Why My Black-ness Matters.

Simple people often suggest, when being challenged on racial issues, and/or we ourselves feel we're being interogated over our blackness, &/or passivity towards black issues the real cliche statements like, "we're all human beings"

 "I'm a human being" & "race isn't real"

(etc) 

This argument, (as we know) is null and void because it often fails to include historical and/or current political context, which provides us with a much more accurate indicator of set people/persons quality of life in set society, and so without (context) places us in a highly problematic 'I woke up like this' world, rather than the reality which is, we are all products our own particular History, power or powerlessness, and so positioned by our own or others present day political and economic decisions.  

Dismissing race, will have you feeling as if you can escape your blackness by simple assimilating &/or integrating into society.  Not true - & very dangerous. 

The world you live in dictates it, very much worth ruminating over what, to you, constitutes African, Caribbean, Black culture, what defines you as a Black person?

— and why it's even important? 

The very nature of 'identity', demands a particular behaviour, visual representation or lifestyle to help authenticate it to the other. (Culture) 

If there's no exclusivity &/or consistency to a behaviour then those people are either fickle or lost, which leaves said person highly impressionable, and so presents an opportunity for vultures to circle your isolated carcus, enter your mind and proceed to manipulate your way of life to their advantage.  

It's not always a question of how we perceive  ourselves, but how we are perceived by those more powerfull than us whom we generally depend on to govern the politics of our Black lives. 

Our culture is a organisational and defensive mechanism.  

Do you know why the Asian man values and rarely compromises his culture, because he understands the politics of the world, the politics of power, domination and acculturation, the agendas of ignorant & insensitive people that don't value anything other than money, with no respect for anyone elses interpretation of nature, but his/her own, and so despise the Asain man praying to an Asain god, or wearing a Turban, or a Burqa, because now the outsider can't feed him/her a value system that teaches the Asain man out of 'respect for another' and into the ideal of 'compete with each other'

 (Strategy & principle of Capitalism) 

Any one so devout to a particular culture are whether consciously or subconsciously tied into an ideal of socially and economically progressive beliefs, that support the prosperity and power of those people. 

— and so are less likely to be manipulated & conquered. 

True 'Blackness', African Carribbean culture, supports the maintenance & progression of OUR people first. 

Not because we are anti anyone else, but by way of irrefutable history and present evidence indicating they were anti US first.

 - Being your black self is totally subjective, as long as it inclues something we all generally understand to be OF US, and/or unapologetically supporting the progression of Black people. 

Study your ancestors, update the blueprint left to us. 

For if we love black people, our culture, our lifestyle, should set us up in a way we become natrually inclined to do according to the maintenance and progress of our people. 

This is the foundation of our rightful claim to freedom, respect & self determination. 

Peace, Love & Black power. 

- JayKast 

How to occupy your blackness (Part one)

(by Jay Kast) 

   

We (African Caribbean) are the only people on planet earth, that were historically stripped of our Identity, indigenious language & Culture, Our original sir names, replaced with the sir-name of our slave master, (Smith - Jones - Johnson) Language of our slave master, (English) and by way of culture and value system, assimilated towards the western values and so under the thumb of, wholly dependant on our slave masters children.

These are some of the key aspects that contribute to our very being and behaviour, and so as consantly in need of evaluation & self-correction.

Whilst many internalise a sense of Blackness, by way of family influence, or early academic study so may grow up occupying their blackness natrually, many more struggle to adopt this new found truth, struggling to deviate from the normal when surrounded by intolerant, heavily integrated friends and family, and so it's important we share our transitions to blackness in order to encourage someone who may be on the fringe of an amazingly introspective journey.

Here are a few steps to help you, comfort you, support you and allow you to accept yourself.

1. That feeling of discontent. 

People come to knowledge and new information many diffrent ways, still often for black people, when that 'wtf' feeling hits you, that curiosity begins to burn, when you feel those African drums almost beating in your heart, you leave church on sunday feeling discontent because suddenly jesus's word just doesn't hit the spot, you start to question you behaviour, something just isn't right.

