"He Got The Peace Prize, We Got The Problem.... If I'm Following A General, And He's Leading Me Into

"He got the peace prize, we got the problem.... If I'm following a general, and he's leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace award before the war is over."

Malcolm X

1. Fucking DUH.

2. I'm fine with the title. I literally have to see a counselor every week to make sure that I am not actually hallucinating this shit. I've never hated school before.

[not sure how i feel abt the title and it being ableist as this experience speaks to that of acquiring or assessing one’s mental health from an introspective space….]

full text here.

The graduate school experience for students of color has been theorized as...

Books Tulane's library actually has

Jonetta Rose Barras. The Last of the Black Emperors: the Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in the New Age of Black Leaders (Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 1998).

Richard M. Bernard. Snowbelt Cities: Metropolitan Politics in the Northeast and Midwest since World War II (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).

Kenneth R. Bowling. The Creation of Washington, D.C.: the Idea and Location of the American Capital (Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1991).

Marvin Harold Caplan. Farther Along: a Civil Rights Memoir (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999).

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994).

Federal Writers' Project. Washington, City and Capital (Washington, D.C., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1937).

Willard B. Gatewood. Aristicrats of Color: the Black Elite, 1880-1920 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).

Harry Jaffe. Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).

United States. Compilation of selected federal acts relating to municipal affairs of the District of Columbia : as amended through November 7, 2002 : including District of Columbia Home Rule Act, District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Act of 1995, District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995, National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 : prepared for the use of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2002). 

Ronald W. Waters and Toni-Michelle Travis. Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia: Federal Politics and Public Policy (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2010).

It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.

Martin Luther king, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967 (via fyeahblackhistory)

nativethoughts:

H. Rap Brown. Former SNCC and BPP member.

Does anyone know when this Ebony article was published?

Stokely…the Architect Black Power