Tagged: back to Africa

“A better word to use than separation is independence. This word separation is misused. The thirteen colonies separated from England but they called it the Declaration of Independence; they don’t call it the Declaration of Separation, they call it the Declaration of Independence. When you’re independent of someone you can separate from them. If you can’t separate from them it means you’re not independent of them.” — Malcolm X

Source: Malcolm X. By Any Means Necessary. pg. 9. Interview with A. B. Spellman on March 19, 1964, published in the May 1964 issue of Monthly Review.

“The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.” — Marcus Garvey

“Thomas Jefferson was fully aware of what the long-term impact of enslavement would be on white people and black people and everyone in between that were confused. He talked about the horror associated with what slave masters did and that their children imitated the behavior among their friends and younger children that were enslaved. And that that built into a sickness on the part of Europeans and hatred and antipathy on the part of Africans. [Jefferson’s] greatest fear is that it would end in [the] extermination of one or the other race. He says because God cannot side with us — meaning Europeans — in this contest. He cannot side with us, which means God will side with them. He says, ‘I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever.’ So Thomas Jefferson not only knew at the time, the wrongness associated [with slavery] and recognized the long-term impact that it would it would have. These are his words — I’m not making this up. But somehow, it gets absent of the curriculum. Somehow, it gets removed and we talk about all the other things that he was able to expound upon. And I think that if we’re talking about healing, if we’re talking about a response, we have to look and understand historically, how the injury transmitted itself [and] what it looks like then [and] now and then contrast that with Africa.” — Dr. Joy De Gruy

i needed to see this!

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My primary reasons for fighting this nearly four year case was never about money — it’s always been about the principle. I honestly believed while working at William Morris that I was a victim of pre and post-hiring individual disparate treatment based on my race, color and/or perceived national origin. The truth, and the law, have overwhelmingly been on my side, so I knew that I could never “lose” this case unless the truth was being ignored and the law was being subverted by the “impartial” finder of fact. I take pride in doing something no one has ever done before or had the courage to do: put this racist Hollywood institution’s 116 year pattern and continuing practice of racial discrimination against African Americans on blast to the entire world. That’s why for me, I had already “won” by writing a well written and extremely detailed Complaint and submitting it to Southern District of New York without being represented by an attorney. To do that not only required confidence in myself, but an unwavering belief and faith that God would and will ultimately see me through to victory.

As of right now, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight due to the overwhelming amount of fraud that has occurred, but I will not stop fighting until William Morris, their counsel (e.g. Michael P. Zweig and Christian Carbone of Loeb & Loeb LLP) and other co-conspirators (e.g. Dentons LLP, the American Arbitration Association, Timothy K. Lewis, etc.)  acknowledge their wrongs, apologize and are fully held accountable for their egregious crimes against humanity in a court of law.