I hear this at least once a day, every day.
(Source: blacksocialjournal)
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What “Wall Street” and the U.S. has become — an imperial-colonial power over the world’s economics and the laws that protect it — is a direct legacy of the fraud and violence committed against…
(Source: oogishkamaanisee)
Poets, Truth, and Money
my sweet babyJay Smooth coming correct, as usual.
Their [social historians] language reveals their assumptions that white women are the prototype for gender, black men for race, and working-class men for class; all other groups are then defined as special in having dual or multiple identities. As Elizabeth Spelman observes, white feminists need to recognize that their experience as women (and that of their white female historical subjects) is shaped also by race; femaleness is not synonymous with white femaleness, accessible to black women only through some filtering lens of race.
In Albany, Georgia, a small deep-South town where the atmosphere of slavery still lingered, mass demonstrations took place in the winter of 1961 and again in 1962. Of 22,000 black people in Albany, over a thousand went to jail for marching, assembling, to protest segregation and discrimination. Here, as in all the demonstrations that would sweep over the South, little black children participated—a new generation was learning to act. The Albany police chief, after one of the mass arrests, was taking the names of prisoners lined up before his desk. He looked up and saw a Negro boy about nine years old. “What’s your name?” The boy looked straight at him and said, “Freedom, Freedom.
As Steve Jobs officially resigns as Apple’s CEO, I’m less interested in reading about the succession plan for Apple and the percentage the company’s stock is dropping only hours after reading his letter.
To remember just how much innovation Steve Jobs contributed to the world of technology and design, the Wall Street Journal has pulled together images in their feature Personal Media Pioneer: Steve Jobs. Gizmodo highlights The Life of Steve Jobs—So Far with old photographs, ads, and a lengthly timeline. In 1986, “Jobs buys Pixar out of Lucasfilm’s computer graphics group for a discounted price of $10m—$5m of which will be used for operations—so that Lucas could finance his divorce without selling Star Wars stock.”
In the 1970s, Jobs also worked at Atari as a technician. PodTech has an interesting podcast with Atari’s co-founder about the experience of working with Steve Jobs.
(above photo c. early 1980s)
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Imperialism, VI Lenin (M, 20s, navy polo, bright blue windbreaker, said to his friend, “It’s really dense”, L train) http://bit.ly/JtI7ne
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