Unwritten history Vs Written history.

Unwritten history is akin to the number of times someone dubbed a CD, dubbed a Cassette, spun a song at a party, played a song in their Walkman, played a song in they stereo, played a song on a local radio station, played a song in they CD player, etc. 

Written history is akin to the number of streams 

Chiquekagough.

 Confession: I have this thesis that Chicago has the meanest people in the World. It's like we take a joy in ruining fun. You try to do something fun in this city and here comes the gangs, and not just the ones on the street. 

Tribal warfare. The Police of all vice. Even our gangs have religious connotations, Hebrews Vs Moors, with wars on the Gaza Strip (actual nickname for a street, actual event). We got Vice Lords in the Holy City. 

Visit a tourist spot in a family friendly area and there's pictures idolizing an actual de-facto Chicago King, Al Capone, who behaved like O-Dog from Menace 2 Society. I think there's some weird Capone curse on our Police department. The Police are known to be sarcastic assholes anywhere you go, (that's par for the course), but in Chicago there's a joyful vindictiveness to it. They want you to hurt and they're taking joy in it, laughing at it, laughing with it, being corny about it. 

Even the major horror movies Icons of the 80s all have a Chicago connection, look it up. We were founded by a Haitian too. How we know DuSable ain't do no juju on the land? And Barack Obama cut his Political teeth here? Man look. 

History.

I really don't trust no European history, for all we know, Aristotle could have looked like R.Kelly. You know the Vatican got to have a secret room full of Sphinx noses and historical depictions of people as they looked. 

Mali/Songhai

I could see the holes in the iconic structures of the Malian empire being used for many purposes. One of its uses could play with light, by inserting a series of lit sticks or lit structures into the holes and moving them around to create complex light structures. If the timing and positioning is right, one could create what looks iike a modern day LED effect or even a hologram. 

Europeon History and Trumpism

There's this unsaid rule in Western society, (and most societies Worldwide) that those who possess a vast knowledge of European-based philosophy, literature, art, science, politics, and history are more well equipped to make wise, intelligent, decisions than those who don't, regardless of whether one is in Europe or not.

If anything, Trump was the smack in the face to this intellectual supremacy, despite the obvious lack of moral leadership qualities he possessed. Trumpism is Eurocentric-based White Supremacy eating itself. What the use of woke by the right-wing hints towards is a bastardized term to describe "the institution", i.e. the institutions of Europe and anything loosely associated with it. If you study the "great works" of European history, you see they're pockmarked with, and predicated on countless examples of savagery, which some people are triggered by, and subsequently shooting wildly at. Some see those in the institution as a decadent group of educated elite who are free to do whatever sick crimes they wish and are never punished for it, and well, that has been mostly true. This explains the Epstein/Hollywood elite/Billionaire pedophile obsession. That's European history! That's how the elite have been celebrating and achieving objectives throughout European history, and that's not the worst they've done.

Epic Trilogy + Prequel

Epic stories (Setting):

Part 1: Isolated, scattered, half-built towns with incredible monuments of worship, run by lawless warlords, with roving/nomadic tribes in nonstop violent conflicts. A mythical city, said to be the pinnacle of civilization and modern day comforts on one side of the region. On another side, another mythical city, like that of a theme park, run by a legendary psychopath. 

Part 2: The empire city state, cities and towns under one banner, anything allowed, as long as it doesn't interfere with the empire. Illicit activities pushed to centralized areas where waste is burned and consumed. Multiple positions of primary consultancy, from waste, to military, to spirituality, to entertainment are given to a legendary psychopath. 

Part 3: A centralized gathering of the organic, complex, crowded, dense city as the nexus of life,  The preponderance of mysterious tribes, organizations, corporations, cults; all with cryptic practices and schools of mystery and spirituality. Underground culture nurtured in the literal catacombs of the city, said to be traversed and intimidated by a legendary psychopath.

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Prequel: An inverse of sorts of the three stories. Starting off in a crowded village of complex leadership run by a small counsel, leading to a series of villages and towns under one banner, forming the beginnings of an Empire, leading to a scattered region run by an untouchable authority in a city with incredible technology and monuments. In every instance sabotaged and ruined by an unchecked psychopath who became a legend.

Confession

Confession: Sometimes I look at footage like this of Philadelphia in the 40s and get envious. What would it have been like to ride an EL through a city like this being rich and White, owning a house in a convenient location in the city, feeling like you have a stake in your world, feeling like this was made for you in mind. The people around you viewing you as their equal. The civic authority working with you. You having a voice that's heard, and not because you need to raise it. What would that feel like?

#Gratitude

The way history is told, it usually omits the savage details. I imagine eras such as the spice trade era, silk road era as akin to the drug trade today. Could you imagine that? People dying over having allspice. You bet not use that garlic powder in your recipe at your restaurant, have some patron yell "WHERE YOU GET THAT FROM!!" Nope, I'm glad to live in the era I live in as messed up as it is. 

Gratitude! 

(How many people died to get you that allspice?) 

New York in the 70s and 80s.

 I'm infatuated with New York City in the 70s and 80s. I saw footage the other day that rekindled my infatuation. It was of businesses somewhere Downtown or Midtown Manhattan. What was remarkable about the storefronts is they had a very dusty, homegrown look to it. These streets, that are probably jam packed with upscale shopping or chain stores today, once had Mom and Pop businesses, in gritty stone tenements, with old furniture, hand-made signs and fluorescent lighting.  Looking at the footage of the decayed neighborhoods in the Bronx, you see the vibrancy that still exists on some blocks. How can someplace be so vacated, yet so vibrant? You also see the people and businesses keeping the neighborhood alive as they can, young people expressing themselves with this new colorful culture of Hip Hop. There's a certain innocence through adversity that is unique to that time period. 

Check out this cool montage of the Bronx in the 70's and 80's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zqGiLPbW8&t=350s

If you have a few hours to spare, check out the classic Hip Hop movie, Beat Street, (now Free on youtube). Watching this now is like watching a time capsule of a lost civilization: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWF-MraGWZQ

Black America: Abridged Africa, A Bridge to Africa

Black America is an abridged Africa.

Though not on the same scale, we've had: 

- Slavery 

- Exploitation 

- Religions forced on us 

- Cities bombed from the air and destroyed

- Infectious diseases spread via. Government conspiracy

- Decades of government 

disinvestment 

- White Terrorism 

- Corrupt Police 

- Street Tribes aka Gangs being infiltrated, exploited or corrupted and turned against each other (War on Drugs, J Edgar Hoover)  

- Corrupt Leaders 

- Rampant misogyny 

- Polluted Water 

- Black on Black Violence 

- Ruthless assassinations 

- Prison slavery 

No genocides, yet. Very little starvation, but obesity is an epidemic. 

Yet we still here and more prosperous than ever, just like Africa.