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CULTURE BANDITS II(THE ANNIHILATION OF AFRIKAN IMAGES)

Copyright 1993 by Del Jones

Produced by Del Jones Communications Unlimited

All rights reserved, printed in the United States

Cover Design by: Del Jones

Cover Layout by: Elimisha JalawiCover Art & All Art Work by: Brother Luke

Research by Del and Robin Jones of the Hikeka Research Unit

and “The Eye of the Storm Newspaper.”

Copy Editor: Pat Jacobs

There is a difference between a “war correspondent” and a reporter,

a journalist, an author. A war correspondent goes into the eye of the

storm and views all 360 degrees of our struggle. A war correspondent

is not a hired gun or a propagandist for white supremacy. Nor is he or

she a wordsmith for the great white lie, negro foolishness, or a wishful

thinker. A war correspondent is an Afrikan freedom fighter who haschosen the foxhole of truth and pumps the truth to his people, indeed

the world, at all cost. It is not a gig that is assigned but an accepted

righteous duty. No applause is sought, no thanks necessary, it is a

task though critical, that offers just one reward...Victory!

ISBN 0-9639995-7-5


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DEDICATION

In the name of Kwame Nkrumah brothers

I dedicate this work to you. My people, inhis name this is dedicated to you. In the

name of Marcus Garvey I send this humble

offering to you. Dedan Kimathi and Brother

Malcolm in their behalf it is all for you. In

the name of Nzinga, my sisters, I dedicate

these truths to you. In the name of Ida B.Wells this song I sing to you. In the names

of the raped and murdered, yes this offering

is for you. In the names of Ellen my beloved

mother and Robin my super queen, it is all

for you. And in the names of Hector

Peterson and Emmett Till, this my childrentravels from my heart to you...Ah, in the

name of ChancellerWilliams, my elders this

is for you. Take it all, why don’t cha?

Brother Del Jones W.C.(From the Belly of the Beast 1994)


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“THE GREAT WHITE LIE”By: Robin Jones

We

have been beholden to

a venomous fabrication

of

our embellished lives

that has started with

those

little unscrupulous liesthat

drip dry droppings

of seeded untruths

while planting

those

in between lies

lined and covered

with a stale stenchof muck and manure

leaving open

the cracks and crevices

for

those oppressive lies

that we

keep slipping and sliding in

while

continuing to fertilize

all other lies

that create

the great white lie

that strong ascending lie

that

consciously rises itself above

the lowly field

from which it sprang

leaping high


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into the mouths of fevered mountains

burstingits malevolent manifestation

into an explosion

of

bubbling hot lava

on a meandrous path

saturating its infernal roots

by slowly and skillfully

penetrating and piercing

burning and blistering

the souls of Black folk

killing our kindred spirits

as we lay

buried beneath its blanket

of boiling devastation

amidst

the hidden identity of

its bottomless base

that already powerful lie

that

has muscled its way

into the center core

of our condensed celestrial region

causing

clouds shaped like mushroomsto materialize

into a deformed seething steam

of angry vapors

spawning

hot acidic rains

descending

pure hellish pain

whilescalding and searing

singeing and scorching

the souls of Black folks


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eliminating the true essence of our existence

as wecontinuously disappear

into its whirlpool

and are

immersed in the turbulent clutches

of its eternal deception

And

as it beckons to youto lay your mind

gently upon its lore

remember

its only purpose

is

to perpetrate the growth of itself

while

stripping you of your solidity

bleaching the bareness of your being

and

dissolving you into its damnation

for

it truly fears

that those among us

who have escaped its wrath

and

are free from its falsenesswill one day

filter the fertility of veracity

unleasing

unspoken tremors of truth

steadily

freeing its prisoners

from their bondage

andreleasing those unknowing

of The Great White Lie!


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...SINCERE INTENT...

This work is designed to end thedevelopment of people like W.

Wilson Goode, Colin Powell, RalphBunche, Joseph Mubutu, JonasSavimbi, Roy Ennis, Carl T. Rowan,Tom Adams, Eric Williams, GeneRoberts, Anwar Sadat, Sammy Davis,Jr., Eugenia Charles, and Thomas

Hayer, among us. It is designed todecrease the possibility ofcollaborators infiltrating our juststruggle for liberation and theunification of our people underrevolutionary Pan-Afrikanism!