You're at a place called preriphall consciousness -- This is an inherently installed triggering of self-realisation, in black people. - Sometimes by way of a strange feeling of common attachment to something you're unfamiliar with; also triggered at a period you become disenchanted, diconnected with society at large, and so begin to ask, where do i fit into all this? Why am i here? What's my purpose! -- 

2  Empowerment begins!

As you begin to realise your brown skin, blackness, melanated complexion has & still does play the biggest role in your world, success and future families reality, your journey will begin.

If you live in the west, (England - America) it's more than likely you live in a somewhat 'normal' integrated society--community. This often makes it difficult to deviate & stick with your self-investigation, for fear of standing out like a sore thumb, people you're close to will constantly re-enforce the norm, saying things like "It's not that deep" - "Just gotta accept the way it is"

"Racism's dead" -- "I don't even see colour, we're all human beings" 

However i implore you to investiagte those statements for yourself, as you begin to study you will find how much relevent information to yourself, the 'Norm' of the society you are in, and the ignorance of friends and family has distracted us all from understanding and empowering ourselves. 

Why must we empower ourselves, because many of the economic (poor>wealth) social & political - institutional rights and privileges are still in the favour of one race.

Your duty as a black person isn't to fit into a system the way it is, but either build with your own, or educate yourself to make radical change in the society you live in, or continue to occupy the legacy of poverty and discrimination left to us.

 

3. Distractions.

Many people including myself, found it difficult coming from the church, having white friends and generally being rewarded for my ignorance, to investigate the inception of Christianity and it's socio-political function. To study and so question 'whiteness' which is an attitude, to question white supremcy and historically aggressive behaviour on behalf of white people, that disempowered black people (Africans) -- whilst having white friends, growing up in a white area, even as i began to study, widening my vocab so making me seem intellgent, which made many around me feel a little apprehensive, insecure & uncomfortable. 

4. Take control

You've made a descion to better yourself, to learn your true identity, 

and so it's time to communicate this with anyone you feel you value & would like to continue friendship with. 

Make it clear i want to invest my time into studying and so being myself, as a black woman or man, i want to be proud of mt culture just as you are, i want to know that all i should be doing as a black woman or man, i am doing, and that i'm not ignorantly, disrespecting my own people. 

You do not have to announce your movements to everyone just yet, only important and potentially problematic oradversarial  people, if you so choose to, just to give you a little peace of mind.  

5.Sacrifice 

If after you've made your movements clear, some still don't accept you, fuck em. The only important people in your life at this point, are those who support your movements whatever they may be, anyone unsupportive of you being yourself, isn't a friend. 

Slight adaptations to your avenue of income and/or company may have to be made, if you feel the enviroment you are in, isn't conducive to the path you're walking -- as begin to study and transition. 

I myself quit my job and lost 85% of my friends, but then i got a new job and replaced 85% of my friends, so lol. 

Seriously, life is a journey, a game of knowing who to keep around and who to let go as you make voyages in any area of self-consciousness improvement, many you once entertained just won't survive the expansion.  

You must be willing to make sacrafices, leave behind the old, in order to make room for the new.

Keep it moving.

6. To elevate, one must isolate. 

In order to imbue and exude your blackness you gotta get on your study, and for many people this is a time we must make a conscious descion to isolate ourselves away from the world, from ignorant friends and family, just for short periods, re-emerge after a weekend and spend time with your loves ones, take breaks, go to the gym to release any anger or tension.... and then get right back on that study!

(Don't forget to fo work or college)

7. What do i study? 

Now, this study isn't the most exciting of things you are going to do in life, there isn't a universal black curriculum as such, as most European institutes have excluded our story & much acknowledgement of our intellectual critiques of whiteness & their system.

It's important to learn from your own!

This is one of the many issues we have as a people, we often only revere and respect knowledge when it's coming from a white mouth, or a wise Asian man in some mountains, joke is, there was no knowledge of self before the science of the Black man & woman and indegenous lands & nature of Africa, no religion, no modern science. The first two universities in the world were in Africa, and so why study the immatators, when we can study the true progenitors of much of modern wisdom?! 

So much of your study will be book to book, youtube video to youtube video, community lectures (and so on)

It's a case of taking notes, everywhere you go, note, note, note, in your phone -- on your laptop, of anything and everything you find relevent & interesting.

