Moore's Code

Post-racial Rhetorics and the Depoliticization of Blackness

The black struggle for liberation intends to refocus the white gaze in the direction of whiteness, that is, upon itself so as to correct its distorted affects. And why would we want to depoliticize the black struggle for liberation, a project that has the potential to transform all global citizens, but for no other reason than to resist such possibilities of transformation. Who’s scared? And, why? Our answers to those questions might just be the beginning of a global project of racial reconciliation catalyzed by the formation of new racial logics and politics.

12/26/12 — 8:34pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yaFPzkB

Tongues Untied: Barbershop Conversations

Notes: 1 7/27/12 — 5:15pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yQDqC3R

Chatting it up with Mayor Cory A. Booker

7/21/12 — 9:41pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yPq_Ym2

Summer shades.

High-res Notes: 1 7/21/12 — 9:38pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yPqztcO

[REVIEW] When a Poet Sings: Frank Ocean’s “channel ORANGE”

My review of Frank Ocean’s “channel ORANGE”

7/17/12 — 5:19pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yPZ6V9t

HARM FREE ZONE 2012

Prevention- The act of preventing harm within the community.
Intervention- The act of directly intervening when harm has occurs
Reparation- The act of repairing harm among ALL community members
Transformation- The act of completely transforming individual and collective power relationships

psst. pass it on! (via blackfeminismlives)

Notes: 9 3/10/12 — 10:22am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yHm00Yl

The Occupation Stole My Words, June Jordan Helped me to Relocate Them

“June Jordan’s words ( I was born a Black woman / and now / I am become a Palestinian) resuscitated my courage and like her I had become a Palestinian, though, I had been a Palestinian all along–even before my arrival on the land. I only needed to recall the guard that awaited me when I departed the plane; the guard that took my passport, my itinerary, my scrapbook, my words; the guard that interrogated me one on one in the security room wanting to know if my beard was a sign for allegiance to Allah…the many guards that guard a nation from everyone else but itself.”

3/2/12 — 3:15pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yHLiKU0

Come to a country to be docile and dumb, to be big and breeding, easily, to be turkey/horse/cow, to be cook/carpenter/plow, to be 5’6” 140 lbs., in good condition and answering to the name of Tom or Mary: to be bed bait: to be legally spread legs for rape by the master/the master’s son/the master’s overseer/the master’s visiting nephew: to be nothing human nothing family nothing from nowhere nothing that screams nothing that weeps nothing that dreams nothing that keeps anything/anyone deep in your heart: to live forcibly illiterate, forcibly itinerant: to live eyes lowered head bowed: to be worked without rest, to be worked without pay, to be worked without thanks, to be worked day up to nightfall: to be three-fifths of a human being at best: to be this valuable/this hated thing among strangers who purchased your life and then cursed it unceasingly: to be a slave: to be a slave. Come to this country a slave and how should you sing? After the flogging the lynch rope the general terror and weariness what should you know of a lyrical life? How could you, belonging to no one, but property to those despising the smiles of your soul, how could you dare to create yourself: a poet?” June Jordan

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/178504

Notes: 1 2/24/12 — 3:11pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yGywY0q

i think that bell hooks and audre lorde have lots to teach us about the productive uses of anger/rage as a tool for change, but at some point rage will dissipate and when it does what will serve as the motivation for movement forward…for transformation…for our uplift? even in our intimate relationships…we can only stay mad for so long before we have to confront our hurts. #pondering #sickbedthoughts

http://www.facebook.com/darnell.moore/posts/10150690211125791?notif_t=like

2/22/12 — 7:51pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yGsu_51

Why @RolandSMartin’s #Homophobic Tweets Shouldn’t Be Ignored, Even Now

afrolez:

Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, and Kenyon Farrow’s collaborative article on standing at the intersections of Roland Martin’s homophobia and GLAAD’s racism in their collective piece for The Feminist Wire.

“Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves being told to be silent when misogyny and homophobia rears its head in order to be accepted as Black by the larger community. The most recent debacle from Roland Martin’s homophobic tweets during the Super Bowl is one of too many examples…”

Read in its ENTIRETY: http://thefeministwire.com/2012/02/why-roland-martins-homophobic-tweets-shouldnt-be-ignored-even-now/

Notes: 1 2/21/12 — 3:50pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZpUi7yGoPylZ