Alice Walker pens letter to Alycia Keys to not perform in Israel

How this turn into a shit on alice walker thread. If I was in a palestinians position, I would want people to give a shit enough to acknowledge my situation, even if they could do anything about it. Genocide is being committed on Palestinians, the way african & american indians have been who on the wrong end of settler colonial situations. Black people should know better than to shit on palestinians.

I like the color purple. Danny Glover would never play a role that demeans black men & his character Mr. in the color purple finds redemption in the end. I don't believe color purple slandered black men at all. It did point out the dual oppression black women suffer (race & sex) a lot of times at the hands of black men. Don't none of u act like you have never seen a black man dog the shit out of a black woman.

Alice Walker ain't a saint, she been through some shit that self-admittedly fucked her being up (she was raped by a male relative as a child, among other things). I wasn't hip to her daughters experience (thx 4 that info). But Alice Walker has been a champion for women & black people in general (that includes black men) & unlike a bunch of our bitch ass leadership speaks out against exploitation & oppression were ever it is. even if it is isreal. She shouldn't be disrespected like that. She a womanist & I don't have a problem with that, she supposed to be (i'm a man & I'm about manhood). She got some extreme views during the development of her worldview, but she was in an extreme situation (the terrordome). I can't condemn her totally for her mistakes.

Alicia Keys can do what ever she want, but Alice is right on this one.

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Fyi guys I'm not sure if it was posted here before but alice was married to a jewish man who divorced her and called her antisemitic because while she was in isreal she saw the harsh treatment of the indigenous palestinians. She Called out for more humane and fair treatment for them. Her husband couldn't believe that she would advocate on their behalf and left her son there after. Check out her last interview on npr the lenard lopate show in nyc. I heard it myself and I couldn't believe it. You must find it and listen. If I find it I'll post it. All I can say is that after that show I have never heard of alice walker back on radio again. Check it out. Crazy my dude.


Here is the interview: GUYS REMEMBER THOSE WHO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THE CAUSE ALWAYS GET THEIR NIGGA WAKE UP CALL. Here is alice's
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/apr/13/overcoming-speechlessness/#commentlist
Props bro.



How this turn into a shit on alice walker thread. If I was in a palestinians position, I would want people to give a shit enough to acknowledge my situation, even if they could do anything about it. Genocide is being committed on Palestinians, the way african & american indians have been who on the wrong end of settler colonial situations. Black people should know better than to shit on palestinians.

I like the color purple. Danny Glover would never play a role that demeans black men & his character Mr. in the color purple finds redemption in the end. I don't believe color purple slandered black men at all. It did point out the dual oppression black women suffer (race & sex) a lot of times at the hands of black men. Don't none of u act like you have never seen a black man dog the shit out of a black woman.

Alice Walker ain't a saint, she been through some shit that self-admittedly fucked her being up (she was raped by a male relative as a child, among other things). I wasn't hip to her daughters experience (thx 4 that info). But Alice Walker has been a champion for women & black people in general (that includes black men) & unlike a bunch of our bitch ass leadership speaks out against exploitation & oppression were ever it is. even if it is isreal. She shouldn't be disrespected like that. She a womanist & I don't have a problem with that, she supposed to be (i'm a man & I'm about manhood). She got some extreme views during the development of her worldview, but she was in an extreme situation (the terrordome). I can't condemn her totally for her mistakes.

Alicia Keys can do what ever she want, but Alice is right on this one.

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Awesome awesome post bro.
 
I agree with Alice Walker and our performers and people in the public eye who have a chance to say something need to say something. The U.S. is supporting an Apartheid state in Israel, and it's awesome that artist speak for those who cannot.....it's not always a money grab....sometimes you have to stand on convictions and principles to make your life a full one. :yes:
 
Thanks guys, the funny thing is that I posted this same topic back when the interview came out but I didn't get too much comments. I guess I gotta get my weight up amongst the family to start a thread. If yall allow me I got a few more social gems to share. Especially dealing with sports check out my blog Www.blkfan.com

