4 posts tagged “jon genius”

I woke up early this morning on the darker side of the color line thinking about transubstantiation...bread and wine. The thought entered my head somewhere between thinking about Obatala and overflowing cups. It was all around me. Listening to Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man" (cause I've come apart ... but Trouble Man don't get in my way ... I've been a real man) while journeying through the hyper links of wikipedia that led me through the Christian holy sacrament and the philosophical meanings of  "substance" ... what something is in itself.

A. I found myself positioned in front of a polluted puddle where I could see myself reflected then I was in myself, seeing through my eyes, I can recognize my own space.

B. It was dark ...pitch black, the beginning of the end ending in a beginning again.

They killed the father,
Murdered the son.
Where there once stood three -
There now stands one. 

Some were hung for trying to assimilate the ideas and principles of America with the life inherited from the African Diaspora. Others allowed the bullet of homogenized existence to ricochet through their bodies … leaving them an empty shell, void of any substance believing their condition as a black man to be a human stain.

This is for my brothers who wanted retaliation when the acculturation, assimilation, and annihilation of their medial shadow became too much. This is for my brothers huddled in masques, kneeling at alters, reading in temples, meditating at home, being miseducated in schools and in streets -- waiting, praying, hoping, learning, and drowning in despair. This is for my brothers, my brothers everywhere.

This is for my brothers scared to be reflected in another brother's essence, shadowboxing invisible ghosts embroiled in fears of social construction - disowned property eloping with noose, devouring assimilation's golden fruit grown from rotten roots, embracing the blood-stained grain as truth. The danger my brother is only to you.

This is for my brothers who have acknowledged their shadow, watching it grow on the way to the sun … the natural political economist, socio-anthropologist, and philosopher that's grasped the visible relation of double consciousness steeped in a heap of deception and pseudo events fed to those seeking life and bread, brothers who screamed “give me liberty…” and ended up dead, my brothers willing to activate their mind state, unwilling to acculturate - endangered are you.

This is for my brothers convinced the only option is to run a ball or minstrel as stars to feel whole. This is for my brothers incarcerated for stealing their due piece of the pie and for younger brothers who now view time spent in correctional facilities as first rights. This is for my brothers who have misused and abused our women because all the beautiful images of them have been destroyed. This is for my brothers purposely denied of tangible fruit - for my brother, how well Danger has made you aware of its plan to annihilate you.

This is for my brothers everywhere.

-Sincerely Genius

1st edition. Still in the editing stages...

"No I'm not color blind / I know the world is black and white. Try to keep an open mind / I just cant sleep on [this] tonight..." - John Mayer, Musical Genius
The following video are a mashup of some of my random photos...