The cult of Black and white cinematic symbolism (Part 4.5)...white fascist charades and Spike Lee's 'Chiraq'...

The parents of Michael Brown, the young Black man shot dead on August 9^th, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, testified before the United Nations Committee Against Torture on November 11^th of that same year.

Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. both stated that, “We need the world to know what's going on in Ferguson and we need justice.” Lesley also said, “We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what's going on in small town Ferguson.”

Now, if you're a Black man or woman reading this, you need to know that the thrill-kill white police force of Ferguson, Missouri, and the rest of america, didn't think Black people had the intellect or temerity to take the matter that far. After the top brass of Ferguson police found out another young Black man had been killed by them, they thought, well, maybe the certified pre-owned negroes will march and hold up picket signs, but beyond that, the matter will blow over in a week or two.

But the strong-minded, completely self-possessed young Black men and women of Ferguson we're like, to hell with this...we're gonna' burn this damn town down!

And for nearly an entire month, that's exactly what they did.

Now, there's always gonna' be some uncle Remus type of Black person who'll say how stupid our young people are for revolting, and they'll continue to ask the question: Why do they burn down their own neighborhoods? But what these head-scratchin', shoe shinin' types don't realize is our young people didn't burn down the homes, apartments, or residences they lived in; they burned down the retail stores neither they nor their parents owned. And some of these same shufflin' negroes will say how disgraceful it was for our young people to loot those stores; but what they don't realize is our young people weren't looting. What they were engaging in is what one Black Nationalist leader calls, 'self-accommodating reparations'.

Now, if you're a young Black man or woman reading this, I'm NOT encouraging you to take things from stores, what I'm attempting to do is show middle-aged Black folks, like myself, how you've struck the single greatest blow to white fascism I've seen in my life with the Ferguson revolution.

So behind this and Michael Brown's parents speaking at the U.N., the whole of white american cop culture was put on blast to the entire world. And they had a problem. Seeing as how they were being globally vilified and watched, they feared not being able to kill us as indiscriminately as they'd been doing. Cause again, their dirty laundry was being aired out.

What they needed was a public relations 'fixer' to run some 'damage control' so they could cast the trigger-happy, white american cop in a better light. But what they needed more, was a complicitous negro who could show the world how intrinsically savage and better armed these young Black men were, so white cops could justify shooting us down like dogs.

Enter Spike Lee's latest 'joint', 'Chiraq'.

Now, this movie is based on a comedy titled, 'Lysistrata', penned by the greek author Aristophanes. This story tells the tale of how greek women went on a 'sex strike' in order to end the Peloponnesian War (which was fought from 431–404 B.C.). 

So essentially, this movie was gonna' be the satirical way that Spike drew attention to the unprecedented gun violence of Chicago's poor and working class Black communities. Thus the name 'Chiraq', a Hip-Hop euphemism combining the names of the asian country 'Iraq' and the american city of 'Chicago'. But right off the rip, I saw this flick for what it really was, a piece of dumb-founded propaganda.

First off, one of the strongest messages Spike's sending with this film is that young Black men are such knuckle-dragging neanderthals, that the only way they'll stop shooting and killing each other is if Black women cut off their sex supply. Cause ya' know, every Black man is oversexed, right?

Now, I haven't seen this film...and I WON'T!

I'm not gonna' spend a bad penny seeing this crap movie. 'Cause to keep it real with y'all, the reason this movie was put out, was to portray Black men as gun-toting sociopaths to mainstream (i.e. white) america, so in their eyes, white cops will be justified when they shoot us down or chock us out. All this movie is doing is scapegoating young Black men so white cops can have an easier time, than they already do, killing us in droves.

So one question I'd ask Spike is this: Why didn't you make a documentary about creating better gun laws, or enforcing better restrictions on gun manufacturers. Cause I guarantee you, if every 'illegal' gun used in a crime came with the consequence of fining the gun manufacturer, you'd see half these pistols disappear overnight.

Another question I'd ask Spike is: If no Black man or woman owns a gun manufacturing company, then how do these guns get to our communities? 

Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about: The 'Glock' gun manufacturing company is located in Vienna, Austria. 

Now, Glocks have become part of the popular vernacular of rap music. And being that this flick is taking a look at the problem of Chicago's gun violence from the perspective of a young, thuggish rapper (Nick Cannon?), I'd like to know how these pistols are able to travel from Austria, all the way to america, and how they then find their way from the shores of this country to the poor and working class Black neighborhoods of the u.s.

