Notes from The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975 Directed by Göran Olsson
Important notes from film / things to learn about + look up / paraphrased words from people
(look up soundtrack)
Abiodun Oyewole:
america is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help
america is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt and we take care of america.
we’ll pick up the pieces [of america] and turn it into a new dance
1967
Stokely Carmichael chairman of SNCC
talks about martin luther king and bus boycott and how that is the ultimate form of passive protest and how it relies on people having a conscience to notice it but he was saying the issue with non violent protest is because america doesn’t have a conscience.
luther kings idea - if you are non violent if you are suffering your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart
he only made one fellatious assumption in order for non violence to work is that america must have a conscience - america has none
Talib Kwely **
talks about how CARMICHAEL ** was the first one to talk about power / black power and what it really meant
Carmichael - unwillingness to deal with someone like doctor king mean that they have to deal with the younger generation
Medgar Evers ****
Attica prison riots
Angela Davis when asked about the violent menas of the black panther party said to anyone who asks that queestion has NO IDEA the violence black people have been on the receiving end of
ANGELA DAVIS TO READ - ‘are prisons obsolete’ not dense or thick - accessible
HARLEM
Talib Kweli - reason why he was able to touch the world with his music owed to the years he spent in the black bookstore
POWER IN KNOWLEDGE
drugs flooded community - to stop revolutionary spirit **
Vietnam men came back with serious drugs problems
drugs = receding of interest and militancy in black communities
Louis Farrakhan - islam
america getting taken over by drugs / violence people looking for structure and order
watch all spike lees films - watch spike less malcolm x
Erykah Badu - lot of change is going to come from good old fashioned READING BOOKS
and more importantly we have to WRITE and document our histories right now
Sonia Sanchez
This is an ONGOING job we need to talk about the 1 percent or 5 percent that runs everything
The reward is
if you have children - make a better world for them and if you don’t have children make a better world for other people
