(via “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
— Hugh LaurieMotto for 2013.
“Nothing is sacred to us, but the survival of our world.”
Revising this chapter was hard. Drawing this was hard, but I feel ok about it now that it’s up on the blog. This is an action-packed chapter with some nice character moments. I hope you enjoy it, if you’ve made it this far into the story! Next week is going to be, dare I say, epic. Philip comes back and I can’t wait to draw him again. :)
Read Chapter 37, “The Nonakian,” here: http://remanmyth.blogspot.com
FBI billboards not about Assata Shakur; it’s about repressing the black community
May 5, 2013Following the ludicrous announcement that the Obama administration has placed Assata Shakur on its “most wanted terrorist list”, the FBI has erected billboards in Newark, New Jersey announcing its recently increased $2 million dollar reward. However, any critically thinking person knows that these billboards are not about capturing Assata Shakur but sending a message to the rest of us.
Is Assata Shakur in New Jersey? No, she is not and the FBI and the Obama administration know exactly where she is, in Cuba where she has lived since being granted political asylum by its government in 1979 after escaping from prison.This is not about Assata Shakur, it is about sending a message to the Black community and those that live within it who stand up to police violence, oppression and murder of residents, one of the very reasons for the formation of the Black Panthers. It is about the political repression of those who advocate on the behalf of the many political prisons being held by the United States government often in torturous conditions. It is about sending a message to anyone who would take up arms in defense of life, liberty and true freedom in a country that is home to the largest prison population in the world which the federal government and various corporations use as slave labor. It is about sending a message to those that would dare stand up and point out that the US government is the most violent entity on the planet and one that commits acts of terrorism against non-white people and nations on behalf of maintaining the American imperialist status-quo.
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Monkey, alias Sun Wukong and Great Sage, Equal of Heaven, sat on a windswept rock outcropping halfway up a mountain and thought of murder. His flying cloud orbited his head in a slow arc, its normally bulbous and impossibly white curves having given way to a thin smear of stratus cloud-stuff. The cloud reflected Monkey’s mood and fed off his energy. It was blacker than the darkest night and threw off sharp blue sparks on every third turn over Monkey’s head.
Monkey on the mountainside | word…life
I wrote a story about Monkey. I hope you like it.
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Chuck D wasn’t saying that rap is non-fictional. He was saying that rap has non-fictional roots and that examining those roots is something that should be encouraged, not dismissed. Kanye rapping about trying to get a friend to hook him up with girls and that friend telling him to pump his brakes and drive slow — that’s real. 50 Cent saying that he’ll say anything to make his girl laugh, including “I love you like a fat kid loves cake” — that’s real. Killer Mike and NWA rapping about police brutality, Snoop and Kurupt slathering misogyny over funked out beats, Jean Grae kicking punchlines that make your head nod, Eminem talking about his relationship with his mother — those are all real, no matter how fictionalized they may be.
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y’all wanna talk about rap? let’s talk about rap
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DC Bombshells
Staaaaaahp
Omg, the Ivy.
Too cute. But obviously I think so, as I’m halfway through making the Wonder Woman. :D
I’d kill for a Black Canary, too! I hope I hope!
I would die for a Power Girl. But I cannot stop wanting that Ivy. And wanting to BE that Ivy.
Perfect Wonder Woman is perfect.
A judge has dismissed the indictment against the NYPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed teen in his Bronx home last year. The dismissal was for a technicality, as the Bronx DA’s office erroneously instructed members of the grand jury that they did not have to consider if Officer Richard Haste’s colleagues informed him that 18-year-old Ramarley Graham was armed.
“With no great pleasure, I am obliged in this case to dismiss the charges,” Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett said as he made his decision, according to DNAinfo.
Graham’s mother Constance Malcolm had to be removed from the courtroom after the judge announced his decision. Video from NY1 shows Malcolm screaming, “He killed my child! What more can you do to me?”
Charges Against Cop Who Killed Unarmed Teen Thrown Out On Technicality: Gothamist
I was actually surprised when I heard this news, and then I realized: this is business as usual.
Fear the police.
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The best answer exists itself in the form of a question: Why do all the white students sit together at the same tables? No one ever asked that, because such seating arrangements were “normal.” You don’t question ten tables of nearly all white children dining. You question the one or two with nearly all black children dining.
A half-dozen Kern County sheriff’s deputies were across the street beating a man with clubs and kicking him, she said. So she whipped out her mobile phone and began to video the episode, announcing to the officers what she was doing.
For about eight minutes, Ms. Melendez said, the man screamed and cried for help. Then he went silent, she said, making only choking sounds.
Finally, having hogtied him, a number of witnesses said, two officers picked up the man and dropped him, twice. One deputy nudged the man with his foot. When he did not respond, they began CPR.
“He was like a piece of meat,” said Ms. Melendez, 53, who was visiting her son at the hospital after he was injured in a car accident. “We were telling them: ‘He’s dead. You guys already killed him.’ ”
Responding to a call, deputies had arrived at the scene to find the man, David Sal Silva, a 33-year-old father of four, on the pavement. Their attempts to rouse him resulted in the altercation, the authorities said. Mr. Silva was pronounced dead less than an hour later at Kern Medical Center.
Fatal Encounter With Police Is Caught on Video, but Kept From the Public - NYTimes.com
the cops who murdered this guy are not only still drawing a paycheck, but they’re still on duty.
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