So on one of my last post, I admitted that I am sick of hearing about MLK especially last week & some of you went there with me.
As we all know, MLK was not the first, last or only Negro that has dome something for other Negroes in the Americas or within the Diaspora.
Now I would like to call you out & ask, if you could fill the chair below with one little know, hardly discussed or widely know Negro past or present who was down for the uplifting of Negroes (fuck other groups for now, PC is out the window) who would it be? What would you ask or say?
Me first! I would put Alex Haley in my chair. I would ask him why in the fuck did her let them turn “Queen” into a damn movie! Or maybe I would fill my chair with with Colin Pwell so that I could ask him if he ever wanted to bitch slap the shit out of George Bush…
dcsavvystar / April 7, 2008
I would put Toni Morrison in my chair. I want to ask her why she said Bill Clinton was the first black president….. After all those good books that I read in and out of college. Why oh why did you say he was the first??
Darius T. Williams / April 7, 2008
Damn man – I have so many people I want to ask questions to. Dayum, so many people…
Malik / April 7, 2008
Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University. He is one of the most brilliant thinkers I’ve ever had the privilege of reading and listening to. I’ll never forget a speech he gave at a conference that I was attending where he described having a white man stomp on his head till his ears bled for daring to ask for correct change at a store. He used the story to make the point that when a state takes away all rights and status from any group, they’ve been “niggerized”, and “niggerization” is something that we can never let happen to any group of people, anywhere. He’s one of my personal heroes.
Lola Gets / April 7, 2008
Man, Id pay good money to see Colin bitch-slap the Bushes!
One person Id like to see in that chair is Callie House, a Black woman who was born into slavery. She became the head of the Ex-Slavery Reparations Movement in the late 1800s and worked for that cause for some decades. Im reading a book about her now. Its seriously making me rethink my position on reparations.
L
Erica C. / April 7, 2008
Steve Bantu Biko. I would ask him how would he view the(BCM) Black Conscious Movement for our people of Africa now than from when he was taking part in it’s struggle and assassinated for it.
Carla / April 7, 2008
I was gonna ask whether or not the person had to be African American, but since Erica C listed Steve Biko, I guess my choice is ok too. 🙂
I’d choose Nanny of the Maroons.
http://www.jamaicaway.com/Heroes/NannyPage.html
And I’d ask her to teach me how to retain such strength, such (seemingly) supernatural power!
Danielle / April 7, 2008
Toussaint L’Ouverture. He was a slef-educated slave,defeated Napolean and drove him Haiti & helped to establish the 1st Black Democracy in the hemisphere.
jose / April 7, 2008
Carlos Cooks. i.e. Mr. “Buy Black”
Smitty / April 8, 2008
I gotta roll with my boy Halie Salassie I AKA Rass Tafari I would like to know how it feels to be considered a Mesiah to the Rastas I also think it’s dope he was the leader of am African counrty that has never been colonized by a European nation. But we never hear about our real black heroes in HIStory. Nat Turner would be a close 2nd tho.
Bygbaby / April 8, 2008
Wow, you all are coming with some great ones!
DCSaavy Star – Are you think Toni is in need of a bitch slap for that one?
Darius – Come one man, pull one out!!!
Malik – I have never heard of Dr. Lincoln & his story sounds incredible. Thx for putting him on my radar!
Lola – Hmmmm reparations! I am for them but not in the form of cash payouts! Niggas would not know how to act with large sums of money. We all know!
Erica C – Oh good one!
Carla – We need more Nanny[s] today!
Danielle – Toussaint L’Ouverture would be awesome. It is really sad to see Haiti in the state that it is in today. I am sure that Toussaint is turning in his grave because the legacy he left all but faded. Will there ever be another?
Jose – Uh oh, are you going Black Nationalist on me???
Smitty – Rastafarianism is very interesting. To think a man of modern history has been lifted to glorification is intriguing. I would need to sit in on that conversation. And Nat, that would be off the hook.
This conversations goes to show that we are more that MLK, RP, MX & other notable Negroes, especially throughout the Diaspora. Thx for thinking out of the US box!!!
Keep em coming & who’s next?
Bygbaby
Lola Gets / April 8, 2008
@Byg
Dude, all Im saying is google Nellie House, get the book and read it. It just might change your mind too.
Im bout to type a post here, but let me just say this…The Feds/former slaves tried that “education & housing” benifits shit instead of cash payouts, and where has that gotten anyone? Seriously??
Just read the book!
🙂
L
ingridspeak / April 8, 2008
I would like to ask Cinque from the Amistad revolt to have a seat and I’d ask him what (in his opinion) happened to the “fight” in black people. There was an urgency to freedom for men like him, now there is no urgency for anything but money and “stuff”.
muslimahlocs / April 11, 2008
amos wilson (author of blueprint for black power), but i would not ask any questions. i would just listen because anything the brother could or would say would be knowledge.
and kwame nkrumah, too many quetions but definately about crabs in barrel and how to avoid them.
i suppose i could have picked a woman or a muslim but i just abhor identity politics (lol).