And of course, someone's gonna' come back at me saying that Glock has opened a manufacturing plant in america. Smyrna, Georgia to be exact. To that I'll say, approximately 65% of police guns are Glocks. So when these guns leave the Georgia warehouse, at least half of them are gonna' wind up being shipped to police precincts. So again, how do these guns get to poor and working class Black neighborhoods? Wouldn't guns designated for cop use, have tighter restrictions on them? And if not, why not?

Now you're probably thinking, just cause a lot of guns show up in our neighborhoods, don't mean we have to use them. And that's true. But here's my question regarding that statement: How come huge amounts of guns and drugs find their way to poor Black communities, even though we don't grow or manufacture them, but huge amounts of resources like jobs never do. And if you flood guns and drugs into an already impoverished community, what do you think is gonna' happen?

I liken this scenario to what happens in the american educational system, especially in our communities; in so much as, not only do they give us the most conditioning to hate ourselves, but white fascists know that if they overcrowd and under-fund any organization, it's doomed to fail.

Now this movie also speaks to how despicable it is for our communities to engage in so much 'Black-on-Black' crime...with or without guns. So with that said, let's see how white people fair in terms of violent crimes compared to our communities. Now, according to the FBI's most recent homicide numbers available from 2011, a staggering 83% of whites were killed by...wait for it...other white people. So here's my question: How come we never hear about these alarming incidences of 'white-on-white' crime?

Now behind filming this crap flick, I'm hoping our people know that Spike is a white fascist freemason. And I can hear what you're probably thinkin', you're like bruh, you say that about everyone. By now I'm pretty sure that the Black Diaspora is savvy enough to realize that almost every single celebrity, Black or white, is one. Like I said previously, 'celebrity' is a white fascist construct used as a means of population control...period. One of the only exceptions might have been Dave Chappelle, and they finally got to him too...which is one of the reasons he's in this flick. 

Now being a Black freemason, means at some point the white fascists are gonna' call on you to perform some kinda' buck-dancing soft shoe; which is what's happening here. And if you notice lately, Spike has taken

to wearing a solid red tie (as pictured above). This is one of the identifiers of a freemason. A solid blue tie marks a freemason with 'higher' blood connections to these fraternities...this essentially means that this person's down with the 'blue bloods'. 

Now, Jay-Z doesn't come from one of these families, but he pays homage to them in his song, 'Empire State of mind', when he says, “You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a crip though.” This is also why he named his child, 'Blue Ivy'.

So I've said all that to say this, every Black man and woman reading this should BOYCOTT THIS CRAP FILM!!

If you wanna' spend twenty and thirty dollars on something, give that money to a Black home-schooling co-operative that needs it. 

And let me also say this...I DON'T EXPECT SPIKE TO BE PERFECT!

If you're a Black man or woman living in america, not one of us has escaped being affected by this white fascist social order. Myself included. So I can forgive Spike for making a bad movie (Da' sweet Blood of jesus). What I can't forgive is Spike purposely throwing his people under the bus, in service to some damn white freemasons and their hired killers we call cops. One of my all-time favorite films is Spike Lee's 'Malcolm X'; and for that he'll always have a special place in my heart; but with the release of this flick, I don't ever wanna' hear him utter another derogatory word about Tyler Perry EVER AGAIN!

Matter of fact, Spike and Tyler should DEFINITELY work together after this. 'Cause with the release of 'Chiraq', Spike's saying to the world that he's got nothing to lose, 'cause he has NO STANDARDS WHATSOEVER!

And like Sam Jackson said in Spike's film, 'Do The Right Thing': “That's the triple truth, Ruth.”

Later...

MontUHURU Mimia

The ballad of Radio Raheem...

The other week, I watched Oprah's interview with film director Spike Lee. 

And during the course of the interview Spike announced that 2014 would mark the 25th anniversary of the film 'Do The Right Thing'. 

Now to me and a lot of others, this movie is something beyond an ordinary film, it not only represents an important documenting of ethnic strife in New York during the late 80's, but it also shows Spike defining himself as one of my generations greatest auteurs. 

Unfortunately, I'm one of the few people who didn't see this movie in theaters. 

I could only imagine the visceral impact this flick made in cinema auditoriums. 

I remember a white woman I knew who saw the film, said she felt like she was gonna' die behind an ethnic riot that would erupt in the theater. 

Seeing whitey that uncomfortable would have been worth the ticket price alone.

I remember how white critics said this film was going to start revolts throughout this country; like all the hell Black folks were catching at the time wasn't enough for us to shut this country down. 

But one thing more than any other stuck with me about this film...and let me explain what that was. 

About a year ago, Spike was on one of New York's 'urban' radio statons; either Hot 97, or one that plays predominately Hip Hop music.

