Rethinking The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, As A White Liberal Consumer Product!
Dr. Greg Thomas provides a much needed radical critique of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow. . .
Tag Archives: colonization
Just A Minstrel!
Mainstream hip hop got you down? Does the bullshit that clogs up the airwaves have you sifting through your musical catalog of old? Well fear not Jasiri X, yet again, provides a breath of fresh air in these heavily polluted media airwaves. Check out his ”Just A Minstrel” video (a high quality self produced video. And speaking of [...]
What If The Tea Party Was Black!
I know people who have been asking the question “What if the Tea Party was Black?” Well Jasiri X expressed these sentiments in his video “What if the Tea Party was Black?” It is a highly creative and well thought-out polemic put to music and rhyme. My answer to the question is always, being not an [...]
No Alarms & No Surprises!
This article was posted on Voxunion.com May 25, 2010. Her Name Was Aiyana Jones Her name was Aiyana Jones. She was 7, Black, in a poor family, living in Detroit and was killed by the police. She was the victim of an unbroken and thoroughly vicious cycle of police brutality, followed by temporary, short-lived outcry [...]
Race in America: Is the Issue Segregation or Colonization?
By Shaka Shakur Recently the U.S. national news reported that Gary, Indiana ranked number one in the U.S. as the most segregated city in the country. Now the corporate controlled/bourgeois national media will try and make this out to be something bad, and the primary issue, when in fact, it is not the real issue [...]
Stop Saying This Is a Nation of Immigrants!
This article, written a few years back but relevant today, is an important point in reframing the immigrant-rights debate. Moreover, the nation-of-immigrants argument by immigrant-rights advocates fails to acknowledge history in order to wed immigrants, often the victims of exploitation, as loyalists to that history. Far more has been written on this topic, especially the [...]
