Hey beauts! This will be the last time I post anything about these two today.
I want this to be an educating moment, and white/non-queer followers, please don't react in rage. I'm safe and fine. 💛
CW // Racism, Ableism, Anti-Communism
I want you to look upon these messages.
What do you see?
No, I don't see helpless, non-educated people. The first commenter is clearly educated at the surface level!
What I see is grief. Horribly rooted, paralyzing grief. And it makes me so sad.
I've lived and thrived in WSC culture my entire early adulthood. I listened to horrible people about horrible things, and because of my OWN fragility and INSECURITIES, I fell deeper and deeper.
Until I found love. And art. And music. And hope.
After liberating myself (not quite there yet at all, however, it was an eye-opening moment), I've found in recent months by the teachings of Kokayi Nosakhere (links to his site are here) that I must use my white body as a shield and to soothe white people like me and use my PRIVILEGE of communication to help others go on their own healing journey. Not in a white savior way as if I'm going to save racism as a whole, no. In a way that uses my own body to protect others because I want Black, Brown, Indigenous, People of Color to exist in a world where white supremacy is dismantled. And with BIPOC creators' TIRELESS, and I say TIRELESS efforts of giving free education, it's the absolute LEAST I can do as a white person.
Here's the lesson. If you're white, give money to BIPOC creators when able, and use your privilege as a tool to help decolonize and help others go on their healing journey. Break the taboo of talking about race, racism, and whiteness within your community, and take action when necessary.
I love you all. I'm safe, and I'm PRIVILEGED to be safe. Think about the lives of BIPOC. They don't get a "break" from white supremacy.
Love y'all.
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Melvin Gibbs Isn’t Looking Back
For the past 21 years, self-described “explorer of rhythm” Melvin Gibbs has—among many other things—held down the massive low end in the collaborative power trio Harriet Tubman. The effects-laden grooves he concocts for that band, paired with the string-bending guitarscapes of Brandon Ross and the polyrhythmic assault of drummer J.T. Lewis, yielded a sprawling masterwork last year. The Terror End of Beauty, a glitch-infused collision of rock, jazz, funk, and blues, rightly found itself on just about every best-of-2018 list.
But that was last year. On this frigid winter day in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, the dreadlocked bassist is perched in front of a computer alongside drummer, producer, and rap upstart Kassa Overall. They’re in the midst of what they’re calling an “idea day” for one of Gibbs’ panoply of boundary-pushing projects that will surely keep him busy throughout 2019. Among those projects: the jazz-fusion Zig Zag Power Trio with Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid and drummer Will Calhoun, a duo with theoretical physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander that explores climate change, a long-awaited album from the Bitches Brew-manipulating Melvin Runs the Hoodoo Down (with the late Pete Cosey on guitar), and the return of his African-based spiritual music ensemble, Elevated Entity. On top of that, Tubman is intent on making a new record in 2019. “Striking while the iron is hot is important because it took so long for everyone to, you know … care,” says Gibbs, laughing.
What’s being cooked up in Overall’s home studio today is potential material for yet another band: Melvin Gibbs Magnum. Also in the Magnum mix are keyboardist Paul Wilson, longtime creative partner DJ Logic, and D.C.-based artist/producer Kokayi, a touring member of Steve Coleman’s Five Elements. It’s apt that Gibbs has Godfried T. Toussaint’s book The Geometry of Musical Rhythm by his side; the surgical focus with which all hands are manipulating the rhythms reverberating from the speakers is akin to a science experiment.