But before I touch on that, let me say something about the co-opting of the word 'urban'.

Now, the white elite have turned the word 'urban' into a euphemism for 'Black'. And mind you, they've only done this recently.

I was reminiscing about the 1980's movie 'Urban Cowboy'; and how John Travolta starred in this film. And I was thinking, had this film been made today, it would almost have to be some comedy about a senseless brotha who sang country music or something.

But this is how recently the word 'urban' got tethered to Black people via the white elites and their american social order. 

But back to Spike and his film...Spike was on a 'Hip-Hop' radio station talking to one of the white bois who was a program director and who claimed to be 'down' with the culture. 

You know the type, white guy wearing a backwards baseball cap, some Sean John jeans and the new 'Jordans'. 

Spike was speaking about his 'kickstarter' fund-raising campaign when he and this white guy started talking about 'Do The Right Thing'. 

Spike was reminiscing about how white people always asked him the same question about the film; and that question was: why did Mookie throw the garbage can through the window of Sal's famous pizzeria?

To which the 'down' white boi replied, "Yeah...I was wondering about that myself."

I just shook my head. 

That's when Spike held a clinic showing the white boi how Mookie's garbage can throw came behind the death of his friend Radio Raheem; who he'd just seen get choked to death by the gestapo-like cops of the NYPD.  

To which the white boi uttered, "Okay...now I get it."

This speaks directly to the indifference of Black suffering in the eyes of white people. And even the 'down-ass' white boi, was saying to himself...okay Radio Raheem died, but why are you bothering Sal's store? (Sal, played by Danny Aiello)

And to break it down even further, what white people are really saying when they ask about Mookie's garbage can throw is, it's just another nig@er dead...so what's the problem?

That's why one motto I always keep with me is, never overestimate white people...or underestimate their capacity to hate Blacks.

What really irks me is when you're the only Black person around a bunch of whites and they're mad at you.

They've committed the greatest atrocities to our people, and yet they're still mad at us. 

Wanna' know why?

'Cause our existence in this country is a prime example of their capacity for inhuman wickedness.

Besides the fact that Black people, and Black men especially, are able to literally breed them out of existence, our presence is a constant reminder of how they treated us in the antebellum south and how intrinsically dastardly, under-handed and morally repugnant they really are. 

They don't have an ethical highground on anything; and we're living proof of that. 

The scene in this movie that touches me the most, or for me, this movie's most woeful scene is when Smiley, the character who's a bit slow and sold pictures of Martin King and Malcolm X, is holding his head and crying out in pain after seeing Radio Raheem murdered.

Even though he was slow, he understood the gravity of what he saw.

And who could ever forget Radio Raheem's 'love vs. hate' soliloquy with those dope four finger rings...brilliant. 

And the story of Radio Raheem's killing struck such a chord with residents in Black neighborhoods, that even though he was a fictional character 'bombers' or graph artists erected 'burners' or murals to his memory. That spoke to how common an occurrence young Black men dying in our neighborhoods at the hands of police was and is. 

So, what I'll do to commemorate 'Do The Right Thing's'

anniversary is get the 'Criterion Collections' edition of this flick. 

Now, there is a DVD by Spike Lee called the 'Spike Lee Joint collection' that includes 'Do The Right Thing'; and I'd buy that, but I'm afraid it wouldn't have the 'special features' on the movie that I'm looking for.  

But what it does have is four more of Spike's films that include: Clockers, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever and Crooklyn. 

I'll have to do more research and see which I'll buy; or, I might get 'em both.

But whichever DVD I purchase, I'll do what I usually do; pop the DVD in it's player and go straight to the 'special and bonus features' sections. 

So, I've said all that to say this, Spike deserves all the praise he gets not only for his films, but for having the courage enough to show his manhood through his films.

In the age of Tyler Perry's tranny minstrel shows, it's refreshing to see a Black man who's uncompromising in his approach and unwilling to settle for the white supremacist status quo, which is giving us movies like 'The Butler' and 'The Help'.

So Hotep and Kem Wesir to the Netjer/Neter/God Spike Lee!

Keep makin' your 'joints' Spike, 'cause your people appreciate you...ya' dig, sho 'nuff. 

Kem Wesir,

MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

REMIX!

This is one of my favorite YouTube vids of Spike reaching the monetary goal for his 'Kickstarter' campaign.

Here, Spike shows how personal this journey was and how determined he is to overcome any of the film industry's obstacles.

Kudos Spike on your diligence, perseverance and mental fortitude. 

Warning: this video contains profanity. Viewer discretion is advised.