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Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on 22nd of march in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old.

Rodney attended the University College of the West Indies in 1960 and was awarded a first class honors degree in History in 1963. He later earned a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, at the age of 24.

Rodney traveled extensively and became well-known as an activist, scholar, and formidable orator. He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania from 1966-67 and 1969-1974, and in 1968 at his alma mater University of the West Indies.

On October 15th, 1968, the government of Jamaica declared Rodney a "persona non grata" and banned him from the country. Following his dismissal by the University of the West Indies, students and poor people in West Kingston protested, leading to the "Rodney Riots", which caused six deaths and millions of dollars in damages.

In 1972, Rodney published "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". Historian Melissa Turner describes the work this way: "A brutal critique of long-standing and persistent exploitation of Africa by Western powers, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a powerful, popular, and controversial work in which Rodney argued that the early period of African contact with Europe, including the slave trade, sowed the seeds for continued African economic underdevelopment and had dramatically negative social and political consequences as well. He argued that, while the roots of Africa’s ailments rested with intentional underdevelopment and exploitation under European capitalist and colonial systems, the only way for true liberation to take place was for Africans to become cognizant of their own complicity in this exploitation and to take back the power they gave up to the exploiters."

On June 13th, 1980, Rodney was killed in Georgetown, Guyana via a bomb given to him by Gregory Smith, a sergeant in the Guyana Defence Force, one month after returning Zimbabwe. In 2015, a "Commission of Inquiry" in Guyana that the country's then president, Linden Forbes Burnham, was complicit in his murder.

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POV: we're on a date to the Rise Against concert but I thought your take about how there could still be private home ownership in cities sometimes at the DSA meeting was revisionist

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Arisen, that is called "toilet paper", mayhaps you ought to wipe your bottom with it that you may not smell of faeces

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Staying at a family member's house right now, they're near an Army base and I gotta say it's unsettling seeing so many troops walking around in their BDUs. at least the Marines require their troops to wear civilian clothes when they go off-base, damn.

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season 4 blowback is so easy to listen to, i feel like im able to understand what happened each episode on generally one listen sometimes two.

In terms of listenability it has been: Season 4 > 1 > 2 > 3

i could definitely give season 2 a listen to again.

i plan on listening to holocaust history and i'm also interested in learning about something like the federal reserve because i dont know shit about what it does or why its bad

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The history of European folktales studies is awesome. In Europe, you've got racist nationalists with a contempt for the scientific method. Meanwhile in America, you have klansmen doing orientalism on the south. Great.

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Done reading my latest book and haven't read any fiction for over a year so I am now going to read Unjust Depths

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The Beetlejuice 2 trailer has a children's choir singing a slow dramatic version of Day-O.

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What is it about "prestige" Netflix shows that makes them so often look like shit? I am watching Three Body Problem, and I can't help but think this show would have been way better on HBO.

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cw: bad mental health/unemployment rantthe stress has gotten to the point that i have a panic attack every night and i dont know what to do. it just feels like my life is over. i live in the middle of nowhere and can't drive, there's no remote jobs that'll hire me, i've been out of work for over a year so now there's a huge gap on my resume and it feels like im in a rut i can't get out of.

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maybe it'd be easier if i applied to in person positions, but that would mean moving, and if they fire me at any point im just in this position again but also paying rent. plus i can't drive so it means living in a city that's expensive.

fuck, i just don't know what to do. it really feels like it's over for me and i just need to rot for the rest of my life.

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I have to certify to my employer every year that I won't plug random USB sticks into my work computer, and you mean to tell me that some of the "best scientists in the world" are just going around putting alien VR headsets on?

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The Fellership of the Ring

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Did any rapper ever actually rap "May name is ___ and I'm here to say, ________ in a major way"?

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sounds very kurtis blow

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Saudi AmeriKKKa, United Zionist Emirates

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Anybody remember that period where every anime AMV was Linkin Park? I don’t miss it.

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The Timberwolves are having the best season in my adult life and it's incredible. I love watching this team.

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pete Minorities are majorities in their own way

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I want to have my own talk show called "Come High with Me" where me and a guest get way too high and anxiety-talk for thirty minutes.

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I'm trying to ramp up my re-learning of Spanish.

Any ideas on how I can practice it?

So far, I've done 5 minutes a day with Quizlet (Lenin is probably saying "Don't laugh!" from the great beyond right now).

Outside of dedicating space to practicing it more, what else should I do?

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i love to have a torn paper note saying 'particle physics' on a pinboard with pictures od lots of particle physicists on it

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She chocobo my buster sword til i sephiroth

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Why is youtube recommending me videos about Tom Baker? Why does it think I care about him?

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OOM killer just reaped systemd. agony-mescaline

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Walter Rodney emote when

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Danny DeVito Napoleon. Why did this not actually happen.

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Another journalist and former maths professor by the name of Ahmad Ghunaim has managed to escape to South Africa (with his family also, I'd like to hope) just a week ago

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