As time progresses, and this could be anything from 8 months to 4 years, to comprehend the basics, the rewards -- the feeling of 'brand new' of content-ness-- the 'buzz' is second to none. It feels as if you've take off a white mask and you're feeling your Blackness for the very first time.... the more information you take in, the better and longer lasting the buzz, untill eventually you wake up, look into the mirror and imbue a natural buzz and internal happiness at the person the mirror shows you. 

To start you off...

Check out: Google: Youtube search: Amazon search: 

Malcolm X

The Black War (youtube)

Frances Cress welsing

John Henrik Clarke

Minsister Louis Farrakhan

Umar Johnson 

Assata Shakur 

Joyce De Gru 

Brother Polight

Marcus Garvey

Tim wise

Dr Amos Wilson

Sa Neta TV 

Dr Ali Muhammad 

Be aware, many of these practioners are American and/or of past generations,

regardless, much of African American culture and so oppression corresponds with ours, and so their study is relevent, your job is only to put it into context with your experience in your country/city.

I was told early into my studies, study the blueprint and modernise.

Study your ansestors and see much of the knowledge they left is still 100% relevent today!

We'll move onto modern sciences later, first it's important to internalise your assosiation with Africa and so impregnate the foundation of your blackness.  

Remember your Blackness is a global identity, emanating from Africa, black here is black there. Black UK is black USA, Afro-Brazlian is African -- your identity is occupied by over 30 billion people, you're NOT a minority, but only second to Eastern Asains a global

majority!! 

8. Why do i study? 

Fall in love with yourself, for the first time in your life......

.... (Part two up later) 

Order in the Family, brings order to the Community, brings order to a Nation.

Great educator 

John Henrik Clarke said:

"A childs first Nation, first Community, is their family, the Family are the soul, the spirit and cornerstone of a nation" 

The understanding is that the Family state has direct impact on the state of the community, and so collectively, a nation. 

The families way of being is our first real exposure to the world, to behavioural expectations, to cultrual norms and ultimatley a designated value system.

So it's said, the education/value systems we introduce our young ones to, should align with the problems they face, conducive to achieveing the best results for them and their future families, in relation to our Social, Cultural, Political and Economic circumstance. 

If you're poor, and grew up in a poor area, more than likely most people whom live around you were also relatively poor, and so behaved in a particular manner, by way of working long hours, or voting for a particular political party in their best interests (etc) these are 'incidental community commonalities'.

 

And so similar in African-Caribbean communities, as minorities in Britain that  collectively emanate from heavily disadvantaged beginnings, (in relation to the host nation) - 3-4 generations living below the poverty line, racially-disenfranchised, victims to the residual effects of a 400 year slavery / (removal from society) - and so lack of cultural education, economic foundation - by way of buissness or institution. 

(We could go on)

When Black, West Indians first came in mass, to reside on UK shores, during the No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs era, the incidental mentality was BLACK FIRST, the task at hand was THEN, as it is today, to build and secure better quality of life for the future generations. 

Whilst we went on to own a little property and set up various movements to ensure our human & racial rights, we fell very short of tangible, collective, progression, inevitably buckling to the social pressures that required us to conform, right back into the trap of subscribing to 'British Values & British way of life' whilst in many key areas, like Black ownership, Black education, and Black culture, abandoning our own. 

Our behaviours, in the sense of whether employee or employer, selfless or selfish, individualistic or co-operative, emmenate from the society we create within our household. These values, precepts, norms, transmigrate outwards into our immediate community, forming the current culture. 

Much of that we deem adequate to teach our children, and our manner of behaviour in adult relationship is socially constructed for us, in order of achieving a socially constructed norm.

However we must understand their norm from a position of maintenance, at the top of the ladder, may not be so conducive to our circumstances attempting to move up that ladder, and so we see the results of working within a a set system, huge disparity, vast inequality, one set of people het richer whilst another get poorer and poorer,

DR Amos Wilson says:

"An unconscious, socially un-aware family, will produce a compliant, inferior family.

  Social realities are things that men create themselves, and therefor collectively we have the ability to raise children to create the reality suitable and conducive towards the  development of black people"

In order to exist in a competitive, rather than co-operative society, as a designated group, our group can not be wholly dependant on its competition to provide, in order to survive and deal with its own problems adequately, must 

'Do for self'

White families attitude in their own country, built by their families, will exude and air of 'Maintainence' - supporting their own, protecting their intrests. 