THE WAR CORRESPONDENT ‘94


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INTRODUCTION

In Culture Bandits Vol. 1 we journeyed into the white supremacistsrape of our musical culture. We also explained how they have to

subvert our culture to continue to subjugate us. I also, explained that

these interruptions damage our progress, confuse our direction and

destroy our mental and social equilibrium.

They have an excellent understanding of our culture and how it

impacts on our attempts to rebuild our Afrikan minds. Even after their enslavement and terrorism created a mental mutant called

“Nigger,” we have always battled back to achieve our natural status

as the original man...the Afrikan.

It is a race against time, it is, and we must collect ourselves and put

our consciousness at the foundation of our efforts to fend off the

genocidal programs of our enemies. Culture is the mother’s milk of this growth, this development, and this re-birth of our strong race.

That makes culture a critical war zone where the life and death struggle

of our race will be played out. In this corner armed with economic

and political power which includes:

a. Print (the colonization of scholarship) b. Radio (electronic propaganda)

c. Television (image enslavement)

d. Movies (revisionist historical distortions & image

manufacturing)

e. Satellite communication (global information control)

f. Educational institutions (Negro creating factories)

g. Military terrorism (domestic big stickism)h. Employment coercion (neo-slavery)

i. Prisons (concentration camps for male youth ‘n adults)

j. Police culture (the pig is your friend propaganda)

k. Hunger (homelessness and food stamp life line)


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Facing all of this “and In this corner” is the champion, the Afrikan:

bloody, beaten, raped and terrorized. Historically, more than a

survivor, a proud veteran with a Pan-Afrikan knockout punch he

refuses to use.

We are armed with only a minority of Afrikan centered brothers ‘n

sisters and we are disorganized and disjointed. Our biggest weapon

is the will to be free, yet we carry the repressed hatred of our

tormentors so deep in our bosoms, we can’t reach the needed

adrenaline producing documentation of why we hate them. And we

do hate them, even if only a few will admit their powerless hatred.

The common dominator is not truth and justice, it is sheer power...

political, military and global economic power that can only be

delivered, to us, through Pan-Afrikanism.

The total liberation and unification of Afrika and Afrikan people

globally is the only solution to international white supremacy. One

global configuration against another will be the final comedown... it

is unavoidable.

“Culture Bandits II: The Annihilation of Afrikan Images” is designed

to clarify the mass media’s role in developing in us a political

backwardness, internal and external image assassination, an artificial

affection for our enemies and a self-hatred of our own race, as these

white supremacist tools drown our aspiration in a foul fiction designed

to continue our victimization and final destruction.

This is the first book that requires a VCR to travel through it

thoroughly as we cut through the readers’ resistance to the damning

truth about our relationship with our captors. I intend to leave doubters

no where to run and no where to hide as I strike down the white lies

that traps our tomorrows in its filthy bowels.

The Black Holocaust Final Phase: Clinton and Pacification is now in

effect and his Negro allies are lined up to serve in the death of the

Afrikan race. The need to understand “Culture Bandits Vol. I,” “The

Black Holocaust: Global Genocide” and “Culture Bandits II:

Annihilation of Afrikan Images” is ever present.


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Lack of understanding of our Afrikan reality will leave us defenseless

as the Afrikan Holocaust continues unchecked and misunderstood.

Pan-Afrikanism vs. Global White Supremacy, these two

configurations are headed for the Final Comedown... It is unavoidable.We must nourish our minds and aim all our energies at the liquidation

of our enemies’ power bases for good. This is not the time for half

stepping, punkish liberalism, or fear... Our battle cry should be... “Race

First!”


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RADIO (MUSIC ‘N TALK ‘N REVOLUTION)

In dealing with Black imagery and stereotyping, it is interesting to

note, you must deal with radio before film and television. Becausethe ground work for what the other two media do was established by

audio broadcasting.

In fact, I believe the audio images were even more pronounced

because the expertise of the propagandist was challenged more. To

slap the resistance of Afrikan people down, the audio assholes had to

deliver tighter scripts, more pronounced stereotyped language anddeeper racist rantings.

The development of radio was a boom to global white supremacy. It

was more than a method of communication or an entertainment toy.

It became an excellent propaganda tool; One that would advance the

exportation of their decadent culture, and at the same time they could

misrepresent themselves to the world.

Faking a projected higher form of civilization, religious superiority,

and the self-proclaimed “white man’s burden,” they hid the

viciousness and anti-human instrument of imperialism from view.

