#black power media

[jdsoundbite]

Turn Off "The News".1: Black Power Media on Paul Robeson

Turn Off “The News”.1: Black Power Media on Paul Robeson

I’m starting a new series of posts here to express appreciation for and link to pieces published online by some of my favorite sources of news, information and analysis. The title refers to the difference between these sources and what is conventionally understood as “The News,” ie, mainstream outlets like NPR and the New York Times, CNN or Fox, MSNBC or CBS>NBC<ABC etc., and PBS Newshour as…

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#Black Panther Party #Black Power Media #Dr. Jared Ball #Gerald Horne #Internal colonialism theory #Jay-Z #Kanye West #Kwame Ture #New York Times #NPR #Paul Robeson #Richard Nixon #Snoop Dogg #Socialism

[lyfestile]

Happy Martin Luther King Day

#MLK #Martin Luther King jr #Jared ball #black power media #Youtube

[queenstallion1]

Megan Thee Stallion🤎🤎

#megan thee stallion #meg thee stallion #thee stallion #rap #hip hop #female rap artist #female rapper icons #female rappers #tina snow #htownhottie #social media #instgram #megantheestallionedit #black woman icons #black woman power

[miss-lauryn-hill]

THE NEW EDITION STORY (2017)

#the new edition story #new edition #userfilm #black tumblr #cinemapix #algee smith #caleb mclaughlin #woody mcclain #tyler marcel williams #keith powers #myles truitt #bryshere gray #bryshere y gray #yazz the greatest #dante hoagland #elijah kelley #jahi di'allo winston #black media #my gifs: movies

[7amaspayrollmanager]

I think the discourse is coming from this idea that there is "over praise" for Aaron. Here's the thing uh.... the news wanted to cover it up we didn't let it bc we knew it was gonna hurt biden. I don't see over praising even palestinians I follow have critiqued the response thanking Aaron but also asking ppl to put this much support for palestinian resistance but to say "I wouldn't give so much as a thought to aaron much less a thank you" okay?? That's your prerogative??? But don't wilfully misunderstand why palestinians are capitalizing on spreading his message and video

#logged out of twitter again #im not speaking about the rest in power thing bc thats actually meaningful critique thats a phrase reserved for black people #but im talking about other arabs mostly diaspora mocking ppl making posts about aaron #the biden admin and the news want this under the wraps and we got to hear cnn call israelis colonizers bc of the social media storm bc of it

[blackcat419]

Tell me you don’t understand the medieval setting without telling me you don’t understand the medieval setting

BT: omg consistent laws on who gets power is basically supporting slavery!

At this point I can only laugh

If you must know why keeping consistent laws around power transfers are important, I’ll draw a little comparison. Imagine if the US president decided that Joe Shmo from Canada will be the next US president without any election. That’s basically what Viserys did in medieval terms. Does it look weird to modern people? Yeah, but when you actually put yourself in that time frame you understand why having consistent laws creates stability and avoids war. Like how the inconsistent handoff of power from Viserys to his kids caused war!

#house of the dragon #hotd #hotd discussion #tb has no media literacy #literally comparing how power handoffs are handled to supporting slavery #anti team blackcels #anti team black

[simeonscott]

"I may be old, but I can still pull it off!"

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[currently-getting-a-diagnosis]

Engaging with my current special interest or hyperfixation while eating has helped me get down food a lot easier. Just thought I'd share that in case it helped anyone else.

#i literally couldn't pick up thr fork because i felt like gagging #i read an atsv analysis and all of a sudden food was tolerable again #crazy what how much a piece of media has power over me #arfid #arfid tag #tism tips #autism things #actually autistic #autistic #autistic black girl #autism #jay's tism thoughts #autizzy

[skyarly]

Wonder what would happen if sonic was given all of those funky magic gems in the series at once. I'm talkin chaos emeralds, time stones, chaos gems, the paradox prism, all of em. He'd be like Super Duper Sonic it'd be awesome

#He'd be like Biblically Accurate Sonic #it'd be incredible #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic cd #sonic boom #sonic prime #even the eighth emerald sonic the fighters had for some reason #the black chaos emerald that's in a couple sonic medias #the fake emerald in SA2 #the super emeralds at the same time as the chaos emeralds #how many gems can we power the hedgehog with #I'm thinking about drawing it I'm thinking about it

[bravecrab]

Part of recuperating social justice within media is that the media is almost never intersectional, instead opting to deal with one of the intersecting systems of oppression. Race, gender, class, etc.

