Comments on: Questions- I’m just askin’ http://uptownnotes.com/questions-im-just-askin/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Lumas http://uptownnotes.com/questions-im-just-askin/#comment-3473 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:41:39 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2165#comment-3473 Why they assume you not an activist because you write period? Why they assume you are not actively educating youth in the ways our communities need them to be because you are a professor? Why when you ask why people don't reply? All they do is dis…tract themselves with the politics as usual because exploring why leads down a road of action.

Why we don't make a distinction between actively working to help our people cope with oppression versus actively working toward liberation and independence? I think that why can answer a lot of whys.

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]]> By: Lumas http://uptownnotes.com/questions-im-just-askin/#comment-4523 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:41:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2165#comment-4523 Why they assume you not an activist because you write period? Why they assume you are not actively educating youth in the ways our communities need them to be because you are a professor? Why when you ask why people don’t reply? All they do is dis…tract themselves with the politics as usual because exploring why leads down a road of action.

Why we don’t make a distinction between actively working to help our people cope with oppression versus actively working toward liberation and independence? I think that why can answer a lot of whys.

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