republicans gone wild

SUNDAY

going thru old rootsblogposts has been deep, its like reviewing your life and its putting me in a strange and fey space
had to catch myself on the hoodie movements, protest just doesnt move me, im as contrarian as buffalo solder

i want blackfolk to respond to outrage w/strategy instead of protest, we very good at protesting loses
in fact what i want blackfolk to be is proactive and constantly building infrastructures of empowerment

but if protest is all i can get i will take it

these brer rabbit tales are killing me, they are redundant, often shallow, very antebellum, very demeaning of
africanamerican slave culture, its going to be difficult to come up with a cultural treasure out of this material

but im invested now, still slogging thru 800 pages of them, extracting what i can use to do a worhty book of them
im determined to rescue these cultural roots and bring them home - decolonialize them is how tara books put it

im out, i really want to finish this extraction phase before i get on the road to memphis, be nice to finish
the rootsblog extraction too, which means i have to drive myself to the wall - cause this extraction phase is

just tedious sludgery, hours & hours & days & days of sludgery & i want to be through w/it as soon as possible
brer rabbit i expect to get done, rootsblog i dont know, im may 2009 now and got 7 years to go,

best i be on it, im out

 

 

FRIDAY

2 more rejections on novel, 1 still out, sent in another draft, im cool

going thru old rootsblog is deep, im like may 2010 and crowing that ive finished the novel, finally
feel like im in the twilight zone, some of this old stuff is interesting though, like abbey lincolns magicman piece

kinda interesting all the energy behind trayvons murder, i did a little grumbling on facebook, cause ima
contrarian at heart and hate that all blackfolk can do is protest when something like this happens

but its all this protesting that has kept it from being swept under the rug, i just hope that this energy can be
leveraged into real change - the repeal of these stand your ground laws and that gunsmoke mentality

defeating the republican regimes that breed this bullshit, and changing the american political mentality that
breeds them, thats what i think really needs to happen, - but ima refrain myself from sneering at the folk in the hoodies

im impressed that its so quickly become a movement, i prefer strategics but i will take what i can get

meantime i agree w/abbey lincoln, if we really want to flip this script we have to work the black soul:

 

 

WEDNESDAY

hello world, i been out of the loop, got about 5 projects in play, all of them in early, ie frustrating stage:

finished extracting oldtext for hoodoo book of flowers, now going thru old rootsblogs posts, deep digging back into
that, not as bad as i feared, but very repititious, cannot tell you how many times i declared myself done with that novel

trying to get thru 2 years a day, once i finish this i can start structuring my 7 movements, forging all those notes into a 81 point narration

also still reading thru those brer rabbit tales, have started making up my own now, because that plantation mentality is boring me, and working w/the gender issues (all brers, no sistas) putting some in urban environment, and retelling classics in a way i can use them

for instance i wanted to include the people could fly, so i had brer rabbit come over w/the 1st shipload of african and lazying aorund when the great escape goes down and when he cry not to be left behind the toby conqueror tells him i need you to stay behind to watch over those who have forgotten how to fly

burt right now im just wading thru 800 pages of antebellum propaganda and its tedious beyond

also supposed to be doing a presentation on zora neale down in tampa, so this morning im researching for it and reading about her final years, working as a maid, works out of print, so forth and im thinking that will make a good shortstory and then im thinking of other moments like that, natturner starting his rebellion, i got john henrys last stroke in my novel, im thinking a book of flashfiction shorts, ancestors at their moment of fa, also folklorics - man if i pull that off, bring those folk to full fledged fiction complexity that would be a worthy book of shorts - the challenge will be having it be more than a book of bios - i got to be bold

been working on my next presentation, being the griot for the african student associations annual celebration at the univ of memphis - this one is so impo to me on so many levels, i got to be seriously ready for that one, so primed (rehearsed) that im not worried about the particulars, so that i can go out there and let the spirits take over

way i prepare for a presentation like that, i figure out what ima do, i got like modules, depending on the audience - this one is mganga mua, what the folk in kenya call me, witchdoctor flowers, you can also call

it medicine man flowers, which is considered less pejorative, but i like witchdoctor flowers myself
so once i figure out the narrative, i do it on tape, then make a cd of it and put it in the car so its playing

over and over in my head day after day, two weeks i dont really need to invest, i could do it a couple of days
before the reading most times because i do it so often, but this one is impo to me, i want to take them to the

highground, my hometown, my global panafrican constituency, that they so respected my afrospiritual chops
that they asked me to be their ceremonial griot, their keeper of the faith, o they gon get the best i got to give

they have no idea of what im going to bring to that table

i guess thats it really, i finished my mojo rising rewrite, finished rest for the weary rewrite
my woodshed is about half over, curses be, but its been productive as hell, even if i was to coast

the rest of the way it would still be a good workshop, but im still going strong, im trying to get drafts
of these projects - holybook and brerrabbits - before i go to china for a month in july, want to have redpen

ready manuscripts when i get on that plane for 18 hours, if you dont get no work done when you just
sitting there in the same chair for 18 hours thats your fault

im gon, obviously im just feeling chatty

got a couple of manuscrpts from students i need to get thru before i get on the road to memphis

also all this warm weather mean i need to get started early on a list of domestic
honeydos, fixing this & painting that - got to earn my keep

im out

 

 

