panther - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T06:56:34Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/pantherBeyoncé, Media Hype, 2016 Super Bowl Madnesshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/beyonc-media-hype-2016-super-bowl-madness2016-02-11T18:27:00.000Z2016-02-11T18:27:00.000ZNana Baakan Agyiriwahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bs9L_SDAS6Y/Vrug3AqOduI/AAAAAAACWXc/mq9REaRukv4/s1600/Beyonce%2Band%2Bher%2Bgang%2B2-2016.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bs9L_SDAS6Y/Vrug3AqOduI/AAAAAAACWXc/mq9REaRukv4/s320/Beyonce%2Band%2Bher%2Bgang%2B2-2016.jpg?width=320" width="320" class="align-center" alt="Beyonce%2Band%2Bher%2Bgang%2B2-2016.jpg?width=320" /></a>Beyonce and her Girl Gang</p><p><b style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"><a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/02/beyonce-media-hype-2016-super-bowl.html" target="_blank">NB Commentary:</a> </b><span style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;">I enter this discussion kicking and screaming and swearing to myself that I am not, and I mean, am not gonna fall prey to the hype. But today, I had to come forth with another blog post. I was compelled by the comments under many of the pictures posted of her and her girl gang at the Super Bowl and how some folks were actually seeing it as a Powerful Movement, a statement about Black Power, a high five to Malcolm X, and the insane indicators of it being an Illuminati ritual. But what really took me to the top of the clock was the actual lyrics, which in no way seem to reflect any of this, in fact quite the contrary. So here I am again, with something to rant on about That!!!</span></p><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_Hgh7sPDLM?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Let me begin my rant with a shout out to <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116641976893492443919">Cookie Couture</a> who posted the lyrics to <span style="font-size:18.6667px;">Beyoncé</span> song.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i style="background-color:#eeeeee;">"Thank you for this. You know how you witness something and something inside you goes off and tells you that there is something wrong with this because inside of you, you can feel it going in all kinds of different directions. Well, thanks again, I really appreciate you posting those lyrics!!"</i></blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Nowadays, we cannot take lightly the impact of the media. It's in your face in an instant and manipulating you and brainwashing you in the millisecond. Nowadays, it's more dangerous due to the advance technology they can use to grab your brain and do all kinds of trickery with it.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The invention of motion pictures and later television, herald the beginning of an epic age, where the minds of the masses are in the hands of the elite controllers who can massage, manipulate, brainwash and control the narrative to such a degree that people believe that what they see is real and true.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">People identify with the character on the screen so much so that they protect them as if they have an intimate relationship with them, all because of what they see on the screen. People project themselves into the personification of a made up image on the screen and it becomes their alters. For that matter, fans are as much MK-Ultra slaves as much as the people they Idolize and Adore. The Cult of Personality has replaced the Gods and Goddesses of ancient times.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The people on the big screen are fallible human beings, but the masses need Gods so they elevate them to the status of "Gods" and defend their "Persona" as if it's real, or actually means anything. The psychological irony of this is that their "Persona" does mean something for the hungry masses, but 99% of them won't use this power for anything other than maintaining the status quo of the Elite Moguls who control them from behind the scenes. Their true creativity is eclipsed by the greed, avarice and debauchery that is the world of celebrity. If they step out of the mold that was designed for them, they will fail or meet a worse fate. Thus the hype is just that, hype, form no substance, yet the impact of such superficiality is as deadly has a thousand poison arrows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAACUUU/C0hvEqFCnhI/s1600/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="38" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAACUUU/C0hvEqFCnhI/s320/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" alt="banner%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">And Now to the Lyrics. You decide, how progressive these are.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LrCHz1gwzTo?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><br /> What happened at the New Wil’ins?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Bitch, I'm back by popular demand</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Refrain: Beyoncé]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Y'all haters corny with that illuminati mess</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Paparazzi, catch my fly, and my cocky fresh</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I'm so reckless when I rock my Givenchy dress (stylin')</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I'm so possessive so I rock his Roc necklaces</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Earned all this money but they never take the country out me</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I got a hot sauce in my bag, swag</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Interlude: Messy Mya + Big Freedia]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Oh yeah, baby, oh yeah I, ohhhhh, oh, yes, I like that</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I did not come to play with you hoes, haha</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I came to slay, bitch</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I like cornbreads and collard greens, bitch</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Oh, yes, you besta believe it</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Refrain: Beyoncé]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Y'all haters corny with that illuminati mess</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Paparazzi, catch my fly, and my cocky