No! Damn....smh RIP. Denise ran a lot of the pro-black blogs over on Daily Kos and was basically the leader of "Black Kos". She was a member of the Black Panthers and Minister of Economic Development for the Young Lords Party. Wasn't afraid to challenge anybody in both organizations. She was also program director for a minority owned news/jazz radio station in D.C.......Executive Director of the Black Filmmaker Foundation.......Professor of anthropology and women's studies.....Priestess of Yemaya in the Afro-Cuban Lucumi Orisha tradition.
This woman did A LOT and kept going as she watched her black power comrades either get imprisoned, murdered, and strung out on CIA supplied drugs.
I didn't always agree with her, but I always listened to what she had to say because NOBODY could dispute she was a champion for our people.
Rest in Power
“I’m black.
I’ve been black, and proud to be black, my whole life. My parents raised me like that. They grew up as ‘Negroes.’ They had to drink at water fountains labeled ‘colored.’ They lived long enough to become Afro-Americans, and then African Americans.
I was, and still am, militantly black.”
— Denise Oliver-Velez from her article, I am not ‘non-white'
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