The Cult of Black and white Cinematic Symbolism (Part 22)...Here's what Marvel's Black Panther movie, The "Netflix" series Luke Cage, and Kanye West have in common...

In regards to the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” (MCU), to date, its most successful franchise has been “The Avengers” series—and more specifically, “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” (which grossed 1. 4 billion globally), and “The Avengers: Infinity Wars” (which grossed 2 billion dollars worldwide). And these movies weren’t only box office hits, but they’ve been ranked amongst the most profitable movies of all time.

Mind you, the reason I’m talking about this particular franchise, is not ‘cause I’ve seen these flicks—and I proudly state that I haven’t watched them, and never will. I’ve looked at enough deified white guys in films to last me a lifetime, thanks. I’m talkin’ about these films cause whenever I hear about MCU’s “Black Panther” movie, and its success, it never fails that some white person will bring up the (slightly) more successful Avengers series. Meaning, whitey’s always tryna’ steal the thunder of Black Panther’s triumphs, by comparing it to one of the most successful franchise films of all times, the Avengers.

So, right off the bat, I wanna’ do a bit of a comparative analysis as to why the Avengers series was more profitable than MCU’s Black Panther, with these 3 points…

Point#1: MCU’s Black Panther is a “standalone” film.

Meaning, in the case of MCU’s Avengers movies, you had the original Avengers film, which came out in 2012, and the Avengers: Age of Ultron, in 2015, before The Avengers: Infinity Wars was released in theaters earlier this year. Also, you had the Avenger’s superheroes in other MCU flicks like “Iron Man”, “Thor”, “Captain America”, “The Hulk”, etc. Whereas Black Panther’s character, had only 1 debut before his own MCU movie, and that was in the Captain America film, “Civil War”, which came out in 2016. So MCU kept the Black Panther superhero under wraps, for fear that “mainstream” audiences wouldn’t connect with the character.

Point#2: MCU’s Black Panther had less of a budget than the last Avengers movie.

With an estimated budget of $310 million to $400 million dollars, The Avengers: Infinity War, was one of the most expensive movies ever made. Conversely, MCU spent $200 million dollars on the Black Panther film. And ultimately, that says what? Well, more than anything, it’s says that Ryan Coogler (the brotha that directed the Black Panther film, in case ya’ll didn’t know) and his Black Panther movie, which grossed $1.3 billion globally, more than quadrupled MCU’s ROI (return on investment)—and mind you, Ryan Coogler is MCU’s youngest director.

Point#3: MCU’s Black Panther was released in less theaters than the “Avengers: Infinity Wars” movie.

The Avengers: Infinity Wars movie opened in 4,474 theaters, as opposed to MCU’s Black Panther, which opened in 4,020 cinemas. And regardless of this, Black Panther still had the 6^th largest “3-day opening box office weekend gross” (domestically), and the 3^rd highest “4-day debut” of all time, while having the lowest theater release count of america’s all time biggest grossing, top 20 films.

Meanwhile, on October 1^st, of this year, Netflix debuted the 13^th episode of the first season, of Marvel’s successful series, “Luke Cage”. And, on this date, it’s reported that Netflix servers “crashed” while this episode aired. And ultimately, that means 1 of 3 things happened—and they are…

#1. Luke Cage is so wildly popular, that its aggregate audience overwhelmed the farm of Netflix computer servers and their “failsafe” mechanisms, that should’ve kept the network on-line—thus, causing this crash.

#2. Disney and Netflix executives didn’t like the idea that a smart and powerful Black man-of-a-superhero, was the most popular Marvel property on Netflix, when they had a host of white heroes for fans to choose from, like: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, the Defenders, etc. So, they pulled the plug on this episode themselves.

#3. Not only didn’t Disney and Netflix executives, like the fact that Luke Cage was the most popular Marvel series on Netflix, but they were caught off guard by its groundswell of support (this is probably the reason it got canceled). Meaning, they failed to socially engineer one o’ the white superhero shows to be more popular than Luke Cage. Which brings us back to why the MCU’s Black Panther wasn’t supposed to be so popular—and in retrospect, how they counted on it to do poorly—cause if it didn’t, they’d have to acknowledge one fact, that I’ll get to later on in this post.