They stereotyped people of color and their culture, thus excusing

themselves for their excesses. They sold the notion that the worst of

white society was better than the best of any other. In short, their

print propaganda got a pitiful partner as the lying machine spit

nonsense onto the world.

Also, locked into entertainment radio broadcasts were their backwards

cultural, moral, and religious ideas that crippled the listeners and

poisoned their minds for under-development. In addition, their racistone sided news broadcasts delivered the white supremacist perspective

as the norm.

All of these components trapped our people’s consciousness in a vice

of ignorance and sent their energies and aspirations off into the wrong


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direction. We went tramping off after an integrated reality, even though

all the evidence shouted loudly that someday we would have to rumble

these people to cool them out.

The death blow to our intellectual development was delivered bytheir educational institutions which legitimatized the lie.

Radio allowed them to zero in on our musical culture as the filthy

“Culture Bandits” decided that they could not let us use our culture

as a liberating tool. They understood that controlling the musical

component of our culture was of life and death importance. Further,

they thought it would deliver pleasure to them and they also knew itwould be extremely profitable. They were right. It’s called cultural

imperialism, it was executed with ruthlessness and demonic glee.

Earlier, they segregated the music hoping our music wouldn’t

influence their tired sounds, but their people were slipping uptown

and across the tracks to take Afrikan musical baths. From the blues,

to gospel, and through jazz their music rotted in this Black sunshine.

In the forties and early fifties they use to sell our music under the

counter, in plain wrappers like bootlegged culture coming from the

heavens, but illegal because of its potency.

In different locations across this country, Black music was played on

the radio at certain times in a block of Black sound. Finally, thedevelopment of radio stations that played Black oriented music sprang

up. None owned by Black people. Still it pushed into the corners of

Babylon, our culture began to bleed into the simple-minded vulture

like mainstream. The real thing, the original people’s products were

alive, organic, reeking with reality, not some malt shop vanilla

porridge of the rhythmless ones.

Radio communications was a great advancement in western society,

it also has always been a deadly weapon against people of color. It

gave this society socialization consistency and a broad reach.

Everyone could now be reached as the propaganda climbed on

polluted winds.


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Connecting the dots, the white supremacist culture now rode on the

shameless currents reaching villages, hamlets, mountains and into

the deep forest planting hatred deeper into their own social fabric.

Programming beamed from slimy studios of racist stupidity as theinformation diet of the people was now in the firm grip of the “mind

managers.” Corporate ownership and sponsorship blew open

untouched markets for exploitation.

Dallas Smyte calls the mass media “The Consciousness Industry.”

They now had the tool to attack and identify new markets, propagate

old racist ideas, and perpetuate the socially backward system of capitalism.

Smyte, the Canadian media critic, also defines the mass media’s role

correctly when he proclaims that they “deliver audiences to

advertisers.” I will add from an Afrikan perspective, that the mass

media in general and radio in particular also brainwashes its

consumers, perpetuates stereotypes, assassinates Black peoples’

culture, misrepresents issues, manages, and dominates the information

we digest.

Historically, white culture was the only product shipped through the

air into our living spaces. At the same time, it reinforced racial

oppression, Afrikan lynchings, forced segregation, economic and

academic terrorism.

We must always remember the largest Afrikan movement developed

was by the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The

modern communication weapon of the enemy was radio and it could

not stop the formation of the UNIA. It could only snip at their Black

heels and counter attack from pitiful vestibules of hate.

On the other hand, Marcus Garvey the UNIA leader, did not have the

advantage of radio. He fought them off with his journalistic skills,

oral dynamics and with a generation of brothers and sisters who were

ready to rumble. They were ready for a positive program, a


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revolutionary program, a program that was both the salvation and

the weapon.

The will of a people to be free will always override whatever

mechanism is put in the way of their righteous goal. History teachesus that technology is annoying, but it can be dealt with if the mental

chains of slavery are broken.

This is not to under estimate the technology of the enemy but to put

it in its proper perspective. They hurt the UNIA with their anti-Afrikan

and anti-UNIA propaganda. Had it not been for their vicious attack

on the unconscious minds of the masses, millions more would have joined the legions of Black folk who were on the move.

In any case, Garvey was kicking ass and only with cowardly

infiltration, governmental frame-ups, economic revenge and traitorous

opportunism was victory stolen from us. And yes, it was the radio

and print media that preached the lies, that justified governmental

oppression and covered up truth with the drippy sores of white liesand the scabby terror of cowardly lynchings.

