Just one more warning that if we don’t contain
authoritarianism in the States that creates & sustains the permission
structure for white nationalist terrorist violence – under color of state
authority, no less – to expand globally
I don't know about you, but I didn't know the protests had been going on for five days
I didn't know they had spilled into Lausanne
and I didn't know Elon was doing the same thing to limit public information about the protests (eta: NOT "riots" -- h/t Meh-zuzah) and their instigating cause and their duration and the police misinformation (and their union's demands of the French government to "crack down") -- just like he affected info flow on the platform during the last elections in Turkey
This is but one set of reasons hip hop remains both relevant and necessary 50 years after its birth in the Boogie Down
as well as a reason why you don't want billionaires in charge of too many things (and why we really don't need any more in the first place, just like AOC reminded us)
... as well as a reminder in the wake of Joy Reid’s interview with Fab Five Freddy and the prophet KRS-One just yesterday that the urgencies that drove the proliferation of hip hop are just as salient now as they were 50 years ago when Chuck D proclaimed hip hop “Black America’s CNN”
And one more - to paraphrase KRS – that the culture is bigger than anything else
“You need a little clarity? Check the similarity” – KRS-One
Let's shift our attention to our neighbors up north
and go back in time and start digging through our collections
(I think I'm going to have to make a few lists)
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