Now, ironically enough, a couple of weeks after the Netflix meltdown, good ol’ Don Trump arranged a luncheon for his pal, Kanye West, at the white house. And to keep it a hundred wit’ y’all, after watching 5 minutes of Kanye’s dumb-founded diatribe, I had to turn the channel—‘cause his tirades were beyond farcical, they were outright folly.

But, I do recognize that public relations event for what it really was, and that brings me to what Kanye, Ryan Coogler, MCU’s Black Panther and Luke Cage, all have in common—and that’s this…

These living and mythological Black men exemplify the universal law that shows how “Black Street Cred” (a.k.a. “Black Cool Points”), are now completely synonymous wit’ white profitability.

Meaning, I understand Kanye’s not very astute politically—but he doesn’t need to be—cause his presence is giving Don Trump more Black Cool Points, which will translate into him being able to “cake-off” even more exponentially, down the line. Not to say that Don Trump is having money problems, but in the court of “public opinion”, Kanye’s Black Cool Points will give him the necessary cultural swag, needed to make him more “likeable”.

Cause right now, Don’s image is in desperate need of repair.

And understand, that Kanye was mandated to do this by his freemasonic fraternity—cause even though they don’t want the word ‘bout this metaphysical law to get out, they understand what Kanye has to offer Trump, and vice-versa. So, it’s a symbiotic relationship between Don and Kanye.

And like I’ve said in the past, Black Street Cred is at the zenith of not only cultural, but spiritual currencies—and whitey knows that’ll manifest into monetary currency. Remember fam, everything’s SPIRITUAL—not political.

So, I’ve said all that to say this: even though we, the indigenous Black Diaspora, live in a global social order that does everything it can to defile us, we should peep what whitey’s really showing you and I, now. And that is how our people, to the exclusion of all others, are not only at the genesis of everything in this universe, but how we’re the sustenance of it as well.

And like Sam L. Jackson said in Spike Lee’s movie, “Do the Right Thing”: “That’s the double truth, Ruth.”

Later…

—MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

Now, here’s one of “Snoop Dogg’s” recent appearances on the TV show, “The View”. And the reason I’m featuring him, is not only ‘cause he touches on Kanye’s foibles at the white house, but he sees how “Black Street Cred’s” (spiritual) energies and synergies, result in white profitability. And he’s so cold wit’ it, that he realizes it’s his Black Cool Points that are making Martha Stewart and “The View” more profitable. Furthermore, this vid shows how he’s absolutely the smartest person in that room. 

   

*Addendum — 11/23/18: And family, speaking of Snoop Dogg, this past Monday, on the 19th, Snoop got a star on the “Hollywood Walk of Fame”. And here’s the speech he gave on that momentous day. Now, this more than anything, not only solidifies Snoop’s status as an industry icon, but it reinforces the now universal law that officially marries “Black Street Cred” (a.k.a. Black Cool Points) with white profitability. Mind you, I remember when whitey was scared of Snoop, but what they’re more scared of now, is being without our “cool points” that they’re using to sell every item they manufacture. And in the immortal words of Biggie Smalls: “...and if ya’ don't know, now ya’ know.”

    

The Cult of Black and white Cinematic Symbolism (Part 20)...What do the movies "BlacKKKlansman" and "Sorry to Bother You", have in common with gay christian churches?

“Street knowledge amazes the scholars when we coin phrases for dollars...”

—Jay-Z, from the song, “Bring it On”

Ronald Stallworth was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 18^th, 1953. A few years later, his mother moved him and his family to El Paso, Texas, where he was raised. And in the summer of 1972, his family moved again to Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he developed an interest in law enforcement.

After becoming a police cadet, and a rookie cop, In 1979, Ron was hired on as the first Black detective in the Colorado Springs police department. Mind you, as a detective, Ron was initially assigned to the records room, where he was reviled by his bigoted white co-workers, before he requested to go out in the field.

And Ron's very first undercover assignment, was to “observe” a Stokely Carmichael speech, when brotha Stokely was slated to speak at a “Black nightclub”. Ron eagerly accepted the task—and after his surveillance of the Carmichael lecture came off without a hitch, Ron was assigned to the “intelligence” department.