The role of radio hasn’t changed, only now many Black radio

personalities have joined the lynch mob. Radio for revolutionary

purposes doesn’t exist. There are individuals who contribute to our

informational diet in a positive way, but they are few and far between.

Among them are charlatans hiding under the cover of nationalism, but they are mere buffers for white supremacy.

We must understand that most are audio Ebony/Jet Magazine like

reactionary fluff. Packaged illusions dripping with misrepresented

reality designed to tunnel our dreams and aspiration under white

supremacy’s faggity diseased ass.

Like Ebony/Jet, Black Enterprise and Essence Magazine, they

participate in camouflaging our collective misery as they front

legitimacy. They are the bridge for the Culture Bandits, they flop

down in the mud and allow the enemy to travel across their backs to

steal our culture and misrepresent reality.


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In that position the collaborators can only get screwed, a lesson they

will learn before the year 2,000. Yeah, these broadcasters must control

the people’s thoughts and information, they must perpetuate a false

leadership, misrepresent issues and deliver us to the enemy naked

and afraid.

The new key in every city now is Talk Radio, which is more their

vehicle then ours. Daily the most reactionary garbage is kicked out

to a frustrated people who are attempting to become informed. Most

of the time the host is a manager and legitimatizer of middle class

values that are not only unrealistic but a close kin to white supremacy

and culture.

We must realize that information is the key ingredient to progress as

we struggle to develop the strategy and tactics to dismantle their evil

hold on our vision.

There are three levels of information presently:

First: There is the great white lie that attacks from white media

strongholds with a demonic energy that is slapped into our

consciousness as the real shit, the truth, the whole truth and

nothing but the truth. On this level the lie is dressed up in

suits and ties, gowns and phony made up smiles tumbling out

of the communication caves of the damned.

Thus, the legitimatizing agents of society’s truth, “political

correctness” and healthy lies work from golden arches across

Black aspirations. Spinning from the centers of hell they

manufacture, hide, destroy, and work the color out of the truth.

Holding it hostage, they damage all who hear their tales. They

fracture our direction, they embellish the lie and assassinateany who dare counter their shameless falsehoods.

Information delivery is not their gig, they sell perspective,

culture, and a multitude of misery destined to travel into our

reality replacing it with a Disney fantasy that we will never


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survive. Local, regional and national professional liars that

are so good at their craft that they fool themselves into

believing they are not the snow demons from the land of the

mutated misfits. Their works circle the globe and imprison it

as their military moves in for the slaughter.

That first tier of lies has become the world’s truth and almost every

educational system, communication system, religious group and

political/economic configuration must deal with their shitty lies.

They beam their falsehoods across the galaxies and amongst the stars,

they bounce them off satellites and into our brains while articulatingin every language. The message? White supremacy is the only game

in town, whites are Gods and the rest of the world (people of color)

aint shit, never done shit and will never be shit! Their code word is

democracy. Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti breaks the word

down and says what they really mean is “dem-are-crazy” or

demonstration of craze.

The second level is a tricky one:

This level includes campus radio, alternative radio, and so-

called Black Talk Radio. On this level those who slipped

through the trap of stage one land here thinking their

consciousness is safe as they nestle under the mostly useless

conversations of confusion. 95% of the endless chatter is more

confusing than the focused racist information slipping out of

the slimy mouths of our enemies. Aint no joke!

Those who are growing toward free thought escape to this

level. However, they soon find this is not a sanctuary because

it is the same garbage packaged in loonie liberalism and rolledtoward the people like a green hot dog. You know, red dye #2

creates the illusion that the meat is less than foul. But we

know it will kill whether it is red or green. In fact, if you

escape the rotten meat the red dye will deliver a deadly

cancerous blow.


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Some alternative stations are the only place you can find

liberating information. Alternative views and news are

propagated, however much of it is snowed under mounds of

interest group banter that turns off many listeners.

Black talk shows are usually soap boxes for traitorous

politicians, backward entertainers, and assorted religious sell

outs. They also serve as an open microphone for the

community; giving the impression that a village meeting is

taking place when in fact its a controlled situation faking free

speech just to cool us out.

For example, establishment types like Mary Mason in

Philadelphia openly cried for racist former Police Chief and

Mayor Frank Rizzo on the air after he was snatched from this

earth from under a toilet where his racist ass fell and died.

