” Democrats are needed to win the presidential election in November, according to presidential candidate Hilary Clinton. Hard-working people are white, hard-working people are Democrats, and hard-working people are Americans.…