“One of my things is African-American rhythm,” Gibbs explains of Magnum’s beat-driven vision. “That’s where this book comes in. There’s this geometric idea called ‘translation,’ which is when you take a shape and just twist it—it’s the same shape but it looks different because you twisted the direction. That’s what happens with African-American rhythms: They’re all the same, rhythms that came from Africa, but they’ve all been twisted slightly. What we’re gonna do is take this really basic rhythm and we’re gonna twist it. I’m exploring an intergenerational idea—I almost want to make a jazz version of Jay-Z’s 4:44. When he made that record, I was going, ‘Ah! This is the same idea!’” [Read More]
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VA - Black Lives - from Generation to Generation - anti-racism project of 20 songs from 25 composers and 60+ musicians (Jammin’ Colors)
Cheick Tidiane Seck - Immanuel Wilkins - David Gilmore - Marque Gilmore - Sharrif Simmons - Stephanie McKay - Andy Milne - Kokayi - Sonny Troupé - Reggie Washington - Alicia Hall Moran - DJ Grazzhoppa - Adam Falcon - Jeremy Pelt - Grégory Privat - Marcus Strickland - E.J. Strickland - Oliver Lake - Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Gene Lake - Tutu Puoane - Yul - Marvin Sewell - Jean-Paul Bourelly - Terence “Sub Z“ Nicholson
25 musicians from the United States, Caribbean and Africa each compose a song to fight against systemic racism in the world
The 25 composers are between 20 and 80 years old and are known for their work as leaders but also their collaboration with world-famous artists from the 60‘s until today.
They come from the United States, Caribbean and Africa and their songs draw on many influences, such as African music, hip-hop, jazz, funk, rock, fusion, rap, jungle, nu-jazz, soul, blues, Caribbean jazz, opera, classical music, poetry.
This project brings together more than 60 musicians, who play a large variety of instruments: saxophone, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, guitar, drums, bass, vocals, piano, keyboards, turntables, ka drums, n’goni, djembe and tama. There is even a choir from Mali, composed of girls 7 to 13 years of age.
On this album, you will listen to brothers, twins, a father and a son, a couple, a mother and son, old friends !
“Black Lives - from Generation to Generation“ is a collective of artists who are continuing to fight for equality and social justice through music.
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A Month of Islam in America: July 2019
A monthly review of what our open source research was able to find - and it is getting harder and harder to find information as big tech companies delete, remove, de-platform and de-monetize content and content providers who expose the truth. Google/Youtube, one of the worst offenders, took their pro-sharia enforcement to a new level in July:
Google - Youtube say ‘Christian’ is an unacceptable keyword but ‘Muslim’ is okay
Click any link below for more details and link to original source.
Jihad in America in July
Arizona: Two Somali Muslim Refugees Arrested for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS
FBI Phoenix Field Office, announced that on July 26, Ahmed Mahad Mohamed and Abdi Yemani Hussein, were arrested for conspiring to provide material support and resources to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Brooklyn: Muslim Immigrant Who Entered U.S. on Diversity Visa, Became ISIS Sniper, Weapons Trainer
A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Kazakhstan with providing and attempting to provide material support, including training, services and personnel, to the Islamic State
Texas: Muslim Who Wanted to Be a Martyr, Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS
From August 2017 until his arrest in December 2017, Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya attempted to join and support ISIS, and provided information to other ISIS supporters about the use of machetes, the homemade construction of an automatic weapon and how to build and use explosive materials.
Bronx: Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant arrested at JFK, planned to join Taliban, kill U.S. soldiers
DELOWAR MOHAMMED HOSSAIN was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport (“JFK Airport”) in Queens, New York. HOSSAIN was charged in a criminal Complaint today with attempting to provide material support for acts of terrorism, specifically in support of killing U.S. nationals located overseas.
Washington, D.C.: Former Metro police officer convicted of supporting ISIS gets 15 years at resentencing
Nicholas Young of Fairfax, Virginia, was sentenced to 15 years last year for obstruction of justice and attempting to provide support to a terrorist group.
Young was the first law enforcement officer charged with a federal terrorism offense. He patrolled the D.C. region's Metrorail system.
