Every photo of James Baldwin is the best photo of James Baldwin. This incredible force was born today. We miss you

Good shortlist of essential black feminist literature. A few of which I haven't read yet but are on the menu asap --

Blacks often turned to entertainment as a means of artistic expression and creating something for the public to consume and instead minstrel shows are born and white racists create black face to make it into a mockery

"..there are extreme limits to the freedom of Black people within a capitalist economy" Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the anti-capitalist aspects of Black Feminism. I need to read "Race for Profit"

This was bound to happen

Let People Like Things Obama could've been a global wake-up call on how white supremacy, imperialism and class oppression under capitalism is not solved by aesthetics. 44 bailed out the banks but left the people to die - we should've woken up long ago: we have to dismantle Capital if we want equality.

Symbolic firsts are no substitute for substantive gains. We have been celebrating firsts for fifty years but the gains for the few almost never translate into a better life for the many. Check out Lightfoot in Chicago. These celebrations are old and our people are dying. Enough.

I think we don't talk enough (or at all) about how US bombed Laos 270 Million times, making it the most bombed country ever. There were approximately more than 580,000 bombing missions on Laos between 1964 and 1973, that’s one every eight minutes, every day, for NINE YEARS

From the agreement Between Emir Feisal and Dr. Weizmann 3 January 1919: "(...)encourage immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale while protecting the rights of the Arab peasants and tenant farmers, and to safeguard the free practice of religious observances." This?

#KOZP

sablikatriumph there is a latent violence in the sheer presence of these structures, architectural, institutional as well as cultural. spaces built on the spoils of colonialism. much like cathedrals back when, or skyscrapers - they are european cultural dominance embodied, gold leaf and all.[1]

sablikatriumph when we are allowed to exist in these spaces, we cannot do anything else than serve their narrative. we feel humbled to have "opportunities", when it's actually humiliating. these places can never platform our struggles in a revolutionary way. only put them in a display case.

"Like plantation system before it, tourism in Jamaica & Caribbean at large, operates within framework that affords wealth power to small, often white or light-skinned minority, at the expense of poor, often Black, majority." ~Traci-Ann Simone Patrice Wint x.com/caribbeannewsu…

much of what we hate/despise about “adulthood” is just capitalism, folks. we can build something else. we must.