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November 20, 2012 at 4:42pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: black consciousness, confidence, nihilism, poe man dreams, struggles

Visions Of a Concrete Rose

The youth of generation Y struggle to overstand the meaning of their actions; I know this since my daily fate mingles with the universal problems for youth. I felt so bad the other evening, I felt like I wasn’t doing anything with my life. These are the days of my personal history in which I [...]

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August 7, 2012 at 2:00pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Creativity, Destructuration, Frantz Fanon, Hiiipower, Imagination, nihilism, race, racism, Sociogeny, Structures, Symptom, therapy, Transformation, zombie apocalypse

Black Apathy: Believing That Racism Is Normal

Along this path through American history my people have forgotten how to dream. My people are playing their part in making the black/white problem normal. How can you blame us? Our concept of “reality” constantly proves the impossibilities of our imagination, our creativity. What is real, for folks like us, has no conditions. Unfortunately, reality [...]

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January 10, 2012 at 3:00pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Black Youth, helplessness, Hiii Power, Hope, Kendrick Lamar, Menace II Society, Misogyny, Mob Action, Mobilization, nihilism, people of color, Power, Psychology, racism, structure, system, Theory, Violence

Getting Past Youth Terrorism

So I’m sick and tired of conversations about the state of Black youth ending with the same played-out solutions—restoring strong family values. Now don’t get me wrong, of course family is important, but we are mistaken if we think that broken homes are the main factors fueling gang violence. If we should blame anything it should [...]

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April 21, 2011 at 3:44pm

By Justin L. Hill

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Topics: Black Identity, Black Politics, democracy, Democracy, democracy remixed, Empowerment, Imperialism, nihilism, Oprah Winfrey, President Barack Obama, race, racism, The Middle East, The Post-colonial world

Youth as the Miner’s Canaries of Democracies!

In Peter Coy’s article the Kids Are Not Alright, he quotes that democracies are “much better at managing large numbers of highly educated people” than are nations with an official leader who has absolute authority (read: autocratic countries). Leaders of autocratic nations face the dilemma of needing an educated work force to grow their country’s [...]

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March 18, 2011 at 12:15pm

By Dallas

@smarteys

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Topics: capitalism, Fame, hip-hop, Media, Men, Money, Music, nihilism, OFWGKTA, Pop Culture, Youth

ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL: Why They Matter

When was the last time Hip Hop was this exciting and dangerous? Odd Future is the shot of badass, anti-establishment adrenaline Hip Hop desperately needs right now. Safe, parent-approved rappers are already feeling the heat; flitting around trying to figure out how to co-opt Odd Future and weather the storm. But it’s probably too late.

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January 20, 2011 at 11:37am

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Aesthetics, African American Studies, Anti-Gay, Anti-homosexuality, Anti-semitism, Black autobiographies, Boondocks, Empowerment, Existentialism, Homophobia, Langston Hughes, nihilism, Nina Simone, Politics, racism, Sexism, Sexuality, The Post-colonial world

Like A Gena 6 (Is the world on the same page with Black folks?)

Oh no! The folks back home will never stop smacking their lips over this one. As African American Studies grows across the nation, its scholarly diversity does not fall behind. Could white professors be added to the “things keeping Black people down” list? Possibly, but the fall of Black academia shouldn’t be instantly expected. Many [...]

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December 3, 2010 at 12:40am

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: American Values, anti-black america, black autobiography, black body, Black Politics, double consciousness, education, Empowerment, Existentialism, Hate Crime, Neighborhood, nihilism, racial profiling, racism, spirit of seriousness, Youth

Puck the anti-black Folice

You know. We always talk about education saying it as the answer to everything, yet we never talk about actual lessons. Talking about learning something, everyone knows about our culture: chicken induced diabetes, large rolling stone penises, the list goes on. The feeling “I’m f@cked up” extends to us as a whole when we too [...]

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November 18, 2010 at 12:00pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Abdul R. JanMohamed, Aesthetics, death contract, Existentialism, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Lil Wayne, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, nihilism, Violence

The New Trap: Death

We are living in that twenty-first century… Suicidal bombings, Dark Knight’s Joker, Kid Cudi and Kanye West black rose pop music display the new relationships to death. It was death that kept the powerless from doing whatever they pleased; think about “crime,” we approached it slowly, in fear of either real death—execution—or social death, getting [...]

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October 18, 2010 at 9:00am

By Summer M.

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Topics: nihilism, randomness, WHIP season

WHIP Season–A Rant (or Something)

Autumn is my favorite season, but it has its low points. Last Monday’s federal holiday, Columbus Day, is the nation-wide bat signal for America to commence with its annual “We Hate Indigenous People” season. In other words, Columbus Day marks the moment when that United States raises its middle finger to indigenous people, and doesn’t [...]

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September 13, 2010 at 9:15am

By Summer M.

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Topics: Black Youth Project, Blogging, Books, capitalism, contests, democracy, democracy remixed, fantasy football, hip-hop, nihilism, willow smith

Uninspired Nihilism

Lately, I’ve found it exceedingly difficult to blog. To be sure, it’s not because I lack the desire to write and make you privy to my mental awesomeness each Monday morning, but rather because I’ve essentially checked out of the blogging world. I wish I could blame it on my dissertation. (It’s coming along. Not [...]

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