Man, the BBC World Service stuff that NPR airs in the middle of the morning…..! And it’s always fascinating to hear the Black Power Movement discussed in news/history programs. Very rare in American media, which happily and deliberately hides the Black Power Movement within the much more accepted Civil Rights Movement.
I especially liked when Herb Boyd and Betty Dopson read from “Black Is The Color of My TV Tube.” As an undergraduate, I had that book glued to my body the way many students kept “The Autobiography” in their knapsacks. Bill Cosby said pretty much everything I would have said if I had been on this last show.
…..so I guess 30 (!) years in, they’ll be more legal wrangling before the inevitable. Not exactly a victory, as Pam Africa said here.
Well done, sir. The Realm of the Ancestors has another champion.
I will never forget your cooperation and kindness as I reported and wrote one of my all-time favorite stories. May The Ancestors greet you into their realm with great joy.
….read about the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-Vietnam Movements so you can understand how police respond when you threaten white property and capitalism. (You can start, of course, with my book and this one I’m in. 😉 This classic I’m currently scanning-to-re-reading will help as well.) Boy, your white skin REALLY shows here! LOL!
A magnificent 43-year run comes to an end. If people do what they’re supposed to do, this program will neither be gone or forgotten. So let’s just wait and see.
I AM TROY DAVIS TODAY
So many others how far will this go
How long will we gag on this diet from he who oppresses
Hold the presses, this just in, another African killed by injustice
I am Troy Davis
Today
No doubt about it their system is unjust
But that’s not the only thing killing us
Black people wake up we’re killing us
The shame and pain of the maafa is still in us
Black boys filled with self-hate are stealing us
I am Troy Davis today
But who will stand now and say I am Tayshana Murphy
She was only 15 they say it was mistaken identity
He was black, she was black, where’s the mistake in that
Stop lying to yourselves Black people
If we really be Troy Davis then the frequency should ripple
Predominantly Black hoods should be the safest place for Black people
But instead we’re hunted by the hunter and the hunted
bars on windows, triple deep dead bolts got imaginations stunted
I am Troy Davis today
Tomorrow I’ll go back to being the demon that haunts the hood
that crack dealer dealing death to Black wombs
Black woman stripping her soul on poles paying rent in private rooms
I’ll be that black pimp for whom that little black girl walks in the moon
The gang-banger gang banging black boys into black men too soon
but until the needle hits the vein
I’ll respond and say
I am Troy Davis
today
Glad to see NBC’s “The Today Show” decided to match the silliness of its subject. Even though, alas, I have left “Doctor Who” behind with David Tennant, I was happy to see this.
Drums in the Global Village 