Now, let's stop here a sec'.

Understand, the first thing Colorado law enforcement had Ron do, was spy on Stokely, at a Black club. Notice, they didn't have him solve any local crimes or track down any fugitives, they had him watching someone who was associated with the Black Power movement. And unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of the “leaders” in the Black Conscious Community (BCC), have followed this same trajectory. Only difference is, the majority of the leaders in the BCC were ex-cons, before they were indoctrinated into white fascist freemasonry, and inserted into the BCC.

Well, one day, while going about his detective duties, Ron stumbled on an ad for the Colorado Springs chapter of the KKK. He called the ad's number pretending to be a white man, and once Ron's verbal slight-of-hand got him accepted into the klan's ranks, he teamed up with a jewish co-worker by the name of Flip Zimmerman, who would play Ron when he physically had to meet with klan members. And mind you, this is based on a true story, where Ron not only got to talk to the now infamous grand wizard of the klan, David Duke, but where he actually meets him in the flesh, due to an assignment he got to provide security for Dave.

Now, the team surrounding Ron's infiltration of the klan, was tasked with stopping a violent mission they had against Colorado's Black populus—but understand, that's not the focus of this post.

Moreover, I'm sure this movie is as entertaining as it is informative, and I'm glad Spike is getting some of the accolades he so rightly deserves, but, I haven't yet seen this flick. And while I do plan to go check it out in the future, what I'm more focused on, has to do with a line of dialogue in this flick's trailer, that I think everyone's heard. Cause it speaks to the very nucleus of the world's gold standard of cultural currency.

But we'll get to that a bit later in this post...

Raymond Lawrence Riley, better known as “Boots” Riley (left), was born on April 1^st, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois (another Chi-town native, like Ron Stalworth), and by the time he was 6, Boots' family had moved to Detroit, Michigan, before settling down in Oakland, California.

Boots' parents were community activists and organizers, which informed Boots' political ideologies, and had him joining the “International Committee against Racism” and the “Progressive Labor Party”, at ages 14 and 15 respectively.

Boots bought his political bent to a budding musical career, when he formed the Hip-Hop group, “The Coup”, in 1991, with a UPS co-worker of his, who called herself “Pam the Funkstress”. He was the emcee, and she, the DJ.

In 1992, The Coup was signed to the recording label, “Wild Pitch Records/EMI”, and their first album released in 1993, was called, “Kill my landlord”. The album spawned two singles, “Dig it” and “Not Yet Free”, and their videos aired on “BET” and “Yo! MTV Raps”. Now, beyond this, the group has gotten a lot of critical acclaim for it's politically conscious rap music, and their discography is as follows: “Genocide and Juice” (1994), “Steal this album” (1998), “Party Music” (2001), and “Pick a Bigger Weapon” (2006).

Now, while Boots embarked on his musical endeavors, he took some time to teach a daily high school class that he called, “Culture and Resistance, The Art of Persuasive Writing”, at the School of Social Justice and Community Development, in East Oakland, California. And even more recently, he's parlayed his lyrical talents into screen-writing. The result of this being his script for the recently released flick, “Sorry to Bother You”, which was distributed in theaters on July of this year.

And mind you, Boots not only created the movie's soundtrack, but he also directed this flick.

Now, the basic premise of this film is this: a young African-american telemarketer, Cassius “Cash” Green, adopts a white accent to excel at his job, and once he does, he gets swept into a conspiracy where he has to choose whether or not he'll make money at humanity's expense, or join his activist friends to organize laborers. And for those who don't know, this is a subject that's dear to Boots' heart, cause he recently came out as a “communist”.

Moving on...

Now, a few weeks ago, I was walking a downtown street, when I saw a church with a rainbow flagged banner across it's front window. Now, I know this is the universally accepted symbol for gays, but when I looked at the writing on this particular banner, I saw the terms, “queer”, “lesbian”, “bi-sexual”, “transgender”, etc., and in big white block letters next to these terms, the phrase, “It's all good” was featured.

I just shook my head and kept walking.

