some suggestions (if you haven't read them already):

walter rodney's "how europe underdeveloped africa"

just about everything by franz fanon

"the miseducation of the negro"

howard zinn's "a people's history of the united states"

cornel west's "race matters"

my sense is that, until you've got a base of knowledge to draw from, you're not going to "get it". and if you have read these things....what did you get out of them?

i also tend to agree with this guy on a lot of topics: http://www.timwise.org/

my point is that gathering personal opinions isn't going to mean much until you understand more about the history behind how all this shit got so fucked up in the first place.

yes, we need to do something now. that doesn't mean that history is useless in the struggle. as a matter of fact, it's one of the best tools we have.

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"The world was warned about this...The CIA calls what happened in London today "blowback." It is wrong, it is heinous, it is murder plain and simple, and it was as predictable as the sun rising in the East." ~Wm Rivers Pitt