'keeping things the same' very conservative, and so the social climate, will compliment the value system they implement in their household. 

The Black families attitude as immigrants is in order of 'Building' to maintain their survial and bring themselves onto a level playinf feild, and so Family value system, should reflect their society obligation.

When the Black Family, assimilates or too heavily integrates, we neglect our responsibilities, to ourselves, our families our communities and so the nation, this quite obviously has many household, and communal repercussions.  

The manifestation of 50% Unemployed 16-24 Year olds, 40% prision population, sharp spikes in violent crime, 142,000 single parents in African-Carriebean households! - May all share very intimate relationship with neglecting to BUILD, in order to heal & nurture the wounds we came into the UK with, a wound without attention gets infected and spreads. 

In such circumstance the wound must be isolated, and operated on. 

..And so an independent initiative arises to save the day, one by the name of 100 Black Families, an initiative rooted in Self-Love - Self-Care - Self-preservation.

In order of building the basic foundation of any community, its family.

Black families must understand their position, purpose and direction, 

then form consensus in the best intrests of moving in set direction. 

This consensus can't just apply to one group of Africans and not West Indian,

One group of Black Christians and not Muslims, but eventually all must adhear to a very basic covenant of commitment to one and other. 

We begin to construct this Black revolution not by Marching or asking anyone else for what we can do for ourselves, but instead, correctly by way of coming together under one umbrella, one agenda in aid of highlighting and cultivating our commonalities, one of many being our blackness.

Qualifying and so Advocating the need to occupy our blackness, and put our blackness first.

Before hate we put love, before them ME put US, before theirs we put OURS.

We shall learn as a 'Black Family' to put our immediate family and so importantly collective 'Family' first in order of obligated responsibility towards stability and our desired goals.   

 

We gotta fund ourselves though, because whilst community building is totally legal, our progression isn't in the competitions best intrest, and so to remain in creative control, so not to water down the elixers potency in healing the wound, if we fund it, we run it!

For US, by US. 

Check us out: www.gofundme.com/BlackFam100

-@BlackFam100

www.100BlackFamilies.co.uk

 

TAKE BACK BLACK.

Take back BLACK.

This short analysis is based on something i've propogated for a while. Brief outline of translating our productions, self inclusion or exclusion into leverage and power to the aid of our community issues and agendas. 

Black Lives Matter right?

Wrong, i believe it was Assata Shakur who said (and i paraphrase) - 

"No oppressed people have ever liberated themselves by appealing to the moral sensibility of their oppressor" 

  To some, that may imply we gotta physically fight or dislike the rest of society for contributing to our oppression, but to me, it now reads 

- PLAY THE GAME.

The Black community, where ever you go, are so obviously encumbered with injustice after injustice, high crime and high unemployment, admittedly the same demands as every other group, but for our lack of knowledge, over-integration, we, for 150 years (since slavery) have sat firmly on the very means to secure our liberation, riches, and improvement in quality of life! 

- Doing for ourself. - 

So it's time to analyse our strategy!

Thomas sowell said in relation to poverty, high crime and unemployment,

"There are no solutions, only tradeoffs"

What this means is in economic language is  - 'scratch my back and i'll scratch yours' 

Money runs the world, as does labour, as does resource, but ultimetly so does production!

Each group, nation, people produce something, not only to the aid and cultivation of their own, but to use their production as a bargaining tool for something they do not have. 

Black Music is one of our many productions, Sports is also an area we dominate & over populate.

Our over-representation in these branches of society is both our achielies heal & if utilised, source of empowerment, in trade towards negotiation towards individual solutions. 

    When the portuguese first came to Africa searching for free labourers, they traded guns and gold for tribal war prisoners, the tribe whom traded the prisoners, in a state of humane servitude, needed guns and gold, to fight other tribes, and the european needed labourers to build on already occupied found land, the african at that time didn't think in terms of Black and White or Black power, but only in terms of his tribe or nations vs invaders, not understanding he was trading black people into slavery, 

but not to digress...

