Nina Simone: “I Gave Up On Black America. My roots are with the Africans, Spanish and North Africans.”

[shopthatwrecks]

she like her coffee with peckerhhhhhugh milk babble

 

[KingTut]

Because they got exhausted. She was still a voice in the civil rights movement that has done alot more for black folks then you ever did and you to sit here and call her a coward as you type on your keyboard and hide after you probably finished watching a porn scene of your favorite pawg.

I work with young black kids on a weekly basis 4x a week and been doing it for the past decade. Have enough money to fukk off and do what I want yet that’s not something I’ve done or am willing to do.

Think whatever you want about me. Just calling it how it is. Human beings are flawed. Some are courageous and can push through whatever is in front of them and some of them run. When they run they’re cowards. It is what the fukk it is.

 

[Still Benefited]

This is obvious. So obvious that black people have been fighting for hundreds of years including during the years that Nina and all the other black intellectuals tucked their tails and ran to other continents.

It’s easy to talk shyt when you have resources at your disposal to get you far away from the misery that would await you without those resources.

fukk her and all the other cowards.

So by your logic,the woman who stays in an abusive relationship because she needs the mans resources, Is more brave than the woman who leaves with nothing because shes tired of being beat and stepped on.


I would argue perhaps neither is a coward. But one is definitely more in love with their abuser than the other. And more in love with the toxic dynamic than they would like to admit

 

[get these nets]

The full interview is in link, and starts at roughly 13:19 from the end.

African American Historical Perspectives (1990) - UCLA Library Digital Collections

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African American Historical Perspectives (1990)​

Segment 6: An interview with musician and activist, Nina Simone. Simone and Reed discuss pan-Africanism, the social and economic position of Black people in the United States, the Civil Rights Movement, and modern Black activism. The interview ends with a clip of Simone performing the song "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black."

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

@Barnett114 reggie said the same thing

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I would imagine that her frustration was probably shared by a lot of civil rights activists by the point in time. Definitely if they didn't integrate into the system via politics

 

[Low End Derrick]