Category: Represent Our Resistance

Ultimately, I am the “girl” (woman), the Black, sitting beside the “two bucks,” and I identify with the Black Left! We, Black Americans, are reeling from the Reagan Revolution, a revolution that took place just after the Iranian Revolution. In the former period (also known as the Second Reconstruction), Black gains in human rights were…

They are coming. We are coming to you! You try to prepare the children but how do you prepare for B-1 Bombers and F-16 Jets flying overhead or for foot soldiers pushing at your door? Imagine – there’s no escape. Neighbors are mesmerized by the animated, 3-D images of the attack to come. The talking…

As bell hooks writes, we are a people who sustained the trauma of losing our leaders (Salvation: Black People and Love). And we had little time to heal from these wounds when, sometime in 1980, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the American public allowed itself to be absorbed by pods! Worse, the Black privileged class abandoned the…

In Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism, Cornel West cites James Baldwin’s concern that the language of resistance itself would come under attack, forcing the silence of the oppressed while enforcing ignorance on the part of the oppressor to his/her own complicity with “innocence.” Baldwin, West writes, warned that the “criminal acts of white…

In later years, I remember one non-profit or community center room after another. We had to work in cramped spaces with limited material and financial resources. If I received a salary, it was just enough to pay for an apartment where the rent couldn’t be higher than $475 a month. I remember the Federal Building…

Conqueror and divide – a tactic of importance since so many young Africans were now leaving for college campuses in America – in the late 1960s and 1970s. The natural-wearing, Black Power generation, reading their Diop and Fanon, Cleaver and Walter Rodney, will encounter the African alright! The African students, in time, were rewarded for…

White citizens, invested with racial, political, economic clout, nod with approval at concocted narratives of internal and external terrorism. Someone or something is always “coming to get” their “freedom” (RED ALERT!) while the Black communities endure police harassment and surveillance and more democratic nations are subject to pre-emptive wars. These citizens can’t face contemplating the…

Obama’s mantra, “change,” was echoed by Clinton’s oh, yeah – “change.” Yeah, that’s it. And good number of other folks went to bed, smiling. Change. But the corporations love Obama too. Clinton has more “experience” dealing with the corps, but they can love the new guy on the block who doesn’t nag them (at least…

Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Harman, and others, diligently working to pass Homegrown Terrorist legislation, receive a nod from House Speaker Pelosi who, in turn, winks at King George and Darth Vader. The people and their leaders know prosecution under Homeland Security is yet another indication that COINTELPRO continues for them, and no cameras will capture this…

Keep in mind that, as Ron Jacobs in The Case of the San Francisco 8 reports, the “federal court ruled in 1974 that both San Francisco and New Orleans police had engaged in torture to extract a confession (see the Legacy of Torture video), and a San Francisco judge dismissed charges against three men in…