SUNDAY

so, repubs in wisconsin have put forth a bill that declares singlemothers a font of child abuse
that actually calls for demonizing them in favor of 2 parent families, say they cant raise children right

they probably got baracks momma in mind, or some of their democratic colleagues that are both singlemothers and fellow legislators - i tell you states where the repubs have taken control have gone

hogwild, we really really have to step up our local game

 

 

SATURDAY

so i guess youve heard about the unarmed young black kid shot down in florida by a watch captain
who in spite of 911 calls calling his story into question has not been arrested or charged because of

floridas stand your ground gunlobby law that basically allows you to shoot whoever you want as
long as theyre black, folk down there trying to get some justice, but this is a direct rebuke to all

those hardleft folk who swear there is no difference between repubs and dem and that you should
not vote or some such nonsense, everywhere the repubs have taken over they have come up with

asssine gun laws, sonograms and vaginal probes, firing teachers and pubic servants (good % black)
its an absollute fucking madhouse, and anybody dismayed by it needs to get busy with the 2012

election, not only do we have to reelect obama, we got to start organizing at the local level - its showtime

this goes for you too buffalo soldier, i do not understand your obsession w/proving what i consider a
distractionary point when we in the midst of such critical battle, i think you have called this one wrong,

you have made your position clear, i do not agree, so we will have to agree to disagree, i got to dismiss your
opinion on this matter and i can only hope that vet warriors such as youself will suit up before its too late

if they bring him down you will regret this position, you should work for
his reelection so you have him to kick around some more

Comments

[BuffaloSoldier]

YOU KNOW MANY OTHER SOLDIERS, THEY WANTED TO DESERT BuffaloSoldier salutes QueenMotherMoore First, the unarmed shootings of BlackKids and draconian laws are in full existance on the LionKing watch. How would reelecting him temper the repulsican movements? If anything, having him around would help them grow. Hate groups are in a 50 per cent rise and would go even higher. That's not to say that I want him out of office. I'm just asking us, since we're the most affected, on how he was put in place in the first place. It's not me, but Samuel Jackson who said he voted for The President because he was black. I feel that sentiment was reflected in %96 of the %96 of Blacks that voted for him. There must never be a time where we mindlessly follow lockstep anyone. Our old mantra used to be "We don't have permanent friends or permanent enemies, we have permanent interest." We're in a state of crisis, true, but when haven't we been in a state of crisis. Didn't we call our position here the United State of Emergency? We can't forget yesterday because our position today is pressing. I've said all along, you've won. I said it in '08. The LionKing won by a landslide. I expect the same thing this time. He's a bit more bloodied, but he's still Muhammed Ali in the 14th round of the Thrilla in Manila. GlenBeck/AnnCoulter/RushLimbaugh won't be out for the 15th. Still, he Brown, Brother, and I don't mean that in the complexion sense. He still goes down much easier than us who are Black. America was sold on his story, not neccessarily ours. The African Father, The Irish American Mother, the years spent away from here. I'm sorry. I didn't prepare the narrative and I didn't sell it. Question? In '16, he'll be gone. Who will we be expected to suit up for then? I'm BuffaloSoldier and, certainly, I approve this message more than any other.

[Buffalosoldier]

THEY WERE TIRED OF THE HATRED BuffaloSoldier salutes NatLove. First, an apology. I didn't mean to imply that Brown was either a complextion or a biracial concept. I meant the old saying, "if your white, you're right. If you're brown, stick around. But if you're black, get back get back. I meant the narration worked because The LionKing didn't actually have to be seen as GetBackBlack. That means he isn't subgroup. He's mainstream. What's wrong with mainstream? Absolutely nothing. I just feel the narration should be more inclusive. GetBackBlackAmerica is as mainstreet as we come. I'm BenCarver,GetBackBlack, and when I walk into a room full of surgeons, I'm the most sophisticated, accomplished man in that room. I'm GetBackBlack Donna Brazil and when I sit in on ABC Sunday morning, George Will knows he's no longer the brightest bulb on the set. I'm GetBackBlackJamesBaldwin and John Steinbeck has nothing on me. I could go on and on. There's no need for us to be relegated to a subgroup. AfricanAmericans for The President, Latinos For The President, Women for The President, Gays for The President. MainSteam America for The President. That has the better ring. As for my suiting up, I've been a part of the voting public since '72. And beating up the President? That wasn't me wagging my finger in his face on the tarmeck. A GetBackBlackPresident wouldn't have stood for it. I'm Buffalosoldier.

[BuffaloSoldier]

THEY WERE TIRED OF THE HURT BuffaloSoldier salutes QueenMusicianAbbeyLicoln. SoulDoctor, no matter what I say, it's like I told Amiri Baraka in the barbarshop where we were getting our hair cut, you are a BAAAAAAD man to take on the Brer Rabbit and attempt an act of rescue. That's all we've been trying. All of our literature are acts of rescue. And you're right about me and the HoodieMovement. It's a RightNow phenom and I do hope it doesn't fizzle. But I don't remember a comprehensive movement developing after Diallo/Bell. As for music and literature, I believe with The Great Trumpet Player, that everything good is evergreen and everpresent.(No, I can't think of his name) But he partnered with Charlie Parker and never talked of the Brother in Past tense. He always said, "Here's how Charle does it, here's how Louie does it, here's how the Duke does it." Their music and their meaning is always NOW. So rescue Brer Rabbit, Brother. We will be the better for it. BuffaloSoldier on the horse.