This about encapsulates it. I was one of the white kids in the DC suburbs that thought the album was brilliant. When did it come out ‘91? I realized they fused jazz with rap, meaning rap and instruments would work together instead of just using those simple electronic beat boxes with vocals. Like I expected to see…

My white father in the North (just north of DC) called the cops when a black kid with dreads rode his bike through our neighborhood. The kid was going to his internship with the local Greek carpenter. I’m white and have long hair and nobody has ever called the cops on me, even when I was walking through predominantly…

When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it’s the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that is. That’s quite apart from the opportunity costs – the loss of the opportunity for education, organizing, and serious and constructive activism.