Who is your favorite black intellectual?
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I don't have one. Intellect is often based on book/structured knowledge. Anybody with the drive to read and retain information can be considered intellectual.
It's also a scapegoat for cowards that are afraid to challenge them. -
Richard Claxton "? " Gregory (born October 12, 1932) is an American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, and conspiracy theorist.[1]
Gregory is an influential American comedian who has used his performance skills to convey to both white and black audiences his political message on civil rights. His social satire helped change the way white Americans perceived black American comedians since he first performed in public.
Too many books to post, here's his website http://dickgregory.com/
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I dont like comparing and contrasting and any sort of pitting against one another I appreciate any positive tangible or intangible contribution to the struggle
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And just because I'm currently reading his book...
In 1960, at the age of eighteen, George Jackson was accused of stealing $70 from a gas station in Los Angeles. Though there was evidence of his innocence, his court-appointed lawyer maintained that because Jackson had a record (two previous instances of petty crime), he should plead guilty in exchange for a light sentence in the county jail. He did, and received an indeterminate sentence of one year to life. Jackson spent the next ten years in Soledad Prison, seven and a half of them in solitary confinement. Instead of succumbing to the dehumanization of prison existence, he transformed himself into the leading theoretician of the prison movement and a brilliant writer. Soledad Brother, which contains the letters that he wrote from 1964 to 1970, is his testament.
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Now this chick here... she's a handful. She's with the NOI, so that's the point of view you're gonna get outta her. She's just giving her point of view, so you might not agree with everything. You might hate her. Just take it as you will I guess.
I've just seen some interviews and some lectures she's given. Maybe someone that's read her stuff could give us something more informed about her material. But personally, from what I have seen, I like her.
Sister Shahrazad Ali (born April 27, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York, US) is an author of several books, including an 180-page, $10, self-published paperback called The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. The book "sparking controversy" and "furor", bringing "forth community forums, pickets and heated arguments among blacks in many parts" of the US when it was published in 1989.
Stories about the book appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsday, and Newsweek. Ali appeared on 'Tony Brown's Journal', the 'Sally Jessy Raphael Show', 'The Phil Donahue Show', and 'Geraldo' TV programs, was ridiculed on In Living Color. The book reportedly "brought black bookstores new business", while other black bookstores banned it. It also provoked a book of essays (called Confusion by Any Other Name) "exploring the negative impact" of The Blackman's Guide.
Wiki has one excerpt of her book referring to Black women reading...
Although not lazy by nature, she has become loose and careless about herself and about her man and family. Her brain is smaller than the Blackman's, so while she is acclaimed for her high scholastic achievement, her thought processes do not compare to the conscious Blackman's.
Her unbridled tongue is the main reason she cannot get along with the Blackman, ... if she ignores the authority and superiority of the Blackman, there is a penalty. When she crosses this line and becomes viciously insulting it is time for the Blackman to soundly slap her in the mouth.
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Dr. Clarke. That man had the GOAT lines and he been dead for a min and white folk still mad.
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Came to say Michael Eric Dyson , but cs Patrice Oneal
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Imhotep
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Yahshua, Solomon, King David, Malcolm X, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King Jr, Cornell West, to many to name
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Muhammad Ali
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Dr. Cornell West
Michael Eric Dyson
Melissa Harris Perry
Paul Mooney
Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
King Solomon. Even if you don't read the bible, the book of Proverbs is filled with knowledge.
I'm going to get that book, too. That excerpt is something that I've said before. -
I hope someone said ? Gregory
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why oh why does the internet refuse to get with the concept of picking a favorite anything
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Also whoever wrote the book of the dead which inspired proverbs.
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waterproof wrote: »Yahshua, Solomon, King David, Malcolm X, The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King Jr, Cornell West, to many to name
Who you telling, its hard to narrow it down to a few knowing that there was once a time when we were the originators of civilization creating many of the worlds religions , developing advanced sciences , and creating new forms of mathematics. Back then though science and spirituality/religion went hand in hand much unlike today were Europeans run the show taking credit for things created and perfected thousands of years ago.
To add to your list of great black thinkers of the past id include Ii-em-Hotep, Enoch the Hamatic Ethiopian aka En-nu-ka-ru , Heru/Osiris and his son Horus all based on actual brothers who once walked the Nile River Valley but later deified as 'Gods'. -
If i had to pick one from recent times it would have to be Stokely Carmicheal aka Kwame Ture. He is also one of the few that actually went back to the MotherLand but idk if that is because he gave up on the struggle here in the diaspora or he wanted to just go back home
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MoneyPowerRespect wrote: »Dr. Cornell West
Michael Eric Dyson
Melissa Harris Perry
Paul Mooney
Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
King Solomon. Even if you don't read the bible, the book of Proverbs is filled with knowledge.
I'm going to get that book, too. That excerpt is something that I've said before.
