December 2011
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Jay's Other Stuff: “…I must confess that over the... →
“…I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white…
November 2011
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“I got got your back, even if you don’t got mine.”
– Prometheus Brown aka Geologic of Blue Scholars
originality(?)
someone told me a ways back that i am a “re-collection” and someone informed me recently that i am a “such a quoter.” i told them, “in the words of Nas, ‘no idea’s original, there’s nothing new under the sun…it’s never what you do but how it’s done.” one of my hugest pet peeves these days (that i am still guilty of at times...
My speech at the 2011 Students of Color Conference...
Greetings brilliant people of color and allies, I can’t tell you what an honor it is to be here with you all. My taking part in the 2011 UC Student of Color Conference is but another blessing in my crazy ass privileged life on a path to healing and transformation. When I was asked to speak here, at first I was taken aback momentarily. I am a mixed race and miscegenated Asian American raised...
a creelFish: y does it feel like new years or... →
creelfish:
for my heady folks (aka, MY folks/MY ME):
sometimes rushing to figure out why we feel a certain way is our brains clever strategy for keeping us from feeling it. feelings are just feelings, we can find ways to safely feel them without having them control decision making. anxiety is fuel to pain…
on running for mr. hyphen
i didn’t win this eve but i still won. the 4 brothers i competed alongside with have more heart in they pinky toes than most do below their breast plates. it’s funny. not funny “haha” but funny like, “that tastes funny,” when people let me know (in their own special ways) that im not asian in their eyes. when they express this because i have a white mother,...
deesto:
Amy Winehouse & Nas- Like Smoke
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“Thank god we don’t know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or...”
– Don’t hold your breath for Cass McCombs’ autobiography. (via pitchfork)
i dont agree w this at all. id argue that when we deify someone (MLK for example) we may be lead to believe that they accomplished their amazing feats as individuals and not w an incredible team beside/behind them, and also...
External Memory
marcmanley:
In many ways the Internet seems to be a big External Memory (particularly if we consider the Anglo-American contribution to it). And yet, if there’s anything that I’ve learned from reading a boat load (modern) English literature over the last four years, is that memory is unreliable. And if memory/the Internet is unreliable, then it is no wonder that The Net is having such a...
“We know that operating within reality does not mean we accept it; we’re...”
– Huey P. Newton (via redefinedcool)
i’ll never forget today for as long as i live.
“Hold ya head, lil bruh. You’re not dead, lil bruh. You are brown and this...”
– N.E.R.D. (“God Bless Us All”)
Banksy creates a giant Monopoly board for Occupy... →
sfneopinay:
banksy rocks my fuggin sox.
