MONDAY
hello world,
hanging on by the hair of my chinny chin chin
okay ima swear off the extensive daily pagecount stuff
i think you got the idea
other than a running count (18 pgs behind) ima let that be
as you see i can get very obsessive about my daily page count
for those following the manual
the daily page count only works on mature manuscript
for early stages i count hours because you put in more hours than you get pages
cause its more thinking, pondering and contemplating
i think this week ima follow through on a comment i made in last weeks post
you know i am always trying to understand this weblog thing and
how the internet affects me as a 21st century artist and intellectual
trying to stay ahead of the changes and on the cutting edge
its got to be more than navel gazing, ima professional
and im always trying to understand how to be use it as an
intellectual aspiring to historical stature and potential significance
instead of a clueless civilian
how to make of it an instrument
one function is working out concepts
of my evolving cosmology, i say something unexpected that i find provocative and
worry at it until it take me to another step and i just keep on stepping
i be macking, i sit down and i commence to macking, i mack an issue and go
wherever it take me, looking for significance and following threads w/potential to go deep
looking for the crossroads
occasionally i end up places that scare me, and i have
to ask am i willing to say that - pretty much always answer yes
i like to think i have the courage of my mack
the comment im thinking might have potential was:
part of my multicultural strategy is to make the black struggle
americas conscience and consciousness, its moral center
that statement i found provocative
this is obviously something i been leading to for awhile
i push the same issues all the time but i say it different ways and in different forums
i believe this particular rhetorical structure will allow more folk to understand my vision
i think ima do an extended peice working this one out
maybe do a full weeks post to get me going on that
and ima work this thread more deeply into rest for the weary
this comes from me trying to find a niche for black folk in the multicultural future
neither integration nor segregation are working projects for longterm viability
both lead to dead ends
integration eventually means blending black folk out of existence
segregation means isolating ourselves from everybody else and declining as a people
my goal is to maintain blackness as a distinct culture and to empower that culture
so that it becomes one of the definitive cultures of the future
by defining black struggle as americas moral center
it would force the struggle to evolve, and make allies of all progressive folk
this is also in keeping with the one drop strategy
to maintain the american practice of counting anybody with one drop of blackblood as black
this is advisable in the 21st century strategic posture because it increases
our numbers and manifests race as a social construct - malleable
we want everybody in america to want to be black
want to give the young hiphop wannabes an adult blackness to aspire to
we want to play off the american fascination with soul
also the historical role since the emancipation struggle
blackfolks have one of the most consistently progressive forces in america
we have to continue demanding of america its very best
this approach comes from blacks neglible demographic numbers
black leaders have always had to search for allies to get anything done
black leaders learned agendas designed just to appeal to blackfolk are nonfunctional
their rhetorical strategy has been that raising everybody raises blackfolk
pushing civic agendas like defending public education in spite of
rightwings attempts to buy us off with voucher programs
also we playing off the magical negro role so favored in hollywood
where the magical negro helps the hapless whiteperson get soul
this is a role embedded in the american cultural imagination
where blackfolk are either magical soulsavers or dysfunctional criminals
this agenda is designed to levarage these social dynamics into a destinic dynamic
designed to ensure the survival and prosperity of the black generations
and all humanity - to lead you must serve
of course the big negative here is so much of afroam culture is dysfunctional
in order for people all over the world to admire and aspire to blackness
we have to build a culture so powerful and so beautiful that folk want to be black
this also is a dynamic already in play, witness the hip hop nation
on one hand afroam culture has been the model for libaration struggles all over the world
on the other hand afroam culture is so dysfunctional you wonder if we will survive as a people
and sometimes if we should
i got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and hang on to the in between
this is the role i play as a cultural orchestrator and hoodoo defender of the faith
i see the blackrace as an illuminated people, it is many generations long
i call this effort to call blackfolk to their highest
the geas of rickydoc - i hope to lay this geas of transcendence on future generations
reach for higher ground or else
so then the question becomes how to program it ever deeper into the
social consciousness
i consider my works the seeds of future realities
and my orchestrations preparation of the ground
two constituencies here
one, got to convince blackfolk its a good strategy
got to get blackfolk to consistently operate on higher ground
i ask only that you be the great and glorious people you were meant to be
the illuminated children of the sun
destinyworkers all
got to convince whitefolk and other ethnics that blackfolk
are a model of human illumination and the path of human destiny
that blackfolk are a transcendent people always evolving
and leading humanity to its ever greater self
reprising a role that our destinic mentors the jews
before they stumbled over the palestinians and succumbed
to the call of the wild
basically we want to play the chosen people role
without the chosen people syndrome
those of you familiar with my work will recognize the parameters of this play
im just gon say it differently and in a manner i think will be effective
if i can convincingly layout this blackstruggle as americas moral center bit
and make it stick with some influentials, it will move my agenda forward
and hopefully it will raise the rhetoric/goals of the blackstruggle
beyond its current fascination with insular foolsgame like reparations
my apologies for working this out in public and inflicting on you the sweat
you are not supposed to see
im just kinda laying out initial thoughts on the concept
will work it over the week and make it happen
(note: i always say that, then current events drive me right along
got to get rootwork.com up to speed so i can have a space to work out more
in-depth works than blog format will allow)
right now, im outta here
id say im about 18 pages behind how
im looking for more gears now
ima desperate man
10 pages a day is obviously an unreasonable goal
but you know 'reasonable' dont get no novel wrote
never did, never will
later . . .
rdoc
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