fresh</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I'm so reckless when I rock my Givenchy dress (stylin')</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I'm so possessive so I rock his Roc necklaces</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Earned all this money but they never take the country out me</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I got a hot sauce in my bag, swag</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Chorus: Beyoncé]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I see it, I want it, I stunt, yellow-bone it</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I dream it, I work hard, I grind 'til I own it</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I twirl on them haters, albino alligators</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">El Camino with the seat low, sippin' Cuervo with no chaser</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Sometimes I go off (I go off), I go hard (I go hard)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Get what's mine (take what's mine), I'm a star (I'm a star)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Cause I slay (slay), I slay (hey), I slay (okay), I slay (okay)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">All day (okay), I slay (okay), I slay (okay), I slay (okay)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">We gon' slay (slay), gon' slay (okay), we slay (okay), I slay (okay)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I slay (okay), okay (okay), I slay (okay), okay, okay, okay, okay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Okay, okay, ladies, now let's get in formation, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Okay, ladies, now let's get in formation, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Prove to me you got some coordination, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Slay trick, or you get eliminated</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Verse: Beyoncé]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">When he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">When he fuck me good I take his ass to Red Lobster, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">If he hit it right, I might take him on a flight on my chopper, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Drop him off at the mall, let him buy some J's, let him shop up, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I might get your song played on the radio station, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I might get your song played on the radio station, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">You just might be a black Bill Gates in the making, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I just might be a black Bill Gates in the making</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Chorus: Beyoncé]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I see it, I want it, I stunt, yellow-bone it</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I dream it, I work hard, I grind 'til I own it</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I twirl on my haters, albino alligators</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">El Camino with the seat low, sippin' Cuervo with no chaser</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Sometimes I go off (I go off), I go hard (I go hard)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Get what's mine (take what's mine), I'm a star (I'm a star)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Cause I slay (slay), I slay (hey), I slay (okay), I slay (okay)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">All day (okay), I slay (okay), I slay (okay), I slay (okay)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">We gon' slay (slay), gon' slay (okay), we slay (okay), I slay (okay)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I slay (okay), okay (okay), I slay (okay), okay, okay, okay, okay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Okay, okay, ladies, now let's get in formation, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Okay, ladies, now let's get in formation, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Prove to me you got some coordination, cause I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Slay trick, or you get eliminated</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Bridge: Beyoncé]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Okay, ladies, now let's get in formation, I slay</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Okay, ladies, now let's get in formation</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">[Outro]</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Girl, I hear some thunder</div><br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Golly, look at that water, boy, oh lord</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAACUUU/C0hvEqFCnhI/s1600/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="38" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAACUUU/C0hvEqFCnhI/s320/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" alt="banner%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"><i style="background-color:#eeeeee;"><b>AND NEXT,</b></i></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"><i style="background-color:#eeeeee;"><b> TRENDING ON THE OTHER END OF THE MASS MIND CONTROL SCALE</b></i></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"><i style="background-color:#eeeeee;font-size:14pt;"><b>COMES THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE.</b></i></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"><i style="background-color:#eeeeee;font-size:14pt;"><b>BELIEVE IT OR NOT????</b></i></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><b>FEBRUARY 10, 2016</b></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:left;">ARE BEYONCE’S ‘FORMATION’ LYRICS ANTI-COP, PRO-BLACK OR JUST PLAIN PERFECT?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/author/zachary/">ZACHARY VOLKERT</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">The lyrics and video to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/18/jay-z-beyonce-baltimore-ferguson-protests-bail-money">Beyonce’s new single “Formation”</a> shouldn’t be surprising to any fans who have been closely following the political leanings of the pop artist and her husband Jay-Z. While the power couple have often tried to keep it quiet, they’ve been huge financial supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. Last year, activist Dream Hampton revealed that the couple had poured in tens of thousands of dollars in bail money without a second thought when Baltimore and Ferguson protestors were jailed. After those tweets were deleted, he later suggested that they didn’t really want to largely publicize the fact, reported <span style="font-style:italic;">The Guardian.