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SUN-RA AND THE BLACK PANTHERS

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I first found the Archives' Black Panther footage

for a political version of Soundgarden's 'Big Dumb Sex':

"Primeval Revolution"! That was three years ago (time flies).

These surreal clips portray their incredible campaign

from 1966-1969: Huey Newton's wrongful jail

sentence as a radical organizer and

passion for The 10-Point Program, Alameda County

actions by Oakland students in the Party, Elaine

Brown, Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale.

We are constantly in revolutionary times,

but 2020 reflects this era so much that I had to

create art around it: #BlackAugust.

This music video (Flying Lotus, "Shadows")

excerpts Sun-Ra's Afrofuturist words from

Space Is The Place! I hope you enjoy and learn...


"Today is the shadow of tomorrow.

Today is the present future of yesterday.

Yesterday is the shadow of today.

And the darkness of the past is yesterday.

And the light of the past is yesterday.

The days of yesterday are all numbered and summed...

in the word once, because once upon a time,

there was a yesterday.

Yesterday belongs to the dead because the dead

belong to the past, the past is yesterday.

Today is the preview of tomorrow but for me.

Only for my better and happier point of view,

my point of view is the thought of a better or try.

Reality is today of eternity, the eternity of yesterday is dead.

Yesterday is as one, the eternity of one

is the eternity of the past.

The past is once upon a time, once upon a time

is past, the past is yesterday today.

The past is yesterday today, while we're searchin' for tomorrow.

The light of the past is the light which was...

the wisdom of the past is the light of the past.

The light of the future is the light which is to be...

the wisdom of the future is the light of the future, see?

Yesterday belongs to the dead, tomorrow belongs to the living.

The past is certified as a finished product.

 Anything which has ended is finished,

that which is perfect is finished.

The perfect man is no exception to the rule,

the perfect man of the past is made according to the rule of the past.

The rule of the past is a law of injustice and hypocrisy.

The revelation of the meaning of the law is

revealed through the law itself.

The wisdom of the past is the light of the past,

the light which is to be the wisdom of the future.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow..."


              

The Black Panthers

#BRUTalk: Juice Aleem (AfroFlux) (08-24-20)

Flying Lotus - Shadows (feat. Quasimoto)

Sun-Ra, Space Is The Place (1974)