Mwariama Sankara
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“Black women must learn to rear sons who will learn from the cradle that the major function as man is not to get a good job and a fine car, but to defend, protect and support their people (in that order), even should death is a consequence. That the black male is not a sex machine but a protector and developer of black people must be learned…
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“True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting…
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It’s not a coincidence that our concept, words, and ideas of liberation are the same ideals, and principles we learned about in school. This is why we continue to say speak a African language, or land when neither of these things has anything to do with revolution. We can homeschool, As-salamu alaykum, and build farms until Jesus returns. Fact…
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“We have a school system that is based upon the psychology of White children and White people. We are trying to educate our children in that system; they are bound to fail. The very structure of the educational system itself is based upon a White model and therefore it has a built-in failure mechanism for us…We must develop a psychology of…
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“The wearing of European clothes, whether rags or the most up-to-date style; using European furniture and European forms of social intercourse; adorning the Native language with European expressions; using bombastic phrases in speaking or writing a European language; all these contribute to a feeling of equality with the European and his…
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