A Sense of Doubt blog post #1938 - ONE RACE - The Human Race - Musical Monday for 2006.08

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1938 - ONE RACE - The Human Race - Musical Monday for 2006.08

We went to hot spot of protests in Portland early Sunday morning (yesterday). Around the court house near the Apple Store (Yamhill and Fifth), one can find all this great street art on the boarded up exteriors of various stores.

It was a powerful and moving emotional experience. I had tears in my eyes.

Throughout the graffiti, I kept seeing the phrase "Fuck 12" written every where.

I am so sheltered.


Turns out that it means "Fuck police," as "12" is code for "Adam 12," the narcotics call, immortalized as the name of old TV cop show.

I didn't know that because of my sheltered upbringing and life or privilege off the street and not interacting with people for whom "fucking 12" has always been a common complaint.

The outpouring of grief, anger, and passion amid outcries for justice, peace, change, and revolution felt so visceral as if the people who wrote all the messages were still surrounding us, shoulder to shoulder, unified in righteous rage.

Some may be thinking "oh not another BLM post about George Floyd and "I Can't Breathe," but I hope none of my regular readers or friends think this dismissive and actually hateful idea.

It's not enough. It's never going to be enough. I could dedicate every post every day for five years to ending racism and calling attention to why all lives do not matter until black lives matter, and all that writing and effort would still not be enough to compensate for all the hatred, brutality, pain, and suffering.

In 2018, I finally finished reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, for which I took some flack from friends on social media, and yet the book was eye opening to me. I knew that the era of American slavery was full of horrors, but the ill-treatment of African people was even worse than I realized, and there's no reason to dismiss these accounts of atrocity that Zinn shares as history according to Zinn. It happened, and the fact that those things happened is corroborated by many other sources.

Why have we as a nation made an attempt (also not enough) to pay reparations to the Natives, the first people, the original people, those whose land we white settlers stole, and we Americans have not tried to make reparations to the children of the American slaves who built this country on their backs?

In fact, we have done the opposite. White, privileged, complacent, misguided, deep in denial, hegemony graspers have held down the African-American people with policies, laws, greeds, lack of services, inequity, injustice, murder, and fear: the NEW Jim Crow. I am just as complicit and responsible for this situation as those more extreme examples, like KKK hood wearing fascists, Proud Boys and Neo-Nazis, greedy Wall Street wealth-mongers, murdering cops, and two-faced politicians.

We need to own our own shit.

We need to stand up collectively together and not just offer prayers to the family of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, and so many more, we need to get off our asses and do something.

And yet, we're sheltering in place. It's a huge risk to get out into the sea of virus and endanger ourselves.

I can't scream at a protest right now, but I can scream and rage here on this blog, and I can bring these words and ideas into the college landscape and fight for change.

We have to make changes at every level, not just police reform, but every where in health care, classism, wealth inequity, opportunity, and education.

I am so impressed with the outpouring of support for BLACK LIVES MATTER in the photos of the streets of Portland, OR.

And there's efforts in my 'hood, too.

This picture below is from my neighborhood here in Woodland and is just a block away from my house.




Our "HATE HAS NO HOME HERE" sign is back in our front yard, as it used to be in Michigan, as shown in the second picture below.

Again, here's some of my favorite content on this issue that I have featured on my blog.


A Sense of Doubt blog post #1424 - Reparations and Redemption - a Musical Monday Mix for 1901.14

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1390 - A Debt Not Paid - Appropriation and the Co-Opting of Modern Music

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #371 - I am not afraid of the police, but maybe you should be




Here's my "I Can't Breathe" posts so far:

Sense of Doubt blog post #1927 - White people are the problem - George Floyd RIP

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1929 - Black people are being killed and there's still COVID-19 - Weekly Hodge Podge for 2005.30

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1932 - The Trump Presidency is Over - the Watershed

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1200 (SoD #1934) - BLACKOUT: EIGHT minutes and FORTY-SIX seconds

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1935 - Function of Art in response to "I Can't Breathe"

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1201 (SoD #1936) - It's Not Enough - WEEKLY HODGE PODGE for 2006.06




ALL LIVES DO NOT MATTER UNTIL BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Jamar Clark

Eric Garner

Philando Castile

Trayvon Martin

Tamir Rice

Ahmaud Arbery

George Floyd

Breonna Taylor

Michael Brown - Ferguson Unrest

Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Antonio Martin, and Jerame Reid, among others...

Charley Leundeu Keunang, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Meagan Hockaday, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, William Chapman, Jonathan Sanders, Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose, Jeremy McDole, Corey Jones, and Jamar Clark as well Dylan Roof's murder of The Charleston Nine.

