“When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the
service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am
afraid.”
~Audre
Lorde
Showing posts with label earth cycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earth cycle. Show all posts
Cultural Workers...in the world the slavers made.
Cultural workers intent on laying the groundwork for an African future need only start by stating the historical truth: the history we have shared with Europe has been a tale of pillage, massacres, dehumanization. That Europeans want to interpret it as a civilizing mission and an aid expedition to rescue us from barbarism is natural. What is unnatural is that we should want to repeat their take on our history. There was a time when African intellectuals who knew our history were too beaten down to speak up, and when those trained to speak in the world the slavers made knew only how to repeat their teachers' words.
Now some of us have finished our mimetic training, made contact with the silenced voices uttering our history, and are ready to tell our story on the basis of our historical truth. A politician speaking truth in the present dispensation will quickly be helped to a premature rendezvous with our ancestors. Europeans will plan the murder, and since we are poor and do not know how to make money from creative work, they will find many of us willing to execute it for a few thousand dollars, francs, marks or pounds. Cultural workers do not pose a clear and present danger to our oppressors. If our work is any good, we will suffer only the milder kinds of murder: character assassination, financial destruction. It's a price cultural workers throughout history have paid for real work. If we wish to do the necessary work, we would be foolish to want to avoid the consequence. The best we might do is to create networks guaranteeing improved chances of our survival. That is what all living beings do.
What, with this focus on historical truth, might cultural workers contribute to the construction of an African identity? Our contribution to the future might begin with a hard-eyed look at the shaping structures we inhabit. It is possible to date these structures. It is necessary that they be acknowledged as dated. Beyond that, we need to think of the nature of human movement on this continent before it was divided up into the slave pens Europeans called colonies then, and unimaginative Africans are urged to call nations now, to our constant detriment.
~p240, The Eloquence of the Scribes, Ayi Kwei Armah
Smart White Kids
White supremacy does not exist or persist because whites foolishly fear people with a different skin color. it survives and thrives because whiteness delivers unfair gains and unjust enrichments to people who participate in and profit from the existence of a racial cartel that skews opportunities and life chances for their own benefit. it externalizes the worst social conditions onto communities of color and provides whites with a floor below which they cannot fall. - George Lipsitz, The Posessive Investment in Whiteness"...Political Scientist Andrew Hacker asked his students how much money it would take to go from being white to being Black. Most students put a dollar amount of $50 million (or $1 million per year of their life). Whiteness is an enormous enough investment that a cash value can be ascribed to it."
Airtkwayk
#66.6
Exajoules in Argentina
While babylon lockdown
de i ainshun mind n'body o'
jah jah-ask-mama
shift ova a few inches
tell dem
dem time
GROWING short.
March
9, 2010
Number of Brain States
And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combination of brain activity, in other words the number of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe."
~Vilayanur Ramachandran
Upon what riff the music slips
. . . The Negro
With the trumpet at his lips
Whose jacket
Has a fine
one-button roll,
Does not know
Upon what riff the music slips
Its hypodermic needle
To his soul--
~Langston Hughes, Fields
of Wonder
Lupe's Ghosts, Tina's Words, Marlena's Change.
Alert. Great San Ko Fa moment happening. ...See this segment documentary video by Boston
police officer Bill Willis (it is part 5 of 6 clips) -a GREAT video:
A prophetic voice, Tina Chery, happens around minute 4:09. Sister works for the Louis Brown Institute for Peace- in honor of her slain son. Lupe (& others i have seen in the community, first hand) are fulfilling / creating learning moments for me, such that i have felt like...like 'we are achieving' in the spirit of Tina's words. A big 'GIVE THANKS' to these brothers. I give thanks to my Brothers for catching hell, catching cases, catching lead, catching this ERA (not seen since the peak of lynching 1 century ago) that our parents and grandparents didn't keep from us. That we focus and real change to end it.
Struggle For, Even If Its Beauty
'...You will come back. You will stay. Before that the spirits and our ancestors will hold a great meeting to discuss the future of the world. It will be one of the most important meetings ever held. Suffering is coming. There will be wars and famine. Terrible things will happen. New disease, hunger, the rich eating up the earth, people poisoning the sky and the waters, people going mad in the name of history, the clouds will breath fire, the spirit of things will dry up, laughter will become strange.'
He stopped. There was a long pause. Then he continued, frightening me.
'There will be changes. Coups. Soldiers everywhere. Ugliness. Blindness. And then when people least expect it a great transformation is going to take place in the world. Suffering people will know justice and beauty. A wonderful change is coming from far away and people will realise the great meaning of struggle and hope. There will be peace. Then people will forget. Then it will all start again, getting worse, getting better. Don't fear. You will always have something to struggle for, even if it is beauty or joy.'
