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Director @allianceforbmoc. Struggling to live a Black revolutionary life. Always learning, reflecting, evolving. substack.com/@thinkinginmot… Long Beach, CA Joined April 2013

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3 days ago

"Community organizing is both a science and an art — a science because it is grounded in a systematic understanding of power and oppression, an art because it demands creativity, empathy, and adaptability in order to build relationships and trust." - James Forman

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4 days ago

James and Grace Lee Boggs: “Revolutionary thinking has as its purpose to discover where man/woman should be tomorrow so that we can struggle systematically and programmatically to arouse the great masses of the people to want to go there. A revolution is not just for the purpose…

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4 days ago

One thing I’m learning in this season of life is that while I am moved by love and the desire to serve my people, I am also driven by duty. At the end of the day, when I can lay my head down knowing I did what I could to support others, that fills my cup. Even when hope feels…

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4 months ago

Hope is important. I resonate a lot with Mariame Kaba’s praxis of “hope as a discipline” and believe that without it, people’s will to fight is weakened. Hope will ebb and flow, but what cannot change is our responsibility to fight for one another. Even when all seems lost, we…

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6 days ago

Some Thoughts on How to Move a Group of People from One Point to Another, or Some Basic Steps Toward Becoming a Good Political Organizer by James Forman “the organizer must himself realize he is human. He will make mistakes. There is only so much that he can do in a given period…

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a week ago

These folks are like “it’s time to fight fire with fire” and it’s just more right-wing and anti-democratic policies and more police.

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a week ago

“Crime is a phenomenon that stands not alone, but rather as a symptom of countless wrong social conditions.” -W.E.B. Du Bois

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a week ago

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Last Message Du Bois left us so much to learn from and build upon.

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W.E.B. Du Bois’s Last Message Du Bois left us so much to learn from and build upon. https://t.co/GbV7IePRSg

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a week ago

Coach teaching me how to knee and choke out a fascist.

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We’re responsible for our communities. We’re responsible for one another. "People are responsible for their communities, and our social ties are more important than our material wealth. By creating processes and local institutions for our mutual support we create respect for…

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10 months ago

Just finished honoring Dr. Du Bois by MLK. Now I’m reading parts of “The Making of Black Revolutionaries” by James Forman. Also, shout-out to @BLM_edia for the recommendation.

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2 weeks ago

These is the least I’ve traveled in years for work. I’ve only done about 20 flights and shouldn’t be flying much more this year. 😭 these last couple of years had been rough.

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2 weeks ago

“It is not defeatist to acknowledge that we have lost a battle”

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2 weeks ago

“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." - James Baldwin

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2 weeks ago

Also: “A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.” - James Baldwin

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2 weeks ago

Also: “A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.” - James Baldwin https://t.co/rdU6yPQctV

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7 months ago

"My experience with liberals, they have attitudes, and they have all the proper attitudes. But they have no real convictions, and when the chips are down and you expect them to deliver and what you thought they felt they somehow are not there." - James Baldwin

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2 weeks ago

Conservatives might lean on ignorance, but liberals often convince themselves they know more than they do. One hides from knowledge, the other pretends they’ve mastered it.