Now, you might be asking yourself, bruh—this stuff is nice to know, but what the heck do these things have in common?

Welp, like I've said previously, the gold standard of cultural currency the world over, is Black Street Cred—and that's what these 2 flicks and the gay christian church, are exploiting.

At this point, you might be thinkin', I don't see the connection—well let me break it down right quick...

First off, in the case of Spike Lee's “BlacKKKlansman”, there's a particular line of dialogue in the film's “official trailer”, that's uttered when the Ron Stallworth character, played by Denzel Washington's son, John David (JD), is asked by the supervisory cop if he can pull off having two Ron Stallworths for this operation—and JD says, “With the right white man, we can do anything.”

Now, couple this with Boots' “Sorry to Bother You”, where his main character “Cash” adopts a “white voice” to excel on his job—and the gay christian church's use of our vernacular (It's all good), and you'll see how whitey is trying to legitimatize these movies, and the insipidly conflicted gay/christian church, with the world's most revered cultural currency, “Black Cool Points”.

And let me break this down even further...

whitey is using our voice (and vernacular) to speak his superiority into existence. And he's doing this through characters like Ron and Cash.

Now, a lot of you are probably thinking, bruh, you're just fishin' for stuff now—whitey don't need us to legitimatize his superiority, he's already good wit' that. But what we need to realize is, our voice, more than any other, is what manifests into any kind of currency, whether it be spiritual or monetary. Thus, Jay-Z's pithy lyric: "Street knowledge amazes the scholars when we coin phrases for dollars". And mind you, I'm not a fan of Jay-Z's, but that rhyme encapsulates what Black Street Cred really does.

Don't believe me? Then check out the latest commercials for Target, Old Navy, McDonalds, KFC, Walmart, H&R Block, Dominoes Pizza, etc. And you'll see that every one of 'em, is using our “cool points” to sell their wares.

Everyone of 'em.

So, I've said all that to say this: if you do enough research into any art or science, not only will you find Black men and women at its genesis, but you'll see, it's our spirituality that's running not only this world, but the entire universe. And don't take my word for it, do some research on Africa's “Dogon” people, and you'll see how spiritually and technologically advanced they were—thousands of years before whitey existed.

And this is just one mo' reason, you should go to the mirror, smile, and say...

I LOVE BEING BLACK!

And mean it.

Later... 

—MontUHURU Mimia

P.S

Here's the trailer for “BlacKKKlansman”. Now, I want you to watch out for the line, “With the right white man, we can do anything”. And note how important it is that this line is uttered by J.D. Washington, and not the white officers around him.

 

P.P.S.

Here's the trailer for “Sorry to Bother You”. And the part I want you to focus on most, is when Danny Glover tells Cash to use his “white voice”, if you wanna' make money here. 

    

The gospel of white fascism (Part 16)...Ingenious jews and The continuing story of Jay-Z...

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., father of JFK, was born on September 6^th, 1888, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the elder son of politician Patrick Joseph 'P.K.' Kennedy.

After completing middle and high school, Joe followed in his cousins footsteps and attended Harvard. There, he focused on becoming a social leader and joined several frats that would foster life-long friendships and business partnerships.

Joe graduated from Harvard and entered the business world straight away. In his mid to late 20's, he made a grand fortune as a stock market and commodities trader, and also made a killing investing in real estate. So much so, that Joe amassed the kind of wealth that generations of his offspring will enjoy for decades. And that's a testament to his business ingenuity and acumen.

Now, that's what white fascists want us to think—but let me give you the straight dope on how Joe really made a killing.

On January 29^th, 1919, america's Eighteenth Amendment was signed into law. This was 'alcohol' prohibition family. Meaning, it was illegal to sell, transport, or import, 'intoxicating liquors' for 'beverage purposes'. And once Joe heard this, he saw a golden opportunity.

Long story short, Joe formed alliances with italian crime bosses in Chicago, New York, Boston and New Orleans, to feed this underground market. And notice I didn't use the term 'Black' market.

Among Joe's 'mobbed-up' friends was Frank Costello, former boss of the Luciano crime family, and Sam Giancana, who would be a major source of funds for JFK's presidential campaign. On top of this, Frank was known to openly brag and say, “I helped Joe Kennedy get rich”.

