#misoverstood

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #768

first posted in facebook november 14, 2019

sanford biggers -- "overstood" (2017)

"harriet tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars" ... biggers sanford

"baby, you understand me now if sometimes you see that i'm mad don't you know no one alive can always be an angel? when everything goes wrong, you see some bad" ... bennie benjamin & sol marcus

"'overstood' ... puts biggers’s artful wordplay on display. highlighting the subtle political orientation of the verb 'to understand,' one might begin to wonder if the term, as a spatial metaphor, implies (or perhaps even demands) that the comprehension of an idea requires a kind of ideological submission" ... steven pestana

"four small black figures are positioned a foot or so away from the wall. stretching from the figures, up and onto the wall, are long shadows rendered in black sequins, culminating in four faces, which biggers drew with his fingers, flaking over the sequins and exposing their gold undersides. he found the faces while searching through images on google, which is something of a pastime for him. the source photograph is of the black panther chairman bobby seale and a man named george murray, who, when the picture was taken, had just been fired from the faculty of san francisco state university, after joining the panthers and advocating that black students take up arms against racist violence" ... vinson cunningham

"but i'm just a soul whose intentions are good oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood" ... horace ott

"biggers called his show 'selah,' after the ancient hebrew word that appears as a kind of poetic interjection throughout the psalms, and which is thought to have been a musical notation designating a rest. in the churches i grew up in, a preacher or a teacher would deliver the crux of the lesson, the part designed to reach past narrative and deliver a prick to the listener’s heart, and then, softly, say 'selah,' as if to insist: think about that for a second, before we move on. the word, applied to biggers’s work, might act as an acknowledgment of a stubborn but essential quietness, engineered to demand a pause from the viewer" ... vinson cunningham

"but i'm just a soul whose intentions are good oh lord, please don't let me be misoverstood ... selah" ... al janik

[treesgrow]

“Social Justice” misoverstood is poison. Want to be rich? Earn it. Hate the rich?  Fuck em. Favor your race? That makes you racist. I see reverse racism, war on those who have more, and a bunch of views founded solely on propaganda. Is this what the fuck we’re to become? 

[lyrics-code]

What Goes Around Lyrics - Nas

What Goes Around Lyrics – Nas

[Chorus] Ayo its poison, ecstasy, coke You say its love, it is poison Schools where I learned they should be burned, it is poison Physicians prescripting us medicine which is poison Doctors injecting our infants with the poison Religion misoverstood is poison

[Verse 1] Niggas up in my hood be getting shot giving poison In hospitals, shots rittle the block Little children and elderly women run for…

[opelousasrasta]

No matter how "weird" i may seem to others smh lol .. my #family still #love and #supports me .. when your #spiritual #growth is misoverstood by most and you still have the ones close to you ,at least trying to overstand, its a #blessing that should not go overlooked .. #Epiklifestylez #UniversalFrequencies #HappyNOW #NowIsTheVibeRate