Back to alice - I believe she is a victim of self-created over intelligence in thy-self. What I mean is black people but particularly black women seem to think that dating outside of ones
Race is a sign of intelligence hence if you over compensate and look to date outside of your race then you are smarter (above) the regular negro. You begin to let this attitude creep into your work and lifestyle to the point where you are disjointed from the black experience. I'm sure you guys had the black girl in school, or college who seemed to be a try-hard by going out of her way to go gain acceptance from other races. Especially when the other race doesn't know she is bi-racial or actively looking to gain their acceptance. She would always say she has 1/8th this blood in her or her mothers grandmother was from this european country. Or the best one is the plausible deniability catch all phrase- "I'm all mixed up from (insert white country here) to (inset another white country here)". Because of this self-induced racial elevation you think you are what you are not - hence the nigga wake up call. Tiger got his from Sergio recently, oj need I say, more and now alice. I love when it happens the look on their face and the disbelief is worth it. Oh wait til tigers kids get called ****** and lil charlie gets into a fight a school - those are the best. The tap dancing tiger will do should make gregory hinze nod in approval.
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please

elaborate

thanx .......


Why do we know about Rebecca Walker and why do we even care about her? Well, the reason is ALICE WALKER. Rebecca Walker has carved a career out of her mother's name. How do we know this? Rebecca Walker's birth name is Rebecca Leventhal. Why didn't she take her father's name to write with? huh?

To her credit she has written decent books on feminism and has a recent book on BLACK COOL. On her own ...she would have been a decent writer with a small following, but with the DNA of Alice Walker she is propelled to place of notoriety, strapped with the trappings of fame.

Her youth memoir, wrote about her parents (again, why do we care? Alice Walker):

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and

her other book, also delves further into Alice Walker, also:

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....so two of her most popular books are about her mother.......WOW, WHAT A SURPRISE!


Again, she's a decent writer but her fame is due largely to her DNA....
 
A little off topic but I have a question about something that's buggin me...

After being on the scene for after a decade, seeing her name being posted here and elsewhere countless times, what the fuck made you spell her name "Alycia'? I mean, you gotta know the shit is incorrect, right? Why would you deliberately spell something wrong? Is there a bitch in your life named Alycia and you're required to write her name repeatedly? I mean shit. I don't know....:dunno::dunno::dunno:
 
A little off topic but I have a question about something that's buggin me...

After being on the scene for after a decade, seeing her name being posted here and elsewhere countless times, what the fuck made you spell her name "Alycia'? I mean, you gotta know the shit is incorrect, right? Why would you deliberately spell something wrong? Is there a bitch in your life named Alycia and you're required to write her name repeatedly? I mean shit. I don't know....:dunno::dunno::dunno:

His google is broken.....
 

Why do we know about Rebecca Walker and why do we even care about her? Well, the reason is ALICE WALKER. Rebecca Walker has carved a career out of her mother's name. How do we know this? Rebecca Walker's birth name is Rebecca Leventhal. Why didn't she take her father's name to write with? huh?

To her credit she has written decent books on feminism and has a recent book on BLACK COOL. On her own ...she would have been a decent writer with a small following, but with the DNA of Alice Walker she is propelled to place of notoriety, strapped with the trappings of fame.

Her youth memoir, wrote about her parents (again, why do we care? Alice Walker):

tumblr_mfplihTOYg1r0zfwjo1_400.jpg


and

her other book, also delves further into Alice Walker, also:

tumblr_mnlg1li2cr1rbtfplo1_1280.jpg



....so two of her most popular books are about her mother.......WOW, WHAT A SURPRISE!


Again, she's a decent writer but her fame is due largely to her DNA.
...

my question..does it discredit the issues she put forth regardin her relationship with her mom and he own issues with feminism as she learned from her mother..?
 
my question..does it discredit the issues she put forth regardin her relationship with her mom and he own issues with feminism as she learned from her mother..?

It's about airing dirty laundry when a phone call would suffice, I can see her talking about her relationship in her first book, however she comes back to that same subject & she gets the reaction she wants from the public. What has Rebecca even done to heal the relationship? She won't even let Alice Walker see her grandchild.


