Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk @ Now Public (Young African American man, hand cuffed in police car, January 2009 after Oscar Grant Murder Protest in Oakland, I wish I knew his name.) Amadou. Sean. Lovell. Oscar. Aiyana. Oftentimes, when it comes to personal violence and race and structural violence and race, I turn to other [...]
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Amadou. Sean. Lovell. Oscar. Aiyana
Saturday, July 10th, 2010The Curse of Being a Black Artist
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Ice Cube helped me in ’92 I think I have fallen in love with Camus (a dead white Algerianphilosopher who argues that the death penalty is premeditatedmurder) and Anthony Hamilton simultaneously. What does this have to do with being an artist? Everything,simply because over the last few days I have been apart ofa few conversations [...]
Black on Black Murder and Oscar Grant
Monday, January 12th, 2009It is simply impossible to have an intelligent discussion about Blackmale murder, without grounding it in political economy, history andlabor. Over the weekend, the New York Times featured a piece by TobinWarsaw on the Oakland Riots which is essentially about the waysin which the double standard that some Black people have on Black onBlack violence [...]
Bart Police Kill an Unarmed Man, Oscar Grant, on New Years Day
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Video Oakland haunts me. Last week, I started trying to convert my essay’s on thecrack epidemic into a memoir and the above sentencecame to mind.As many of you know, on early New Years day , the BARTpolice killed an unarmed man, Oscar Grant.I felt my heart flip in my throat when I heard the woman [...]