~Famished Road, Ben Okri
Artists. Don't Ever Lose Your Ability to Infect Another With Your Sincerity (art).
“Art is what you give up,”
“Art is what you give up,”
“Art is what you give up,”
“Art is what you give up,”
“Art is what you give up,”
“Art is what you give up,”
“Art is what you give up,”
“Art is what you give up,”
~SALIF DIABAGATÉ
What Makes A King?
Woah all you nations
A question.
What makes a king?
What makes
prospering?
ooh you rebellious
Evidence stands of
events facts
Don't leave it
unsung
Jah is merited
All eight names in atlas
yoke
All earth descendants
and influences
Him on earth who maintain
the grid
Of togetherness
Specializing in
snowballing perceptions
The gathering mass
come tumbling
Witches and sorcerers
they label them.
In immediate society
Look within
If it isn't true,
Then go fix the wrong way
You made people think.
Things worth of distance
As one gone with
Everlasting Contempt
And everlasting Glory
As they resurrecting
in
The current model of
excess to be living in
respect the
indigenous people in a where they live
redeem the villainous infamy of how you rob and kill
as minimum
obligation just freely give
as minimal redeem
please teach rethink
with whips who broke
our names right out of our links
and broke civility
to animal instinct.
The predetory
instinct of take to win,
The seeds of jealousy
cultivated,
And shut us galore
born out this thing
What of the structure
the ends constructed
Purpose full
directives
For each one
functioning
Soldiers of the long wall
To protect her in eee ee
Just to protect her
in
Selassie I the
power of the holy trinity lives
He is. He is.
Ooh you nations
A question,
What makes a king?
What makes a king?
Ooh you nations
What makes
prospering
oooh you rebellious.
Don't leave it
unsung
The Emperor is
merited
All earth
descendants
And influences
Him who on earth
Protect the grid
Its he who on earth
protects the sociological grid
The how we are all
related.
OOh all you nations
What makes a king
speak from the
secret place of heart?
What makes a king?
What makes a king?
Repost: Praise Jah
Mental Sag: we ARE this.
Hmm. (We are better than this.)
We are better than this?
Hypocrisy of the first order.
You are a part of we. You are not better than this.
Greatest lesson of 'U.S. civil rights' activism: to be approximately right > exactly wrong
We are better than this?
You are exactly wrong.
You left these kids. You left the community.
If not physically, then certainly Mentally. You (left) leave it in your mind every day.
...and posters like this soothe your conscience that tells you it was not worth it
to follow the dream (hollow mock) taught to you (to pursue at the cost of yourself) by the not-We.
You didn't listen to your Ancestors. (for they are only dead to you).
What are these kids doing?
What are they (who is a part of 'we') SAYING with their clothes?
Do you have a clue? Have you taken a look? (Yeah Yeah, jail culture blah blah blah...).
Try it yourself. Try doing what they do. Try to make your clothes look like they make.
Walk in their shoes. For real.
Can you, you Fool?
What is happening? You are making one body part longer, taller (spine, backbone)
at the expense of legs (legs -forward motion-are expendable).
In the society (of global 'no-love' power tradition) in which they walk (live), THEY FEEL SHORT.
THEY FEEL they've no BACKBONE.
Uprightness-Stability is even forsaken, they only want but to know BACKBONE: taller (human) feeling.
Sankofa yourself.
The last (national) person/group to show us our backbone where our wishbone currently lies was MLK, Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (NOI and Tupac for a moment).
The same powers that eliminated them know too that 'WE' seeing a picture of the Obama family is a milisecond of backbone 'feeling' in the deep desert of our wishbone lives. ...curbs the want to get TALLER.
"UP YOU MIGHT RACE!" (Baba Garvey/Mama Harriet full-cry to us).
"We are better than this!" = "Up you sagging pants!" = all that you have to give?
Please.
How can you make that YOUTH feel TALLER (or tall enough) in and of himself?
Can you truly help him fight the meaning of the pants sag?
Or can't you see? Can't you hear? Or don't you want to?
Courage. (the civil rights generation had PLENTY of this...if not misdirected).
Hear WE. Hear 'your' kids. YOU RAISE THEIR PANTS. YOU RAISE THEIR IMAGE.
...and not with your fake ass education, fake ass jobs and fake as status.
You grinning American slave.
I bet you thought the billboard was a good investment of money.
(Was the money even yours? ...earned with clean hands?)
Your brain sag PUT the sag in their pants.
