‪Tottenham rebellion for dummies

Black London Residents Make it Plain

1. peaceful protest a police station regarding a shooting.
2. cops brazenly rough up a 16 year oldish woman who approaches some them.
3. crowd retaliates.

I don't call it rioting I call it an insurrection of the people!

Also dig:

• The 1943 Detroit Race Riots (Dap@ KAG)
• Missouri corrects record on 1923 college-town lynching
• False! "More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US" 

Ghetto film notes: Guerilla filmmakers Haile Gerima and Sam Greenlee discuss their craft

Haile Gerima honored for his film Teza

Riz Khan interviews one of my favorite pan-Afrikan djeliw (singular djeli. Bamana/Bambara word for traditional oral historian/musician. Also known as "griot"), Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. I can still recall the anticipation and gratitude in the African American community for Gerima's groundbreaking film Sankofa (from the Akan: Sɛ wo werɛ fi na wosan kɔfa a, yenkyi- colloquially, go back to your Afrikan roots). I also recall with pride the collective effort to spread the word about Gerima's project.

In the interview Baba Haile talks about the intersection of white supremacy and the mainline film industry. He specifically mentions how the industry insists on thrusting prominent white characters on projects even when the narrative is not centrally about white people. In other words that mainline movie industry is a form of psychological warfare in the service of white supremacy. Gerima also talks about filmic resistance or  Third-World filmmaking--that is, independent filmmaking that stays true to the worldview, politics, needs and aspirations of the oppressed (Sam Greenlee calls it "guerrilla cinema").

Baba Haile also discusses his experiences with racism in America and how those experiences led him to a deeper understanding of African American struggle. Gerima concludes the interview saying that he would "like to be [remembered as] a symbol of resistance." His legacy is assured. Every black/Afrikan person, indeed every progressive person, should must see Sankofa and his other important works Teza  and Adwa: An African Victory.

Posted Below:

 • Part 1 of Haile Gerima interview

• Part 1 of Sankofa

• Sam Greenlee interview. Baba Greenlee produced the Afro-cult hit The Spook Who Sat by the Door.

Haile Gerima interview, Part 1. If viewing from Facebook, click here.


Sankofa, Part 1 (You can view Sankofa in its entirety on YouTube, but think the poster omitted at least one segment). If viewing from Facebook, click here.


Sam Greenlee--"If you wanna be a rich hoe, go to Hollywood." This interview is available on the remastered 30th anniversary ed. of Spook. If viewing from Facebook, click here.



Tags: chicago, ethiopia, ghetto film notes, guerilla cinema, Haile Gerima, media, resistance, Sam Greenlee, third world, white supremacy

image source: funky square and dcabesha

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“The Ballad Of Robert Charles & The New Orleans Riot Of 1900"

1882-1927 Lynchings per million population (calculated by Murray Straus)

See also: 

• Without Sanctuary

• Black Women Who Were Lynched in America

• 100 Years of Lynching

• Stranger fruit: the lynching of balck [sic] women : the cases of Rosa Jefferson and Marie Scott By Maria De Longoria. (dap @ sis. terry)
• Lynch Law in Georgia: Report by Ida B. Wells

Robert Charles was a proud Black native Mississippian who went to live in New Orleans around the dawn of the 20th Century. Mr. Charles was self-educated, highly intelligent and very well read. He followed the teachings of the controversial and radical Black leader/ Pan Africanist Bishop Henry M. Turner. Bishop Henry M. Turner, a native of Georgia, U.S.A., preached that Blacks should defend themselves with guns against the Ku Klux Klan and other White racist institutions that sought to destroy and kill Black people in the United States. Being a man of religion and action, Turner also urged Blacks to start seeing God the Benevolent and Merciful One in their own image instead of in the popular image of the oppressors which belittled their humanity and labeled them inferior.

Robert Charles also felt that Black people should consider returning to their ancestral homeland of Africa (in particular, the nation of Liberia –which was founded by former Black U.S. slaves in 1822) to escape from the White supremacist power structure in the U.S.A. Mr. Charles was also a sales agent for Turner’s magazine, Voice of Missions, which talked about some of the previously mentioned beliefs in exact full detail and analysis. In 1896 Robert Charles joined the International Migration Society, a group which advocated sending Black Americans to Liberia.

