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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 4h

Quote from The Guardian:

"A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats that intensified..."

Is everyone okay with this?

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 13h

Seems to me #SkyStorians #SkyBrarians and #BookSky would find this thread of interest.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 17h

Most of you are familiar with Newark mayor Ras Baraka....particularly after his arrest earlier this year trying to enter an ICE facility.

But do you know his father?

Lemme tell you about Leroi Jones 🧵

Book:

"The Defeat of Black Power" by Leonard Moore.

Pictured is Amiri Baraka standing at the podium of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary Indiana

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 17h

Most of you are familiar with Newark mayor Ras Baraka....particularly after his arrest earlier this year trying to enter an ICE facility.

But do you know his father?

Lemme tell you about Leroi Jones 🧵

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 15h

Btw, there's 4 people who share Oct 7:

1. Amiri Baraka
2. Desmond Tutu
3. Moses Fleetwood Walker
4. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

12. Baraka passed in 2014 at the age of 79 after surgery complications and a long battle with diabetes.

But like all his contemporaries, his legacy and words live on well past his ancestor date.

Today would be his 91st birthday.
Amiri Baraka lives on! ✊🏾

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

11. By 2002, Baraka was the Poet Laureate of New Jersey until his poem "Somebody Blew Up America" brought controversy. A fierce critique on US hypocrisy post-9/11, the state just abolished the laureate position rather than strip him

(he criticized Israel)

www.blackagendareport.com/poem-somebod...

POEM: Somebody Blew Up America, Amiri Baraka, 2001 | Black Agenda Report

A poem from the late Amiri Baraka questions the myths of U.S. exceptionalism that engulfed the nation after 9/11 attacks, contextualizing them with a history of the West’s centuries-long violent rampa...

www.blackagendareport.com

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

10. By the 1980s and 90s he was more like the revolutionary elder statesman, serving as a mentor to young Black poets including his son, the future mayor.

He also wrote his autobiography and performed in places like Def Poetry.

Here's a classic

youtu.be/7ziRjhAgTO8?...

Def Poetry - Amiri Baraka - Why is We Americans

YouTube video by urbanrenewalprogram

youtu.be

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

9. Disillusioned with the faltering Black Power Movement and where America was going as a whole, he embraced Marxist-Leninist philosophy and saw the Black Freedom struggle on a global scale, leading into his embrace of Pan-Africanism and critiques of capitalism

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

8. In 1972, growing Black political power and the Black Power Movement culminated into the National Black Political Convention that was organized in Gary Indiana by that city's first Black mayor, Richard Hatcher.

Organized by Baraka, it brought out the who's who of Black America

#ItsNationTime

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

7. Baraka became a leading figure in the Black Power Movement. Producing plays, essays, anthologies, and speaking appearances everywhere, encouraging people to organize and build

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

6. Gwendolyn Brooks, Larry Neal, Ishmael Reed, Rosa Guy, Hoyt Fuller, and many others.

But the moment that radicalized him was the Newark Rebellion of 1967.

His subsequent beating and arrest turned Baraka into the revolutionary he'd become.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

5. The assassination of Malcolm X affected him so much to the fact he changed his name to Amiri Baraka and goes on to found The Black Arts Movement. Sort of the spiritual successor of the Harlem Renaissance.

It is out of the Black Arts Movement we get Nikki Giovianni, Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez...

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

4. "Blues People: Negro Music in White America" goes through the history of Black music from before entering the shores of this land and up to the jazz age.

How The Blues is the very foundation of all American music.

But something occured in 1965 that changed him forever.

They killed Malcolm

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

3. I became familiar with Leroi Jones after reading Miles Davis's autobiography, where he regularly sung the praises of the young writer. First thing i came across was a book called Blues People.

Changed my life forever.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 16h

2. Leroi Jones was born October 7, 1934 in Newark, NJ....91 years ago today.

He attended Howard University before being expelled; he was too rebellious.

He served in the Air Force before he was dishonorably discharged, criticizing the racism in the military.

Leroi was an artist

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 17h

Most of you are familiar with Newark mayor Ras Baraka....particularly after his arrest earlier this year trying to enter an ICE facility.

But do you know his father?

Lemme tell you about Leroi Jones 🧵

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18h

A reminder that Greta Thunberg, a 22 year old Swedish woman, is who the billionaires and zionists are afraid of.

Peter Thiel even called her the "possible anti-christ."

She's doing something right

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 19h

I like enthusiastic hellos

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how that baby, Chance, is doing after his mother Adriana Smith was forcibly kept breathing in her brain dead body...

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d

ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 1d

Being 108 years old isn't unheard of. As we still have two elders from Greenwood Oklahoma who are over 110 years old.

But today we celebrate Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer. While she only made it to age 59, her legacy endures far past that.

Happy 108th birthday to Mrs Fannie Lou Hamer

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously everyone

read this book.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 2d

literally the question I was just contemplating

Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 2d

The question to ask yourself every day:

How much more do we intend to take?

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 2d

not a coincidence

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