Nigger Profanization Characterized.

Look close.  Theme: Reproduction on this 'Earth'.  Seen?  Nigger Profanziation (the era of time in which we currently li.fe) as the descendant of Nigger Colonization/Profanization, as the grand descendant of Nigger Slavery (comprising the Epoch of "Ma'afa"), as the great great descendant of a deeper, older idea:

(Wikipedia:) Margaret Garner (called Peggy) was an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious – or celebrated – for killing her own daughter rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery. She and her family had escaped in January 1856 across the frozen Ohio River to Cincinnati, but they were apprehended by U. S. Marshals acting under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Margaret Garner's defense attorney moved to have her tried for murder in Ohio, to be able to get a trial in a free stateand to challenge the Fugitive Slave Law as well.  Her story was the inspiration for the novel Beloved (1987) by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey, as well as for her libretto for the early 21st century opera Margaret Garner (2005), composed by Richard Danielpour.

  

(2nd)                                        (3rd)                                         (4th) 

 (...nth)

(awOth)

Remembrance has not escaped us. Trapped now in our smallest self, we, repositories of the remembrance of the way violated…that is our vocation to find…our healing self, we the black people…The remembrance is of a harsh time, horrid, filled with pains…It was left to the women to begin the work of the healing…”
—Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons

Art and Youth

   Awo. So much going on in this video. check baby's choreographical(?) pauses. See whole body free up. ...whole body use. There are levels to this **** (expression the 'bones knows'). Her moves influence their moves. information is made and shared. She catches this. The adults are teaching her how to 'teacher them' with her beauty with her creative (creator in her). AWO. This space is kin to spaces ProjectHipHop creates for Boston's young adult artists in their move for social justice. Please SUPPORT Them. & all spaces akin. There are (these) things we have not accessed in ourselves, necessary to fight the enemy on all fronts  Go on Zaya.  Rumble.

"I'm not real, I'm just like you."

No Attractive.

"There is absolutely nothing attractive about a Black President with imperial ambitions. Our struggle was never about getting a individual Black man in the White House-it was about justice for all Black people. We have lost our way.The ultimate insult to my integrity is we have a Black man bombing Africa."

Cynthia McKinney 

Interference

A huge part of white supremacy and white culture is about interfering in the affairs of black people.

Yt Back Thorn, Old Fear

"This waking up.  This sharpened focus.  This 'wait a damn minute'.  What this girl POSITS to do in response to the reality of her environment ( It is at the core of what racism-white supremacy FEARS ABovE ALLL.  Any growth or widening of this instinct(?) is at the core of what the 'actually power-over' of this day and time FEAR.  That fear, manifests directly in all of the treatments of African descended people in all the times we have seen and see.  ...from the movement/restriction of our bodies (including minds) to the life-troubling circumscription of our dreams and hopes as a naked upright species walking on the surface of this planet in clothes."

~Teyoh Sierra

PTSD & well produced radio programming - (20 min. Must hear)

Heard this powerful story a month ago on the radio outside of St. Louis. The author/interviewer (Kotlowitz) did a clever, though simple thing here, by wondering if the effect of urban violence was comparable to the trauma that a person experiences from war. Kotlowitz talks to a military vet from Afghanistan and a guy from Philadelphia who’s lived in some pretty bad neighborhoods to find out if they are doubles of some sort.  It is well mixed and edited.  Starts at minute 33:30.  You WILL be hooked if you start this 25 min story.  Teachers, this is an excellent prompt on POLICY and SOCIETY effect on young modern human men (i.e. how are these two kids doubles and how are the NOT).

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/484/doppelgangers?act=2#play  

Brandon & Curtis ARE doubles...up to a point.  Please comment.

Another good related link here:
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-ptsd-crisis-thats-being-ignored-americans-wounded-in-their-own-neighbor

Passing the torch is kinda hard in a crisis

"Notes on The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: Passing the torch is kinda hard in a crisis" http://feedly.com/k/1dJrqBI

N.O. to Houston Astrodome

Children Hangmen

"54 year old homeowner"

"gradientlair: There is no argument that can be made to justify..."

..dis fruitaa 2013 apartheid beast-heart amerikkka.

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"There is no argument that can be made to justify the killing of Renisha McBride as Whites ride under the protection of the obliviousness created by White privilege and a justice system that exists to uphold White supremacy, not fairness and certainly not justice.