Joe bought liquor from overseas distillers and shipped it to organized crime syndicates that made pick-ups on american shores. Joe's trap-house was a place appropriately named, 'Rum Row', which was a shipment point where police were paid to look the other way. From there, it was distributed throughout the country. Once the liquor was distributed, Joe and his crew fixed prices, established quotas and continued paying off law enforcement and politicians. And, they enforced their own law with machine-gunned contract killers, who performed bloody hits on Joe's command.

By the mid-1920's, Fortune magazine estimated Joe's wealth at $2 million dollars. And by today's standards, that would be like $100 million—and this was at a time when Joe didn't seem to have a 'visible' job. Joe used these profits to manipulate the stock market and finance his later film endeavors.

Now, you might be asking yourself, bruh, why are you tellin' us about Joe Kennedy?

Well, while I was doing some research on Jay-Z for my last post, I not only realized that I forgot to include a major point in my editorial, but I happened across a certain YouTube video that triggered this fact about good ol' Joe.

A couple of days ago, I came across a vid titled: 'Jay-Z isn't deep and neither is his album. His job is social control'. And this was created by a woman named Yvette Carnell. Since I was intrigued by the subject, I clicked on it, expecting to hear about Jay-Z's insidious ulterior motives for the Black community. But what I got was more like an emotional rant from someone with their own ulterior motives.

Yvette's whole discourse was centered around how Jay-Z doesn't have as much money as he's reported to have. Cause according to her, since Jay used to sell crack, he doesn't have that kind of 'business acumen'. And when she brought up Jay's reportedly giving Kanye West 20 million for one of his tours, Yvette pursed her lips and said, “Jay-Z ain't never gave anybody 20 million dollars, he don't have nothing worth 20 million dollars.”

Then I just saw her for what she was, an old, manless, bitter Black woman. Now, I don't use these terms lightly, cause throughout her diatribe, she had this scowl on her face and she radiated this air of negativity. And I know why she was so frustrated. In a nutshell, Yvette was told by the american social order that if you get a degree from some anglophilic american university, that you will definitely out-earn anyone who doesn't. And Jay-Z confounds that theory. You could just tell her rants were sour grapes behind her thoughts that she should have Jay's money.

And one of the most disturbing moments of the vid is when she shows a newspaper article that says, young Black men are looking to invest in stocks behind advice they heard off Jay's latest single, 'The Story of O.J.'. Behind this, Yvette replied, “They (young Black men) don't know nothing about price-to-earnings ratios, or stock portfolio management. And if you're just thinking about investing in stocks behind Jay's song, then you clearly don't have that kind of money to spend, so just move away from your computer.”

And if you're a young Black man with limited funds reading this, and you do wanna' start investing in stocks—there are financial instruments called 'Penny Stocks', and on-line brokers like 'Scottrade', 'TradeKing' or 'OptionsHouse' that'll let you invest in these for literally under $5.00 a share. Now, you won't see dividends like you would from shares of 'Microsoft' or 'Apple', but it's a great way to get started. And even if you don't wanna' start there, you can just research the markets and do 'paper-trades'. Meaning, you just follow certain stocks without investing any money, and see how they perform and figure out if you wanna' invest in them later. Remember, like anything else, the hardest part is getting started.

Now, even though I applaud Jay-Z for influencing our youth to be aspirational, I still see the white fascist hand in his music and his latest video. Now let me expound on that.

The whole Black Trans-Atlantic slave narrative, and showing that to us repeatedly, is meant to do one thing—keep us hating ourselves.

Understand, Black 'consciousness' is cool now. Especially in the wake of Tariq Nasheed's 'Hidden Colors' documentaries. So to counter that, the white fascist freemasonic order Jay works for has the 'Jaybo'—or 'Sambo' character, walking through cotton-fields and surrounded by Klansman. Towards the end of the vid, Sambo is even walking through the bowels of a slave ship. But the most insidious parts of the vid are when a 'Huey P. Newton'-looking character, who sits in a wicker chair with a spear and rifle in each hand is made to say, “Still Nigga”. Also, characters that resemble the brothas Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who raised the Black Power fist in the 1968 Olympics, are also made to say, “Still Nigga”.

