Status Updates From The Portable Promised Land

Trilogy of short stories about the same person, which is nice, bc many of the same names are mentioned throughout the book, but nice to invest in a long couple chapters to this one narrative

“We will never have real progress without purposeful violence.” Which is also what the last quote basically said as well at the end… this book is so interesting

“Actually, the word racism is too vague and confusing. It leads to the thinking that we’re talking about race prejudice, which Black people can practice. Black people are not the problem. The word is white supremacy. And when you realize how second nature the supremacy of whiteness is in their minds, then you begin to understand that no amount of hand holding or million marching or consciousness raising will…

Every time it doesn’t make sense the whole time it makes sense in the final sentence it’s crazy

Phew that was a tough one

“Hip hop never becomes materialistic and commercial, and continues as Black America’s CNN, putting knowledge on the street, building the political consciousness of a generation to a fever pitch, creating an army of hiphopified people who invade the tables of power.”

These last 2 short stories have been very interesting and heart warming… one about a little child watching his dad walk out of the house w rhythm in his step and wondering if he’s gonna come home. He doesn’t come home before he goes to bed that night but his dad wakes him up with kisses the next morning. Brought tears to my eyes. So awesome.

Loved this last short story… wow so many great analogies

“When you a Negro white folk is like doors. You got to go through them to get most anywhere.”

Literally no one on my feed reading a book by a black author whatsoever, yall flops…

lowkey liking it so far, working doubles all weekend so yall will barely catch me reading but I will try 😊

I love short stories! I remember reading a compilation in high school and now I wish I remembered the name bc I really like a lot of stories in it…