tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26455149233769387862024-03-21T19:15:25.762-07:00cosmic hoboesan afropessimist meditation (no)placechicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-4210678608967935582021-06-30T11:00:00.001-07:002021-06-30T11:00:00.189-07:00EPISODE #27: The Personal Side of Radical Political Organizing CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!!
G challenges O to think less about the political theory of organizing for a moment and think more about the personal events in his life that brought him to identify with other oppressed people and organize to fight back against that oppression. G & O share stories from their experiences that helped radicalize them and the love and joy they chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-77664574138822699852021-06-23T07:20:00.003-07:002021-06-23T07:20:57.324-07:00Episode #26: FILM REVIEW: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and August Wilson's Black LifeCLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!
The brothers review the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe, written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson based on August Wilson's 1982 play, starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final (and arguably greatest) screen performance before his unfortunate death at the age of 43. The brothers meditate on August Wilson's body of work,chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-30715965727353306002021-06-16T09:10:00.002-07:002021-06-16T12:29:53.807-07:00Episode #25: FILM REVIEW: Black Fatherhood and the Movie "Fences"CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE!
Today, for Father's Day, the brothers ask, how is Black fatherhood possible in an antiblack world? In other words, how do new and evolving forms of antiblackness and capitalist oppression change and strain the relationships between Black fathers and their children? And how, in this changing but still deadly context, can new forms of masculinity emerge? This chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-33551577330484825072021-06-09T09:10:00.025-07:002021-06-09T09:10:00.207-07:00Episode #24: Organizing to Survive Capitalism in the Time of Biden, Harris, and TrumpCLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE
How do we survive capitalism while organizing its end? Thinking about violent events like the Flint water crisis, the police murder of Breonna Taylor, or the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 have many Black radical activists asking: As we organize to bring down the oppressive capitalistic structure, are we preparing ways to amass the chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-30233414334658461902021-06-02T09:00:00.015-07:002021-06-02T09:42:50.188-07:00Episode #23: The Homelessness Crisis and Pandemic CapitalismCLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE
In this episode, the brothers talk about homelessness and the looming lapse of the federal eviction moratorium. G talks about his experience being homeless with a family to take care of. The brothers originally recorded this episode before the Biden administration signed off on the one-time distribution of $1400 relief checks and extended the eviction chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-24920751385556317712021-05-26T06:30:00.009-07:002021-05-30T09:44:42.855-07:00Episode #22: Jailbreaking Black Thought from the Academy Inspired by Karen Hunter and Greg Carr's YouTube conversations about jailbreaking knowledge from the academy, the brothers reflect on aspects of the academy that they can do without -- including classism and antiblackness. They think through how Black people might keep the irreplaceable functions of the academy (the production, conservation, and distribution of knowledge) while discarding chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-50275866242034779602021-05-19T09:30:00.004-07:002021-05-19T17:06:28.548-07:00Episode #21: Film Review: “Don’t Quit until You Either Win or You Die”: "The Spook Who Sat By the Door"Sometimes, you need a Black story that inspires you to struggle, but doesn't do so simply by accurately showing how fucked up things are but actually makes you feel like we can win, too -- and win not just in terms of small symbolic victories, which are important, but in actual asymmetric military conflict. That's why today, in honor of Malcolm X and Sam Greenlee, G & O talk about one of chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-50774173967543588872021-05-12T18:14:00.003-07:002021-05-12T19:26:53.833-07:00Podcast Episode #20: The 1776 Commission Is Part of an Ongoing Attack on Black StudiesRemember the so-called "1776 Commission"? Started in September 2020, during the final throes of trump's ill-fated re-election campaign, it was a group of largely Black conservative writers who convened to counter the 1619 Project, a series of articles put together by new york times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones. In this episode, the brothers discuss the foolishness and the ongoing danger of thechicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-80158034895857384972021-05-05T11:00:00.002-07:002021-05-05T11:26:14.790-07:00Episode #19: REVIEW: "Judas and the Black Messiah" and