Iraqi Muslim who orchestrated jihad attack that killed 5 U.S. troops gets 26 years, then release to Canada
“Muhammad ‘Isa’s efforts to facilitate a suicide attack, one that ultimately resulted in the death of five young American soldiers in Iraq, has landed him a sentence of more than two decades behind bars…”
Indiana: Muslim Brothers Indicted for Manufacturing Fully Automatic Rifles for Islamic State
A federal grand jury has charged brothers Moyad Dannon, 21, and Mahde Dannon, 20, both of Fishers, Indiana, with multiple firearms charges and one count of attempting to provide material support and resources, including firearms, to the Islamic State
Florida: Suspect sent bomb threats to judges 'for cause of Islamic State'
Noah D. Stirn was indicted on federal charges related to issuing threatening communications involving explosives and mailing threatening communications to injure others.
The indictment alleges that Stirn asserted that the attacks were “for the cause of the Islamic State.”
Virginia: Koran teacher, who sent porn and jihad videos to 15-year-old student, gets 10 years prison
The videos on jihad that Seitu Sulayman Kokayi shared with a teenage student came from his stepfather, Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, who faces terrorism charges in New York
More Jihad in America in June
Ohio: Muslim Immigrant Who Attacked Man He Though Was Jewish Gets 30 Months Jail
Louisiana: Muslim indicted in attempted feticide case - conspired to kill his girlfriend’s unborn baby
Florida: Man arrested in deadly shooting outside Tampa mosque is...Muslim
Submission to Sharia in America
72 Philly cops, 25 Dallas cops, more in Phoenix under investigation for “Islamophobic” comments
US Army War College Surrendered to Terror-linked Muslim Group CAIR
Washington: New state law requires professors reschedule exams for fasting Muslims
Miss World America Strips Miss Michigan of Title for Tweet About Refusing to Try on a Hijab
Michigan: Muslims bully (Muslim) franchisee from opening Israeli burger chain in Dearborn(istan)
Washington: Muslim who shot six women, killing 1 at Seattle Jewish center is now a prison imam
Education Jihad in America
New Jersey School District Refuses to Release Records about Islamic Indoctrination of High School Students
Previous monthly reports here.
Sexual Jihad in America
Virginia: Man who illegally filmed 60 women and girls in dressing rooms pleads guilty
Illinois: Islamic Madrasah (School) Teacher Sexually Assaulted 11-Year-Old
Diversity & Immigration Jihad
Connecticut: Muslim kills escaped cow by cutting its throat in Home Depot parking lot (VIDEO)
California: Egyptian immigrant murdered autistic sons by driving off pier
Florida: 217-acre, sharia-compliant Muslim resort planned near Disney, next to Margaritaville
New York: Imam buried behind mosque sparks debate in Rockland County village
Fraud for Jihad
DC: Top U.S. Govt Media Network Official, Author of “Vying for Allah’s Vote,” Guilty of Stealing $40,000
Louisiana: Third Muslim arrested in $1.2M food-stamp fraud case
DC: House Ethics Complaint filed against Rep. Ilhan Omar over Potential Immigration, Marriage, Tax, and Student Loan Fraud
Dhimmitude in Elected Office
DC: Sec of State Pompeo adds anti-American Muslim to Commission on Unalienable Rights
Illinois: Mayor of Champaign Appoints Muslim Supremacist to Anti-Discrimination Commission
Boston: Mayor appoints Muslim from terror mosque to head of Office for Immigrant Advancement
DC: TSA Exempts Halal Food Trucks From Airport Inspections
DC: Congressional “Muslim Caucus” To Hold Inaugural Conference In DC, Sponsored By Terror Tied CAIR
Overall, a banner month for the sharia supremacists and their enablers. Some feel good legislation did pass, but it’s only necessary because elected officials continue to import populations that are incompatible with America.
Virginia makes female genital mutilation (FGM) a felony
Pennsylvania Becomes 34th State to Make Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) a Felony
Arkansas makes female genital mutilation (FGM) a felony
Tell your elected officials, and those running for office, to stop allowing mass immigration of people into our country who require new laws to control and contain. If they can’t uphold the oath they took they should be removed from office.
Those unwilling to defend their liberties will lose them. The history of Islamic invasions has proven that over the last 1,400 years.
Please share this report before it’s too late.
Previous monthly reports here.
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