I have been accosted by drunk White men and recently had my privacy invaded at home by a random White woman, which I wrote about here: Unlike Renisha McBride, A White Woman Came To My Door (Not Even For Help) And Lived Another Day. I did not murder any of them. Whites have spit on my life since childhood and I have not taken a life and most certainly not for someone knocking on my door. Yet Whites I’ve seen who seem to cheer her death have the audacity to attempt righteous indignation about her toxicology report released to the media for mass use even as “54 year old homeowner” has replaced this man’s name? Whites are really trying to have righteous indignation regarding alcohol? Do they know what they are like when drunk? Do they know the chaos they cause? Do they know the hell of dealing with them in a corporate workspace,college campus, restaurant or neighborhood when drunk? The entitlement and White privilege plus lack of inhibition? The hell that causes people.

A murder victim is being treated as a criminal. Still no charges filed and she’s already been buried. Yet the smear campaign against her continues and the quasi-anonymity for the killer continues. In a White supremacist society, Black victims are treated like criminals and Black criminals are treated like animals.

And since a part of White supremacy includes the toddler-like nature that many Whites approach race with, all of your derailment and excuses are covered here so no need to add them to my post: I don’t care if “all” Whites are not like this; no I am not the “real” racist; no, Black people aren’t racist towards you; no, racism isn’t just insults; no, this incident is not isolated; no, this is not about drones or President Obama—mentioned as a way for you to erase what has happened here; no this is not about the White supremacist label “Black on Black” crime that you think Black people are “happy” about, when most crime is intraracial (including “White on White” crime) and Black people who harm Whites pay heavily when Whites who harm Black people do not; and no, this is not about some “generic” issue where “anyone” is capable of doing badly. Race cannot be erased from a history that used our blood as its ink for its story.

I am tired of even having to write a disclaimer on my posts because your White supremacist petulance includes a lack of critical thinking, lack of boundaries, repetition of easily refuted derailment and a lack of self-control. I am…tired. I cannot even have a conversation on something like this—which is so stressful already—without having to address bigots every step of the way. Fuck you for this."

Anyway, some important information/links:

• Vigil: In Detroit, Saturday, 11/16/13, 4:00pm 
• Demand Justice: Dearborn Heights Police Dept - (313) 277-6770
• Petition: Color of Change - Demand justice for Renisha McBride
• Petition: MoveOn - Treat Wayne Co. Prosecutors Office: Treat Renisha McBride’s death as a crime
• Petition: US Human Rights Network - Petition to bring Renisha McBride’s killer to justice
• Justice For Renisha McBride on Facebook 
• Democracy Now: with dream hampton discussing the case
• Voices of Detroit:  independent paper with story on the case

All of my posts on this are tagged under her name: Renisha McBride

System Learn

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

Illinois woman killed same day sister sat behind Obama

An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed the same day her sister sat on the stage behind President Barack Obama, listening to him push for gun control legislation.

Janay Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North Chicago, said Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd. Mcfarlane, a mother of a 3-month-old boy, was in the Chicago suburb visiting friends and family.

North Chicago police said two people are being questioned in connection with Mcfarlane's death, but no charges have been filed.

"I really feel like somebody cut a part of my heart out," Angela Blakely, Mcfarlane's mother, said.

Blakely said the bullet that killed Mcfarlane was meant for a friend.

Hours earlier, Mcfarlane's 14-year-old sister was feet from Obama at Hyde Park Career Academy, where he spoke about gun violence and paid tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old honor student fatally shot last month in a South Side park. Police have said it was a case of mistaken identity, and two people have been charged.

Pendleton's death was one of more than 40 homicides in Chicago in January, a total that made it the deadliest January in the city in more than a decade. Pendleton, a drum majorette, had recently performed during Obama's inauguration and the slaying happened about a mile from his Chicago home.

Blakely told the newspaper that Janay Mcfarlane had been affected by Pendleton's death.

"She always said after Hadiya Pendleton got killed, 'Momma that's so sad,'" Blakely said. "She was always touched by any kid that got killed. She was always touched by mothers who couldn't be there for their babies because they were gone."

Mcfarlane was supposed to graduate from an alternative school this spring, Blakely said, and wanted to go into the culinary arts.

"I'm just really, truly just trying to process it — knowing that I'm not taking my baby home anymore," Blakely said.

     A girl was lynched today.

