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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... [more]
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.
N.B. June 3, 2007: From this point forward all post in the article /group blog section without thumbnails will be delete by the editor/RBG Street Scholar. This is because such posts compromise the formating of the zine. Furthermore, we refuse to get side tracked with eurocentric rap/pop culture. So, if posts don't jell with the RBG Movement / Rap Genre and the academic nature of the zine,again, they will be deleted. This is not a democracy, but an educational research project; and as such we intend to stay on point regarding our edutainment mission, goals and objectives. Please don't allow the title to make you get it twisted, the full title is RBG Hip Hop/Conscious Rap Music Wikizine.
Anyone who has a problem with this please start your own zine, it's free.
Asante(Thank You) for your contributions.
This Zine is a Hip Hop / Rap Music guide with photos,audio, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Special focus on Hip Hop History, Underground /Indie and the Positive and Socio-politically Conscious Rap Genre / Artists, RBG Style; along with links and extensions to each of the integral aspects of hip hop culture. Including Knowledge, DJing, MCing, Break Dancing and Graffiti.
Please take some time to browse.Your contributions are welcome and encouraged if you're looking for a scholarly, and at the same time entertaining, place to expose your work and help build a comprehensive multi-media resource for others to learn from. It's what we make it--a project in evolution and always under construction.The more of us that have something to share on the subject contribute, the better this resource will be for those wanting to do research.
"Of All The Disciplines Of Study, History Is Best Qualified To Reward All Research". Thus, let's commence the discourse with a brief historical overview.
The Political Origins of Hip-hop:
> Historically poetry/ rap/ spoken word, literature and music have been combine to play a pivotal role in black progress and power, rebellion, revolt and revolution.
Political Rap Started With the Afrikan Talking Drum.
> Because of the perceived potential of talking drums to "speak" in a tongue unknown to slave masters / traders and thus to incite rebellion, in 1838 these and other drums were banned from use by Africans in the United States.
> H “Rap” Brown, known to many of the 1960's/70's Civil Rights and Black Power Movements as the original master rapper. Rap, a given nickname, comes from his being such an eloquent speaker he would be rappin. For more see Dr. Errol Henderson on Black Nationalism and Rap Music and our Hip Hop Audio History.
"Revolutionary Studies 101" # 1: Our Freedom Fighters vs Cointelpro
If we intend for our revolutionary education process to be true to history we must see to it that the voices of our PP POW are heard. And most importantly we must afford our Freedom Fighters the opportunity to Speak for Themselves and offer support best we can. They are locked away in amerikkka gulaugs for fighting for us.--Lock down today because of an Illegal Program as determined by the Church Commission (see cointelpro link below)--
WHO ARE PP/POW's
Briefly, Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War are those persons who have been sent to prison for their conscious revolutionary political activities on the streets. Prisoners who went to prison as a result of non-politically motivated "crime" and became political while in prison are not Political Prisoners or Prisoners of War. Though all prisoners righteously struggling against the repressive prison system should be supported, PP/POW's deserve the priority support of the revolutionary movement that they have sacrificed their freedom to build. As anarchist POW Ojore Lutalo has stated, "Any political movement that does not support its political internees is a sham movement!"
See: New Afrikan Political Prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway Explains
Link Out: From COINTELPRO to the Patriot Act/
COINTELPRO AND THE WAR ON BLACK AMERICA
"The Counterintelligence Program is now being expanded to include 41 offices. ... For maximum effectiveness of the Counterintelligence Program, and to prevent wasted effort, long range goals are being set.
1. Prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups. In unity there is strength; a truism that is no less valid for all its triteness. An effective coalition of black nationalist groups might be the first step toward a real "Mau Mau" in America, the beginning of a true black revolution.
2. Prevent the rise of a "messiah" who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement. Malcolm X might have been such a "messiah;" he is the martyr of the movement today. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammed all aspire to this position. Elijah Muhammed is less of a threat because of his age. King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed "obedience" to "white, liberal doctrines" (nonviolence) and embrace black nationalism. Carmichael has the necessary charisma to be a real threat in this way.
3. Prevent violence on the part of black nationalist groups. This is of primary importance, and is, of course, a goal of our investigative activity; it should also be a goal of the Counterintelligence Program. Through counterintelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercise their potential for violence.
4. Prevent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability, by discrediting them to three separate segments of the community. The goal of discrediting black nationalists must be handled tactically in three ways. You must discredit these groups and individuals to, first, the responsible Negro community. Second, they must be discredited to the white community, both the responsible community and to "liberals" who have vestiges of sympathy for militant black nationalists simply because they are Negroes. Third, these groups must be discredited in the eyes of Negro radicals, the followers of the movement. This last area requires entirely different tactics from the first two. Publicity about violent tendencies and radical statements merely enhances black nationalists black nationalists to the last group; it adds "respectability" in a different way.
5. A final goal should be to prevent the long-range growth of militant black nationalist organizations, especially among youth. Specific tactics to prevent these groups from converting young people must be developed." (sent by Director to Field Offices on March 4, 1968) G.C. Moore to W.C. Sullivan, Feb. 29, 1968 Extracts from: www.cointel.org
Link outs to websites where you can learn more and offer support to our PP/POW:
National Jericho MovementThe Anarchist Black Cross Federation
4strugglemag
IMPORTANT POST-SCRIPT
N.B. There are a lot of hot-sauce integrationist on the web these days posing as revolutionary and Afrocentric educators in their work. Please be careful, as these folk are really liters and enemies of our struggle /re-education process in black face. They are diluting and dumbing down the truth and presenting "safe" issues as to not offend the enemy (their boss). Some B.E.T. shit. For example Malcolm X defined himself as a Black Nationalist Pan-Afrikanist Freedom Fighter, but all you'll find on the net is civil rights leader Mlacolm X. Malcolm fought for human rights and argued that (paraphrase) "you have to have human rights before you can have civil rights; human rights is the right to be considered a human being." He told us this some 50 years ago and the reality of his words ring a resounding cord today. "you can never get civil rights until you have human rights". When a stick is shoved up a man's rectum or one unarmed is shot 41 times , I would argue that the masses of our people still have no human rights. So know wonder they can write in civil rights laws like the voters rights act one year and threaten repeal the next--"they are not really entitled to civil rights, as we don't ever consider/treat them as human beings". So, it is dis-respectful to our true Afrikan Scholars and Freedom Fighters for the word revolutionary to even come out of their pseudo-nationalists' mouth. Remember "the man who butters your bread feeds your stomach"; all you have to do to know who they are and what they are really about is follow the money.
What our re-education and habilitation should be about is not merely a sterile, objective academic process; real lives are involved here and our people are/have been dying. It must teach us how to get involved in real struggle despite all it accompanying risk. Again Minister Malcolm X taught us "the price of freedom is death". We want peace, but the key to peace in dealing with this beast is the ability to make war. That's why they did Iraq and not North Korea. My point is, these closet boot lickers and toe suckers need to chill and you need to avoid them like the plague, because they are just as fatal.
AT SOME POINT THEY NEED TO BE CALLED OUT AND ACCOUNTED FOR.- Attachments for Download:
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