That's my dad's book. It's the autobiography of the late Fela 'Anikulakpo' Kuti, originator of Afrobeat
I read it on my trip to Nigeria last year. Apparently Fela was a friend and confidante to my pops. They both lived in Lagos in the 70s.
My pops visited his Shrine for his shows and Fela called my pops to review or listen to his new joints
Ironically, in that book, Fela states that his whole idealogy later in life and his future militancy (musically and otherwise) came from reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X while touring in the States in the late 60s.. an American who's Black becoming an inspiration to a man who went on to become the greatest African musician in history
Fela now is sampled profusely by American rappers (who are mostly Black, LOL). Most recently by Lupe Fiasco. You see the cycle?
There's still hope for unity amongst Black people wherever and it can start on this forum..
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Sion;7760758 said:
Damn, thanks dude. I curious to see what you'll contribute.
Focal Point
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The Hue;7758915 said:http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/The%20Story.htm
Supposedly this is what inspired Gap Band Dropped the Bomb on me
Ajackson17
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Tulsa stills pissed me off.
BigBallsNoWorries
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Anyone that is really proud and appreciate their African heritage, and acknowledge all the successes, triumphs, hardships and every aspect of the history of being African-american knows that Black History Month isn't just a month
I respect what Carter G. Woodson did and what he started, at first beginning with "Negro History Week", and eventually turning into "Black History Month"
Those that truly appreciate and respect it, knows it doesn't start in February
It starts January 1st all the way to December 31st
I respect what Carter G. Woodson did and what he started, at first beginning with "Negro History Week", and eventually turning into "Black History Month"
Those that truly appreciate and respect it, knows it doesn't start in February
It starts January 1st all the way to December 31st
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Focal Point;7762289 said:The Hue;7758915 said:http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/The%20Story.htm
Supposedly this is what inspired Gap Band Dropped the Bomb on me
Some people don't know that G.A.P. is an acronym for Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street in Tulsa which are apart of historical landmarks of Black Wall Street!
BangEm_Bart
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Ajackson17;7762896 said:
That city is cursed, which is why they suffer the worse hurricanes. God don't like ugly.
Maximus Rex
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Bartholomew_Jenkins;7765186 said:
What thee fuck? Obviously you're not aware that Oklahoma is a land locked state that is bordered by Texas on it's southern border, New Mexico and Colorado to the northwest, (not Ye's little girl,) Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, and Arkansas to the east. The nearest body of which is capable of producing hurricanes is the the Gulf of Mexico which is 822 miles away from Tulsa. Niggas really need to stay in school or at least study globes and atlases. Unless dude was confusing hurricanes with tornadoes.
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Elzo69Renaissance
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This is DOPE!!! I ll throw some shit in here....
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“What he walks is like me walking to work every day and I honestly couldn’t believe that,” Leedy told ABC News. “I thought to myself, ‘What would I do if my car broke down?,’ and I thought, ‘I have my parents and I have money to get an Uber.’”
“This guy doesn’t have that and he didn’t quit,” Leedy said.
After reading the Detroit Free Press story on Robertson, Leedy saw in the comments that people were looking for a way to help so he started a GoFundMe page for Robertson, a complete stranger to him, within minutes of finishing the story.
“I initially set the goal for $5,000 just to get him something, bus fares and taxi rides,” Leedy said. “I went to go get ready and an hour later we had $2,000 donated already.
Leedy says he received a call from the corporate offices of Honda offering to donate a car, and a local Chevrolet dealership, Rodgers Chevrolet, has also already offered to give Robertson a car.
“We are in a position that we can help and we just want to pay it forward,” Angela Osborne, a customer service specialist at Rodgers, told ABC News. “His story really struck home.”
All the attention and donations are coming as a shock to Robertson, according to his friend and sometimes driver, Blake Pollock.
Pollock, a vice president of wealth management at UBS, started seeing Robertson walking on his daily commute a few years ago. When Robertson cut through the parking lot of Pollock’s office building one day two years ago, the banker stopped him.
Pollock told ABC News he learned that Robertson walked most of his 20-plus mile commute daily, leaving his home in Detroit early each morning to get to work at a $10.55 per hour factory job in time for his 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. shift.
Robertson then does the reverse commute on the way home, having to walk even further because the bus lines on his route do not run at night, according to Pollock.
Pollock estimates he has given Robertson close to 100 rides in the years since, even leaving his home at night to make sure Robertson gets home safely.
“I’m sitting in my warm house and I’m thinking this guy has five more miles to walk,” Pollock said.
Pollock has also over the years taken friends who could not believe Robertson’s story along with him on rides to show that Robertson does indeed make that commute daily. Most amazing to Pollock is that Robertson, who could not be reached today by ABC News, “thinks nothing of it.”
“He’s said, “I can’t imagine people who don’t work. I can’t imagine not doing that,’” Pollock said. “Nothing gets him down. “If it’s rainy, if it’s cold, he just always says, ‘Hi Mr. Blake.’”
