I have spent the last 40 years understanding that my spiritual father was Malcolm X. It was reading about him at age 17 that initially helped me understand the problems I'd experienced in my short life at that time. In those early years I saw the courageous warriors of the Black Panther Party, who evolved just minutes from where I myself grew up, as my older siblings. Women like Ms. Shirley Graham DuBois and Amy Garvey(s) were my mothers and from those associations I eventually began to appreciate the massive contributions of people like Kwame Nkrumah, Seku Ture, Amilcar Cabral, etc. Thus, my decision to dedicate my life to helping build capacity for those ideas to come into practical reality.
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billy
12/18/2024 02:36:04 pm
I loved reading this. I am only 20 years old, but I think I have fallen in love w pfunk for mirroring reasons. It is really interesting seeing how they were perceived in the 70s because I only know how other artists and myself see them, as cool out of body artists that loved to get weird with the guts to get experimental while making me dance. I am currently in college in my junior year and the past few weeks, knee deep has also been keeping me going. Its like a moral adrenaline shot that just helps me think and get through things that I need to do. Thank you for taking the time to make this post and be honest about your relationship to the music. It is always great to run into another P Funk fan
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