By choosing to deal with an individual system, the protagonist/antagonist duality means that there are always heroes and villains. Blacks vs whites. Women vs men. Gays vs straights. Poor vs rich. The issue with this is that it kills solidarity, separating the intersectional struggles into individual ones with individual perpetrators (the whites, the men, the straights) rather than the actual perpetrators (the ruling class who made their family wealth through colonialism and exploitation of everyone outside of the ruling class).

These single issue depictions perpetuate infighting within the ranks of the non-ruling class. A film that celebrates women against patriarchy gets read as misandry by indoctrinated men. A film that celebrates black and brown lives againsts white supremacy gets read as reverse racism by indoctrinated whites. A film that celebrates queer liberation against cisheteronormativity gets read as the gay agenda by indoctrinated cishets. A film that celebrates the working class against the wealthy gets read as Socialism (derogatory) by indoctrinated middle class. And I say "indoctrinated" in the sense that they have been socialized not to question why they have gifted privilege within the social hierarchies they have been placed in, and how that hierachical placement, in the middle between the ruling class and the most exploited at the bottom, means that they are an enforcing buffer that keeps the systems working and the ruling class safe from retribution.

All this isn't to say that films that tackle social issues are some kind of cointelpro psyop, controlled by Big Media (with all the anti-semetic connotations that kind of conspiracy thinking brings), but the point is that by not addressing the intersectional nature of the true struggle, these single issue stories are always going to alienate potential allies by seperating all victims within the underclass into warring tribes. The way we can use this media as a tool in our own favour is to use them collectively as a curriculum, and provide the intersectional context to hopefully break the indoctrination that is keeping solidarity from growing.

#keep in mind that there is also the issue that all mainstream media are products within capitalism which means their primary purpose is #to further increase the wealth and power of the ruling class #barbie #they cloned tyrone #severance #black panther #mine

[kraviolis]

with the rising fascism in the world, im not gonna trust any new medias with stories that make the villain an agent of chaos & terror while the hero/es fight to preserve the status quo.

#after 9/11 there was a rise in childrens media where this was exactly the case #a foreign threat to peace that must be eliminated #and sure there were a lot of good stories made with that format. doesnt erase the true intent being the message. #and now theres come a rise of stories with empires and dictators as villains who are destroyed by rebellions #a good example of the stories about preserving the status quo are literally all of the marvel movies #thats why ragnarok was breath of fresh air. they didnt preserve the legacy of someone who destroyed thousands in the name of 'keeping peace #odin's legacy was burned to ash and thor put his people first. #another example is HP. even the newest stories set hundreds of years in the past still aim to preserve the status quo #and make the oppressed trying to fight back into villains by giving them really good points and then making them into murderers #a good example of a story that does the OPPOSITE is the owl house. god that show was so perfect. #just the subtle touch of luz's magic not having a white core like belos's in the end was so perfect. #making her final most powerful form look like a stereotypical villain with the black eyes and clothes and her dark magic?? #her palisman being able to shapeshift into stereotypically feared animals like spiders scorpions snakes and bats?? #the fact that she looked like a demon while belos was pretending to be carrying out the will of his god? that he was on some holy crusade? #belos believing himself to be the hero of the story even to the bitter end because he couldnt imagine that people he considers subhuman #had any right to life. that they werent just pests to be crushed in the name of his god. and in the end he was the one crushed like a bug. #so good. so good. so good. dana terrace i am kissing you #i like the owl house more than i like gravity falls and BOY is that saying something #krav talks

[queenstallion1]

Megan Thee Stallion💋

#megan thee stallion #meg thee stallion #thee stallion #rap #hip hop #female rap artist #female rapper icons #female rappers #tina snow #htownhottie #social media #instgram #megantheestallionedit #megantheegraduate #black woman power

[quiets-cradle]

the 1984 references on the whiteboards in ep 3 of genloss and the absolute lack of reaction in the live chat. i'm losing my mind.