Nobody said nothing! He was an enemy, who had sent many

of us packing off to the prisons of just-us. In addition, many

were blown off the face of the earth by his goons in blue. He

was a barbarian who fronted official terrorism and was proud

of it. She is the kind of person who raps to our people daily

via talk radio. Mason is not a dinosaur, she is reproducing

herself in young ambitious Negroes who want to continue

the circus.

Consequently, life enhancing and life saving information is

still absent from our people. Colored Flunkies, Negro fossils

and some house Niggers control the talk, thus nothing is

accomplished. If anything, they reinforce the white lie.

Confusion is the enemy of revolution and this is the strong

suit of Black Talk. It confuses, alters and manages informationto keep the people wandering and cooled out. In this mixture

across this country, a few positive Black communicators

operate in their respective foxholes. We must multiply their

numbers. In addition, we must expose the clowns, charlatans

and agents of white supremacy.


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The third level is the clear cut minority and exists only as a product

of the overall struggle:

It’s the struggling media of the progressive sub-culture, it is

under wraps, pushed away from the masses. It is fragmented,disjointed, trying to breathe free air, trying to serve, trying to

strike back at the other two carnivorous levels. However, weak

it is, weak it has always been.

An example of the resilience is Black Liberation Radio (BLR)

in Springfield, Illinois, which is a small station that serves

the public housing projects there. Even though it is a one wattstation, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has

attempted to move on it several times. Run by Mbanna

Kantako and his posse, he is a young blind man committed to

informing his people. More small underground stations are

popping up across the nation. Brother Mbanna has been aiding

in this growth. He educates those who are interested in this

economical and effective weapon against the great white lie.

Those stations that are community stations and alternative

stations have been a reservoir of information. However, most

community folks are unaware of where they are on the dial

and what they offer. In addition, the onslaught of anti-Afrikan

propaganda and the white supremacist education systems have

damaged the appetite of the people for anything but

entertainment junk food.

More importantly, the alternative stations, some campus radio

stations and independent revolutionary stations like BLR are

training grounds for the type of War Correspondents we will

have to develop to make progress in communications.

Meanwhile, at some established stations there is also a rumble.

These are mostly individuals that hold enough check to survive

at stations as an oddity, an aside, that the station can glean

some legitimacy from. Even though most of them have lines


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they will not cross, they will not deal with subjects that will

upset powerful people or white power configurations such

as: so-called Jews, secret orders and their Black flunkies.

Yet, these areas are where many progressive thinkers, activists,researchers, and authors can expose the people to information

that goes ignored everywhere else. However, there is little or

no coordination between progressive forces. Here is where

we must develop, this is where the struggle lies, we must

create ways of getting unmolested information to our people.

MUSICAL IMAGES

When we discuss the “Annihilation of Afrikan Images” most will

think of photos, movies, television and video. However, we must

realize that some of the crisp images we latch on to come through the

music we listen to. That is why so much energy and trickyology is

used to control the musical images that dance in our heads.

Young people are the first victims. Their sexual values are not adopted

from family systems any longer, but from the top twenty songs

pumped out by sexist backward recording artists. These songs are

brought to you by folk, Black or white, who don’t even consider

what is good for Afrikan people. It is a profit industry, simply put,

any other illusion will only confuse.

Those who want to slip past the hundreds of others who record and

release records weekly must please white folks’ stereotypical image

of Afrikan sexuality. It is a racket, a corrupt business run by master

Culture Bandits!

That is the easiest way to get a record deal, that is the easiest way toget on the radio and that is the easiest way to get print coverage. Sex

sells because that is all that is allowed to sell. It is the rule that all our

young would-be artists know, it is a rule the Dance Hall artists know

in the teeming ghettos of Jamaica. The ticket out is to sing about

being “Extra Naked,” like Shabba Ranks or about “Murder She


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Wrote” or maybe something about being some kind of “Mack

Daddy.”

Why even unisexed Michael Jackson, who plays meek and mild and

soft spoken when he is not performing, grabs his crotch, grinds his butt and comes off with machoism to be included in his rhythms.

Program directors and radio consultants and others control the sounds

we listen to and they are directly responsible for what we hear. A

classic example is Hip Hop artists Naughty by Nature, who I feel are

one of the most talented groups to appear in sometime. However,

their hit tune “OPP” was the rage, but the tune was so sexually backward and childishly negative that you had to try to suppress its

notions that help manufacture negative behavior in the heads of our

youth.

