“When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.” CultureBlackComedyMediaBehaviorIntellectualResponseSatireArchitectMainstreamInvasionMainstream MediaBlack Comedy Author:John Cusack
“I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.” IfsNeedsYearsMeanStatesGovernmentLastsValuesStrongBlackCommunityJusticeUnitedResponseUniversityExpectingLast YearFederal GovernmentStatuesCivilityMississippiI Am Thankful Author:James Meredith
“I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.” ThinkingKindBlackCommunityViolencePoliceResponseCampaignsTrialsSensibilityBlack CommunityPolice ViolenceOj Simpson Author:Angela Davis
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“I am more of a conservationist, myself. And people have come to me and said, "Wow, you're an African-American conservationist!" And my response is, "No, I'm a conservationist who happens to be black."” PeopleSaidHappensBlackResponseAfrican AmericanWow Author:Jerome Ringo