March 2012
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Jamaican Proverbs 006
thisisjamaica:
Cockroach nuh business inna fowl fight
Don’t meddle in things that don’t concern you
Don’t forget to check our sister blog The Black Me
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“There is no one torturing you except yourself. There is nobody except yourself;...”
– Osho (via erosboros)
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“Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world.”
– Kemetic Proverb (via metaconscious)
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“Give us the teachings of his majesty, we no want no devil philosophy.”
– Bob Marley
One Drop
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“People are mad when no one cares but get mad when people start to care. You...”
– blackisyou (via aphrickanqueen)
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I'd be suspicious of me, too.
handingoutstars:
Hey white folk (myself included): are you angry that people of color are pissed at whites and suspicious of us? Is that where your thoughts lie, about how they should be more understanding?
Well too. fucking. bad.
I’d mistrust whites too - we do and get away with a hell of a lot based on race. Race-based discrimination and violence is fucking real. And even if you are...
“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring...”
– Sri Satya Sai Baba
start choosing love over everything.
(via amantesuntamentes)
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Sugar & slavery
brazilwonders:
Brazil didn’t boast the ivory and spices of Africa and the East Indies, and the only thing that had interested the Portuguese in the early years after they had found it was a rock-hard tree known as Pau Brasil (brazilwood), which yielded a valuable red dye. Merchants began sending a few ships each year to harvest brazilwood and take it back to Europe, and the colony changed its...
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monochromaticblack:
Africa’s like that one neighborhood kid that gets invited over to people’s house for dinner and brief play dates but immediately gets kicked out when their presence is no longer wanted or thought of as an inconvenience.
Djembe
beautiful-afrique:
A djembe is a rope-tuned skin-covered drum played with bare hands. According to the Bamana people in Mali, the name of the djembe comes from the saying “Anke djé, anke bé” which translates to “everyone gather together in peace” and defines the drum’s purpose. In the Bambara language, “djé” is the verb for “gather” and “bé” translates as “peace”.
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loveherlikeegyptian:
All of these Joesph Kony debates. I’m unfollowing the hell out of everybody.
“They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as...”
– Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
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“I think that it is possible for the capitalist system to have a program of full...”
– Eldridge Cleaver (via wakeupblackpower)
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Charlotte Restaurant Owner Arrested for Noise...
hbcudigest:
Jason Vicks, a restaurant owner in uptown Charlotte was arrested last week and charged with repeated violations of the city’s noise code. The Kalu Restaurant registered a 74-decibel level on Saturday, 14 decibels over the legal limit according to police, at the time of Vicks’ arrest.
His attorney cites racism as a possible cause.
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Why I won't celebrate the first anniversary of the...
dreams-from-my-father:
Many do not know this but black people are scattered all around the Arab world - product notably of fourteen centuries of Afro-Arab slavery.
This is why I would like to know why their voices were totally shut down during the Arab spring feted all around the world as the uprising of the people and it even led to a systematical worsening of the situation for black people in...
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“The onus of teaching racial supremacy and hate, which is the white man’s burden,...”
– Eldridge Cleaver (via thenativeson)
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