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September 2011
3 posts
Africa
my comments on the articles below to come…but I encourage you to read them and conjure up your own thoughts, critiques and feelings.
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June 2011
36 posts
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Black men are under the surveillance of the criminal system, in jail, prison or parole.
African-American babies are
twice
as likely to die as white infants.
The unemployment rate for African-Americans now soars at an astonishing
15.8 percent
the highest it has been in years. African-Americans also have an unemployment rate that is
twice
as much as whites (7.7 percent)
African-American...
“I see her shape and his hand in the vast networking of our society, and in the...”
Fnann, I think this is BOMB. Get it lol Since it looks like you’re exploring some ‘opposing’ arguments for your project, I wanted to offer one that came to mind when I was reading the post about “the most dangerous place for a black child by the aclu” (I might have mixed up some words, but it’s one of the longer posts). Anyway, the thought is the following: Is...
Hey love I too did some research on the Black Anti-Abortion campaign when the creator of “toomanyaborted.com” first started broadcasting his message in ATL & I must say you are doing a wonderful job:) Love the message and the presentation! Let us continue to spread the word and help every woman be empowered to do what’s best for her life:)
proud by choice
An abortion means that basically you have to end the process of life that has began. It is natural growing and will become a fetus, a baby, a kid, and eventually an adult. If this life ends at anytime, it is because it dies (killed), weather it’s a car accident as teenager or drowning as a child, or being shaken to death by a parent as a baby. Abortion is like war in a third world country,...
A blog dedicated to the memories of the enslaved Black womyn of the US whose social conditions forced them in desperation to take the lives of their fetuses. These lives were taken unjustly, but to be blamed not on the individual but to be used to interrogate and critique the conditions to which created this desperation then and is doing the same in the present for Black working/poor class womyn...
Redefining the Transracial Adoption Controversy by...
Race and color continue to be unresolved issues in our society-inextricably tied and merged with issues of power, status, and inequality-that mock American claims of being a democratic land of equal opportunity. Race and color profoundly influence the lives of all within our society, governing the choices one makes and the choices one believes she has. Issues of race and poverty in American...
“threat of nihilism.
Nihilism: “lived experience of coping with a life of...”
– Cornel West (Race Matters)
Racism May Affect Infant Mortality Rates by...
WASHINGTON - For decades, health experts have tried to determine why African-American babies are twice as likely to die as white infants.
A new series of studies from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, along with a small but growing number of neonatalogists nationwide, suggests that the stressful effects of racism play a role.
...
Ask an Abortion-provider
Hello! I am a person who is training to become an abortion provider. As you can imagine, it is really fucking weird to be one of me, especially lately! I think maybe you have some questions?
1st question: Why?
I can pretty safely assume you have not socially encountered one of us before. No, not because I think you’re not cool enough! Let me explain. I went into healthcare in general because of...
Antoine Dodson’s Sister: On Invisibility as...
We are in the midst of Antoine Dodson Mania! For those that don’t know him, he’s the now famous man who fought off the intruder that climbed into his sister’s second story window in the middle of the night and tried to attack her with her daughter present. Remember his reaction? Hilarious right? I mean pissed off that his sister was attacked! LMFAO! So hilarious that now there is this song that...
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes a duty”
“We have to change our own mind…We’ve got to change our own minds...”
– Malcolm X (quote to open “Loving Blackness as Political Resistance” chapter of Killing Rage: Ending Racism)
A black child is suspended from a public school every four seconds.
A black child is arrested every minute.
A black high school student drops out of school every 39 seconds.
“Many slave women refused to bring children into a world of interminable forced...”
– Angela Davis (Racism and Reproductive Rights)
What is Choice?: Black Anti-Abortion Campaign’s...
In the era highly influenced and invested in rhetoric of a colorblind and post-racial society and the appropriation of historical liberation figures, comes the “endangered species” project, which is an anti-abortion, pro-adoption campaign lead by two Black educated “leaders”. Catherine Davis, an educated Black women who is now using her law degree to expose the lies and impact of the abortion...
The Most Dangerous Place for Black Children…by...
This week in New York, there has been media coverage of an anti-abortion billboard several stories high outside of the Holland Tunnel declaring “The Most Dangerous Place for an African American Is in the Womb.” It features the picture of a beautiful black girl in a pink sundress with a bow in her hair. The Dallas-based anti-abortion organization behind the billboard is trying to make...
“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his...”
– Carter G. Woodson (The Mis-education of the Negro)
“[T]he unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links...”
– Frantz Fanon
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
“Mastery of...”
– Frantz Fanon
“Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and...”
– Frantz Fanon
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented...”
– Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks)
Why spell "Africa" with a "k"? →
There is an implicit political statement of kinship and solidarity with the continent in question in the spelling ‘Afrika’ when it is used by an African-American group.
In the spelling Afrika, a ‘k’ is used rather than a ‘c’ because for many activists the ‘k’ represents an acknowledgment that ‘Africa’ is not the true name of that vast...
