I have never been prouder to say this is a milestone post.
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On this day thousands of people of all races colors and creeds descend on a little town to let six young boys know they are not alone.
Organized not by spokes people , or celebrities, but bloggers ,students ,poets,teachers
Black bloggers who don't exist.
Who aren't important.
We don't network well.
We're too abrasive
We're not nice.
We don't read easy.
On a day when MSM around the world takes notice
Our allies our friends "stay silent" stay clipped only link to those of us who are safe .
Yes
We who don't exist
Who don't get hits
We make history.
Because our children,ALL of our children , are worth it.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Virtual March on Jena
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Beautiful post.
I feel like hugging you.
www.ultravioletunderground.com
(see sidebar for Virtual March info)
On a day when MSM around the world takes notice
Our allies our friends "stay silent" stay clipped only link to those of us who are safe .
Yes
We who don't exist
Who don't get hits
We make history.
Because our children,ALL of our children , are worth it.
That's deep.
Thanks, BA, for the passion you pour into your work and your blogging. It is a good day to be an anti-racist blogger in our little corner of blogland. The magic has fully burst onto the national stage and is making people talk and think. Which is good.
There's some great pictures of today's rally from CBS's online website here. Looks like a great turn out!
Beautiful post, and beautiful picture!
Because our children, ALL of our children, are worth it.
exactly
What an awesome post, BA. Wow . . .
I am queen of content sinking into my brain while www's and whose it was fails to take hold exactly - but - with that in mind, three things made me out of my fucking head with giddiness today. One, the way people showed up. And it excited me for exactly the same reason as you stated - it wasn't celebrities or pedestal-ed leaders (although both groups of folks may be fine), it was people had enough and said not on my fucking watch. Two, a post I read earlier where the blogger (and I know her name and blog am sorry that which one exactly of all the ones I love did not imprint as quickly as the post did) talked about a newspaper article discussing how this movement originated on blogs. And the article claimed it was all started by "hip hop blogs," and named a few black men also, a couple of them well known (like Mos Def). And the blogger I was reading said, ahem, yet again feminists = white and civil rights workers = men, and then named names of who actually got this ball rolling (Sylvia, among others) and also mentioned women in the Radical Women of Color Blogring the BFP started (like you, for ex.). And then she said at the end of the post that she sent a copy of the post to the person who wrote the newspaper article. And three, heard on the drive home from work that around 200 high school students in Watts walked out of class today and had their own march in support of the Jena Six, to a local college. God DAMN it I love young people.
howard witt responded. i'm assuming he's a white guy but a black guy would TOTALLY FORGET THE WOMEN TOO. HE SAID DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO INCLUDE THE LADIES:
"thanks for the link. certainly i understand that there are many women bloggers as well who are part of your movement, and i've corresponded with several of them. i just didn't have a chance yesterday to reach out to any of them in the brief time i had available to pull that story together.
regards,
howard witt"
my movement? he thought i was black. even though the woc and allies i mentioned were asian, black and white.
viva la humanidad!
P.S. It's probably already obvious from Donna's comments but Donna Darko is the poster I was referring to, and I hope it's okay that I post the link here:
http://leftistlooneylunch.blogspot.com/2007/09/hip-hop-music-blogs-my-ass-this-is.html
BA and Donna- You win.
A profoundly lovely post--one that captures the essence of the moment. I think our young people have found something they can embrace and make a difference in. This is most moving to me, that young people are picking up the torch and remembering hearing abut marches and speeches. The call went out and they responded--we responded. Whatever the outcome and I pray it is just, something has started and I sense that we are on a new path toward freedom.
Don't mean to be superficial, but love the pic...
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