By Teka Lark On August 14, the N.W.A. biopic, “Straight Outta of Compton,” will be released in theaters nationwide. It is being distributed by Universal Pictures, one of the largest film distribution companies in the world and which is owned by NBCUniversal which in turn is owned by Comcast/General Electric. I remember the casting call:…
Tag: Capitalism
The Scary Gangsters of South Central Los Angeles
By Teka Lark In South Central Los Angeles there is a gang war going on, but not the one they are writing about. There will be #100days100nights of terror, because every day a person gets foreclosed on in South Central. Everyday a person loses their job and every day someone joins the ranks of our…
Gangs, God and the Great Society
Never married women poverty rate in the U.S. is 21%. Married women poverty rate in the U.S. is 6%. You compare women without children the poverty rate for unmarried women in the U.S. is 18% and the poverty rate for married women without children is 4%.
That smells like sexism to me.
Nonprofits: The Drug of Choice for Social Justice Junkies
Nonprofits are the cheap perfume on the sociopath drug dealer that is capitalism.
Private industry will not fund nonprofits enough to do anything, but to prepare to write more grants to foundations and to go to more parties for networking.
Instead of making change, nonprofits beg for change.
Black Women #STAN for Black Women
By Jess Lee Black women count on Black women. Fact. The solidarity that is Black womanhood requires a reach across class, education, socioeconomic status, orientation and cis-ness. Black woman solidarity means —survival. In this white supremacist system that leeches our self-worth, our actual fiscal worth —and sometimes, in the most tragic cases, our lives, we…
African American Designers M.I.A.
By Terri Naturally As I turn the pages of Vogue magazine or skim through fashion show pictures on Style.com, I am forced to acknowledge the huge elephant in mind. This elephant represents the notion that there are minimal African American fashion designers hardly ever featured or recognized in the fashion world. Designers such as Kevan…
Oxi is No in Greek
By Teka Lark Greece just voted “no” to more austerity measures proposed by international creditors (banks) and that’s great. Greece is no crisis. Greece is a revolution against the banks, imperialism and capitalism. Greece owes about $300 billion and apparently some organization wants that money back. Just for reference, according to Reuters Citibank got a…
Marx, White Supremacy and the Left
By Teka Lark There is a saying, “The white man’s water is colder.” That saying references how within white supremacy white people’s pain, ideas and creativity are more real than non-white people’s. In many progressive circles (especially communist leaning) when you bring up anti-black racism you’ll often hear it dismissed as a symptom. There is…
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