You know Dyson and Perry have PhDs too, right? -
A Talented One wrote: »MoneyPowerRespect wrote: »Dr. Cornell West
Michael Eric Dyson
Melissa Harris Perry
Paul Mooney
Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
King Solomon. Even if you don't read the bible, the book of Proverbs is filled with knowledge.
I'm going to get that book, too. That excerpt is something that I've said before.
You know Dyson and Perry have PhDs too, right?
Yes, I know.
I don't why that question is relevant. They are blacks who I deem to be intellectual.
If anything,I thought you would have questioned Paul Mooney being up there. -
MoneyPowerRespect wrote: »A Talented One wrote: »MoneyPowerRespect wrote: »Dr. Cornell West
Michael Eric Dyson
Melissa Harris Perry
Paul Mooney
Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
King Solomon. Even if you don't read the bible, the book of Proverbs is filled with knowledge.
I'm going to get that book, too. That excerpt is something that I've said before.
You know Dyson and Perry have PhDs too, right?
Yes, I know.
I don't why that question is relevant. They are blacks who I deem to be intellectual.
If anything,I thought you would have questioned Paul Mooney being up there.
You said "Dr" Cornel West, but not "Dr." Michael Eric Dyson or "Dr." Melissa Harris Perry. All three have PhDs, so I don't see why you would call West "Dr." but not the other two. -
Cornell West, MD
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A Talented One wrote: »NothingButTheTruth wrote: »TS or someone else should drop a list of living black intellectuals (and a brief description) to better direct the premise of the thread.
Too many to name, much less describe their views.
But here is a list of some of the most prominent black intellectuals, past and present.
Fredrick Douglass
Martin Delany
Alexander Crummell
George Washington Williams
William Sanders Scarborough
W.E.B. DuBois
William Monroe Trotter
Archibald Grimké
Kelly Miller
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Anna Julia Cooper
Carter g. Woodson
Ida B. Wells
Hubert Harrison
Alain Locke
Paul Robeson
James Weldon Johnson
Marcus Garvey
Aimé Césaire
Charles S. Johnson
E. Franklin Frazier
Charles Hamilton Houston
St. Clair Drake
Frantz Fannon
Rayford logan
A. Philip Randolph
Langston Hughes
C.L.R. James
Oliver Cromwell ?
Howard Thurman
Ralph Bunche
J.A Rogers
Sterling Brown
Albert Murray
Stokely Carmichael
John Hope Franklin
C. Eric Lincoln
James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Audre Lorde
John Henrik Clarke
Chancellor Williams
Cheikh Anta Diop
June Jordan
Orlando Patterson
James Cone
Vincent Harding
Thomas Sowell
Patricia Williams
William Julius Wilson
Barbara Smith
Ivan van Sertima
Molefi Kete Asante
Derek Bell
bell hooks
Shelby Steele
Claude M. Steele
Elijah Anderson
Charles Ogletree
Houston Baker
Randall Kennedy
Michael Eric Dyson
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Paula Giddings
V.Y. Mudimbe
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
William A darity, Jr.
Stephen Carter
Gerald Early
Charles Mills
Patricia Hill Collins
Paul Gilroy
Nell Painter
Lani Guinier
Glenn Loury
Stuart Hall
Manning Marable
Adolph Reed
Robin D.G. Kelly
Lewis Gordon
Mark Anthony Neal
Eddie Glaude
Danielle Allen
Imani Perry
J. Kameron Carter
Melissa Harris-Perry
Marc Lamont Hill
OK, let me stop now.
I wanna revisit this because there were some significant omissions.
I should have included:
Léopold Senghor
Zora Neale Hurston
Gwendolyn Brooks
Harold Cruse
Frank Snowden
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Wole Soyinka
David Levering Lewis
BY the way, I'm not including people like scientists and mathematicians. That's why I'm not listing people like George Washington Carver, David Blackwell, Percy Julian, E. Everett Just, J. Ernest Wilkins, Arlie Petters and Clifford Johnson. -
i wanted to revisit this because picking your favorite anything shouldn't require a list of 95 ? names, in which case, the answer is "my favorite black intellectual is ALL OF THEM BECAUSE I CAN'T DECIDE"A Talented One wrote: »names names names -
i wanted to revisit this because picking your favorite anything shouldn't require a list of 95 ? names, in which case, the answer is "my favorite black intellectual is ALL OF THEM BECAUSE I CAN'T DECIDE"A Talented One wrote: »names names names
What's your problem? Part of what I'm doing is bring awareness to the IC of these intellectuals. I'm sure you haven't heard of some of them. -
Great thread, I have too many ones I like but my favorite ones are Booker T. Washington, Cornell West, Travis Smiley and Malcolm X
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Dr. West talks that good stuff.
Brother Malcolm was the closest thing we had to a prophet.
Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson might be the smartest black man alive.
