ArtPolitik

no thanks for giving day

“Color prejudice, misnamed “racial prejudice,” permeates every pore of United States society and remains a universal institutional disease.”
-Paul Robeson Jr.

“People are turning resources into waste faster than nature can turn waste back into resources.”
-James Leape

when you believe in lies
you receive liars
for leaders

when you ignore
true morality,
you become morally ignorant
of the truth –

this is what has happened
to this new country
as a European facsimile

racism/fascism, all relative
to white supremacy
has led to a paralysis
of privilege and hypocrisy
which has evolved
into a most dysfunctional society
and a universally
inferior faction of higher-humanity

we need
a Forgiving Day
granted by the WopanaaK
and the slave –
a Forgiving Day
to save the harvest
of goodness betrayed

November 16th, 2011 Posted by JahHannibal | Activism, Commentary, Community, Lyric Sanaa | no comments

the amorphous reality

“And it’s like, well, it looked like a giant spotlight shining down on me, and I call it transmolecularization, my whole body was changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up. Now I call that an energy transformation because I wasn’t in human form. I thought I was there, but I could see through myself.”
-Sun Ra (from the book “Space is the Place: the lives and times of Sun Ra” by John F. Szwed)

“What the Doctor explained
was that we had fought
that we had patiently
rushed into our trans
formed
selves.”
-Amiri Baraka (Funk Lore)

“you got to fight for your mind
while you got the time”
-Ben Harper (Fight For Your Mind)

that most feared
is being out
of one’s mind

and if there were
a conventional solution or total cure
it would be a multi-billion dollar industry
for sure

but what if some minds
are designed
not to be so quantified
and defined –

like the infinite void
itself
beyond measure of what can be seen, heard,
or felt?

there is a reality
to that without form or shape
which existed long before
bodies, beliefs, faith, or fate

how do i know? –
i have been there
in the frightful wilderness –
the unknown zone of loneliness and despair

it may be connected
to a lineage of slavery
of untrusting lives
and splintered families

it may be an ancient gift
lacking in current clarity
passed through hidden variables
thought to be protected genetically

be careful of those
who profit from your sickness
they may be of the kind who seek to gain
by keeping others weakest

hone your own healing powers,
protect your given shape and form
let love lead the way
to guide you from wickedness and harm

November 16th, 2011 Posted by JahHannibal | Activism, Commentary, Community, Maiysha, Spiritography, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments

a method to the madness

“I’ve learned some lessons in my life
Lessons in my life
Always be careful of mankind
Be careful of mankind
They make promises today
But tomorrow change their mind
They make promises today
But tomorrow change their mind

I’m an upfull man
I love upfull people
I’m a progressive man
I love progressive people
I’m a conscious man
I love conscious people
I’m an honest man
And I love honest people
I’m a determined man
And I love determined people
I’m a genuine man
And I love genuine people, yeah”
-Peter Tosh (Lessons In My Life)

“Mistaken Identity”
-Vernon Reid (Instrumental)

outside the realm
of formula
of the familiar
of formality
of fiscals
of folly
or foundation
one must
find one’s own way
through the
wilderness
of indecision
and the insult
of mortal indifference
and the weapons developed
to make us insignificant

if one thing
positive
was ever gained
from the horror of 911
it was the
beauty
of looking up at
peaceful, resting,
empty skies –
a break
from all the business
of mortals
and the sounds
of never-ending cries

each
has to find
their own way
through this valley of death
because
in the
apex
of barbarity
madness
is the only reality

(for Maiysha Malinye Naima and Lyric Sanaa – 11/5/2011)

November 16th, 2011 Posted by JahHannibal | Lyric Sanaa, Maiysha, Spiritography, Thoughtography, Uncarved Blog | no comments