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The primary economic role of wars, however, was as a means to open new markets that had been sealed off and to generate postwar peacetime booms. Now wars and disaster responses are so fully privatized that they are themselves the new market; there is no need to wait until after the war for the boom – the medium is the message.

As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

"If you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk."
- Assata Shakur

كل قراءة لهذا النص المسرحي دون اطلاع على رمزية المرآة بالنسبة للذات في نصوص و شعر "بورخيس" العظيم ناقصة لا يعوّل عليها

LA DEESSE

Au midi vide qui dort
combien de fois elle passe,
sans laisser à la terrasse
le moindre soupçon d’un corps.
Mais si la nature la sent, l’habitude de l’invisible
rend une clarté terrible
à son doux contour apparent.

هذا الرجل نابغة و عملاق و صانع للغة جديدة من كلمات مشتركة، تصوف و حداثة و رومنتيكية تأملية و انفعالات باطنية و حيرة ميتافيزيقية تحتشد في القصيدة الواحدة، و ينحت المجاز كما لا أحد (ينافسه عندي بيسوا العظيم)..كتب بالفرنسية، لغة ثالثة (تعلم في ذات الوقت الروسية من لو سالومي قبل أن تعرفه ب"تولستوي") أتقنها بيضعة سنوات، طالباً بتواضع التنقيح من شعراء فرنسيين..ليترجم بعدها شعر "ڤاليري" ذاته، فنان اللغة الفرنسية

The interpretation of Bob Dylan's lyrics, related to the rhetoric of the white supremacy, followed by the analogy with Mohammed Ali's expressions and gestures is brilliant.. Funnily, much more eloquent than his usual narrative and the slang talk

These were the very first incidents and events showing how far and serious the Black Panthers would go, abandoning the esoteric concepts and intellectual debates and putting Fanon's theories into practice.. The first confrontational approach against the system adopted by an armed black movement has become real :

Once in France I had the very same dispute with an officer in a demonstration and I replied with the same accusation.. However, I wasn't holding any gun of course:

The little story and the symbolism of Huey Newton's famous portrait for the Black Panthers newspaper (https://goo.gl/images/sUuQUl )

Cultural nationalists and Black Panthers are in conflict in many areas. Basically, cultural nationalism sees the white man as the oppressor and makes no distinction between racist whites and non-racist whites, as the Panthers do. (..) the Panthers believe that (..) either [black nationalism or black culture] will lead to black liberation or the overthrow of the capitalist system

Huey understood the meaning of what Fanon was saying about organizing the lumpen proletariat first(..) that if the organization didn't relate to the lumpen proletariat and give a base for organizing the brother who's pimping, the brother who's hustling, the unemployed, the downtrodden, the brother who's robbing banks, who's not politically conscious(..)the power structure would organize these cats against you.

There is in James Baldwin's work the most grueling, agonizing, total hatred of the blacks, particularly of himself, and the most shameful, fanatical, fawning, sycophantic love of the whites that one can find in the writings of any black American writer"

"Baldwin felt called upon to pop his cap pistol in a duel with Aime Cesaire, the big gun from Martinique."
.. Ouch that hurts, because it's true.

The chapter on Mohammed Ali could be one of the best and most powerful texts ever written to be dedicated as an homage to his memory.

"Essentially, every black champion until Muhammad Ali has been a puppet, manipulated by whites in his private life to control his public image. --->

"slave in private life, a king in public-this is the life that every black champion has had to lead-until the coming of Muhammad Ali.
M.A. is the first "free" black champion ever to confront white America. In the context of boxing, he is a genuine revolutionary, the black Fidel Castro of boxing. --->

The social Darwinism of "survival of the fittest" manifests also through sports..Interesting: "Our mass spectator sports are geared to disguise, while affording expression to, the acting out in elaborate pageantry of the myth of the fittest in the process of surviving(..)all of our mass spectator sports give play to the basic cultural ethic, harnessed and sublimated into national-communal pagan rituals."

"The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the"White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. James Bond feeds on that secret little anxiety, the psychological white backlash, felt in some degree by most whites alive."

"Malcolm X delivered a merciless and damning indictment of prevailing penology.It was only a matter of time until the question of the prisoner's debt to society versus society's debt to the prisoner is injected forcefully into national and state politics,,and into the consciousness of the body politic."
*this recurrent point reminds me of how important it is to read Foucault's Discipline and Punish

he was a symbol of hope, a model for thousands of black convicts who found themselves trapped in the vicious PPP cycle: prison-parole-prison(..)Negro convicts, basically, rather than see themselves as criminals (..) look upon themselves as prisoners of war, the victims of a vicious, dog-eat-dog social system that is so heinous as to cancel out their own malefactions: in the jungle there is no right or wrong.

Here in this huge, dark, steaming slum, hundreds of thousands of Negroes are herded together like cattle, most of them with nothing to eat and nothing to do. All the senses and imagination and sensibilities and emotions and sorrows and desires and hopes and ideas of a race with vivid feelings and deep emotional reactions are forced in upon themselves --->

I became a rapist. To refine my technique and modus operandi, I started out by practicing on black girls in the ghetto- in the black ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day- and when I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. -->

At the moment I walked out of the prison gate, my feelings toward white women in general could be summed up in the following lines:
I love you/Because you're white,/ Not because you're charming Or bright...
I hate you/Because you're white./Your white meat/Is nightmare food./White is/The skin of Evil./You're my Moby Dick,
White Witch,/Symbol of the rope and hanging tree,

Cleaver believed that the younger generation of whites would be wooed away from their omnipotent administrator fathers by African-American dance and music. Whites began to dance better, but that didn't make them more humanistic.