Pan-Africanist, Internationalist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist organizer, journalist, author & metalhead. Carrying on the legacy of the late Abdus Luqman.
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Y'all's "Notorious RBG" voted for warrantless searches of parolees, signing onto the majority opinion by Clarence Thomas agreeing that parolees have no expectation of privacy that society has to respect b/c they are finishing their sentence outside of prison... (+)
The cop wasn't indicted for killing
#BreonnaTaylor
. He was indicted for shooting up the adjacent apartments. The literal apartments were more valuable to the grand jury than Breonna Taylor's life. But they want "peace" in response to that very clear message.
...but have not completed their sentence before being released, so they are still legal custody of the state.
People who look like the REAL Notorious BIG are overwhelmingly victims of that.
There's your progressive icon.
🧵1/ Google is now in on the fix. If you search for Obama, Ukraine, coup all the independent anti-war outlets that have been reporting on it since then are either not showing up in the results or are so far down that you won't bother to look.
I am still reeling from the sudden transition of my beloved friend, partner, comrade, lover, husband Abdus Luqman. Luqman Nation exists because of him. I finally knew what it was like to be seen and loved for all of me and for real. The void he leaves in the physical plane
“DC Police have taken another Black life for no F’n reason other than he was in another gentrified area of city where he shouldn’t have been scaring the white people”
Protester explains direct connection b/t gentrification & MPD murder
@luqmannation1
#AntwanGilmore
#GeorgeWatson
Dems acted as if they removed the $15 minimum wage bill from COVID relief to appease GOP & get that 10 GOP votes to pass it. But NO REPUBLICANS voted for the COVID relief bill w/o $15 min wage in the end anyway. Y'all...
@ceosonson
The goal is to exploit people in this capitalist system that sustains itself and grows off of exploiting people and get exploited people to look up to you because you don't look like you exploit people, you mean.
Just checking in. I'm hurting, but I'm taking it hour by hour. I wear Abdus' dhikr beads around my neck to keep him close. I do a lot of praying to God and Yemana and Oshun for healing & peace & strength & wholeness. I'm relearning how to be just me again.
#LuqmanNationForever
@CornelWest
Dr. West, people defending themselves against ethinc cleansing and genocide, let alone the theft of their land, is not "ugly retaliation." THAT is self-defense. And every human being has a right to that.
You know, I don't think we talk enough about grief. The physical toll it takes on you. The way your heart & body sometimes just...ache. The hour-by-hour struggle w/ sorrow & melancholy & happy memories that turn into sorrow & melancholy because they are just memories now.
Peace everbody! The kidney transplant went well. 4 hour surgey that I don't remember none of not even going into the operating room so I got the GOOD drugs. The kidney is kidneying beautifully. I'm not in a lot of pain, I'm up and walking, and should be discharged tomorrow. <3
Well one piece of good news in this bleak hellscape of imprialist oppression...I HAVE A KIDNEY DONOR!! MY TRANSPLANT SURGEY IS SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 9!!! God's timing is...whew!!! That TIMING is unbeatable!
@theory_dance
@AfricanArchives
Wait…are u making a case for the apprentice being able to build a company off the skills the master taught him, and he graciously had the master he learned from work FOR HIM - for years? Is THAT your argument? Nearest’s skills btw that Jack Daniel’s kept SECRET until recently?
Meanwhile...Zelensky wants $2bn A MONTH in emergency aid from the US. After getting $713mn in military aid, after the last $800mn Biden committed last month, and a few hundred mn before. Lemme check...y'all medical bills,rent still high? Student loan debt still not cancelled?
We warned you that the Biden Administration is just as fascist as Trump, and we're being proven right in real time.
The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns FBI Attack on the African People’s Socialist Party
For those who have or will call on me to debate
#MaxBlumenthal
on his wild & false claims: 1) The right of Africans to organize w/who we choose & for what reasons is not up for debate. 2) We do not need the approval of anyone to validate why we choose our coalitions. The End.
I don't know why any of this today was surreal for anyone. Angry white mobs have destroyed the communities, homes, lives of Black, Indigenous, gender NC people for centuries. They just finally got to y'all's house.
How disgustingly unaffected so-called Christians are that Christ' birthplace has been destroyed by Israel & 20,000+ Palestinians slaughtered by US bombs. If you can't bring that up in Christ's house, where then? What the hell would Jesus do? These bammas don't know.
Mother Emanuel AME is hallowed ground in the AME church community and in Charleston especially. The shock of people in the crowd at protesters yelling out while President Biden was speaking from the pulpit cannot be overstated. I too couldn't believe it.
