Jackie Robinson > Recent Status Updates

chamois - leather of goat-antelope species

taffeta - crisp, smooth fabric from silk, nylon, etc

“you got to love it, you!” 104

“by any means necessary doesn’t mean by any means available” - cultural nationalism, black capitalism n liberal democracy cannot end genocidal colonialism against our ppl n abroad . the pitfalls of national consciousness must b resisted vigorously . add notes on heterosexualism .

“Our dream is one of liberation, a right of self-determination, a dream of denied freedom; no more,
no less.” 135

amerikkka n the fourth reich, addressing the depths of black genocide n the bipartisan investment in its continuance, n therefore the necessity of revolution by any means necessary .
negro amerikkka wants to save its own bottom line in n w white power . makin deals to b kops, military, n watever the Man asks of him . not only will he b directed against foreign undesirables but the black masses themselves .

also a word on the professional activist class bein all talk n liberal representation politics

“The militants spend all their time trying to program white people into giving them some money. "The man" has created a new type of Tom. They are willing to be anything, as long as they can be Black first. Black capitalists, Black imperialists, Black oppressors - anything, so long as it's Black first.” 104

the masculinist homophobia leaves a lot to b desired n is part of y this era can’t n shouldn’t “come back” . however i think his analysis of the neo colonial nature of negro america is apt esp in a post 2020 context where they’re only furthered their grip on the imagination of the black masses .

the tension between armed self defense n mainstream nonviolent direct action .

“People want to say that I preach violence. I preach a response to violence. Meet violence with violence. If you're minding your business and someone starts fucking with you, he's being violent, because he's infringing on your human rights. It's your responsibility to jump back at the muthafucka and make him back down or fight.”

“i’d say intelligence has never saved anyone”