> > The students I taught in my intro to lit courses
> > (University of Oregon, a big state school, not elitist
> > at all) were consistently much more appreciative
> > of/clued in about jazz than 19th century European
> > tonality, so there are some battles being won at Ground
> > Zero.
>
> If that means that an actual POWER and MONEY SHIFT is about
> to take place, where Wynton Marsalis can tell Pavarotti to
> kiss his ass or get off the stage, then that will mean
> something. This bullshit appreciation crap is NOT what I'm
> concerned about. I want a shift in POWER and MONETARY
> COMPENSATION. I don't want civil rights, I want HUMAN
> RIGHTS. I don't want affirmative action, I want REPARATIONS.
> I don't want integration, I want REPARATIONS. I want MONEY,
> LAND, and POWER. UNDERSTAND? I don't give a fuck about
> bullshit liberalism. Black people need revolution and a
> shift in the power paradigm. GOT IT?
>
> > The other side of the hip hop debate which often doesn't
> > get mentioned, though it should, is that hip hop is
> > multinational, through and through
>
> FUCK THAT! Like that bullshit is anything new. We create
> every motherfucking thing, like Rock and Roll, then everyone
> else leeches off our creations, but we are not the
> beneficiaries of the MONEY and the POWER that comes from our
> cultural production as a whole. Once again, fuck that
> integrationist liberal bullshit. I could care less about how
> integrated hip-hop is NOW, what I care about is do Black
> people as a whole benefit from the shit we invent and
> produce. Hell no, we don't. Make no mistake, WE created the
> shit, no matter what the ruling class has told you. The
> ruling class loves to muddy the waters by pushing that sort
> of "multi-national" bullshit, so as to cover the tracks of
> how they exploit and fuck over Black people. Look at how the
> ruling class is now embracing so-called multi-racial
> identity. Of course they want to do that, in order to dilute
> Black consciousness. But of course, that shit ain't new.
> Black people have always known that what made us Black was
> not some sort of purity in the biological sense, but our
> fucking consciousness and culture. However, the ruling class
> and a lot of stupid fucking idiot Leftists jump on the
> bandwagon nd hail this as some sort of advance.
>
> Meanwhile, no one asks the simple question of what happened
> to Black people's mixed heritage back in the day, when we
> could actually name our specific fathers and mothers who
> were white, and LAY CLAIM TO THEIR MONEY AND ESTATES. Aha!
> That's the fucking trick. When it was possible for Black
> people to get ahold of the MONEY and POWER, we were simply
> Black. Now that we can no longer trace our roots back to
> specific white people who raped and abused us, and make a
> claim for damages, now folks want to talk obvious bullshit
> about how genetically mixed Black people are. Like we didn't
> know that fucking bullshit already! That's why we are going
> to get you motherfuckers and get our REPARATIONS! This shit
> is not over. We are coming to get you bastards! It is either
> REPARATIONS now, and REVOLUTION later, or REVOLUTION now,
> and REPARATIONS later. Take your pick.
>
>
> Art
>