This was done to tell Black people that we should never be proud to be Black, cause no matter what we accomplish we're 'Still Niggaz'.

Also, Jay-Z's cheating (whether he did or not) on Beyonce, was made known, so they wouldn't influence Black men and women to form stable, two-parent families. Cause the last thing white fascists want is Black men and women producing 'pure-bred' Black children, with the most genetic power to breed them out of existence. Especially since white birth rates have fallen below replacement levels for the last quarter century plus.

But what's even more insidious than that, is Jay's lyric, “You wanna' know what's more important than throwing away money in a strip club—credit. You wanna' know why jewish people own all the real estate in america? That's how they did it.”

Now, this takes me back to the question posed by so many Black people, and that's: why are jewish people so much smarter than Black folks?

Throughout my life I've heard Black people say jews are indeed the chosen ones, and how they were so gracious to give us jobs post-integration—so the logical question would be, how did they come to own so much more than we do?

Here's the answer...white jews are indeed the chosen people—cause white fascists chose to give them hundreds of billions of dollars in REPARATIONS!!

For instance, in a New York Times article that I'll leave a link to at the end of this post, it details how Germany has paid white jews holocaust reparations to the tune of $89 billion dollars (that's billion with a 'b') over the past 60 YEARS!

And that's just Germany.

white jews are getting these kind of monetary reparations from several countries. Now, let me ask y'all a question: what could Black people in america, or anywhere else, do with $89 billion dollars?

We could get ourselves free—like, for real free. Like free to segregate ourselves from these inbreds and be fine free.

And the reason Jay brings up jewish wealth, is again, to reinforce reasons why we should feel inferior to white folks—it speaks to reasons why we should continue to hate ourselves.

Now, I'll end this post on this point. In 2008, the Haitian 'gourde' (dollar) was completely devalued by it's government (white fascist forces), to the point where Black Haitians were shown to have wads of cash, but they couldn't buy food. So they literally ate dirt to survive. Now, Jay-Z and the powers that be would have us thinking, financial freedom is our only hope. Problem with that is, once white fascists devalue the dollar, credit, or whatever financial instrument we might have an abundance of, we're right back at square one. Meaning, we could have all the cash and credit in the world, but if white fascists devalue these, then we're broke.

What they don't want us to realize is our ultimate power lies in our UNITY!!! That's why at all costs, white fascists keep us hating ourselves and each other.

And whitey also knows that with unity, we can get everything else—without it, we can't get jack!

So by any and all means, let's get unified people—let's get fo' real free!

Later...

MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

You can read the article about (white) jewish reparations here.

The gospel of white fascism (Part 15)...What do Jay-Z and Barack Obama have in common? (Special Independence Day Edition)

"Kick in the door, wavin' the 44, all you heard was Poppa don't hit me no more."

--Biggie Smalls, from the song, 'Kick in the door'

Shawn Corey Carter, better known as Jay-Z, was born on December 4^th, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York City's Marcy Housing Projects. He and his three siblings were raised by their mother Gloria, after Jay's father Adnis Reeves left the household.

Years later, Jay met and reconciled with his father before he passed in 2003. In several interviews, Jay talked extensively about an internal cavity that went unfilled for the majority of his young adult life due to his father's departure, and how it caused him to be distant in his relationships with women. To the point where several of those women asked if he really cared about them.

According to Jay, as a child, he remembered how his household was always filled with music. And in interviews, he talked about his parents putting their names on each of their vinyl records. “That's how serious they took it,” he told interviewers. Also, his mother would recount many evenings where Jay would wake his siblings beating out drum patterns on the kitchen table to practice his rhymes. After his mother bought him a boom-box as a birthday gift, he took it as an affirmation to get serious about his musical hobby.

In his later teens, Jay attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, where he met future emcees Biggie Smalls and Busta Rhymes. Thereafter, he attended Trenton Central High School where he put an abrupt end to his academic career.

