out of new york,chilling in the south Patrice Blackwell
It is not enough to hate and believe in the past to make a revolution. Hatred and belief in the past are sufficient prods for the rebellion phase. We must love and be future-oriented if we wish to carry out the revolution.
Male
52 years old
BROOKLYN, New York
United States
I like to read,build my conciseness in all matters that concern the liberation of my African people, organize the mass of people, while listening to them about there condition and how we can work together to make it happen.Arts for social Change!!!
mathematics- mos def
Music
I listen to everything depends on the mood. If i am smoking i listen to Indian (ravi shankar) or jazz . If i am studying are a deep though classical Mozart,Beethoven or jazz Miles Davis, or John Coltrane, old school Santana. When i skate i listen to bloody sabbath,matisyahu, Bob Marley,MIA and a mix of rock,techno,upbeat, raggae.I also enjoy the Beatles, pink floyd. John Lenon-Imagine
Movies
I like anime (sword of the beserk, Gungrave, Hellsing),action with a meaning (Matrix 1-2-3,Kill Bill 1-2, Boondock Saints), Love Star wars Old and new, Skateboard movies (Bones Brigade - The Search For Animal Chin, Plan B- Questionable, Almost round 1-2-3, P-rod -Forecast, A time to shine, Rise up) The yellow submarine
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Television
Not really a TV guy, makes you slow
Books
I read allot of different kinds of books in the areas of mathematics,George Polya How to solve it , black history,Carter g. Woodson mis-education of Negro, politics,philosophy Trying to get into some Mao and Lenon, Vo- people army peoples war, Nasser Philosophy of Egyptian revolution.
Heroes
My mother,Viola Plummer,Omanwali Clay,Kwame Nkrumah,Leila Khaled, David Blackwell,Leonard Jeffries, G. H. Hardy,Srinivasa Ramanujan, John Henrik Clarke, Harriet Tubman, W.E. B Duboius, Marcus Garvey, Malcom X, Bob Marley,Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and all the other people around the world who have made a selfless difference to mankind
About me: I know what I like we may really mean I like what I know and I reject what ever fails to match the things I am familiar with Such likes are not in truth ours at all for they have been imposed by habit and culture without any personal choice. To like what we know and to distrust what we do not know is ago old human trait. We always tend to think of past as “the good old days while the future seems fraught with dangers…
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Who I'd like to meet: My future self, Marcus Garvey,MIA
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Video shows style of extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka [TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 20:34 GMT] A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in January show the behaviour of Sri Lanka’s soldiers during the war that is claimed ‘humanitarian operation’ to rescue the Tamils, JDS reported Tuesday. The conversations of the killers are in Sinhala. “From the casual nature of the conversations and from the fact that it is taking place in an open area in broad daylight – it can be surmised that these are not ordinary acts by rogue elements carried out without the permission from the top leadership. The soldiers egging each other on, the insulting jokes and the laughter show that there is a consensus that these cold blooded killings should take place,” JDS further reported.
The way the men are treated even in execution, shown in the video clip, is a repeatedly demonstrated feature of the chauvinism in the island. One can imagine the treatment of women