Pits & Mires

"...mind is a pit of different information
microphone is on so i cause communication
bogle at the the party then you got the bogle-ation..."


"...we have no time to wallow in the mire."
(smile).
~Tribe

Fought As Well As They Could

"In 1730, for instance, newspaper accounts and a letter written by a Royal African Company agent at Cape Coast Castle all reported that the Africans rose and killed all but three of the sailors on board the Boston ship William.  No mention was made of the fate of the Africans, and although the vessel was later reported to have run aground at Anomabu, there is no reason to believe the victorious Africans did not either jump overboard or take the William's boats, ultimately getting ashore and reclaiming their freedom.  In January of 1747, a Rhode Island ship underwent a revolt off of Cape Coast Castle, and the entire crew was killed except for two mates who jumped overboard and swam ashore.  Taking its information about this revolt from a letter, one Boston newspaper wrote that "what became of the Vessel and Negroes afterwards the Letter does not mention."  Even though this incident occurred in a busy slaving shore, and it is not at all unreasonable to presume that at least some of the Africans succeeded in escaping inland.

…the possibility of revolt also helped earn Africans a grudging respect from those whose business it was to enslave them.  As one sailor was compelled to write of a revolt in 1790, after more than one hundred slaves had taken possession of a French slaver as it was at anchor off the African coast, "I could not but admire the courage of a fine young black, who, though his partner in irons lay dead at his feet, would not surrender, but fought with his billet of wood until a ball finished his existence.  The others fought as well as they could, but what could they do against firearms?"

 ~Eric Robert Taylor, If We Must Die (p. 135-6).

What could they do? ...they could fly away home & knew it.    Awo.

Flying vs. Walking

“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called Alpine, New Jersey. Live in Alpine, New Jersey, right? My house costs millions of dollars. In my neighborhood, there are four black people. Hundreds of houses, four black people. Who are these black people? Well, there’s me, Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z and Eddie Murphy. Only black people in the whole neighborhood. So let’s break it down, let’s break it down: me, I’m a decent comedian. I’m a’ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man who lives next door to me does for a living? He’s a fucking dentist! He ain’t the best dentist in the world…he ain’t going to the dental hall of fame…he don’t get plaques for getting rid of plaque. He’s just a yank-your-tooth-out dentist. See, the black man gotta fly to get to somethin’ the white man can walk to.”
~Chris Rock

Tired

Tired
I am tired of work, I am tired of building up somebody else's civilization.
Let us take a rest, M'Lissy Jane.
I will go down to the Last Chance Saloon, drink a gallon or two of gin, shoot
   a game or two of dice and sleep the rest of the night on one of Mike's
   barrels.
You will let the old shanty go to rot, the white people's clothes turn to dust,
   and the Calvary Baptist Church sink to the bottomless pit.
You will spend your days forgetting you married me and your nights hunting
   the warm gin Mike serves the ladies in the rear of the Last Chance Saloon.
Throw the children into the river, civilization has given us too many.
It is better to die than to grow up and find that you are colored.
Pluck the stars out of the heavens.  The stars mark our destiny.  The stars
   marked my destiny.
I am tired of civilization.
~Fenton Johnson

the step beyond HIStory

Surrealism and Black African Art

The surrealist aspects of the African way of life, as well as the African implications of surrealism, have tended to be ignored for reasons already touched on.  Instead of the alienating dualistic intellectualization that usually defines the headlines of European social practice, black Africans enjoyed the presence of the practice of poetry throughout the totality of their traditional social life. In Africa, that is, the living experience of surreality has since prehistoric times enjoyed supremacy over its theoretical justification. In the Western world, however, surrealism is the result of a long philosophical, political, scientific and poetic struggle to recover what the traditional African has never lost.  A gainst all forms of indifference and misery, surrealism and black African art  remain irreducible examples in the development of the complete unfettering of the mind. Surrealism and black African art show that History’s last step—the step beyond History—coincides with a return to first principles, which is also a return to primordial glory, involving nothing less than the systematic and definitive liberation of the whole of human society and of Nature itself.

~Cheikh Tidiane Sylla

Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, no. 4 (1989) (original emphasis)

No Ocean Bottom Community SIMILAR

IN HONOR OF AFRICAN ANCESTORS AT BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC

Vicissitudes Underwater Sculpture - Grenada, West Indies
Artist Jason de Caires Taylor, with Johanna Fernandez , Ari Merretazon and Tina Varick

yut ah.