Apr 21st, 2012
taqwaacore:

A Sudanese Sufi student holds his wooden board or Lawha as he recites verses of the Koran at the Qadiriya Badiriya Sufi mosque in the village of Umm Dawban, 40kms north of Khartoum, on April 13, 2010. Sufism is generally understood by scholars and Sufis to be the inner, mystical, or psycho-spiritual dimension of Islam. Today, however, many Muslims and non-Muslims believe that Sufism is outside the sphere of Islam. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images) #
Apr 21st, 2012
"I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come."
— Malcolm X (via somaliprincess)

(Source: The Huffington Post, via adoseofrevolution)

Apr 5th, 2012

globalwarmist:

leftist-linguaphile:

This is no secret, both of my parents were undocumented when I was born. I’ve talked about this several times here, and can honestly say that because they were undocumented, I grew up with the reality of how difficult this is, and am so proud of…

(Source: political-linguaphile)

Mar 28th, 2012
cartoonpolitics:

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” ~ Noam Chomsky
Mar 28th, 2012
randommakings:

quazimottoonwax:

::BLACK ≠ SUSPICIOUS:: Photo by J. Quazi King Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin. Union Square NYC. 03.21.2012
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This conversation should be kept alive at least till Zimmerman is behind bars. REBLOG, SHARE!!! #millionhoodies #justicefortrayvon #UnionSqNYC

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Awesome post
Mar 28th, 2012
sinidentidades:

TW: Racism/Violence
princessofkings:

The lynching of Michael Donald
Michael Donald was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1962. He attending a local trade school and worked part-time at the Mobile Press Register.  In 1981 the trial of Josephus Andersonan, an African American charged with the murder of a white policeman, took place in Mobile. At the end of the case the jury was unable to reach a verdict. This upset members of the Ku Klux Klan who believed that the reason for this was that some members of the jury were African Americans. At a meeting held after the trial, Bennie Hays, the second-highest ranking official in the Klan in Alabama said: “If a black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a black man.” On Saturday 21st March, 1981, Bennie Hays’s son, Henry Hays, and James Knowles, decided they would get revenge for the failure of the courts to convict the man for killing a policeman. They travelled around Mobile in their car until they found nineteen year old Donald walking home. After forcing him into the car Donald was taken into the next county where he was lynched.  A brief investigation took place and eventually the local police claimed that Donald had been murdered as a result of a disagreement over a drugs deal. Donald’s mother, Beulah Mae Donald, who knew that her son was not involved with drugs, was determined to obtain justice. She contacted Jessie Jackson who came to Mobile and led a protest march about the failed police investigation.  Thomas Figures, the assistant United States attorney in Mobile, managed to persuade the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look into the case. James Bodman was sent to Mobile and it did not take him long to persuade James Knowles to confess to the killing of Michael Donald.
In June 1983, Knowles was found guilty of violating Donald’s civil rights and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Six months later, when Henry Hays was tried for murder, Knowles appeared as chief prosecution witness. Hays was found guilty and sentenced to death.  With the support of Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin at the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), Beulah Mae Donald decided that she would use this case to try and destroy the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Her civil suit against the United Klans of America took place in February 1987. The all-white jury found the Klan responsible for the lynching of Michael Donald and ordered it to pay 7 million dollars. This resulted the Klan having to hand over all its assets including its national headquarters in Tuscaloosa.  After a long-drawn out legal struggle, Henry Hayes was executed on 6th June, 1997. It was the first time a white man had been executed for a crime against an African American since 1913.
Mar 28th, 2012
A rebel runs with his AK-47 towards a Syrian army checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday March 17, 2012. Two suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in near-simultaneous attacks on heavily-fortified intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital Saturday, killing at least 27 people.
Mar 28th, 2012
Syria — Turkey Border
Syrian refugees, aided by rebels from the Free Syrian Army (unseen), walk through woods as they attempt to cross the Syrian border with neighboring Turkey, on March 18, 2012.
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