Public Enemy

RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.

This Zine is Peoples guide to arguably the "Greatest Rap Music Group of All Times", PE.
A Public Enemy guide with photos, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Also providing the latest news on our Freedom Fighters (PP and POW) as the PE logo represents.

Public Enemy, better known by fans as PE, is a seminal hip hop group from Long Island, New York known for their socio-politically conscious lyrics, criticism of mainstream /coporate media and active interest in the issues and concerns of the African American community. Their latest LP, a collection of unreleased tracks, "Beats and Places," was released on the 8th of November 2005.

They will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

They are ranked #44 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list and in the near future, should be one of the first rap artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Help us document their history and journey with your photos, videos, links, feeds, news and comments. Share with the community in our PE group blog and discussion forums.

In the interest of being ture to the PE message and Logo this wikizine will also keep the community up to speed on those socio-political issues and topics their music so powerfully speaks to. This will and should include issues and current events involving the present day Black Power Movement and our Nu Afrikan Political Prisioners and Prisoners Of War.

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RBG On Slavery Days, Called By Any Other Name, From Chattel to the Prison Industrial Complex

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See:RBGz Voices of Slavery discussion: In The Spirit of Sankofa

Burning Spear-Slavery days

The PIC (Prison Industrial Complex) Exposed

Incarcerated Scarfaces Part 1 of 6

Just the Facts RBG :

Fact: The more things change the more things stay the same. The War On Drugs is the United Snakes of Amerikkka's way of fully reconstituting slavery. How you ask.

Well, quite as it's kept slavery really was never completely abolished: The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. With its ratification in December 1865, this amendment put an official end to the injustice of slavery as it was then practiced while at the same time paving the way for a new slavery that flourishes to this day; namely, the prison industrial complex (PIC).
African Americans constitute about 12% of the American population, and around 13% of drug users, nearly the same number, which is what you'd expect. Additionally, 9.7% of Blacks use drugs, compared to 8.1% for whites, again similar numbers, in line with expectations. So you'd expect that the rates of incarceration for drug possession for Blacks and whites to be similar. But they're not. Blacks make up 35% of those arrested for possession, 55% of those convicted, and 74% of those sentenced. How, exactly, in a fair society, would 13% of drug users make up 74% of those sentenced for drug violations? And how can 35% of arrests make up 74% of inmates? This is nothing but socio-structural and institutionalized racism.

In South Africa during Apartheid 851 per 100,000 black males were incarcerated. Currently in the United States, under the banner of the "War on Drugs" 4,919 per 100,000 black males are incarcerated. Nearly 1/3 of black men in their 20s are in prison, on probation or parole. Our institutionalized racism is worse than the worst post-slavery institutionalized racism.

More African Americans are in jail now than were enslaved in the 19th century.

Incarceration in the United States

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See this discussion forum post in full:

The External Effects of Black-Male Incarceration on Black Females.....America’s New Slavery: Black Men in Prison

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