#more rambling #generation loss #i thought i was going insane when the chat started making fun of 2+2=5 like i know not everyone's read 1984 but. that many people? #and even after the newspeak on the second board i saw a grand total of one message pointing it out i just #2+2=5 isn't bad math it's symbolism for the lack of control and the meaninglessness of fact that contradicts what those in power say/ #/under a totalitarian power do you understand #it's about The Party. it's about Showfall Media. it's about how showfall media may not be a government or all powerful party #but it's doing the same things #i feel like i'm losing my mind i'm so sorry to literally everyone following me who is not here for this i just saw literary allusion/ #/and blacked out and then this was born

[drag0n-dreamer]

Oh boy here we go first post

A lot of the fandom tends to reduce Rhaenyra down to very base traits/very two dimensional characterization and it pisses me the FUCK off

She is not perfect/infallible, she’s also not the fucking devil. She’s a flawed, compelling protagonist, she’s not meant to be “good”, she’s NOT A HERO!!! That’s not the point of the story!!! This is not a story about heroes and villains! It’s about people! Living under a deeply fucking oppressive and misogynistic and classist and destructive system of power that destroys families and lives.

Putting Rhaenyra on a pedestal does not make you a “feminist icon”, and most criticism of her is not misogynistic! In the same breath, putting her down and venerating Alicent ALSO does not make you morally superior!!

(The only “criticism” I will say is misogynistic in nature is any form of slut shaming? That reeks of internalized misogyny and you should probably examine that)

You make Rhaenyra so much less compelling of a character when you reduce her to “entirely right” or “entirely wrong”, you loose the inherent tragedy and also strength of her character.

We are supposed to be viewing the story through our current, modern lense, to recognize how backwards and messed up the society the characters have to exist in IS! Not perpetuate the same kind of ideology??

Anyways I’m gonna try to break these ideas up into multiple posts and not just one giant rant.

Rhaenyra Targaryen is one of my favorite characters from any media ever but not for the reasons everyone else seems to have her as a fav? They genuinely seem to be closer to the reasons that the people who hate her, hate her. She’s a wonderful protagonist, a really complicated woman, and a fascinating person to watch. She’s not a hero, she’s an ambitious survivor who wants what she’s been raised to believe she’s owed, and she’s also a mother so humanly driven by grief. Stop stripping away what makes her character so interesting!!!!!!!

#Rhaenyra is such a fascinating character and examining her reasons for her decisions shows so much depth to her character #stop boiling it down to right and wrong you loose all the nuance in the narrative #these aren’t decisions these women should be having to make in the first place! #that’s the tragedy of it! #this entire show is about oppressive systems of power #and the people they destroy #it’s not about good and evil #some people make me wanna eat glass dude I stg #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd #house of the dragon #team black #Rhaenyra #Targaryen #house targaryen #hotd posting #my post #media analysis

[starbuck]

sometimes you read analysis that makes you want to tell the person to go watch Black Sails and then revise.

#when someone’s points are PRETTY solid - but you can tell they don’t know about Legitimacy (ENGLAND is going to give that to you?) #like. to be clear - Black Sails is NOT perfect by any means #but it provides SO many frameworks that are helpful for analyzing other media through #Legitimacy… The Power Of A Story… A Story Is True A Story Is Untrue… Perhaps The Trouble Was Going To Happen Anyway… #and every other show gets SO much more interesting when you have this analytical shorthand at your disposal #you also DESPERATELY want to tell these purely hypothetical meta-writers about Mimesis #(this would NOT fix them and would actually make them worse) #(but it would be WORTH IT)

[simeonscott]

"This ends now, snake kaijin!"

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