Saturday, January 3, 2015

The virtues of segregation (Part 1)...The Legends of Sam Cooke and Jimi Hendrix...


Johnny Allen Hendrix, better known as 'Jimi' Hendrix, was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27th, 1942. Son of James Allen Ross Hendrix and Lucille Jeter, young Jimi so adamantly strummed on a broom like it was a guitar, his father thought to buy him a one-stringed ukulele. Jimi was so prodigious in the stylings of Robert Johnson and B.B. King with this one-stringed instrument, that his father bought him a used acoustic guitar when he was 16.

Jimi left high school and enlisted in the army; it was there he met bass player Billy Cox who he formed a fast friendship and a band with called the 'King Casuals'. After a parachuting accident, Jimi was honorably discharged from the army. Thereafter, he earned a reputation as an exceptionally competent backup guitarist/session player. Over the next few years, Jimi played with such notable groups/acts as the Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Ike and Tina Turner amongst others.

Sam Cooke was born on January 22, 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He was one of eight children of Charles Cook Sr., a baptist minister. Early in his youth, Sam's voice got him noticed as having the intangible 'it' factor that made him stand out from his peers in his father's gospel youth choir. 

By the time Sam was 20, his voice was honed into a finely tuned instrument, and he replaced R.H. Harris in the gospel group, the 'Soul Stirrers'.  Now, R.H. was a legendary singer in his own right and the Soul Stirrers at the time, where one of america's most popular groups; but when Sam took over as lead vocalist, their popularity increased ten fold. 

After singing with the Soul Stirrers for six years, Sam decided to try his hand at secular music. His hypnotically smooth voice and stylings won him a hit record with his 1957 release of 'You Send Me'; which sold over a million copies. Sam is also credited as being one of the architects of the Soul/Rhythm and Blues genres, along with other giants of the industry like Jackie Wilson. 

Now, the story of these two brothers converge when they find initial success emulating the uptight and passionless music of the white mainstream; Jimi with
his band 'The experience' and Sam Cooke who was doing his level best to sound and mold himself, especially vocally, in the fashionings of Frank Sinatra.

Side note: I shake my head when I think of the band Procol Harum's song, 'Whiter Shade of Pale'; the ghastly pallid lead singer tries to sing the song as soulfully as he can, while talking about someone's 'ghostly' skin turning a whiter shade of pale. I guess they had no idea, or didn't wanna' admit they were emulating, or trying to emulate, Black soul music. Recently, when I told a white woman on line that Black people created Rock and Roll, one dunce of a white man responded saying, 'what?lol'. They have no idea how the music they identify with so much was once called 'jungle music' 'cause Black people created it and were the only ones, in it's inception, who were playing it. I told the inbred to google the names, 'Chuck Berry' and 'Little Richard'; I haven't heard from them since. 

But back to Jimi and Sam... it was after these brothers came up outta' trying to emulate white mainstream artists and started discovering their own melanated stylings, that they created their masterworks. Case in point, Jimi's album 'Electric Ladyland' and it's song 'Voodoo Chile' (Slight return). In it Jimi says: "Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand...'cause I'm a Voodoo Chile, Lord knows I'm a Voodoo Chile..." And Sam with his album 'Live at the Harlem Square club' pictured above; Sam accessed his Black spirituality, i.e. soul, and found out, that's what whitey wanted most. Understand, because caucasians have nearly no melanin, they can't access the depths of emotions we can; therefore, whenever they hear our soulful stylings in their rawest form, they immediately gravitate to it. They envy our access to spirituality 'cause they're incapable of getting there themselves, you feel me. 

And at the latter stages of their lives, they were both murdered by corrupted crakas when they tried to reclaim monies stolen from them by an assortment of pale-skinned degenerates. 

Now, ever since I was young I heard Jimi Hendrix choked on his own puke because he accidentally overdosed on barbiturates.  And it was a young sista who told me emphatically that Jimi Hendrix was murdered. Now evidence points to the fact that the man who actually put the hit out on him was his manager Mike Jeffries. Mike was an interesting fellow, to say the least; he formerly worked for british intelligence before becoming a music manager and had ties to organized crime families. Jimi was killed right before he was gonna' take Mike to court for monies Mike stole from him; and it's said that years after Jimi died, Mike confessed to having him killed saying, "I had to do it, he would have ruined me." 

