so, i finished all the RE movies last week and i can’t let go. it hurts too much so i’m gonna rewatch resident evil: afterlife because back then, everything (haha nothing was okay but m gonna pretend) was better
and also i wanna see my husbands again: slater, wesker, luther and chris
and don’t forget my wife alice, i love her.
i know i said these movies are trash but now i think they aren’t that bad AND I LOVE THEM AND I CAN’T GET OVER SHIT😭😭
(edit: bullshit, slater was in extinction. doesn’t matter, afterlife’s still good and i’m watching it with lust and joy)
Yes, it's indeed true that Brother Martin Luther King would have been 95 years old on Monday; and he, like myself, comes from a tradition of a great black people who have been hated and terrorized and traumatized for four hundred years — but we still here fighting, we still here swinging! […] Martin Luther King, Jr. said "I'd rather be dead than afraid," "I'd rather be a corpse than a coward"; we need courage! We need love and freedom, and freedom in love […S]o when you hear all the lies that hide and conceal the crimes, remember what Brother Martin used to say: "No lie can live forever," "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again!"
- Cornel West (We Want Equality, We Want Equality, We Want Equality!)
MUSIC MONDAY: "MLK Day 2024" - A Celebration Playlist (LISTEN)
by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest)
Happy MLK Holiday and Music Monday. Here is our first playlist of 2024.
“MLK Day 2024” is a collection of songs and music from across the globe. They are tracks devoted to struggle, liberation, and celebration.
I’ve included songs like “You’re A Winner,” “How I Got Over,” and “A Change Is Gonna Come” that…
Former Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pictured above.
Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to Ghana’s Independence Day celebration in 1957.
“Before I knew it, I started weeping. I was crying for joy…I knew about all of the struggles, & all of the pain, & all of the agony that these people had gone through for this moment”- MLK Jr.
Denial of the Funk: The Impact of Racism on our Nation's Health
Portrait of Dr. Cornel West Credit: Gage Skidmore (from creative commons)
The problem in America is, America’s been in denial about its problems. And that’s a problem.
America doesn’t have a race problem, in reality there’s been catastrophes visited upon black people. Catastrophes visited on indigenous brothers and sisters. Catastrophes visited on Latino brothers and sisters. Catastrophes…
The three major components [of West's Christian upbringing] were a Christian ethic of love-informed service to others, ego-deflating humility about oneself owing to the precious yet fallible humanity of others, and politically engaged struggle for social betterment. This Christian outlook, as exemplified in our time by Martin Luther King, Jr., serves as the basis for my life vocation.
As a youth, I resonated with the sincere black militancy of Malcolm X, the defiant rage of the Black Panther Party, and the livid black theology of James Cone. Yet I did not fully agree with them. I always felt that they lacked the self-critical moment of humility I discerned in the grand example of Martin Luther King, Jr. Such humility has always been the benchmark of genuine love for, and gratitude to, ordinary people whose lives one is seeking to enhance. I witnessed this same kind of integrity and dignity in the humble attitude to black folk of my early heroes: the Godfather of Soul, James Brown; the legendary baseball player Willie Mays; my pastor, Rev. Willie P. Cooke (of Shiloh Baptist Church in Sacramento, California); my grandfather, Rev. C.L. West, of Metropolitan Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and my older brother, Clifton L. West III, to me an exemplary human being. In this way, Martin Luther King, Jr. has always been not so much a model to imitate, but the touchstone for personal inspiration, moral wisdom and existential insight. I heard him speak in person only once, when I was ten years old (1963), and I remember not his words, but his humble spirit and sense of urgency.
- Cornel West ("The Making of an American Radical Democrat of African Descent," from his Reader, pages 3-4)