We must understand the value of our commodity. Our production, consumption and ourself inclusion. 

As it stands we within the entertainment industry, particularly Black Music, which heavily feeds popular music is a multi trillion dollar/pound industry. 

Our issue is we have yet to really translate a voice/music born in the struggle of Black people, towards allievating the everyday oppression of black people. 

 

As it stands we are in the western hemisphere, as BLACK PEOPLE, are one of the highest, if not the second highest CONSUMER, a consumer is the buyer of goods, generally a balanced group has a balanced output to input, consumption to production, what they produce and use to their advantage vs what they buy or in trade gain from another community.

  We are  second to white people, in both UK and USA, UK Black people spend around 100billion a year, whilst African Americans spend 1trillion a year,

most of this money is spent on wasted items throughout the year and at christmas, with little or nothing towards our own political or economical gain.

www.webuyblack.com <<<<<< 

Politics and Economics go hand in hand, jews aren't sterotyped as 'tight with their money' for no reason, they keep their earnt money, of the back of their production or business endeavour within their community, long enough that it benifits most and then leaves to circulate another community, in economical terms it 'bounces' 13 times, which is great, for them.

.... In the black community?

..... well it doesn't even bounce ONCE!!

We get paid by white people, and spend it back with white people!

This in comparison to others behaviour is inappropriote, and quite obviously and directly related to our struggle! 

And so i say, Take back BLACK!

Now as for BLACK MUSIC, 

black music defined 

Black music is a term encompassing music produced or inspired by black people, and or where black people are the predominant contributors, including Sub-Saharan African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of African American music which arose in times of slavery that characterized the lives of black Americans prior to the American Civil War.

 So as it relates to hip hop, in context of using our productions to empower our  people, we first must engineer a conduit between the artists (entertainers and sportsatars too) and the communities they come from, have family in, and in my opinion a moral obligation to! 

Secondly, any institutions or establishments, individuals or groups that are found to be in breach of adhearing to their obligation to black people as human beings, shall be sanctioned, and boycotted.

Thirdly any artists or contributors to our music who DO NOT use their platform to speak up in our time of need, whilst benifiting from US, gotta get it in the NECK.... and i mean that, we gotta take it back to the street in certain respects,

regulate and run 'they ass outta town'.

We say hey Mr Record Label 'jewish' man, our production is no longer yours to exploit us, we're taking this back underground, the demand for black people in black music will NEVER subside, we bring the rythmn the rawness, that melination makes black and so popular/urban music genuine. 

What if all the Black NBA players said fuck your leauge. we gunna form our own?

If the black football players collectively

boycotted the next game, in the face of any socially racially motivated incedent?

What would happen if Nightclubs that reject or refuse to deal with our people, don't get our money, djs, or celebs?

... We hold the celebs and artists to account with our support or our #BlackTwitter #BlackMoney - 

Support or disgracing/boycotting/withdrawal.

We collectively withdrawal if our celebs do not play ball.

We collectively withdrawal if clubs don't play ball.

We collectively withdrawal  from anyone we issue demand on that doesn't play ball.

We gotta get this in our heads, all these systems NEED US, our complicity is their profit. If they're not relevent they're dead!

This is the 21st century method to fight back, or make TRADE toward our community problems! 

Now granted i haven't gone into depth, but i believe the idea of ownership, trading our hard work for better quality of life, is something anyone reading this can conceptualise and get busy with!

Claim it, own it, regulate it, don't let no one take what we gave the world.

Stop Marching, stop asking, stop tryna be your enemies friend.

Our survivial & prosperity is in power, a power we already OWN, just need to organise to mobilise & so utilise effectively! 

Any quiries @JayKastHD

Facebook: JayKast 

The problem with Black Boys & British Education.

On this day in 2002, i was taught i was dumb, failed all of my core GCSE subjects but one, was kicked out of numerous colleges, and failed some more, so, i would, by the understanding that school & further education was an instutiontion that determians job / role in society, now probably never be anything, and so i nearly threw in the towel,

my despondency and disillusion towards society grew, and i feeling socially disenfranchised, applied myself to the far more transgressive, deviant alternative. 

See there's a short pivitol timeline in which a young black boy sets himself up to achieve or fail, to rise or demise, and i belive it's (in the UK) the period after we leave secondary school...