In Sam's case, he was reportedly killed by Bertha Franklin, manager of the Hacienda motel in Los Angeles, CA. Now, newspapers reported that Sam was shot by Bertha, but upon seeing Sam's body at his funeral, singers like Etta James said his head was so badly disfigured that it looked like he'd been beaten to death. It's funny how this happened right after he opened his own publishing and record companies, and filed a lawsuit against a former manager who had ties, again, to organized crime.

Now, I've said all that to say this, Sam especially was very mindful about playing to integrated audiences and he was very vocal about his support for the Black 'Civil Rights movement'; now, had he known how he was going to wind up, do you think he'd have tried so hard to sing to whitey?

Had Jimi and Sam performed for their people exclusively, they'd still be alive today. 

Now, this was just a tale of two extraordinarily talented brothas in the arts; think of how much more our people have been affected politically, by literally dying to sit and go to school next to a white person. Socio-politically, we've lost everything trying to get close to whitey, up to and including our lives. And I've already talked about the price we've paid in terms of these fascist bastards making us hate ourselves. 

Why is it that the Black 'nuclear' family was more in tact in the 1920's than it is now? Homogeneity, i.e. segregation, is what the Black Diaspora needs to thrive in the coming years, decades, etc. We need to be able to work by ourselves, for ourselves, exclusively. 

Now, I understand that we've built lives here, so we can't just pick up and go; but we should start making preparations to get the hell from around whitey. Now, the first step in this migration is mental. We have to know we can not only survive, but ultimately thrive away from white folks. And it starts by getting rid of our love for these inbreds and getting rid of the hatred we have for our own kind. Pretty soon I'm gonna' divulge a quicker meditative method for doing this subconsciously, so stay tuned to this Blog for that technique. 

But beyond this, is this something the Black Diaspora as a whole, sees that we need to do? How many more Mike Browns, Eric Garners, Trayvon Martins, etc. do there have to be for us to understand we'll never peacefully co-exist with these beasts called white people? Hurricane Katrina should have been the LAST STRAW!! We should have revolted behind that...but we're so conditioned to love whitey, that half the people celebrating in Louisiana's marde gras right afterwards, were us.  

We need to make a decision people, do we want to perish trying to be with whitey, or do we want to survive what's coming and thrive in a nation full of our own kind? The choice is ours, and it's one we need to make before it's too late. 

Sutekh!

MontUHURU Mimia

8 comments:

  1. Great post! Sadly, I believe the vast majority of us want to perish trying to be with white people. Correct me if I'm wrong, I believe it was Dr. Chancellor Williams who said that black people are the only people on the planet so hellbent on integration. I see it everyday. What have we've gained from it....Nothing! But you can't get em to see it though.

    I see that you have been blogging for awhile and I need some advice. I have a blog set up (I'm a beginner in blogging) and I will let you know shortly when I get my first post published because I would like to invite you to follow me if you don't mind. My blog is called Tired Sista @ tiredsista.wordpress.com. I will be posting under the name Tired Sista. I will be discussing pretty much the same topics you discuss here. Like the state of the black community and the issues that plague us and my opinion on such issues.
    I would like to know where did you get your image for your avatar and images for your posts. I have visited websites that have some beautiful photos for avatars, but you have to pay for them and I do not want to use any of my visa/credit cards, I want to remain anaymous. Some of the same sites may offer free images, but I don't see too many I like and it seems like they are tricking you with the free stuff. **shrugs* I'm also familiar with total free sites, but I would have to search these sites (which I don't have a lot of time) to see if I could find some good photos. However, I've been writing for years and I know is that if I use images of celebrities or pictures off of other sites I will just do like I did in school and cite them in the post reference section to be on the safe side. I have not gotten to reading any of your articles or e-books yet but I plan on writing some books and articles in the future and want to know how you go about getting copyrights for your writings. I didn't want to ask all this here, but if you like you can email me at tiredsista@gmail.com with your advice. Just let me know who you are. Thanks, bro!