The point is, the vamp was so down that any decent rhyme would

have caught on and delivered a hit. Their talent blew through on a

master rap called Ghetto Bastard (also called Everything is Gonna

Be Alright ), which held more truth and attitude then ten thousand

sociology studies, ten million social worker reports and a bagful of

parole officer lies. This master piece didn’t get the attention it deserved

but it was pure Black art.

It alerted me to the fact that many of our youth have the talent to

make dynamic contributions to our understanding of their reality.

Yet, we all know the big money is in the sexploitation music that is

cheap and artless. We also know, that our young people are exploited.

After they are used to project what our enemies need to perpetuate,

the great white lie, they usually end up penniless and abandoned.

Even if they are enriched, to sell your people for a dollar is treason.Yeah, I understand some of us don’t know any better. Consequently,

its time we pull their coats, and if they continue to function with the

genocidal programs of the enemy, they must be exposed and their

careers destroyed. Our culture belongs to the collective and not to

individual clowns and clownettes.


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Queen Latifah who discovered Naughty By Nature knows better.

However, the money meant more to her than honor, dignity and

service. Therefore, I was not surprised when she took off the crowns

she was wearing and shifted to mini-skirted immaturity.

It is important to state, it is our fault as the adults, that the young folk

don’t know the time. When they go wrong we won’t step to them and

drop the vibe to keep them positive. Our lives are at stake and the

bastardizing of our culture, the watering down of our thing and the

death of our way will lead to the destruction of this mighty race....the

original race, the Afrikan Race!

Again radio and music rides with us in our cars, accompanies our

children while they’re doing their homework, pump out of our boom

boxes while we’re walking and plug directly into our ears as we

attempt to escape our environment and the hellos from friendly faces.

The crying love tunes, sexploitation songs, infidelity moanings,

harmonizing sexual begging drifts into our consciousness daily.

Creating a sexually backward people who can not maintain a decent

relationship without it crumbling in egos delivered by macho men

notions and soap opera queen ideas. Ya see, mass media produced

morons are created out of Afrikan people like clowns outta Mr. &

Mrs. Potato Head.

This is not to say music for fun and music for romance don’t have its

place, but it is to say that 99% of the music we hear don’t deal with

the real deal. That is of course, the struggle for our liberation against

those who are committing genocide against our people globally.

Manufactured foolishness can only create manufactured fools. Our

culture has taken a beating and one dimensional musical productsdominate the air time and our people’s reality. As of now, our music

is compartmentalized like Afrika, carved up by the same people who

are depopulating the earth of people of color. Most are down with

“OPP”, and few are down with liberation.


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In our heads the music helps to draw images for us. Women, develop

a stereotype image of men and men buy into the projected illusions

of our women. And we function on these externally developed images

as if they are real. Our values are scarred, because many of us want

to be into what the majority is into and the image of what the majorityis dealing with most times Is misrepresented.

If you don’t think our teenage boys and girls don’t get hot listing to

sexual moaning and groaning, you’ve been old too long. If you don’t

think Black adults don’t get dozens of sexual reminders a day, while

they are being influenced to slip out on their mate, you are really

functioning on a Sesame Street level.

I wonder do we critically review the things that affect our lives or are

we pushed along by other people’s hypes, public relations and mis-

information. If we did check things out deeper, I’m sure we would

organize to clean up the musical diet fed to us by radio. In addition,

we would protect those who are loyal to us and punish those who

damage our positive thrust for freedom.

In Culture Bandits Vol.1, I praised Public Enemy. I still feel that the

work done by that group and Boogie Down Productions (under the

direction of KRS-ONE) will go down in history as a dynamic use of

culture to uplift the consciousness of our people.

They should be respected for what they achieved in bringing

nationalism to the front and exalting Malcolm X as the revolutionary

icon needed to help our people outta this “Dope Jam.” Any historian

who over looks their contribution has no idea what has transpired.

They deserve credit, they earned it.

However, the update is not positive. Several developments havedecreased their impact and sent their contributions in reverse:

1. After an interview with Public Enemy’s Minister of

Information, Professor Griff, a small-time reporter captured

what he thought was career building quotes. Griff spoke on


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the so-called Jews with the reporter as an aside. The reporter

pumped the story up and soon there was an attack on Griff by

the powerful Zionists.