YOU tied up the youths feet (movement) with your POSING.
Can't blame them for saying F--- YOU and F--- YOUR 'BETTER'
in a way that no other younger generation has said to an older generation.
Its ok.
All of that is to say, if you love your own, (if you can love your 'we'), then LOVE THEM.
damn.
ref: http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/03/teach-negro-child-60-ways-to-despise.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2011/05/seen.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/07/energy-in-us.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/05/cuffs.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/04/sister-knowknew.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/03/ch-art-er-whey.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-this-fair.html
Shade -wibby Black Congo-oh.
"Is there a place to rest in your shade?
I want to rush toward you -- but a heavy debt lies in the way and turns me back.
I talk to myself about you, for I cannot return to you and sadness has made a home in my heart."
I want to rush toward you -- but a heavy debt lies in the way and turns me back.
I talk to myself about you, for I cannot return to you and sadness has made a home in my heart."
~Yahya bin Talib al-Hanafi
Necessary Silence
"The liberator is he who from a necessary silence, from a necessary secrecy strikes the destroyer. That, not loudness, is the necessary beginning."
~Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons
Helotry AWO
And, stunned,
Magaica lit a lamp
to search for his lost illusions,
for his youth and his health which stay buried
deep in the mines of Johannesburg.
Youth and health,
the lost illusions
which will shine like stars
on some Lady's neck in some City's night.
~Noemia de Sousa (Mozambique)
Waning of Rome
2nd day in a row of front page (site) feature of arrival of happy ma couple with haitian adoptee. ...and what of haitian parents awaiting their children who had visa interviews scheduled but now wait outside of a closed embassy? Gov't 'Rushes' for Swampscott, but no emergency visas for children with Haitian parents in the U.S.
_Dis here charlietown is a throat-cutting (slaver board-jumping) mf. idren wouldn't wish this wkdbabylon pon Valencia.
The Origin of Death ~ Khoesan
THE Moon, it is said, sent once an insect to men, saying, "Go to Men, and tell them, 'As I die, and dying live, so you shall also die, and dying live.'" The insect started with the message, but while on his way was overtaken by the hare, who asked: "On what errand are you bound? "The insect answered: "I am sent by the Moon to men, to tell them that as she dies, and dying lives, they also shall die, and dying live." The hare said, "As you are an awkward runner, let me go." With these words he ran off, and when he reached men, he said, "I am sent by the Moon to tell you, 'As I die, and dying perish, in the same manner you also shall die and come wholly to an end."' Then the hare returned to the Moon, and told her what he had said to men. The Moon reproached him angrily, saying, "Do you dare tell the people a thing which I have not said? With these words she took up a piece of wood, and struck him on the nose. Since that day the hare's nose is slit, but men believe what hare had told them.
[sAfrika's cawbaan peuah]
Mashpee Pow Wow
This summer makes idren's 7th (formal) year of both celebrating alternatives to U.S. Holydazes and not celebrating U.S. Holydazes. Each fourth of youlie, ini spend time wi n8v bruddah/sistah. Every year ini see somethings that am supposed to see, needed to see. This year, at their 83rd Pow Wow, there were four especially memorable experiences. One, the Gombey dancers-Bermudian afro-amerN8Vs returned. Two, afro-n8v brothers and sisters, young & old came again -dem ah caryee da ways of de crown & idren saw it. Three, brother Annawon spoke some necessary words about 711 & 'rules' that i needed to hear. Four, sister Lorin, made a upspirit gesture during a yut's dance that struck me in my heart (last 'money' dance idren danced was with Fon of Mankon visit 2 winters ago-bconx live). Pure livity.
Normal Beautiful Things
W.E.B. DuBois' description of the purpose of the Brownies Book (a magazine for children ages six to sixteen):
“To make colored children realize that being colored is a normal, beautiful thing, to make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race, to make them know that other colored children have grown into beautiful, useful famous person, to teach them delicately, a code of honor and action in their relations with white children, to turn their little hurts and resentments into emulation, ambition and love of their own homes and companions, to point out the best amusements and joys and worthwhile things of life, to inspire them to prepare for definite occupations and duties with a broad spirit of sacrifice.”
“To make colored children realize that being colored is a normal, beautiful thing, to make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race, to make them know that other colored children have grown into beautiful, useful famous person, to teach them delicately, a code of honor and action in their relations with white children, to turn their little hurts and resentments into emulation, ambition and love of their own homes and companions, to point out the best amusements and joys and worthwhile things of life, to inspire them to prepare for definite occupations and duties with a broad spirit of sacrifice.”
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