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  2. Nina...

    Unfortunately, you may be right about Black people wanting to stay in close proximity to whites; but, just like the protests you see around the killings of Mike Brown and Eric Garner; i.e. 'Black Lives Matter', you see that we are indeed getting fed up with the white establishment's abuse of Black people. So sooner or later, we'll be forced to deal with the fact that we'll never be able to peacefully co-exist with these inbreds.

    As far as getting images for my Blog, pretty much any search engine will provide a good number of pics you're needing if you type in the words 'images of...'. This will bring up almost any pic you need. And this is how I get the majority of my images. But if you need a more thorough guide to finding these images, this vid does a good job of listing some free sites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRQZG0CuCs

    As far as copyrights for my e-books and articles, the website 'Smashwords' is where I publish my work, and if you endeavor to publish your work there, they give you a tutorial on securing copyrights and ISBN numbers for e-books.

    Hopes this helps and again, thanks for commenting!

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  3. @ Mimia,
    You said, "So sooner or later, we'll be forced to deal with the fact that we'll never be able to peacefully co-exist with these inbreds." I cosign 100%. I believe as whites become more hostile because of the fact that their global population is steady decreasing and ours is steady increasing no matter what they try to do to us, the African Diaspora can no longer ignore or pretend that we can get along with whites; be friends, lovers, spouses, etc with them. They keep proving over and over again that they can not co-exist with other people and life on this planet. It's right there in our face everyday. I also believe that Black people WILL BE forced in coming together like we had to post slavery up until integration started in order to survive. The self-hatred, infighting, backbiting and other self-destructive behaviors will have to cease.

    Thanks for your advice on blogging, copyrights etc., I will be looking into all of this and will let you know when my blog is up.

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  4. What's your opinion on black-on-black violence?

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    1. What's your opinion on 'white on white violence'?

      Incidences like the first and second 'World Wars', for instance.

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  5. Yes, there is some sick shit about to happen on this planet. You have to stay in tune with Universal law. It was our children that rose up in feurgonson...not the elders. We keep giving these people grace like we are taught in their churches. No more grace my people or some of us will perish with...a lot of us have already gon by the hands of this craka. Dr. Phil Valentine says if we pull our money out-they will literally kiss our assessment to comeback but we have to do it and do not look back. My beautiful,beautiful people they are trying to do harm to our people, they sit around large tables deciding upon your future with out you their. Stop smiling in these people faces. My dear mother told me that they killed him (Sam Cooke) at young age-she loved him and his musix and she has never fully trusted white,yet tried to kindly coexist but caught some he'll from it in the end. I tell her she should have listened to grandma. My mother did not know that grandma would drill in my head not to trust white people and she always told us not to bring white people to her house so you could not date one. Some family.members start saying grandma was crazy and then we all would say it but I heeded grandma's words, because she had that look in her eyes when she it to you. As a matter of fact as she got older one of my cousins got him a white girl and brought her over and I was there, I remembering my grandmother asking my cousin why did you go pick up some white person right in front of the girl- I had just got home to grandma and could not believe what she said but I knew deep down inside she was serious. My mama used to say it to me all the time Daddy(granpa) and madea did not like white folk. Grandma and Grandpa was serious! I see with my own eyes and hear with my own ears exactly what they meant today. I know all of us had someone in their family that was he'll bent on not trusting whitey! Hotep Suhtek

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  6. There will be a lot of casualties if.we do not let go...fast and meditate on letting go. We have literally gotten enough of our asses killed, hunged,rapped,castrated and humiliated. Let my people go pharoah!

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    1. I'm thinking this comment came from the same person...I hope I'm right!

      Anyway, thanks for sharing the anecdotes about your grandmother and grandfather, and their Black Nationalist leanings!

      If we all had sages in our lives like yours, our people would be A LOT better off!

      If your grandparents are still alive, kiss them for me!

      Or, if they have transitioned, when you say a prayer to them, thank them for me!

      And thanks so much for this heart-felt comment!

      SUTEKH! (This is a euphemism for 'Black Power' in our people's original language, the 'Medu Netcher' by the way)

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