the Education of Black LeadershipCLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODEThe brothers recorded this review of Shaka King's 2021 film Judas and the Black Messiah a few months before Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield were up for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (which Kaluuya won, but Stanfield should also have gotten an award). The brothers briefly discuss the actors' performances, casting, and writing, but mostly they focus on chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-19146959873668075692021-04-28T18:22:00.005-07:002021-04-28T18:48:33.294-07:00Episode #18: REVIEW: "Exterminate All the Brutes" and the Language of Genocide [PART 2 of 2]In the last episode, G & O began discussion of Exterminate All the Brutes, Raoul Peck’s 2021 film now streaming on HBO Max. The brothers focused on the repeated symbol of white people’s “heart of darkness” echoed from the book that title is taken from: Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness, written about Belgium’s rape and genocide of Africans in Congo. The brothers also brought in some of chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-88815283870469524412021-04-21T21:01:00.001-07:002021-04-22T00:22:05.242-07:00Episode #17: REVIEW: "Exterminate All the Brutes" Exposes the white Heart of Darkness [PART 1 of 2]CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODEThe brothers are back with part 1 of a 2-part discussion of Raoul Peck's new HBO documentary, "Exterminate All the Brutes" (2021). The first thing G & O examine is how the film explodes the standard story that documentary tells about America. Documentary, O says, is related to ethnographic writing, a form of media innovated by the very same genocidal chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-11467673033024824552020-11-24T10:21:00.000-08:002020-11-24T10:21:20.230-08:00Episode #16: "Two AKs Up!" Can Django Unchained & 12 Years a Slave Inspire Struggle? [Part 3 of 3]Today, the brothers conclude their 3-part discussion of Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave with a conversation about class, gender, and the definition of the term “to fetishize.” Does Django’s tendency to fetishize the violence of slavery detract from its ability to spark excitement in modern-day slave rebellions? If 12 Years a Slave shows how systemic the violence of slavery was, does it alsochicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-67039650248402282352020-11-02T13:00:00.030-08:002020-11-02T21:27:09.845-08:00Trump and Biden Are Both My Enemies, but Only One of Them Is Openly Providing Leadership to NazisThe last time i voted in a u.s. presidential general election, it was 2008. I saw past Barack Obama's obvious intelligence and through his vague rhetorical promises. I prided myself in seeing who Obama was talking to ("the middle class") and how friendly he was to the same Wall Street interests who had just turned the economy into their own ATM. I noted his preference for Mitt Romney's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-5057413217395246382020-10-28T11:31:00.000-07:002020-10-28T11:31:37.986-07:00Episode #15: O'Shea Jackson (Ice Cube) and the Ethics of "Stepping Up" The brothers discuss Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson) leaping into Black political leadership at the last minute with his Contract with Black America. Many people have focused on some fairly amateurish media maneuvers Cube made in relation to the professional liars at the trump campaign. But to do so is to take some needed focus off of something more deeply concerning: Cube's obvious embrace of chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-22931858708880064742020-10-18T20:00:00.003-07:002020-11-24T10:16:22.627-08:00Episode #14: Is Django Unchained "Working Class" and 12 Years a Slave "Middle Class"? [Part 2 of 3]In part 2 of their conversation about slavery films Django Unchained (2012) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), G & O continue by comparing the politics of Black working-class political demands versus Black middle-class political demands in the two films. O describes his concerns about Django's individualism serving as a fantasy of resistance to slavery. "Whose fantasies," O asks, "is Django chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-35823429979856174112020-10-15T06:00:00.001-07:002020-10-15T16:12:18.739-07:00Episode #13: Black TV Is Showing Up for Us Just in Time for the Fight!"If you're a Black person in America, you've been seeing the way the world really works but it was never reflected in any sort of a broad way. It can always have the effect on you of making you feel like you were seeing something and it was only you that saw it. You're kind of wondering is there something wrong with you that you're only seeing how crazy this is or how violent that is or how chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-11426143320098778242020-10-01T19:46:00.000-07:002020-10-01T19:46:38.258-07:00Episode #12: This Is Not Unprecedented! Black Thought's Lessons for the Present (Fascist) MomentCLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODEIn South Africa, the white supremacist apartheid government spread quaaludes in the Black community to stifle the freedom