- Jun 8, 2004
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TELEVISION...
The ability to endlessly transmit all kinds of messages to a rapt audience, and make them believe anything... These messages would include SUBLIMINAL information which the watcher would not even know is being transmitted, but would act upon the mind as if consciously programmed into it... This happens whether we are looking at the tube or not...
The ability to create images and imagery to a rap audience, and make them believe it... Also, completely packaged with subliminal stimuli... The more you watch, the more you are programmed to believe, to buy, to go along with the flow... African people in the United States watch more television than any other people on the planet earth - African Americans, that is... 70 hours of television per 168 hour week, and those stats are old - from like the year 2000, or so... Off the top of my head, that's like 40 percent of our waking ours are spent in front of the television being programmed and enslaved...
That's why we are here arguing over whether a HipHop artist was a revolutionary and the legenday courage of the Rev. Fred Shutttlesworth goes completely under our radar... The media didn't invent Reverend Fred, but he woulda been BIG - LARGE - had he done in 1995 what he'd done 40 years earlier...
Once you turn that boob tube off, young people, and read about Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth's REAL 10 year battle down in Birmingham, Alabama, I GUARANTEE you that you will know the difference between a real revolutionary and one created in the media - I GUARANTEE YOU, like Muhammad Ali guaranteeing a victory over whomever... And once you read, and see that contrast between a man bouncing his booty on a stage, and a man having bats and pipes bouncing off his head in defense of his personal beliefs and convictions, you will never talk about no Public Enemy or Tupac or any other these RAP artists as a true revolutionary... You might even reconsider Malcolm X as a true revolutionary upon reading Reverend Fred's book... I did, and still do... That guy is my hero forever more, because he had no FOI around him in 1950's Alabama, but he had the courage of his convictions to fight the good fight, and do it non-violently... He just didn't do it on no T.V., like Dr. King...
I digressed, but the point is, that television has us enslaved to it's images and imagery, and we need to turn it off, and do more reading... Go to the library, and read about our heroes and sheroes... There is no way BEYONCE should be more well known to African Americans than the great Ida B Wells-Barnett - NO WAY! But ask our people, young and old, who Ms. Ida B. was, and you get a blank stare... Just the way J. Edgar Hoover conceived it should be if White Supremacy were to be maintained... DISRUPT, DESTABILIZE, DESTROY... THE ONLY GOOD REVOLUTIONARY IS A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY... Those were J. Edgar's words, peoples... READ THEM... REMEMBER THEM...UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THEM...and look around us...sitting around watchin' the booby tube - or is that the booty tube???(smile!)
Peace!
Isaiah
The ability to endlessly transmit all kinds of messages to a rapt audience, and make them believe anything... These messages would include SUBLIMINAL information which the watcher would not even know is being transmitted, but would act upon the mind as if consciously programmed into it... This happens whether we are looking at the tube or not...
The ability to create images and imagery to a rap audience, and make them believe it... Also, completely packaged with subliminal stimuli... The more you watch, the more you are programmed to believe, to buy, to go along with the flow... African people in the United States watch more television than any other people on the planet earth - African Americans, that is... 70 hours of television per 168 hour week, and those stats are old - from like the year 2000, or so... Off the top of my head, that's like 40 percent of our waking ours are spent in front of the television being programmed and enslaved...
That's why we are here arguing over whether a HipHop artist was a revolutionary and the legenday courage of the Rev. Fred Shutttlesworth goes completely under our radar... The media didn't invent Reverend Fred, but he woulda been BIG - LARGE - had he done in 1995 what he'd done 40 years earlier...
Once you turn that boob tube off, young people, and read about Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth's REAL 10 year battle down in Birmingham, Alabama, I GUARANTEE you that you will know the difference between a real revolutionary and one created in the media - I GUARANTEE YOU, like Muhammad Ali guaranteeing a victory over whomever... And once you read, and see that contrast between a man bouncing his booty on a stage, and a man having bats and pipes bouncing off his head in defense of his personal beliefs and convictions, you will never talk about no Public Enemy or Tupac or any other these RAP artists as a true revolutionary... You might even reconsider Malcolm X as a true revolutionary upon reading Reverend Fred's book... I did, and still do... That guy is my hero forever more, because he had no FOI around him in 1950's Alabama, but he had the courage of his convictions to fight the good fight, and do it non-violently... He just didn't do it on no T.V., like Dr. King...
I digressed, but the point is, that television has us enslaved to it's images and imagery, and we need to turn it off, and do more reading... Go to the library, and read about our heroes and sheroes... There is no way BEYONCE should be more well known to African Americans than the great Ida B Wells-Barnett - NO WAY! But ask our people, young and old, who Ms. Ida B. was, and you get a blank stare... Just the way J. Edgar Hoover conceived it should be if White Supremacy were to be maintained... DISRUPT, DESTABILIZE, DESTROY... THE ONLY GOOD REVOLUTIONARY IS A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY... Those were J. Edgar's words, peoples... READ THEM... REMEMBER THEM...UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THEM...and look around us...sitting around watchin' the booby tube - or is that the booty tube???(smile!)
Peace!
Isaiah