Ayo Handy Kendy explained that she founded Black Love Day in 1993, and was inspired by the assassination scene in Spike Lee‘s Malcolm X. She remembered thinking “Wow, that was terrible how people are still killing each other, black-on-black crime is still escalating, and I said what can I do to stop the violence, increase the peace, and I heard God say ‘we need more black love.'”
“We ask people to show love, demonstrate love for 24
Roland then asked Kymone “What if people are getting on your nerves today? Let’s say people are screwing up at the job, and you’re really not trying to love ’em today, ’cause you really want to cuss ’em out.”
“The fact is, we’ve all had jobs where we didn’t like everybody at the job, and it didn’t ever stop the work getting done,” the outspoken radio host replied. “Yesterday, you had Hugh Masekela on, and he talked about the reclamation of heritage.”
“That’s what this is,” Kymone continued. “We have to do what we can to set up our own cultural traditions, because it’s no surprise, there’s been an avalanche of white oppression since we got here, and that has sometimes been facilitated by black intellectual prostitutes like Clarence Uncle Thomas, that you discussed yesterday, and so we have to carve out our own way, be it Black History Month, be it Black Love Day, be it Kwanzaa, these are things that we have to do that resonate with us, because we’ve been too often willing to accept what’s been given to us by the dominant society.”
Justice Thomas’ recent comments about his
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