FRIDAY
yesterday i just took 3 hours noveltime, couldnt afford it, just took it
everyday that i see a 3 hour block laying around ima take it
that means everyday something got to suffer
but i will pay that freight
bush privatization scheme #1
to understand the snafus roiling the medicare drug rollout
you got to remember that it was designed to be a scam
like privatizing social security
it was not designed to help seniors
it was designed to let pharma/insurance companies raid, rob and plunder
the government and old folk too
instead of a clean & simple federal program
it was designed to make the fat cats richer
and actually make it harder on seniors to get drug coverage
w/doughnuts holes and other unnecessary functions
designed to look like coverage w/o actually being coverage
the tipoff is that the government is not allowed to
bargain for lower prices from big pharma
the tipoff is that the main author of the program
billy tanzin of louisiana, quit as soon as it was enacted
to become the president of big pharmas lobbying arm
the tipoff is that they misled the american people
no, forget that weak euphemism, they strategically and blatantly lied to us
tricked and bamboozled us like they did with iraq
and tried to do w/social security
remember how they told congress/the people it would only cost 400 billion
a month after it was enacted they corrected themselves, oops looks like 535 billion
turns out medicare actuarial guy knew it all along and was told he would be fired
if he told congress the real cost and now the estimated cost is a 700 billion giveaway
to the rich and powerful on the backs of the old and the sick
how can they sleep at night
and now the chickens are coming home to roost (those that can still flutter)
in the most vulnerable population we have - the old, the sick and the poor
(anyday now most of us will be clocking at least 2 out of 3, this affects us all
- and our parents too)
and now old folk sick and dying because of the bush administrations
unbelievably callous attitude toward people- use them anyway they can -
use them up
an administration that would have been happier only if the old folk
had been drugless, pensionless and social securityless too
the bush administration and its crooked congressional allies
are an abomination and ive lost my little ironic distance on this one
folk keep saying katrina been americas worst disaster to date
but far as rickydoc is concerned its been george w. bush
and his cronies in crime
what do you think
rdoc
THURSDAY
a two headed man
my boy melvin gibbs got more faces than the legal law allow
nwego's child: rootwork, the ancestral mindmeld
hoodoo-philsopher
sonic hoodoo
fractal solomon & snake 2g
excerpt from sonic hoodoo
When the universe began it began as a vibration, a throb,
"a kind of movement" Tantric philosophy says.
The technical term for this vibration is Spanda.
This throb, this "kind of movement" propagates through the universe.
It could be said that this vibration, this wave exists in different forms at
different levels of existence.
But the more correct way of viewing, Spanda, the vibratory wave is that this
wave exists as the different levels of existence.
this from hoodoo philsopher
rootwork today: hoodoo at the crossroads
This thing that people call hoodoo has a certain energy that powers it that has to be respected for it to work. If you try to turn it into something that it isn’t it just wont work right if it works at all.
Even
if you wanted to consider rootwork folk magic (which I don’t) you’d
have to admit folk magic implies a connection to a larger “folk”
culture of which it’s part of and which defines it and its’ parameters.
Otherwise we’d just be talking about one worldwide folk culture. The
fact that rootwork/ hoodoo exists and has a definition is proof enough
of what I’m talkin ‘bout. Defining African-American practices in terms
of European culture and cultural values is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what
the Old Skool rootworkers/hoodooists did. What they did was this:
Develop and define a culture in terms of the values and technologies
they and their parents carried inside of them when they got here in
concert and in combination with others who shared their same cultural
condition.
Whatever ingredients
they used and developed were defined and incorporated for use in terms
of their own culture and technology.
When they used Native American or European cultural practices they incorporated them in terms of and using African cultural practices and technology. This process of incorporating European and Native American practices and harmonizing them in terms of and to African practices is what created African-American culture.
Let me put it this way. When you hear classical music sampled on lets say, a Dr. Dre track is he using it in terms of European cultural values or the rules laid down by European musical theorists? No, he’s jackin’. He’s using it in terms of his own musical culture, the hip-hop culture and its’ own musical rules. If you took all the ingredients Dre uses to make a track and gave them to a classical composer and told to make a composition using only those ingredients you wouldn’t get a hip-hop track back. You’d get some classical music, made with classical musical rules and techniques. And conversely if took a classical orchestra to a Dr. Dre session and told Dre to make a track using only them he’d comeback with a hip-hop track and probably a hot one.
Anyone using 1920’s African-American energy manipulation techniques outside of their cultural and philosophical paradigm is spell jackin’. Placing those practices inside an alien paradigm causes the power they had to be emptied an replaced by the power of the new paradigm. They lose the power they had and become a subset of other, seemingly weaker practices. As a concrete example, I’ve seen online where people say that hoodoo is an ephemeral practice where the spells die quickly and have to be done again and again. I can guarantee you that “real” rootworkers alive today would disagree with that assessment and even a careful reading of Hyatt’s informers would contradict it as well.
Conversely spell jackin’ into the African based A-A cultural and philosophical paradigms the Essence of what rootwork/hoodoo is. This is due to the same process of reculturalization ( I think I just made a preacher word). Whatever it was becomes emptied and replaced through African- based energy manipulation techniques passed down to us today, in the same way Dr. Dre or Kanye West empty and replace musical “spells” to make their music.
Same crossroad, different destination.
