“Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.” ― Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Synopsis of the film: Quilombo, Carlos Diegues’ historical saga, is a stirring fusion of folklore, political impact, and dynamic storytelling, realized in vibrant tropical colors and set to pulsating beat of Gilberto Gil’s rhythmic musical score. The story derives from fact: in 17th-century Brazil, groups of runaway black slaves escaped to mountainous jungle strongholds, where they formed liberated self-governing communities known as Quilombos. Like the movie roots, this film chronicles Palmares, the most famous of these “black Eldorado’s” which flourished for several decades under the reign of the legendary chieftain Ganga Zumba.
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SUPPLEMENTAL:Between the Law and Their Land_ Afro-Brazilian Quilombo Communities’ Struggle for Land Rights
“He had an IQ of 168. He entered Harvard at age of 16. He became an assistant professor at UC Berkeley at the age of 25. (For reference, most people wouldn’t have even finished a PhD by then.)” Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Ted-Kaczynski-become-a-terrorist
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“Double-consciousness is a concept in social philosophy referring, originally, to a source of inward “twoness” putatively experienced by African-Americans because of their racialized oppression and devaluation in a white-dominated society. The concept is associated with William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, who introduced the term into social thought in his groundbreaking The Souls of Black Folk (1903).”From the article below.
“Amiri Baraka, a BAM founder, wrote: We felt (and I still do feel) that Afro American people were and are still involved in a war. A war for Self Determination, Self Respect and Self Defense. It is a war for equal rights and democracy. But how can we press this struggle to victory if we suffer form a Double consciousness (Bracey et. al 17).” (From The Black Arts Movement’s Attack on W.E.B. Du Bois’ Theory of Double Consciousness by Tony Lindsay)
SUPPLEMENTAL II: WEB Du Bois Criticizes Capitalism
W.E.B. DuBois Speaks! Socialism and the American Negro. The venerable W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), historian and activist, gives an address to the Wisconsin Socialist Club in Madison on socialism and the struggle of Black people in America. This speech was given on April 9, 1960 when DuBois was over 90 years of age and just months before his removal to Africa where he died Ghana on August 27, 1963 at the age of 95. In the speech Du Bois asserts that African Americans must learn the truth about socialism that they may “preserve their culture, get rid of poverty, ignorance and disease, and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
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