Monday, November 08, 2010
"I Want You To Know ... I Prepared For You All Of My Single Life" - The Groom
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"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
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Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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11 comments:
Makes me want to get married again.
...to my husband of course. LOL!! :-)
Married????
No way the Sistas going look forward to marriage as long as they got Tyler Cherry:) and the j-hollywood telling them that the black man is crap meme.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/07/AR2010110704428.html
Thanks for the link, Hot Wax. I love the book because I really feel her poetry but I was hesitant to see the movie because I didn't think it would be responsibly done. I'm hearing such mixed reviews about it. Have you seen it?
sigh. sadly i report that i have seen the film and, well ... sigh.
i just can't stand anything that presents blackness as a problem.
"being a colored girl is a metaphysical dilemma that i haven't gotten good at yet" (thandie newton's character)
... WTF?! as many people that i've known who have struggled, i've NEVER heard anyone say some old slave shit like that.
besides the fact that perry is a piss poor film producer/writer/director, the entire premise of this and other films is that black women's identity is wholly defined by oppression, sexual exploitation, abuse and misery.
@pink, if you decide to see it for yourself i believe you'll find that your instincts are correct.
Pink, you could not pay me to see such crap...Think about it.
"For Colored Girls" is pure marketing genius to subliminally program your(black females) minds and also work a certain "anti-black male" viewpoint into your subconscious and leave you believing the false thoughts about how "sorry your black males" are.
Be careful in what you identify with.
"In For Colored Girls, the black men are largely egregious (rapists, down-low HIV infectors, crazy murderers and so on). While this project is mainly about the liberation of black women and the conversations that they need to have with one another, the men in the film are also a part of that conversation.
Perry's version chose not to write the men in the film as fully human. Instead, they are cardboard props. Even Hill Harper, who plays the token "good guy," is one-dimensional. The result, sadly, is that at the end of such an emotionally wrenching movie, there is no reconciliation whatsoever between the sexes or with the audience.
We now live in a time when black people have been given relative power and wealth to green-light film projects. Yet many of our movies portray black culture as mere pathology. And we seem to be okay with it. Surely, if white directors had us in their films in this unflattering way, the NAACP would be up in arms. Double standard? I'd say yes."-end quote
Same Oscar praise as "Precious".
And just like "precious" predictive programing of "negative themes" black people in regards to incest, lesbianism, HIV, obesity and weak parental mentoring it will be celebrated as "Oscar worthy".
Just like Halle Berry's Monster's Ball was celebrated as "oscar worthy" for poverty, the death penalty and "doggie...." well you know what I mean.
It's funny how it was so okay to attack black men who did their extra macho hip hop music videos, but when you point out the Tyler Perry/Oprah Winfey axis of attack on black masculinity, you catch side eye and worse.
Black gay men and bitter single middle aged black women (and the white men who empower them) are now setting the agenda for black culture.
They make product for broken people. I respect the need for that...the blues is a long tradition in our culture...but I'm not broken and have no use for that shit.
I only resent them in that they are taking up all the oxygen in the room.
Chosen, how much of the problem with the film is because it's channelling the original play or mostly bec Tyler Perry is just being Tyler Perry?
"They make product for broken people. I respect the need for that...the blues is a long tradition in our culture...but I'm not broken and have no use for that shit." -that dude
On point!
Nothing healthy about tyler cherry or Oaf -fa, both sold black folks down the river for their soul. Why do black women support them so??? Because they are marketed to them as their own personal savior. cherry and Oaf-fa, your own personal Liberators! From what and from whom is what the sisters should ask. A blind squirrel could have easily found that "nutty " agenda by the boys to co- opt black females using these 2 demons.
Chosen said: "I just can't stand anything that presents blackness as a problem."
Love this.
DV,
Is that your friend who we met at our gathering at your house back in the day? He got married?! Cool beans. He was a football player right?
RJEsq
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