Basic Black on Streaming Radio

A self-promoting note from rasx():* The following is an email sent to LIBRadio.net from a very vital woman during a recent streaming radio interview for kintespace.com. I post it here for motives that should be clearly apparent in the content below:*

Hetep-u Keidi & Brother Wilhite and listeners,

First of all, I&I really enjoy the flow with Conscious Rasta and the Ras(x). I’m nourished. Love to both you brilliant brothas. Never e-Nuff respect. My comments here may be longish...just a warning.

I’d like to bring the listeners attention to a writing by Brother Wilhite called: Basic Black: the Funky Sutra.

In a paraphrase of his own words on the Funky Sutra, “The intention here is to revive the simplicity of the meaning behind declaring Blackness. The intention here is to take Blackness beyond Blackness, toward the African wisdom of primacy, the ancestral Deep Thought. (Furthermore) This effort intends to incarnate (the deep thought) instead of simply examining it at a distance.”

As a student of Ancient Kemetic language, accomplished poet and as an African devoted to the project of restoring Our Culture, Wilhite has the stuff to accomplish this incarnation.

I call “Basic Black” a “pineal storm” and I read it (both tenses) with interest and appreciation. Here’s why.

So often in our fervor for progress toward a Black liberation the mind set that undergirds that progressive movement becomes hackneyed and habitual—literally anti-progressive. We must periodically reassess/rearticulate the fundamentals—sit back and reflect on our definitions. In fact, we need to keep our philosophical lens consistently before our eyes. What is our meaning now behind declaring Blackness, the thought groundation of our movements?

We seed and thrive. We grow some, prune some send spores and fruits, and the essence fulfills another shape.

Basic Black: the Funky Sutra takes us back to seed thought, definitions and mind set, It takes us through the door of what African and African so-called Ebonic language reveals (when juxtaposed with Euro-language) about the status of our relationship with this Consumer Empire.

An excerpt: “Curtis Mayfield puts it like this: Everybody’s prayin’ and every body’s sayin’—but come time to do and everybody’s layin’... Once we recognize our imperial reality—we realize that we are captives. We use the egocentric language of our captors and we inherit from the spirit of captivity, to get a double dose of thoughts steeped in inaction...assimilated captives learn to live vicariously through their captors, an enjoy displaying their idols representing power.”

As with all philosophical content, The Funky Sutra deserves not only review but contemplation. And a place under our arms with other favorite, grounding Black reads.

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rasx()