Because Mumia is a black man and intelligent they want to keep him locked up
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I'm still saddened by the injustice that my black brothers and sisters still get all over the world. I pray for Mumi' release.  Because Mumia is a black man and intelligent they want to keep him locked up, the FBI knows Mumia did not kill that cop, but they hate black people so bad they rather frame a black man for a crime he did not commit. But when a black man gets killed its jusr a black man dead. Why isn't John Zimmerman  in jail for murder?  We want equal justice for all!
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How could a free man fall into the hands of such scoundrels and wind up a slave for 12 years?
This story is one that cannot be put down once begun. If a student is in earnest to read an account for Black History Month, this would be the one book to read. As a first person account it is simply chilling beyond comprehension.
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Take all the potential murders and gang members and every other troublemaker out in the world, lock them in the room and force them to watch the 6 seasons and every episode of Oz.  I think it would be a great deterrent, far better than the threat of capital punishment to make these men and women to think twice about prison.  I love the actors and the acting that is done.
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I think this book would help a lot of black people get away from the bondage of christianity; especially black women who makeup 70% of the black church. Zuri goes in on how her love for Jesus was more special to her than her own family, he even cause her relationship to fail, her business; and even her sanity. definitely a good read for those trap in religion.
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whitaker is a"ghost" hitman for the mafia. they turn on him and then the fun begins as he goes into "stealth" and takes them on. they never see him coming...neither will you!!!
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A YOUNG STREET THUG LANDS IN JAIL. SOON AFTER HE ESCAPES WITH A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS, HE AND HIS FRIENDS THEN LAND IN TROUBLE WITH A RUTHLESS DRUG DEALER. I LIKE HOW THIS MOVIE SHOWS THAT BLACKS AND LATINOS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES WHO MESS AROUND IN THE STREETS. OCCASIONALLY, THERE ARE SOME SLOW SPOTS, BUT THE SECOND HOUR MAKES UP FOR ALL THE BORING SCENES. I'D SAY THIS IS WORTH WATCHING.
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A fantastic play from Ngugi and Kamiriithu, the group who put the play on. Ngugi talks of this play in 'Decolonising the Mind' and 'Detained,' his prison diary that he wrote after being incarcerated for a year due to his involvement with writing the play. After reading it, it is understandable why the Kenyan government felt threatened by it - it talks candidly about neocolonialism, is filled with Gikuyu songs and proverbs, and chants the message of the famous Mau Mau rebellion. In short, it is a reminder for and by the people that Kenya IS the people and will never be anything less.
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Ava a "Mafia Princess" she was taken and made a slave. Kane "The Muscle" was looking for a new job and now he has her for safe keeping. He hate his new job but he is going to do everything to set her and the others free! Kane is not a Valetti by blood but he earns his way in!
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I would strongly recommend this book to anyone trying to understand why the Black Community is so angry.

The book is an interesting expansion on some of the topics discussed in "Slavery by Another Name".  Where "Slavery" discusses how Southern Whites used control of the courts and incarceration of Blacks to reestablish control, this book discusses how the laws were written which disenfranchised the entire Black Community including residential restrictions, voting restrictions, education, financial security, property ownership and other aspects of life most take for granted.  After each court win, the establishment created new laws or created propaganda which continued to subjugate the Black Population.

As an individual who grew up in the South and graduated from high school in 1966 I was well aware of the segregate school systems.  What I did not realize was the abject difference in access and quality of education between the two races.  As the book expounds, we as a country wasted 150 years of potential talent and contributions because of the roadblocks created to stop Black education.