Uhh, I feel another preacher word uh-huh Comin’ on - uhh
Destin-A-tion! - uh - huh
the Power! - uhh
of finding your way - huh
yaa-suh (congregation interjects)
Which way will you Go !? - huh
When you get - uh-huh
To the Crossroads? - uh
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melvins daytime gig is playing guitar
his nighttime gig im not sure, cause he a 2 headed man
spell jacking
this what he told me when i asked why 3 blogs
i have enuf trouble handling 1
"Ngewo's Chlid is an alternate energy to snake2G
snake2G is kinda confrontational
Ngewo's Child is much more sagacious and calm and has nothing to prove
Sonic Hoodoo is me talkin about what I know well
"
interesting
really got to get my links updated
i like that concept - spelljacking
you gon hear more of that
in struggle
rdoc
WEDNESDAY
preach brother
my first reaction was kneejerk
nagin said what?
but once i heard the soundbites on gods positions:
"surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretences. but surely he is upset at black america also"
i couldnt argue with that
then him and god start indicting black men:
"we are not taking care of ourselves. we are not taking care of our women, and we are not taking care of our children when you have a community where 70% of its children are being born to one parent."
well im thinking, this is rather juicy, then come the real wingdinger:
"I
don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are. this
city will be chocolate at the end of the day. this city will be a majority african-american city. its the way god wants it to be."
o he gon take some incoming for that
and i know, like whitefolk who get caught speaking in code
he gon commence to backing up and clarifying
nonono, i didnt say what you thought you heard
chocolate he saying now is "a combination of dark chocolate and white milk"
thats kind of weak brother, you gon have to dance better than that
elections in a couple of months and folk scattered to the 4 corners
in the past hes depended on white support so he dancing on shaky ground
in spite of my own prophetic aspirations i generally dismiss folk
who got that direct connection to god
but in this case i might let it slide
cause i feel you brother nagin, i feel the frustration
and im glad to get a glimpse of where your heart is in this matter
i was concerned that you was doing the bidding of basinstreet fatcats in this matter
still am but im resting a little easier knowing you got that direct line to god
and forget that chocolate city rhetoric, much too timid,
doesnt have the solidity of "the black belt "
every other major city in the black belt south is majority black
a sisterhood of which new orleans is the mardi gra queen
im assuming new orleans gon be less black but not not black
(like some folk want, nagin aint the onliest one been talking in code)
just as im assuming we gon make a way
out of no way - like god trained us to
in struggle
rdoc
TUESDAY
the days of wine and roses are gone
well, the 1st day of school and me without a syllabus
for my tuesday class, fortunately its a class ive done often
and should have an old syllabus updated by 3
god i loved being a free man
but if you must work for a living, then teaching it is
my approaching to teaching is somewhat mystical
teaching young writers is what i do, getting paid for it is gravy
gon update rootsblogs links this week
and put two columns on rootsblog, one on each side, been wanting to do that
for awhile now, looks more professional to me, but its going to mess up
my formatting and i fear i will have to reformat 2 years worth of posts
thats not gon happen notime soon
okay a couple of quick comments and im off to the plantation
just kind of set them up, issues i want to comment on, flesh them out later
im really pulling for the iron lady of liberia, do your thing girl
has nagin lost his mind, says god is mad at neworleans, whats up with that
haitian elections coming up, born and bred in the usa, no win possible
explosion of the black blogosphere, got to update my links
okay, im feeling a little pressured here, i got to go
im schoolhouse bound
later
rdoc
MONDAY, MARTIN LUTHER KINGS BIRTHDAY
hollywood and the magical negro
hello world, i been working like a fiend
last two days of woodshed and taking no prisoners
was thinking just now about hollywood and the magical negro
some of my hoodoo colleagues are offended by hollywoods
treatment of the magical negro
all the movies where the negro with magical powers
helps some whiteperson become whole
the green mile, baggervance, ghost, the one where morgan freeman plays god, etc etc
i havent seen these pictures cause you know i just dont have the time
for hollywood interps of magical negroes - they probably offend me too
i read one review of bagger vance that said here was a magical negro in the
apartheid south and all he can find to do with his powers is
help some whiteboy with his golf game
but the trope of the magical negro im a big fan of
cause im trying to position hoodoo as the spiritual adviser of america
as the spiritual adviser of the world
reason this is potentially possible is because we are perceived as
one of the worlds magical peoples
like the jews, the nativeamericans, hindu and asians, etc
at our best african americans are perceived in the popular culture as spiritual and magical
this often leads to questionable and sensationalist interps by hollywood
and always in context of whitefolks - but what else do we expect from hollywood
the salient factor is that popular culture considers us a magical people
as do we, at our best
i want to position hoodoo as one of the worlds great spiritual/magical traditions
the worlds acknowledged spiritual advisers, reprising a role the jews have historically played
and manifested through unique mythwork and ideological achievement
to do this my primary goal is rebuilding and empowering africanamerican culture
emphasing its illumination over is equally powerful dysfunction
and a major aspect of that is shaping the worlds perception of it, accentuating the positive
eliminating the negative and hanging on to the in between
so this impression of us as a magical people is right down my alley
ima leverage that into true power
hollywoods interp is part of a cultural perception that will manifest
itself in ways both crude and profound - we just got to accentuate the positive
and leverage everything in the world as a matter of cultural empowerment
my hoodoo mantra is
awaken the sleeper protect the weak guide the strong
that role is possible precisely because the world thinks we are a magical people
and at our best, we are
rickydoc trickmaster
wouldbe prophet of the hoodoo way
We are magical people!
That made my day!
Peace
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Posted by: Naro% | January 16, 2006 at 11:26 PM