CHECK THE VIBE! A Review of Music&Culture

"CHECK THE VIBE!" - Where Music is reviewed, Culture is preserved, Life is respected, and all things Vibing are welcome! Serving Vibration to all you music lovers and just plain listeners; Providing analysis on culture. Black Culture Exists. Preserve it. Check The Vibe was brought to you by you; the community. By J.P.B.

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We have some of our people who think that slavery was back then and has nothing to do with them. We never escaped slavery. We still share the slave consciousness of our great-great grandparents. You say that slavery has nothing to do with you, and slavery was back there, and I ask you then: What language do you speak? When did you learn that language? Was that the language African people were speaking when we were taken into slavery in the Carribbean and the Americas? The language we speak at this moment is a slave language - the language that our slave ancestors were forced to learn.

What kind of food do you eat? You say soul food! Was that the food of African people? Slave food, the food that we find most satisfying, the food that we find sticks-to-our-ribs, the food we call “down home,” the food we learned to eat in the slave quarters, and yet we dare say that we have escape slavery! How can you say you that you exist in a different consciousness from those people?

Ultimately, I ask the questions that’s closest to home. What kind God do you worship? What’s the name of it? Who taught you to praise Him? Was this the God you were praying to before you were brought to these shores? Is this the religion you had before you were brought to these shores? Can you name one African God? How can you then who define yourself - the very essence of yourself, the very essence of your soul - and organize the every nature of your life here on Earth based on a God handed to us by our slave masters and then claim that you have no slave consciousness and are not related to slavery? In other words, we are not Africans - we are possessed! Amos Wilson, 1994.

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Listen to track on TIDAL - Astudentoflife: Conditioning https://tidal.com/track/93377574

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This track celebrates the essence of Blackness. Album Notes
“These Stars Shine Darkly” - inspired by Sun Ra
This song is about:
our pide in the shadows. Our greatest without needed attention. Being great just in being black as diverse and supreme blackness can be, being that of all things. How we are born great but we are conditioned by the illusion of how to live out our blackness through forms of education and white Supremacist Propaganda. And ultimately, The Spirit of Blackness in creating Light, that which is known. 
In essence blackness is marginalized through common conditioning, but we, the culturally rich, can never truly be caged unless we allow it.
My purpose is to HEAL, BUILD, and SERVE

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This track celebrates the essence of Blackness. Album Notes “These Stars Shine Darkly” - inspired by Sun Ra This song is about: our pide in the shadows. Our greatest without needed attention. Being great just in being black as diverse and supreme blackness can be, being that of all things. How we are born great but we are conditioned by the illusion of how to live out our blackness through forms of education and white Supremacist Propaganda. And ultimately, The Spirit of Blackness in creating Light, that which is known. In essence blackness is marginalized through common conditioning, but we, the culturally rich, can never truly be caged unless we allow it. My purpose is to HEAL, BUILD, and SERVE

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(H)afrocentric Vol 4     

Story: Juliana “Jewels” Smith, Art: Ronald Nelson, Colors: Mike Hampton

Get the comics at hafrocentric.com

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[nevaehtyler]

This is important.

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It’s not a “loophole” it’s explicit within the text of the amendment

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“Loophole” lmfao like it’s a fucking accident, like it wasn’t purposefully structured to reclaim and expand a source of free labor

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We never outlawed slavery in America. We simply transferred ownership of slaves from individual landowners to the government and large corporations.

Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:

-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.

-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”

-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?

-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.

-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.

-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.

-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.

-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.

-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.

-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.

-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.

Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.

Sources:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

http://mfgtalkradio.com/s7-e15-manufacturing-jobs-lost-prison-slave-labor/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html?1379606057

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/27/immi-f27.html

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-introduces-bill-to-stop-private-prisons-from-exploiting-tax-incentives-for-profit

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Pretty much just watch the 13th

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And read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander!

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The subversive meaning behind “job creation”.

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See also today’s Twitter thread from Samuel Sinyangwe about prisoners in Baton Rouge working on the capitol grounds and in the governor’s mansion:

Here’s the nola.com article he references.

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MUST READ!

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https://www.aclu.org/prison-crisis

http://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/

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The deities manifest through dance and song. 

Oya, orisha of the Niger River in Nigeria and owner of the winds, transitions, and the ancestral masquerade. 

February 2 is Oya’s feast day in the Lukumi tradition of Cuba and the United States.

Video taken at Callejon de Hamel, Havana, Cuba, 2010. 

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No Love like Self Love.

[imadethistoberandom]

Queen Latifah speaking on how the creators of Friends stole the concept from Living Single

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I said this under lifeworkfun and I will say it under blacksinhistory friends is a ripoff of Living Single.

- only reblogged for Queen Latifah’s interview. friends is the white Living Single.

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Anderson Cooper Responds to Finding Out His Ancestor Was Killed By His Slave

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Feeling Anxious? Be Alert!

When you feel anxious, anxiety-ridden, what is one to do? What do you ordinarily do when anxiety is there? You try to solve it. You try alternatives, and you get more and more into it. You will create a bigger mess because anxiety cannot be solved through thinking. It cannot be dissolved through thinking because thinking itself is a sort of anxiety.

This technique says don’t do anything with anxiety. Just be alert!

I will tell you one old anecdote about Bokuju, another Zen master. He lived alone in a cave, but during the day, or even in the night, he would sometimes say loudly, “Bokuju” – his own name, and then he would say, “Yes, I am here.” And no one else was there. Then his disciples used to ask him, “Why are you calling ‘Bokuju’, your own name, and then saying, ‘Yes sir, I am here’?” He said, “Whenever I get into thinking, I have to remember to be alert, and so I call my own name, ‘Bokuju.’ The moment I call ‘Bokuju’ and I say, ‘Yes sir, I am here,’ the thinking, the anxiety disappears.”

Then, in his last days, for two or three years, he never called “Bokuju,” his name, and never had to reply, “Yes sir, I am here.” The disciples asked, “Master, now you never do this.” So he said, “But now Bokuju is always there. He is always there, and there is no need. Before I used to miss him. Sometimes the anxiety would take me, cloud me all over, and Bokuju was not there. So I had to remember ‘Bokuju,’ and the anxiety would disappear….”

Try your name. When you feel deep anxiety, just call your name – not “Bokuju” or any name, but your name – and then reply to it, “Yes sir, I am here,” and feel the difference. Anxiety will not be there. At least for a single moment, you will have a glimpse beyond the clouds, and that glimpse can be deepened. Once you know that if you become alert; anxiety is not there, it disappears; you have come to a deep knowing of your own self and the mechanism of inner working.

OSHO

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