My only reservation is the tenuous tie the author makes between crack and the black community.  Although the author successfully ties the government supported sale of drugs in the United States to attempts to fund revolutionary efforts in South America, the targeting of the Black Community is a little tenuous.
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the theatrical promos show a black man with a half naked white girl at his feet in chains, sort of a reverse slavery picture only of course this black man has really GOOD intentions for the white girl in chains, one wonders if the racial roles were reversed showing a white man with a black girl in chains at his feet, of course being white he would not be so unselfishly benevolant.

i mean please, the title itself should be a give away, BLACK SNAKE? whats the movie got to do with a snake?  MOAN? the sexual refrence is obvious except to the most obtuse.  this is whats now called 'playing the race card' or black exploitation film.

besides that its a film about a man who has no training in counseling, no training, in psychology, a man who couldn't keep his own marriage together being so arrogant as to believe he could 'help' someone with a serious mental disorder, (or not depending on your view) by chaining her up.

his own mental issues and internal fantasy world in which he finds he must help this half naked girl to find his own personal redemption should be the real story.

so what qualifies this person to be the great saviour of wayward nymphets?  well he is or was a musician, and we all know of course that musicians can accomplish what others can only dream of doing.  this movie reminds me of a book variable star that promotes the near deification of musicians, but in that book which is full of 'trained' counselors no one thinks twice about the girl who is going to have sex with everyman on the space ship before the journeys end.  our gal in chains was born too soon to be a fully accepted nymphet, in our time she's fair game to be humiliated, chained, and her mind altered by a blues musician to get her 'normal' again.

how about for black snake II he chain up a 'gay man' to cure him of his promiscuous ways?  black snake III will be lesbians, then Iv will be chronic masturbators.  oh the possiblities.

this movie isn't just bad, its absurd.
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I BOUGHT THE BOOK TO ASSESS THE MENTAL CONDITION OF THE WANNA BE AUTHOR

A fake Afrikan desc who is still struggling to get his ignorant thoughts out. Not only is jackson a race traitor i find that (do your research) any Afrikan regardless of his ethnicity etc who demeans another Afrikan while supporting the sons of slave masters ie joe the plumner)  newt to toot gingrich ,sarah air head  Palin et/al gets no respect. And deserves none

People claim that the state of the economy is the Potus fault, however if anyone who has a drop of savvy remembers those 8 yrs under the bushwackers leadership how many jobs skills  intelligence and people were injured by the Bushwackers terrible decisons duh!!!
Normally (although there are always other Afrikan des race traitors) those who will buy the  toilet paper have a selfish agenda and will buy it for reason unlike my own> Because they too are RACISTS hate themselves and even if they voted for the Potus in 2008, they did so because they knew that amerikkka had be jealous want a job with the Gov and will do anything to undermine BO

If u read and pay attn you will overstand that little boy jackson has been bought hook line and sinker and that the white woman he lays with controls him like an alligator controls the swamps in southern Fla. Read and re-read the language he uses to describe the POTUS his wife and thier children..Overstand the jealousy, failures and sadness that comes from a man "without a country" or a sane following  Research him and overstand how he lives where he lives who controls him and then watch his next move
 If the repugs/scalawags get back in 2016 it will be "slavery by another name ( good book)
Having said that, meet me on Pa Ave in 2013 when we watch Michelle and Barak again..

PS oh and there might be a Hillary this time lmao,I think jackson will still be broke like the race traitor he is
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. isn't one of my favorite black historians, but I'll give him a thumbs up on this DVD. Black history in Latin countries is an avoided subject. I saw the show on PBS, and I decided to buy this DVD. It shows the African contributions to Latin America that many people don't know about or deny it outright. Maybe Mr. Gates will get a chance to do a few more Latin nations.

 The DVD is 4 hours long. He talks about 6 Latin nations and their African roots and slavery: Haiti, The Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil. Mexico, and Peru. The DVD talks about the racism that still exist in these nations today.  Anyone who is interested in black history should purchase this DVD. I recommend it.
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The Kingdom of This World loosely traces the life of Ti Noel, a solitary Negro who is a slave first under the yoke of a heartless white man, then under the infinitely more brutal reign of a former Negro slave, and finally, upon attaining old age and discovering the voodoo magic that is inherent in all Haiti men, he becomes a slave to his own flesh, to the ideals of humanity, and to the artificial thoughts and designs of man.

