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When people ask, "what is the biggest mistake made in the Black Panther Party?" I tell them very clearly that what we did wrong was to take God out of the movement. -Afeni Shakur (Former Black Panther and Mother of slain rapper,Tupac Shakur)


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I’m unplugging from the Matrix

Last week at the Young Clergy for Social Change meeting, one of our members spoke about his efforts to “unplug from the matrix“.  Citing the Matrix movie series, he posited that too many people give far too much time to the television and radio.  According to him, feeding your brain with the “junk food” that comes over the airwaves and through the screen has a detrimental impact on how one views him/herself, others, and the world.  He has a group of students called “The Genius Movement” and they have (at various levels) unplugged from the matrix as well.

I agree with his position and have too decided to unplug from the matrix. 

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