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This is work in progress. Posting now because it’s what I feel. Will replace it with the final piece later.
📷: @stevesweatpants
📢: Howard Ross
🔈@blackthought “How To Hold A Choppa”
Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Instead of searching for words, these images will do the talking. Flushing Ave bet. Washington and Waverly. Pull up.
Art: Slang Inc x Steve Sweatpants
Photos: Jose Cabaco
CAPITOL CRIMES: The US Capitol is where the Senate and House of Representatives come together to discuss, debate and deliberate national policy; develop consensus; and craft the country’s laws, many of which have been designed to establish/maintain supremacy on the basis of race, gender, and/or class.
📍Flushing Ave bet. Washington & Waverly
“A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect” – 2 of 3
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Clarence Thomas: An American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thom: A boy’s name of Aramaic origin meaning “twin”. Pronounced like Tom.
Tom (Disparaging): Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom: A Black man considered to be excessively obedient or servile to white people.
Kingpin: Ronald Reagan served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 – 1989. The Iran Contra affair, which played a vital role in creating the crack epidemic by funneling cocaine into the US and using the proceeds to fund the Contras in Nicaragua, took place during his second term. From addiction to militarized policing to disproportionate sentencing that followed, the toll on Black communities cannot be understated. A conviction for possession with intent to distribute 5 grams of crack carries a five-year sentence. Possession of 500 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute carries the same five-year punishment.
The President was infamous for flooding the country with the drug, while the First Lady was famous for imploring the children left in its wake as a result of his egregious decisions to “Just Say No.”
(IN)JUSTICES
We produced a new art piece to help fund future Supremacy Project work. This 12 oz. matte black mug is an extension of the Five-Fifths piece we exhibited at @stannswarehouse and @mocada_museum Abolition House. The words are a reminder of the beautiful, strong, flawed, vulnerable people we are. The blank is as a prompt. On this end, today’s response is “I am a whole artist.” What’s yours?
On this day 103 years ago “a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., perished at the hands of a violent white mob.
The mob indiscriminately shot black people in the streets. Members of the mob ransacked homes and stole money and jewelry. They set fires, ‘house by house, block by block,’ according to the commission report.
Terror came from the sky, too. White pilots flew airplanes that dropped dynamite over the neighborhood, the report stated, making the Tulsa aerial attack what historians call among the first of an American city.
The numbers presented a staggering portrait of loss: 35 blocks burned to the ground; as many as 300 dead; hundreds injured; 8,000 to 10,000 left homeless; more than 1,70 homes burned or looted; and eventually, 6,000 detained in internment camps.” Via The New York Times circa 2021.
The losses recounted represent black victims. Over time the event, initially called the Tulsa Race Riot has been accurately renamed the Tulsa Race Massacre. A riot, by definition, is a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets. A massacre is the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
More than one hundred years after this act of terrorism, the last three survivors continue fighting to have their case for reparations heard by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In October of 2023, one of them, Hughes Van “Uncle Redd” Ellis, Sr., passed away.