What happened next caught the community by surprise. PublicEnemy, who used a lot of revolutionary theatre in their act,

twirling uzis, high stepping military precision, and martial

arts demonstrates, backed down. More importantly, after the

artificial controversy continued leader Chuck D laid these

lines “I got so much trouble on my mind, refuse to lose, here’s

your ticket, let the drummer get wicked.” And just like that

Griff was gone, set-a drift as the so-called Jews dogged histrail. There is a difference between revolutionary theatre and

the real deal. Griff is strong and back recording and making

videos, that is a brother we need to support because of his

loyalty to the race and principled stance against our enemies.

2. The dismissal of Professor Griff made many wonder was

Public Enemy for real? They had earned the love of the people,

were they now back peddling? Yes, they were! Next, they

recorded with a nasty looking white rock group called Anthrax.

They even toured with them, which meant that Black youth

had to be exposed to Anthrax as a reward for their loyalty to

P.E.

3. The final diss hurt most of all when members of the Bomb

Squad, P.E.’s production team, recorded and promoted a group

call “Young Black Teenagers.” The problem was that the group

was white with one pale member wearing dreadlocks down

his face. Tell me, how do you get from a leadership position

in the Black struggie to the role of a bridge for the filthy

Culture Bandits and their carnivorous children? ...Money?

Obviously, we should support Professor Griff and turn away from

Public Enemy until they return to the party. They may never return if

they continue to work as a tool of white supremacy. This criticism is

with affection, because we love all of our people. They are young


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and have a track record that has been helpful. However, it seems that

once they became manipulated to attempt to destroy their Homeboy,

Professor Griff, they have been tumbling down-hill ever since. Yeah,

rolling down-hill with pockets full.

Meanwhile KRS-ONE has a good mind and has also been an

important player in the political and culture development of some of

our young people. But again, not understanding “Race First,” he has

integrated his shit. The impact is gone. Malcolm X taught us that “If

you take Black coffee and lighten it up with white cream, what kept

you awake will now lull you to sleep.”

At the end of his excellent live video KRS-ONE told the world he

was leader of the revolution in Japanese. Look, revolution is not a

word to play with as Public Enemy witnessed. Our young people can

be daring, they can be fearless and they also can be silly and

reactionary. We must keep the lines of communication open and help

them back on the right track. Malcolm said, “if you knew the definition

of revolution, you’d crawl back into the alley and get outta the way,

you wouldn’t use that word.”

Well white folk know what the real definition is and they come at us

hard core. It is necessary for the youth to work with established

brothers and sisters in the community to drive the race forward. No,

not the so-called national establishment flunkies like Carl Rowan,

Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, Roy Innis, Wilson

Goode, Coretta Scott King, assorted religious types and other tools

of white supremacy.

I’m talking about the brothers and sisters who work for the people

everyday and whose names are not promoted in the media. We all

need to come together and work to solve the problems of our people.Revolution is not child’s play, but our only hope.

Outta Georgia, Arrested Development came kicking “rural rap.” This

earthiness worked as they rap/sang about things important to us. With

Baba (father) in the middle of the group, healthy ancestor worship,


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an Afrikan cultural base and spirituality, they forced their way into

our lives.

Their musical offering “Revolution” was the highlight of the Malcolm

X movie. Let us hope they remain loyal to our people and their struggles. I caution them from our historical experiences, that poor

whites are as dangerous and more deadly than their brothers. Please

do not take our love and throw it back in our faces for money as

others have done. Let us all collectively manufacture the environment

for the struggle we have ahead of us.

The enemy will come at you with money, opportunity, ego trippingexposure and coercion to misdirect your youthful energy. Stay loyal

to us, all we have for you is love and a positive position in our

illustrious history. Peter Tosh sang “live clean let your works be seen,

stand firm or you gonna fever.”

Listen, I can hear the echoes of our enemies laughter bouncing off

the insides of their empty heads. Let them relax and miss the gatheringstorm. Let us keep moving and growing at the pace that we are now

and one day [soon] they will lean their heads back to cackle and lose

them.

We must organize our information to produce consciousness in our

people. We must research and find out how to establish our own radio

counter-attack.

Cost effective methods of radio communications are critical, let us

put together radio co-operatives to establish what we need. Also, it is

critical to learn and then teach our people how to use shortwave radios

to round out our global information diet. News from around the world

is managed to keep us unaware, backward and apathetic toward our

people globally.

Students of communications must rally around the community,

provide expertise and creativity to our problem. How can we measure

the global effectiveness of the Black Holocaust without a

communication arsenal to strike back!

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