The Race Card's Blog – January 2017 Archive (14)

After being wrongly described as a “Moroccan Muslim”, news came that the terrorist shooting at a Quebec City mosque that left 6 people dead was allegedly committed by far-right radical, Alexandre Bissonnette, a 27-year-old white Trump and Marine Le Pen supporter. After the shooting, Eric Debroise called the police and told them Bissonnette is “very right and (an) ultra-nationalist white supremacist,” …

Thanks to the fuckery that was 2016’s election, white people everywhere have found it necessary to differentiate themselves from Trump voters, or ‘bad whites’, but we here at QUNTFRONT know — any white person can be full of white nonsense, no matter where they think they stand politically (see…

While speaking with Melissa Harris-Perry at the Women’s March in DC this weekend, activist/writer/educator Angela Davis discussed global oppression, progress, “historical mindedness”, and the contradictions of supporting a black President who, at times, did little for black and brown liberation. Davis took this time to champion the freedom of political prisoners such as Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and of course Assata Shaku, concluding “I think what feminism has…

Breaking from the normal celebrity cover, Ebony Magazine’s Febuarary cover story image is an ‘American Gothic’-inspired illustration of a hopeful black family looking into the future of Trump’s America asking us,: how and if black American can survive and thrive in what’s sure to be a turbulent time? Speculatively? Through intersectional leadership and goals and radical black love. “It’s time to build LGBTQ, feminist coalitions led by people of color—Black, Latinx, First…

In the wake of icon Prince's untimely death, Rev. Al Sharpton revealed to NYDaily News that Trayvon Martin’s family was one of those who the late-singer secretly donated money to. “I will never forget when he [Prince] called me and said he had some funds he wanted to give to Trayvon Martin’s family... Just out of the blue Just…

Read an excerpt from Michael Eric Dyson*’s new book ‘Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America’:



The election of President Trump was all about whiteness. How whiteness is ingeniously adaptable to a gross variety…

"Spread the word. Have you heard? All across the nation. We are going to be a great generation."

On Friday, January 13, 2017, 8-year-old Yolanda Renee King stood front and center before a crowd of schoolchildren in the sanctuary at The Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the very place where her grandfather, Martin Luther King Jr., once delivered messages of justice, love, unity and freedom. She embodied the spirit of her grandfather, Martin Luther King Jr.,…

Woke

adj.



1. The incorrect tense of being awake

2. Being aware of what’s going on and prepared to do something about it.

3. A state of perceived intellectual superiority one gains by reading articles by people who read books by people who actually read “The Isis Papers.”



As Black America collectively enters into a new age of consciousness facilitated by increased access to information, changing demographics and a pussy-grabbing dictator…

Black girl magic is already abundant in 2017! Next May, Dr. Jeanette Epps is set to become the first African-American astronaut to become a crew member of the International Space Station. A native of Syracuse, NY, Epps attended LeMoyne College and attained a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1992 before earning her master’s of science and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. Epps was a fellow with the NASA Graduate Student Researchers Project…

The life and works of revolutionary psychoanalyst and post-colonial philosopher Frantz Fanon will soon be the subject of a new documentary. Born in Martinique, Fanon’s prolific work psychoanalyzed racial oppression and how oppressed groups survive in and navigate White Society. One of his most important pieces, ‘Black Skin, White Masks’, through a…

Yesterday the Black section of the internet was abuzz with the “Hotep Hostilities” about this video from “General” Sara Suten Seti and this video from “Dr.” Umar Johnson. They are calling it the “Woke War,” the “Uncle Ruckus Fracas,” The “Kemet Conflict.” Although the dueling videos are entertaining enough in and of themselves, many people don’t know the backstory about this feud. That’s why NegusWhoRead is here.



Who is Umar Johnson?

Jermaine…