“I get to sit in the car and have that inspiration right next to me,” he said of Robertson, who began walking to work a decade ago when his then-car broke down.
Now Pollock is leading the charge to make sure that Robertson – whom Pollock says is not aware of the extent of the outpouring of support – benefits from the donations made in his name. Part of that effort includes establishing a group of community leaders and professionals who can help advise Robertson on the influx of money.
“We want to make sure that all of the wonderful contributions go to truly benefit James and not get wasted on other things or go to people who want to leech off of him,” Pollock said of Robertson, whom he says lives with his girlfriend and her family in a home she inherited from her mother.
“He deserves to feel good and he deserves to not walk 20 plus miles to work,” Pollock said. “We don’t want to change his life. We want to enhance his life.”
Leedy, who started the fundraising campaign, plans to meet Robertson, along with Pollock, for the first time in Detroit this evening.
“My vision now is to really help in any way,” said Leedy, who noted that GoFundMe officials have already contacted him with offers to help make sure 100 percent of the donations go directly to Robertson. “This could really change his life.”
“I want to talk to James first and know what his needs are,” Leedy said. “It’s not my money or my choice. I’m just facilitating the whole thing.”
- See more at:http://bossip.com/1098964/a-lil-pos...and-from-work-every-day/#sthash.AqExzNQn.dpuf
“This guy doesn’t have that and he didn’t quit,” Leedy said.
After reading the Detroit Free Press story on Robertson, Leedy saw in the comments that people were looking for a way to help so he started a GoFundMe page for Robertson, a complete stranger to him, within minutes of finishing the story.
“I initially set the goal for $5,000 just to get him something, bus fares and taxi rides,” Leedy said. “I went to go get ready and an hour later we had $2,000 donated already.
Leedy says he received a call from the corporate offices of Honda offering to donate a car, and a local Chevrolet dealership, Rodgers Chevrolet, has also already offered to give Robertson a car.
“We are in a position that we can help and we just want to pay it forward,” Angela Osborne, a customer service specialist at Rodgers, told ABC News. “His story really struck home.”
All the attention and donations are coming as a shock to Robertson, according to his friend and sometimes driver, Blake Pollock.
Pollock, a vice president of wealth management at UBS, started seeing Robertson walking on his daily commute a few years ago. When Robertson cut through the parking lot of Pollock’s office building one day two years ago, the banker stopped him.
Pollock told ABC News he learned that Robertson walked most of his 20-plus mile commute daily, leaving his home in Detroit early each morning to get to work at a $10.55 per hour factory job in time for his 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. shift.
Robertson then does the reverse commute on the way home, having to walk even further because the bus lines on his route do not run at night, according to Pollock.
Pollock estimates he has given Robertson close to 100 rides in the years since, even leaving his home at night to make sure Robertson gets home safely.
“I’m sitting in my warm house and I’m thinking this guy has five more miles to walk,” Pollock said.
Pollock has also over the years taken friends who could not believe Robertson’s story along with him on rides to show that Robertson does indeed make that commute daily. Most amazing to Pollock is that Robertson, who could not be reached today by ABC News, “thinks nothing of it.”
“He’s said, “I can’t imagine people who don’t work. I can’t imagine not doing that,’” Pollock said. “Nothing gets him down. “If it’s rainy, if it’s cold, he just always says, ‘Hi Mr. Blake.’”
“I get to sit in the car and have that inspiration right next to me,” he said of Robertson, who began walking to work a decade ago when his then-car broke down.
Now Pollock is leading the charge to make sure that Robertson – whom Pollock says is not aware of the extent of the outpouring of support – benefits from the donations made in his name. Part of that effort includes establishing a group of community leaders and professionals who can help advise Robertson on the influx of money.
“We want to make sure that all of the wonderful contributions go to truly benefit James and not get wasted on other things or go to people who want to leech off of him,” Pollock said of Robertson, whom he says lives with his girlfriend and her family in a home she inherited from her mother.
“He deserves to feel good and he deserves to not walk 20 plus miles to work,” Pollock said. “We don’t want to change his life. We want to enhance his life.”
Leedy, who started the fundraising campaign, plans to meet Robertson, along with Pollock, for the first time in Detroit this evening.
“My vision now is to really help in any way,” said Leedy, who noted that GoFundMe officials have already contacted him with offers to help make sure 100 percent of the donations go directly to Robertson. “This could really change his life.”
“I want to talk to James first and know what his needs are,” Leedy said. “It’s not my money or my choice. I’m just facilitating the whole thing.”
- See more at:http://bossip.com/1098964/a-lil-pos...and-from-work-every-day/#sthash.AqExzNQn.dpuf
Cruikshank Case (1876)
Governor of Louisiana from 1873 to 1877, Vermont native William Pitt Kellogg was the state's last Republican governor until 1980.