While plying his trade as a street apothecary, he ran into another emcee named 'Jaz-O' who had a similar staccato-fueled rhyming style. And being that his friends told him his rhyming cadence, or flow, had a 'jazzy' sound to it, and seeing that Jaz was becoming a bit of a role model to him, young Shawn donned the moniker 'Jay-Z', and the two teamed up to seek out a record deal.

Now, the lesser known part of this story is Jaz was already working with a man named Dwight D. York, also known as 'Dr. York', who had his own studio and a record label called, 'Passion Records'. Mind you, Dr. York was not only a 33 degree freemason, but he was the leader of a religious order called the 'Ansaru Allah' community in Brooklyn, and their compound was located just a few blocks from where Jay lived. York would eventually introduce Jay to a young artist management company headed by Damon Dash, and the two would go on to create the now famous 'Roc-A-Fella' Records.

*Side note: Dr. York would also turn Queen Latifah and KRS-ONE into rap celebrities.

Fast forward to September 29^th, 1988, when 'In My Lifetime...Volume 2: A Hard Knock Life' would be released. This album would catapult Jay-Z's career into the stratosphere and make him a bonafide star. Behind this, and the fact that Jay was offered the CEO position with Def Jam Records, he was thinking it was time to renegotiate his working relationship with Dame Dash.

Long story short, Jay and Dame would fall out because of his taking the top spot at Def Jam and demanding the master recording of his first album 'Reasonable Doubt'. But after this split, Jay would not only continue to be a platinum-selling recording artist, but he'd become one of the most successful businessmen in and beyond the parameters of Hip-Hop's global culture.

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4^th, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii—and right off the bat I'd like to note that a lot of biographical information on Barack harps on the fact that he was the first president born in Hawaii, outside of the 'main-lands' of this country. Now, what they're implying is he's really not american (birther movement-Donald Trump). Thus, he should've never been a president. But what they won't tell you is the man who ran against him, John McCain, was born in PANAMA. Go look this fact up. So anyone who shares the same sentiments as these 'birthers', should stop their arguments right there, cause McCain had no business whatsoever running against Barack Obama.

And one more point I'd like to make before moving on—anyone saying that Barack did nothing for Black people, especially if they're Black, just wasn't paying attention to what really happened with his presidency. And I shamefully admit, I was one of those people who said, oh well, he's Dick Cheney's cousin, so he's really not gonna' do squat for us. But here's the real deal...when Obama ran on a campaign of 'Hope', he was literally saying, that's all I can give Black people especially. Cause if Barack would have shown in any way, shape, or form that he was really down for us, they woulda' killed him a long time ago. white fascists damn near blew JFK's head off, and they liked him. So Barack's presidency was a time for us to harness the energy he was emanating towards Black americans, just by being there. And we were suppose to harness that energy so we could strive towards doing better for ourselves on grassroots levels.

Moving on...

Ann Dunham, Obama's mother, was born in Wichita, Kansas, and his father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in Kenya, Africa. The two met during a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoi, where Barack Sr. was a foreign exchange student who earned a school scholarship. The couple married in Wailuku, Hawaii on February 2^nd, 1961, six months before Obama was born.

Obama's parents divorced in March of 1964, after which Obama Sr. moved back to Kenya. He visited a young Barack only once before he was killed in a car accident in 1982, when Barack was 21.

Now, in Obama's pre-teen years, he lived with his maternal grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He attended Punahou School, which was a private college prep facility, with the aid of a scholarship from the fifth grade until High School. Obama chose to stay in Hawaii to tend to his high school studies, while his mother and sister went to Indonesia in 1975, so his mother could keep up with her anthropology field work towards her doctorate degree. His mother spent the better part of the next two decades in Indonesia, where she completed her coursework and earned a PHD in 1992. Three years later, she died in Hawaii while undergoing a failed treatment for her cancers.

After graduating High School in 1979, Barack went to Los Angeles to attend Occidental College, and in 1981, he transferred to Columbia University in New York City. There, he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations. He graduated with a B.A. Degree in 1983, and for several years after, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School where he was the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review, and after graduating there, he became a civil rights attorney and professor teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. In 2004 he ran for the u.s. Senate and gained national attention for his landslide victory and his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address speech.

In 2008, Obama was nominated for president a year after his campaign began. Then, after defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, he was elected over republican candidate John McCain. Thus, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the american president on January 20^th, 2009.

