From the ‘Dada Manifesto:’

“All the words are other people’s inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own…If this pulsation is seven yards long, I want words for it that are seven yards long…”

“…Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn’t I find it? Why can’t a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.”

“…Dada is the heart of words.”

They take their handy utensils, their blunt instruments - their whitewashed brain, their vapid imagination - and scrape it across the white ice of reality. They believe that they can see, these partisans, partisans of debased political and educational institutions, products of a vulgar tricknology that they’ved inhaled like glue. But to claim membership in THIS, to participate and encourage the participation of your people in this inelegant charade…Who gives a FUCK whether Obama is black enough or whether he can win. What would he win if he won?! A throne controlled by bankers and corporations, an evil plutocracy that knows no borders, boundaries or limits. That has and will continue to roll over you while you continue to place stock in and vote for a Placebo Pageant.

You see the windshield as the car, as the works, the gears, the engine. Beneath the tinted glass, a universe exists that these men and women of religious faith refuse to see. The only there ‘there’ is the observable surface: ‘the knee bone’s connected to the…leg bone.’

Why don’t you want your own stuff, waltz by your own rhythm, create, honor and value your own consonants and vowels?! Who taught you that your sight ended at your eyelashes, that your ability to hear ended at the ball of ear wax on your Armani collar?!

No, you want ‘things,’ you want the stuttering rhythm that they stole from you and re-packaged; only when they sell it back to you with a white price tag is it ‘real,’ or ‘important,’ or ‘vital.’ Your beat ain’t shit until its bled from you, only then will you defend or praise it. You know the lie, but you live it anyway. I can only come to one conclusion…

We are DEAD.

Long live Charlie Parker, Jazz, Ella’s Baker and Fitzgerald, Sojourner, Harriet, Marcus, Martin, Malcolm, Billie, Miles! Long live the creativity ceremoniously touted, the soul, celebrated, and the rhythm imitated. The lemon carcass has been tapped. Even the spirituality that kept us alive, helped us brave the lash can’t save us, perverted as it is by the addiction to merging with ‘White’ Jesus, a cartoon, an apparition, a ghost, a black nightmare. We’d do better praying to Malcolm, following his last steps to Calvary.

At least he walked these streets.

Long live Dada.

Long Live the Un-Dead.

Long Live the Militantly Real Free Folk.

“Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago

Thursday, December 20, 2007

WASHINGTON —  The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States.

“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means said.

A delegation of Lakota leaders has delivered a message to the State Department, and said they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the U.S., some of them more than 150 years old.

The group also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and would continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months.

Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free - provided residents renounce their U.S. citizenship, Mr Means said.

The treaties signed with the U.S. were merely “worthless words on worthless paper,” the Lakota freedom activists said.

Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said.

“This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution,” which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said.

“It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent,” said Means.

The Lakota relaunched their journey to freedom in 1974, when they drafted a declaration of continuing independence — an overt play on the title of the United States’ Declaration of Independence from England.

Thirty-three years have elapsed since then because “it takes critical mass to combat colonialism and we wanted to make sure that all our ducks were in a row,” Means said.

One duck moved into place in September, when the United Nations adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples — despite opposition from the United States, which said it clashed with its own laws.

“We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children,” Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference.

The U.S. “annexation” of native American land has resulted in once proud tribes such as the Lakota becoming mere “facsimiles of white people,” said Means.

Oppression at the hands of the U.S. government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies - less than 44 years - in the world.

Lakota teen suicides are 150 per cent above the norm for the U.S.; infant mortality is five times higher than the U.S. average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movement’s website.”

Black people and other non-white people, need to get with this!