Tuesday, November 25, 2014

IF THERE'S HELL BELOW ~





(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go by Curtis Mayfield on Grooveshark


H2Ogate Blues by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson on Grooveshark


The Purge by The Game on Grooveshark


Backlash Blues by Nina Simone on Grooveshark


Likambo Ya Ngana by Franco on Grooveshark




compiled by BA the night of ferguson, mo. grand jury release
disbelief disbelief disbelief
 chose not to indict
 Darren Wilson
 in the fatal shooting
 of Michael Brown
even after all these years
of knowing better
naturally
a verdict
for  us &
Thanksgiving











Mamie Till, summer 1955                                               Michael Brown Sr, summer 2014
Photograph: Chicago Sun-Times via AP                                                      Richard Perry / AFP / Getty      




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If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself.

W E N D E L L   B E R RY
The Hidden Wound
1970




NEW YORK TIMES ~

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/opinion/the-meaning-of-the-ferguson-riots.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region



http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop