black self love?
When you hear the message of dead prez, I don't really hear much self love. I hear a lot of pain, and hatred for the system, and criticism of black bourguoise, but I would think that self love would be demonstrated with a proposal for a specific, empowering plan of action articulated pragmatically with optimism and and a vision for a better way of life. With their advocacy of violence as an offensive plan of action and the calling out of certain "upper class" Blacks to contribute to a yet to be clearly articulated cause, I think that on some level, they may be doing more harm than good in that they place legitimate calls for revolution in the same catagory as some type of gang warfare context with the message "revolutionary but gangsta". I find it hard to see how a revolutionary can be gangsta' when the gangsta' mentality is exactly what the system wants out of black people. The gangsta' image is one of wanton hedonism and nihilism, two atributes that will almost certainly kill any revolution as well as the people that possess them.
Blackwatch!!!!!!
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