Philosophy etc.

Attn: Every gathering of Black folks protesting social and political ills in public should not be understood as being the brain children of nor the result of "The Black Lives Movement" association. Black lives matter is a moral declaration that is as old as the oppressions of Black peoples that dates back approximately 500 years. No shade, but stop thinking that Black folks are monolithic, or in need of a messiah or a messianic group to speak to our conditions of oppression. Black folks embrace a number of groups that buoy the efforts to provide and extend freedoms and equality. The Black Lives Movement association is one among many, and I thank you too.

Let's ground this moment in action and thought. Don't give way to an anti-intellectualism that paralyzed our freedom fights of the past. Bro. Kwame Toure told a group of AUC students back in our good Ole days, that the problem he found with many of the social transactions of his extant fight for freedom and equality was a lack of thoughtful organization. His assertion was that they were not given the opportunity to think, analyze and apply thorough going methods because things transpired so rapidly. They were left with immediate and inchoate responses to events that transpired at light speed. Albeit they did one hell of a job, we have resources and bodies to bring all our talents to bear on these social issues and avoid the false dichotomy of thought or action. It's a both/and approach and attack that we should aspire to implement A counter-protest? I'm a walking counter-protest. My skin is just one part of it, for the true counter-protest is in my thinking and re-thi...