See, one of the main issues with education, as a BLACK MALE, is that growing up, academia (education) within the Black community (especially), isn't culturally valorised, thus unpopular / undesirable.

Currently the stats in the UK suggest more black males are attenting and engaging in further education, however still not enough, and we're still 3x as likely to be unemployed even when qualified, thus 49.1% of black males between the ages of 16-25 are currently unemployed. 

Generation to generation, our over-representation in areas of non-academia, have almost created cultural definition of black success. Those ideals we I.D with to identify purpose and success, have actually lead us to obtain a very one dimensional position in western society, acting not as much inspirastional, as inhabitant.  

   It's suggested education is the way out, the way forward, but invariably, we as young people for the definition of 'black success', struggle to translate purpose of maths & science & english, BECAUSE, we don't assert ourselves of the conviction our academic achievement in any one of these fields is socially acceptable or personally productive, invariably mapping out only those subjects or avenues, best suited to achieve the standard or acceptable - Rapper - Sportsperson - Worker. 

i chose to engage in creative stuff, because the British Educational System had told me, by their judgement, i wasn't intellegent, which in turn taught me to play it safe within the confines we as black people already occupied, they were far more attractive than attempting to  achieve anything by means of further education, not only was that an alien ideal to my mind, but culturally alien, plus my confidence was already knocked from the poor GCSES, and so i surcame to hanging about and producing music. 

  See, if intelligence is the ability to solve your problems, and according to western history we've (black people) never invented, solved or managed a damn thing, then we're being taught we're not intelligent. 

So we fail, or even many achieve, but seldom are we given astute encouragement or guidance, far easier get caught up in popular culture, the roads, dreams, maintaining hobbies and inappropriate, yet circumstantial behaviour...

Solution? - Cultrual Reform.

(Explained in next blog) 

www.saysuttin.blogspot.com 

@JayKastHD 

Cultural Reform in the Black Community.

- So we're all aware of the endless shootings, stabbings and youth violence in the endz, been a reality in our communities since the 80's, we're all aware that black male unemployment has risen to 50%, (16-24). (2014-2015)

We're all aware black British make up 2-3% of the population, but 40% of prison population, which in relation to our population is 'disproportionate', infact, in context, officially worse than the USA. Stop an searches subsided, and stabbings and shootings went up.

So what's the real issue here?

for me the primary issue is the obvious relationship between high unemployment and criminal deviancy, but more so our own lack of control & direction, as a black community, due to a lack of cultural philosophy & so proficiency in neccesery areas. 

The areas we disproportionately dominate - sports - music - cheap labour,

whilst neglecting the more significant areas that help structure and engineer a community. 

So if unemployments an issue, if in the prime time of a young mans life 16-24, he can't get paid legally, he'll get paid any way he can, however, there has to be a third option, and that options founded in first comprehending the abilty to 'Do for self' -  Community economics and the benefits, in creating a job, owning the business, creating more jobs, accessing and working areas we should really control anyway, legitimising work, made accessible, kool and practical, because it benefits everyone.

Still, self employment, has a close relationship with education & skill set, lack of skill set and inadequate education that has close relationship with culture.

when our youth culture teaches instant gratification, promotes unproductive-deviancy, promotes living for now not later, (yolo).

The choices we make in what we study, how long we stay in education, how important long term goals are, dictates

how we value assets, equity, wealth and the generational transition of all we've earned in this life. Dictates what we can even access without qualifications, dictates how many black people occupy significant areas of social influence, or not, in order to take back control of our community, we are in need of a  - 'Cultural reform' 

We have to begin to internalise (acknowledge and accept) 

BLACK community building, getting money collectively, employing our own, doing shit for ourselves and building shit for our community, for the future! 

But not only in action, in philosphy too,

in written commitment and contract to each other, as a black family, black centred covenant that shapes the ideology of black culture.  

Whilst we have many people already teaching and promoting similar ideas and education within our community, most are simply not revered, have no relationship, enough to truly proselytise, the youts from the streets, from gang culture, from lack of value for black life, towards something new or alternative to their already set up coping mecahnisms.