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">That attitude seems to be shifting when peering into the video, performance and lyrics behind Beyonce’s “Formation.” Just as she gained accolades for aligning herself with feminism on her 2013 surprise self-titled album, Beyonce has once again recognized the power of pop and the cult of her own artistry to send a message. This time, it’s about the police violence faced by the black community.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Read more at <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/2782102/are-beyonces-formation-lyrics-anti-cop-pro-black-or-just-plain-perfect/#hMszhuT7eD83CMiW.99">http://www.inquisitr.com/2782102/are-beyonces-formation-lyrics-anti-cop-pro-black-or-just-plain-perfect/#hMszhuT7eD83CMiW.99</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div></div></div>Sundiata Acoli: Why You Should Support Black Political Prisoners/POWs and Howhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/sundiata-acoli-why-you-should2011-04-17T16:40:31.000Z2011-04-17T16:40:31.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><font size="4">My name is Sundiata Acoli (Soon-dee-AH’-tah Ah-COH’-lee). I’m a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army (BPP/BLA) who was captured on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973 and am now a Black Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War (PP/POW) who’s been held by the government for the last 37 years.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><font size="4"> So why should you care about any of this or particularly, why should you support Black PP/POWs? Well, maybe you shouldn’t. If you’re happy with the way the US, and the world is going ~ and if you want to see the US, and the West continue to dominate and oppress the rest of the world ~ then you shouldn’t support Black PP/POWs. If you want to see one country, or one race or the capitalist system continue to dominate other countries, other races and the world, then you shouldn’t support Black PP/POWs. And if you, yourself, are about trying to dominate, manipulate or exploit other peoples, and organizations for personal benefit then you definitely shouldn’t support black PP/POWs, or any other revolutionary PP/POWs, because we’re about ending racism in all its forms and wherever it exists, plus we’re about ending capitalism, sexism and all unjust oppressions of people and life in general on earth and throughout the universe.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><font size="4"> Now if you can relate to that ~ and are about freedom, equality, human rights and self-determination for all people; creating a non-exploitative, non-oppressive society and economic system; making the world a better place and living in harmony with other people, the environment and the universe ~ then you should support Black PP/POWs cause that’s what we're about and have been about for generations, centuries and millenniums. But mostly you should support Black PP/POWs, and all revolutionary PP/POWs, because it’s the right thing to do.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><font size="4"> And last, how should you support them? Well, you should support Black and all PP/POWs by supporting organizations that support them and by contacting PP/POWs individually to ask how you can best support them.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"><br />~End~</p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;">How you can support Sundiata Acoli</p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;">Contact the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:TheSAFC@gmail.com" target="_blank">TheSAFC@gmail.com</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sundiataacoli.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sundiataacoli.org/</a></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;">Contact Sundiata:<br />Acoli, Sundiata #39794-066<br />FCI Otisville, P.O. Box 1000, Otisville, NY 10963<br />Birthday: January 14, 1937</p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;">Sundiata is also receiving support from the Jericho Amnesty Movement <<a href="http://thejerichomovement.com/" target="_blank">thejerichomovement.com</a>> <<a href="http://prisonactivist.org/jericho_sfbay" target="_blank">prisonactivist.org/jericho_sfbay</a>> and from the Anarchist Black Cross Federation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.abcf.net/" target="_blank">www.abcf.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Malcolm X Commemoration Committee -<a href="http://malcolmxcommemorationcommittee.com/" target="_blank">http://malcolmxcommemorationcommittee.com/</a> also the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mxgm.org/" target="_blank">http://mxgm.org/</a></p>
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<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;">source:<br /><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>nycjericho@gmail.com</p>
<p style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.5em;"> </p></div>An Open Letter To Governor David Paterson Re:John White and Political Prisoners in NY Statehttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-governor2010-12-31T02:30:00.000Z2010-12-31T02:30:00.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"></div>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><strong><i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots, November 1963</span></i></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center"><i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>“You haven’t got integration in New York City. If you can’t get integration in New York City as up to date and cosmopolitan as it is, you’ll never get it anywhere else in this country…”</strong><br /><strong>Malcolm X, Theresa Hotel, 1<sup>st</sup> Post Mecca Press Conference, May 1964</strong></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Dear Governor Paterson,</span></p>