movement. The CIA spread cocaine in the Black community in the u.s.a.Oppressors share technologies for oppressing. There's a lot that is new and shocking about this moment. COVID in the air. Fascists and police collaborating to kill and hurt chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-54953393660080561532020-09-11T20:00:00.002-07:002020-10-04T14:58:56.643-07:00EPISODE #11: September 11, 1851: Black Folk Unite and Fight Off Slavehunters. Why Don't We Learn about Our Collective Resistance to Oppression? On September 11, 1851, in Christiana, Pennsylvania (u.s. a.), a mutual defense network of Black abolitionists led by William Parker confronted a posse of u.s. marshals and slave catchers pursuing 4 Black men who escaped from the plantation of Maryland slaveholder Edward Gorsuch. After surrounding and repelling the marshals, they killed the slaveholder Gorsuch, wounded his son, and helped the 4 chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-81293171578264512692020-09-01T12:48:00.000-07:002020-09-01T12:48:23.702-07:00New Podcast Episode: Black August: Why Understanding George Jackson Is Essential to Our Survival Today Episode #10: Black August: Why Understanding George Jackson Is Essential to Our Survival TodayCLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE
Revolutionary prison abolition activist George Lester Jackson (1941-1971) is central to why many Black people commemorate Black August. In this special episode, G talks about his work studying this great Black freedom fighter. The brothers discuss how the chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-82567133184038009172020-08-06T08:07:00.004-07:002020-11-24T10:16:05.386-08:00Podcast Episode #7: Comparing Two Films: Django Unchained (2012) and 12 Years a Slave (2013) [PART 1 of 3] In the first of 3 episodes, G & O begin a discussion of the films Django Unchained (2012) and 12 Years a Slave (2013). G explains how fantasies of freedom can be constructed by film, and that his first impression of Django focused on its potential to construct a fantasy of violent resistance to slavery that could be useful for Black liberation. "People's imagination is shaped," G explains. "chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-20328919866881585392020-07-27T19:28:00.001-07:002020-07-27T19:28:51.466-07:00Podcast Episode #6: This Lynching Victim Shot Back: Honoring Robert CharlesEpisode #6: This Lynching Victim Shot Back: Honoring Robert CharlesToday, July 27, 2020, makes 120 years since the valiant four-day shootout that a Black laborer named Robert Charles had with a police-led lynch mob in New Orleans. G & O recount Charles' story, which Ida B. Wells preserved, and its importance for Black freedom struggle today.LISTEN TO THE PODCAST EPISODE HERE and read the chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-15597650631582013552020-07-24T00:31:00.000-07:002020-07-24T00:31:00.157-07:00PODCAST EPISODE #5: Danger: Workers IdleOn today’s episode of the All Thought Is Black Thought podcast, brother G called brother O to see how he’s holding up in the out-of-work Covid times. The brothers talked about how so-called idle time carries unique anxieties for workers and holds up unique possibilities for organizing new possibilities.CLICK HERE to listenchicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-56866551511599010332020-07-10T02:00:00.001-07:002020-07-10T14:54:12.191-07:00PODCAST EPISODE #4: Why Karens Keep Losing Their Minds: The Antiblack FantasyNEW ALL THOUGHT IS BLACK THOUGHT PODCAST EPISODE #4: Why Karens Keep Losing Their Minds: The Antiblack FantasyWhat does it mean when white people just irrupt against Black people and it's caught on video?What would we have seen if 14-year-old Emmett Till had had a smartphone and Instagram to record his interaction with Carolyn Bryant, the woman who had him murdered?Today, G & O discuss chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-78659991162669145732020-07-05T03:17:00.003-07:002020-07-05T09:50:11.882-07:00NEW ALL THOUGHT IS BLACK THOUGHT Podcast Episode #3: White People Are Smoking Crack: The Fantasy of July 4 from the Perspective of Black ThoughtFor July 4th, All Thought Is Black Thought podcast hosts G & O talk about the ways white people are still hitting the crackpipe of antiblackness in the fantasies they have about what life is like for Black folks. Because the power dynamic of slavery is still present in Black lives, Black people's knowledge of how slavery has continued to define our lives can empower us to effect chicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473830137578773717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645514923376938786.post-51871880243107817002020-06-17T18:00:00.000-07:002020-06-18T00:28:17.103-07:00NEW PODCAST EPISODE on ALL THOUGHT IS BLACK THOUGHT episode #2: Expecting the UnacceptableEpisode #2 of All Thought is Black Thought is out wherever you listen to podcasts!Episode #2, Expecting the Unacceptable, an audio version of a recent piece Myrrh wrote here on CosmicHoboes, goes into the contradiction of expecting Black people to just go along with our unpunished murders, a contradiction that makes the modern world possible. What Black people are forced to expect-- traumatic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0