Bruce Kelley Jr., Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Joseph Mann, Abdirahman Abdi, Paul O'Neal, Korryn Gaines, Sylville Smith, Terence Crutcher, Keith Lamont Scott, Alfred Olango, and Deborah Danner, among others.

BLACK LIVES MATTER

https://blacklivesmatter.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

https://www.instagram.com/blklivesmatter/

AND SO A MUSIC MIX... because it's Musical Monday. The mix starts with "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar, which has been an anthem for the protest.

The mix continues with ONLY black artists. I tried to reach out beyond the comfort zone of my old favorites, but when I saw that someone made a "Justice for George Floyd" video with the seminal "The Revolution Will No be Televised" by Gil Scott Heron.

I wanted to end on Bob Marley's "One Love," so early on I dropped "One Love" by Nas to frame it. Then I composed with most of my favorites: Run With the Jewels, The Roots, Mos Def, Tribe called Quest, Talib Kweli, and ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. I added a few classics, like OGs PE, Public Enemy, De La Soul, and the Queen (Latifah, duh). I also stretched myself a bit more with a few tracks I did not know, such as Blackstar with Common, Immortal Technique with Chuck D, and even a very popular track with Childish Gambino's "This is America."

The mix seemed to mix itself (with the help of Google's algorithm) and came together quickly.

Word.

TODAY'S MUSIC MIX

ONE RACE - HUMAN RACE - I CAN'T BREATHE


[1] Kendrick Lamar - Alright
[2] Gil Scott-Heron - The revolution will not be televised (Justice for George Floyd)
[3] Nas - One Love
[4] The Roots - Double Trouble
[5] Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k) feat. Zack de la Rocha (Official Video)
[6] Immortal Technique feat. Killer Mike, Brother Ali & Chuck D - Civil War (w/ lyrics)
[7] Public Enemy - Fight The Power [Full Video Version]
[8] Kendrick Lamar - These Walls (Explicit) ft. Bilal, Anna Wise, Thundercat
[9] Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)
[10] Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y. (Official Video)
[11] Mos Def - History ft. Talib Kweli
[12] A Tribe Called Quest - We The People.... (Official Music Video)
[13] John Legend, The Roots - Wake Up Everybody (Video) ft. Melanie Fiona, Common
[14] Arrested Development ‎– People Everyday - 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of
[15] The Roots - The Next Movement (Official Music Video)
[16] Blackstar - Respiration ft. Common
[17] Talib Kweli & Styles P. "Nine Point Five" ft. Sheek Louch, Jadakiss, NIKO IS (Official Video)
[18] De La Soul - Memory of… (US) ft. Estelle, Pete Rock
[19] Arrested Development - In 1 Day (Whole World Changed) - [Official Music Video]
[20] Bob Marley - One Love

STREETS OF PORTLAND

A MOMENT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND "FUCK 12."


https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fuck%2012

Fuck 12

Fuck 12 basically means fuck the police, but more specifically it’s means fuck the police drug unit.

Dashawn: “man close the window, the 12 might come!”
Daquan: *hits blunt* “man fuck 12!”

##drugs #drug #fuck12

by Jellyfiish July 20, 2018

Fuck 12

Fuck the police.

It is said to originate as the result of the TV show Adam-12, to be in reference to a narcotics unit, or a radio code used by police themselves.

An organizer in Chicago told me that it's because when you read police reports of when they murder someone, it's narrated from the point of view of the cops (at 12 o'clock).

La policía, la migra, la misma porquería. Fuck 12.

#police#cops#pigs

by NoCopAcademy April 17, 2019

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fuck_12

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English

Etymology

From fuck +‎ 12, with 12 possibly from 1312, an alternative form of ACAB (“all cops are bastards”); or more likely, from the TV show Adam-12, in reference to a narcotics unit and/or a radio code used by police themselves.

Phrase

fuck 12

1. (slang, derogatory) Fuck the police, an anti-police slogan protesting police behaviour. 

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fuck-12

About

Fuck 12 is a slang expression used as an alternative to Fuck the Police which sometimes refers specifically to narcotics officers or the DEA. The phrase saw a significant resurgence in protests and online discussions surrounding the riots and protests that occurred following the death of George Floyd in late May 2020 and can be commonly seen on signs carried by protesters, graffiti or hashtags on social media.

Origin

The use of this expression appears online as early as 2014, though the exact origins are unknown. Some attribute the origins of this term to Atlanta, Georgia or Oakland, California. “Fuck 12” also frequently appears in a number of hip-hop songs, both in titles and lyrics. On June 13th, 2013, hip-hop trio Migos released the song “Fuck 12” on their mixtape YRN (seen below), which contains the lyrics “Aye throw that shit, throw that shit 12 outside” and “12 kickin’ in my front door,” which refers to disposing of narcotics as police/DEA arrive.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2006.08 - 10:10

- Days ago = 1802 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.