THE RESISTANCE, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, THE BLACK PANTHERS
TODAY WE TAKE OUR EVERYDAY LIBERTIES AS INALIENABLE RIGHTS. WHEN POLICE BRUTALITY MEETS YOUR COMMUNITY AROUND EVERY CORNER IN EVERY CORNER OF THE COUNTRY RESISTANCE IS FORMED.
STRONG BROTHERS AND SISTERS STANDING UNITED AGAINST INSTITUTIONAL OPPRESSION. THE LAST THING THE GOVERNMENT WANTS IS EMPOWERED CITIZENS EXERCISING THEIR FREEDOMS, WHICH IS WHY THEY ACTIVATED THEIR “PROTECTIVE TOOLS” IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE RISE OF THE BLACK MESSIAH AT ANY COST.
PROBLEM, REACTION, SOLUTION. IT SEEMS SHOCKING THAT IT ONLY TOOK A $300 BRIBE TO BRING THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY DOWN. IN REALITY THIS WAS JUST THE START OF THE WAR, AS WITHOUT THE PANTHERS WE WOULDN’T HAVE THE S.W.A.T TEAM, OR THE PRISONS FOR PROFIT STRATEGY, RATTLED THAT THE BLACK COMMUNITY HAD GAINED SUCH PUBLIC SUPPORT THAT THE OUTCRY WAS UNDENIABLE.
BLACK LIVES MATTER TODAY BECAUSE THIS UNDERCURRENT OF POLICE BRUTALITY HAS NEVER REALLY LEFT THE USA. WHEN THE MASONIC BOYS IN BLUE TAKE ORDERS ITS FROM THE TOP. IT IS REALLY JUST AN ONGOING HOMEGROWN TERROR CAMPAIGN, AS WE STILL SEE A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF BLACK MALES LOCKED UP, & THE IMAGERY OF THE “BLACK SAVAGE” NIGHTLY ON THE NEWS. THE IMAGERY OF BLACK SOLIDARITY DIDN’T DIE WITH THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IT WENT DEEP UNDERGROUND. LAYING, WAITING.
WHEN GIVING THE YOUTH IN YOUR COMMUNITY A FREE NUTRITIOUS BREAKFAST MAKES YOU PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE, YOU KNOW SOMETHING WRONG IS GOING ON. THE PANTHER VANGUARD BRINGS THE VOICES OF THE SURVIVORS, & THEIR STORIES OF OPPRESSION & DEFIANCE, THE MUSIC, THE ART & THE STRUGGLE, THE BEAUTY & THE VIOLENCE. MASTERFULLY COMBINED BY DIRECTOR STANLEY NELSON.
THE PANTHERS VANGUARD
24 FebBLACK PANTHERS WHITED
10 Feb
WE RECENTLY TOUCHED UPON WHITE PRIVILEGE & WHITE WASHING, ONLY TO HAVE US SMACK US IN THE FACE ON PUBLIC ACCESS TV. LONG RUNNING SOFLA CULTURE PROGRAM ART LOFT ATTEMPTED AT SHOWING A SELECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY PRESENTED BY WHITE GATEKEEPERS. AT THE NORTON MUSEUM OF ART, CURATOR TIM WRIDE, INVITED FOUR UNIVERSITY ASSISTANTS TO HELP PRESENT A RETROSPECTIVE OF BLACK PANTHER CULTURE FROM THE 1960S TO THE PUBLIC. THE FOUR CANDIDATES CHOSEN WERE ALL CAUCASIAN FEMALE. THE ECHELONS OF THE EXCLUSIVE POST GRADUATE EDUCATION ART SYSTEM ONCE AGAIN REARS ITS HEAD.
DOCUMENTATION OF LAST TRUE BLACK RESISTANCE IN AMERICA, ONLY ACCESSIBLE THROUGH LENS OF WHITE ACADEMIA. IS IT INSULTING TO BE “EDUCATED” ON THE COINTELPRO TACTICS, CONCERTED INFILTRATION & DESTRUCTION OF THE BLACK RESISTANCE FROM ACADEMICS, WHOS PRIVILEGE SHIELDS HER FROM THAT SAME LEVEL OF RACIAL OPPRESSION EXISTING TODAY?
WHILE IT IS NICE TO LOOK AT BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY IN A MUSEUM, IT HAS NO REAL CONTEXT TO CONTEMPORARY CULTURE WHEN IT IS DISCONNECTED FROM ITS PEOPLE, & REPRESENTED THROUGH THE LENS OF THE DOMINATOR CULTURE, LIKE IT HAS BEEN DONE GENERATION AFTER GENERATION WITHOUT ANY HESITATION.
WELCOME TO CYBERSPACE
2 Feb
WELCOME TO CYBERSPACE TURNS TWENTY YEARS OLD. MORE LIKE PROPHECY & HISTORY LESSON, WRITTEN WITH UNCANNY ACCURACY. EVERYTHING COMES FULL CIRCLE OF LIFE ON GROUNDHOG DAY.
AS THE DIGITAL NATIVES BECOME PRIME, ITS SEEMS FITTING THAT EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN. ANALOG / DIGITAL / ANALOG. THE MICROCOSM BECOMES MICRO-TRANSACTIONS. FREE-TO-PLAY BECOMES BILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS. THE MULTI-VERSE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE, MULTIDIMENSIONAL REALITY IS ON A TOUCH-SCREEN.
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