  Carpentier's writing evokes an older time, we can practically feel the sun-drenched lakes and the harsh yellow earth of Noel's homeland. The French are the masters here, they herd Negroes about as cattle, using them to build, to tend, to feed, to nurture. Unmarried French men have no problem with using a Negro woman for a 'bed-warmer', and even less with throwing her to the meanest and darkest jobs available once their marriage is secured. Uprisings are common, and carry the hint of the magical about them, but eventually, the French always seem to prevail. Until the one armed insurgent, Macandal. Using ancient magic, he poisons the French, killing hundreds in an unseen storm of death that spares no-one, not the women, not the children. When he is finally apprehended, he uses magic to escape and the Negroes laugh at the hopeless French, while the white men look on, puzzled, at the 'callous black men' laughing as their leader dies.

  Noel manages to secure freedom from slavery when he is an old man, and he returns to the place where he was first a slave, where he first met Macandal, to see what has become of this place. There, King Henri Christophe, a self-proclaimed Negro king who does little more than imitate court-life of the Europeans, is building a towering citadel with the blood of other Negroes. Noel is horrified that a black man would enslave another black man, and what is worse is that the King's dealings with the slaves are much more severe and unforgiving than the white men ever were. It is here that a mirror is placed up to the Negroes, Noel does not like what he sees.

  The writing is very illustrative; scenes and times are painted in our mind's eyes with ease. The narrator manages to place himself very far away from the narration, unwilling to pass judgment on either the black men or the white, instead reserving this to the reader. Noel himself is never used as a mere mouthpiece for the author's ideas, instead he is the observer, from youth to old age, from sadness to sadness. When he discovers magic and tries to introduce himself into the animal's way of life, he does not succeed, and is instead forced to learn how to be a human living amongst humans, no matter how unfair, how violent, how short-sighted they may be.

  But this distance hurts the novel, too. Since the narrator never really enters the minds and hearts of the characters, we are left with largely ambiguous motives. Also, the voodoo of the Negroes is something that was lost on me, and I was unable to ascertain whether this extensive witchcraft was used as a writing tool to display good, evil, or neither. The shortness of the novel is actually a hindrance, as too little time is spent fleshing out scenes that might benefit from it. However, in the end, this novel serves as a wonderful fable of what it is to be a man living in a world that he may not agree with, as well as illuminating some of the darker periods of history that we have experienced.
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Here is a tragedy to see what the white Nationalist government did in South Africa.  Now the black led ANC is trying to show what corruption and greed can do to keep the general population from getting jobs or getting ahead.  Is there an answer?  My hopes are on Mmusi Maimane to keep setting the stage for a country where everyone has an equal opportunity.  He just needs to get elected to President.
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All Things Censored
Mumia Abu-Jamal has not only a good oratory style, but also writes vividly and convincingly. Mumia has a rare perspective, as his background as a reporter and his long and unjust incarceration give him an understanding of the political economy of the media, which serves to silence dissent, and the prejudice of the trial and punishment system. This book is essential for anyone who has an interest in US politics, justice, the issue of the death penalty and Mumia's case in particular. It is also an excellent insight into modern American society - the aspect that we are discouraged from seeing by politicians and the media. Any person who has a grasp of America's recent history knows all about police brutality, the oppression of minorities and the choking conformity of censorship, but rarely has a writer conveyed all of this so clearly. If this book is inflammatory, it is only because that is the rightful response to an injustice of the magnitude Mumia has been subjected to. His case encapsulates the blatant and ruthless prejudice of the police and the courts, and their highly pervasive and authoritarian grip on mainstream media discourse. His case echoes that of Nigeria's Ken Saro-Wiwa, and it would be to America's shame if he were to pay the same price for his dissent. Don't believe the corporate-controlled mass media - reject censorship. Find out the facts of Mumia's case and then decide.
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It dropped a 280 lb.  assailant  and he crapped his pants. He was down for nearly  3 minutes, until the police came and arrested him. It turns out he was wanted for several issues, involving theft, and robbery. I believe he will be teased in jail!
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Wakanda is recovering from various turmoils as their king tries to get a grip against the revolutionaries.

There's a great deal of rich potential in this setting but it isn't fully realized.