But if you wanna' know who the real first Black american president was—look up 'John Hanson' sometimes (First president under the u.s. Articles of Confederation and depicted on the back of america's 2 dollar bill—which is probably why the mint took it out of circulation)

Now, with all that said, let's answer the question of what Barack and Jay-Z have in common.

For starters, on June 30^th of this year, Jay-Z released the album '4:44'. And everyone's speculating on what these numbers mean—so I'd like to go in on the science behind them.

Now, I think it's painfully obvious that Jay is a white fascist freemason. I would hope no one's in a quandry about this. Only problem I have about this is, I see all these white guys elaborating on theories that Jay-Z is running the illuminati. And for the record I'll state...NO, Jay is NOT in, nor is he the head of the illuminati.

Jay is a 'freemason'. Meaning, he's part of a freemasonic order. So when you speak of the illuminati, you're really talking about the 13 families that run the world. And Jay doesn't belong to one of those. Again, I see all these knuckle-headed white guys making YouTube vids about this, but who they need to make vids about are families like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, the Bilderbergers, etc. Cause again, the illuminati and the freemasons are not one in the same.

Moving on...

So what I'll expound on in this portion of the post, is what Jay is doing with these numbers on three levels: first physical, then metaphysical, and lastly, I'll break these numbers down into terms of spiritual deification.

Now, physically, what Jay is doing with the title '4:44' is aligning himself with earthly 'kings'. And if you look at the Biggie Smalls lyric under this post's header, you'll see how Notorious B.I.G. made a reference to waving his '44'. And Big is lauded as being one of the kings of rap music (note the popular poster of Biggie with a crown on his head). Also, Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4^th, 1968. And lastly, so many Black people see Barack Obama as the fulfillment of MLK's 'I have a dream' speech, that Jay's mostly associating himself with the kingly status of Barack Obama. Meaning, Obama was born on August 4^th, 1961, and he was america's '44^th' president.

Now, in metaphysical terms, 4 is the number of 'containment' for this 3^rd dimensional 'matrix' we're in. Meaning, matter is contained in a cube's 4 sides (representing up-down, left-right, and backward-forward). Also, if you count the lines in the cube's graphic (right), you get the number '12'. Now, the point inside the cube is 13, and if you add 1 and 3, you get 4.

But ultimately, this album's title is yet another attempt by Jay to deify himself in the eyes of the public (Jay 'HOVA'). Meaning, when you count up the lines on the cube graphic and get 12, and then add the inner focal point, making it 13, keep in mind that Jesus the 'CHRIST', was called the 13^th apostle. And the Christ energies have to do with our ancient Black spiritual sciences, not the religion(s) that created Jesus. And might I add, on a personal level, once I found a technique that connected my intentions with my subconscious mind (divination), the first thing I noticed is that numbers started repeating like crazy.

And once I worked more with my divinations, I found that these numbers were actually a gauge of my level of spiritual energies. Meaning, if I meditated for 12-15 minutes, I noticed the number '2' would repeat, and if I meditated for a half-hour, the number '4' would start to repeat. So forth and so on.

Now, this has been my experience, yours may differ. But Jay-Z is putting himself in the leagues of 'left-hand path' magicians, so he can ultimately tell the world that he's an occultist.

In conclusion, I'd like to say that reclaiming our occult powers should be one of the main goals of Black people in the 'conscious community'. Engaging in our Black spiritual sciences is what will ultimately help us manipulate spiritual forces towards our benefit. Now, I'd like to think this is Jay's clarion call to the diaspora to start exploring the benefits of these practices. But, more than likely, this is Jay openly boasting about knowing something that he suspects we don't.

Nevertheless, I hope we can still heed the call of our ancestors to return to our spiritual sciences that will truly empower us, and give the white fascists back their religions that will have us under their collective thumbs for the rest of our natural lives.

So maybe, this is Jay telling us that the choice is ours.

Maybe.

Later...

MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

I not only found a short vid about the first Black american president, but the first american president period—John Hanson. And guess how long this vid clocks in at? '4:44'—it ain't me, it's the ancestors folks!