i just wanna…read…every book in the world

This was, actually, my fantasy for a while.  Ask anyone who knew me back during Freshman year in college: nothing get a brotha started like Books and Black Women.  What happened, you ask?  i started making it a reality…the reading, that is.

-amari

Black Pearl

Black Pearl,

Scratch, but never shatter.  Soil, but persist impeccable.  To mourn you is to mourn me.  But neither of us—not you, not me—has surrendered to Death’s white hands, so we know not mourning.  We know only to rejoice.  For to rejoice in you is to rejoice in me.

Black Pearl, fearless Conqueror straight from the womb of Creation, in the depths of your darkness, you shine bright as the Star of Freedom.

Shine on, Black Pearl.  Illuminate our path.  Guide our steps.  Protect our journey.  Show us the parts of ourselves that are you, Black Pearl.  Teach us to shine!  Share with us the sacred utterings of our Ancestors.

Show us, Black Pearl!

Show us how to be Free.

-amari



Hate That Hate Produced: who’s the devil, cracker?

Hear the Audio

So there’s been relative controversy over this fool’s statement that Haiti signed a pact with the devil in order to get their Freedom from those dog-eating maggots over two centuries ago. Normally, i wouldn’t even pay no mind to such ridiculousness. But, unfortunately, as you can see by the woman next to him, too many folks believe this. So here’s my two cents:

Message to the Warriors

-amari

When Communal Living Goes Wrong

-amari

Haiti, Our Mighty Black Nation

On January 1, 1804, Haiti, under the courageous leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared independence from those soulless duppies that really don’t even deserve to be named, thus becoming the first independent Black republic.  As a result, African people throughout the New World used Haiti as a model and rebelled against their captors.  In order to quell these revolts, the european propaganda machine initiated a relentless attack on our nation that persists until today.

The poverty and misery that currently plagues Haiti is a direct result of the pernicious attack on the dignity of this sovereign nation.  Through trade sanctions, indirect and direct intervention (france, united snakes, united nations, kwk), and other tactics, the forces of white supremacy continue to try and choke the life out of this small island.

But they must not know they dealing with Africans and the African Spirit don’t die.

On this day (and all days), we celebrate Haiti, our mighty Black Nation.

2009 soon done

To all my Scattered People,

Yo, thank you for another year.  We experienced daggon near a 200% increase in visitors (i mean, they couldn’t all be my momma, could they?) and i’m more than grateful!  So i just wanted to take this opportunity to say thanx.

In the spirit of my man, Sidik, i’ve decided to set some goals for the O-10:

• i’ma post more regularly
• diversify my bonds with more guest appearances
• Expand Scattered People beyond being just a blog…i just came up with that one, so give some time to iron out the specifics

Umm…and i’m just gonna go ‘head and say it:

• make it to 50,000 hits! (that means you gotta tell your friends)

So as we move into the new roman calendar year, let’s be great.  Love and be loved, inspire and be inspired.

We a’ duppy conqueror!  ::bullet::bullet::

-amari

Black Power Media is here

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At the dawn of the 21st century (Kemetic Calendar Year 6250), African people are as embattled with global white supremacy as ever. Increasing poverty and displacement, persistent state-sponsored terrorism, obscene incarceration rates, kwk., this reality of war is nothing less than genocidal. These actualities are further corroborated by a corporate media that either ignores or obscures Black suffering by failing to acknowledge it, or transforming “isolated incidents” into decontextualized charity cases (Rwanda, Darfur, Live 8, etc.).

BlackPowerMedia.com has emerged to fill the void of independent media that centers the experiences and liberation of African people. More than simply “filling the blanks” of the mainstream, BPM captures and projects the struggles and victories of African people from Kinshasa to Cleveland, Brixton to Bahia.

The goals are simple: inform and inspire. The means: multi-media productions that understand themselves as weapons of liberation.

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No One Will

i’ve been wanting to write something on this joint since the first time i heard it a few months back, but couldn’t find the words.  i mean, it’s so damn raw, so real, so…vulnerable in a bold ass way.  i strive for this level of honesty, yo!

You know exactly how it be, too.  You know that she would be so perfect if she would just…if she would just…well, you can’t exactly explain it, but you know what it is.  And she do, too.  And that’s what make it so terrible!  She know, too, except she too damn stubborn to admit it.

Kwanzaa Time! Oh, it’s Kwanzaa time!

-amari