The transition has to be made worth their while, they/we are a very 'Show me' generation, and furthermore only really receptive to those from where we're from, of our age group, let them show us it can be done, and we're on to it!

This is why every black boy wants to be a rapper or a sportsman, because we excel in those areas, and right there we identify the real leaders of the youth, the celebs, the footballers, the rappers and mcs.

So my idea is this, i need to get all our top youth broadcasters, top rappers and mcs, top black footballers, sports stars, involved in a multi facted initiative, in order of cultural reform, not just one of apperances saying 'Do good in school, and put the guns down'

But in longterm aggreement to occupy a set agenda, to consciously film, rap about, delineate the step by step methodology behind community economics, ownership, investment, community, family, networking. 

Footage of buissness conversations, dudes from different occupations / walks of life, elders sitting down with the our top artists and discussing real shit, putting real money on the table, tangible frame work for black community.

Call it cultural reform, call it reverse indoctrination, whatever but it will only work if done collaboratively, if the likes of DANNY STRURRIDGE - WILEY - SKEPTA - DIZZY - TINNIE - MO FARAH - THEO WALLCOTT - KREPT N KONAN - SOL CAMBELL - TREVOR NESLON (etc) all participate.

See individually exhibited it's token behaviour, that we commend, then forget, collectively it's culturally, it's a nee way of life, one we all subscribe to, for as long as it's visible & practical it's do able. 

(if you read all that you care, so add any additional things to think about or critique & stuff you're unclear about)

- @JayKastHD

FB: /OffIcalJayKast

There's NOT a Gang Problem in the UK -

There's NOT 

a Gang epidemic in the Uk,

there's only a problem with who or that which we perceive to be the problem.

- Do Not fall into the trap of parroting / supporting this purported problematic 'GANG CRIME' rhetoric.

Yes two dudes were stabbed dead in two days, yes many more have lost their lives in the UK through sporadic acts of violence.

But are so purported 'Gangs' the underlying cause .... or the effect? 

As a show of 'No Tolerance' yes we could send in the whole police force to nick (arrest) every suspected gang member and affiliate under the pretext of newly activated 'Operation shield', an all encompassing operation designed to indict members of gangs who don't even have to be present at the scene of an incident, but can be arrested separately purely by  suggested affiliation.

The name of the operation itself, indicative of lazy mayoral governance on Boris's part, a name loaded with bias perception, strategy & agenda towards our young people, suggesting our jobless, disillusioned, poverty ridden young community the enemy, threatening & attacking our Great British utopian way of life, there by naming the operation after a soldiers last line of defence, his shield, to defend, protect a nation under assault

https://www.london.gov.uk/media/mayor-press-releases/2015/01/one-rule-for-all-mayor-launches-tough-new-gang-intervention.  (Operation Sheild) 

These rousing terminologies,  underpinned by disproportionate gang related media coverage, are designed to assist and manipulate the already implanted stereotypes and onslaught of demonisations projected toward our struggling young people, so that the British public unsuspectingly support THEIR underlying political agendas..

Of which are surface solutions, 'Joint Enterprise' style , mass convicted / incarcerated and Mark Duggan style executions of apparent 'Gang Members' - Acceptable. Lawful killings, dis-proportionate sentencing, all in the best interest of the British people? 

Bollox.

Even if we suggest on principle Crime must be punished, do we want to create or further extend the pipeline of unproductive youth> to jail > re offend and back to jail....?

Overstand there's no weed without root, no surface 'effect' without underlying 'cause' - 

A man once told me the problem with re occurring spiders webs, aren't the re occurring spiders webs, but the elusive spider and it's intentions, it's nature, it's agenda. (Analogy)

Without addressing the root cause of gang related incidences, no matter how many of this generation we send to jail or execute & potentially fuel further riots, 

....the problems will only re-occur.

So what are the CAUSES of violent crime? High unemployment, Despondency amongst young men? Who won't tackle and further perpetuates the CAUSES, encouraging and facilitating generational poverty, violent youth crime, class disparity? 

and why? pin point that, and THEN...we can begin repairing the HUGE crack in a wall, we so credulously and continuously just paint over and hope will dissapear. lol 

Take a moment to critically analyse, and

Let's identify the real enemy to functional society. 

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