Again, the bulk of Rebecca's attention comes from recounting her experiences with her mother, if you are not familiar with her writings about her mother, peep this:

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...e-apart-daughter-The-Color-Purple-author.html
 
How this turn into a shit on alice walker thread. If I was in a palestinians position, I would want people to give a shit enough to acknowledge my situation, even if they could do anything about it. Genocide is being committed on Palestinians, the way african & american indians have been who on the wrong end of settler colonial situations. Black people should know better than to shit on palestinians.

I like the color purple. Danny Glover would never play a role that demeans black men & his character Mr. in the color purple finds redemption in the end. I don't believe color purple slandered black men at all. It did point out the dual oppression black women suffer (race & sex) a lot of times at the hands of black men. Don't none of u act like you have never seen a black man dog the shit out of a black woman.

Alice Walker ain't a saint, she been through some shit that self-admittedly fucked her being up (she was raped by a male relative as a child, among other things). I wasn't hip to her daughters experience (thx 4 that info). But Alice Walker has been a champion for women & black people in general (that includes black men) & unlike a bunch of our bitch ass leadership speaks out against exploitation & oppression were ever it is. even if it is isreal. She shouldn't be disrespected like that. She a womanist & I don't have a problem with that, she supposed to be (i'm a man & I'm about manhood). She got some extreme views during the development of her worldview, but she was in an extreme situation (the terrordome). I can't condemn her totally for her mistakes.

Alicia Keys can do what ever she want, but Alice is right on this one.

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Great overview.
 
How this turn into a shit on alice walker thread. If I was in a palestinians position, I would want people to give a shit enough to acknowledge my situation, even if they could do anything about it. Genocide is being committed on Palestinians, the way african & american indians have been who on the wrong end of settler colonial situations. Black people should know better than to shit on palestinians.

I like the color purple. Danny Glover would never play a role that demeans black men & his character Mr. in the color purple finds redemption in the end. I don't believe color purple slandered black men at all. It did point out the dual oppression black women suffer (race & sex) a lot of times at the hands of black men. Don't none of u act like you have never seen a black man dog the shit out of a black woman.:rolleyes:

Alice Walker ain't a saint, she been through some shit that self-admittedly fucked her being up (she was raped by a male relative as a child, among other things). I wasn't hip to her daughters experience (thx 4 that info). But Alice Walker has been a champion for women & black people in general (that includes black men) & unlike a bunch of our bitch ass leadership speaks out against exploitation & oppression were ever it is. even if it is isreal. She shouldn't be disrespected like that. She a womanist & I don't have a problem with that, she supposed to be (i'm a man & I'm about manhood). She got some extreme views during the development of her worldview, but she was in an extreme situation (the terrordome). I can't condemn her totally for her mistakes.

Alicia Keys can do what ever she want, but Alice is right on this one.

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1:same goes for countless wht wmn dogged and murdered by whtmen, so it isnt a blkmn phenomena!
2: the extreme views is what has made her not motherly to her own seed,..u and i werent there in her daughter's upbringin.. and its evident the feminist propaganda destroyed her relationship with her daughter as she was tryna find herself in the world as a woman who would rather be woman than some wanna be superwoman! the daughter drops alot of jewels that i cant easily discount on account of her wantin to live off her mom's notoriety or whatever becos i've seen the effects of that feminist bs hemming up a few sistahs life's and they only wake up to smell the coffee at 35yrs old!! i cant easily discount that either! u can be superwoman all u want but if u aint a woman first then the super aint much in my book! 2cents
 
Palestinians never gave a fuck about africans so why should we give a fuck about those arabs ? Where were the palestinian or arab protests when africans were being enslaved or colonised . They were awfully quiet when black africans in libya were treated like animals . Palestinians created their own problems by believing is islam and thought thy won the war against the jews when abu bakr built the mosque in jerusalem .
 
Palestinians never gave a fuck about africans so why should we give a fuck about those arabs ? Where were the palestinian or arab protests when africans were being enslaved or colonised . They were awfully quiet when black africans in libya were treated like animals . Palestinians created their own problems by believing is islam and thought thy won the war against the jews when abu bakr built the mosque in jerusalem .

Its not just about the Palestinians. Do you know how they treat Ethiopian jews in Israel?
 
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