"The memory of oppressed people cannot be taken away and for such people revolt is always an inch below the surface." - Howard Zinn
Even The Rain movie trailer (Via.)
I love Slick Rick, but this song is racist as . . .
Slick Rick - Indian Girl (An Adult Story).
"Freedom isn't given - it's taken / Freedom isn't free (It's earned) / Not known, it's learned / [...]" - Chrisette Michele
Chrisette Michele Feat. Talib Kweli & Black Thought - Let Freedom Reign.
"America the beautiful, suspect as usual / liberty and death, give me freedom or a funeral / I walk across the planet with the steps of a giant / my rhymes bridge the gap between religion and science / cause my evidence is spiritual / I know my sheer presence is a miracle / I wasn't supposed to be here to share with you / but here I am, standing with my chest out / I take my place in history I never get left out / you stressed out and scared so it's causing you to act hard / freedom ain't free, gotta put it on my black card / my passport claim I'm an American citizen / the constitution and three-fifths / I'm not a simian gorilla / make my songs stronger than the horn of Gideon / truth is [settlers(?)] gave the native people syphilis / consider this: Christopher Columbus ain't know where he was goin' / so let's stop calling our native brothers Indians." - Talib Kweli
"We were carried here in shackles from the homelands / [...] all I'm trying to do is stay true to my community / the daily news ain't the only thing schooling me / watching these haters operating with impunity / running out of time, out of sight, out of mind / it gets realer and it's real in Palestine / troubles of the world start to seem intertwined / war criminals, conflict minerals, pillagers are coming home / and five star generals telling lies in press conferences and interviews / I'm trying to take back the power because it's been abused." - Black Thought
[REPOST]
Lupe Fiasco Feat. Jay-Z - Sittin' Sideways (Verse Remix).
"I seen 'em brawl for it, right on the wall for it / get kicked out the mall for it, run from the law for it / see things they should've never saw for it / long as it all well, Almighty, alrighty, they all for it, uh / Blackhawk fitted, get hit in the jaw for it / blue and black, - Lupe Fiasco (2nd Verse)
Also, rare photos of "uncontacted tribes" here (Yahoo news article) or here (Survival International; a charitable organization that attempts to help indigenous people worldwide maintain their traditional lifestyles and assert their aboriginal/treaty rights).
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Click here to take action for uncontacted tribes if you care to.
(Pocahontas, like Sambo, is a racial stereotype.)
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