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<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">I am most sure that we, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, speak for many when we say we applaud your decision to commute the sentence of John White.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"><span> </span> To be sure, we are of the expressed view that White should’ve been pardoned outright, that the environment in which he was tried and where he had to live, was to racially polarized for him to be given more consideration for what happened on that fateful night where he and his family was threatened. In this tradition, the Malcolm X tradition, we insist that anyone,, whenever threatened, avail themselves of the right to defend<br /> themselves. We believe that White was within his God-given human rights to defend himself and his family when he was confronted by a white mob on his lawn.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"><span> </span> Just as John White’s incredible case called out for justice, there are some other well repressed cases that also call out for justice. We are talking here about the case of New York State’s political prisoners, its COINTELPRO targets, who now have been languishing throughout the state’s prison system for more than 35 years in most instances.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">We speak of the case of the surviving members of the NY3, Herman Bell (79c0262)and Jalil Muntaqim (fka as Anthony Bottom, 77a4283). They lost a codefendent to cancer in prison several years ago with the death of Albert ‘Nuh’ Washington! These men have been in prison from COINTELPRO-tainted political prosecutions because of their commitments to the Black Panther Party since 1973 and 1975 respectively. They have been model prisoners and the only reason they are still in prison is because of their affiliation with the Black Panther Party. Robert ‘Seth’ Hayes (74a2280) has been in prison as a consequence of a COINTELPRO-tainted<br /> prosecution since 1973. He too has been a model prisoner and has faced down some serious health issues in recent years with great dignity. The only reason he is still in prison is because of his affiliation with the Black Panther Party. Abdul Majeed (83a0483) is the surviving Queens 2 defendant, framed for killing a police officer even though evidence of a drug connection in that officer’s killing, was suppressed. He was targeted, as well as his now deceased codefendant, the late Bashir Hameed, because of their affiliation with the Black Panther Party. He too has been a model prisoner and has wrongly incarcerated since 1981. Then there is the case of Sekou Odinga, (09a3775) who actually joined Malcolm’s Organization of AfroAmerican Unity and Muslim Mosque Inc. as a<br />
youngster before joining the Black Panther Party. The torture he survived when he was captured was legendary. It is also typical of the kind of laboratory abuse these men and women faced before the government would later use in other countries, like El Salvador, Guatamala, Nicaragua, Haiti, and most recently Iraq (AbuGhairab). He has just done 28 years in federal time. He will not be eligible for parole in New York state until 2033!</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"><span> </span> In each of these cases, these men who were proud members of the Black Panther Party at the time that the Party had been dangerously labeled “the most serious internal threat to the national security of the United States” by the FBI. In each of these cases, these men have been charged with killing or the attempted killing of police officers, or something of comparable seriousness, and in each of these cases, exculpatory evidence pointing to their innocence had been suppressed, and <i>ex parte</i> evidence, secret evidence presented to a judge without due process by federal authorities, had factored in their trials. At this point, decades later, none have any means of legal relief<br /> and the parole process has proven to be as arbitrary and racist as the polarizing climate that produced COINTELPRO in the firstplace.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Though the now legendary Church Committee hearings established clearly that those operations were wrong, dangerous in their pervasiveness, and a real threat to democracy, they wrongly did nothing to prescribe relief for its targets. So many like these men still languish in prisons throughout the country, some now for more than 40 years like Eddie Marshall Conway in Maryland!</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"><span> </span> We implore you, in the simple interests of justice, recognizing the urgency of our generation’s historical moment, to do what simple justice demands. Just as you found the moral courage to address the White case and to commute that man’s sentence, we implore you to do at least the very same thing for these men. Yes, the media will be hostile and spineless colleagues in your party will cringe, but history will absolve you and it will absolve these men who have sacrificed their very lives for all ofour freedom.We pray that you will address this matter with the urgency it requires.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"><span> </span><span> </span> May the God of our ancestors bless you in your deliberations and in all your future public service endeavors…</span></p>
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<br /></div>New Black Panther Party Launches Operation Counter Attack in Defense of Black Leadershiphttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/new-black-panther-party2010-08-09T13:00:00.000Z2010-08-09T13:00:00.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828519052,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828519052?profile=original" /><br /></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';">MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ</span></b> <br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';">IS COMING TO NY!</span></b></p>
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<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:.5in;"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Malik Zulu Shabazz,</span></b> <span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">the national chairman of the New Black Panther Party and founder of Black Lawyers for Justice, considered by many to be the boldest <i>young</i> national Black leader on the scene, will be coming to New York City for a special sitdown with the Black press and others in what he is calling <b><i>‘Operation Counter Attack! Stop The Attack on the New Black Panther Party and Black Leadership!’</i></b></span></p>
