“The term Greek philosophy, to begin with is a misnomer, for there is no such philosophy in existence. The Ancient Egyptians [Kemetians] had developed a very complex religious system, called the Mysteries, which was also the first system of salvation . . . After nearly five thousand years of prohibition against the Greeks, they were permitted to enter Egypt [Kemet] for the purpose of their education [in four year installments!]. First through the Persian invasion and secondly through the invasion of Alexander the Great. From the sixth centrury B.C. therefore to the death of Aristotle (322 B.C.) the Greeks made the best of their chance to learn all they could about Egyptian [Kemetik] culture . . .”
-Prof. George G.M. James (from his book “Stolen Legacy”)
“Humankind born around East Africa’s Great Lakes region, almost on the Equator, is necessarily pigmented and Black; the Gloger Law calls for warm-blooded animals to be pigmented in a hot and humid climate. All the other races derive from the Black race by a more or less direct filiation, and the other continents were populated from Africa at the Homo erectus and Homo sapiens stages, 150,000 years ago. The old theories that used to state that Blacks came from somewhere else are now invalid.”
-Cheikh Anta Diop (“Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology”)
“Freedom Illusion”
-Sly&Robbie Meet The Mad Professor! featuring Dean Fraser (Dub Instrumental)
@ the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
did anyone even care
how offensive it was to many of us
to have Elizabeth Taylor’s image used to depict CleopatRa?
does anyone care?
black spaces
in white history
are always places
of much despair
will anyone in the west
ever make it clear
what was between
the (white)Archimedes/(black)Eratosthenes’ letters?
and why would the genius of Archimedes
be allowed heartless, mindless slaughter
by a mere Roman soldier?
his palimpsests were not his documents being recycled –
they were his truths being erased by religious/racist ill-will
true progress, respect, and education
does not lead to secrecy and desecration
myth, mysteries, and lies
always used to pull wool over our eyes
it is
our current fate
that we are truly being ruled
by a planet of apes
(written after viewing “Lost & Found: The Secrets of Archimedes” exhibit at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD –
Oct.16,2011-Jan.1,2012)
December 14th, 2011
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“Everything we dont understand
is explained
in Art
The Sun
beats inside us
The Spirit courses in and out
of us”
-Amiri Baraka (Funk Lore)
i am one of
Sebastiao Salgado’s workers
one of Kara Walker’s
pictures from another time
a reflection in black
as seen by Deborah Willis
i said yes
to Yoko Ono
drank milk n’ honey
with Abdul Mati Klarwein
found the journey to be the destination
in the journals of Dan Eldon
looked for myself
radiant in Francesco Mastalia and
Alfonse Pagano’s dreads
i exited the ports of entry
with William S. Burroughs
as Beuys taught me
that thinking is form
i crossed boundaries
with Maya Lin
i gained insight
and outsight
from Kurt Cobain’s
70 pg notebook
repelling ghosts
from the decade
of King Jean-Michel Basquiat
i took directions
from Christian Markclay and
EricKa Beckman
Art
is always
activism
we know, we who have been
Xed out of the American dream with Malcolm X –
pictures by Sue Coe
under the the police state
while
feeling the spirit
with Chester Higgins Jr.
December 1st, 2011
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“Sic Itur Ad AstRa
(Thus you shall go to the stars)”
-Virgil’s Aeneid
mentor
tutor
lift your
sister and brother
help and heal our Creation
balance our eternal ancestral line
again make whole our family of humanity
no smile left behind
worry not
of falling satellites
our planet, our sphere, our sacred spaceship
reflects our travel through the infinite heights
accountability and responsibility
to evolve beyond our petty humankind
the stars our greater destiny
no smile left behind
November 1st, 2011
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“When I see a Negro kicking off radicals, I know he is either dumb or crooked. Conservatism is the Negro’s worst enemy. The South is the most conservative part of the country, and therefore it is the graveyard of Negro rights . . . Conservatism breeds every kind of prejudice.”
-Melvin B. Tolson (“Caviar and Cabbage: Selected Columns by Melvin B. Tolson from the Washington Tribune, 1937-1944)
“Imagine there’s no dissent.
No way to speak your mind.
No Confidential consultation.
All constitutional rights declined.”
-Dick Hebdige
on a black and white tv
i watched brains
blown out of JFK
and the new fascist rulers of law
can never tell me what i saw –
still wounded
by the sight
it only prepared me
for a darker night
MLK
and Malcolm X
hatred, murder, war, and death
within a never-nation
tormented and vexed
how does one begin to process
an era of such accelerated oppression
and technological progress
a quantum bleed
affecting the entire human mass
from Vietnam
to Afghanistan
Bosnia
to Rwanda
oh,
what Earth Mother trauma
what saved me
was seeing Miles and Marley
what saved me
was seeing Oscar Brown Jr. and
Harry Belafonte
what saved me
was seeing Sun Ra, Dizzy, and Art Blakey
with the Baltimore Left Bank Jazz Society
what saved me
was seeing Sidney Poitier and Spike Lee
what saved me
was seeing Flip Wilson and Bill Cosby,
Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy,
Whoopi Goldberg and Moms Mabley
what saved me
was seeing John and Yoko together with Chuck Berry
on national tv
what saved me
was seeing Sly Stone and Muhammad Ali
together on national tv
what saved me
was seeing the Smothers Brothers hour of comedy –
Pat Paulson, Professor Irwin Corey
on national tv
what saved me
was seeing Jimi Hendrix and Fela Anikulapo Kuti
what saved me
was seeing James Baldwin and Walter Mosley
what saved me
was forging a Sol-Ark memory –
these are some
of the energies
that have saved me
more than the Black President
i have lived to see
Earth Mother
has such
a wounded heart
because of us
we of this time
have been given
this moment, this movement
for greater reasons we may not imagine
all of this madness –
convert it to healing power
make fertile new gardens
bring forth stronger blossoming flowers
we who have lived it
remain, to give this
to reveal and heal sickness
to be an example, a living gift
June 1st, 2011
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“There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!”
-August Spies (Haymarket Martyr, Murdered/Hanged 10-11-1887)
“They put you under house arrest, or they make you disappear”
Ai Weiwei (Dissident Artist of China)
the greatest
manifestation
of any free nation
is found in its
institutions of wisdom:
the free library system –
the only system
i truly believe in
and any nation
that fears its own
creative information
lives in fear of its own shadow
and self-identification
follow the library
that protects the stories
of the greatest struggles
of all humanity
Emmett Till
Denise McNair
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Carole Robertson
Louis Allen
James Earl Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael Henry Schwerner
Hector Pieterson
Dulcie September
Alexander Litvinenko
Anna Politkovskaya
Giorgi Sanaya
Natalia Estemirova
Juliano Mer-Khamis
Vittorio Arrigoni
Eman Al-Obeidi
Ai Weiwei
these names
remain alive
because the truth
buries all lies
Library Spies in Maryland (Library Awareness Program) 1982-88. i donated a copy of one of my chapbooks to the Enoch Pratt Central Library during this period, never ever saw my book at the library since!
It’s interesting hearing the rants of the fascist right playing
psyops with the word “fascist” when this country has been firmly ruled by fascism and neo-fascism for quite some time. I guess this is the way they gauge the extent of their bullshit from time to time. How often do they encourage people to venture to the library to see what may be buried there?
May 2nd, 2011
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