In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, the belts are the indicator of a players expertise. Belts of different colours like white, blue, purple, brown, black, red are worn by different Brazilian Jiu Jitsu players. A brief introduction regarding the importance of various belts has been offered for the benefit of people who are new to martial arts
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“Being African is not a matter of race. It’s a matter of a history, of a culture, of a struggle of a people. The important thing is to be able to remember that, not to be disassociated from that, not to be torn from that, to carry that on into the future and to carry that on in changing the future.”
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Assata Shakur
Taken from the documentary “Eyes on the Rainbow.’
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhvLRaEgL4E
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“Capitalism is but the gentleman’s method of slavery.”
- Kwame Nkrumah
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Real-life Hung Gar practitioners, Sharif Bey and Bobby Samuels, pay homage to the Shaw Brothers style of fighting in this fight scene by Art School Dropouts.
You can view the whole thing here.
the classic pose
“Just think that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech! Just imagine, finally, that it is in the midst of people who call themselves the greatest friends of liberty and humanity that one has approved the most barbarous slavery and questioned whether Black men have the same kind of intelligence as whites!”
— Count Constantine F. C. DeVolney