<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">This special gathering will take place on <b>Monday, August 9<sup>th</sup></b> at the legendary Harlem restaurant, Sylvia’s, at 2pm sharp, harkening back to the days of preparing for the epic Million Youth March in 1998. Sylvia’s is located at Malcolm X Blvd and 126<sup>th</sup> Street in Harlem.</span></p>
<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">He will be joined by key players of the New Black Panther Party’s national and local leadership including national special assistant Hannibal Rushiddeen, national youth minister and former serious candidate for Trenton, New Jersey’s north ward city council seat Divine Allah, his New York area representative and national minister of culture Zayid Muhammad, the muchmaligned King Samir Shabazz of Philadelphia, Bashir Akinyele, former Newark chairman and press officer for the Newark AntiViolence Coalition, Khadijah Shakur, heroic sister who served in Haiti in the aftermath of that devastating January 12<sup>th</sup> earthquake and all the way from ‘HotLanta,<br /> the party’s national chief of staff Hashim Nzingha. <br /></span></p>
<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Shabazz, a young lawyer and activist, and proud Howard University graduate, has an impressive biography of commitment!</span></p>
<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">He was an important student leader while at Howard with his hellraizing Unity Nation. He was a key player and lead lawyer for the epic MillionYouth March. He was Khallid Abdul Muhammad’s national spokesman and minister for justice in the New Black Panther Party. He has courageously and creatively managed the painful distinction of being Khallid Abdul Muhammad’s designated heir.</span></p>
<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Upon Muhammad’ sudden death in 2001, Shabazz became the Party’s national chairman and has held together that organization and kept it out front as one of the most formidable in the Black nationalist paradigm.</span></p>
<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:.5in;"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">He is terribly underappreciated for his courageous leadership in the repressed story of the Party’s <b>‘Operation Rescue’</b> in Sept. 2005, where crack troops of the New Black Panther Party rolled into a Katrina-battered and military-occupied New Orleans under his leadership and rescued some 200 people from that terrible mass devastation. It is one of the New Black Panther Party’s most important moments in the sun!</span></i></p>
<br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:.5in;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">He is the founder of Black Lawyers for Justice, a network of Black lawyers committed to social justice and a serious Black liberation theologian. <span><br /></span></span></p>
<br /><br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent:.5in;font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Contact Zayid Muhammad at</span>:<br /></p>
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<br /><br /></div>KAZEMBE BALAGUN INTERVIEWS FORMER BPP MINSTER OF CULTURE EMORY DOUGLAShttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/kazembe-balagun-interviews2009-08-14T14:53:45.000Z2009-08-14T14:53:45.000Zcarlos s.https://www.theblacklist.net/members/carloss<div>Kasama Podcasts presents an interview with former Black Panther Minister of Culture Emory Douglas. The interview was conducted by <a href="http://www.blackmanwithalibrary.com/" target="_blank">Kazembe Balagun</a>.<a href="http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/kasama-podcast-interview-with-revolutionary-artist-emory-douglas/" target="_blank"></a><b><a href="http://web.me.com/comandantechavez/Friends_of_the_Kasama_Project/Kasama_Project_Podcast/Entries/2009/8/5_Interview_with_Emory_Douglas,_by_Kazembe_Balagun.html" target="_blank">Listen to this interview</a></b><b><a href="http://web.me.com/comandantechavez/Friends_of_the_Kasama_Project/Kasama_Project_Podcast/rss.xml" target="_blank">Subscribe to Kasama podcasts</a></b><b><a href="http://web.me.com/comandantechavez/Friends_of_the_Kasama_Project/Kasama_Project_Podcast/Archive.html" target="_blank">Visit our Kasama podcast archive [1]</a></b>Kazembe writes:“Emory Douglas was the official artist of the Black Panther Party and for a time served as its Minister of Culture. His cartoons, illustrations and woodcuts graced the cover of the Black Panther newspaper and were revered internationally for its explosive content. Emory’s work served as a touchstone for revolutionary artists throughout the 1960s and 1970s and continue to inspire. “This month the New Museum in New York City will host a major retrospective of Emory Douglas’ work.<a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/415/emory_douglas_black_panther" target="_blank">"Emory Douglas” Black Panther"</a>brings together the host of images Douglas created for the Black Panther Party. I had the privilege of talking with Emory Douglas at the New Museum on the eve of his exhibition opening.”<a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_interview_kasama_podc.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_interview_kasama_podc.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a>Emory Douglas (photo: Jed Brandt)<b>Click for examples of Emory’s revolutionary art ></b>Posters from the Black Panther <a href="http://www.bobbyseale.com/cover.htm" target="_blank">newspaper</a>:<a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_exhibit1_pig.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_exhibit1_pig.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_revolution51.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_revolution51.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_exhibit3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_exhibit3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_revolution2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_revolution2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_revolution3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_revolution3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_revolution4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_revolution4.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_revolution.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_revolution.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><a href="http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/?action=view&current=emory_douglas_revolution_fred_hampt.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/cinquo/emory_douglas_revolution_fred_hampt.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a></div>