Delano

Thomas Jefferson

Raphael Saadiq https://www.spin.com/2021/07/illfonic-arcadegeddon-video-games/

Sweetback and Superfly are the stories of Black men dealing with crooked cops and trying to get out of the system. So if you look past the antagonist's character you would actually see the narrative. Sweetback was trying to get to Mexico and Priest was trying to retire out the game. Both characters really that were players in a game stacked against them. Which is an entirely different position than Hattie McDaniels, from my perspective. Two crucial contemporaneous assessments of Sweet Sweetback help illustrate the ideological and cultural investments in the film in its time. In June 1971, Huey P. Newton, cofounder and minister of defense of the Black Panther Party, read the film as a modeling of Black revolutionary struggle: “It is the first truly revolutionary Black film made, and it is presented to us by a Black man . . . It shows how the victims must deal with their situation, using many institutions and many approaches. It demonstrates that one of the key routes to our survival and the success of our resistance is unity. Sweet Sweetback does all of this by using many aspects of the community, but in symbolic terms.” In September 1971, Lerone Bennett Jr., a historian and the executive editor of Ebony at the time, took issue with Newton’s analysis, the film’s pornographic content, its conception of a Black aesthetic, and what he saw as its stereotypicality. Sharply, yet in the key of respectability, he dismissed the film as “neither revolutionary nor black. Instead of giving us new images of black rebels, it carries us back to antiquated white stereotypes, subtly and invidiously identified with black reality. Instead of carrying us forward to the new frontier of collective action, it drags us back to the pre-Watts days of isolated individual acts of resistance, conceived in confusion and executed in panic.” https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7545-sweet-sweetback-s-baadasssss-song-i-m-gonna-say-a-black-ave-maria-for-you

I meant EWF did Sweetback.

Choices without the freedom to choose is meaningless. Which is difficult unless you can free yourself from cultural, societal and environmental issues. For example being entertaining has a higher value than being truthful.

Curtis Mayfield one of the most conscious black artist did the music for Superfly. He said it was a story about redemption. Sweetback is a runaway slave narrative. Which is referenced in a NWA track 100 hundred miles and running

Do you know the Earth Wind and Fire did the music for Superfly? Also I think Melvin Van Peebles ran out of money during shooting. He got the funds from black entertainers. I believe Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte were among the donations

@Cynique @Mel Hopkins and @Troy I miss you, and the exchanges. The dialogues made me change my mind or examine my position. Thank you, Del Neither for me, nor with me.

We disagree.

On January 27 check out 11:11. It's pretty high energy.

What is it upside and in a mirror? That's an old joke from Cheers. I used to be down with roast-a-n****, but I have given it up.

and think.

Wouldn't the right wing be half of the wings. I dunno but it has that thing that can not be named. Are you getting repeating numbers 11:11 or triples 2:22?

That is the essence of my entire practice. I have turned the feeling of a thing into a description of its quality. You are an unconscious psychic and a conscious mystic. In my way of thinking you have a logical mind. Which makes your thinking first rate. However your feelings while being harder to articulate, give you a sense of understanding. So I believe that if you have a hard time defining a feeling it will guide you to a solution which involves it's resolution. I have been going deeper into my esoteric rabbit hole. I can count on one hand the people that can even remotely relate to it. You are one of the five. You are a wonderful blend of the Solar and the Lunar. To me you are the Logical Poet.

See you in the future.

Johnathan Majors is another interesting actor.

@Troy a movie about a Black Panther was produced by Ryan Coogler and starred Daniel Kaluuya, who was also connected to the Black Panther Movie. Lakeith Stanfield also worked with Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out.

That is not an accident.

Your life literally depends on your ability to think critically.

Yes I agree, yet it doesn't seem to be be stopping.

Why would they stop now?

First Jazz, then Hip Hop, next it will be House music. NYU already has been amassing artifacts from the the 80's dance music scene. I had a guy on FB asking me a bunch of questions about the Paradise Garage because for his dissertation. Black people are not respected in this country. And While Jeff Chang and Mark Anthony Neal appear to love the music. Something is wrong to include Blondie. Also this is mostly crews that put out records. There are a few glaring omissions. Son of Bazerk, Grand Wizard Theodore and his entire crew Master don etc. Why did the go to the two living architects Kool Herc and Bam. Chuck D an MC Lyte definitely have cred but they are literally a decade after the start. Glad it is documented but there should have been some old heads. cats born before 1960.

@Cynique what did you do for your sister's Birthday?

@Cynique Try the following times om November 26th 7:18am In your mind/heart/soul you will see connections 5:30 pm You will see connection in how things have been done. Both of these will show you that the connection of events and feelings, that seemed unreasonable or random.