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in November 1863, along with Reconstruction’s three amendments, gave the country a fundamentally new constitution. The Thirteenth (1865), Fourteenth (1868), and Fifteenth (1870) Amendments abolished slavery, gave black males civil rights and the vote, and, more importantly, established a national citizenship whose rights, protected by the federal government, were to be enjoyed by all Americans. But the US Supreme Court—beginning in 1873 with the Slaughterhouse decision and continuing with the Cruikshank decision in 1876—restricted the rights protected under these amendments. The United States v. Cruikshank case arose from the Colfax Massacre, the bloodiest act of terrorism during Reconstruction.
McEnery, John ¬ Photoprint ¬ Head and shoulders portrait. Many Louisianans considered Democrat John McEnery the winner of the 1872 gubernatorial election. Controversy after the election, however, eventually resulted in a victory for Republican candidate William Pitt Kellogg.
Colfax Massacre ¬ Illustration ¬ "Massacre of the Negroes at Colfax Court House" This 1873 illustration shows a scene from the Colfax Massacre, an onslaught by an armed white militia against freedmen and black state militia members. When black citizens held a meeting at the Colfax courthouse to discuss the contested outcome of the 1872 governor's race, the white militia attacked, killing between 60 to 250 people; three white militia members also died.
Colfax Massacre ¬ Illustration ¬ "The Louisiana Murders" An illustration from Harper's Weekly magazine entitled “The Louisiana Murders” depicts a scene from the aftermath of Colfax Massacre in 1873.
The Situation
Louisiana’s 1872 gubernatorial election produced two rival claimants for the office: Democrat John McEnery and Republican William Pitt Kellogg. President Ulysses S. Grant and his administration declared Kellogg the rightful claimant. But the election, full of fraud and intimidation, incited turmoil all over the state. In the small village of Colfax, 220 miles northwest of New Orleans, a Democrat and a Republican each claimed to have won the office of sheriff. Kellogg sent rifles to the Republican claimant in order to arm his black followers. The Democratic claimant and his supporters, all white, launched an attack on the Republicans as they conducted a meeting in the courthouse. When the Republicans inside refused to stop the meeting and leave, the Democrats torched the building. Many died, and those who fled were shot. The twenty or so who survived the fire and the shootings were jailed.
The next night even those survivors were killed in cold blood. No one is certain how many black men died; the number ranges from a low of 60 to a high of 250. In 1950 the Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry installed a plaque that reads, “On this site occurred the Colfax Riot in which three white men and 150 Negroes were slain. The event on April 13, 1873 marked the end of carpetbag misrule in the South.” The message engraved on a twelve -foot-tall marble obelisk in the Colfax white cemetery provides a more accurate description of the motivation for the violence: “In loving remembrance/Erected to the memory of the [three] heroes … who fell in the Colfax Riot fighting for white supremacy. April 13, 1873.”
https://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/the-cruel-grip-of-history/
The Trial
Nine white men, accused of having taken part in the massacre, were arrested and put on trial in federal court in New Orleans. They were charged not with murder but with having deprived the murdered men of their civil rights, as enumerated in the Enforcement Act of 1870. After an initial mistrial, a second trial convicted four of the nine men, including William B. Cruikshank. The conviction was appealed and heard by the US Circuit of Appeals. Because the circuit court judges disagreed over the matter of guilt, the case went to the US Supreme Court.
Finally, on March 27, 1876, almost three years after the massacre, the convictions of Cruikshank and his companions were reversed. Chief Justice Morrison Waite issued the majority opinion. He began with a general statement of principles, citing the Slaughterhouse case: “The same person may be at the same time a citizen of the United States and a citizen of a state.” Then he went on to say that the Fourteenth Amendment gave Congress the power to prohibit states from denying life, liberty, or property without due process of law, but the Colfax murders had been the work of private parties, not the state of Louisiana. The implication was that this case should have been left for adjudication within the court system of Louisiana.
Result
The Cruikshank decision left the federal government all but powerless to protect freedmen, except by the use of troops—and these troops had to be requested by the state legislature or the governor. In fact, James R. Beckwith—US attorney for the District of the Circuit Court of Louisiana and the person who had drawn the initial indictment in the Cruikshank case—wrote to inform the US attorney general that after the Cruikshank matter, various White League organizations in the South had sprung to life and grown influential precisely because of this decision.
The Enforcement Act and its proposed application in the Cruikshank case posed a classic instance for which the Fourteenth Amendment and enforcing legislation was devised. The states had defaulted in their duty to protect citizens, so the federal government had to step in. Yet the court argued that the Reconstruction era amendments only empowered the federal government to prohibit violations of blacks’ rights by states; the responsibility for punishing crimes by individuals rested where it always had—with local and state authorities. The Cruikshank decision therefore gave a green light to acts of terror wherever local officials either could not or would not enforce the law.
Written By Carol Gelderman, University of New Orleans
http://www.knowla.org/entry/1581/
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