Buy Now, Pay Later.. why can’t we stop shopping?...For hundreds of years, survival was our sole focus. Slavery, oppression, viscous Jim Crow laws and the government’s failure to assure our rights and safety, solidified and legitimized levels of extreme insecurity ...

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With proper perspective, we can reject any hidden shame related to our history and build on our tradition of survival and resistance...

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Slow Suicide...We have been conditioned to maintain Teflon exteriors even when confronting soul-crushing adversity....Blacks endure in silence or engage in denial while our loved ones suffer or die every day...

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Part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent that they become their own oppression~Kumasi (activist, former gang member, from the documentary CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA)

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Homey—cide... “If you ain’t where I’m from, fuck you, that’s just how it is where we from. That’s the whole motto:Kill or be killed.~ Big Girch, gang member , from the documentary CRIPS and BLOODS: MADE in America

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...if we never again say things like “He’s so Black...” In a way that makes Black sound like a curse, a hated thing, we start reclaiming our minds and the minds of our children.

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Uglified...Given the centuries of brainwashing that equated Black with ugly, inferior, and undesirable, it really isn’t surprising that many Black children-like their parents and generations of Blacks before them- reject their own image... Tom Burrell

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“Lust is not the whole you- my actions will be governed by what’s behind my eyes, not what’s between my thighs.... Real benefits can be realized when we unplug from conditioned thinking and confront the burden of being defined solely by our sexuality.” ~ Tom Burrell

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Studs and Sluts...two powerful slave-era images are still active, still distorted, still damaging and- thanks to our Black inferiority complex- still perpetuated by our own people...~Tom Burrell

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How can we redefine our house without perpetuating the demeaning, outlandish , and negative perceptions attached to the Black family? Once we really accept that we are not the way we’ve been projected for more than 400 years, everything changes, sensitivity rises, and clarity ensues...~Tom Burrell

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