@SymoneDSanders
I can't believe how unaffected so-called Christians are that Christ' birthplace has been destroyed by Israel and 20,000+ Palestinians slaughtered by US-provided bombs. If you can't bring that up in Christ's house, where is it supposed to be? What the hell would Jesus do!
Like I said folks, opportunistic grifters are gonna do exactly what they do, all for the retweets and clicks and likes of the right wing. Because it would be a disaster for Africans to exercise our own analysis and decisions about who we organize with and why...
.
@luqmannation1
spent weeks denouncing the
#RageAgainstWarMachine
rally as racist
Now she's downplaying the threat of nuclear war, mocking "white people" for seeking to avert it, and accusing them of "ridiculousness" for their antiwar activism
We had a great conversation w/
@stesfa
of
@newafricainst
to discuss the massive global
#NoMore
Movement resisting US imperialism in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Eritrea 🇪🇷
Check it out!
Let's be clear - I am a biased journalist. I am biased against US imperialism and white supremacist, patriarchal, settler colonial, capitalistic, christofascist American Exceptionalism all day and every day and I'm pretty sure I dream about defeating it in my sleep.
People are afraid of fascism "rising" under Trump because they don't know what fascism is, and that the US is and always has been a fascist country. Under EVERY president.
Grief is indeed like waves. Every day I'm hit with one. Most waves are small and I can stand up and move on as they roll through me. But some waves knock me down and pin me under. I'm up from under that last wave. I'm alright, still wading through these waters of grief to shore.
Is filled with the way he touched everyone who knew him. He may be physically gone, but he left so much of his heart and soul with so many. Arrangements are forthcoming. His daughter has provided an avenue for you to support us throught this great sorrow. He loved you, as do I.
The sign I'm holding was passed to us by a Palestinian family who had to leave the rally before the march. They saw we were looking for a sign and asked if we wanted theirs. We gladly received it. And we stand with
#Palestine
.
#FreePalestine
. Until it's backward!
“They are literally going into the homes of Palestinian ppl in the
#SheikhJarrah
neighborhood in the middle of night & telling them they have 24 hrs to vacate”
DC Rally to Free Palestine
#SavePalestine
#SaveSheikhJarrah
Imagine acting this much of a fool for a segregationist-friendly politician whose signature legislation imprisoned generations of Black & Brown poor ppl for possessing crack. You gon hype him up for loving HIS son while we still dealing w/felony drug records for possession.
So ppl mad that we radicals don't
trust these new managers of the emprie to do anything for working-class & poor folks, huh? Wait till you find out who's family members helped Uber, Lyft & Instacart get Prop 22 passed in California, that screwed over working-class & poor folks.
Will Smith slaps Chris Rock - USians: Violence is NEVER the answer!
US/EU/NATO arms neo-Nazis in Ukraine in proxy war against Russia - USians: GAS TOO HIGH, PUTIN GOTTA DIE! Also...THEY'RE NOT ALL NAZIS! Also... GIVE OUR COVID RELIEF MONEY TO DEFENSE CONTRACTORS TO HELP UKRAINE!
@realigningfaith
@AP
What does thia have to do with Murphy cheating on his wife while trying to legislate morality? Lame deflection from GOP moral hypocrisy
Y'all, the people who were in control of the government before are still in control of the government now and will still be tomorrow and the day after.
Watched ol' moist Van Jones on Anderson Cooper cry about "We need a Consoler In Chief." We don't need a damned Consoler In Chief. We need someone to govern for justice & equity, repudiate capitalism & demolish the imperialist agenda & apparatus of this empire. That ain't these 2.
THESE are the folks y'all wanted to build an anti-war movement with. Just in case you weren't clear what they were fittna do after they "stopped nuclear war," they've ALWAYS been clear on who's next.
The House just voted for Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker and to force railworkers to accept a labor contract w/no paid sick leave. Champions of Zionism and union/strikebusting. The greatest democracy in the world folks.
Alexandria, LA is 5-6 hours from Dallas, TX. Who drives 5-6 hours for 12 pounds of weed? This is a
#coverup
by the same ppl paying for
#Guyger
's defense & upcoming appeal.
No justice for either
#JoshuaBrown
#BothamJean
. Just scapegoats.
via
@nbcnews
I've engaged this dishonest discourse for a few hours today, but I am done with it. My article is clear-read it. My public comments have been clear. I owe no one an explanation beyond what I have already made clear.
I have real organizing work to do now, no more time for this.
@RVAwonk
Show host at
@bamnecessary
on Radio Sputnik here. Has not ever been told what to say on our show. Never. EVER. WE control our content. But you've probably never even listened to our show to know what we talk about, let alone have a valid critique about editorial independence.
@theory_dance
@AfricanArchives
What risk did he take keeping it a secret that Nearest was HIS teacher? Rather than “employ” Nearest why not make him part owner of the damn company since it was HIS skills that it’s built on. The way capitalists make excuses for theft & exploitation is wild.
