MONDAY
hello world, speakng of illuminated black nationalism all praise for makebas graduation to ancestor, so many of the
old lions and lionesses checking out - got to get my work done - mama africa checked out singing, what a way to go
seem old lion farrakhan and other black nationalists going thru
the same thing im going thru regarding the struggle - what now
spoke out sunday about how he kept his mouth shut when folk used his support of obama and forced obama to repudiate and reject or something like that, and how he saw a spirit of oneness
at grant park after and how we have to help this brother 'make this a successful presidency'
now thats deep, use damn near my exact same words, we on the same page
im impressed that farrakhan one of the folk, unlike wright, who peep the game and played it
ive been impressed with black political sophistication in general with obama and its interesting to see the nation of islam going thru what im going thru with this race peace (i meant to say race piece and wrote race peace and figure i will leave it peace, i leave fruedian slips that seem pertinent alone)
ive spent my adult life in white professional environments and consider myself comfortably cosmopolitan
my life has been enriched with white, latin, asian friends, lovers, teachers and students but in my heart and soul ima diehard black nationalist do or die,
been trying to understand what that means in the multiculti 21st century and its kinda fateful ive been asked to do this piece just as this has become a big issue and been forced to address this systematically,
to see black nationalism as remaining exclusively tribal is to put yourself out of the flow of history, but at the sametime we the players cannot turn our backs on blackfolk and leave the people defenseless, not when the water still rising - got to rise them up, like harriet tubman got to get them to the highground
what good is just saving yourself
got to figure this one out, always gon be a nationalist but my idea of black nationalism has to evolve
Farrakhan Says Obama Reflects A 'Oneness of Spirit' Sophia Tareen - Associated Press
The New Liberalism - George Packer, The New Yorker
Embracing the Obama Era - Rebecca Solnit, The Nation
The Obama 08 Phenomen: What Have We Learned - Glen Ford, BAR
not much apparently, hardleft rhetoric that doesnt even attempt nuance, glen kinda stuck
What Obama's Victory Means for Racial Politics - Juan Williams, WSJ
of all the digital ink on the new game most come from this apologist slant, the colored apologists are having a wonderful time telling the rest of us i told you so - they make some points but not enuf, what i didnt like about barres piece is she redacted the nationalist position to easily rejected foolishness
i dont object to all the new boosters of the american way, its just saying to striving poor and middleclass blackfolk now you have opportunity, now its all good aint necessarily the case - its more complicated than that
Got to keep them united, working as a team, cant afford to lose that, cant afford to break up into individual whats in it for me units. Cant allow that.
folk like me, overachievers like obama, we always gon make a way
but the race still floundering, cant afford to break up the unit
this drive to hold the race together is often ridiculed - but blacks are still the despised
of the earth and racial solidarity is the only thing that has ever worked for us
it is solidarity that has saved our generations, well, now survival is no longer enuf
i speak in the name of the conqueror - got to get them on the good foot
baracks election has thrown blacks and republicans both off their game - blackfolk and
the struggle going thru same soulsearching the republicans are, or should
folk who think the movement was 60, 70s, 80s and then stopped dont understand, we still
on it, its just much more self referential now, much quieter, much more internal, but we still on it
still trying to be effective forces and drummajors for righteousness
my generation, the lions and lionesses of the 60s, trying to undestand our role as we prepare to transfer into eldership
those of us who sincere thinkers and leaders wrestling with the age of obama
what does it mean, to the struggle, america, the world - this a complicated question
this thing ate up my weekend, didnt clock not one page - i am not a happy camper
i think ima take monday for my novel, otherwise im going to be in a bad mood all week
all my love
rdoc
SUNDAY
look like the glow of obamas win wore off kinda quick for me
its back in the trenches, i assume i will get surges
like maybe the inauguration, otherwise samo samo
i gotta focus, feeling under the gun on every front
look like ol rickydoc got a taste of the blues
thinking i might let rootsblog sit for awhile - i aint feeling it
this piece on race requiring more than i anticipated, expected
to knock it on off but its complicated to say something
new and fresh and real about race, specially after obama and
all the digital ink on race relations that have come out of that
i know whats expected of me - we are the world - but im
an artist, i pride myself a visionary thinker, i got to shine
say something aint been said
and i got to determine what obamas win mean to my own vision
of black empowerment, what it mean to my game
unlike the barres piece i cant just spout political pablum, she argue post racial but her dismissal of the nationalist headset is kinda rudimentary, at the sametime ii have to acknowledge the nationalist headset can so often be teminally archaic, o this piece causing me some serious ponderation
ima try to contemporize the nationalist headset, shape it for the 21st century
oxford a good vehicle for that (since they the one ask me)
see if i recast that black victimhood narrative, do a little mythwork
on that, the presumption we always gon lose, change victim to victorious
aint but a couple of syllables
what i got to say about race in america got to be lightyears beyond what oxford thinking
i know what they want, i could knock that off in my spare time what they want
What does it mean for Black America - Jonetta Barras, WashPost
How the World Must Act in the Congo - Now - Andrew Berman, Time Magazine
It Still Felt Good the Morning After - Frank Rich, NYTimes
How Obama Won - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
i found this last article particularly rewarding, i like to think ima player
my idea of contemporary hoodoo is advising the players on the play
the tribal shaman empowering its warriors
this article let me know just how clueless my little advice has been
no wonder i dont get no play, ohwell, live and learn, always trying
to elevate my game
a luta continua
rdoc
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