Mike On The Mic

// Here’s a short piece my grandmother wrote about Dr. King. I found it appropriate to post on his birthday.//

“Martin Luther King” - 1968

“I have a dream,” echoed over the land and a nation where dreams can come true listened. A modern day Moses spoke for his people and the thunder in his voice, like the mighty ocean waves, pounded away at the prejudice and injustice in the hearts of men. His dream took hold and the walls that divide are slowly crumbling.

Throughout history, great men have always had dreams and made them come true. The towering figure of Lincoln cast his shadow of greatness over the land. His dream was to free the enslaved and to restore the Union in harmony.

One hundred years later, a young president stood on a podium looking down on a sea of uplifted faces. “Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,” he said. The sincerity in his voice lent truth to his words and the dream of a better tomorrow was born. At the same time, a black man stood on a mountain top overlooking the ghetto. He saw his people entangled in a web of poverty and despair, condemned to a life of broken dreams. The biblical cry, “Let my people go,” became “We shall overcome,” and the long struggle for equality began.

His dream did not die with his passing. It lives on in the hearts and minds of all just men. We have yet to reach the promised land, but when we do brotherhood, liberty, and justice will prevail…

This was his dream.

Written by:
Theresa M. Young

15 / 01

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motherjones:

Tea Party Express’ Amy Kremer explains why she believes President Obama “doesn’t love America the way we do.”

You’re doing a heckuva job, CNN. Heckuva job.

Damn, she got shut the hell down.

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04 / 09

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…as long as a white man does it, it’s all right, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he’s an extremist, he’s supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, be it verbal or otherwise, he’s supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself… hahahaha, then he’s an extremist.

Malcolm X

Taken from the Oxford Debate, December 3rd, 1964.

(via wereallexploited)

(Source: disciplesofmalcolm, via imstillnotcomingbackmffw-deacti)

08 / 04

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We’ve heard the 911 calls. We seen the 13 year old witness. We’ve read the letter from the alleged killer’s father. We listened to the anger of the family’s attorney. We’ve felt the pain of Trayvon’s mother. For heaven’s sake, for 24 hours he was a deceased John Doe at the hospital because even the police couldn’t believe that maybe he LIVES in the community. There are still some facts to figure out. There are still some questions to be answered. But, let’s be clear. Let’s be very, very clear. Before the neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, started following him against the better judgement of the 911 dispatcher. Before any altercation. Before any self-defense claim. Before Travyon’s cries for help were heard on the 911 tapes. Before the bullet hit him dead in the chest. Before all of this. He was suspicious. He was suspicious. Suspicious. And you know, like I know, it wasn’t because of the hoodie or the jeans or the sneakers. Cause I had on that same outfit yesterday and no one called 911 saying I was just wandering around their neighborhood. It was because of one thing and one thing only. Trayvon is black.

Michael Skolnik, White People, You Will Never Look Suspicious Like Trayvon Martin (via veganmudblood)

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19 / 03

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mofaiz:

Obama isn’t Moses, he is Pharaoh

My feelings for President Obama perfectly articulated… Couldn’t have said it any better.

“I’m the very person who said he got to holler at white folk and wink at us! So don’t tell me that I didn’t understand that you had to engage in cold-switching (which is the predicate for acceptance in the larger circle of white supremacist logic) so that you can then get in with the Black voice. But don’t get up in there and become who you said you were against to begin with!”

“You think Obama is Moses! He is not Moses! HE’S PHAROAH!… One man is a prophet, another one man is a politician… let that money go, let that love flow! I know white folk don’t want you to love us, but you came from us! Before they knew you, we loved you, we birthed you, we gave you acceptance! You were biracial but black folk made you a black man in America, now represent us, don’t dog us when we need you! We love you! We just want some love back.”

(Source: yomumbles)

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19 / 03

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Gil Scott Heron Whitey on the moon

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

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03 / 03

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// My Reaction to the ‘Reverse Racism’ Study//

Here comes a rant about my least favorite subject to talk about: race.

Yo, CNN, what the fuck is this bullshit? Read the bullshit in this article and tell me that it doesn’t look like some pro-race-war propaganda. I HATE when people try to play the victim role, and it really pisses me off now that some of my own kind are doing it, especially since we are FAR from oppressed.

Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh argued in a radio show that Republicans are an “oppressed minority” in need of a “civil rights movement” because its members willingly sit in the “back of the bus” and “are afraid of the fire hoses and the dogs.”

Foolishness like that makes me fear for the immediate future of this country. Somewhere, a Tea Partier is reading this as if it’s the writings of Huey Newton in the 60s. This shit is not okay and John Blake, the columnist who wrote this, should be ashamed and embarrassed for writing such nonsense.

04 / 03

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Da Troof: Color-Blind Racism in America

Good shit. My mans Mo always knows where to find “Da Troof” (or #Datroof on his twitter page). I agree with like 90% of this shit and a lot of people in “Post-racial America” need to give this a read. Silent racism is making race relations just as rocky as they have been in the past.
(Source: yomumbles)

29 / 11

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[U]ntil the philosophy which holds one
race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and
abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens
of any nation; That until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance
than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally
guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of
lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will
remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained!

Haile Selassie I

29 / 04

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