2 months post-kidney transplant & it feels like forever & just yesterday. We’ve figured out I’m still anemic like I was during dialysis & that makes the tiredness & insomnia worse but I’ll be treated for that soon. I’ve come a long way & I have a long way to go.
The people not caring about press censorship in the US right now are usually the same ones screaming about alleged authoritarian dictators who suppress press freedom in other countries and I SEE YOU.
Hol up...so nobody coulda brought a floor vote for unanimous consent on that $2K before Trump asked for it? Are y'all not seeing how these folks are playing you?
So when this is all said and done, Democrats are gonna blame:
BLM, Antifa, Protesters
Black men who voted Trump
Black voters who didn't vote at all
Third party voters who did not vote for Libertarians
Everyone except themselves, their horrible strategy, platform & candidates
3/ THIS is why I have so many links in my articles and screenshares during my shows - which yes does make the show longer - to preserve the information that is being wiped from public searches on the internet.
I wish white leftists were as passionate and committed to dismantling white aupremacist hedgemony & racial capitalist oppression as they’ve become to opposing vaccines.
2/ So now when you or some of your imperialism-loving friends search for these things, they aren't there, and they can claim that we have no evidence to back up our claims.
If the US will arm Israel to destroy
#Gaza
what do you think they really have in store for
#Haiti
? For
#StopCopCity
efforts in
#Atlanta
& elsewhere? Military suppression of the people to stamp out any & all resistance to white supremacist settler colonial imperialist power
Black people: criticizing Black public figures and politicians on policies, issues, and their actions is not being crabs in a barrel or hating because someone is successful.
It is holding public figures and politicians accountable for their ish.
Grow up.
@JosepBorrellF
@IntlCrimCourt
An arrest warrant for moving children out of a warzone that
#Ukraine
didn't bother to do...since Kyiv bombed those same people for 8 years since 2014. The
#ICC
is a criminal, kangaroo court.
I miss getting ready for protests with Abdus & Bruskie. Now I gotta put all the supplies in the car myself & there's no arguments w/the dog about him not being able to go this time as he tries to climb into the hatch. But I'm ready for today, and Abdus & Bruskie ride w/me still.
I'll be back behind the mic on
@bamnecessary
tomorrow. I'm writing the easiest monologue I've ever written and the hardest I'll probably ever read - a tribute to my Abdus. Forward ever.
Be real clear on this: we're laughing at Biden's comments about putting the
#recordplayer
on so "kids can hear words," but he said that in response to a question ****about racial segregation/inequality in public schools.****
🧵Random Petty/Rage-Filled Thoughts: Don't ever forget that we have been telling you that white supremacists in the US have been communicating with and training in Ukraine since the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottsville
The only reason I pay any attention to electoral politics is because the people need to be educated on how electoral politics is not going to get us out of the hell we're in. Real change will only come from working-class mass movement toward a revolution for SOCIALISM. That's it.
People been organizing to demand to CANCEL THE RENTS for more than a year, and folks out at the capitol tonight talmbout "Don't criticize them! We need to help those politicians push Biden more!!!"
"WE???"
My beloved Abdus Baba Luqman's life will be celebrated tomorrow. His obituary is here: . The services will be live-streamed on our church's FB: . I and our family thank you so very much for your love and support.
Every time a white person tells me we need to organize with racists to avoid nuclear war, they getting cussed out. Don’t care what platform. Y’all just want to hang out with bigots. Nobody’s stopping you! JUST GO! But stop trying to drag us into their damned crosshairs.
Calling on all who believe in love, justice, & human rights to light a candle to
#FreeMutuluNow
. Dr. Mutulu Shakur is a father, grandfather, healer, & human rights organizer, who has been incarcerated by the
@OfficialFBOP
for 36 years. Let's bring our elder home.
@MXGMNational
Racist white boy tries to get onto an HBCU to kill Black folks, is denied access, then goes on to a nearby Dollar Tree and kills 3 Black people. I am having not one more conversation with white alleged leftists about racism. Not one fucking more.
Africans denied entry into a train taking people from Ukraine to Poland by Ukraine Soldiers and Police. Africans were forced to wait until all Ukrainians had boarded trains before they would be allowed to get into one.
Who is the man in the blurred-out picture? Notorious Nazi collaborator Stephen Bandera. PBS
@NewsHour
is committing gross journalistic malfeasance and collaboration with literal fascists with this.
When Russian troops came into the office of the mayor of Konotop, Ukraine, he escorted them out and made sure they drove away.
"We are ready to fight till the end — till the victorious end — to defeat these Russian cockroaches," he tells
@nickschifrin
.