Mr. Charles honestly felt that no Black person would ever receive full treatment as a citizen and human being in a country where the violent lynching of a Black person took place everyday. This country was also the same place where Blacks were not even allowed to vote or receive equal treatment and protection under the law (the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 by the U.S. Supreme Court had legalized segregation). This, in theory, meant that Blacks were allowed to be treated separately but as equals of Whites. However, in reality this meant that Blacks were forced by law to endure harsher, more unfair and inferior treatment by Whites.

One day Robert Charles became infuriated after hearing the grisly news of the fate of a Black man in Atlanta named Sam Hose. Hose was ruthlessly lynched by a large White mob for killing his White boss in self defense and allegedly raping his boss’s White wife. The rape allegation later proved to be false as Mr. Hose was nowhere near the house at the time the alleged rape took place.

The lynching of Sam Hose by all accounts was very gruesome and traumatic. Mr. Hose’s nose, ears, toes, fingers, genitals and tongue were all cut off while he was alive causing him great excruciating pain. He was also skinned alive, doused with kerosene and set on fire while tied to a tree. Hose’s mutilated body parts and postcards of the tragic event were later sold at stores, picnics, and other functions throughout the Atlanta area.

Read more @ W.E. A.L.L. B.E.: “The Ballad Of Robert Charles & The New Orleans Riot Of 1900"

Map: Source

Lifelines - African proverbs for daily living: Travelin' with Harriet (c. 1820-1913)

Posted by the Ghetto Intellectual on 3/11/2010

Harriet Tubman 

Bronze Sculpture

Jane DeDecker, 1997

Axé!


Witness

i found the shirt i have with her name on the back. Harriet. The shirt i wore when i ran the marathon. 26.2 miles. When you run a marathon, everyone, thousands of people stand on the sidelines and cheer. These people call your name. i knew if someone, if anyone called me Harriet, i could and would keep going. i knew hearing her name would keep me keeping on. With her name on my back, i would not quit. i kept heading north or south or in whatever direction i was going in. Who knows after more than 11 miles, 17, 21? Harriet knew.

Harriet is a 26.2-mile woman. A 30-mile woman. A thousand mile woman.

She is beautiful to me.

Read entire post @ Lifelines - African proverbs for daily living: Travelin' with Harriet

tags: sheroes, Harriet Tubman, slavery, abolition, resistance

A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony (Dap @ Agnes)

Posted by the Ghetto Intellectual on 3/11/2010 

See also: "Imperial reckoning" - The untold story of Britain's gulag in Kenya (2005) by Caroline Elkins

Dig it!

To watch trailer click on video below or click here.

THE FILM

A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony is a documentary film by Donald McWilliams about the Mau Mau Rebellion in 1950s Kenya – one of the most contentious final episodes in British colonial history. Evoking his mentor Norman McLaren, McWilliams employs a broad palette of cinematic devices, framing personal photos with animation and archival imagery.

tags: kenya, mau mau, colonialism, resistance, revolution

Octavius Valentine Catto (1839-1871): Civil Rights Pioneer Murdered by White Man and Forgotten

These stories are inspiring and infuriating. I found this one whilst poking around @ We All Be.


Beyond the obvious, it is a good example of why black-on-black violence continues to fester in some parts of Black America. Violence in our communities is an outcome of centuries-old white belligerence.


See also:

• Derrion Albert Remix

• The Price of American Belligerence

• How does it feel to be a problem? W.E.B. Du Bois

Civil Rights leader, Baseball Pioneer. He Worked ceaselessly throughout his life toward the goal of establishing full and equal rights for African Americans, including the fight to integrate streetcars in Philadelphia. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved with his family to Pennsylvania as a child and graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth (now Cheyney University), where he became a professor. He was also a staunch advocate of the Republican Party. 

During the Civil War, Professor Catto was commissioned a major in the First Division of the state's National Guard, helping raise 11 Black regiments for the Union. Because of his efforts, Pennsylvania passed the 15th Amendment in 1869, guaranteeing voting rights for black males. 

Read entire story @ W.E. A.L.L. B.E.: Octavius Valentine Catto: The Forgotten Hero...




tags: civil rights, heritage, racism, resistance, white supremacy, war on black people, terrorism